GÉRALD VATRIN/GLASS MUSEUM/ 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…
FROM 29 NOVEMBER 2019 TO 19 APRIL 2020 / FOCUS ON ARTISTS – PERRIN & PERRIN
Focus on artists devoted to Perrin & Perrin Martine and Jacki Perrin have lived and worked together since 1967. Their first medium was ceramics. They were also interested in calligraphy, which they studied under Korean artist Ung No Lee. In the 1990s they gradually began…
17, 18 and 19 MAY 2019 / FIRST GLASS BIENNALE / Glass Museum
On 17, 18 and 19 May 2019 there will be an unmissable opportunity for professionals and amateur glass fans alike… Opening evening at 19.00 on 16 May 2019 in the espace Paulus, Bois du Cazier. There will be 30 artists showcased at this first event….
FROM 27 APRIL TO 1 SEPTEMBER 2019 / FOCUS ON ARTISTS – TRANSPARENCY – A FOCUS ON ARTISTS DEVOTED TO THE WACQUEZ-ERMEL BEQUEST
From 27 April to 1 September 2019 In 2018, the Glass Museum was left a major bequest: 69 sculptures representing the Studio Glass movement from the 1980s and early 90s, which had formed the personal collection of gallery owner Christine Ermel, who had spent over…
FROM 24.11.2018 TO 17.02.2019 / FOCUS ON ARTISTS / PAULINE BÉTIN – EVERYDAY MONUMENTS
24.11.2018 – 17.02.2019 / Everyday Monuments Pauline Bétin has carved out her own niche on the contemporary art scene thanks to an unusual process, in which she combines pâte de verre, screen printing, decals and enamelled engraving. The notion of landscape sits at the heart…
FROM 27.01.2018 TO 27.05.2018 / GLASSMAKING, A HUMAN BEEHIVE? THE CHARLEROI REGION 1880-1930 |
Along with steel, textiles and coal, glassmaking formed the four basic industries which contributed to Wallonia’s industrial boom in the 19th century. Glassmaking is a coal-hungry business, and under the French and the Dutch it equally established itself in the areas around Liège, Charleroi, Namur…
FROM 23 JUNE TO 22 SEPTEMBER 2018 / FOCUS ON ARTISTS – BAGATELLES CREATIONS
Bagatelles Créations Creators of art beads Glass was not originally the preferred material of Alain Deguide and Anne Janssens of Bagatelles Créations. Their introduction to the medium over ten years ago marked a turning point in their artistic career. They became fascinated by glass and…
FROM 14.11.2015 TO 13.03.2016 / CHARLEROI, BETWEEN LIGHT AND SHADE STAINED GLASS IN THE HOME 1880-1940 |
EXTENDED UNTIL 8 MAY! From 14 November 2015 to 13 March 2016 at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Charleroi The blossoming of the art of stained glass in architecture coincides with the development of Art Nouveau. This infatuation persisted into the age of Art Deco,…
FROM 13.09.2014 TO 30.11.2014 / MEDIUM GLASS 21
‘I have always had such a love for glass, which is a kind of solidified water, tangible, intangible between our fingers, a permanent form of fragility, a spiritual content!’ (Paul Claudel, Œuvres en prose, Paris, 1989, p. 337) The Glass Museum is not just an…
FROM 27.09.2013 TO 1.12.2013 / SCAILMONT H.H. A HAINAUT GLASSWORKS IN THE AGE OF ART DECO |
The Charleroi Glass Museum is devoting its annual show to the Verreries de Scailmont, and in particular their artistic output in the age of Art Deco. Alongside their usual output, which was typical of the sort of industrial-scale household glass that was then thriving in…
FROM 5.10.2012 TO 2.12.2012 / VÉROBÉ STYLE – PARIS – MILAN – CHARLEROI |
Vérobé Style – Paris – Milan – Charleroi 5 October 2012 to 2 December 2012 A world of imagination and spontaneity… to be discovered at the Charleroi Glass Museum Veronique Bernier has a degree from the Charleroi Academy of Fine Arts and the European Glass…