The Grand Curtius museum has offered students of the 1st BAC in Photography at the ESA Saint-Luc of Liège the chance to appropriate its glass collection. This is the life’s work of the collector, Armand Baar, and provides a way to get involved in museum life.

A museum enriches its collections through purchases, donations, legacies, deposits and collections. Let’s consider archaeology for example.

Is this the longest century? The 19th century, which marked the beginnings of the modern era, began with the French Revolution of 1789, which marked both the end of the old regime and, under the banner of freedom, the advent of a new world that needed to be built.

This exhibition runs until 31 December 2018.

An educator specialised in training, Corentin Laurent left to live in Jerusalem for 18 months, under the guise of volunteering for Solidarité Internationale.
He is presenting a photo exhibition at the Grand Curtius museum. 

Europalia is the biennial arts and culture festival. This multi-disciplinary festival focuses on a guest country. For its 40th anniversary, the organisers have chosen an incredibly expansive country with a thousand-year-old culture: China. Five countries and 75 European cities will host exhibitions, concerts, conferences or film screenings themed around the Middle Empire.

This exhibition at the Grand Curtius museum is the chance to uncover little-known aspects of the visual talent of the architect Santiago Calatrava.

With more than 120 works from public and private collections – both Belgian and European – this Liège retrospective brings together the various facets of Raoul Ubac's talent, from his first surrealism-inspired photographs to the last cut stone, which was unfinished at the time of the artist's death in 1985.

"For a long time, my painting has expressed my warped relationship with the human being, this creature that is as hateful as it is admirable, both repulsive and attractive, frightful and adorable, in its behaviours and aspirations. […] I became tired of man and depicting him, when I discovered a fondness for the cow.

Born in Dalhem in 1919, José Fosty was destined for an artistic career but, at the age of 19, he enlisted. Wounded, he was evacuated to Paris; then, at the time of the Belgian capitulation, he returned to Brussels and joined the information and actions service of the resistance known as "Braverie".

This class project was developed over the year and is based on the appropriation and reinterpretation of the Grand Curtius, its buildings and its collections.