The Belgian Comic Strip Center - Museum Brussels: Expositions : Les grandes expositionsurn:uuid:a2244d18-4a07-788e-c7e1-1944ec6450432024-03-19T14:21:52+01:00The Belgian Comic Strip Center - Museum BrusselsComic Art & Art Nouveauurn:uuid:a29dab71-9c3a-e4fb-dd2a-5a539098a5652024-03-11T15:13:58+01:00Housed in one of the architectural jewels designed by Victor Horta, the Comics Art Museum has been linking Art Nouveau and Ninth Art since its creation in 1989. So when Brussels celebrates Art Nouveau, the Comics Art Museum is delighted to offer visitors a brand new exhibition, highlighting the richness of the movement and the inventiveness of the artists.
More than simply showing the way Art Nouveau is represented in comics, the exhibition highlights the relationship and mutual influences between the two arts. It invites visitors to immerse themselves in the period and the major authors, such as Alphonse Mucha, who inspired the Ninth Art. A selection of originals and reproductions enables you to (re)discover the work of the Franco-Belgian comic artists who revisited Art Nouveau and delivered works inspired by the movement: strong, rhythmic, colourful art, with exceptional creative freedom...
Curator: Mélanie AndrieuLe Lombardurn:uuid:a5535a0d-0714-4a72-60da-ad164504f9802023-10-09T11:19:14+02:00The second floor of our Comics Art Museum brings the old Waucquez warehouse back to life. From 8 September 2023, this floor will host an exhibition celebrating 77 years of publishing house Le Lombard, in a brand new setting. Designed as a large furniture showroom, the exhibition presents 77 years of family comics. You will discover the origins of Le Lombard, its mythology, its pioneers, its poster boys, its frontiersmen and mavericks.Room by room you will discover the extraordinary richness of a catalogue first built around the legendary magazine Tintin and the graphic style so dear to Hergé, and then reinvented as society and the publishing world evolved. The exhibition offers a playful and inventive look, with never-before-seen documents, images, archives, projections and beautiful originals hidden in fake furniture.
Curator: Thierry Bellefroid
With the support of the Brussels Capital Region, the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles and the National Lottery and its players
Judith Vanistendaelurn:uuid:85a5da87-d9be-032e-9f88-25506ce97a1d2023-02-03T15:56:56+01:00Bronze Adhemar laureate Judith Vanistendael (1974) is a true ambassador of comics and reaches a wide and international audience with her drawings. She always delivers socially relevant comics, always in a different style. Thus, it should not be a surprise that she is influencing the new generation of comics creators.
Vanistendael is a master in creating the right atmosphere and scenography and each of her comic books can rightly be called a true piece of art. A piece of art that is carefully constructed, that gets under your skin, that alternates melancholy with lightheartedness, that touches and that is beautifully moving every time.
Curator of the exhibition: Kurt Morissens
In cooperation with Stripgids and De Warande. With the support of Literatuur Vlaanderen.Squarely Furryurn:uuid:45d862a3-6739-dc2d-1cd7-ac7550ada3242023-01-12T10:48:01+01:00Little Furry wakes up every morning and hurries to the toilet which is far too big for him. He then hurriedly tucks into his breakfast, gives his mummy a kiss, and then briskly walks to school. To school? There is nothing more uncertain, as adventure awaits him on the corner of the street.
This unchanging pattern, with different variations each time, is the invention of comic artist Pierre Bailly and scriptwriter Céline Fraipont, who have created a completely wordless comic book accessible to children from the age of 3.
Highly colourful, this playful exhibition invites children to climb, jump, hide and crawl, from one panel to the next, immersing themselves in a different adventure each time, just like Little Furry.
Curator : Sophie BaudryExhibition design : class DSAA 1 EM, école Boulle (Paris)Project management : Stéphane RegnierBlake & Mortimerurn:uuid:8d6bd0f0-cfec-9754-05ea-03c35806d1b52022-10-27T11:12:21+02:00The exhibition "The Secret of the Swordfish" aims to provide the public with the keys to understanding this seminal work in its own time, while highlighting its astonishing topicality.Cerise, Lulu and Nelsonurn:uuid:4f8f80b0-8cec-9c04-e4d0-7bdeb18ffd072022-09-29T12:37:32+02:00The French illustrator and cartoonist Aurélie Neyret has made of the world of childhood her creative universe. After numerous illustrated books and collective publications, she made her debut in comics alongside Joris Chamblain with the series Les Carnets de Cerise, the success of which brought her recognition from the public as well as from critics. This was followed by the adventures of Lulu and Nelson, a story written by Charlotte Girard and Jean-Marie Omont. With a dynamic and colourful style, the illustrator presents endearing young heroes in search of themselves and of freedom. A sensitive and original universe that the exhibition proposes to explore and discover all its depth and creativity.
