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in Antwerpen voor:
1 2014
COMMEMORATION OF THE CENTENARY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR IN ANTWERP
Peace Bridge 3-5 October 2014. Exhibitions and cultural programme as of spring 2014.
From a historical perspective Antwerp has several reasons to commemorate the beginning of World
War I in 2014. During the first weeks of the Great War Antwerp was a beacon of hope for the rest of
the country. As the “National Redoubt” Antwerp briefly became the temporary capital of Belgium and
home to the government, parliament, the army, the royal family and diplomats. The imposing double
belt of fortresses prompted a large number of refugees to travel to the city. After the fall of Antwerp
they mainly fled to the Netherlands, France and Great Britain.
The Peace Centre of the City and Province of Antwerp has joined forces with over fifty partners in
Belgium and abroad to put together an exciting cultural programme:
A PONTOON BRIDGE AS A PEACE BRIDGE ACROSS THE RIVER SCHELDT
A highlight of this commemorative programme is the contemporary reconstruction of the 1914 pontoon bridge,
symbolising the connection between the past, present and future.
Peace Bridge 3-4-5 October 2014
• Official inauguration on Friday 3 October: VIPs from Belgium and abroad, a peace parade with children,
Let’s go Urban dance spectacular, bridge lighting by Artesis Plantijn University College, an audio trail in
the pedestrian tunnel under the River Scheldt, and more.
• Throughout the weekend the general public will have the opportunity to walk from the right bank to the left
bank across the bridge.
• Book your ticket on time through our website antwerpen14-18.be. Check our website regularly to see when
the ticket sale starts.
Anyone wishing to know more about Antwerp during the Great War and about the pontoon bridge can purchase a
bridge brochure from the Information desk in the town hall or download it at www.antwerpen14-18.be.
Address: between the mooring pontoon near Steen fortress on the right bank and the moorings of the pilotage on
the left bank.
Contact: Info@vredescentrum.be, +32 3 292 36 52
Website: www.antwerpen14-18.be
Opening hours: from Friday 3 October 2014 as of 6 p.m. until Sunday 5 October 2014
Admission: Ticket to the pontoon bridge: 5 euros per person. Bridge programme free of charge.
Middelheim Museum
Signed, the artist. A collection presentation
Ernst Barlach, Georg Kolbe, Alexander Archipenko, Jean Arp, Emile-Antoine Bourdelle, Jacques Lipchitz, Ossip
Zadkine, Charles Despiau, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Paul Landowski, Rudolf Belling, Aristide Maillol, François
Pompon, Arturo Martini, Ewald Mataré, Hermann Hubacher, Frans Claessens, Käthe Kollwitz, Georges Braque,
Philippe Wolfers, Emil Filla, Arthur Dupon, Josué Dupon. The lives of these artists in the Middelheim collection, on
both sides of the front, was harshly interrupted by the First World War, which cut through their lives and (early)
careers much like a blunt axe. Although they have this experience in common the First World War is not a
common denominator in their work.
Some were permanently scarred by this tragic war and went on to dedicate their entire oeuvre to it while others
struggled to break from the rhetoric of aggression and suffering.
Käthe Kollwitz’s oeuvre is situated in the eye of the storm. Her artistic development from naturalism to an
increasingly expressionistic style and her tragic life have fused in a deeply emotional oeuvre. In this exhibition her
sculptures which frequently portray deep suffering and the untold human cost of war are like a case study which
merits additional attention. Middelheim Museum will show some exemplary works by this artist, together with the
Käthe Kollwitz museums in Cologne and Berlin. Kollwitz’s sculptures succeeded in generating a special interest in
modern (sculpture) art among a wide audience.
2 Venue: Braem pavilion
Admission: free
Timing: 4/05/2014 – 11/01/2015
Opening hours: from October until March: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. I April and September: 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. I May and
August: 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. I June and July: 10 a.m. – 9 p.m.
Website: www.middelheimmuseum.be
MAS: Exodus. Fleeing the war
At the outbreak of the First World War about one million Belgians fled to the Netherlands and hundreds of
thousands of others to Great Britain and France. This exodus is shown in the museum’s so-called “Boulevard”,
highlighting the search for a safe haven and finally the return.
