KMSKA regularly lends its holdings for exhibitions at home and abroad. Discover where you can admire our travelling collections.
Ensor in context
At 5 venues in Japan
14 April 2012 – 17 March 2013
The Ensor collection of KMSKA will reside in Japan from 14 April to 17
March 2013. The travelling exhibition
Ensor in Context will call at five venues:
Toyota Art Museum,
Ehime Art
Museum,
Togo Seji Memorial Museum,
Iwate Art Museum and
Okayama Art Museum. The package for
this show consists of 73 paintings and 59 drawings and engravings from the KMSKA collection. The
exhibition does not focus on
James Ensor alone. As the title already suggests, the work of Ensor and his
contemporaries provides a starting point for an exploration of the history of Western European art.
Furthermore, the exhibition delves into the motif of the grotesque. In this respect, Ensor drew
inspiration from his discovery of the work of the Japanese painter and graphic artist
Hokusai. KMSKA has made carefully considered selections from its collections of
Old and Modern Masters for the two components of the exhibition. Visitors in Japan will be able to
admire work by, among other artists, Jan
Gossaert,
Pieter Brueghel II,
David Teniers II,
Gustave Courbet,
Henri Fantin-Latour,
Emile Claus, and
George Hendrik Breitner.
Jorn/Ensor
Museum Jorn, Silkeborg
3 March 2012 – 5 June 2012
James Ensor’s paintings of grotesque masque figures, skeletons, skulls and devil figures were an everlasting source of inspiration for the Danish artist Asger Jorn. As early as 1937 Jorn visited an exhibition of the German collector von Garvens’s works by Ensor in Copenhagen. The exhibition made a huge impression on the young artist. Ensor’s paintings have not been shown in Denmark since. The exhibition Jorn/Ensor at Museum Jorn in Silkeburg will therefore break new ground. Through a consistent selection of Ensor’s paintings, drawings and graphic works the exhibition will present him to the Danish public as one of the central artists in modern European art. For this exhibition, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp has given Astonishment of the Mask Wouse on loan.
Arte Flamenco del siglo XVII. Colleción del Museo Real de Bellas Artes de Amberes
Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City
1 March 2012 – 27 May 2012
From 1 March onwards the Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL) in Mexico City is staging the exhibition Arte Flamenco del siglo XVII. The package that KMSKA compiled for this show contains over fifty paintings from its collection of old art, including work by Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony Van Dyck, Jan Brueghel the Elder and Jacob Jordaens. Arte Flamenco illustrates the essential characteristics of seventeenth-century Flemish painting in six thematic clusters: religious art, landscape and still-life painting, portraiture, scenes from daily life, allegory and mythology, and the Guild of St Luke. The exhibition also considers the profound influence of Flemish art on the emerging arts scene of New Spain. Arte Flamenco del siglo XVII is organised in collaboration with Bozar in Brussels as part of a programme to promote the cultural heritage of Flanders around the world.
Peter Paul Rubens. Impressions of a Master
The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota (Florida)
17 February 2012 – 3 June 2012
The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp has compiled themed packages that
will travel around the world during the museum's renovation. One such package is destined for
Florida for an exhibition entitled
Peter Paul Rubens: Impressions of a Master, which runs from 17 February to 3 June at
The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art,
Sarasota. The show features over 75 engravings from KMSKA's impressive collection of
Rubens prints alongside paintings from the Ringling Museum's own small but
significant collection of Flemish Baroque Masters. This presentation of Rubens engravings, built
around pieces from the KMSKA collection, fits into the mission of the Ringling Museum to engage the
public with the oeuvre of the Master from Antwerp.
Ernest de Bavière, un prince liégois dans l'Europe Moderne
Grand Curtius, Luik
18 November 2011 - 20 May 2012
In 2012 the city of Liège celebrates the 400th anniversary of the death of Ernest de Bavière, Prince-Bishop of Liège. With this anniversary in mind Grand Curtius has put together the exhibition Ernest de Bavière, un prince liégois dans l'Europe Moderne or Ernest de Bavière, Prince of Liège in Modern Europe. For the exhibition, the painting Alchimist, a copy after David Teniers II has travelled to the museum in Liège.
Dangerously Young
Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent
1 October 2011 – 20 May 2012
The exhibition Dangerously young at Museum Dr. Guislain in Ghent takes you on a journey of questions. How do artists portray the uncomplicated, sweet child? And how do they depict situations in which the child becomes a danger to adults? The exhibition features work by artists such as Paul Klee, Joan Miro, Diane Arbus and Evert Larock. The museum has sent the painting The idiot by Larock to Ghent to be part of this exhibition.
Abraham Mignon in Rome
Belgian Embassy, Rome
Long term loan
The painting Flowers in a vase by Dutch artist Abraham Mignon has travelled from Antwerp to Rome where it will be displayed in the Belgian embassy as a long term loan.
Anonymous in Amsterdam
Amsterdam Museum, Amsterdam,
Long term loan
In 1599 an anonymous painter made a family portrait of the Amsterdam merchant Thomas Gerritszn Doesburch, his wife Claesje Hendricksdr Roeclaes and their children. He did this in a period in which the core family (father, mother and children) became a basic principle in western society. This portrait from the collection of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp has travelled to the Amsterdam Museum where it will be on display during the renovation of the KMSKA.
Memling and others in Rotterdam
Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
From 16 April 2011 – long term loan
The presentation of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen’s collection is rearranged every two years. This time it has been enriched with more than twenty loans from other Dutch museums and from the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp. Therefore, five paintings from the museum’s collection, including Man with a Roman Coin by Hans Memling have travelled to Rotterdam.
Rembrandt in Amsterdam
Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam
Long term loan
In 2009 the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp invited the renowned Rembrandt expert Ernst van de Wetering to study the Portrait of the Preacher Eleazar Swalmius as the painting had recently been restored. Van de Wetering concluded that the portrait was made by the Dutch master Rembrandt. During the renovation of the museum you will be able to see it at the Rembrandthuis in Amsterdam.
Van Dyck in the US
Worcester Art Museum
Long term loan
The painting Portrait of a Man by Antoon Van Dyckhas travelled to the Worcester Art Museum in the state of Massachusetts where it will be restored by the museum's restoration team.
