News
The sculpture garden of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium: issues of outdoor sculpture in a metropolitan environment
VISU member prof. Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans is a guest speaker at the webinar series "Musées d’art en plein air / Sculpture Parks" on 10 December, 2024. This webinar is co-organized and moderated by VISU member prof. Francisca Vandepitte.
Remediating photography in community archives and the question of epistemic reparations
VISU member Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans and student Zoë Kennis (Talent for Research Program) will be presenting their research at the Intermedial Networks -- The Digital Present and Beyond, organized from 23-25 October 2024, and taking place at Linnaeus University in Växjö.
Origin of famous Veere cup discovered by Hanne Schonkeren
VISU member Hanne Schonkeren discovered that the famous sixteenth-century ornamental cup, preserved in the city hall of Veere, was made in Antwerp.
VISU at the Historians of Netherlandish Art Conference 2024
We are excited to share that VISU members Tine Meganck and Hanne Schonkeren will be presenting their research at the Historians of Netherlandish Art (HNA) Conference, which will take place in Cambridge on 10-13 July 2024.
Tacit knowledge and sensory experience in a sixteenth-century gold and silversmithing workshop
VISU member Hanne Schonkeren will be presenting her research at the 36th Congress of the Comité International d'Histoire de l'Art, hosted in Lyon, 23 - 28 June 2024.
Study day 'Making a Market for Art from the Low Countries in the Americas'
VISU member Tom Packet will participate in the Study Day 'Making a Market for Art from the Low Countries in the Americas'. He will present his research 'Selling Art in St.
New Lecture Series: "Ties That Bind Us: Transcultural Perspectives On Social Forms"
VUB research groups CLIC and VISU are pleased to announce a new lecture series at the Faculty of Languages and Humanities at Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
Unknown 16th-century engravings published by Pieter Martens
Two extremely rare and previously unknown engravings have been studied for the first time by VISU director Pieter Martens. Both prints survive in a single impression only and were unpublished until now.
Job vacancy
The VUB is currently recruiting a Professor in Modern and Contemporary Art within the faculty of Languages and Humanities.
PhD opportunity at VISU
Research Group VISU (Histories of Art, Architecture and Visual Culture) is looking for a PhD student with a doctoral grant, to be part of the four-year research project “Flanders in Florence: Architectural Exchanges from North to South, 1400-1600”.
Panel discussion 'Beeldspraak'
VISU member Brenda Bikoko will participate in a panel discussion to kick off the project 'Beeldspraak', organized on April 1, at 2 PM.
Call for papers "Craft and craftsmanship in the seventeenth-century Netherlands"
VISU member Marlise Rijks will be co-hosting the annual conference of the Seventeenth Century Working Group, which will take place in Antwerp on Friday, August 30, 2024.
Cultural Transfers from the Low Countries to Florence
VISU director Pieter Martens and member Caterina Cardamone will attend the Renaissance Society of America's annual meeting, scheduled to take place in Chicago in March 2024.
Guest lecture Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans at the University of Ca'Foscari in Venice
On February 19, VISU member Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans gave a guest lecture at the University of Ca'Foscari in Venice. This event was part of the exchange with Prof. dr. Miriam De Rosa (Ca'Foscari) supported by the EUTOPIA LW Grant.
Guest lecture Marije Osnabrugge (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam): Van keukentje tot cortegaerdje: genres in de vroegmoderne Zuid- en Noord-Nederlandse kunst.
On Tuesday, December 5, from 12.00 to 14.00, in room L.2.03, Marije Osnabrugge will give a guest lecture entitled: Van keukentje tot cortegaerdje: genres in de vroegmoderne Zuid- en Noord-Nederlandse kunst.
Public meeting on the Congolines research project
VISU member Ophélie Laloy will take part in the public meeting on the Congolines research project, scheduled on Saturday, November 25 from 2 pm at KBR.
Book presentation 'Betrachtungen ueber die Kunst unserer Zeit'
VISU member Caterina Cardamone presents her book on the unpublished writings of Josef Frank in Vienna on November 23, 2023.
Ariella Aïsha Azoulay: Museums in Europe are not European - Unlearning Together at Their Thresholds
Prof. Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans participates in a panel discussion with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay after her lecture in Brussels on 19 October, 2023.
Roger Raveel’s attempts towards an engaged aesthetics of complexity
PhD student Senne Schraeyen participates in the workshop Ecology, Aesthetics and Everyday Cultures of Modernity in Munich on 11 July 2023.
