Conferences accompanying the exhibition
FROM DELACROIX TO KANDINSKY, ORIENTALISM IN EUROPE

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Rue de la Régence, 3 | 1000 Bruxelles

The activities are in FRENCH unless specified otherwise.
For further information please visit our website:
www.expo-orientalisme.be

Programm

OCTOBER 2010

Tuesday 5
10:00 Conference : From Roger Fenton to Felice Beato. The Orient, journeys
and photography
by Jean-Philippe Theyskens

Tuesday 12
10:00 Conference : At the sources of Orientalism, when history meets fantasy
by Sylvie Estève

Sunday 17
11:00 Exhibition visit
Sunday visit to discover the exhibition
11:00 Conference : Journey to the East. Of modernist orientalism (in
English)
by Roger Benjamin, Professor, University of Sidney, Department of Art
History and Film Studies

Tuesday 19
10:00 Conference : Orientalism at the frontiers of Europe. An
anthropological perspective on the Balkans
by Marianne Mesnil

Wednesday 20
13:30 Teachers' day
Presentation of the educational program 2010-2011 to teachers of the primary
and secondary education, plus a guided tour of the temporary exhibition

Tuesday 26
10:00 Conference : Sir Lawrence Alma-Tradema. The antique dream under
Victoria
by Stéphane Colin

Thursday 28
12:30 Lunchtime cinema : The orientalists' Algeria, from Delacroix to Renoir
by Robert-Pansard-Besson - (2003) 52'

Friday 29
14:00 Equinox visit
Guided tour of the exhibition for the visually impaired public, young and
old

NOVEMBER 2010

Tuesday 9
10:00 Conference : Egypto-mania in Belgium in the 19th century Egypt in
cage, Egypt in Lodge
by Eugène Warmenbol

Sunday 14
11:00 Exhibition visit
Sunday visit to discover the exhibition

Tuesday 16
10:00 Conference : From the Nile Valley to the land of Moses. Life and
history of Egyptian coffins
by Céline Talon

Saturday 20
14:00 Equinox visit
Guided tour of the exhibition for the visually impaired public, young and
old

Tuesday 23
10:00 Conference : Dreams of elsewhere. Settings and moods of
cinematographers, from the origins to the palaces of the 30s
by Isabel Biver

Sunday 28
11:00 Exhibition visit
Sunday visit to discover the exhibition

Tuesday 30
10:00 Conference : Live the Orient at home... orientalist architecture in
the West
by Davy Depelchin
Conference : Artists' workshops and exoticism
by Linda Van Santvoort

DECEMBER 2010

Tuesday 7
10:00 Conference : The fantasmagoric harem. Odalisques, Turkish baths and
nudity
by Pascale van der Elst

Tuesday 14
10:00 Conference : Visions and views of the Orient in music
by Philippe Dewolf

PRACTICAL INFORMATION ON THE EXHIBITION
FROM DELACROIX TO KANDINSKY ORIENTALISM IN EUROPE

Exhibition 15.10.2010 - 09.01.2011
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Rue de la Régence, 3 | 1000 Bruxelles
tél : +32 (0)2 508 32 11 | fax : +32 (0)2 508 32 32
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Opening hours
Tuesday > Sunday | 10 am > 5 pm
Closed on Mondays, November 1st and 11, December 25 and January 1st