Brafa City Guide 2024 by Masterart

28 JAN — 04 FEB 2024

BRUSSELS EXPO

CITY GUIDE

CONTENTS P. 3

B R A FA

Preface by Harold t’Kint de Roodenbeke, Chairman of BRAFA P. 5

GUEST OF HONOUR

The Paul Delvaux Foundation P. 6 P. 1 2

L I ST O F E X H I B I TO R S P R A C T I C A L I N F O R M AT I O N

Fact sheet, BRAFA Art Talks, BRAFA Art Tours, how to get to BRAFA P. 1 6

OUR SELECTION

Hotels, restaurants, wine bars P. 2 0

MUSEUMS

Brussels, Antwerp, Bruges, Charleroi, Ghent, Hasselt, Hornu, Leuven, Liege, Louvain-la Neuve, Mariemont, Ostend, Seneffe P. 2 5

T E M P O R A R Y E X H I B I T I O N S D U R I N G B R A FA

Brussels, Antwerp, Charleroi, Ghent, Hasselt, Hornu, Leuven, La Louvière, Ostend, Seneffe P. 4 1

PERFORMING ARTS O P E R A S , C O N C E R T S , D A N C E & T H E AT R E

Brussels, Antwerp, Bruges, Ghent, Liege P. 4 7

S H O P P I N G & TO U R I ST I N F O R M AT I O N

Shopping districts. How to spend the day in Brussels? Ask a local

Preface

by Harold t’Kint de Roodenbeke Chairman of BRAFA

Dear Art Lover, Our last edition in January 2023 attracted more than 65,000 enthusiastic visitors from Belgium and abroad, marking a return to our best-ever attendance figures. From Sunday, January 28th to Sunday, February 4th, 2024 at Brussels Expo, BRAFA will once again be the first major art event of the year. The fair aims to stimulate and dazzle collectors and art lovers alike.

Galerie de la Béraudière © Emmanuel Crooÿ

Some 132 leading galleries will be meeting in Brussels to unveil the treasures they have patiently gathered for your pleasure. This stability bears witness to the loyalty and attraction of the galleries for this 69th edition of our BRAFA, the oldest art fair in the world. BRAFA will continue to build on one of its greatest assets: an eclectic mix of some twenty specialities. Antiques, Old Masters, Asian and African art, ancient Islamic arts and Indian miniatures, furniture, paintings, sculptures from all periods, jewellery, antique books and original comic strips, contemporary glass, ancient and modern ceramics, ancient and modern textiles and tapestries & carpets, contemporary design...

Helene Bailly Gallery © Emmanuel Crooÿ

The fair promises a real voyage through time and space, from one era to another, from one style to another, all subtly arranged to create openness and dialogue between the objects on display. This year, the spotlight will be on the Paul Delvaux Foundation, to mark the 30th anniversary of the great painter’s death. A dedicated space will present an overview of the artist’s career and a conference will be devoted to him. In a more general context, 2024 is also the anniversary of the official birth of Surrealism, marking 100 years since the publication of André Breton’s manifesto. It’s an opportunity to brighten up our space with unexpected Surrealist touches that are unique to our Belgian culture! To further our understanding of art, the Fair will once again be offering daily BRAFA Art Talks, lectures and debates on topical art-related subjects, as well as guided tours for art lovers of all ages. BRAFA, Brussels, Belgium... a small area with an immense wealth of artistic and architectural gems... This little guide is a compendium of great addresses and exciting events in Brussels and Belgium during the fair. Here’s a selection of temporary exhibitions, museums, concerts, operas and gourmet addresses to help you prepare and make the most of your visit here.

In the meantime, keep in touch and follow us via our newsletters and social networks, Gallery Desmet © Olivier Pirasol

De Wit Fine Tapestries © Emmanuel Crooÿ

We look forward to welcoming you to our new artistic season.

Sincerely yours, Harold t’Kint de Roodenbeke, Chairman of BRAFA

Paul Delvaux, La Vénus endormie, 1932, private collection on deposit at the Musée Paul Delvaux © Foundation Paul Delvaux, Belgium SABAM, 2023

Paul Delvaux, La Gare forestière, 1960 © Foundation Paul Delvaux, Belgium, SABAM, 2023

Paul Delvaux, Le Canapé vert, 1944 © Foundation Paul Delvaux, Belgium, SABAM, 2023 © Photo Vincent Everarts

Paul Delvaux, Chrysis, 1967, © Foundation Paul Delvaux, Belgium SABAM, 2023 © Photo Vincent Everarts

Guest of Honour

THE PAUL DELVAUX FOUNDATION In the context of BRAFA 2024, the Paul Delvaux Foundation has seized the opportunity to take part in the Year of Surrealism and to shine a spotlight on the great master’s work. In a dedicated space, the Foundation will be offering an insight into the Paul Delvaux (1897-1994) world through a selection of masterpieces from its own collection and from a private collection on loan to the Paul Delvaux Museum in St Idesbald. The works on display, dating from the 1930s to the 1960s, reveal the themes dear to Paul Delvaux. The inescapable nature of the female figure is evident from the very beginning of his work, with the intriguing La Vénus endormie. The famous painting Chrysis reveals the woman in all her mysterious splendour. The demonic aspect of Delvaux’s paintings is also evoked by his depiction of skeletons, whilst the railway world finds its most beautiful expression in the magical La Gare forestière. Paul Delvaux lived to nearly 96 years old! He devoted his entire life to creation. Even though his parents had wanted him to be a lawyer, his perseverance and determination finally won them over. He experienced one true love, with the woman who became his lifelong companion, Tam. They were happy and had no children, with the painter considering each painting to be the fruit of childbirth. In the 1920s and 1930s, he tried his hand at Impressionism and Expressionism, before finding his own style close to Symbolism and Surrealism. Delvaux succeeded in inventing such a personal and original world that it is immediately recognisable. From the 1960s onwards, Delvaux enjoyed international recognition (Europe, Japan, the United States, etc.) and was considered one of the major Belgian artists of the second half of the twentieth century, as evidenced by Andy Warhol painting his portrait in 1981. Paul Delvaux developed a timeless body of work which defied categorisation and transcended passing fashions. Taking root in intriguing elsewhere, each work is none other than the visual concretisation of dreams from his intimate world. He bequeathed his works to us in the hope of taking us on a journey to a world where dreams and reality merge, in a timeless space sheltered from noise, like an invitation to escapism.

LIST OF EXHIBITORS 2024 A GALERIES AB & BA (FR) Paintings, drawings and sculptures from 1830 to the present day FRANCK ANELLI FINE ART (FR) Antique paintings from the 16th to the 18th century, Antique furniture from the 18th century ARS ANTIQUA (IT) Old Master paintings, furniture, sculptures and modern art D’ARSCHOT & CIE (BE) European antique silverware dating from the 16th to the 18th century ART ET PATRIMOINE - LAURENCE LENNE (BE) 16th, 17th and 18th century earthenware, porcelain and works of art ARTIMO FINE ARTS (BE) Sculptures from 1800-1950, mostly marbles and bronzes by Belgian artists GALERIE ARY JAN (FR) Late 19th and early 20th century European painting B BAILLY GALLERY (CH/FR) Modern and post-war art HELENE BAILLY (FR) Impressionist, modern and contemporary art BARONIAN (BE) Modern and contemporary art BARBARA BASSI (IT) Antique and vintage jewels F. BAULME FINE ARTS (FR) 16th-19th century Old Master paintings and drawings

GALERIE BERÈS (FR) 19th-21st century paintings, drawings and sculptures

COLLECTORS GALLERY (BE) Artists’ and designers’ jewellery and objects from the 20th and 21st century

BERNIER/ELIADES GALLERY (GR/BE) Contemporary art

NICOLÁS CORTÉS GALLERY (SP) - NEW 2024 15th to early 20th century European and Latino-American painting and sculpture

DR. LENNART BOOIJ FINE ART & RARE ITEMS (NL) Art Deco, 20th century design with a strong focus on René Lalique and Pablo Picasso BOON GALLERY (BE) Impressionist, modern and contemporary art BERNARD BOUISSET (FR) Antique and signed jewellery GALERIE BOULAKIA (UK) Modern and contemporary art GALERIE NICOLAS BOURRIAUD (FR) Sculpture from the 19th and 20th centuries BRAME & LORENCEAU (FR) Impressionist, modern and contemporary art GALERIE VAN DEN BRUINHORST (NL) Historical Design and Fine Arts from the interwar period C CABINET OF CURIOSITIES HONOURABLE SILVER OBJECTS (BE) 17th-18th century curiosities and silverware GIAMMARCO CAPPUZZO FINE ART (UK) Old Master paintings, especially from the 17th century GALERIE JEAN-FRANÇOIS CAZEAU (FR) Impressionists and modern masters GALERIE CENTO ANNI (BE/FR) Art Nouveau & Art Deco: French glasswork, furniture, lighting and sculpture

SAMUELIS BAUMGARTE GALERIE (DE) 20th-21st century art

CLAM-BBA (THE BELGIAN ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION) (BE) Antiquarian books and prints

GALERIE DE LA BÉRAUDIÈRE (BE) Modern art

CLAES GALLERY (BE) Tribal art

CORTESI GALLERY (CH/IT) European post-war art COSTERMANS & PELGRIMS DE BIGARD (BE) Old Masters, furniture and works of art from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries D DALTON SOMARÉ (IT) African art and ancient arts of Asia DE BROCK (BE) Contemporary art DE JONCKHEERE (CH) Old Master and modern paintings GALERIE BERNARD DE LEYE (BE) European silver from the 16th to the 18th century GALERIE OSCAR DE VOS (BE) Latem School paintings, works on paper and sculptures, (post-) Impressionism, Symbolism, Expressionism, Surrealism and modern Belgian art DE WIT FINE TAPESTRIES (BE) Antique tapestries DE ZUTTER ART GALLERY (BE) International post-war and contemporary art DEI BARDI ART (BE) Early European sculptures and works of art THOMAS DEPREZ FINE ARTS (BE) Belgian Fin-de-Siècle art, 1880-1914 GALLERY DESMET (BE) Classical sculptures and works of art DIE GALERIE (DE) 20th century art

DOUWES FINE ART (NL/UK) Paintings, works on paper and sculptures E EPOQUE FINE JEWELS (BE) Fine period and antique jewellery including Art Nouveau and Art Deco pieces F FINCH & CO (UK/BE) Antiquities, ethnographica, natural history, sculpture and works of art GALERIE FLAK (FR) Classical arts of Africa, Oceania and North America A&R FLEURY (FR) Modern and post-war art GALERIE LA FOREST DIVONNE (FR/BE) Contemporary art G GALERIE CHRISTOPHE GAILLARD (FR) NEW 2024 Contemporary art, prints by artists active from the 1960s to the 1990s GALERIE DES MODERNES (FR) Modern art RALPH GIERHARDS ANTIQUES / FINE ART (DE) - NEW 2024 European arts from the 17th to the 19th century, gilded bronze objects, sculptures, furniture, Old Master paintings, Impressionist paintings, Art Deco objects GILDEN’S ART GALLERY (UK) Works on paper by modern masters GOKELAERE & ROBINSON (BE/FR) 20th century design H GALERIE HADJER (FR) - NEW 2024 Antique and modern tapestries

HEUTINK IKONEN (NL) - NEW 2024 Icons GALERIE HIOCO (FR) Asian art HUBERTY & BREYNE (BE/FR) Comics & contemporary art GALERIE HURTEBIZE (FR) Post-Impressionist and modern painting J GALERIE JAMAR (BE) Modern and contemporary art RODOLPHE JANSSEN (BE) Contemporary art FRANCIS JANSSENS VAN DER MAELEN (BE) Fine art and silver, mainly from the Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods K GALERIE KALÉIDOSCOPE (FR) - NEW 2024 Modern & contemporary paintings