Eos interview with Hanne Schonkeren
Hanne Schonkeren explains her ongoing doctorate research in a profile for Eos Wetenschap.
Bruegel’s Spring Garden as Mastery of Nature
Prof. Tine L. Meganck presents at the conference The Power of Flowers, 1500-1750 on 14 June, 2023, in Ghent.
Concrete and light: American architecture and the development of Victor Horta’s style in the 1920s
PhD student Tom Packet contributes to the summer school - Heritage and innovation: Art Nouveau, past, present and future challenges in Brussels on 27 June, 2023.
Tell all the truth but tell it slant - New Hero·in·es
Doctoral researcher Brenda Bikoko is involved in two running exhibitions in Brussels.
VISU at Festival de l’Histoire de l’Art
Three VISU members take part in activities of the 2023 edition of the FHA in Fontainebleau.
Naar een architectuur van vereenvoudiging? Victor Horta’s lezingen over Amerikaanse architectuur in de jaren twintig
PhD researcher Tom Packet presents at the award ceremony of the KNOB Stimuleringsprijs on 9 June, 2023, in Amersfoort.
Josef Frank’s “human architecture” and its Quatrocento sources
Dr. Caterina Cardamone presents her research at the conference Eine menschliche Moderne – Zum Menschenbild der Villa Beer von Josef Frank on 12 May, 2023, in Vienna.
Sustained splendor: (Re)assembling early modern luxury objects
PhD student Hanne Schonkeren presents at the hybrid conference Historical Fragments: Making, Breaking, and Remaking on 19 May, 2023.
Kunst, ambacht en industrie: de Belgische deelname aan de Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904
PhD student Tom Packet presents his lecture at the annual Studiedag Historisch Interieur en Design in Ghent on 27 April, 2023
BRUEGEL & L’ITALIA / BRUEGEL AND ITALY
Prof. Tine L. Meganck presents her new publication at the University Foundation in Brussels on 19 April, 2023.
Parallel patterns? The transfer of geometrical design knowledge in Italy and the Low Countries
VISU member dr. Oliver Kik presents at the international conference Italy and the Low Countries – Artistic Relations: The Sixteenth Century in Utrecht on 31 March, 2023.
Bruegel als verzamelaar
Prof. Tine Meganck presents at the Symposium Pieter Bruegel at the Universiteit van Amsterdam on 22 March, 2023.
The Church Upside Down as Depicted in a Protestant Illustrated Broadsheet by Robert De Baudous and Paulus De Kempenaer
PhD student Eva Janssens presents at the Twelfth Annual REFORC Conference on Early Modern Christianity in Leuven on May, 2023.
Sneaking Urbanist Critiques into the White Cube: The Shrouded Criticisms of Roger Raveel and Etienne Elias
PhD student Senne Schraeyen will participate in the symposium Visual Arts and the Environmental Humanities at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen on 17 March, 2023.
Tropes of Polarity: Diasporic Conversations
VISU-member Brenda Bikoko will participate in the research event Tropes of Polarity: Diasporic Conversations at HANGAR - Centro de Investigação Artística on 26 January, 2023, in Lisbon.
Panel talk - Breaking the Colonial Gaze: Afrofuturism & Resistance
VISU-member Brenda Bikoko moderated a panel talk during the RECAPTIONING CONGO NOCTURNE at FOMU, Antwerp, on 15 December, 2022.
Knowledge, Network and Society in the Age of Van Eyck
VISU-member prof. Tine L. Meganck will chair an afternoon session for the hybrid workshop Knowledge, Network and Society in the Age of Van Eyck on 16 December, 2022, at Museum of Fine Arts (MSK) Ghent.
Patria, Parentes et Amici: Otto Vaenius’ Family Portrait and Album Amicorum as Spaces for Privacy and Dialogue
VISU-member prof. Tine Meganck and Master's student Astrid Luypaert presented at the symposium Practices of Privacy: Vestiges of Dialogue and its Places in Rome on 30 November, 2022.
L’art au service de la liturgie: L’orfèvre-designer, dom Martin Martin (1889-1965), de l’abbaye bénédictine du Mont-César (Louvain)
VISU-member Ko Goubert will present at the colloquium Entre tradition et innovation - Rupture dans les communautés monastiques aux XIXème et XXème siècles at Louvain-La-Neuve on 25 November, 2022.
