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From 21 February to 31 August, Berlinde De Bruyckere’s ‘Khóros’ exhibition runs at Bozar, where she enters into a dialog...
14/02/2025

From 21 February to 31 August, Berlinde De Bruyckere’s ‘Khóros’ exhibition runs at Bozar, where she enters into a dialogue with other artists. In her oeuvre, De Bruyckere stacks paradoxes. Life and death. Love and suffering. Brutal and tender. Hopeful and apocalyptic. Beautiful and gruesome. Heavy and light. Tragedy and consolation. Connection, division. COLLECT spoke to a collector, to the Director of Exhibitions at Bozar, to the co-curator of the expo and to the artist herself. For or against Berlinde De Bruyckere? ‘You cannot love my work a little bit’, she says. ‘With my art, I want to give accessibility to themes that people would rather have nothing to do with.’ Bozars Director of Exhibitions Zoë Gray and co-curator Ann Geeraerts offer interpretation. ‘What is our humanity, or our animality? That’s what her images are about.” Separately, art collectors Philippe le Hodey and his wife Béatrice de Liedekerke were enchanted by Berlinde De Bruyckere’s work ‘Deux Corps’. ‘Béatrice and I had the impression that Deux Corps depicts a couple who have stayed together for a whole life and produced a family’. Get ready with our extensive dossier in the , available to read for free now via link in bio!

article in our
‘The phenomenon of Berlinde De Bruyckere’ by Ben Herremans


Expo ‘Berlinde De Bruyckere. Khóros’ from 21-02 till 31-08

📷1: Portret by
📷2: Berlinde De Bruyckere, detail of ‘Lost V’, 2021-2022, horsehide, marble, textile, iron, epoxy. © the artist. Photo: Mirjam Devriendt.
📷3: Berlinde De Bruyckere, Plunder I,
(detail), 2024-2025, new work, linoleum, gold leaf. © the artist.
Photo: Mirjam Devriendt.

Jean Prouvé is a name that makes lovers of fine design dream. A pioneer of modernism in the 20th century, this French ar...
12/02/2025

Jean Prouvé is a name that makes lovers of fine design dream. A pioneer of modernism in the 20th century, this French architect, engineer and designer found his inspiration in metal. He made a name for himself with his revolutionary method of designing furniture and structures with industrial materials. Prouvé radically rejected the use of ornamentation in architecture and furniture because this ‘superfluous ornamentation’ detracted from the legibility of the object. This plastic principle now makes his furniture all the more attractive, as their functionality dominates and they therefore fit into any interior, regardless of style. He has had a lot of success with the younger generations and work by him is therefore still doing well on the market. One of his ardent supporters is Parisian gallery owner François Laffanour, founder of Galerie Downtown. Its ingenious design, aimed primarily at industrial production, allowed Vitra to re-market his pieces in the form of reissues from 2002 onwards, working closely with Prouvé's family, particularly his daughter Catherine.

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'Hip classical Jean Prouvé'
by Christophe Dosogne


📷1: Armchair 'Visiteur FV22 or Kangourou', variant with pressed groove seat, 1948, steel, aluminium plate, oak, okoumé plywood, rubber, 84,5 x 66,5 x 87,5 cm. Christie's, Paris, 02-11-2021. © Christie's Images Ltd. Price: € 800.000
📷2: Ateliers Jean Prouvé (Nancy), table 'S. A. M Tropique', ca. 1951, model no. 503, painted steel, aluminium, 71,8 x 90,2 x 189,9 cm. © Sotheby's.
📷3: Wardrobe, model n°100, 1945, lacquered folded sheet steel and wood, 100 x 161 x 55 cm. Piasa, Paris, 23-02-2023. © Piasa. Price: € 32.784

10/02/2025

Egyptische kunst: Bij het Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York werken veel kunstenaars. Van een van hen, de Egyptische suppoost Armia Khalil, is nu een houten buste te zien in de grote publiekstentoonstelling ‘Flight into Egypt’.

10/02/2025

In het Bonnefanten in Maastricht is de video Drama 1882 te zien, de nieuwste aanwinst. Het werk werd gekocht door drie musea samen. Is dit een model voor de toekomst nu de prijzen voor kunstwerken de pan uitrijzen?

With more than two hundred works, the exhibition ‘American Photography’ in the Rijksmuseum highlights the rich and multi...
07/02/2025

With more than two hundred works, the exhibition ‘American Photography’ in the Rijksmuseum highlights the rich and multifaceted history of photography in the United States. The exhibition presents a picture of the US through the eyes of American photographers, showing how the medium became entrenched in American society and thus influenced the world. COLLECT had a conversation with the creator of the exhibition, Mattie Boom, who experienced the development of photography as an art form within the walls of the Rijksmuseum. “In the 20th century, North America is the most important photography country. That has to do with the fact that after World War II America became the most important country in the world economically and also culturally, that’s where it suddenly happened. All the important artists had gone from Paris and Berlin to New York in the 1930s and had an important input there. It could be about big names, but also ‘cartes de visite’, stereo photography, brochures and even cottage industry’. So we show not only the story of artists, but also the story of ordinary people’s visual culture. Because ‘everyone could be a photographer’.”

