Art Brussels

10/04/2026 – 04/10/26

The Boghossian Foundation presents Diary of Happiness, Jean-Michel Othoniel’s first major exhibition in Brussels, bringing together more than one hundred works inspired by thirty years of travel across the world.

Reflecting the Boghossian Foundation’s mission to foster dialogue between cultures, the artist invites visitors on a journey that retraces the travels that have shaped his vision of the world. A form of geography of thought, each work is associated with a particular country. Armenia, Belgium, Italy, the United States, France, India, Japan and Turkey emerge as so many remarkable destinations, forged through encounters and exchanges.

Alongside the monumental sculptures and installations unfolding in the garden and throughout the spaces of the Villa Empain, a hundred watercolours, works on paper rarely shown, form the guiding thread of an intimate and joyful exhibition. Like a travel notebook, they are revealed from room to room, as the diary of years spent abroad, bearing witness to journeys driven by affection and wonder.

The house inhabited by Jean-Michel Othoniel’s works becomes a place of memory and inward travel, shaped by transformation and reverie, a point of departure and of return.

With Paloma Bosquê and Roberto Freitas

20/05/2026 – 18/07/2026

Ore emerges from a praxis of exchange. Originated with an invitation from Van Den Weghe stone atelier, to Paloma Bosquê, whose research into geological time and material memory anchors this collaboration. Bosquê brought in Roberto Freitas, a Brazilian artist based in Brussels, to develop work combining their complementary practices. Through these encounters, matter becomes a site of dialogue. The works turn toward the Earth as living presence, attentive to its deep time, its pressures, and its vibrations. The exhibition approaches Earth’s matter as an archive where duration is compressed, fractured, and remains active, aiming to make visible its gaps, its metamorphoses, and long-term processes.

With Caroline Achaintre, Anna Zemánková, Régis Jocteur Monrozier, Simone Morgenthaler

Curated by Joël Riff

23/04/26 – 04/08/26

The Fondation d’entreprise Hermès will present the exhibition “Extrazimmer” by Caroline Achaintre in its exhibition space La Verrière. For this occasion, the artist will present several artworks including a large scale tapestry. The selection of works will be augmented and accompanied by works by Czech artist Anna Zemánková and sculptor Régis Jocteur Monrozier, as well as a text by Alsatian writer Simone Morgenthaler.