Het Europa van vandaag gezien door de ogen van fotografe Lieve Blancquaert

"Een tocht door Europa is een reis door vele landschappen, culturen en geschiedenissen. Er worden allerhande talen gesproken, diverse tradities gevierd en uiteenlopende gerechten gegeten. Het licht valt hier geen twee keer hetzelfde, de kleuren zijn nergens identiek. Wat ze wél delen, is dat ze gewild of ongewild deel uitmaken van eenzelfde politieke project, ze hebben dezelfde achtergrond gemeen: de Europese Unie. Te...

Major oeuvre overview of the conceptual painter Jef Verheyen

As a driving force of the international avant garde, Jef Verheyen (1932–1984) occupies an important position in the European art world. In the late 1950s the art of painting arrives at a “zero point” in part thanks to his vision.

Verheyen developed an inimitable monochrome painting technique by layering such thin layers of paint over each other that they seem to be misted onto the canvas. And so the painting became a contempla...

Today's Europe seen through the eyes of photographer Lieve Blancquaert

The fall of the Berlin Wall motivated photographer and journalist Lieve Blancquaert to set off on an epic tour of Europe in her campervan. She visited all twenty-seven member states of the European Union in search of the origins of this identity. She wanted to hear and feel what holds us together and what divides us.

Her many personal encounters reveal time and again that our own language, history, concerns, desires and dr...