{"id":13326,"date":"2026-09-23T15:52:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T13:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mjb-jmb.org\/?p=13326"},"modified":"2026-09-29T10:19:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T08:19:25","slug":"atelier-ouvert-autour-de-loeuvre-darie-mandelbaum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mjb-jmb.org\/en\/atelier-ouvert-autour-de-loeuvre-darie-mandelbaum\/","title":{"rendered":"Atelier Ouvert. Around Ari\u00e9 Mandelbaum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Atelier Ouvert. Around Ari\u00e9 Mandelbaum <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

27.09.2026 \u2013 05.12.2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Atelier Ouvert<\/em><\/strong>, the Jewish Museum of Belgium extends the exhibition beyond its walls into the surrounding neighbourhood. While the museum building is closed for renovation, around ten paintings by Ari\u00e9 Mandelbaum are presented in venues within walking distance of the museum. Shown in a variety of settings, they engage with new audiences and new contexts. These displacements create unexpected correspondences, tensions and affinities, allowing the works to resonate beyond the conventional exhibition space and into everyday life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1939, Ari\u00e9 Mandelbaum<\/strong> grew up in a Jewish family of Polish origin near Brussels South Station. He created the greater part of his oeuvre in Brussels, where he established and relocated his studios over the decades. Since the late 1950s, his paintings have woven together collective history, political commitment and personal experience. Over time, his visual language has become increasingly distilled, placing traces, erasure and memory at its centre. Fragile figures, overlooked histories and the violence of history emerge in compositions where white is not an absence, but an active force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition unfolds across CINEMATEK, Cin\u00e9ma Galeries, Grands Carmes \u2013 LGBTQIA+ Center, the Bruegel Cultural Centre, the Brussels Public Social Welfare Centre (CPAS), Maison CFC, Th\u00e9\u00e2tre des Tanneurs and the Jewish Museum of Belgium. Guided tours, public conversations, film screenings and encounters with the artist will accompany the project, extending the resonances the works generate as they move from one place to another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This project is based on an exceptional donation of some forty works by the artist, received by the museum in 2021. Mostly never exhibited before, the works on display had not been shown as part of the monographic exhibition devoted to Ari\u00e9 Mandelbaum in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OPENING EVENT:<\/strong>
27 September 2026 at 5:30 pm, Cinematek \u2013 Rue Baron Horta 9, 1000 Brussels<\/strong>
Screening of the film \u201cPortrait of the Painter in His Studio\u201d<\/em> by Boris Lehman (FR \u2013 NL subtitles), followed by a discussion with Boris Lehman and Ari\u00e9 Mandelbaum, moderated by Bruno Benvindo, and a drink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Booking:<\/strong> https:\/\/cinematek.be\/2026-09-27-17-30\/portrait-du-peintre-dans-son-atelier<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Events Related to the Exhibition<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n