Röbbig München, Nicolas Petit

Marc Heiremans, Fulvio Bianconi

Galerie Kevorkian, Persian art, Samanid dynasty

Galerie Hurtebize, Victor Vasarely

MARC HEIREMANS (BE) 20th and 21st century applied art – Murano glass and Studio ceramics

KUNSTHAUS KENDE (DE) - NEW 2024 Antique and modern silverware, metalworks by modern artists with silver and other metals

GALERIE MARC MAISON (FR) – NEW 2024 19th century furniture and creative objects related to the World’s Fairs from 1851 to 1900

GALERIE KEVORKIAN (FR) Ancient Near Eastern. Islamic and Indian art

MARUANI MERCIER (BE) Modern and contemporary art

HAROLD T’KINT DE ROODENBEKE (BE) 19th-20th century paintings, sculptures and works on paper

GALERIE MATHIVET (FR) 20th century decorative arts

FLORIAN KOLHAMMER (AT) Jugendstil, Art Deco, mid-century design, furniture L ALEXIS LARTIGUE FINE ART (FR) Modern and contemporary art GALERIE BERTRAND DE LAVERGNE (FR) 16th-18th century Chinese porcelain and works of art, Chinese snuff bottles LEMAIRE (BE) Antique ceramics, earthenware, porcelain M FRANCIS MAERE FINE ARTS (BE) 19th-20th century Belgian painting and sculpture

MEARINI FINE ART (IT) - NEW 2024 Haute Epoque and Fine Arts MEESSEN DE CLERCQ (BE) Contemporary art MONTAGUT GALLERY (SP) Tribal art GALERIE MONTANARI (FR) 16th-20th century frames JAN MULLER ANTIQUES (BE) Works of art and 16th-20th-century paintings KLAAS MULLER (BE) 16th-18th century paintings, sculpture and drawings N GIOIELLERIA NARDI (IT) Jewels in gold set with gemstones

NEW HOPE GALLERY (BE) 20th century modern art and design NOSBAUM REDING (LU/BE) Contemporary art DR. NÖTH KUNSTHANDEL + GALERIE (DE) Paintings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, especially French and German Impressionism, Secessions and artists colonies around 1900, Fauvism, Expressionism and the art of the 1920s O OPERA GALLERY (CH) Modern and contemporary art OSBORNE SAMUEL GALLERY (UK) Modern British painting and sculpture P GALERIE JORDI PASCUAL (SP) Modern and contemporary art LA PATINOIRE ROYALE | GALERIE VALÉRIE BACH (BE) Fine modern and contemporary art and design PAULINE’S JEWELLERY BOX (BE) - NEW 2024 Antique jewellery

GALERIE DE LA PRÉSIDENCE (FR) Masters of the 20th century and figurative painters from the 1950s Q QG GALLERY (BE) Post-war & contemporary art R MAISON RAPIN (FR) 20th century and contemporary art and design STÉPHANE RENARD FINE ART (FR) NEW 2024 Old Master paintings and drawings REPETTO GALLERY (CH) Post-war Italian art, Arte Povera and Land Art RÖBBIG MÜNCHEN (DE) Early Meissen and German porcelain, 18th century furniture, paintings and objets d’art

STERN PISSARRO GALLERY (UK) Modern and contemporary art STUDIO 2000 ART GALLERY (NL) 19th and 20th century paintings and drawings T GALERIE TAMÉNAGA (FR/JPN) Impressionist, modern and contemporary paintings GALERIE THEUNISSEN & DE GHELLINCK (BE) French furniture and works of art from the 17th and 18th centuries TOBOGAN ANTIQUES (FR) - NEW 2024 Furniture and objects from the second half of the 19th century GALERIE PATRICE TRIGANO (FR) Modern and contemporary art U UNIVERS DU BRONZE (FR) 19th-20th century and contemporary sculptures

GALERIE SOFIE VAN DE VELDE (BE) Modern and contemporary art

ROMIGIOLI ANTICHITÀ (IT) - NEW 2024 Haute Epoque

VAN HERCK-EYKELBERG (BE) - NEW 2024 Modern and post-war art

RUEB MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ART (NL) Modern & contemporary art

GALERIE RAF VAN SEVEREN (BE) NEW 2024 Figurative paintings, 1870-1950, abstract paintings, 1950-1980

RICHARD SALTOUN GALLERY (UK/IT) NEW 2024 Modern and post-war Art SERGE SCHOFFEL - ART PREMIER (BE) Primitive arts SECHER FINE ART & DESIGN (DK) NEW 2024 Modern art specialised in CoBrA 10

GALERIE DINA VIERNY (FR) Modern and post-war art VKD JEWELS (NL/IT) European and American jewellery since 1969 GALERIE FLORENCE DE VOLDÈRE (FR) Old Masters, 16th-18th century Northern schools N. VROUYR (BE) Carpets and textiles, restoration and cleaning W FLORIS VAN WANROIJ FINE ART (NL) Old Master paintings, sculptures and works of art from the Haute Epoque period VICTOR WERNER (BE) European painting, sculpture, furniture and works of art from the 19th to the 20th centuries WHITFORD FINE ART (UK) 20th century paintings, drawings and sculptures WILLOW GALLERY (UK) Impressionist and PostImpressionist paintings

ROBERTAEBASTA (IT/UK) 20th century decorative arts and design

Nicolás Cortés Gallery, Francisco de Zurbarán

GALLERY DE POTTER D’INDOYE (BE) NEW 2024 Furniture, works of art and paintings from the Empire era and from the late 18th century

HERWIG SIMONS FINE ARTS (BE) Antique and modern works of art

AXEL VERVOORDT (BE) Contemporary art, archaeology, furniture, Oriental art, objets d’art dating from the 17th to the 20th centuries and design from the 20th century

Osborne Samuel Gallery, Lynn Chadwick

GUY PIETERS GALLERY (BE) Modern and contemporary art

SEGOURA FINE ART (FR) - NEW 2024 Paintings and works of art of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries

Z ZEBREGS&ROELL FINE ART AND ANTIQUES (NL) – NEW 2024 Cross-cultural works of art and Kunstkammer

Rueb Modern and contemporary art, Gerrith Th. Rietveld

GALERIE ALEXIS PENTCHEFF (FR) 19th-20th century paintings

ZIDOUN-BOSSUYT (LU/UEA) Contemporary art

SAMUEL VANHOEGAERDEN GALLERY (BE) Modern and contemporary art MAURICE VERBAET GALLERY (BE) Belgian post-war art GALERIE VON VERTES (CH) Modern and contemporary art

EXHIBITORS 132 galleries from 14 countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Luxemburg, The Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom. SPECIALITIES Classical antiquities, tribal art, Asian art, Old Masters, modern and contemporary painting, silverware, antique jewellery, furniture, sculpture and works of art from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, Pre-Columbian art, Islamic art, design objects & furniture, antique frames, icons, curiosities, glass and ceramics, drawings and engravings, antique and modern books, original comic art, autographed letters and manuscripts, photography, carpets and textiles, tapestries…

PRACTICAL INFORMATION BRAFA IN NUMBERS - BRAFA is one of the top 5 art and antiques fairs - Now in its 69th year, BRAFA is the oldest art fair in the world - 132 exhibitors from 14 countries will be taking part, covering 20 specialities from archaeology to design and contemporary art - For two days before the opening, 80 experts from around the world will have verified the quality, authenticity and condition of the artworks - 10,000 to 15,000 pieces on display, up for sale! - More than 65,000 visitors from around the world are keen to attend - Exhibition space of 21.200 m² in an elegant setting Despite its breadth, BRAFA is a human-scale fair, allowing collectors and art lovers as well as professionals from the art market to easily spot their favourite artworks in the space of a few hours... VENUE Brussels Expo - Halls 3 & 4 (entrance) Place de Belgique - Belgiëplein 1 BE-1020 Brussels DATES AND OPENING HOURS Exclusive Saturday, January 27th, 2024, from 11 am to 7 pm Sunday, January 28th to Sunday, February 4th, 2024, from 11 am to 7 pm Late opening Thursday, February 1st, 2024, until 10 pm TICKETS Exclusive Saturday 110 € Day ticket 25 € 16-26 years old 10 € per person < 16 years old Free Buy online at www.brafa.art or on site (cashless payment only) Catalogue* 20 € Combination tickets* 1 entry + 1 catalogue 35 € 2 entries + 1 catalogue 60 € *Only on sale at the event (cashless payment only) 12

BRAFA ART TALKS Captivating talks for curious minds, open access without reservation with an entrance ticket. Daily at 4 pm at the stand of the King Baudouin Foundation n° 137. Belgian and international curators, art experts and journalists will be delivering inspiring lectures on a variety of topics. Full programme available at: www.brafa.art/en/art-talks BRAFA ART TOURS, SPONSORED BY HISCOX Discover fascinating highlights of the fair and gain a deeper understanding of these pieces. Public tours at 3 pm, by registration only via www.brafa.art/en/tickets Private tours in English, French, Dutch and other languages on request. For prices and bookings, please contact Patricia Simonart, p.simonart@brafa.be, t. +32 (0)2 513 48 31 SERVICES Concierge, restaurants, champagne bars, cloakroom (3 €), parking (12 €) Special parking & access for disabled persons (Parking M & T). SAFETY REGULATIONS Animals, any type of large bag, backpacks, suitcases and umbrellas are not allowed at the fair. Please do not bring art or antiques for valuation. No photography or filming of the artworks is allowed without permission from the exhibiting gallery. No use of tripods without permission. Security personnel reserve the right to search all visitors and their belongings at the entrance to the fair. CONCIERGE SERVICE BRAFA’s aim is to make your visit a truly unforgettable experience! For all inquiries about BRAFA before the opening of the fair, or about Brussels’ museums, exhibitions or concerts, restaurants, hotels, car rental, plane tickets, transfers to the airport or anything else, please contact Patricia Simonart: p.simonart@brafa.be, t. +32 (0)2 513 48 31. During the fair, the Concierge of the Hotel Le Plaza Brussels, a member of the Belgian Royal Warrant Holders, will be delighted to assist you with any enquiries. He/she will be located at the entrance hall of the fair. ORGANISATION Foire des Antiquaires de Belgique asbl / Antiekbeurs van België vzw t. +32 (0)2 513 48 31 - info@brafa.be - www.brafa.art

A VIRTUAL TOUR OF BRAFA 2024 WILL BE AVAILABLE ON WWW.BRAFA.ART FROM SUNDAY, JANUARY 28TH, 2024 13

\ BY TRAIN BELGIAN RAIL - SNCB/NMBS For information about transport in Belgium and abroad: www.belgianrail.be EUROSTAR Direct route to Brussels: from Paris (1h22), from London (2h), from Amsterdam (1h50), from Cologne (1h50). Train times and tickets on www.eurostar.com Arrival at Bruxelles-Midi/Brussel-Zuid station. To reach Brussels Expo from Bruxelles-Midi/Brussel-Zuid station, take a taxi or the metro, line 6 (direction Roi Baudouin). Get off at Heysel station, which is located almost opposite the entrance to Hall 4. This journey will take approximately 15 minutes. \ BY CAR Ring - Exit 7A Expo - Parking C, Chaussée Romaine/Romeinse steenweg Parking: 12 € - presale at www.brussels-expo.com/en/parkings To access BRAFA from Parking C, take the footbridge that connects Parking C to Hall 4 or the free shuttle service. Special access for people with reduced mobility on the right at the entrance of Hall 4. Parking M & T are easy to access: www.brussels-expo.com/en/pmr Please let us know in advance if you need special assistance, t. +32 (0)2 513 48 31 - info@brafa.be \ BY TAXI Taxis Verts - t. +32 (0)2 349 49 49 \ BY PUBLIC TRANSPORT Visit www.stib-mivb.be BY METRO Line 6 - direction Roi Baudouin Heysel stop BY TRAM Line 3 - direction Esplanade Heysel stop Line 7 - direction Heysel Heysel stop (terminus) Line 9 - direction Roi Baudouin Roi Baudouin stop (terminus) BY BUS Line 83 - direction Gare de Berchem Heysel stop or Val Maria BY TRAMBUS - De Lijn (Trambus between Brussels Airport & UZ Brussel) Trambus n° 820 - direction UZ Brussel - Expo stop (access via Parking C)

PREFERENTIAL RATES FOR BRAFA VISITORS

HOTEL LE PLAZA BRUSSELS Boulevard Adolphe Max 118-126 BE-1000 Brussels t. +32 (0)2 278 01 00 reservations@leplaza.be www.leplaza-brussels.be Package for 2 people: - One night in a Deluxe room - Breakfast for two - A selection of fine Belgian biscuits by Maison Dandoy - Late check out

\ BY AIRPLANE Brussels Expo is located 20 minutes from Brussels International Airport. Book tickets on www.brusselsairlines.com. From the airport, take a taxi to Brussels Expo or the Trambus-De Lijn n° 820 (direction UZ Brussel) and get off at the Expo stop. To get to BRAFA, take the footbridge from Parking C or the shuttle service that will take you to Hall 4.

