Tapta meets Judd

Néoflexible 2, a five-part sculpture in synthetic rubber, is on show for the first time in about thirty years. It belongs to the museum, and it is the reason to go: Tapta started out as a weaver, a craft many then dismissed as decorative, and moved to neoprene in the 1980s for its mix of give and stiffness.

The show marks the centenary of her birth (born Maria Wierusz Kowalski in Poland, she arrived in Belgium in 1945 and taught at La Cambre). Her works, lent by the Maurice Verbaet collection and another private collection, fill several ground-floor spaces of the Old Masters Museum and face an installation by Donald Judd, her American contemporary, who also built with industrial materials. If you change trains at Gare du Nord, you have already met her: the 18-metre Esprit ouvert stands there.

It is part of the museum's Collection Meets series and is included with the collections ticket (13 EUR adult, under-18s free).