Series
arts
arts
Evelyne Coussens
7 min reading time
Rashif El Kaoui: A Versatile Storyteller With a Fluid Identity
Portrait of a “bastard” who searches for his identity through art. ‘The stage is the only place where I get space.’
arts
Pieter Coupé
8 min reading time
These Are the Winners of Flanders’ Foremost Cultural Prizes
Thirteen Flemish artists and cultural organisations have been awarded an Ultima for their outstanding contributions.
Series
Jan van Eyck
arts
Maarten Buser
6 min reading time
Form Follows Function? For Artist Kevin Bauer It’s the Other Way Round
Kevin Bauer's sculptures are utilitarian objects that you can't use.
arts
Rashif El Kaoui
15 min reading time
Rashif El Kaoui’s ‘De Bastaard’ Translated into English
Students from two British Universities translated an excerpt from a theatre production by Flemish actor, writer, rapper and podcaster Rashif El Kaoui.
Series
On the Shoulders of the Old Masters
arts
Ron Santing
3 min reading time
Water as a Historical Timeline
A floating exhibition tells the story of a 200-year-old Belgo-Dutch canal Zuid-Willemsvaart.
arts
Gert Meesters
7 min reading time
Comics Artist Aimée de Jongh Conquers the World
The Dutch author absorbs influences from all major comic book traditions and aims her work at an eminently international audience.
Museum Explorer
arts
Maarten Buser
6 min reading time
There’s a Particle Accelerator in Salim Bayri’s Throat
Media, cultures and languages collide in the works of the Moroccan-born Dutch artist.
Series
Mondrian 150
Series
Forgotten Female Painters
arts
Ian Mundell
5 min reading time
On the Road With Armchair Voyager Rinus Van de Velde
Too famous now to still be considered the rising star of Flemish art, Rinus Van de Velde brings a selection of his latest work to a high-profile show at Bozar in Brussels.
arts
Manfred Sellink
15 min reading time
Torn Between Conflicting Interests, Museums Are Looking for a New Role
Confronted with challenging societal, historical and ethical questions, many museums are trying to redefine their role. MSK Director Manfred Sellink makes some proposals.
Laure-Anne Vermaercke - NG-1983-1
Laure-Anne Vermaercke invites us to take a very close look at the Diorama of the Zeezigt Coffee and Cotton Plantation, made by Gerrit Schouten in c. 1815 – c. 1821.
arts
Tom Christiaens
2 min reading time
Museum of Fine Arts Ghent Launches Belgium’s First LGBTQ+ Museum Tour
The MSK wants to uncover hidden or forgotten stories and allow the public to understand how gender, sexual orientation and sexuality have been experienced differently throughout history.
Sanne Aletta van Otten - Coffee Reading
Sanne Aletta van Otten voices a drip-filter coffee pot from 1816, manufactured by the Diemont company.
arts
Kenneth Berth
2 min reading time
Kenneth Berth - I’d wanted to tell him this
Kenneth Berth created an audio story in response to Louis Moritz’s painting The Music Lesson from 1808.
history
Tom Packet
8 min reading time
The American War Years of Art Nouveau Architect Victor Horta
When architect Victor Horta was forced to flee during WWI, he travelled to the United States to give lectures. America influenced his ideas about architecture, urban planning, and society.
arts
Maarten Buser
5 min reading time
Vera Mennens Challenges the Boundaries of Time, Facts and Fiction
In the video essays of Vera Mennens, art and research coexist, as do landscapes and archives.
arts
Dagmar Bosma
3 min reading time
Dagmar Bosma - Additional Information (Identification of a Flaw)
We join Dagmar Bosma as she questions a cabinet made by Charles-Guillaume Diehl in c. 1867 – c. 1880.
arts
Eric Bracke
8 min reading time
Before the Architect Came the Painter: Henry Van de Velde as a Visual Artist
Henry Van de Velde became famous as an architect. But little known is that he started as a painter. From a new catalogue raisonné emerges the picture of an artist who struggled with social status and innovation in his craft.
Anne Marijn Voorhorst - At Your Service
Anne Marijn Voorhorst looks at a mustard pot made by Jean Baptiste Claude Odiot around 1819.
arts
Bert Puype
9 min reading time
Diving Into the Past to Improve the Future: Postcolonial Themes in Belgian Art
From Marcel Broodthaers to Otobong Nkanga, more and more Belgian artists want to cast a critical perspective upon the colonial past in order to influence ongoing debates.