HOTEL PARTNERS

Special rate: 255 € excl. city tax of 4,24 €

HOTEL AMIGO, A ROCCO FORTE HOTEL Rue de l’Amigo 1-3 BE-1000 Brussels t. +32 (0)2 547 47 09 smuhlfellner@roccofortehotels.com www.roccofortehotels.com/hotel-amigo Special offer for 2 people: - One night in a Classic Room - Upgrade in Deluxe Room subject to availability - Breakfast for two - A box of delicious Laurent Gerbaud Belgian chocolates

HOW TO GET TO BRAFA

Special rate: 320 € excl. the city tax of 4,24 €

* or ** = Michelin starred

AROUND BRUSSELS EXPO

IN THE CITY

AUBERGE NAPOLEON Franco-Belgian cuisine Bouchoutlaan 1 / 1860 Meise t. +32 (0)2 269 30 78 www.aubergenapoleon.be closed Wednesday evening, Saturday midday, Sundays and Mondays

AMEN Franco-Belgian gastronomy Rue Franz Merjay 165 / 1050 Brussels t. +32 (0)2 217 10 19 www.amen.restaurant closed on Sundays and Mondays

LE GRIL AUX HERBES, RESTAURANT EVAN French cuisine Brusselsesteenweg 21 / 1780 Wemmel t. +32 (0)2 460 52 39 www.evanrestaurants.be closed on Saturdays and Sundays SAN DANIELE* Italian gastronomy Avenue Charles-Quint 6 / 1083 Ganshoren t. +32 (0)2 426 79 23 / www.san-daniele.be closed on Sundays and Mondays ‘T STOVEKE French classic cuisine Jetsestraat 52 / 1853 Strombeek-Bever t. +32 (0)2 267 67 25 / www.tstoveke.be closed Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Saturday midday and Sundays. WINE IN THE CITY** International gastronomy Place Reine Astrid 34 / 1090 Jette t. +32 (0)2 420 09 20 www.wineinthecity.be open on Thursday evening, Fridays and Saturday evening

AU SAVOY Belgian cuisine Place Georges Brugmann 35 1050 Brussels t. +32 (0)2 344 32 10 / www.ausavoy.be open 7/7 AU VIEUX SAINT-MARTIN Belgian cuisine Place du Grand Sablon 38 / 1000 Brussels t. +32 (0)2 512 64 76 www.auvieuxsaintmartin.be open 7/7 BARGE* Belgian gastronomy Boulevard d’Ypres 33 / 1000 Brussels t. +32 (0)2 425 73 60 www.bargerestaurant.be open from Tuesday to Saturday evening and Friday midday BOCCONI Italian cuisine Hotel Amigo / Rue de l’Amigo 1 1000 Brussels t. +32 (0)2 547 47 15 www.roccofortehotels.com/ hotels-and-resorts/hotel-amigo/ dining/ristorante-bocconi/ open 7/7 BOZAR RESTAURANT** Franco-Belgian gastronomy Rue Baron Horta 3 / 1000 Brussels t. +32 (0)2 503 00 00 www.bozarrestaurant.be closed Tuesday midday, Saturday midday, Sundays and Mondays

Brugmann

OUR SELECTION RESTAURANTS

BRUGMANN French cuisine Avenue Brugmann 52-54 / 1190 Brussels t. +32 (0)2 880 55 54 www.brugmann.com closed on Mondays, Tuesdays and Saturday midday

EMILY RISTORANTE Italian cuisine Rue de l’Abbaye 4 / 1000 Brussels t. +32 (0)2 318 18 58 www.emily.restaurant closed Saturday midday, Sundays and Mondays

LE CHALET DE LA FORÊT ** French gastronomy Drève de Lorraine 43 / 1180 Brussels t. +32 (0)2 374 54 16 www.lechaletdelaforet.be closed on Saturdays and Sundays

GENCO RISTORANTE Italian cuisine Rue Joseph Stevens 28 / 1000 Brussels t. +32 (0)2 511 34 44 closed on Sunday evening, Mondays

COMME CHEZ SOI * French gastronomy Place Rouppe 23 / 1000 Brussels t. +32 (0)2 512 29 21 www.commechezsoi.be closed on Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays DOLCE AMARO Italian cuisine Chaussée de Charleroi 115-117 1060 Brussels t. +32 (0)2 538 17 00 / www.dolceamaro.be closed Saturday midday and Sundays L’ECAILLER DU PALAIS ROYAL Fish and seafood speciality Rue Bodenbroek 18 / 1000 Brussels t. +32 (0)2 512 87 51 www.lecaillerdupalaisroyal.be open 7/7

KAMO* Japanese gastronomy Chaussée de Waterloo 550A 1050 Brussels t. +32 (0)2 648 78 48 open in the evening from Monday to Friday, open for lunch on Thursday and Friday LILY’S World cuisine Restaurant + Club Avenue De Mot 1 / 1000 Brussels t. +32 2 647 66 68 closed Saturday midday and Sundays Club open from Thursday to Saturday NOTOS Mediterranean gastronomy Rue de Livourne 154 / 1000 Brussels t. +32 (0)2 513 29 59 closed on Saturday midday, Sundays and Mondays 17

WINE & COCKTAIL BARS

Tero Brussels

ALICE COCKTAIL BAR 1st floor Alice restaurant Avenue Louise 190 / 1050 Brussels t. + 32 (0)2 647 70 44 www.alicerestaurant.be closed on Sundays and Mondays

ODETTE EN VILLE French cuisine Rue du Châtelain 25 / 1050 Brussels t. +32 (0)2 640 26 26 www.odetteenville.be closed Saturday and Sunday middays

TERO BRUSSELS Fresh seasonal sharing plates Rue Saint-Bernard 1 / 1060 Brussels t. +32 (0)2 347 79 46 www.tero-restaurant.com closed on Sundays

OSTERIA ROMANA Italian cuisine Avenue Legrand 11 / 1000 Brussels t. +32 (0)2 648 13 95 www.osteriaromana.eu closed on Sundays and Mondays, closed on Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday midday

TOUCAN BRASSERIE French cuisine Avenue Louis Lepoutre 1 / 1050 Brussels t. +32 (0)2 345 30 17 www.toucan.brussels open 7/7

SAMOURAI Japanese gastronomy Rue du Fossé aux Loups 28 1000 Brussels t. +32 (0)2 217 56 39 www.samourai-bruxelles.be closed on Sundays and Mondays SENZANOME* Italian gastronomy Place du Petit Sablon 1 / 1000 Brussels t. +32 (0)2 223 16 17 / www.senzanome.be closed Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays

BAR MAGRITTE Hotel Amigo, A Rocco Forte Hotel Rue de l’Amigo 1-3 / 1000 Brussels t. +32 (0)2 547 47 09 www.roccofortehotels.com/hotel-amigo open 7/7 BAR DU CANAL Rue Antoine Dansaert 208 / 1000 Brussels t. + 32 (0)2 355 53 73 closed on Sundays and Mondays ETIQUETTE WINES Avenue Louise 362 / 1050 Brussels t. + 32 (0)2 644 64 11 www.etiquette-wines.com closed on Saturdays and Sundays

L’ARCHIDUC Rue Antoine Dansaert 6 / 1000 Brussels t. +32 (0)2 512 06 52 / www.archiduc.net open 7/7 PÉNAR/WINERY BRUGMANN Place Georges Brugmann 18 1050 Brussels t. +32 (0)2 895 77 71 / www.winery.be closed on Sundays LE COMPTOIR/WINERY DANSAERT Rue Léon Lepage 53 / 1000 Brussels t. +32 (0)2 895 77 74 / www.winery.be closed on Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays LA PHARMACIE ANGLAISE Coudenberg 66 / 1000 Brussels t. + 32 (0)489 560 736 www.lapharmacieanglaise.com open 7/7 TARZAN Rue Washington 59 / 1050 Brussels t. +32 (0)2 538 65 80 open 7/7

TOUCAN SUR MER Seafood speciality Avenue Louis Lepoutre 17 / 1050 Brussels t. +32 (0)2 340 07 40 / www.toucan.brussels open 7/7 LA VILLA IN THE SKY* French gastronomy IT Tower - 25th floor Avenue Louise 480 / 1050 Brussels t. + 32 (0)2 644 69 14 www.lavillainthesky.be closed Saturday midday, Sundays, Mondays and Tuesday midday LA VILLA LORRAINE BY YVES MATTAGNE* French gastronomy Avenue du Vivier d’Oie 75 / 1000 Brussels t. +32 (0)2 374 31 63 / www.villalorraine.be closed on Sundays, Mondays, Tuesday and Saturday midday

MUSEUMS & FOUNDATIONS

Africa Museum Jo Van de Vijver © RMCA, Tervuren

Maison Hannon © David Plas

Boghossian Foundation - Villa Empain

Wiels Contemporary Art Centre

BRUSSELS

AFRICAMUSEUM Leuvensesteenweg 13 / 3080 Tervuren www.africamuseum.be

BOZAR - CENTRE FOR FINE ARTS Rue Ravenstein 23 / 1000 Brussels www.bozar.be

ART & HISTORY MUSEUM Parc du Cinquantenaire 10 / 1000 Brussels www.artandhistory.museum

CENTRALE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART Place Sainte-Catherine 44 / 1000 Brussels www.centrale.brussels

BELGIAN COMIC STRIP CENTRE Rue des Sables 20 / 1000 Brussels www.comicscenter.net

DESIGN MUSEUM BRUSSELS Place de Belgique 1 / 1020 Brussels www.designmuseum.brussels

BIBLIOTHECA WITTOCKIANA Rue du Bemel 23 / 1150 Brussels www.wittockiana.org

FASHION & LACE MUSEUM Rue de la Violette 12 / 1000 Brussels www.fashionandlacemuseum.brussels

BOGHOSSIAN FOUNDATION VILLA EMPAIN Centre for art and dialogue between Eastern and Western cultures Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 67 1050 Brussels www.villaempain.com

FONDATION CAB ART CENTER BRUSSELS Rue Borrens 32-34 / 1050 Brussels www.fondationcab.com

