Past exhibitions
Accomplished with the cooperation of La Conserverie and the collection of Michel F. David (Les Éditions Sur la Banquise), the exhibition En dilettante.
Between 2011 and 2021, the Belgian photographer Karin Borghouts made a pictorial inventory of Paris’s impasses, mostly during an artist-in-residence period in 2015, thanks to the Flemish Government.
Simon Vansteenwinckel was born in Brussels in 1978. He is a photographer and graphic designer. He produces long-haul documentary projects, making the aesthetic choice of the contrasting and granular texture of film.
As part of their partnership, the Belgian newspaper Le Soir and the Museum of Photography have launched La Galerie du Soir. At the same time as each new major exhibition by the Museum, La Galerie du Soir introduces a young artist to be discovered.
In Island Flyer: A Postcard from the Isle of Wight (2022), the artist takes us on a journey on an island in the English Channel, in the South of England, in search of summertimes gone by.
No grandiose events in Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt’s photographs, no political or preachy messages.
A photographic report on the meeting with bull breeders in Camargue.
Totem-like remains of nature being destroyed, ‘Trees-Trunks’ are the focus of this visual series mixing collage and photography.
As part of the “Trains & Tracks” project, Europalia invited Melanie De Biasio to create a musical composition evoking Italian immigration in the last century.
Travelling by rail, the singer wished to go back and trace the source of what Italians left behind them.
For this new edition of La Galerie du Soir, we chose Danielle Rombaut.
André Kertész’s vision opened up new paths in photography in the 20th century.
Bernard Plossu is a regular at the Museum of Photography. He exhibited at the Museum in 2007.
Gauthier d’Ydewalle uses the image to transcribe, interpret and synthesise the books that affected him by immersing them in a composition where the purpose of colours, shapes and shades is to express the deep nature of the literary, philosophical or poetical work that they contain.
Un projet mené par le Musée de la Photographie conjointement avec Les Amis des Aveugles de Ghlin
Lux in tenebris is a combination of photography and videos that take the viewer on an unprecedented and intimate sea journey.
“I live in the Ath area and like any Belgian from the Borinage, I have always had slag heaps in my field of view. One day, while I was driving through in a car, I realised that people always saw them from far away and I wanted to go and see what was happening there.”
The NOOR/PULSE exhibition presented at the Museum of Photography in Charleroi is an original idea developed by NOOR and the Museum. It is complemented by en- hanced content through the collaboration of Blinkl, a digital partner.
This 18th Prix national Photographie Ouverte hosted an excellent number of competitors! No less than 403 entries competed to gain the approval of the panel of judges
I am not seen addresses the question of dehumanization and dematerialization of the world through an assembly of surveillance videos, recorded in different places and captured online.
As part of their partnership, the Belgian newspaper Le Soir and the Museum of Photography launched La Galerie du Soir. An exception however:
Famous for his provocative and controversial photographs emphasising the morbid, the erotic and the religious, Joel-Peter Witkin, holder of a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Albuquerque where he would also study photography, bears witness in his work to a thorough knowledge of classical painting and sculpture as much as photography and mythology.
Apart from the prisoners’ orange jumpsuits, few pictures circulate showing what is really hiding behind the walls of Guantanamo, the American military base located at the eastern tip of Cuba and infamous for being a place of torture and incarceration.
Peter H. Waterschoot invites us to take a still journey, woven in the composite tale of a strange night unfolding in dimly lit, confined spaces, and also the town that serves as their host.
“Claire discovers that she appears in a poor quality film found on the internet. She sees herself at the window of her house, accompanied by a man she does not know. They look like they are in love. She decides to set out in search of that stranger, towards Traunstein.”
As part of their partnership, the Belgian newspaper Le Soir and the Museum of Photography have launched La Galerie du Soir.
The exhibition L’instant qui fuit retraces the journey of Yves Auquier. Photographer of the intimate, he focuses on the living, on passing time, on the familiar and on the fleeting moment, summing up his own trans-versality by the concept of “intimist realism”.
If, on reading this title, people feel slightly lost, they are even more bewildered when they see it adjoined to these photographs. What is the connection between pictures of English cities and their inhabitants...
It all began with the photograph of a still life at his grandmother’s home ...
Deception Island is a multidisciplinary work - between performance, film and ins- tallation – which explores the invisible face of a myth of Belgian ...
“I embarked on writing at a very early age,” Sarah Joveneau, author of the Piel de Lucha series, tells us. “I used to write a lot when I was a kid.
The discovery of photographs by René Magritte in the seventies, ten years after the painter’s death, shed new light on his creative process and the close links that he maintained with the “mechanical image”, whether it involved photography or cinematography.
From an early age, children love changing their appear- ance, period or gender. They love looking at themselves in the mirror before performing in front of their pals or the family circle. They imitate everyone’s mannerisms or impersonate screen idols.
In late 2015 photographic artist Diana Matar began researching where police were killing civilians in America. She made detailed maps in her studio and compiled information about each incidence of lethal police violence in America that occurred over a 2 year period.
Taking Washington D.C. and New York’s Trump Tower as a backcloth, Nina Berman’s short documentary, Triumph of the Shill, reimagines the Leni Riefenstahl 1935 Nazi propaganda classic as an aesthetic blueprint to consider the 2017 presidential inauguration and election of Donald J. Trump.
For this new edition of La Galerie du Soir, we chose Mathieu Van Assche.
“Initially”, Mathieu Van Assche explains, “I came from the world of illustration”. Born in 1980, this graphic designer by profession came to photography through engraving.
