100 Years Ago: Belgium at the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris, 1925

By Prof. Dr. Werner Adriaenssens, curator at the Royal Museums of Art and History and professor at VUB.

As part of the Art Deco at Home festival, discover how Belgium, in the midst of reconstruction after World War I, made its mark at the 1925 Exhibition with iconic figures such as Victor Horta and Philippe Wolfers.

On December 9, the van Buuren Museum & Gardens invites you to meet Mathias C. Pfund. The program includes a presentation of his artistic intervention, a musical interlude by Chloé Larrère and Adrien Guerne, followed by a reading of one of Erik Satie’s talks.

December 9, 2024, at 4:15 PM. In French.

As part of the Art Deco at Home festival, the Van Buuren Museum & Gardens and La Monnaie invite you to an exceptional musical evening “Éclats Art Déco”

Gwendolyn Blondeel (soprano), Marie-Juliette Ghazarian (mezzo-soprano), and Ouri Bronchti (piano) present a 1-hour-and-15-minute program celebrating the musical diversity of the Art Deco period. Through works by, among others, Poulenc, Satie, and Kurt Weill, they explore the contrasts between French refinement and Berlin cabaret, between elegance and irony, between tradition and modernity.

On June 28, the gardens of the Van Buuren Museum will become the stage for a unique poetic gathering, in collaboration with Les Midis de la Poésie. Three distinctive voices from the region – Eva Mancuso, Clarisse Michaux, and Charlie Demoulin – will let their words resonate at the heart of this green haven of nature and history.

Inspired by the house and gardens, their texts, created for the occasion, will weave a dialogue between nature, architecture, and poetry. A sensitive and spontaneous experience, where the place becomes living material for the imagination.

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