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Discovering 16th Century Antwerp While Pinching Your Nose
23 September 2024
When it comes to history, we know sixteenth-century Antwerp mainly through the gaze of merchants, artists and intellectuals. But who else was walking around there? What did the international city sound like? How did it smell? With the cathedral as the focal point, Wendy Wauters describes the city on
Eugeen Van Mieghem’s Compassionate Sketches of the Tired, Poor and Huddled Masses
7 February 2024
Last year, a private collector donated eighteen drawings by the Antwerp artist Eugeen Van Mieghem (1875-1930) to the New-York Historical Society in Manhattan: a generous, but above all a relevant and strategic gesture. Relevant because it confirmed the link that Van Mieghem himself depicted with suc
Antwerp’s Expunged Protestant Past
16 January 2024
Two Antwerp monks were burned at the stake five hundred years ago because of their Lutheran beliefs. They were the first martyrs of the Reformation. Their deaths remind us of a piece of the faded religious past of the Low Countries: Lutheranism and Calvinism first flourished in the South, with Antwe
‘Rozeke’ by Guillaume Van Der Stighelen: The Eternal Battle Between Heart and Mind
3 July 2023
In Rozeke, we follow the ups and downs in the life of an Antwerp entrepreneur in the Belle Époque. In figurative language, Guillaume Van der Stighelen describes how his namesake climbs the social ladder, but struggles on a personal level with himself and those around him.
De Roma – How One Man Saved the Most Beautiful Cinema in Flanders
16 January 2023
It was the most beautiful cinema in Belgium when Kinema Roma opened in 1928. The beautiful Art Deco building on Antwerp’s busy Turnhoutsebaan originally combined a 2,000-seat movie theatre with an apartment complex. Volunteers turned the old building after restoration into a cultural centre and pe
Antwerp Nottebohm Room Opens to the Public
18 November 2022
The Nottebohm Room is a hidden gem in Antwerp. Starting this autumn, you can discover the prestigious library for the first time on your own.
Grand Reopening of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
28 September 2022
After eleven years of renovations, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) is opening its doors once again. It is the talk of the town, the country and beyond, because the aim of the new wing for modern art, two hundred restored works and an interactive visitor experience is to attract visitor
Dionysus on the River Scheldt: ‘Wild Woman’ by Jeroen Olyslaegers
16 February 2022
In his second historical fiction novel, Jeroen Olyslaegers brings to life the city of Antwerp before, during and after 1566, the year of the Iconoclastic Fury. His lyrical and at once vernacular language provides a rich story about friendship, solidarity, faith and betrayal.
In 16th Century Antwerp, Anything Was Possible and Everything Was Allowed
28 January 2022
As long as trade could continue unhindered, authorities in sixteenth-century Antwerp would willingly turn a blind eye. It was in this context that the city experienced an unprecedented economic and cultural boom. Michael Pye tells the story of this city on the River Scheldt with great panache, but d
Big and Grand. The Indomitable Imagination of FC Bergman
14 October 2021
With their extraordinarily imaginative, poetic, grand-scale productions, the Antwerp theatre collective FC Bergman was quick to conquer the European stage. The focal point of their performances is the floundering human, on the point of losing his grip on his environment, whose naïve attempts to rem
Antwerp Wants to Honour Its Olympic Past
1 July 2021
One hundred years after the Olympic Games in Antwerp, there are at first sight few tangible traces of the Olympiad of 1920 remaining in the city. An interactive walking route through the Olympic neighbourhood of the Kiel and a tour of the famous ring logo at several Olympic venues should change that
Daems van Remoortere Trace a Line From Astronomy to Artificial Intelligence
25 May 2021
Working with light takes Antwerp-based duo Daems van Remoortere in different directions. On the one hand, they produce gallery works that draw on geometric abstraction and astrophysics. On the other, they make challenging multimedia installations that raise questions about public space and society.
