In spring 2011, the Grand Curtius museum presented the Curtius Circus exhibition, which was the result of a pilot project carried out with students from the 1st year of the Advertising Masters at the ESAL (Liège Royal Academy of Fine Arts). This aimed to be a playful reinterpretation of the objects in the collections, offering a new, altered perspective. The exhibition broke away from the still well-rooted stereotype of a "dead” museum, turning this inwards.
Sophie Langohr photographed the faces of statues of virgins and saints that she exhumed from the museum's reserves.
This exhibition will present the winners and works selected during the 23rd edition of the competition, which is organised, with the support of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, by the Domaine de la Lice, an association of Belgian creative artists working with tapestries. Tapestries are a means of expression in their own right and are a part of several studies in contemporary art.
The City of Liège and the Lion’s Club Liège Val Mosan have created a Painting Award in memory of former member Georges Collignon, who died in 2002.
Since ancient times, water has played a key role in India, as evidenced by the Sarasvati river goddess, who has been invoked and sung about since the Vedic period (2000 BC– 500 BC). Since then, Indians have always honoured their rivers and associated them with their main rituals.
The Grand Curtius museum offers you the chance to relive the history of the most famous Belgian brewer. The route, which is dotted with more than 300 artefacts (glasses, bottles, ashtrays, coasters, bottle openers, toys, lockers, barrels, coffee trays, etc.), as well as a hundred pieces of advertising media (enamelled plates, posters, signs, etc.) and vintage photos, will immerse you in the atmosphere of this delectable beverage.
52 unique pieces from the Tournai Museum of Fine Arts are complemented by a selection from our own collections.
A lover of mushrooms who had an incisive but tender perspective on his fellow citizens, Paolo Gasparotto (Liège, 1956), a painter and sculptor, had fun assembling bronze castings of mushrooms picked from the woods – in the manner of a Giuseppe Arcinboldo – giving life to strange allegorical depictions of human characteristics (pride, sloth, wisdom, etc.).
The year 2014 focused on archaeology: the 2014 archaeology project allowed us to discover the work of Belgian archaeologists and treasures of Walloon heritage. It is a good chance to (re)discover our roots.
In 2011, the DESRACINES group was formed to artistically explore 36 dead olive trees that has been imported to Belgium. DESRACINES decided to explore the stories and emotions that these trees inspired. This is because their symbolism is strong.