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Confluence. Muesli Collective

ResearchCollectif Muesli creates works that are permeable to the environment, undergoing a visible metamorphosis that reflects invisible fluctuations. Never the same twice, the works are a confluence of matter, atmosphere and time.
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Writers’ walls of images

Immerse yourself in the visual world of some of the greatest literary names and explore the walls of images that fed their imagination and inspired their creations.
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The Grid. Trame · Grille · Matrice

The grid, formed by the regular intersection of vertical and  horizontal lines, was an iconic structure in twentieth-century art that has never ceased to fire artists’ imagination. The exhibition, also entitled The Grid, explores this theme. 
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Fossils & fictions

Adults Teenagers Children FamiliesImmerse yourself in an exciting journey between the origins of life and its future.
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Forms of salvation

The temporary exhibition Forms of Salvation takes visitors behind the scenes of the restoration of works of art, to discover old religious practices.
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MAGMA · Triennial of Contemporary Art of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve

Adults Secondary schoolDoes fluidity allow us to go beyond the polarities me-other, human-nature, man-woman, material-imaterial, stagnation-movement? Can we be multiple, fluctuating and draw strength from it?
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Art & Rite. The power of objects

Adults FamiliesWhat do museum textiles, sculptures, garments, jewellery, masks, amulets, musical instruments, censers and missals tell us? What purpose did they serve before they were uprooted from their original context and put on display? The exhibition juxtaposes artifacts from different cultures and forges connections between objects and people, and between the visitors themselves.
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STAGED BODIES

Adults SchoolsThe exhibition STAGED BODIES highlights the many ways in which the human body has been represented in fine-art photography since 1970, a time when the depiction of the body underwent a radical transformation: it was no longer seen as a stable,
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An Archeological Odyssey: Among Archives and Artefacts

Adults Families SchoolsThe exhibition goes behind the scenes of archaeology and explores its historiography as a discipline not limited to fieldwork, but drawing on aspects of various other disciplines to create a new way of interpreting the past. The artefacts on display are accompanied by archival documents, recreating the context in which the discipline emerged as a science.
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Tumulus, moutains of eternity

Adults Families SchoolsFrom prehistoric times to the present day, humans have erected monuments over individual or collective graves : Tumuli. How and for whom was it made? What treasures does it contain ? Delve into the heart of the tumuli an discover the secrets hidden beneath these ancient grassy mounds of earth and skilfully crafted stone structures.
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Ink, quill, charcoal

Adults SchoolsDrawing, even more so than writing, is one of the most instinctive ways to express our thoughts and ideas. Who hasn’t doodled on the corner of a sheet of paper or used a sketch to try to convey their thoughts or emotions ? The exhibition features sketches by Belgian artists that demonstrate the many possibilities of this discipline, as an endless source of research and exploration for visual artists.
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Images and illustrations from the Japanese Edo period (1603-1868)

Adults Families SchoolsFeaturing some of the finest works from the magnificent collection of ancient Japanese books in the Rare Books Reserve of UCLouvain the exhibition showcases the art of images and illustrations. Japan donated more than 13,600 books to the Université catholique de Louvain in the 1920s, the oldest dating back to the 13th century. At the time, it was regarded as the most beautiful collection housed outside Japan.