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...

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...

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...

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...

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 Russian conductor Valery Gergiev takes us on a musical journey to his country, exploring various aesthetics. With the Mariinsky Orchestra he has one of the world’s best orchestras at his beck and ...

Re: Beethoven - Scandalous stories!  (in response to Beethoven's Third Symphony, "Eroica") Polaroids of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, naked (except for her pearl necklace) and giving a blowjob to an...

And the winner is… Tomasz Ritter! This 23 year old pianist from Poland has won the very first International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments that took place in Warsaw between 2 and 14 Septembe...

BOZAR takes its inspiration from Leonard Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts to introduce students to classical and contemporary music, jazz, and world music etc. We give them tips and tricks to help ...

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...

Put on some virtual reality goggles and enter the wonderful world of Gustav Klimt (1862-1918). Halfway through your visit of the exhibition Beyond Klimt. New Horizons in Central Europe 1914-1938, VR a...

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...

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...

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...

In front of the camera of his wife Saskia Boddeke, the filmmaker and all-round creative artist Peter Greenaway reveals his refined, playful and eccentric world. He plays with the camera, pokes fun at ...

The modernist architecture of Kaunas reflects the optimistic ideals of the 1920s and 30s. As temporary capital of the newly founded independent Republic of Lithuania, Kaunas underwent a miraculous met...