Grass-roots archives and knowledge production through photographic commons in Eastern Europe
VISU-member prof. Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans will present at the conference Formats of (Non)Seeing in Split on 27 October, 2022.
Bernese Summer School 2022: The Ecological Imperative – Past and Contemporary Perspectives and Practices
PhD student Senne Schraeyen was selected to participate in the Bernese Summer School 2022: The Ecological Imperative – Past and Contemporary Perspectives and Practices.
Meeting Point: Performance art at the intersections with identity
VISU-member Brenda Bikoko will present her guest lecture "Performance art at the intersections with identity" at La Cambre on 14 November, 2022.
EUTOPIA Connected Research Community Incubator: Photography and Dissent
EUTOPIA Connected Research Community Incubator Photography and Dissent has been launched. The CRC incubator is venue for scientific exchange on recent photographic research.
The 8th Biennial Afroeuropeans Network Conference. Intersectional Challenges in Afroeuropean Communities
VISU-member Brenda Bikoko will participate in the 8th Biennial Afroeuropeans Network Conference at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
The Ways of Archiving. Practices, Conditions and Discourses around the Study of Arts and Culture. International PhD Workshop
VISU-member Brenda Bikoko participates in the international PhD Workshop "The Ways of Archiving. Practices, Conditions and Discourses around the Study of Arts and Culture" on 12 September, 2022 .
Katrien Verbeke has been reappointed as Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley for the academic year 2022/23.
VISU-member Katrien Verbeke has been reappointed as Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley for the academic year 2022/23. Her fellowship is sponsored by Prof. Gregory Levine.
Tegen de stroom ingaan. De smalle en brede weg in de 16de eeuwse kunst
Op 25 mei 2022 geeft Eva Lieve Janssens een publiekslezing in het Erasmushuis in Anderlecht: Ontdek hoe 16e-eeuwse kunstenaars een beroemde parabel in beeld brachten, tegen een achtergrond van religieuze conflicten.
Studiedag - Art Nouveau in België: vernieuwing en ideaal
Ter gelegenheid van de publicatie van het tweede deel van de reeks "Art Nouveau in België: Vernieuwing en Ideaal", houden het Horta Museum en het Museum voor Kunst & Geschiedenis op 19 mei 2022 een studiedag over het werk van Paul Hankar, Léon Sneyers, Adolphe Crespin, Paul Hamesse, Henri Jacobs...
Hanne Schonkeren receives Beherman Award
VISU-member Hanne Schonkeren's master's thesis ‘The making and meaning of early medieval silver equal-armed fibulae with filigree decoration: A case study of the curious fibula from Snellegem by means of experimental archaeology’ was awarded the Thierry Stanley Beherman prize.University of California Visiting Scholars Roundtable
The University of California, Berkeley History of Art Department Presents 2022 Department Lecture Series VISITING SCHOLARS ROUNDTABLE Stephanie Su, Jordan Troeller, and Katrien C.
KNOB Collegetour 'Amerika'
KNOB Collegetour ‘Amerika’ Datum: vrijdag 17 december 2021 Tijd: 2021-12-17 16:00:00 - 2021-12-17 17:30:00 Locatie: Online Welkom bij een nieuw...
Events
Practical info-Reading and conversation: "That I Should Report on These Things", with award-winning German-Jewish author Esther Dischereit
The Vrije Universiteit Brussel invites you to a reading and discussion with German award-winning writer Esther Dischereit as part of the new lecture series ‘Ties That Bind Us’.
Practical info-Public Defence of Tom Packet
VISU member Tom Packet will defend his PhD project, "Allies in Architecture? WWI and the Americanisation of Belgian Architecture, 1890-1939" on Monday, December 9. The public defense will take place from 15.00 until 18.00 at the VUB Etterbeek campus, room D2.01 (promotiezaal).
Practical info-Workshop ‘Flanders In Florence: Architectural Exchanges In Context, 1400-1600’
The international workshop ‘Flanders in Florence: Architectural Exchanges in Context, 1400-1600’, organized by VISU members Caterina Cardamone and Pieter Martens in collaboration with Gianluca Belli, takes place at the NIKI in Florence on 17-18 October 2024.
Practical info-Public defense of Senne Schraeyen
VISU member Senne Schraeyen will be defending his PhD project "Sustainable Yet Forgotten: Rediscovering the contribution of Belgian art practices to the second wave of environmentalism".
