Let me be your guide: Contemporary visual art in Flanders

By the term ‘contemporary visual art’, we refer to a diverse range of artistic practices and sub-disciplines, from painting and sculpting to installation art, graphic design and printmaking, video, film, performance, sound art, art created for public space and crossovers with different sectors and disciplines.

For a relatively small region, the visual arts here are extremely rich and of very high standard. Learn more about the contemporary visual arts scene in Flanders (and Brussels) and its players.

Visual arts scene in Flanders

Part 1: How did the visual arts scene come into being (till 2006)

A description that brings the motivations, the individuals, organizations and government agencies that give shape to the art scene in Flanders into perspective.

Part 2: Who are the main players since 2006?

A close look at the different players in the visual arts in Flanders

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Let me be your guide: artists and moving image in Flanders

What does Flanders have to offer in terms of artists’ films and media art? In the overviews below you will find more about how they came about and who the main players are of the past and present.

Photography in Flanders: A multifaceted and full-fledged artistic medium

Photography has been subject to technological developments since its origins, but rarely have these changes been so profound and far-reaching as in the past twenty years.