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24.09.23
Gaël Turine. Mémoire de rivières
The floods that hit the south of Belgium in the summer of 2021 caused unprecedented human and material damage.
Past exhibitions
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24.09.23
Jacquie Maria Wessels. Garage Stills & Fringe Nature
All new cars feature on-board computers and high-tech gadgets. This means that the very existence of old-fashioned garages is under threat.
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24.09.23
Sarah Lowie. SIXMILLE
Six thousand Post code of Charleroi. Ancien industriel city in Belgium, called “The black city”.
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24.09.23
Héloïse Boulanger. Canvas
Besides its intrinsic quality, the Canvas series is an exploration of all the techniques available for such work: photography, printing on canvas, 3D printing, superimpositions, collages, silk-screening on paper, repurposing of vinyl records, superimpositions of tracing paper, sewing, painting, video ...
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24.09.23
Randa Maroufi. BAB SEBTA
BAB SEBTA reconstructs a series of situations observed on the border of Sebta, a Spanish enclave on Moroccan soil. This place is the setting for a traffic in goods manufactured and sold at a discount. Thousands of people work there every day.
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21.05.23
Stéphan Gladieu. Corée du Nord
Stéphan Gladieu sought to make his own approach to the people of North Korea.
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21.05.23
Brian McCarty. War-Toys
Brian McCarty, an American photographer living in California, devised the project of depicting global conflicts through the prism of the experience lived by children ever since a trip to Croatia in 1996, shortly after the war of independence.
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21.05.23
Vasco Ascolini. Ciseler l’ombre
Since 1990, Vasco Ascolini has been donating photographs to the Museum. In over thirty years, more than 80 photographs have joined the Museum’s collection.
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21.05.23
Ewelina Rosinska. Earth in the Mouth
A horse-drawn carriage passes through a forest, a choir sings “Mother of God”, a chicken sleeps in a city park. People cross the street, a face in the metro. Someone practices a new song in a rehearsal room, another is being rocked by a friend. A marathon runner is at the finish line.
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21.05.23
Dimitri Michaux. Syllogomanie
For this new edition of La Galerie du Soir, we chose Dimitri Michaux and his work Syllogomania.
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20.09.20
René Magritte. Les images révélées
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.
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22.01.23
Lisette Model
The Lisette Model exhibition presents a set of 150 works evoking each of her iconic series...
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22.01.23
Sébastien Cuvelier. Paradise City
In Paradise City, Sébastien Cuvelier focuses on the concept of Iran as a mythical country.
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22.01.23
Ivan Alechine. Mexico Solo
Whether through writing, poetry or photography in this case, his work as an ethnologist is the driving force behind Ivan Alechine.
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22.01.23
Joris Degas. En attendant Saïgon
En attendant Saïgon is a work of photography concerning collective memory, the transmission and the loss of cultural heri- tage within families of immigrants” he explains.
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22.01.23
Annabelle Amoros. Area 51, Nevada, Usa
Area 51, Nevada, USA is a film that explores the surroundings of Area 51 in the United States, in the Nevada desert.
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18.09.22
En dilettante. Histoire et petites histoires de la photographie amateur
Accomplished with the cooperation of La Conserverie and the collection of Michel F. David (Les Éditions Sur la Banquise), the exhibition En dilettante.
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18.09.22
Karin Borghouts. Paris Impasse
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.
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18.09.22
Simon Vansteenwinckel. Wuhan Radiography
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.
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18.09.22
Clyde Lepage. Pazea Sovni
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.
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18.09.22
Rebecca Jane Arthur. Island Flyer
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.
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22.05.22
Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt
No grandiose events in Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt’s photographs, no political or preachy messages.
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22.05.22
Gaëlle Henkens et Roger Job. Soleil noir
A photographic report on the meeting with bull breeders in Camargue.
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22.05.22
Zoé van der Haegen. Arbres-Troncs
Totem-like remains of nature being destroyed, ‘Trees-Trunks’ are the focus of this visual series mixing collage and photography.
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22.05.22
Melanie De Biasio
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.
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22.05.22
Danielle Rombaut. Au-delà du concevable
For this new edition of La Galerie du Soir, we chose Danielle Rombaut.
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16.01.22
André Kertész. Marcher dans l’image
André Kertész’s vision opened up new paths in photography in the 20th century.
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16.01.22
Plossu. La Belgique l’air de rien
Bernard Plossu is a regular at the Museum of Photography. He exhibited at the Museum in 2007.
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16.01.22
Gauthier d’Ydewalle. Noosphère
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.
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16.01.22
Blind Photo
Un projet mené par le Musée de la Photographie conjointement avec Les Amis des Aveugles de Ghlin
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16.01.22
Vincent Jendly. Lux in tenebris
Lux in tenebris is a combination of photography and videos that take the viewer on an unprecedented and intimate sea journey.
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16.01.22
Chloé Clément. Betula
“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.”
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19.09.21
NOOR / PULSE
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.
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19.09.21
18ᵉ Prix national Photographie Ouverte
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
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19.09.21
Aurore Dal Mas. I am not seen
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.
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19.09.21
Retour sur images. Concours de forts de résistance du journal Le Soir
As part of their partnership, the Belgian newspaper Le Soir and the Museum of Photography launched La Galerie du Soir. An exception however:
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16.05.21
Le grand atelier of Joel-Peter Witkin
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.
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16.05.21
Debi Cornwall. Welcome to Camp America
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.
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16.05.21
Peter H. Waterschoot. Sunset Memory
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.
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16.05.21
Traunstein. Julie Gasemi / Nicolas Dufranne
“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.”
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16.05.21
Bruno Oliveira. Back to Neverland
As part of their partnership, the Belgian newspaper Le Soir and the Museum of Photography have launched La Galerie du Soir.
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31.01.21
Yves Auquier. The fleeting moment
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”.
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31.01.21
Peter Mitchell. A New Refutation of the Viking 4 Space Mission
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...
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31.01.21
Michaël Dans. When the water clouded over
It all began with the photograph of a still life at his grandmother’s home ...
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17.01.21
Stéphanie Roland. Deception Island
Deception Island is a multidisciplinary work - between performance, film and ins- tallation – which explores the invisible face of a myth of Belgian ...
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17.01.21
Sarah Joveneau. Piel de lucha
“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.
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20.09.20
Laurence Bibot. Studio Madame
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.
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20.09.20
Diana Matar. My America
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.
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20.09.20
Nina Berman and Jon Lowenstein
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.
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20.09.20
Mathieu Van Asshe
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.