FONDATION FOLON Ferme du Château de La Hulpe Drève de la Ramée 6A / 1310 La Hulpe www.fondationfolon.be FOUNDATION FRISON HORTA (open by appointment only) Rue Lebeau 37 / 1000 Brussels www.foundation-frison-horta.be HORTA MUSEUM Rue Américaine 25-27 / 1060 Brussels www.hortamuseum.be JEWISH MUSEUM OF BELGIUM Rue des Minimes 21 / 1000 Brussels www.mjb-jmb.org MAISON HANNON - NEW Avenue de la Jonction 1 / 1060 Brussels www.maisonhannon.be MIM - MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS MUSEUM Montagne de la Cour 2 / 1000 Brussels www.mim.be

MIMA - MILLENNIUM ICONOCLAST MUSEUM OF ART Quai du Hainaut 41 1080 Molenbeek-Saint-Jean www.mimamuseum.eu ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES Rue Vautier 29 / 1000 Brussels www.naturalsciences.be ROYAL MUSEUMS OF FINE ARTS OF BELGIUM includes: Old Masters Museum, Fin-de-Siècle Museum, Modern Museum, Magritte Museum Rue de la Régence 3 / 1000 Brussels www.fine-arts-museum.be VAN BUUREN MUSEUM AND GARDENS Avenue Léo Errera 41 / 1180 Brussels www.museumvanbuuren.com WIELS - CONTEMPORARY ART CENTRE Avenue Van Volxem 354 / 1190 Brussels www.wiels.org 21

DIVA, THE MUSEUM FOR DIAMONDS, JEWELLERY, AND SILVER Suikerrui 17-19 / 2000 Antwerp www.divaantwerp.be

MUSEUM MAYER VAN DEN BERGH Lange Gasthuisstraat 19 / 2000 Antwerp www.museummayervandenbergh.be

KMSKA - ROYAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS Leopold de Waelplaats 2 / 2000 Antwerp www.kmska.be

MUSEUM DE REEDE Ernest van Dijckkaai 7 / 2000 Antwerp www.museum-dereede.com

MAS - MUSEUM AAN DE STROOM Hanzestedeplaats 1 / 2000 Antwerp www.mas.be

MUSEUM PLANTIN-MORETUS (Unesco World Heritage) Vrijdagmarkt 22 / 2000 Antwerp www.museumplantinmoretus.be

MIDDELHEIMMUSEUM (Open air sculpture park) Middelheimlaan 61 / 2000 Antwerp www.middelheimmuseum.be M HKA - MUSEUM FOR CONTEMPORARY ART Leuvenstraat 32 / 2000 Antwerp www.muhka.be

CHARLEROI

MOMU - FASHION MUSEUM Nationalestraat 28 / 2000 Antwerp www.momu.be

THE PHOTOGRAPHY MUSEUM Avenue Paul Pastur 11 / 6032 Charleroi www.museephoto.be

GHENT

SNIJDERS&ROCKOX HOUSE Keizerstraat 10-12 / 2000 Antwerp www.snijdersrockoxhuis.be

BRUGES GROENINGEMUSEUM Dijver 12 / 8000 Bruges www.brugge.be/musea

Middelheimmuseum, Richard Deacon, Never Mind, 1993–2017, Copyright the artist, Photo Ans Brys

LEUVEN

S.M.A.K. - MUNICIPAL MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART Jan Hoetplein 2 / 9000 Ghent www.smak.be

M LEUVEN Leopold Vanderkelenstraat 28 3000 Leuven www.mleuven.be

MUSEUM DHONT-DHAENENS Museumlaan 14 / 9831 Sint-Martens-Latem www.museumdd.be

LA LOUVIÈRE

HASSELT

THE CENTRE FOR ENGRAVINGS AND PRINTS (CGII) Rue des Amours 10 / 7100 La Louvière www.centredelagravure.be

Z33 - HOUSE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE Bonnefantenstraat 1 / 3500 Hasselt www.z33.be

LIEGE

LE GRAND CURTIUS Quai de Maastricht 13 / 4000 Liege www.grandcurtiusliege.be

HORNU

LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE

CID - INNOVATION AND DESIGN CENTER Site du Grand-Hornu Rue Sainte-Louise 82 / 7301 Hornu www.cid-grand-hornu.be

MUSÉE L – MUSÉE UNIVERSITAIRE DE LOUVAIN Place des Sciences 3 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve www.museel.be

MAC’S - MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART Site du Grand-Hornu Rue Sainte-Louise 82 / 7301 Hornu www.mac-s.be 22

KERAMIS - CERAMICS CENTRE Place des Fours-Bouteilles 1 7100 La Louvière www.keramis.be

LA BOVERIE Parc de la Boverie / 4020 Liege www.laboverie.com

Hornu, vue aérienne 2016 © Grand Hornu

MAS © Sarah Blee

SINT-JANSHOSPITAAL – MEMLING MUSEUM Mariastraat 38 / 8000 Bruges www.brugge.be/musea

MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS GHENT Fernand Scribedreef 1 / 9000 Ghent www.mskgent.be

FASHION MUSEUM HASSELT Gasthuisstraat 11 / 3500 Hasselt www.modemuseumhasselt.be

GRUUTHUSEMUSEUM Dijver 17C / 8000 Bruges www.brugge.be/musea O.L.V. TER POTTERIE Potterierei 79 B / 8000 Bruges www.brugge.be/musea

Leuven - M Leuven © Karel Rondou

ANTWERP

HERGÉ MUSEUM Rue du Labrador 26 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve www.museeherge.com 23

TEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS Mechelen - Museum Hof van Busleyden © Sophie Nuytten

BRUSSELS

Musée royal de Mariemont

La Louvière_Keramis Façade © Keramis

MARIEMONT

OSTEND

ROYAL MUSEUM OF MARIEMONT Chaussée de Mariemont 100 7140 Morlanwelz www.musee-mariemont.be

MU.ZEE Romestraat 11 / 8400 Ostend www.muzee.be

MECHELEN MUSEUM HOF VAN BUSLEYDEN Frederik de Merodestraat 65 2800 Mechelen www.hofvanbusleyden.be 24

SENEFFE DOMAINE DU CHÂTEAU DE SENEFFE Silver Museum of the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles Rue Lucien Plasman 7-9 / 7180 Seneffe www.chateaudeseneffe.be

(Re) Tracing collections 19 Jan 2024 > 29 Sep 2024 An exhibition focusing on research into the provenance of the AfricaMuseum’s collections. This exhibition explores new contemporary interpretations and future perspectives. Most of these collections were acquired during the colonial period in the present-day Democratic Republic of Congo. By questioning the origins of its collections, the museum aims to contribute to a debate on its history and its impact on society. \ ART & HISTORY MUSEUM Parc du Cinquantenaire 10 / 1000 Brussels www.artandhistory.museum Josef Hoffmann – Falling for Beauty 06 Oct 2023 > 14 Apr 2024 The exhibition Josef Hoffmann – Falling for Beauty wishes to offer a broader perspective by presenting Hoffmann’s artistry, for the first time in Belgium, as it developed through six decades of production. The sections of the exhibition are oriented around one or more architectural models that serve as epitomes and key references to consider constellations of furniture, objects, designs, textiles, and documents. In this regard, a juxtaposition of multiple narratives is proposed, covering every aspect of Hoffmann’s artistic production: architecture, design, decorative arts, scenography, writing and teaching. In addition, attention is paid to his creative method as well as his use of colour. This exhibition at the Art & History Museum in Brussels provides an exceptional opportunity to discover an artist who understood

Art & History Museum - Josef Hoffmann, MAK, GO 2005 © MAK Katrin Wisskirchen

Seneffe © Domaine de Seneffe

\ AFRICAMUSEUM Leuvensesteenweg 13 / 3080 Tervuren www.africamuseum.be

beauty as an absolute requirement for individual and social transformation. Georgia: A Story of Encounters 27 Oct 2023 > 18 Feb 2024 In the context of Europalia Georgia, the Art & History Museum will be hosting a heritage exhibition focusing on the culture, history, and art of Georgia since the Neolithic period. At the crossroads between East and West, traversed by trade routes linked to the Silk Roads, and always coveted by the great powers surrounding it, Georgia has been a place of encounters and exchanges from which it has drawn cultural nourishment. The result is a heritage of unparalleled richness. \ ATOMIUM Place de l’Atomium 1 / 1020 Brussels www.atomium.be Restart 03 Feb 2023 > 01 Sept 2024 A digital experience, immersing you in sound & light. The Atomium has invited the artist collective Visual System to occupy its exhibition spaces, devoting its programme to digital art. RESTART, a temporary exhibition, will depict the Atomium in light and 25

\ BOGHOSSIAN FOUNDATION VILLA EMPAIN Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 67 1050 Brussels www.villaempain.com Water / 19 Oct 2023 > 10 Mar 2024 From the earliest times to the present day, water has always been a source of fascination and inspiration due to its vital and spiritual dimension. The relationship between living beings and the world is formed by water. The Boghossian Foundation presents the exhibition Water, a poetic and emotional exploration into the oeuvre of South Korean artist Kim Tschang-Yeul, renowned for his depictions of water droplets. The exhibition tackles the various manifestations of water through a wealth of contemporary artworks and in situ installations by artists from all backgrounds. Set in the breath-taking Art Deco setting of the Villa Empain, Water proposes a myriad of unique artistic approaches by artists exploring a timeless and universal theme. From the smallest droplet of water to the vastness of the ocean, Water explores the ever-changing states of water and the different ways it is used by artists summoning different aesthetic, poetic, sensory or political approaches. 26

\ BOZAR - CENTRE FOR FINE ARTS Rue Ravenstein 23 / 1000 Brussels www.bozar.be Kapwani Kiwanga. Rootwork 10 Nov 2023 > 10 Mar 2024 The French and Canadian artist Kapwani Kiwanga has been invited to create new work centred on a rug with an ornamental floral pattern. The decorative allure of this floor covering is inspired by Art Nouveau and alludes to the shared histories between territories home to botanic species that were imported to Belgium. Kapwani Kiwanga is a conceptual multimedia artist who works with sound, film, performance, and objects. Her art is often based on archival research. Kiwanga addresses not only the past, but also the future. In 2024, she will represent Canada at the Venice Biennale.

Centrale for Contemporary Art © Elodie Antoine, Lipstick

Boghossian Foundation, Kim Tschang-Yeul, Goutte d’eau, 1989 (detail) BOZAR, Kapwani Kiwanga, Seed bank, 2020, Photo Kristien Daem

sound. This original project exploits the magic of the space and accentuates the building’s heritage richness.

