CONTEMPORARY GLASS BIENNIAL
To coincide with Glass Days, the Charleroi Glass Museum is presenting its first biennial exhibition of contemporary glass, Constellation, from 23 May to 14 July at the Charleroi Fine Arts Museum, with the aim of promoting glass as a medium for contemporary art. Glass is…
Glass Days/24-25-26 may 2024
Blown, thermoformed or sculpted, glass is an extraordinary material that fascinates young and old alike. It has become a key artistic medium in contemporary art, and is the focus of the next Glass Days organised by the Museum of glass. On 24, 25 and 26…
Third Contemporary Glass Biennial – Glass Days – Bois du Cazier (May 24-26, 2024) Biennale du Verre – Musée des Beaux-Arts (May 24 – June 24, 2024)
Call for applications Glass is a complex, multi-faceted material: used in everyday life and by craftsmen, it is also present in contemporary sculptures and installations, and is increasingly appreciated by visual artists, who are fascinated by the many forms that glass can take. Glass also…
GLASS MUSEUM/FOCUS ON 2 ARTISTS/DESISLAVA STOILOVA AND RÉMY HANS/DE MÉMOIRE ET DE FORME/EXHIBITION FROM MARCH 31st TO SEPTEMBER 10th 2023
Desislava Stoilova, Tubes, 2022/Rémy Hans, Maison bleue, 2022/Photo © Ouvert la nuit Desislava Stoilova (born 1983) discovered glass by chance when she was studying art in France in 2002. She was so fascinated by it that she chose to make it her medium of artistic expression. After creating glass…
GLASS MUSEUM/FOCUS ON ARTIST/JEAN-FRANÇOIS LE MAIRE/FROM ROCK TO LIGHT/EXHIBITION FROM 23/09/2022 TO 05/03/2023
Jean-François Lemaire fuses the emotion of creation with the history of the earth and humanity, technical research and the power of natural materials. Understanding and conveying the material, and controlling the elements. Jean-François Lemaire is a French artist.He trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in…
GLASS MUSEUM/FOCUS ON ARTIST/JEAN-BAPTISTE SIBERTIN-BLANC/PAREIDOLIA/Exhibition from 26.03 to 04.09.2022
The Glass Museum introduces Jean-Baptiste SIBERTIN-BLANC, a designer who lets glass speak and associate it with other materials: wood, metal, composites. Developing a design where the know-how usually rubs shoulders with the industry, Jean-Baptiste SIBERTIN-BLANC continues his research as an object’s architect, between sculpture and…
GLASS MUSEUM/FOCUS ON ARTIST/JEAN-BAPTISTE SIBERTIN-BLANC/ANIMATIONS APRIL 2022
For adults and young adults Thursday 7th April In the morning, form 9:30am to 12:00 (6 people max.) In the afternoon, from 1:30pm to 4:00pm (6 people max.) The glass museum workshop opens up for you. Take the glassmaker’s place and experience with him glass…
GLASS MUSEUM/ARTISTS IN FOCUS/ANUSCH B./MES RACINES DANS LE CIEL/EXHIBITION from 23.10.2021 to 06.03.2022
Anusch B – We are made of more Water than Blood / photo © P Niset 53 ‘Artists in Focus’ is dedicated to the Belgian artist Anusch B. whose work is chiefly inspired by encounters, exchanges and a sense of wonderment. In each of her…
GLASS MUSEUM/FOCUS ON ARTIST/GÉRALD VATRIN/EXHIBITION FROM MAY 5th TO OCTOBER 3rd 2021
Gérald Vatrin’s work exudes first of all a natural filiation with Art Nouveau and the Nancy School. Flora and fauna predominate in the ovoid and off-centre forms which are characteristic of the artist. Like Gallé, he plays with the transparency and opacity of glass, colours…
GLASS MUSEUM/FOCUS ON ARTISTS/GIAMPAOLO AMORUSO/FROM 19.09.2020 TO 07.02.2021/
Umanità poetica Poetic humanity Giampaolo Amoruso was born in Boussu (Belgium) in 1961 in an Italian family. At the age of 15, he decided to leave school to join the Cristalleries de Boussu. During breaks, he had his first experiences with the material, outside the…