THE FRIENDS’ BOOKLET

AUTUMN > WINTER 2019

Visit our website www.becomeafriend.be to be kept informed of the latest activities and events of the Friends and take full benefit of the advantages offered to you!

Editor Christiane Waucquez Rue du Musée 9, 1000 Brussels

ContactFriends of the RMFABRue du Musée 9, 1000 BrusselsT +32 (0)2 511 41 16friends@fine-arts-museum.be / www.becomeafriend.be

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This booklet has been created and printed with the help of Treetop.

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DEAR FRIENDS,

We are very pleased to present you a completely redesigned booklet, which we hope will make your life easier! At the beginning of the booklet you can find the list of activities we have prepared for you, ranging from the Private evening “Dalí & Magritte. Two surrealist icons in dialogue” (pp. 4-5) to the many exciting and very successful trips (pp. 10-14). As usually, 6 More For Friends activities (pp. 6-7) are planned between September and February. If you are registered for one of these activities and are unable to attend, please let us know as soon as possible at friends3@fine-arts-museum.be, this will allow us to offer the place to another friend. Registration is open for the Contemporary art circuit Spring-summer 2020 (pp. 8-9), so don’t wait to sign up because places are limited.To celebrate the Magritte Museum’s 10th anniversary (p. 26), the museum presents this autumn an exceptional exhibition “Dalí & Magritte. Two surrealist icons in dialogue” (pp. 20-21), from October to February. Come and see some 80 wonderful artworks from more than 40 international museums and private collections from around the world.The Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota, who represented her country at the Venice Biennale in 2015, will exhibit a spectacular installation “Me somewhere else” (pp. 22-23) in the Bernheim room.On the occasion of the 450th anniversary of Bruegel’s death (p. 25), a new Old Masters audio guide will become available this autumn, the Bruegel Box will be enriched with two new studies of the artist’s work and the Bruegel Hall will be renovated.Dear Friends, you are the first ambassadors of our superb museums and you provide essential support for their operation (pp. 16-17). Next year is the 50th anniversary of the Friends of the Museums and we need your help to finalise the project (pp. 18-19). We take this opportunity to thank our 103 volunteers (p. 15) who are doing such a great job in the various departments of the Museum!Another huge thank you for your support and see you soon again in our museums.

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To register for this event, send your payment of €10 per person (€20 for non-members) into the account BE46 3100 4042 4636 – BBRUBEBB, mentioning your name, membership number, the date, hour and language of your choice (French or Dutch).

Registration and payment before 18 October 2019 (no confirmation will be provided and no refund in case of absence).

Thursday 12.03 2019 at 17:30 & 19:00

GUIDED TOURS FOLLOWED BY DRINKS

 Entrance via Magritte Museum, Place Royale 1, 1000 Brussels

For the first time ever, the connections and influences between the two greatest artists of Surrealism are brought to light.Come and see over 80 exceptional artworks from more than 40 international museums and private collections from around the world.

DALÍ & MAGRITTE Two surrealist icons in dialogue

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Saturday 21.09 2019 14:30 GUIDED TOUR IN OUR MUSEUMS ALONG THE 70 YEARS OF HUMAN RIGHTS’ TRAIL FR: 15 places available and NL: 15 if enough registrations (min 10)

Thursday 24.10 2019 17:30 & 19:00 NOCTURNE FOR THE FRIENDS To register for this event, send your payment of €10 per person (€20 for non-members) to the account BE46 3100 4042 4636 – BBRUBEBB, mentioning your name and membership number, and the date, hour and language of your choice (FR or NL) see p. 4-5

Sunday 10.11 2019 11:00-12:45 VISIT-READINGS “WHAT DID DALÍ SAY?”Readings in the exhibition by a trio of native-speaker guides (FR, NL, ES): Inès della Calle, Jack Ghosez & Myriam Dom in Dalí and Magritte inspired productions. 15 places available

Sunday 01.12 2019 14:30 GUIDED TOUR IN THE BRANCUSI EXHIBITION * (FR) in the context of Europalia Romania at Bozar *  To register for this visit, send your payment of €6 per person

to the account BE46 3100 4042 4636 – BBRUBEBB, mentioning your name and membership number and Brancusi – no refund in case of absence. 20 places maximum

More for

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Reservation required at friends3@fine-arts-museum.be or by post to Friends of the MRBAB, rue du Musée 9, 1000 Brussels, mentioning your name and membership number, activity, date and number of people. First come first served.