\ BELFIUS ART GALLERY Belfius Tower Place Charles Rogier 11 / 1210 Brussels www.belfius-art-collection.be only upon registration inspired by Love 11 Nov 2023 > 22 Jun 2024 The exhibition inspired by Love takes us on a tour of the recent acquisitions of the Belfius Art Collection. Behind each powerful work lies a passionate artist. The exhibition shares this passion by revealing where and how these artists work and by inviting us to see the world through the unique prism of their gaze. inspired by Love goes one step further: for this exhibition, the artists have immersed themselves in the Belfius Art Collection and reveal the works or artists that inspire and touch them the most. The promise of a fascinating journey to the rhythm of Belfius’ Love for Belgian art! \ CENTRALE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART Place Sainte-Catherine 44 / 1000 Brussels www.centrale.brussels @ CENTRALE | hall L’art de rien 23 Nov 2023 > 17 Mar 2024 The group exhibition L’art de rien brings together artists, mostly from Brussels, who share a talent for the smallest gesture and a predilection for humble materials: for aesthetic and poetic purposes, they reuse and divert poor materials or restore dignity to ordinary, everyday objects – those that are discarded, once

consumed, in the household chaos of the modern world. This selection of guest artists is completed – with humour and poetry – by a choice of works drawn from the collection of François de Coninck, as well as from the wonderful cabinet of contemporary curiosities of Galila Barzilaï Hollander, whose sensitive passion for incongruous objects is well known, with an emphasis on international artists. Also on view - 23 Nov 2023 > 17 Mar 2024 @ CENTRALE | box Sofhie Mavroudis. A bread in the wall @ CENTRALE | vitrine Antoinette d’Ansembourg CLOUD SEVEN Quai du Commerce 7 / 1000 Brussels www.cloudseven.be/exhibitions Kinshasa 1960s-2020s: Depara-Nzuzi Polo 25 Jan 2024 > 25 Feb 2024 Kinshasa in the 1960s: days and nights seen through the eyes of the maverick photographer Jean Depara, friend of musicians, pretty women, hoodlums, ‘Bills’, bodybuilders... The pride of being a free Congolese subject, celebrating independence. Kinshasa in the 2020s: three generations later, Alain Nzuzi Polo, 30 years old, the same age as Depara was then, looks at Kinshasa’s disrupted, saturated, chaotic landscape through his introverted universe. Two unique approaches to the same city, curated by Jean-Loup Pivin and Pascal Martin Saint Leon, founders of the iconic Revue Noire. 27

Christophe Gevers. Architecture of the detail 11 Sep 2023 > 10 Mar 2024 The monographic exhibition devoted to Christophe Gevers (1928-2007) and presented at the Design Museum Brussels is intended as a walk through the archives, models and furniture created by the Belgian interior architect and designer. Because of his prolific activity between the 1960s and 1980s, Christophe Gevers’ material legacy is relatively rich. More than an exhibition of objects, the Design Museum Brussels will be hosting a reconstruction of his professional universe: a narrative ensemble composed of archives and objects, documents and testimonies. Gevers’ creative process will be revealed “without filters” thanks, amongst other things, to the archives of Thierry Belenger, currently kept at the museum, and to a selection from the collection of furniture, lamps, sculptures and toys of the publisher and collector André Vossen. 28

\ JEWISH MUSEUM OF BELGIUM Rue des Minimes 21 / 1000 Brussels www.mjb-jmb.org Erwin Blumenfeld. Photography. 1930-1950 29 Sept 2023 > 04 Feb 2024 Known for his exceptionally creative fashion photographs, Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1969) was the author of a polymorphous body of work combining Dadaist inspiration, political commitment, and artistic experimentation. Featuring over a hundred photographs, the exhibition looks back at the life of this Berlin Jew, who was part of the cultural avant-garde in Amsterdam and then Paris, before being placed in various internment camps when the Second World War broke out. He managed to take refuge in New York at the last minute in 1941, where he enjoyed a successful career, marked by a free exploration of form and colour. Also on view: Shoshana Walfish 07 Sept 2023 > 18 Feb 2024

Maison Hannon © David Plas

Jewish Museum of Belgium, Erwin Blumenfeld, Red Cross, variant of a photograph for Vogue US March 1945, New York, 1945 © The Estate of Erwin Blumenfeld 2022

\ DESIGN MUSEUM BRUSSELS Place de Belgique 1 / 1020 Brussels www.designmuseum.brussels

\ MAISON HANNON Avenue de la Jonction 1 / 1060 Brussels www.maisonhannon.be Belgian Art Nouveau. Van de Velde, Serrurier-Bovy, Hankar & Co 01 Jun 2023 > 05 Jun 2024 Art Nouveau. A style? More like a state of mind, and an insatiable faith in modernity. In 1900, whilst the Industrial Revolution was at its peak, Brussels was the field of experimentation for a subversive style. While Victor Horta addressed himself to a wealthy clientele, Paul Hankar, Henry van de Velde and Gustave Serrurier-Bovy worked together to invent a modern way of life that was simpler and less cluttered, with the aim of popularising it. Through this committed approach, they sought to be pioneers of change and to establish the foundations of a first modernity. For its first exhibition, the Maison Hannon presents Belgian Art Nouveau in all its diversity, through a wide range of art pieces from public and private collections, many of which have never been seen before.

\ ROYAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS OF BELGIUM Rue de la Régence 3 / 1000 Brussels www.fine-arts-museum.be In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s 19 Oct 2023 > 28 Jan 2024 The Modernist movement in Ukraine developed against a backdrop of collapsing empires, the First World War, the struggle for independence and the creation of Soviet Ukraine. Despite these profound upheavals, the first decades of the twentieth century saw bold artistic experimentations and a real blossoming of art, literature and theatre in Ukraine. Highlighting a range of artistic styles and diverse cultural identities, In the Eye of the Storm features over sixty works, most of which are on loan from the National Art Museum of Ukraine (NAMU) and the Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema of Ukraine to safeguard them during the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. The exhibition brings together works by artists

\ WIELS - CONTEMPORARY ART CENTRE Avenue Van Volxem 354 / 1190 Brussels www.wiels.org Jef Geys. What you see is not what you think you see 02 Feb 2024 > 19 May 2024 WIELS presents a broad overview of Jef Geys’ work, showcasing the Belgian artist’s incredible trajectory from the late 1950s to his passing in 2018. A pioneer in the intersection of popular, pop and counter-culture, he was driven by an emancipatory impulse. Geys harnessed the visual arts to break through patterns, schemas, and formulas of homogenising systems. He replaced them with more complex methods of encounter, scrutiny and representation, without ever calling on high-brow theories. In this ambitious

survey exhibition, visitors revisit works and events in which conceptual art and sociological photography are invented within the artist’s exhibition projects and prolific, polymorph practice: his local newspaper, his school and teaching, a cluster of cafes and bars, ecological mappings, and formalist deconstructions and transformations. The exhibition is accompanied by a publication following his legendary “work list”. Oscar Murillo 02 Feb 2024 > 28 Apr 2024 In the work of Oscar Murillo (Columbia, 1986), ideas and materials often evolve from one project to the next. His expansive practice allows for the inclusion of others in his creative process, often members of his extended family, but also the people he encounters on his travels. His philosophy of hospitality is interwoven with his interest in the formation of social groups and the division of labour. For this exhibition, the co-winner of the 2019 Turner Prize has created a new body of work, comprising paintings, installations and film.

Manon de Boer, For C.A. (Her Voice), 2020. Courtesy of Manon de Boer and Jan Mot, Brussels, Photo Philippe De Gobert

WIELS, Oscar Murillo, disrupted frequencies (Egypt, Nepal, China, Colombia, Senegal, Malaysia), 2013-2021. Courtesy of the artist

WIELS, Jef Geys, Gleichheit, Broederlijkheid, Liberté, 1986, Courtesy of the artist, Photo Lieven Herreman

such as Kazymyr Malevych, Alexandra Exter and El Lissitzky, as well as by lesser-known figures, including Oleksandr Bohomazov, Sarah Shor and Mykhailo Boichuk, all of whom have left an indelible mark on the country’s art and culture.

ANTWERP \ FOMU - FOTOMUSEUM Waalsekaai 47 / 2000 Antwerp www.fotomuseum.be James Barnor 26 Oct 2023 > 10 Mar 2024 This autumn, FOMU presents the first major retrospective of Ghanaian-British photographer James Barnor (Ghana, 1929). This exhibition reveals both the versatility of his practice and his mastery of the medium. In the early 1950s, Barnor opened his first photography studio in bustling Accra. During the tumultuous months leading up to Ghanaian independence in 1957, he took to the streets and captured the historical events of the time. In 1959, Barnor left for London. There he was commissioned by the African lifestyle magazine Drum, for which he produced portraits and reports of young black women which adorned the covers. In London, Barnor was introduced to colour photography, which brought him to Antwerp in 1969. He spent several months in Mortsel where he attended workshops at the Gevaert Color School. With the knowledge he acquired there, he established the first colour laboratory in the young African country Ghana as a representative of Agfa-Gevaert. His

work from the 1970s and 1980s paints a colourful picture of Ghana, a proud young Republic that believed in the future and modernity. James Barnor’s exhibition at FOMU highlights not only Barnor’s rich career, but also the cultural connections between Accra, London and Belgium. Her Voice 27 Oct 2023 > 10 Mar 2024 Chantal Akerman (Belgium, 1950-2015) remains just as potent an inspiration to artists as she ever was. For her work, Akerman drew on personal experiences and on her reflections about sex, family, trauma, intimacy and oppression. Her radically vulnerable approach was groundbreaking for the 1970s film and art worlds. It was seen as feminist – and fifty years later, its relevance has not diminished. Just last year, her feminist masterpiece Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) was named the best film of all time by the British Film Institute. The group exhibition Her Voice - Echoes of Chantal Akerman presents photographic and video works by seven contemporary artists inspired by the work of Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman. Manon de Boer, Moyra Davey, Gabby Laurent, Frida Orupabo, Joanna Piotrowska, Collier Schorr and Carmen Winant explore what it means today to be a woman, artist, mother, daughter, and lover. BOZAR and Cinematek (Brussels) will be hosting a retrospective in the spring of 2024. \ MAS - MUSEUM AAN DE STROOM Hanzestedeplaats 1 / 2000 Antwerp www.mas.be Art from Pre-Columbian America. Collection Paul & Dora Janssen-Arts In the highest museum gallery in the MAS, a world-famous collection, gathered by Dora Janssen-Arts over many years, tells us about the extraordinary relationship between man and the world of gods, ancestors and spirits in America before the European conquest. The Paul & Dora Janssen-Arts Collection consists of more than 400 pre-Columbian objects in gold, jade, stone, textiles and shell. The objects come from more than 50 different cultures, 31

\ MUSEUM MAYER VAN DEN BERGH Lange Gasthuisstraat 19 / 2000 Antwerp www.museummayervandenbergh.be

ECHO. Wrapped in Memory 14 Oct 2023 > 25 Feb 2024 ECHO reflects on the intimate connection between clothing and memory from the perspective of three artists whose work shares a tactile and emotional intensity: artist Louise Bourgeois, designer Simone Rocha and choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. The exhibition is about the memories of babyhood, childhood and motherhood, ageing and nostalgia, handmaking and repair, and both the physical and emotional memories of clothing.

MAS, Gustave Van de Woestyne, Two Springs, Collection KMSKA

Conversations 10 Nov 2023 > 03 Mar 2024 For this exhibition, contemporary artists will enter into dialogue with the collection of the Museum Mayer van den Bergh. Amongst the centuries-old paintings, the modest sculptures and the extravagant altarpieces will enrich modern artworks during the museum presentation. Fifteen artists have been inspired by Mad Meg by Pieter Bruegel, the portraits by Cornelis De Vos and Alessandro Allori, still-lifes by Antwerp masters like Daniël Seghers, works by Jacob Jordaens, Joachim Patinir, Gerard de Lairesse, and other masterpieces. The result is a surprising dialogue between historical and contemporary masters, presented in the atmospheric interior of Museum Mayer van den Bergh – an intriguing blend of old and new. New and existing work by Bram Demunter, Marcel Dzama, Adrian Ghenie, Kati Heck, Leiko Ikemura, Edward Lipski, Jonathan Meese, Ryan Mosley, Inès van den Kieboom, Muller Van Severen, Tobias Pils, Ben Sledsens, Dennis Tyfus, Rinus Van de Velde and Tal R.

