Pieter Breughel de Oude was niet alleen schilder van wereldberoemde boerentaferelen, maar ook een fijn politiek commentator op de roerige tijd waar hij in leefde. Leo Spaepen leidt ons door de lagen en simultane betekenissen van een aantal historische sleutelwerken, waaronder De Dulle Griet, en ontleedt de code die Breughel hanteerde om de politieke en religieuze conficten in de 16e eeuwse Nederlanden weer te geven, een geheimtaal hem opgedrongen door de grimmigheid van oorlogsdreiging en rep...

This book celebrates Radicale1924, a contemporary art residency founded in 2020 by Belgian choreographer Chantal Yzermans.

Located in the picturesque village of Saint-Cirq-Lapopie in the Lot Valley in the south of France, the residency welcomed artists, researchers, and creators from 2021 to 2024 to live and work in the historic Maison Routier.

Carrying forward the village’s historical tradition as an artistic haven—once home to André and Elisa Breton and a circle of renowned surrealists...

The Porteurs series, created in 2020 during Béatrice Balcou’s residency at the Centre international de recherche sur le verre et les arts plastiques (CIRVA) in Marseille, is composed of glass batons of two segments: one fluted and kaleidoscopic, the other smoother with a magnifying-glass effect at its tip. Each baton contains residues from an artwork collected from another artist or restorer: iron oxide powder from an ancient mirror, small terracotta fragments from a Nok sculpture, water f...

"Memory Cache Collection 99" is an immersive art installation by Belgian artist Alec De Busschère, presented as part of the 2024 MACS (Grand-Hornu) Extra-muros program in Brussels. The exhibition invited viewers into a labyrinth of large, translucent veils suspended throughout the space, each one printed with enlarged images extracted from computer cache files dating back to 1999. Originally low-resolution and often disconnected from their original context, these images were reimagined by De...