We make every effort to ensure that the activities take place as scheduled but cancellation may occur.

Given the success of our activities (waiting list), we urge the members registered for an event to notify us as soon as possible in case of absence at friends3@fine-arts-museum.be

Tuesday 28.01 2020 11:00 BRAFA at Tour & Taxis30 places available

Saturday 01.02 2020 14:30 GUIDED TOUR OF THE EXHIBITION DALÍ & MAGRITTE FR: 15 members maximum and NL: 15 if enough registrations (min 10)

MANY THANKS

TO OUR PARTNERS!

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Contemporary art circuit

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To every century its art and to art its freedom. Gustav Klimt

If you want to discover contemporary art in the company of our fantastic guide Jean-Philippe Theyskens, you are on the right page!

One Saturday afternoon per month from 14:30 to 17:00, discover what’s trending in the galleries of Brussels.

The visits are on foot and by public transport (thank you for bringing your STIB pass).Exclusively reserved for the Friends who have paid their membership. Registration is compulsory, email to friends3@fine-arts-museum.be and you will receive confirmation after payment of €75 to the account BE46 3100 4042 4636/BBRUBEBB – communication: contemporary art circuit, name and membership card number. Price > €75 for 5 Saturdays

OUR AUTUMN-WINTER 2019 GROUP IS FULL,

BUT WE ARE ALREADY TAKING REGISTRATIONS

FOR THE SPRING 2020 GROUP

Spring-Summer 2020 dates 15.02, 14.03, 25.04, 16.05 & 13.06 2020

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10.10 2019 > MUSEUM DE REEDE IN ANTWERP AND KANAAL IN WIJNEGEMRef. 3331 – €90 (coach, lunch, entrance fees and guide)Founded by the Dutch collector Harry Ruten, the new De Reede museum dedicated to graphic arts is home to exceptional works by Goya, Rops and Munch as well as Evenepoel, Tytgat, Wouters, van de Woestijne… On the banks of the Meuse, Kanaal is an ambitious project of the Belgian art dealer and collector Axel Vervoordt. The imposing brick buildings of a former gin distillery houses collections of Greek, Roman and Egyptian antiques, furniture, Asian art and contemporary art.

15>20.10 2019 > PORTO AND THE DOURO VALLEYRef. 3320 – €1 695 (plane, coach, half-board accommodation, admission fees and guide)Historic Porto, with extravagant medieval and baroque treasures, has moved into the 21st century with its Modern Art Museum

Travels & excursions

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Serralves and Casa de Música de Alvaro Siza Vieira. The medieval city of Guimarães and the exuberant neighbouring Braga are enchanting. In the Douro Valley lies one of the most beautiful terraced vineyards in the world, stretching along a deep valley revealing its quinta, ancient palaces and monasteries.

09.11 2019 > REMBRANDT AND VELÁSQUEZ IN AMSTERDAMRef. 3330 – €125 (coach, lunch, entrance fees and guide)To celebrate the year of Rembrandt, the Rijksmuseum presents, in collaboration with the Prado, an exhibition on Spanish and Dutch Golden Age that confronts Rembrandt, Velázquez, Vermeer, De Ribera, Frans Hals and Zubarán. The Museum De Lakenhal in Leiden, his hometown, inaugurates its brand-new galleries with the “Young Rembrandt” exhibition dedicated to the master’s early works, including The Man in Oriental Costume (1632) on loan from the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

02>09.12 2019 > LE LOUVRE ABU DHABI, DUBAÏ & OMAN // 3rd trip Ref. 3282 – €3 150 (flight, coach, full board accommodation, entrance fees and guide)The Louvre Abu Dhabi opened on the natural island of Saadiyat in a magnificent building by Jean Nouvel as a place for dialogue between the Western, Middle Eastern and Asian civilizations. The collection, enriched by loans from eight Parisian museums, brings to an Arab country a cultural form born at the Age of Enlightenment in Europe. In Dubai, architects compete with boldness and virtuosity. Your journey will then continue through the timeless Sultanate of Oman with the discovery of the ancient capital Nizwa, and the royal and fortified city of Muscat wedged between the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman.

