Events diary

Expo: The Light House

The Light House is the title of the new expo at Villa Empain which gathers the work of 19 leading contemporary artists and introduces visitors to a reflection on light and its universal manifestations.

The exhibition invests symbolically invests the public space with a path of light on Avenue Franklin Roosevelt and other cultural venues in Belgium and abroad.

TEMPORARY CLOSING | Rallying the health emergency linked to the coronavirus, the Boghossian Foundation follows the instructions given by the Brussels public authorities and closes from 26 October to 19 November 2020.

Artists
Jean-Michel Alberola, Shezad Dawood, Róza El-Hassan, Mounir Fatmi, Mona Hatoum, Ann Veronica Janssens, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Kimsooja, Joseph Kosuth, Adrien Lucca, Iván Navarro, Dennis Parren, Martial Raysse, Erwin Redl, Charles Sandison, Thomas Schütte, Kaz Shirane, James Turrell, Franz West.

Partner institutions
Wiels (Brussels), KANAL (Brussels), BOZAR (Brussels), SMAK (Ghent), MuHKA (Antwerp), CID Grand-Hornu (Hornu), BPS22 (Charleroi), Institut du monde arabe (Paris), MUDAM (Luxembourg), Parajanov Museum (Yerevan), and Sursock Museum (Beirut).

Photos by Iva Galovic / Instagram @honeygoldhaven

Exhibition info:
The Light House
From 22 October 2020 to 31 January 2021
Open from Tuesday to Sunday
From 11 am to 6 pm.

More info: https://www.villaempain.com/

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