From the tradition of flower painting to the aesthetic breaks of modernity, the exhibition highlights the rich artistic, aesthetic and friendly exchanges between Dutch and French painters, from the reign of Napoleon to the early twentieth century.

The conference has been organized by The Ghent University and the European Society for Nineteenth-Century Art (ESNA), in cooperation with the University of Antwerp and the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent

The inaugural temporary exhibition aims to put Casa Vicens in an international context with a view of single-family homes designed by Gaudí?s most important contemporaries: the timeline of these figures begins with Viollet-le-Duc and William Morris, who were key in Gaudí?s training, and then moves to great American architects from the first generation of the Modern Architecture movement (Richardson, Sullivan and Wright), European architects of the same generation (Berlage, Wagner and others), and finishes up with various expressions of Art Nouveau (Horta, Guimard, Mackintosh and Olbirch).

This exhibition will present masterpieces of the Arts & Crafts movement, which arose in Great Britain around 1880. It was a movement born from ideals, the concern for the effects of industrialisation in design, know-how and everyday life. It advocated a reactivation of traditional arts and crafts, a return to a simpler way of life and an improvement in the design of ordinary domestic objects. Its maximum ideologist was the artist and writer William Morris (1834-1896).

08.05.2018 - Victor Horta en het Japonisme (in charge of Jos Vandenbreeden) conference in NL

15.05.2018 - Restaureren - Herbestemmen - Actualiseren van Victor Horta's erfgoed (in charge of Barbara Van der Wee) conference in NL

22.05. 2018 - Vivre Exclusivement ! (in charge of Michel Gilbert, owner of Victor Horta Houses) conference in FR

Stunning architectural models based on the unbuilt designs of Scottish architect, designer and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928).

Egon Schiele (1890-1918), Gunter Brus (* 1938) and Thomas Palme (* 1967) - three enfants terribles of their respective generations.