From scribble to cartoon: Drawings from Bruegel to Rubens 17 Nov 2023 > 18 Feb 2024 Discover who, why and how people drew in the Low Countries during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries at this intriguing exhibition. Featuring no fewer than 85 of the most beautiful Old Master drawings, the exhibition is a one-time opportunity to discover work by artists such as Frans Floris, Pieter Bruegel, Anthony Van Dyck and Jacob Jordaens, alongside those by lesserknown draughtsmen, including Jan van Stinemolen, Hans Collaert, Pieter van Lint, Godfried Maes and Jan Erasmus Quellinus. Among the masterpieces are included Rubens’ sketchbook from when he was 12 years old, Antoon van den Wijngaerde’s 10-metre-long Panorama of Zeeland and the extremely rare Italy sketchbooks by the sculptor Pieter Verbruggen. Museum Plantin-Moretus, Jacob Jordaens, De koning drinkt

\ MOMU - FASHION MUSEUM Nationalestraat 28 / 2000 Antwerp www.momu.be

MoMu, Louise Bourgeois, Dawn, 2006, fabric, 54.6 x 74.9 cm, Photo Christopher Burke © Louise Bourgeois Trust / Sabam 2023, Belgium

Rare and Indispensable. Masterpieces from Flemish collections 31 Oct 2023 > 25 Feb 2024 Magritte, Bacon, Ensor, Moore, Jordaens, Rubens… These are just some of the world-famous names on display at the MAS from autumn 2023. The not-to-be-missed exhibition Rare and Indispensable presents a unique selection of masterpieces from the ‘Flemish Masterpiece List’. Over twenty museums, large and small, as well as churches, libraries and private collectors, have temporarily lent masterpieces from their collections to the MAS. Famous paintings by Hugo van der Goes, Rubens, Jordaens, Ensor, Magritte and Bacon,

\ MUSEUM PLANTIN-MORETUS Vrijdagmarkt 22 / 2000 Antwerp www.museumplantinmoretus.be

sculptures by Lucas Faydherbe and Henry Moore, as well as precious silver, medieval manuscripts and a rare piece of furniture by Pierre Gole, of the royal cabinet-maker to the French King Louis XIV, can exceptionally be admired in one place at the same time. All in honour of the 20th anniversary of the ‘Flemish Masterpiece Decree’ that protects rare and indispensable artworks. The curators Thomas Leysen and Ben Van Beneden, members of the ‘Topstukkenraad’ (Masterpiece council), selected all the masterpieces for this exhibition.

Museum Mayer van den Bergh

from Alaska to Chile, and bear witness to the craftmanship and aesthetic sense of their creators in America before 1500. There were many differences between the inhabitants of the American continent, but their vision of the world around them was strikingly similar. Human sacrifice was considered essential in order to ensure continuity between life and death. Fertility rituals across the continent assumed various forms but were always central in the pre-Hispanic environment. Precious grave gifts, often made from gold, reflected the importance of life after death, shared by all the communities represented here, from Alaska to Chile.

\ SNIJDERS&ROCKOX HOUSE Keizerstraat 10-12 / 2000 Antwerp www.snijdersrockoxhuis.be Passion! 16th and 17th century masterpieces from private collections 15 Nov 2023 > 31 Mar 2024 Mayor Rockox loved beauty and culture. When he died in 1640, he left behind a magnificent collection of thencontemporary paintings that he had collected with passion. He had en

Snijders&Rockox House, Jacob Jordaens, Mary and Child, private collection

\ MSK - MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS Fernand Scribedreef 1 / 9000 Ghent www.mskgent.be Restoration of the Ghent Altarpiece 02 May 2023 > 01 Mar 2026 From 2023, seven panels of The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb by the Van Eyck brothers (more commonly known as the Ghent Altarpiece) will be restored in the heart of the MSK. Audiences could already follow the campaign from 2012 to 2019, and now the remaining panels are coming to the museum for the final restoration phase. During the week, you can see the restorers of the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK) live at work, in the studio behind glass.

COVID pandemic closed the country off to foreigners. Also on view > Virginie Nguyen Hoang. La vie en guerre.

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Peter Knapp. Mon Temps 03 Feb 2024 > 26 May 2024 From the 3rd of February, the exhibition Mon Temps will honour Peter Knapp’s work (Switzerland, 1931) as a fashion photographer and artistic director, notably of Elle magazine. The exhibition, unique in Belgium, was conceived by the Swiss Foundation for Photography (Winterthur) on the basis of a generous donation by Peter Knapp. It pays tribute to the work of the Swiss designer reviving the atmosphere of an era (1965-1980) as well as the changes in society it has experienced. Also on view > Thomas Chable

Among Friends 25 Nov 2023 > 28 Apr 2024 In the winter of 2023-2024, MSK Ghent will be looking back and looking forward. The Among Friends exhibition will explore the museum’s recent and more distant past, with a focus on the people who have donated gifts and legacies of antique and modern art. The exhibition includes works by Pierre Alechinsky, Karel Appel, Simon Bening, Colijn de Coter, Cornelis de Heem, Raoul De Keyser, James Ensor, Henri Evenepoel, Fernand Khnopff, Constantin Meunier, George Minne, László Moholy-Nagy, Auguste Rodin, Félicien Rops, Medardo Rosso, Peter Paul Rubens, Roelant Savery, Frans Snijders, Léon Spilliaert, Frits Van den Berghe, Théo Van Rysselberghe and many other artists.

MSK, Cornelis de Vos, Family Portrait, c. 1630 - c. 1635

Bertrand Meunier. Erased 30 Sep 2023 > 28 Jan 2024 Erased proposes in 80 silver prints, videos, installations and press clippings, a new take on the vast body of work produced by Bertrand Meunier (Lyon, 1965) in China from 1999 to 2019. During his regular trips to China, Bertrand Meunier was able to capture the transformations the country has undergone in the past twenty years, from joining the World Trade Organisation [2001] to the protests in Hong Kong in 2019-2020, before the

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S.M.A.K., Jan Van Imschoot, Le cauchemar d’une orange, 2020

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eye for quality and wanted to use it to strengthen the aura of his personality. In his wake, today, frantic collectors are still active on the art market in search of discoveries from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Each motive for collecting is personal, but the common denominator is passion. The Snijders&Rockox House hosts a selection of some private collectors who prefer to remain anonymous but are eager to share their gems. From Ambrose Benson, to Jordaens and Quellinus, to Teniers!

\ S.M.A.K. – MUNICIPAL MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART Jan Hoetplein 2 / 9000 Ghent www.smak.be Jan Van Imschoot. The End Is Never Near 07 Oct 2023 > 03 Mar 2024 The exhibition The End Is Never Near in S.M.A.K. presents the first comprehensive exhibition devoted to the work of the Belgian artist Jan Van Imschoot (Ghent, 1963). The exhibition traces a rough chronological trajectory that spans more than 30 years and includes over 80 of his paintings. Van Imschoot is internationally known for his intimate, enigmatic works from the early 1990s and his recent largescale, historically inspired tableaux. Van Imschoot belongs to a generation of artists who laid the foundations for the critical reappraisal of figurative painting during the 1990s. Among his peers, Van Imschoot’s work occupies a unique place due to the profound art-historical awareness with which he paints. He approaches contemporary subjects such as gender, identity, war and peace, drawing inspiration from sources such as seventeenth-century Dutch painting, the work of Tintoretto, Caravaggio and especially that of Edouard Manet, the archetypal painter of modern life. Besides the classical history of Western painting, film and literature also serve as important references in Van Imschoot’s creative universe. By also making them a focal point, the exhibition aims to bring Jan Van Imschoot’s world to life within the walls of S.M.A.K. ‘And that world, as the exhibition title suggests, is far from ending’. 35

HASSELT \ Z33 - HOUSE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE Bonnefantenstraat 1/ 3500 Hasselt www.z33.be This Is Us / 01 Oct 2023 > 18 Feb 2024 In the exhibition This Is Us, selected works from the four largest Flemish museums for contemporary art will be presented together for the very first time. Curator Fabian Flückiger chose artworks from the contemporary collections of M HKA, S.M.A.K., Mu.ZEE and M Leuven. With the artistic learning environment as his inspiration, he reflected on what these collections represent. What do they say about modern society, and what can this teach visitors? The exhibition is divided into three chapters: The Art 36

HORNU \ CID - INNOVATION AND DESIGN CENTER Site du Grand-Hornu Rue Sainte-Louise 82 / 7301 Hornu www.cid-grand-hornu.be Home Made. Create, Produce, Live 15 Oct 2023 > 11 Feb 2024 In the era of open-source technology, remote working and Covid-19 lockdowns, what links are being forged between the domestic space, work and objects? Will future production be marked by extreme individualism (making for oneself) or a form of collectivisation (contributing to a network)? How are cities and

Also on view Classroom 01 Oct 2023 > 18 Feb 2024 Jef Geys makes school 01 Oct 2023 > 04 Feb 2024

visions are the result of meticulous research, based on various materials that are generally inspired by motifs found in the natural world or the sensory experience of it. For his exhibition at the MACS, the artist has devised a twofold sensorial landscape, shifting between states of ‘drought’ and ‘dampness’.

\ MAC’S - MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART Site du Grand-Hornu Rue Sainte-Louise 82 / 7301 Hornu www.mac-s.be Jochen Lempert. Honeyguides and Milk Teeth 12 Nov 2023 > 17 Mar 2024 The MACS is presenting the first exhibition in Belgium by the German photographer, Jochen Lempert (Moers, 1958). After studying biology and specialising in dragonflies, Lempert embarked on his artistic career at the age of 31. His scientific background gave him an appetite for observing nature, which he explores in delicate, poetic blackand-white images. At the MACS, the selected works and their arrangement in the space have been envisaged by the artist as a single installation, presenting subtle, visual accounts consisting of formal or conceptual analogies, in which the animal and plant worlds mingle.

Institution, Living Spaces, and Telling Stories, which contain works by some fifty artists, more than half of whom live and work in Belgium. They also include seven new works, created specifically for the exhibition. This Is Us is a unique collaboration between the leading Flemish museums of contemporary art and Z33.

regions preparing to manage this new network of creators, small producers and engaged users? A selection of international designers and collective projects are presented alongside a collection of experiences, witness accounts and objects to provide a better understanding of the creativity at play in these new working environments.

HORNU CID, Benjamin Edgar Tired, but quite optimistic

Karlo Kacharava. Sentimental Traveller 02 Dec 2023 > 14 Apr 2024 In the context of Europalia Georgia, S.M.A.K. is organising the first solo museum exhibition of the Georgian artist Karlo Kacharava (1964-1994) outside Georgia. Kacharava’s short life ultimately left an enduring mark on Georgia, inspiring a whole new generation of local artists amidst a vibrant cultural scene. Artist Karlo Kacharava was born when his native Georgia was part of the Soviet Union and died in the early years of its independence. Karlo Kacharava provided an artistic response, emphasising cultural connections rather than rigid divides - a philosophy that resonates far beyond Georgia. He produced numerous paintings, works on paper and illustrated diaries. Although he was only 30 years old when he died, Kacharava also left behind volumes of poetry, art criticism and cultural commentary, not to mention the legacy of a unique style that helped usher in a new wave of Georgian avantgarde expression. Within the framework of a public programme, S.M.A.K. will also be inviting a younger generation of artists from Georgia and its diasporas to enter into dialogue with his work.

Lionel Estève. Les Saisons 12 Nov 2023 > 17 Mar 2024 Lionel Estève’s (Lyon, 1967) sculptures and installations are characterised by a captivating fragility. The delicate 37

\ THE CENTRE FOR ENGRAVINGS AND PRINTS (CGII) Rue des Amours 10 / 7100 La Louvière www.centredelagravure.be Nos géantes / 19 Jan 2024 > 02 Jun 2024 Le Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image imprimée presents a group show featuring mainly very large format works from the collections. In the world of printmaking, a piece measuring more than one metre is usually considered a large-format piece. Over the years, immense machines have enabled the production of sometimes monumental pieces. This exhibition highlights more than twenty of them. Paradoxically, at the entrance to the exhibition, visitors come face to face with a wall featuring a vast array of works in fairly moderate formats. They are the result of a survey carried out by the CGII team to find out which would be their ‘Giant’ work, in the most intimate sense of the word. A work that moves them or with which they have a special relationship.

