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.
The Orient Express is a legendary name that has continued to inspire writers and film-makers, as evidenced by the recent release of Kenneth Branagh's latest film, "Murder on the Orient Express”, based on the novel by Agatha Christie.
As part of the bicentenary of the University of Liège, the Centre for Partnership and Cooperation in the Development of the University of Liège (PACODEL) is organising, in collaboration with the Museums of the City of Liège, a conference, a symposium and an exhibition concerning the theme of healers in Africa.
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.
For more than 5,000 years, glass has been one of the most difficult materials for man to master. The "Venetian Frenzy – Spanish Glass from the 16th to the 18th Century" exhibition offers a selection of more than 200 Spanish glass art objects, the result of a fusion between "Venice-style" glass and local shapes and decorations