14>15.12 2019 > MAJOR EXHIBITIONS IN LONDONRef. 3338 – €595 (Eurostar, coach, half board accommodation, entrance fees and guide)An anthology of beautiful exhibitions to end the year in the magical

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city of London! “Rembrandt’s Light” at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, “Pre-Raphaelite Sisters: Models, Artists, Muses” at the National Portrait Gallery, “Lucian Freud: The Self-portraits” at the Royal Academy of Arts, and “Gauguin Portraits” at the National Gallery.

17.02 2020 > VAN EYCK IN GHENT Ref. 3381 – €90 (coach, lunch, entrance fees and guidance)The exhibition “Van Eyck. An Optical Revolution” at the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent brings together much of the Flemish Master’s work. It revolves around the restored outer wings of “The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb” which will be presented with other works from the artist and his most talented contemporaries from Germany, Spain, France and Italy. A walk in the city “at the time of the Dukes of Burgundy” will complete the day.

17>22.03 2020 > CASTILE AND LEÓNRef. 3388 – €1 595 until 31/10 and €1 695 after (plane, coach, half board accommodation, entrance fees and guide)It is in Burgos, León, Segovia and Salamanca that some of the most beautiful cathedrals of Spain were built. Ramparts, castles built in the “Reconquista”, churches and monasteries founded by kings and palaces erected by aristocrats enriched in the cloth industry are numerous testimonies of an illustrious past. Valladolid, the former capital of the kingdom, boasts a national museum housed in a 15th century former college of theology presenting a rich collection of polychrome wooden sculptures from the 13th to the 18th century.

22>25.04 2020 > RAPHAËL IN ROMERef. 3390 – Price to be determined (plane, coach, half board accommodation, entrance fees and guide)The prestigious exhibition at the Quirinale devoted to Raphael to mark the 500th anniversary of his death will be the occasion of a trip to Rome in the footsteps of one of the most talented painters of his time. We will visit his funerary monument in the Pantheon but also

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his famous works, such as the Sibylles of Santa Maria della Pace, the Deposition of Christ of the Borghese Gallery, the frescoes of the Farnesina and, of course, the “stanze” of the Vatican Museums...

13>16.05 2020 > OUTING IN ÎLE-DE-FRANCERef. 3391 – Price to be determined (coach, half board accommodation, entrance fees and guide)In the charming village of Auvers-sur-Oise, we will walk in the footsteps of Van Gogh and Charles-François Daubigny. In Milly-la-Forêt, it is Jean Cocteau’s beautiful 17th century house which will hold our attention with its collection of paintings by Picasso, Modigliani, Buffet… and the chapel Saint-Blaise-des-Simples “tattooed” by this multitalented writer. At the heart of the Milly forest, we will discover Jean Tinguely’s “Cyclop”. We will also visit the castle of Vaux-le-Vicomte which gave Louis XIV the idea to build Versailles and the charming and remarkably preserved medieval town of Provins.

01>06.06 2020 > CALABRIA, THE OTHER GREECERef. 3392 – Price to be determined (plane, coach, half board accommodation, entrance fees and guide)With its medieval cities overlooking a crystal-clear sea and amazing landscapes such as the Silla massif, Calabria has it all. In the old town of Cosenza stuck to the slopes of Mount Pancrazio and dominated by a Norman castle, coats of arms, turrets and wrought iron balconies of noble sleepy homes nostalgically recall the brilliant times of the “Athens of Calabria”. Reggio Calabria has a superb Liberty district, a lungomare shaded by palm trees, a real “Promenade des Anglais” overlooking the Straits of Messina, and the remarkable National Archaeological Museum of Magna Grecia recently renovated to present the famous 5th century BC Riace bronzes.