Practical info-Craft and craftsmanship in the seventeenth-century Netherlands
VISU member Marlise Rijks will be co-hosting the annual conference of the Seventeenth Century Working Group, which will take place in Antwerp on Friday, August 30, 2024. During this conference, VISU member Hanne Schonkeren will present her research.
Practical info-Lecture 'Speaking of Identity'
On Monday, 24 June 2024, the VUB has the honour of welcoming world-renowned philosopher Prof. Dr. Kwame Anthony Appiah for an exceptional lecture. The lecture will open a new series of VUB-sponsored events, “Ties that Bind Us: Transcultural Perspectives on Social Forms”.
Practical info-VISU study day
The annual VISU symposium takes place on 30 May 2024, at the library of the Rubenshuis in Antwerp.
Practical info-Artistic practices of hospitality in Brussels
VISU member Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans and Karel Vanhaesebrouck (ULB) are organizing the seminar 'Artistic practices of hospitality in Brussels', which will take place on 22 March 2024, at the ULB campus Solbosch.
Practical info-Fem in Art: Documentary Screening + Q&A
Join VISU and RHEA for the screening of a fascinating documentary, followed by an exclusive Q&A with director Sarah Baur.
Practical info-VISU seminar
Please join us for our upcoming VISU seminar, which will take place on Tuesday, February 27, from 14:00 to 16:00, in room C.3.204.
Practical info-Dwelling with moving images
Prof. dr. Miriam De Rosa (Ca’ Foscari) will give a guest lecture entitled “Dwelling with moving images” on Friday, March 1, 10:00-12:00, in room K.2.51, VUB campus Etterbeek.
Practical info-Photography at the Margins
On December 13 and 15 2023, VISU member Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans organizes the symposium 'Photography at the Margins'. This event will take place at Bozar and Room Ledoux, on December 13, and at the Newspaper Room, Royal Library of Belgium, on December 15.- Practical info-
Upcoming VISU-meeting
Please join us for our upcoming VISU-meeting on Tuesday 5 December, 14.00-16.30, in room PE in building C (third floor). 
Practical info-Global Art Histories lecture series
VISU research group and the Art History and Archeology program jointly organize the Global Art Histories lecture series. With this lecture series, we aim at expanding the perspectives on art and visual culture while fostering a greater connection between research and teaching at our university.
Practical info-VISU Symposium
The 2023 VISU symposium takes place on 12 May at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België in Brussels.
Practical info-Symposium: Photography and Dissent. Image circulations in and out of public discourse
The Photography and Dissent EUTOPIA Connected Research Community Incubator hosts its first symposium in Brussels and Mechelen (Belgium). Discover the program. This CRC is coordinated by VISU-member prof. Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans.
Practical info-The award ceremony of the Beherman Prize to Hanne Schonkeren
PhD student Hanne Schonkeren receives the award and presents a lecture on her ongoing and past research followed by an invited lecture by dr. Wim Nys. The Thierry Stanley Beherman Prize awards the best master’s thesis from ULB or VUB in the field of (early modern) art history.
Practical info-Public defence of the doctoral disseration of Penny Dan Xu: "Copy yet Original: 'fang Ni Zan' and the Social Function of 'fang' Paintings in China in the 15th - 17th Century"
Public defence of the doctoral disseration of Penny Dan Xu.
"Copy yet Original: 'fang Ni Zan' and the Social Function of 'fang' Paintings in China in the 15th - 17th Century"
Practical info-Public defence of the doctoral disseration of Sanne Fleur Sinnige: “Re-Presenting the Past: The Time-Based Return of Belgian Colonial History in Contemporary Art and Cinema (1986-2016)”
Public defence of the doctoral disseration of Sanne Fleur Sinnige:
“Re-Presenting the Past: The Time-Based Return of Belgian Colonial History in Contemporary Art and Cinema (1986-2016)”
Practical info-VISU-seminar: Diana Coca (UPF/EUTOPIA) on Performing Fluid Mallorcan Identities
Performing Fluid Mallorcan Identities
Practical info-Mapping the World, the Belgian contribution
Prof. Pieter Martens presents his lecture Intersections of military architecture and cartography in the Low Countries (1540-1625), from Jacob van Deventer to Pierre Le Poivre at the 38th IMCoS International Symposium on 12 October 2021 in Brussels, Belgium.
Practical info-The 6th International Conference for Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Students in Humanities and Social Sciences
VISU-member and PhD student Senne Schraeyen presents his lecture 'Roger Raveel.
