Art needs to be alive. Which means it has to come out and play. Besides curating and setting up exhibitions, The Phoebus Foundation also regularly gives objects on loan to museums or collaborates in other ways with both national and international museums. Discover here our upcoming exhibitions, activities and loans.
Exhibition
16/10/2022 - 22/01/2023
Phoebus goes USA! We are extremely proud to present our very first intercontinental exhibition ever!The Phoebus Foundation joins forces with Denver Art Museum to present 'Saints, S ...
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Travelling treasures
10/07/2022 - 09/10/2022
The Noordbrabants Museum in ‘s-Hertogenbosch (NL) is currently the place to be for fans of art from the Latem school! The exhibition Symbolism in Flanders focus ...
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Travelling treasures
18/06/2022 - 12/11/2022
The Antwerp artist, Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) cherished his friendships and he did so by depicting his closest friends – other artists, merchants, collectors or musicians ...
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Travelling treasures
04/06/2022 - 11/09/2022
Last chance to visit our travelling treasure in STeM Sint-Niklaas! We are proud that The First Atlas Map to Use the Word “America” is part of the Recht Door ...
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Travelling treasures
07/05/2022 - 25/09/2022
Landscape with archers by Gillis Mostaert I will be on display in Mudel for two more weeks! ‘SHOOT. Archery, a cultural heritage’ is an exhibition that focuses on the h ...
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Exhibition
01/04/2022 - 02/10/2022
The story of the Irish princess Dymphna reads like a tragic fairy tale. When her mother dies, her father the king asks her to marry him. Maddened by grief at the loss of his wife, ...
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Travelling treasures
26/03/2022 - 26/06/2022
Did you know Antwerp was the capital of harpsichords between 1560 and 1660? With the exhibition Keyboard Instruments, the Snijders&Rockox House Museum and the Vleeshuis Museum ...
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Travelling treasures
19/03/2022 - 21/08/2022
Meet Anto-Carte (1886-1954)! A Mons artist who was a painter, lithographer and illustrator at the same time, he became known all over the world thanks to exhibitions in the United ...
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Travelling treasures
12/02/2022 - 12/06/2022
Do you like modernist art? Mu.Zee in Ostend is your place to be! Moreover: you can discover Transatlantic modernisms! The exhibition tells the surprising story of the artistic conn ...
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Travelling treasures
22/10/2021 - 20/02/2022
Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) is arguably the most successful Flemish Baroque painter. His works are characterized by an impressive, colorful imagery that is highly recognizable. ...
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Travelling treasures
22/10/2021 - 16/01/2022
Imagining the Universe is part of Leuven’s KNAL! Big Bang City Festival, which focuses on the fascination with the cosmos and its impact on science and culture. The exhibitio ...
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Exhibition
15/10/2021 - 08/05/2022
In cooperation with the Frans Hals Museum, The Phoebus Foundation presents the exhibition At home with Jordaens: the first monographic exhibition of the seventeenth-century Antwerp ...
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Travelling treasures
01/10/2021 - 16/01/2022
Remember Me. More than 100 Renaissance Portraits, from Dürer to Sofonisba tells the story of powerful emperors, flamboyant aristocrats and well-to-do citizens and how they had the ...
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Travelling treasures
04/09/2021 - 02/01/2022
Today a name stands out from the Frankish dynasty, that of Frans Francken the Younger (1581-1642) considered to be an outstanding artist. This contemporary of Rubens is distinguish ...
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Exhibition
21/05/2021 - 30/11/2021
Following several years of intensive research, The Phoebus Foundation has embarked on a large-scale conservation project: the magisterial St Dymphna Altar, a masterpiece by Goossen ...
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Exhibition
23/04/2021 - 28/11/2021
Why does Hans Memling paint every detail with such precision? How did Rubens manage, with a few brushstrokes, to create an effect that would have made Steven Spielberg jealous? And ...
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Exhibition
15/03/2020 - 15/04/2021
The many portraits in The Phoebus Foundation collection from the Middle Ages to the early modern era formed the ideal starting point from which to tell the fascinating story of por ...
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Exhibition
30/05/2019 - 03/11/2019
Lace can have an old-fashioned reputation at times, but in 2019 the Chancellery of The Phoebus Foundation brought this centuries-old luxury textile very much to life. The Phoebus F ...
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Exhibition
22/02/2017 - 29/07/2018
This exhibition offered an insight into the history of Flemish art, with particular attention paid to the things that motivated its artists: how was art perceived by makers ‘from ...
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Exhibition
01/01/2017 - 01/01/2020
The Chancellery of The Phoebus Foundation has been working with the Keizerskapel (Emperor’s Chapel) in Antwerp since 2017. Every six months, a new and unknown jewel from the coll ...
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Exhibition
17/06/2016 - 31/12/2016
The Birth of Capitalism drew visitors back to the Golden Age of the Southern Netherlands (fifteenth and sixteenth centuries). It painted a picture of the economic power of the Coun ...
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