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September 2020 > CHICAGO Ref. 3392 – Price to be determined (plane, coach, half board accommodation, entrance fees and guide)Open-air museum of modern architecture, Chicago houses in its prestigious museums some of the world’s richest collections of art, including Impressionists in the Art Institute, Rodin, Moore and Matisse in the Smart Museum of Art and Picasso, Miró, Chagall and Dubuffet in the Loop. An excursion to Oak Park gives the opportunity to admire the beautiful homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The Millennium Park Gardens reveal fountains, monumental sculptures and Frank Gehry’s extraordinary Jay Pritzker Pavilion.

UPCOMING

October 2020 > INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL OF CARTHAGE AND THE DISCOVERY OF TUNISIA November 2020 > THE WHITE VILLAGES IN CADIZ December 2020 > MAJOR EXHIBITIONS IN PARIS January 2021 > OPENING OF THE CAIRO MUSEUM IN EGYPT

For one day excursions, it is essential to register with Preference – Travel Team by email (marie.eve@preference.be) or by post: Preference – Travel Team: rue de l’Abbaye 77, 1050 Brussels) with name, ref., number of participants and fees.

Fees need to be paid (with the same information as communication) to the KBC account of Preference – Travel Team: IBAN: BE92 7440 6349 9223 SWIFT/BIC: KREDBEBB

For travels, please contact Marie-Eve Rosmant at Preference – Travel Team T +32(0)2 647 30 00 E-mail marie.eve@preference.be

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Agnes Alba Alexandra Alexia Anabela Andrea Anne Anne-Marie Anne-Mieke

Annick Annie Arlette Barbara Bernadette Brenda Brigida Caroline Catherine Chantal Chris Christel Christian Christiane Christl Claire Claude

Daniel Denise Dominique Donatella Dorota Eline Elisabeth Fatuma Françoise Geneviève

Gilbert Gisèle Gudrun Hayley Hugo Huguette Ingrid Jacqueline Jacques Jeanine Jeannine

Jenia John Judith Karin Katelijne Katinka Kerstin Lina Lyva Magali Marie-Jeanne

Marie-Jo Marijke Marjan Marjoleine Martin Miche Michel Monique Muriel Nadia Nicole

Oana Paul Paule Philippe Pierre Régine Renée Rita Suzanne Sylvie Thérèse

Thanks to all the volunteers

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The Friends of the Museums have free access to the various museums, but more importantly they are the first ambassadors of an institution that houses the most beautiful collection of artworks in Belgium and deserves a wide support.

THE FRIENDS BRING ESSENTIAL

SUPPORT TO THE MUSEUMS

IN DIFFERENT AREAS

By managing the work of nearly 103 volunteers who take care of the reception desk for visitors in the lobby, but also help in the museum shops, archives, library, translation and with the management of the Friends’ office.

By funding each year free guided tours in the temporary exhibitions for more than 3,000 primary and secondary school students

The Friends support the

Museums

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By providing financial support for the publication of the book “File au musée” (Phileas and Autobulle), the guides “A museum in your pocket, Old Masters” and “A museum in your pocket, Fin-de-sciècle”, the “Magritte’s Quotes”, etc.

By developing the Digital Experience, with the multimedia Table in the Forum and the Cylinder with projectors in the Patio.

By funding the purchase of artworks: “Magritte” by Marcel Broodthaers, the sculpture “Untitled 12’ (Bodybuilder) by David Altmejd, and “From Scene to Scene” by Angel Vergara.

The René Boël Fund offers every first Wednesday of the month free guided tours for visitors.

The financing of several room settings such as the lighting of Jan Fabre’s work, new seating in the Bernheim room, etc.

By funding the creation of an interactive device for the project an innovative concept (pp. 18-19)

that will showcase the 6 museums with their flagship artworks.

The Friends are the first relay between the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium and the public by promoting its collections, exhibitions and activities to their family and friends.

THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING

THE MUSEUMS. WE NEED YOU!

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en route to 2020!

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In 2020, we will celebrate the 50th anniversary of both the Friends of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium and the Educational services, and the 20th anniversary of the Digital Museum.

Mobility in our capital is a hot topic and one of the easiest ways to get around is to use public transport: metro, trams and buses.

To know our Belgian art history, it is the same!So, we decided to create a , 15 subway lines that will take you virtually through the magnificent collections of our museum from the 15th to the 21st century. There will even be a new app to create your own subway line and the best ones will get a prize!

