Current and future exhibitions
CABALLERO BUENO
24.04.25 - 31.08.25
On the occasion of the launch of the graphic novel Caballero Bueno, by Thomas Lavachery and Thomas Gilbert, the Art & History Museum is presenting a series of original plates from the work, along with a selection of photographs and museum inscriptions from the 1934 Franco-Belgian expedition to Easter Island.
MALGORZATA MIRGA-TAS
09.05.25 - 30.06.25
Museum visitors have the opportunity to admire a monumental site-specific intervention within the permanent collection by the famous contemporary Polish-Romani artist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas.
Previous exhibitions
CURATOR IN RESIDENCE - WORKS OF ART & COPIES
17.04.25 - 25.04.25
17 contemporary artists are invited to a dialogue with the plaster cast workshop, its collection and the ancient craftsmanship preserved there.
FIREFLIES - YOUNG CERAMISTS AT THE MUSEUM
7.12.24 - 9.02.25 (EXTENDED UNTIL 7.04.25)
An original and surprising journey through three of the Museum’s collections - ancient Greek ceramics, pre-Columbian pottery and 18th-century European ceramics - the exhibition presents the work of 20 young artists from La Cambre.
MOKUHANGA MAGIC - WEG VAN DE JAPANSE HOUTSNEDE
29.10.24 - 5.01.25
This small mobile exhibition provides a brief historical overview and a visual insight into the different steps of the printing process of a Japanese woodcut by means of working materials, wood plates, prints and a documentary film.
STOCLET 1911 - RESTITUTION
02.01.24 - 14.04.24
The aim of this exhibition and the digital reproduction, presented as a film, is to take visitors on a tour of the interiors of the Stoclet House, which has been on the very select list of Brussels buildings placed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List since 2009, but is still little known to the general public.
JOSEF HOFFMANN - FALLING FOR BEAUTY
06.10.23 - 14.04.24
This retrospective aims to provide a deeper insight in Hoffmann’s ideals and their evolution.
GEORGIA: A STORY OF ENCOUNTERS
27.10.23 - 18.02.24
At the crossroads of East and West, traversed by trade routes linked to the Silk Roads, and always the object of ambition of the great powers surrounding it, Georgia has been a place of encounters and exchanges from which it has drawn cultural nourishment. The result is a heritage of unparalleled richness.
ANDRO WEKUA: STRANGER IN PARADISE
27.10.23 - 18.02.24
Totally in keeping with his style of presenting works in a pared-down staging as if in a place located somewhere between memory, dreams, fantasy, longing or science-fiction-like shudder, Andro Wekua expresses here, on a large bare stage, the full gamut of melancholic and imaginative dimensions he evokes and depicts with his creations.
EXPLOSIONS NEAR THE MUSEUM
18.05.23 - 05.11.23
Five Belgian Museums and ICOM Belgium join to present Explosions Near the Museum, to raise awareness on the theft of Ukrainian museum collections.
EXPEDITION EGYPT
31.03.23 - 01.10.23
The exhibition narrates the story of two centuries of fascinating archaeological discoveries in the Land of the Pharaohs and the development of the Egyptian collection of the museum.
CIELO TEJIDO - WOVEN SKY
15.09.24 - 20.09.24
Cielo Tejido is a piece of art that reflects the diversity of Mexican culture installed in the Grand Narthex until 20 Sept. It promotes the participation of women artisans from the state of Jalisco throughout the creation of textile pieces with a traditional weaving technique of Mexico. Meanwhile, share Mexican cultural values and principles, such as gender equality, social inclusion, and sustainability.
SHIN HANGA
13.10.22 - 15.01.23
The Shin hanga (literally « new prints ») art movement was a revival of traditional printmaking (ukiyo‑e) in the early 20th century.
UNFOLDING LANDSCAPES
20.07.22 - 18.09.22
The exhibition Unfolding Landscapes celebrates Ukrainian visual art, exploring landscape, topography, psycho-geography and culture of this unique country.
BEFORE TIME BEGAN
22.10.21 - 29.05.22
The Art & History Museum exhibited Australian Aboriginal art for the first time. This exhibition was a concept of Fondation Opale in Lens (Switzerland), Europe’s most important centre for Aboriginal art and culture. The works presented in Before Time Began, most of which belong to this collection, originated in remote areas of Australia and have been treated in an ethically responsible way.
INUIT. GRAPHIC JOURNEY IN THE FAR NORTH
19.03.22 - 22.05.22
A dive into the contemporary art of the Arctic populations. The works presented are a selection from the collection of the Belgian poet Carl Norac.