Curator: Mélanie Andrieu
Exhibition design: Quentin Van TongelenMarc Sleen 100. Nero 75.urn:uuid:e072a575-597d-0659-6762-42e38fa6e2b92022-05-09T09:35:17+02:00Marc Sleen created the drawings for 217 Nero comic books. This is just one series but it includes so many comic books. He achieved a world record which is officially recognised in the Guinness Book of Records. Sir Marc Sleen was also awarded a knighthood by the king. His work and career, however, are also an extremely valuable reflection of a past era. Time passes and pushes us forward, and sometimes we may feel resentful about what has been. To celebrate his centenary year, we are juxtaposing Sleen’s body of work and the universe of his creation with the world as it is today, with the changes that have taken place, with evolution. The images of yesterday sometimes clash with the values we hold dear today.
Curation: Noël Slangen & Yves Kerremans with Barly Baruti & Christophe Deborsu
An exhibition of the Marc Sleen Foundation
With the support of the Brussels Capital Region.Comics at the Louvreurn:uuid:8c3b1f80-51d9-b2ad-f6e9-3baceed8d0af2022-04-29T14:11:42+02:00The exhibition Comics at the Louvre, presented by the Comics Art Museum, invites visitors to rediscover the Louvre through the works of twenty reknown comic strip artists. In focusing on each universe and the different thematic angles the exhibition shows how this cultural hotspot and its collections inspired them for a variety of powerful narratives and thoughts on Art and creation.
The exhibition, which stems from a partnership with the Louvre and publishing house Futuropolis, introduces a collection that invites comic artists and offers them a carte blanche as well as unlimited access to the galleries at the Louvre. The artists incorporate these iconic rooms and confront the works they meet, in order to give rise to unique graphic interpretations that are published as comic albums.
From Europe to Asia, from French-Belgian bande dessinée to manga, each of these diverse creations allows for a new view on different art forms, genres and eras. Twenty artists and about 150 works of art have been collected in one spot in order to immerse visitors in all of these approaches of the Louvre, which can be resumed to three main themes. Artists explore the history of the museum and its collections, they recreate daily life in the footsteps of the many visitors and staff, or they unleash their poetic imagination to magnify the works of art.
The exhibition proposes an overview of the works of Hirohiko Araki, Charles Berbérian, Enki Bilal, Florent Chavouet, Nicolas De Crécy, Philippe Dupuy, Christian Durieux, Etienne Davodeau, Christian Lax, Stéphane Levallois, Eric Liberge, Li Chi Tak, Marc-Antoine Mathieu, Taiyo Matsumoto, Minetarō Mochizuki, David Prudhomme, Jiro Taniguchi, Naoki Urasawa, Bernard Yslaire and Judith Vanistendael. Their strong stories reflect the richness and diversity of the museum's collections and are born from sensitive approaches filled with reflections on Art, its function and its universal language.
Curators : Mélanie Andrieu & Fabrice Douar
With the exceptional cooperation of the Louvre Museum
With the support of the Brussels Capital Region, Visit Brussels, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles and the Vlaamse GemeenschapscommissieGeorge van Raemdonckurn:uuid:d9ed1186-74b7-ad16-51a7-90c01c93dad82022-04-21T12:14:53+02:00In Belgium, it was Hergé who first introduced comic strip art as we know it in 1929. However, prior to this, an Antwerp-born comic strip artist had already dreamed up the adventures of two special characters, which helped to shape the early beginnings of the history of the Belgian comic strip art…The rise of Korean comicsurn:uuid:c00e9ad1-41a4-0fea-2b2d-66f74631f0dd2021-12-03T15:05:28+01:00From the first cartoons published in the press to the most recent webtoons, through popular characters and major series, The Rise of Korean comics invites visitors to discover the dynamics and diversity of Korean comics. By tracing more than 100 years in its development, it reveals a creative industry as a witness of its time, in perpetual evolution.
Through several artist portraits and a selection of representative works, the exhibition gives an account of the richness of creation over the years. Visitors will be able to travel back in time to a "manhwabang", an essential reading place that developed in the country from the 1960s. They will then discover the decisive stage of manhwa, which became increasingly popular. From the 2000s, comics are also made and read digitally and Korean webtoons gradually start spreading around the world. On paper, on the internet or on our smartphones, Korean comics are always adapting to entertain readers. Reflecting their time, they never stop evolving and have not finished surprising us !
Curators : Mélanie Andrieu – Sah Hwangyu
An exhibition in collaboration with the Korea Manhwa Museum and the Korean Cultural Center of Brussels.