The inauguration of this ambitious project is planned for October 2020!

We can’t achieve this without your support! Stay with us, bring new Friends or make a donation (tax-deductible) to the account BE81 6790 7542 9624/PCHQBEBB – Fonds des Amis – communication: 2020 artworks

A HUGE THANK YOU FOR YOUR

PRECIOUS AND ESSENTIAL SUPPORT!

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11.10 2019 > 09.02 2019

Dalí & Magritte Two surrealist icons in dialogue

The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium dedicate an exceptional exhibition to Salvador Dalí and René Magritte. For the first time ever, the connection and influences between the two greatest icons of the surrealist movement are highlighted.

In the spring of 1929, Salvador Dalí and René Magritte meet in Paris, surrounded by the great names of the artistic avant-garde. In August of the same year, at Dalí’s invitation, Magritte travels to Cadaqués, the Spanish painter’s home base.

This autumn at the Royal Museums

of Fine Arts of Belgium

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This surrealist summer – which also includes visits by Éluard, Miró and Buñuel – will prove decisive.

Dalí and Magritte both aim to challenge reality, question our gaze and shake up our certainties. The Catalan and the Belgian show a fascinating proximity, despite their very different creations and personalities, which would eventually lead them to drift apart. The exhibition reveals the personal, philosophical and aesthetic links between these two iconic artists through more than 80 paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings, films and archival objects from 40 international museums and private collections.Exhibition curator: Michel Draguet, Director General of the RMFAB

Continue your surrealist journey and (re)discover the Magritte Museum, which presents a renewed selection from the largest collection of works by René Magritte in the world.

Interactive spaces allow visitors to experiment creatively, playfully and rigorously with the work of René Magritte and Salvador Dalí. Many activities are organized during this prestigious exhibition.

For all practical information, please visit the website of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.www.fine-arts-museum.be/fr/agenda/2019

More for Friends > Thursday 24.10 2019 17:30 & 19:00 NOCTURNE FOR THE FRIENDS (see p. 4-5)

> Sunday 10.11 2019 11:00-12:45 VISIT-READINGS “WHAT DID DALÍ SAY?” (see p. 6)

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11.10 2019 > 09.02 2019

Chiharu Shiota : Me Somewhere Else

Chiharu Shiota’s (Osaka, 1972) spectacular installations transform the spaces in which they unfold, and immerse the visitor in the artist’s universe. They combine textile materials such as wool and cotton with various elements, sculpted shapes or used objects.

The artist combines performance, body art and installation in a process that places the body at its center. Her protean artistic practice explores the notions of temporality, movement, memory and dream; and requires both the mental and physical involvement of the spectator. Chiharu Shiota’s highly acclaimed participation in the Venice Biennale, where she represented Japan in 2015, confirmed the international scope of her work.

Presented in the Bernheim room, Me Somewhere Else (2018), a work of great visual strength, occupies a very special place in the artist’s production. Shiota talks about her fight against her illness, and the certainty that her mind will survive her body. “Before I was diagnosed with cancer I thought that if I die, everything about me is going to die; I am going to die, but now I know only my body dies – not my mind. My mind remains somewhere else.”

Focus Exhibition 

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Chiharu Shiota, Somewhere Else, 2018.

Installation view, with the support of

Black Flag. Courtesy the artist and

Blain|Southern, Photo: Peter Mallet

Born in Osaka, Japan in 1972, Chiharu Shiota has lived and worked in Berlin since 1997. In recent years, the artist has been exhibited worldwide, including at the New Museum of Jakarta, Indonesia, the SCAD Museum of Art, United States, the K21 Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf, and the Smithsonian, Washington DC. In 2018, she exhibited at the Kyoto Museum and, in 2019, at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium and the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo.

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FINE ARTS & HUMAN RIGHTS

To mark the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (RMFAB) and the Belgian sections of Amnesty International have joined forces to develop a human rights path which threads through the heart of the Museums’ collections.

