The project 'Space for Philippe Van Snick. Physical and Digital Space for the Conservation and Public Disclosure of the archives of Philippe Van Snick (1968-1990)' is a pilot project of ...read more
This research focuses on a selection of Marcel Broodthaers' artworks, photographs, and texts created between 1957 and 1970—from the moment he realized his first photographs of Brussels to the year ...read more
Comics are a powerful means through which American values reached Italy in the 1930s and became part of its culture. With their formative potential influence on younger readers and wide ...read more
The relation between postwar art and technology is widely considered in terms of progress, optimism, and prosperity. This project sets forth to re-examine postwar art and technology in subtler and ...read more
What do we know about Marcel Broodthaers (1924-1976)? Perusing the publications dedicated to the artist, including more than twenty separate museum monographs, the answer would seem to be both a ...read more
When we think about the Renaissance, we mainly remember the enticing legacy of its artworks. Yet, the myth of Renaissance as a historical period of ‘rebirth’ has also assumed symbolic ...read more
Most philosophical approaches to the political value of art only consider art in general, as an abstract concept. New and experimental art, of which the character and purpose are ...read more
This project reveals, for the first time, relationships which enabled and sustained artists’ work and careers in late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century Belgium. Structured around three categories of people, it takes a ...read more
While the term 'microbiome' wasn't popularised until the mid-late twentieth century, the discovery of gut microflora can be traced back to the nineteenth century. By the Fin de Siècle, medical ...read more
The project will investigate the phenomenon of transnationalism in the late 1960s and 1970s by focusing on the cultural exchange between Argentina and Belgium and the subsequent cross-border activities of ...read more