The photographer Hui Zhao was born in 1964 in the city of Nanjin. He has been invited to exhibit his photographs at the headquarters of the European Union in Brussels on four occasions and his interna...

In this series of documentaries from 1992 on a cappella singing, the portrait of Marie DAULNE a.k.a. "ZAP MAMA", accompanied by her sister Anita, is the first one. Marie DAULNE's mother is African whi...

Visual artist and all-round musician Joris Van de Moortel has drawn inspiration from the formal excesses of the baroque period and the carnality of Van Loon’s canvases for his installation of visual c...

We glide through the thin air high above earth’s reality in Aeriality (2010/11). In her work, the Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir explores the boundary between symphonic music and sound art. W...

One thing leads to another. Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar comes from a nomad family and sang Mongolian folk songs as a child. At the age of seventeen he got into university and took his first singing lessons....

A weekend of talks and performances dedicated to the notion of Black Travel, curated by Johny Pitts and Afropean team. Within the general notion of travelling, the Symposium will look to complicate...

Fancy a culture sandwich? Then come along to BOZAR! Every Friday lunchtime we’re serving up an hour of culture. In the space of 45 minutes a guide uncovers a few highlights of the exhibition. The gui...

Faces and cross-cultural exchanges are the main focus of this live art event involving artists from The Philippines and Spain. This collaboration is a great example of how the organic fusion of differ...

In the video installation “A Path to Peace”, Lee Lee-Nam (b. 1969) gives us his personal interpretation of a painting by Gyeomjae Jeong Seon (1676-1759), who was one of the leading lights in the lands...

Solange Thierry-de-Saint Rapt has been passionate about contemporary artists-jewellers since the 1980s. Collecting their most innovative creations is her way of supporting them. She is fascinated by t...

Climate change causes an important increase of rainfall rates and more particularly of intense rain events, posing a significant threat to coastal regions and small islands across the surface of our p...

Belgian visual artist Honoré δ'O is creating a digital-musical installation especially for the ASEM Cultural Festival. With the mask as leitmotif he focuses on real and imaginary boundaries between Eu...

How can architects contribute to the building of a democratic space? How can one learn from the supranational urban and architectural experimentations that is the European presence in Brussels? How ca...

Theodoor van Loon was one of the first painters from the Southern Netherlands to be deeply influenced by the art of Caravaggio. Like his contemporary Rubens, Van Loon developed a powerful, original st...

Visual artist and all-round musician Joris Van de Moortel has drawn inspiration from the formal excesses of the baroque period and the carnality of Van Loon’s canvases for his installation of visual c...

The end of WWI and the Austro-Hungarian Empire also meant the revival of major developments in the art world. Political and economic shifts led to artistic migrations, new ideas and perspectives and n...

BOZAR and La Cinématèque française join forces for a journey through the world and archives of Chris Marker (1921-2012), the militant filmmaker behind La Jetée (1962), not to mention an author, photog...

Step into History of Oil Painting, the new creation of Romeo Castellucci in BOZAR. Shrouded in white curtains, his place of contemplation contains a shrine upon which rests the hair of a prostitute. S...

Put on some virtual reality glasses and enter the wonderful world of Gustav Klimt (1862-1918). VR artist and filmmaker Frederick Baker has created a virtual paradise inspired by the series of three mo...