From 12 October 2024 to 12 January 2025, the Art Museum The Hague presents the exhibition Dirk Braeckman – Léon Spilliaert: Night Wanderers. The exhibition explores the artistic affinity between these two Belgian artists. While Spilliaert primarily worked with ink, pencil, and chalk, and Braeckman with photography, they share a fascination for the night.

We have loaned five works by Spilliaert to the Art Museum, which is organizing the first exhibition entirely focused on the dialogue between the works of Braeckman and Spilliaert. The exhibition highlights the intriguing similarities and contrasts between the two artists and offers a compelling look at nocturnal themes and their mysterious atmospheres.

Their works, dominated by black and gray, showcase a spectrum of darkness, punctuated by points of light. This nocturnal perspective transforms their immediate surroundings and impressions into ambiguous dreamlike images that raise more questions than they answer. Their artworks seem to emerge from the same emotional realm: mysterious, elusive, and undefined.