From late February onwards, beauty takes centre stage in two major exhibitions: Bellezza e Bruttezza. Beauty and Ugliness in the Renaissance and Picture Perfect. Beauty through a Contemporary Lens.
Beauty and ugliness have always fascinated people, yet their meanings shift over time. Bellezza e Bruttezza explores how artists from Italy and Northern Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries depicted these extremes, from refined ideals to deliberate grotesques. A rare opportunity to see extraordinary works, some appearing in Belgium for the first and only time.
After exploring love in 2024, physical beauty is the second thematic exhibition at Bozar focusing on what motivates us as humans. Through the lens of photography and video, made from the 1960s to today, Picture Perfect explores how artists depict and challenge established norms of who is considered beautiful.
The Singaporese artist Ho Tzu Nyen explores big questions in his ambitious artworks that bring together deep research, popular visual culture, and new technology. For Bozar, he is creating a new work titled P for Power that builds upon his earlier work The Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia.
