Following two mid-career retrospectives illustrating the period 2000-2014, De Bruyckere is now showing her most recent work. She focuses on the period from 2014 up to the present. The book includes work that has never be seen before. These monumental works are inspired by the idea of an angel, as portrayed in myths, stories, literature and art history. Conceived in the loneliness and isolation of the corona crisis, the angel guards against a lonely existence and, even more importantly, agains...

In 2019 verwierf de Vlaamse Gemeenschap ‘Great American Nude #45’ (1963) van Tom Wesselmann uit de Collectie Matthys-Colle. De aankoop werd gekoppeld aan de langdurige bruikleen van 39 andere kunstwerken uit diezelfde collectie aan het museum. Deze gebeurtenis vormt het startpunt van een unieke en belangrijke publiek-private samenwerking in België, waaruit deze tentoonstelling voortvloeit. Representatieve popartwerken uit de Collectie Matthys-Colle van onder meer Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselm...

Explore Francis Bacon’s visceral paintings, where the line between human and animal is constantly blurred, reminding us that our primal instincts lie just below the surface.

Irish-born artist Francis Bacon was the horse-breeder’s son who became one of the most important painters of the 20th century.

An openly gay man at a time when homosexuality was illegal, he was banished from his conservative family home by his father at 16. After that, he drifted through Berlin and Paris before establ...