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‘Photographic DNA of America’ by Koos de Wilt


expo ‘American Photography’ from 07-02 until 09-06 Amsterdam

📷1: Amanda Lopez, ‘Homegirls’, photo. © the artist.
📷2: Curio box made of cigarette packets with portraits of housemates, late 1960s, wood, hand-woven cigarette packets, gelatine silver prints, 14 x 11 x 19,5 cm. Collection Daile Kaplan, Pop Photographica, New York. Photo: Andy Romer Photography, New York.
📷3: Ming Smith (b. 1951), ‘America Seen Through Stars and Stripes’, New York City, 1976, gelatin silver print, 31,8 x 47 cm. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond (VA), inv. no. 2016.241; Adolph D. and Wiliams C. Williams Fund.

Who could have thought that? At the end of the last century, signet rings were still considered corny, a symbol of arist...
06/02/2025

Who could have thought that? At the end of the last century, signet rings were still considered corny, a symbol of aristocracy and the traditional bourgeoisie. Surprisingly, they are now regaining their place in the young generation's outfit. So the signet ring is no longer condemned to a forgotten existence in a drawer. This surprising comeback is of course accompanied by the necessary adaptations to our times. Deeply rooted in European culture, the signet ring has become a symbol of freedom, but also reflects a certain desire to restore order. Camille Toupet, artistic director of the traditional French jewellery brand Arthus Bertrand, which has specialised in making signet rings since 1803, explains: "The signet ring is an ancient jewel that derives its value from its history. It is worn because it really means something. Moreover, it looks quite masculine aesthetically, thanks to the backing reminiscent of a hip-hop star's American punching bag."

article in our by Christophe Dosogne
'Stamp of style revolution'


📷1: Chevalière armoriée, England, 1570, gold, diam. 2,4 cm. Christie's, London, 03-07-2024. © Christie's Images Ltd. Price: £ 21.420 (€ 25.300)
📷2: Signet ring, Egypt, New Kingdom, c. 1323-1319 BC, gold, 2,9 x 2,6 cm. Leiden, Rijksmuseum van Oud- heden, inv. AO 8iv.
📷3: Rare Elizabethan signet ring, 1568, gold and rock crystal. Bonhams, London, 07-04-2005. © Bonhams. Price: £ 15.600 (€ 18.600).

04/02/2025

He donned a skirt to shock his conservative countrymen – and got bundled into a police station for his own protection. As his work appears in the RA’s Brasil! Brasil! show, we celebrate a luminary of modernism

04/02/2025

Drie jonge kunstenaars ontvingen vrijdag een bijzondere prijs voor hun werken. Zij streden met 376 anderen voor de onderscheiding.

04/02/2025

Samuel van Hoogstraten: Rembrandthuis toont wat de schilderkunst aan illusionisme vermag met schilderijen en tekeningen van Samuel van Hoogstraten, de befaamde Rembrandtleerling. Zijn fascinerende perspectiefkastjes ontbreken helaas.

04/02/2025

‘Zien en geloven’: In een originele expositie toont Rijksmuseum Twenthe het zintuiglijke aspect van de religieuze beleving van de late middeleeuwen.

The young painter Samuel van Hoogstraten (1627-1678) was about 15 years old when he first entered Rembrandt’s studio in ...
03/02/2025

The young painter Samuel van Hoogstraten (1627-1678) was about 15 years old when he first entered Rembrandt’s studio in his house on Jodenbreestraat in Amsterdam in 1642 or 1643. Of all his pupils, he was the most successful in his time and wanted to depict everything he saw and knew. The whole world, and then in such a way that it was indistinguishable from the real thing. With his illusionist paintings, he even fooled the Austrian emperor. Almost four hundred years later, the first solo exhibition on Van Hoogstraten can now be seen there, in what is now Museum Rembrandthuis. For many, it is also the first introduction to his work. “A logical place, because this is where he learned,” says head of collections Epco Runia. “With the exhibition, we want to give Van Hoogstraten a face, because until now he was a bit elusive as an artist.” For the exhibition, Museum Rembrandthuis went specifically in search of what distinguishes Van Hoogstraten’s work from that of his contemporaries. “We ended up with optical illusionism,” Runia says. “In that field, he was a pioneer. Not only did he strive to depict the visible world in the best possible way, he did everything possible to deceive the human eye and thus surpass other artists. He had a kind of obsession with the visible world.”

article in our
‘Tricked by Samuel van Hoogstraten’ by Bernadette van der Goes

expo ‘The illusionist. Samuel van Hoogstraten’ until 04-05

📷1: Samuel van Hoogstraten, ‘Self-portrait’, 1645, oil on panel, 54 x 45 cm. Vaduz-Vienna, Liechtenstein, The Princely Collections.
📷2: Samuel van Hoogstraten, ‘Old man in a window’, 1653, oilpaint on canvas, 111 x 86,5 cm. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum.
📷3: Samuel van Hoogstraten, ‘De pantoffels’, ca. 1658, oilpaint on canvas, 103 x 71 cm. Paris, Musée du Louvre.

