iBOZAR - Centre for Fine Arts Brussels (Palais des Beaux-Arts)Mont des Arts
First retrospective of the Brussels architecture office Central, with completed and ongoing projects seen by four photographers.
Avançament: escrit abans de la inauguració
Delphine Mathy photographs Central's buildings while they are still building sites. She is one of four photographers the Brussels office invited to look at its work, each given carte blanche and, as Bozar puts it, far from conventional architectural photography. Brussels residents step round a fenced-off chantier most days; Mathy is the one who stops to frame it.
Central was founded in 2015 by Radim Louda, Paul Mouchet and Valentin Piret, and this is its first retrospective, built on the office's first monographic book and covering finished and ongoing projects. Maxime Delvaux, whose pictures of Central are the familiar ones, tries new ways of showing them. Rory Gardiner turns to the city around the buildings, and Adrien de Hemptinne makes portraits of the people who use them.
It's in Circuit Bn, Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00. Tickets are €10, €7 under 26, and free under 18 or with a museumPASS or Brussels Card. The same ticket gets you into Basil Al-Rawi's House of Memory that day.
Delphine Mathy's construction sites
Look for Central's projects caught mid-build, in Mathy's free take on construction-site photography.
Adrien de Hemptinne's portraits
Look for the people who live in and use Central's buildings, photographed as the ones who finish shaping them.
Rory Gardiner's city views
Look for the buildings set back into the crowded urban fabric around them rather than shot alone.
Under-18s get in free.
iRoyal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (Old Masters Museum and Modern Museum)
iRoyal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (Old Masters Museum and Modern Museum)
iRoyal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (Old Masters Museum and Modern Museum)