Timing: 20/5/2014 - April 2015
FotoMuseum Antwerp: Shooting Range - Fotografie in de vuurlinie?
How is a war portrayed? The Great War was the first large-scale conflict that was documented with photos. FoMu
shows how this was done and how these photos continue to horrify people even today. The exhibition “Shooting
Range” highlights the role of the visual media as an “eye” and a weapon, focussing on how our perspective is
changed by the impact of photography and film. Our perception, dreams, behaviour and ideas are partly shaped
by images. FoMu presents films and photos in their original form, such as newspapers, magazines or postcards.
Besides this the exhibition also examines how contemporary photographers interpret this theme.
Venue: Waalse Kaai 47 - 2000 Antwerp
Admission: 7 euros - 5 euros [discounted rate] - 1 euro [-26] - 0 euro [-12]
Timing: 27/6/2014 - 11/11/2014
Website: www.fotomuseum.be
Eugeen Van Mieghem Museum
In recent years the work of the Antwerp port artist Eugeen Van Mieghem has been internationally rediscovered.
His work is often compared to that of artists such as Käthe Kollwitz, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Théophile
Steinlen. At the outbreak of the First World War Van Mieghem observed and portrayed the departing refugees
and other telling scenes from daily life in a city on the verge of war. His works provide a unique perspective on the
horrific experience of Antwerp’s population during the First World War.
Venue: Ernest Van Dijckkaai 9 in Antwerp (opposite Steen, next to the Brabo car park)
Admission: 4 euros
Timing: 1/09/2014 - 30/11/2014
Opening hours: Sunday and Monday from 2 p.m. until 5 p.m. (closed in July-August and on public holidays).
Appointment required for groups: a guided tour lasts around two hours and besides the Van Mieghem Museum
visitors also visit the first and second floors (with the Van Mieghem collection about World War I and the Red Star
Line Room) of the Ship owners’ House. Admission is at least 110 euros (groups of up to 20 participants). 4 euros
extra per person for groups of more than 20 participants.
Website: www.vanmieghemmuseum.com
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp and the House of Literature: The Moderns. Art during the Great War.
Before the outbreak of the First World War the futuristic works of Jules Schmalzigaug suggested progress, speed
and technology. Rik Wouters’ art was a celebration of vitality and strength. But the war came as a shock. This
exhibition shows how artists and writers absorbed this shock during and shortly after the First World War. Some
artists and writers fled to the Netherlands and Great Britain, where they discovered foreign movements. Others
tried to make sense of life on and behind the front lines. Paul van Ostaijen incorporated his trauma in the
experimental poetry collections “Occupied City” and the “Feasts of Fear and Pain”. But the war also left its mark
3 on other writers in Antwerp and Flanders. The exhibition uses the work of six key figures (including Rik Wouters,
Emile Verhaeren and Paul van Ostaijen) to evoke an idea of what the war meant for these artists and authors.
This exhibition is part of the series “The Moderns” in the Queen Fabiola Hall and is organised by the Royal
Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp and the Province of Antwerp together with the House of Literature and the
Provincial Museum Emile Verhaeren.
Venue: Queen Fabiola Hall, Jezusstraat 28, 2000 Antwerp
Admission: € 4 / € 3 / € 1/ € 0
Timing: 20 September 2014 - 11 January 2015
Opening hours: from Tuesday until Sunday: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. until 6 p.m.
Website: www.kmska.be and www.letterenhuis.be
Red Star Line Museum
Far from the War? Belgian immigrants in America during World War I.
In the early twentieth century, in the years running up to the First World War, Belgian migration to the United
States peaked. When the German army occupied Belgium in 1914 all trans-Atlantic passenger traffic from
Antwerp ground to a halt. Belgian Americans suddenly found themselves cut off from their motherland and in
many cases from their family. How did they experience the war? How did they express their solidarity with their
country of origin? A presentation in The Shed, the museum’s multipurpose gallery, explores this theme. This is
the first exhibition in a multiannual project which the Red Star Line is preparing on migration to the Americas.
Venue: Montevideostraat 3 - 2000 Antwerp
Admission: free
Timing: 28 September 2014 – 6 April 2015
Opening hours: from Tuesday until Sunday, from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.