31/01/2025

Winter isn't all bad – these "sublime" landscapes of the frozen North from the turn of the 20th Century offer us a way into resilience – and an "acceptance of the seasonality of life".

31/01/2025

A museum dedicated to the British urban artist Banksy has opened in Madrid, Spain, featuring 170 life-sized reproductions of his works

31/01/2025

Het Nederlands portrettenmuseum zou zich vestigen in de voormalige telefooncentrale aan Park Frankendael, in Amsterdam-Oost. Maar de daarvoor benodigde 1 miljoen euro is niet behaald. De toekomst van het museum is onzeker.

With his ballpoint drawings, paintings and sculptures, Robin Wen brings to life the universe of the so-called ‘free part...
31/01/2025

With his ballpoint drawings, paintings and sculptures, Robin Wen brings to life the universe of the so-called ‘free party’. While growing up in Gap, France, he often attended such illegal techno parties. “I love the style of music, and through my art I want to offer the outside world an insight into this underground world that often has a negative connotation, unjustifiably so. In my work, I play with the codes peculiar to these parties, highlighting a poetic, art history-related aspect for each series.” Wen came to La Cambre because he wanted to immerse himself in a medium. “Like an engraving, I apply stroke by stroke. Before each movement, I lift my ballpoint to make sure there are no smudges. Erasing is impossible. By superimposing different layers of dashes, I create lighter and darker areas. In this way, drawing almost takes on something meditative. Like dancing, it puts me in a kind of trance.” Currently, four galleries represent his work.

interview with Robin Wen, artist of the month in our Belgian
by Elien Haentjens .wen.be

expo ‘Robin Wen & Antonin Gerson’ until 05-04
expo ‘Vergeet mij niet’ from 23-03
Robin Wen from 24-04 and

📷1: portrait of Robin Wen by
📷2: Robin Wen, ‘Entremêler’, 2019-2025, ballpoint on paper, variable dimensions. Price: € 3.000. (c) the artist.
📷3: Robin Wen, ‘Ecstasy’, 2023, ballpoint on paper, 90 x 90 cm. Price: € 6.000. (c) the artist.

30/01/2025

Selmans afkomst speelt een belangrijke rol in haar werk. Ze werd geboren in een Romafamilie in Bosnië en Herzegovina, haar vader handelde in schroot.

29/01/2025

Ton Cremers | veiligheidsdeskundige: Hoe kon het dat Roemeense archeologische topstukken werden geroofd uit Assen? „Ik heb me verbaasd over de reacties uit de museumwereld”, zegt Ton Cremers. Hij was jarenlang hoofd beveiliging van het Rijksmuseum.

29/01/2025

Howard Burton’s scholarly look at the companion painting to The Birth of Venus provides a calm and instructive commentary

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We have an October issue full of stories ready for you! We open this month with the intriguing story of father and son Berggruen, two influential collectors whose dual heritage has left a lasting mark on the European art world. A very different story is that of Wu Zetian, China’s first and only female emperor. Her reign was characterised by harsh, ruthless tactics, but her influence on Chinese history is undeniable. You may never have heard of Marianne von Werefkin but now the story of this extraordinary artist is ready to be told at Museum de Fundatie in Zwolle. We also will bring stories in practice. ‘Curated’ in Mix Brussels is a brand new fair for collectible design. And you can go to the Tribal Art Fair (TAF) in Amsterdam or Art The Hague this month. With this small but intriguing listing, we hope to trigger you to read this #octoberissue from front to back! What’s inside: - Heinz en Nicolas Berggruen: the power of art @berggruendiedo @museeorangerie - Mix Brussels presents Curated @curated.brussels @mix.brussels -Marianne von Werefkin: forgotten pioneer of Expressionism @defundatie - Wu Zetian. From concubine to first woman emperor @keramiekmuseum_princessehof - Hidden gems in London - Arte Povera: influence and heritage @boursedecommerce - Lucio Fontana’s million market - Rolex reshapes the second-hand market And much more! Curious to read more but no subscription yet? Visit our website by link in bio, subscribe to our newsletter and get your free digital copy of the next issue! Or check our subscription offers. Please notice that we have three editions, a Belgian edition in Flemish and French (AAA) and a Dutch edition (KAD). Enjoy! on the cover of our Belgian edition (AAA): Giulio Paolini, ‘Mimesi’, 1975-1976, plaster casts, 223 × 110 × 90 cm. © Pinault Collection. on the cover of our Dutch edition (KAD): Marianne von Werefkin, ‘De rode boom’, 1910. Tempera on paper and hardboard. © Collezione Comune di Ascona, Musea Comunale d

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