\ KERAMIS – CERAMICS CENTER Place des Fours-Bouteilles 1 7100 La Louvière www.keramis.be Mentors. Ceramists and teachers in Belgium / 18 Nov 2023 > 18 Feb 2024 This exhibition brings together almost 70 ceramists at two cultural sites: Keramis - Center for Ceramics in La Louvière, where the ‘pioneers’ of the last century are exhibited, and BeCraft in the former abattoir in Mons, which brings together contemporary ceramists. The exhibition showcases artists who not only have / have had a ceramic practice but have also participated / are participating in the transmission of its knowledge and know-how within an educational setting. Keramis, Hugo Meert, Throwing Sculptures, 2010, Collection Keramis © Jacques Vandenberg

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\ M-LEUVEN Leopold Vanderkelenstraat 28 3000 Leuven www.mleuven.be Take your time (ancient art and contemporary art) > 31 Mar 2024 How much time do you spend looking at an artwork in a museum? The average visitor looks at each work for 28.63 seconds. That includes the time to take a selfie. In this new presentation of the collection, we invite you to take your time and really look at and the pieces and to ask questions about the role of time in art.

and intimate, complex and surprisingly accessible, spectacular and deeply human. His installations draw on multiple sources of inspiration, rooted in Western and Eastern artistic traditions and diverse spiritual philosophies: Buddhist, Sufi and Christian. All of them are permeated by a humanism of a universal nature.

Moved / > 31 Mar 2024 Until quite recently, in this region, religion played an important role in everyday life. The calendar was marked by Christian holy days and rituals, which brought communities together. Almost everybody took part. But nowadays, we are no longer familiar with these traditions, though many of the objects that played a central role in them have survived, including in the collection at M.

The Centre for Engravings and Prints - Françoise Pétrovitch, Se coiffer, lithography, Collection CGII

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LIEGE \ LA BOVERIE Parc de la Boverie / 4020 Liege www.laboverie.com Bill Viola. Sculptor of Time 21 Oct 2023 > 28 Apr 2024 The Musée de La Boverie (Liège) is devoting a monographic exhibition to the American artist Bill Viola (New York, 1951). Bill Viola a major figure in contemporary art, is considered to be one of the fathers of video art. Bill Viola. Sculptor of Time, presented by Tempora and the Bill Viola Studio, is the first Belgian exhibition of international scope celebrating the work of this unrivalled video artist. Bill Viola’s technically dazzling works are both grand

OSTEND \ MU.ZEE - KUNSTMUSEUM AAN ZEE Romestraat 11 / 8400 Ostend www.muzee.be Rose, Rose, Rose, à mes yeux! James Ensor and Still Life in Belgium 1830-1930 16 Dec 2023 > 14 Apr 2024 In Flanders, 2024 will be dedicated to James Ensor. It will be 75 years since the great Ostend master died. He will be commemorated in Ostend, the city where Ensor was born and spent his entire life. 39

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\ ROYAL OPERA HOUSE LA MONNAIE / DE MUNT Place de la Monnaie – Muntplein 1000 Brussels t. +32 (0)2 229 12 11 www.lamonnaie.be - www.demunt.be

James Ensor, Roses, 1892. KMSK Brussel

CONCERTINI Concertino - A. Borodine & R. Glière Fri 26 Jan 2024 at 12.30 pm (noon)

SENEFFE \ DOMAINE DU CHÂTEAU DE SENEFFE Silver Museum of the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles Rue Lucien Plasman 7-9 / 7180 Seneffe www.chateaudeseneffe.be Think Nature / 07 Oct 2023 > 01 Sep 2024 The artist Mr Plant is coming to the Seneffe’s Castle for a poetic, unusual and contemporary exhibition. His plant-based, offbeat installations combine the dramatisation of objects 40

OPERA Die Walküre. Richard Wagner Sun 28 Jan 2024 at 3 pm, Wed 31 Jan 2024 at 5.30 pm Sat 03 Feb 2024 at 3 pm On Wed 31 Jan 2024 at 5.30 pm: special ‘Soirée Young Opéra’ with an exclusive introduction for young opera lovers under 30 and a free reception

from the museum’s collections with the enhancement of the interior decor of the eighteenth-century neoclassical castle. His view of nature and current social concerns make a link with the ideas advocated by the philosophers of the Age of Enlightenment. Visitors will be able to take this unusual walk, accompanied by a quirky ‘character’, and to have their photo taken. Nature will speak to them. Seneffe at the time of the Philippsons 10 Sep 2022 > 31 Aug 2024 Follow the life of the Philippson family in their ‘country house’ in Seneffe (19091952). Discover the twentieth-century innovations introduced into both the house and the park during the heritage restoration. Photos from the period, layout plans, archive documents and decorative art elements are put into perspective to further our understanding of the evolution of the eighteenth-century castle with the innovation of the twentieth century under the impetus of a renowned family.

\ BOZAR - CENTRE FOR FINE ARTS Rue Ravenstein 23 / 1000 Brussels t. +32 (0)2 507 82 00 / www.bozar.be CONCERTS, CLASSICAL MUSIC, GLOBAL MUSIC The Gurdjeff Ensemble Fri 26 Jan 2024 at 8.30 pm CONCERTS, CLASSICAL MUSIC, SYMPHONIC Belgian National Orchestra x VRT - Canvas Antony Hermus conductor Stefaan Degaan conductor Johannes Brahms Symphony no. 4, op. 98 Sat 27 Jan 2024 at 8 pm

Rose, Rose, Rose, à mes yeux! James Ensor and Still Life in Belgium 1830-1930 is the first exhibition ever devoted entirely to Ensor’s still lifes. The exhibition follows the evolution at the heart of Ensor’s body of work and within Belgium’s history of still life. A unique journey through the still lifes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Concertino - Carte Blanche Dirk Noyen Fri 02 Feb 2024 at 12.30 pm (noon) @ Grand Foyer of La Monnaie

CONCERT / OPERA & FAMILY Peter and the Wolf. Sergueï Prokofiev La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra & Altinoglu For children aged 8 and over Sun 04 Feb 2024 at 10 am (in French) & 11.30 am (in Dutch) @ BOZAR, Salle Henry Le Boeuf

CONCERTS, CLASSICAL MUSIC, PIANO Florian Noack. Visions Fugitives Anatol Lyadov The Enchanted Lake, op. 62 (arr. F. Noack) Sergeï Prokofiev 4 Etudes, op. 2 & Visions fugitives, op. 22 (excerpts) Nikolay Myaskovsky Sonata no.2, op. 13 Sergeï Prokofiev Tales of an old Grandmother, op. 31, Nos 1, 2 & 3 & Piano Sonata no. 6, op. 82 Wed 31 Jan 2024 at 8 pm

CONCERTS, CLASSICAL MUSIC, SYMPHONIC Prokofiev Happening Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, dir. Osmo Vänskä Prokofiev Symphony No. 6 in E-flat minor, opus 111 Sat 03 Feb 2024 at 8 pm Gabriel Prokofiev Ensemble (strings & electro) Sat 03 Feb 2024 at 9.30 pm CONCERTS, CLASSICAL MUSIC, VIOLIN, SYMPHONIC Veronika Eberle Belgian National Orchestra, dir. Stanislav Kochanovsky Sergeï Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 19 Symphonic Suite from Chout, Op. 21 bis Sun 04 Feb 2024 at 3 pm

CONCERTS, EARLY MUSIC, VIOLIN Amandine Beyer & Vadym Makareno Jean-Philippe Rameau Le rappel des oiseaux Jean-Marie Leclair Sonate op. 3 no. 5 Luigi Boccherini Duo for 2 Violins, G.65 no. 3 Joseph Barnabé Saint-Sévin Dit L’Abbé Fils Seconde suite pour deux violons Charles-Auguste De Bériot Duo concertant, op. 57 no. 3 Reinhold Glière Duos for 2 Violins, op. 49 no. 1 & no. 3 Sun 04 Feb 2024 at 7 pm \

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FLAGEY Place Sainte Croix / 1050 Brussels t. +32 (0)2 641 10 20 / www.flagey.be

MUSIC, ORCHESTRA, VOCAL Collegium Vocale Gent Wed 24 Jan 2024 at 8.15 pm MUSIC, VOCAL, JUNIOR Project Paradijs Vlaamse Radiokoor Thu 25 Jan 2024 at 2 pm & 6 pm MUSIC, CLASSICAL Isidore Quartet Fri 26 Jan 2024 at 12.30 pm MUSIC, CLASSICAL, PIANO, ORCHESTRA Haydn & Mozart Brussels Philharmonic Fri 26 Jan 2024 at 8.15 pm

FONDATION CAB Rue Borrens 32-34 / 1050 Brussels t. +32 (0)2 644 34 32 www.fondationcab.com Performance FOURFOLD Sat 27 Jan 2024 at 3 pm Through her FOURFOLD project, Meryem Bayram readjusts the field of performance, adding and subtracting material and immaterial elements to the unfolding space - objects based on Guy Rombouts’ Azart alphabet and vocal interventions. These improvised but clearly defined fragments are introduced into the performance as a generative power through which the initial encounter between the two artists is continually renewed.

CONCERTS, CLASSICAL MUSIC, PIANO, SYMPHONIC Alexander Melnikov, soloist piano Queen Elisabeth Competition Belgian National Orchestra, dir. Stanislav Kochanovsky Sergeï Prokofiev Suite from Le pas d’acier, Op. 41 bis Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16 Symphony No. 2 in D minor, Op. 40 Fri 02 Feb 2024 at 8 pm

CONCERTS, THE KIDS AND THE TEENS, CLASSICAL MUSIC Peter and the Wolf. Sergueï Prokofiev La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra & Altinoglu For children aged 8 and over Sun 04 Feb 2024 at 10 am (in French) & 11.30 am (in Dutch)

DANCE Claire Croizé Our Solo Thu 25 Jan 2024 at 8.30 pm @ Kaaistudio’s, Rue Notre-Damedu-Sommeil 81 / 1000 Brussels (presentation Kaaitheater)

THEATER Bruno Vanden Broecke, Valentijn Dhaenens & Vincent Stuer Rexit! Thu 25 Jan - Sat 27 Jan 2024 at 8 pm, Sun 28 Jan at 3 pm Tue 30 Jan 2024 at 7 pm & Wed 01 Feb 2024 at 8 pm DANCE Bahar Temiz In Love Fri 02 Feb & Sat 03 Feb 2024 at 8.30 pm @KVS BOX, 9 Quai aux Pierres de Taille / 1000 Brussels \ THÉÂTRE NATIONAL Boulevard Emile Jacqmain 111-115 / 1000 Brussels t. +32 (0)2 203 53 03 www.theatrenational.be THEATER Samuel Achache Sans tambour Tue 30 Jan 2024 at 8.15 pm, Wed 31 Jan 2024 at 7.15 pm, Thu 01 & Fri 02 Feb 2024 at 8.15 pm

CONCERTS, JAZZ, SAXOPHONE Ambrose Akinmusire feat. Bill Frisell & Herlin Riley Ambrose Akinmusire, trumpet Bill Frisell, guitar. Herlin Riley, drums. Wed 31 Jan 2024 at 8.30 pm