This visit, which focuses on different human rights, including related to migration, will be presented on 18 December 2019 on the occasion of International Migrants Day. Based on dialogues between experts in the field of art and others in human rights, the trail is presented in the form of a dozen video capsules. Françoise Tulkens, former judge of the European Court of Human Rights, and Anthony Spiegeler, art historian, talk about justice; Anne-Marie Impe, journalist and Jean-Philippe Theyskens, art historian and guide- lecturer, talk about women’s rights; Ellen Desmet, professor of migration law at the University of Ghent, and Isabelle Vermote, art historian, talk about migration, etc.

The course will also be the subject of guided tours for various audiences: school groups, cultural groups, specific audiences... These guided tours will be offered from September 2019 by the Cultural Mediation Department of the RMFAB, which actively contributed to make this unique project happen.

More for Friends > Saturday 21.09 2019 14:30 GUIDED TOUR IN OUR MUSEUMS

ALONG THE 70 YEARS OF HUMAN RIGHTS’ TRAIL (see p. 6)

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Bruegel

Pieter Bruegel the Elder is one of the most famous painters from the Renaissance period. He died in 1569, around the age of 40. His career was short and today, only about forty paintings from his short career have been preserved. These masterpieces are rare and extremely valuable.

The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium house the second largest ensemble of Bruegel the Elder paintings in the world after the Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna.

On the occasion of the 450th anniversary of his death, our Museums will pay tribute to Pieter Bruegel the Elder:

the Bruegel Hall will be renovated and strong emphasis will be placed on the preventive conservation of these priceless works. From now on Bruegel’s paintings will be displayed in an air-conditioned box, climatic conditions will be optimized and new lighting will let you admire these magnificent works more clearly.

The Bruegel Box will be enriched with two new immersive videos focusing on Bruegel’s winter scenes, the paintings of which are in our museums.

A new Old Masters audio guide will become available this autumn.

Visitors will be able to deepen their knowledge of the artist’s work thanks to an audio guide “Bruegel”.

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In addition to the exhibition “Dalí & Magritte. Two surrealist icons in dialogue”, a festive day will take place on Sunday 24 November to celebrate this anniversary.

Many activities, performances, workshops, lectures and readings will be proposed to visitors from 10:00 to 18:00 on this special Sunday.

And more: An audio guide in Korean will soon be available, adding to the current French, Dutch, German, Spanish and Italian.

The Magritte Museum also offers a range of audio guides for all audiences: in addition to our selection of audio guides in foreign languages, younger visitors can enrich their visit with audio guides for children (FR, NL, ENG, DE, IT) or teenagers (FR, NL, ENG, DE, IT).

Visio guides are also available for hearing-impaired or deaf people (FR, NL, ENG), who can additionally book specific guided tours in sign language.

Starting in November, images of the Magritte Museum will be projected on the Gresham façade (place Royale) every evening for 3 months.

2009-201910 years of success is worth celebrating!

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HISTORY OF ART AT THE MUSEUM

Dalí & Magritte. Two surrealist icons in dialogue

Echoing the exhibition and its research, the Tuesday conferences in October, November and December 2019 explore the Surrealist movement that links these two giants of modern art. Close in space and in time, the themes of these sessions promise their share of surprises and (re)discoveries.

Scientists, one curator, guides/speakers and one collector/gallerist share the presentations. Conferences are given in French.

01.10 1 X10, THE MAGRITTE MUSEUM IS 10 YEARS OLD!08.10 FIGUERES, PORTLLIGAT AND PÚBOL: DALÍ IN ITS WALLS AND ITS

MUSEUMS by Muriel De Groef15.10 DALÍ x MAGRITTE by Michel Draguet22.10 SURREALISM IN PAINTING AND MUSIC: DREAM COMEDY AND

AUTOMATISM by Florence Carlier and Delphine Berryer05.11 DREAMTIME, GUARDIANS OF THE TERRITORY: THE ART OF AUSTRALIAN

ABORIGINES by Bernard Estrangin12.11 A COUPLE, ART COLLECTOR AND SURREALIST: LES NOAILLES

by Sylvie Estève19.11 FROM SUSSEX TO MEXICO, EDWARD JAMES, “BOSS” AND PATRON OF

DALÍ AND MAGRITTE by Jean-Philippe Theyskens26.11 SURREALISM AND PHOTOGRAPHY by Sarah Cordier 03.12 SURREALIST WOMEN, BEYOND MUSES by Lyse Vancampenhoudt10.12 WHEN DALÍ COMES TO THE TABLE: SURREALISM AND FOOD!