Website: www.redstarline.org
MuHKA: PANAMARENKO UNIVERSUM
The exhibition “Panamarenko Universum” provides a fascinating overview of the most important vehicles and
objects which the Antwerp artist created. Besides these masterpieces the exhibition also focuses on
Panamarenko’s actions in the broadest sense of the word, with his “happening” period – from the occupation of
Conscienceplein square to his bold attempt to fly to Sonsbeek in the Netherlands with a zeppelin -, his nature and
scientific insights and artistic statements. For the first time an exhibition will zoom in on the artist’s sources of
inspiration. "Panamarenko Universum" highlights the versatility and the depth of this inspired artist and magician.
This ambitious retrospective reveals the backbone of his body of work as well as providing an insight to the artistic
process, with documents, films, drawings, editions and sketches.
Venue: Leuvenstraat 32, 2000 Antwerp - Contact and bookings + 32 3 260 99 99
Admission: € 8 I € 4: 60+, students, jobseekers, groups of 10 or more participants, Antwerpers, teacher’s pass,
the disabled and their attendants, (artists) members of the NICC, Klasse, Knackclub, Gezinsbond I € 1: - 26 I free:
-13, BIG card, Friends of M HKA, ICOM, VMV, members of the Royal Guides Association of Antwerp I Discount
only on presentation of a valid card I
During the set-up of the exhibition € 4/€ 2/€ 1/free I Only € 1 admission for everyone on Thursday, from 6 p.m.
until 9 p.m.
Timing: October 2014 - February 2015
Opening hours: Tue-Wed and Fri-Sun 11 a.m. – 6 p.m., Thu 11 a.m. – 9 p.m.
Website: www.muhka.be
Historic city walks: ANTWERP DURING THE GREAT WAR. The First World War behind the double belt of
fortresses
The walk starts out at the Festival Hall in Meir, which served as King Albert’s residence during his stay in
Antwerp. From there we walk to Steenplein. Along the way the guide will draw attention to historical buildings (or
their former location) which played a role during the First World War.
4 Timing: continuously available as of January 2014
Duration: 2 hours
Price: € 75 + € 5 administrative free
Website: www.visitantwerpen.be
Open-air exhibition and walk. The military graves of World War I, in Schoonselhof cemetery, which are
devoid of all hostility.
Discover Belgium’s biggest municipal military cemetery in Antwerp.
The graves of thousands of soldiers, from different countries, are located in the heart of this beautiful parkland.
On the occasion of the commemoration of the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War individual war
stories and historical discoveries will be revealed about the relationship between the Great War, the City of
Antwerp and Schoonselhof cemetery.
Venue: Schoonselhof, Krijgsbaan, 2610 Wilrijk I information: funeraire.cel@stad.antwerpen.be
Admission: free
Timing: from summer 2014
Opening hours: daily, from 8.30 a.m. until 7.30 p.m. during the summer and from 8.30 a.m. until 5.30 p.m. during
winter. The brochure is available free of charge on location. A guided tour is available for groups of 20 or more
participants. This must be booked beforehand.
Website: www.antwerpen.be
Educational Experience trail for children: Antwerp builds bridges 1914 - 2014
In Vleeshuis Museum students can follow an informative and interactive trail, encountering obstacles to peace.
The students will complete assignments together and go in search of materials to literally build a bridge across a
war zone so that they can safely cross a world full of conflict. The road to peace is not an easy one, but it is very
important and valuable. Topics covered include: threat, power, life during the occupation, fleeing, the use of
animals in wartime, communication and collaboration. The experience trail welcomes schools and youth clubs,
targeting 11 and 12-year olds. Max. 25 children per group.
Venue: Vleeshuis Museum, Vleeshouwersstraat 38, 2000 Antwerp
Admission: €30 per group
Timing: from 4 November 2013 until 3 October 2014. From Monday until Friday at 9 a.m., 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. or
on appointment. Duration: 120 minutes.
More information:
Peace Centre of the City and Province of Antwerp,
Information desk Antwerp 14-18 Town hall, Grote Markt 1, 2000 Antwerp
Contact: Info@vredescentrum.be, +32 3 292 36 52
Opening hours: from Wednesday until Friday, from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.