BamBam Frost Yes Fri 26 & Sat 27 Jan 2024 at 8 pm @ Bronks, Rue du Marché aux Porcs 15 / 1000 Brussels (copresentation Kaaitheater and Bronks) De Hoe Opening Night Fri 02 & Sat 03 Feb 2024 at 8.30 pm @ De Kriekelaar, Rue Gallait 86 / 1030 Schaerbeek (presentation Kaaitheater) KONINKLIJKE VLAAMSE SCHOUWBURG Rue de Laeken 146 / 1000 Brussels t. +32 (0)2 210 11 12 / www.kvs.be

\ THÉÂTRE ROYAL DU PARC Rue de la Loi 3 / 1000 Brussels t. +32 (0)2 505 30 30 / www.theatreduparc.be THEATER Carlo Goldoni - L’Impresario de Smyrne Thu 25 Jan - Sat 27 Jan 2024 at 8.15 pm, Sun 28 Jan 2024 at 3 pm, Tue 30 Jan - Sat 04 Feb 2024 at 8.15 pm, Sun 4 Feb 2024 at 3 pm FOR LIVE JAZZ CONCERTS IN BRUSSELS visit the website www.jazzbrussels.be 43

Prokofiev 6 with Osmo Vänskä Osmo Vänskä conductor Prokofiev Symphony No. 6 in E-flat minor, opus 111 Sat 03 Feb 2024 at 8 pm @ BOZAR - Centre for fine arts, Rue Ravenstein 23 / 1000 Brussels \ DESINGEL INTERNATIONAL ARTS CAMPUS Desguinlei 25 / 2018 Antwerp t. +32 (0)3 248 28 28 / www.desingel.be

MUSIC THEATER LOD Muziektheater / Lies Pauwels Love Doll Fri 26 Jan & Sat 27 Jan 2024 at 8 pm MUSIC, EARLY MUSIC, VOCAL A nocte temporis / Reinoud Van Mechelen Bach and Telemann’s Farewell Music Johann Sebastian Bach Cantate ‘Laß Fürstin, laß noch einen Strahl’, BWV198 ‘Trauerode’ Johann Sebastian Bach Cantate ‘Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit’, BWV106 ‘Actus Tragicus’ Georg Philipp Telemann Cantate ‘Du aber Daniel, gehe hin’, TWV4:17 Sat 27 Jan 2024 at 8 pm

\ OPERA BALLET VLAANDEREN Frankrijklei 1 / 2000 Antwerp t. +32 (0)70 22 02 02 / www.operaballet.be DANCE Die Sieben Todsünden (‘le ballet chanté) & Petruska Kurt Weill / Igor Stravinsky Thu 25 Jan, Sat 27 Jan, Thu 01 Feb 2024 at 8 pm, Sun 28 Jan & Sun 04 Feb 2024 at 3 pm

MUSIC, PIANO Sir András Schiff Carte Blanche Thu 01 Feb 2024 at 8 pm MUSIC, ORCHESTRA, VOCAL Orchestre des Champs-Élysées / Collegium Vocale Gent Brahms’ Troostrijke Requiem Sat 03 Feb 2024 at 8 pm

BRUGES \ CONCERTGEBOUW BRUGGE ’t Zand 34 / 8000 Bruges t. +32 (0)78 15 20 20 www.concertgebouw.be DANCE VOCABULARIUM Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Cynthia Loemij / Rosas Fri 26 Jan & Sat 27 Jan 2024 at 8 pm @ MaZ I Cultuurcentrum, Magdalenastraat 27 / 8200 Bruges MUSIC Anima Eterna Brugge & Pablo Heras-Casado Bruckner. Fourth Symphony Sat 27 Jan 2024 at 8 pm

MUSIC, CHAMBER MUSIC Augustin Hadelich, violin / Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, cello / Martin Helmchen, piano Alla Ungarese Joseph Haydn Trio for piano, violin and cello n°29 in G, HobXV:25 ‘Alla Ungarese’. Zoltán Kodály Duo for violin and cello, opus 7 György Kurtág Varga Bálint Ligaturája Robert Schumann Trio for piano, violin and cello n°1 in d, opus 63 Thu 25 Jan 2024 at 8 pm

Leonskaya plays Schumann Osmo Vänskä, conductor, Elisabeth Leonskaya, piano Schumann Concerto for Piano in A minor, opus 54 Prokofiev Symphony No. 6 in E-flat minor, opus 111 Fri 02 Feb 2024 at 8 pm @ Queen Elisabeth Hall, Koningin Astridplein 26 / 2018 Antwerp

Nadar Ensemble Light Music Fri 02 Feb 2024 at 8 pm Opera Ballet Vlaanderen

\ ANTWERP SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA KONINGIN ELISABETHZAAL Koningin Astridplein 26 / 2018 Antwerp t. +32 (0)3 213 54 06 www.antwerpsymphonyorchestra.be

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Le Poème Harmonique Cavalieri. Lamentaties Sat 03 Feb 2024 at 8 pm

Liège, Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Puccini

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\ OPERA ROYAL DE WALLONIE Place de l’Opéra / 4000 Liege t. +32 (0)4 221 47 22 / www.operaliege.be OPERA YOUNG PUBLIC Figaro, le Barbier du Bois joli Based on Rossini, participative opera Sat 27 Jan 2024 at 11 am & 3 pm, Wed 31 Jan 2024 at 3 pm, Sat 03 Feb 2024 at 11 am & 3 pm OPERA Rusalka Antonín Dvořák Conductor Giampolo Bisanti Thu 25 Jan 2024 at 8 pm, Sat 27 Jan 2024 at 8 pm, Tue 30 Jan 2024 at 8 pm, Fri 02 Jan 2024 at 8 pm & Sun 04 Feb 2024 at 3 pm MUSIC Puccini, 100 ans d’héritage Concert Le Villi / Messa di Gloria Conductor Giampolo Bisanti Sat 03 Feb 2024 at 8 pm 46

WATERLOO \ QUEEN ELISABETH MUSIC CHAPEL Chaussée de Tervuren 445, 1410 Waterloo t. +32 (0)2 352 01 17 www.musicchapel.org

restaurants, an arthouse cinema, a unique bookshop, a charming hotel....

From the cosy charm of the luxury boutiques uptown to the bubbling creativity of the avant-garde Belgian and international designers downtown, Brussels offers a wide range of shopping experiences. Follow the guide...

Don’t miss: - Maison Delvaux, luxury leather handbags, Galerie de la Reine 31 - KAAI Antwerp, chic work bags for women, Galerie du Roi 21 - Boutique Ligne, for the best in contemporary design, Galerie du Roi 14

RUE ANTOINE DANSAERT AND ITS SURROUNDINGS The area has a great atmosphere and is full of animated bars and restaurants. The temple of fashion STIJL is not to be missed, hosting Belgian designers for men and women such as Ann Demeulemeester, Dries Van Noten, Christian Wynants and Walter Van Beirendonck, JEANPAULKNOTT, Sofie D’Hoore, Maison Margiela, Marina Yee… and the first Ann Demeulemeester ‘A’ perfume. Other boutiques located nearby include: Café Costume, Hatshoe, childrenswear at Kat en Muis, the iconic Underwear, multi-brandshops ICON… - STIJL - WOMEN, Rue A. Dansaert 74 - STIJL - MEN, Place du Nouveau Marché aux Grains 6

SABLON This bustling square is surrounded by an incredible array of antique dealers ranging from archaeology experts to specialists in 18th century French furniture, Art Deco glass, Art Nouveau sculpture, design, and tribal art. Some of the best Belgian chocolate shops and restaurants can also be found here. Further down, vintage clothing and furniture is on offer in the Marolles area where the famous flea market of the Place du Jeu de Balle, one of the most colourful markets in the city, takes place every day. Don’t miss: - Nathalie Vleeschouwer, Belgian designers’ shop, Rue Ernest Allard 8 - Lunetier Ludovic, genuine craftsmanship for bespoke luxury eyeglasses

CONCERT Trio Nebelmeer and Christian Merveille A tale set to music and images Sun 28 Jan 2024 at 11.30 am MUCH SURPRISE The Artists in Residence will surprise you with their ‘cartes blanches’.

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Artist Diploma by Louise Foor, Diary Fri 02 Feb 2024 at 8.15 pm The Artists Diploma marks the end of the Artists in Residence cycle at La Chapelle Musicale. These musicians who, year after year, have developed before your very eyes thank you with a programme that is close to their hearts.

GALERIES ROYALES SAINT-HUBERT NEAR THE GRAND PLACE Inaugurated in 1847, the Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert was the largest, most beautiful commercial centre in Europe at the time. Located close to Grand Place, the elegant interior houses luxury boutiques,

BOULEVARD DE WATERLOO, RUE DE NAMUR & AVENUE LOUISE The Boulevard de Waterloo, one of the main luxury shopping areas in Belgium, is home to the most illustrious boutiques, hosting designers such as Balenciaga, Gucci, Versace, Prada, Dior, Ralph Lauren, Tod’s, Giorgio Armani, Diane Von Furstenberg, Hermès, Louis Vuitton, Tiffany’s… The Avenue Louise area showcases international and Belgian international brands like Maison Delvaux, Essentiel Antwerp, Bellerose, Xandres and the fabulous perfumes of Sentiers d’Ailleurs. Don’t miss: - Natan Couture, Avenue Louise 158 & Natan Prêt-à-Porter, Rue de Namur 78 47

cross the city by metro and enjoy a fine overview of contemporary art in Belgium, with more than 60 specially produced works along the way. • A favourite artwork in a museum? Hans Memling’s Martyrdom of St Sebastian, an absolute masterpiece held in the collections of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, which combines gentleness and suffering. • A neighbourhood? The one I live in, the Porte de Flandres, where you can pass seamlessly between very different human and urban atmospheres, as is often the case in Brussels. • Where would you go for lunch or dinner? Nightshop, on rue de Flandres 167, is one of the exceptional restaurants to be found in this district. • What is your favourite bookshop? Replica, a fantastic local initiative close to the Tours & Taxis site, which has a limited but discerning selection and is a great place to wander around. • A nice shop to stop off at? I recently discovered Bidules, a shop near my place of work, Galerie Ravenstein 39, that offers a vast and unique collection of vintage glasses. • A florist? I think Brussels could have more of them. There’s the must-see Thierry Boutemy, of course, on rue Vanderkindere 375.

- Carine Gilson, exclusive silk lingerie and nightwear (even a James Bond girl fell for it!), Rue de Namur 65b - Mayfair, a stylish new concept store, Boulevard de Waterloo 25 PLACE BRUGMANN AND SURROUNDINGS This is a trendy, bohemian area full of exciting clothing and design shops such as Graphie Sud, Scènes de Ménage, Natan Atelier II, Elles, Lucia Esteves, Bonnie and Jane and Homepage Furniture. Lively restaurants also make the area very welcoming at night. Don’t miss: - JEANPAULKNOTT, rue Franz Merjay 147 - Cachemire Coton et Soie, Rue Franz Merjay 53 - Eva Velazquez, beautifully reinvented utilitarian clothing, Rue Franz Merjay 56 - Wouters & Hendrix, Jewellery shop, Place Georges Brugmann 16 - Les Precieuses, Jewellery shop, Place Georges Brugmann 20

HOW TO SPEND THE DAY IN BRUSSELS? ASK A LOCAL

In February 2024, BOZAR commemorates the 100th anniversary of Surrealism with an exhibition entitled Histoire de ne pas rire. Surrealism in Belgium as do the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium with another major exhibition. You’ve got a day free in Brussels to wander around as you please. Where would you go? •

What’s your favourite museum? I would recommend a lesser-known art venue: the Brussels metro. From Berlinde de Bruyckere (Simonis) to Walter Leblanc (Elisabeth), you can

We put the question to Christophe Slagmuylder. At 55 years old, he has been the new Director of BOZAR, Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels since July 2023.

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