by Rafaella Palanga

Per session: €10/ €8 (Friends of Museums, seniors, unemployed, students)Subscription for 10 sessions: €90/€72 (Friends of Museums, seniors, unemployed, students)For further information: T + 32 (0)2 508 33 52 & reservation@fine-arts-museum.be Meeting point at the box office of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, rue de la Régence 3, 1000 Brussels

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EVERY DAY THERE IS SOMETHING

HAPPENING IN THE RMFAB

MONDAY THE MAGRITTE MUSEUM IS OPEN > 10:00-17:00

TUESDAY THE TUESDAY CONFERENCES > 10:30 Reservation required

WEDNESDAY1st WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON OF THE MONTH, FREE GUIDED TOUR > 14:00 Reservation required

AMARANT (conferences in NL) www.amarant.be

THURSDAY

LES MIDIS DU CINÉMA, Auditorium B, Rue de la Régence 3 > 11:30, 12:30, 13:30, 14:30

BROODJE BRUSSEL 24.10, 28.11, 19.12 2019, 31.01 & 20.02 2020 > 13:00-14:00 Reservation required

FRIDAY

ÉQUINOXE (guided tour for blind and visually impaired persons) 27.09, 25.10, 29.11 & 13.12 2019 > 11:00-12:30 Reservation required

AMARANT (conferences in NL) www.amarant.be

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SATURDAY

INTRO-EXPO IN 30’: ALL ABOUT DALÍ & MAGRITTE. TWO SURREALIST ICONS IN DIALOGUE 12.10, 09.11, 07.12 2019, 18.01, 08.02 2020 > 15:00

Reservation required

PERFORMANCE BY THE SOMBRE COMPAGNIE 07.12 > 14:00, 15:00, 16:00, 17:00 Reservation required

SUNDAY

COMMENTED VISIT ON THE ART & HUMAN RIGHTS 27.10, 15.12 2019, 12.01, 22.03, 17.05 2020 > 15:00 (FR), 15:15 (NL) Reservation required

GUIDED TOUR OF DALÍ & MAGRITTE IN SIGN LANGUAGE 27.10 2019 & 19.01 2020 > 15:30-17:00 Reservation required

GUIDED TOUR OF DALÍ & MAGRITTE FOR FAMILIES 22.10, 22.12 & 29.12 2019 > 15:00 (FR) & 15:15 (NL)

Reservation required

VISIT–READINGS “WHAT DID DALÍ SAY?” 20.10, 10.11 2019, 12.01 & 09.02 2020 > 11:00-12:45

Reservation required

LITERARY AND SIGNED WALKS (FR and sign languages) 20.10, 24.11, 29.12 2019, 05.01 2020 > 15:30-17:00 Reservation required

PERFORMANCE BY THE SOMBRE COMPAGNIE 09.02 2020 > 14:00, 15:00, 16:00 & 17:00 Reservation required

Dates are subject to change, please visit the museum website www.fine-arts-museum.be/en/agendaReservation required via reservation@fine-arts-museum.be or ticketing online www.fine-arts-museum.beTake advantage of the favourable rates granted to the Friends to attend these many activities organized by the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.

EXHIBITIONS IN THE PIPELINE AUTUMN 2019 Ai Weiwei Sean Scully

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for everybody in 2019  !

EVERY DAY, THERE IS SOMETHING

GOING ON IN THE MUSEUMS

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Choose your category and fill in the form below. Associate Member – € 50/year Associate Member & partner (2 membership cards) – € 75/ year Full Member – € 100/ year Full Member & partner (2 membership cards) – €  150/ year Patron *– € 100/ year + a donation of at least € 150

Patron & partner * (2 membership cards) – €  150/ year + a donation of at least € 150

Family: proof of ID required – € 85/year Duo (1 membership card + 1 guest card) – € 200/ year Young Member (18–25): proof of ID required – € 20/ year * Full members who, in addition to their membership dues, remit a donation of at least € 150 on the account of Fonds des Amis des Musées, BE81 6790 7542 9624/PCHQBEBB, will be recognized as Patrons of the Museums.

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