Website:
www.antwerpen14-18.be
VARIOUS LOCATIONS IN THE CITY
BREAKBULK EUROPE
Breakbulk Europe is the largest exhibition & educational forum in the world addressing the
needs of traditional breakbulk and project cargo logistics professionals.
13.05.2014 – 15.05.2014 | ANTWERP EXPO | WEBSITE
5 SPECIAL OLYMPICS EUROPEAN SUMMER GAMES 2014
The ‘Special Olympics European Summer Games’ are the Olympics for athletes with
intellectual disabilities. During a period of 10 days, Antwerp will host more than 2
000 athletes and their delegations from 58
countries. As an ongoing partner, the Province of Antwerp is working on this
prominent event as well, providing assistance in terms of financing, logistics and
promotions. The ‘Special Olympics European Summer Games’ will be
one of the largest sporting events of 2014.
13.09.2014 - 20.09.2014 | ANTWERPEN | WEBSITE
HUYSMAN ANTWERP RACE
No sailing lovers will want to miss this event – the biggest yachting regatta in the Benelux
with a finishing line right in front of the Antwerp Scheldt Quays.
?.10.2014 | WEBSITE
WINTER IN ANTWERP 2014
CHRISTMAS MARKET
06.12.2014 - 29.12.2014
GROTE MARKT, HANDSCHOENMARKT, SUIKERRUI AND GROENPLAATS
CHRISTMAS MARKET AND ICE-SKATING RINK WITH WINTER VILLAGE
06.12.2014 - 04.01.2015
STEENPLEIN
FIREWORKS
31.12.2014
SCHELDT QUAYS
06.12.2014 – 04.01.2015 | WEBSITE
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WINTER SALES
[Shopping] Sunday shopping on January 5th
JANUARI 2015 | VARIOUS LOCATIONS IN THE CITY | WEBSITE
PAINTED OUT OF LOVE: FAMILY PORTRAITS BY RUBENS (working title)
Painting portraits may have been considered a lowly profession in seventeenth-century art
theory and Rubens is even said to have hated painting portraits, but yet he was one of the
most able portrait painters of his time. Among his finest and most intimate portraits are some
portraits, which he painted of his family: his two wives – Isabella, who died young and the
beautiful Helena - and his children, Clara-Serena‘s cheeky face and the life-size
portraits of the older Albert and Nicolaas. He also painted his sisters and brothers in law. And of
course, Rubens portrayed himself as a young man travelling with his brother in Italy and later as an
older respectable gentleman, when he was already looking death in the eye. The portraits which
Rubens painted of his family were not commissioned; he painted them out of love and they served as
memories. For the first time these stunning artworks will be shown together and in the place where
they belong: the former home of Rubens in Antwerp.
28.03.2015 – 28.06.2015 | RUBENSHUIS | WEBSITE
WATER- RANT
Maritime festival to celebrate the Antwerp nautical heritage
END OF SEPTEMBER 2015 | ’T EILANDJE | WEBSITE
WINTER IN ANTWERP 2015
CHRISTMAS MARKET
05.12.2015 - 27.12.2015
GROTE MARKT, HANDSCHOENMARKT, SUIKERRUI AND GROENPLAATS
CHRISTMAS MARKET AND ICE-SKATING RINK WITH WINTER VILLAGE
05.12.2015 - 03.01.2016
STEENPLEIN
FIREWORKS
31.12.2015
SCHELDT QUAYS
05.12.2015 – 03.01.2016 | WEBSITE
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OPENING OF THE NEW DEPOT IN THE MUSEUM PLANTIN-MORETUS
In 2016, we will open the museum’s new depot, which was realised by NOA
architects, with integrated artwork by Benoit van Innis. With this new depot, the
museum will meet the international standards and the high current requirements of
UNESCO regarding the preservation and study of its collections.
2016 | MUSEUM PLANTIN MORETUS | WEBSITE
TALL SHIPS RACES 2016
In 2016 Antwerp will once again be welcoming the Tall Ships Races to the city. The
Tall Ships Races are a great race with international allure, and are dominated by the
friendship between young people.
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2016
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