To coincide with the 2025 juries, the Textile Design, Drawing and Industrial Design departments are presenting ‘Tisser, tracer, transformer’ on 25 June at Citydev.

At the crossroads of thread, line and form, the exhibition brings together the work of the Masters students, who have developed singular approaches and thought-provoking reflections on the languages of design, materials and objects.

Opening on Tuesday 25 June, 6pm.

Don't miss the opening of the Master's juries for the Urban Space and Sculpture departments on 12 June at Citydev Brussels.

The projects presented are the culmination of two years of artistic and critical research. Between public space, volume and installation, the students explore committed forms and approaches, rooted in contemporary creative issues.

On 27 June, La Bellone will be hosting ‘Times for New Roman’, a series of readings put on by the Masters of the Texts and Literary Creation department.

These readings, the high point of the course, bring to life texts shaped over the course of the academic year. They also mark the opening of a path of writing and creation, the beginning of an adventure in the literary and artistic world.

The event is free and open to all.

On 13 June, LaVallée will be hosting a public presentation of the final projects of the Scenography department.

It's an opportunity to discover the richness and diversity of the approaches taken by the new generation of set designers, and to discuss their creative worlds and design processes with them.

Whether you're a professional or an amateur, a regular or an occasional visitor, or an art enthusiast, you're warmly invited to come and meet these young talents.

Masters of Ceramics exhibition at the Boghossian Foundation

With: Simon Aubry Picaudot, Hovic Der Sarkissian, Simone Machuel

The ‘Backyards’ exhibition showcases the graduation work of three young artists from La Cambre's Ceramics studio. The exhibition, which takes place in the studio and garden at the rear of the Villa Empain, bears witness to the diversity of contemporary ceramic creation. Discover the chimerical territory of Hovic Der Sarkissian, created from ornaments taken from Armenian culture. Simon Aubry Picaudot will take you on a journey through an installation inspired by a backroom, where objects and pieces of furniture fan the flames of desire. As for Simone Machuel, she invites you to a garden party with royal poodles, a glass of dry martini in hand.

Enter the backyard of this eclectic trio, a space that, for a weekend, opens doors to new adventures.

Between two points brings together the work of the Masters students in the Photography department.

Conceived as a space for reflection as much as sensibility, the exhibition highlights the many ways in which the photographic medium is viewed. From critical engagement to poetic exploration and formal experimentation, the works on show explore the contours of the image and its narrative potential.

La Cambre’s public juries will take place from May 26 to June 27, 2025.
They offer a unique opportunity to discover the work and projects developed by our students.

The Graduation Show, showcasing the final Master’s projects, will be held from September 18 to 28, 2025, with an opening night on September 18.
More information to follow.

ENSAV La Cambre is looking for an Information Systems Manager.

Please see the attached job description (in french).

In partnership with Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain / Casino Display, a new European post-Master's programme will be offered from the academic year 2025-2026. This programme is the fruit of collaboration between four higher art education establishments from three European countries: the École Nationale Supérieure d'Art et de Design de Nancy (ENSAD Nancy - FRANCE), ENSAV La Cambre (Brussels - BELGIUM), the Haute École des Arts du Rhin (La HEAR - Strasbourg/Mulhouse - FRANCE) and the Royal Academy of Art (KABK - The Hague - NETHERLANDS).

This artistic research laboratory is a programme that encourages collective and transdisciplinary artistic research within an experimental and process-oriented framework. It offers emerging artist-researchers a platform to explore new methodologies, engage in collaborative research and rethink traditional notions of authorship and knowledge creation. Operating in a para-academic and para-institutional mode, the lab emphasises deceleration, open exploration and the evolution of artistic practices rather than the production of finished works. Over a series of research weeks, the programme provides financial support for participants' projects, access to technical facilities and support from an international network.

Participants will be responding to the conceptual theme of ‘folds’, approached as a tool for exploring complexity, relationality and narrative potential in artistic practice.

All the practical information, including how to apply, can be found in the attached document and on the Casino Luxembourg website.

Deadline for applications: 6 June 2025

Considering that article 3§3bis of the law of 29 May 1959 amending certain provisions of the legislation on education provides, in paragraph 5, that: ‘Each establishment may authorise the use of its premises by non-commercial associations, in particular cultural or sporting associations, provided that the use made of the premises by such associations is not detrimental to the good organisation, reputation, neutrality or material interests of the establishment’,

Considering that a project to renovate the buildings of the Abbey is underway and that a programme of occupation of the buildings prior to the works has been developed in order to ensure their maintenance and conservation,

ENSAV - La Cambre is looking for a partner to occupy the premises (building H) in the main courtyard of the Abbaye de La Cambre in Brussels as part of a temporary occupation (for a period of 2 years), in order to organise an artist residency.

(More info in the attached call in French)

Screening of the documentary Fuga
As part of the ‘Territoires subjectifs’ series
(in the presence of the directors)

In the heart of the Peruvian Amazon rainforest, scarred by the violence of terrorist groups and the homophobic persecution of the 1980s and 1990s, Fuga follows the path of Saor, who accompanies the body of the woman who was once his love.

This second screening is part of the ‘Territoires subjectifs’ series of events. Using a film as a starting point, the aim is to explore the way in which the relationship with the territory is constructed and deconstructed, by crossing representations and imaginary worlds. Exploring these territories - be they geographical or physical, and always fraught with political issues - provides a space for the recognition of voices and stories that are often invisible.

Conference with Professor Louis Moneger, member of the SRABE (Royal Beekeeping Society of Brussels and the surrounding area) and Thomas Vancraeynest, teacher in the Industrial Design deparment. A discussion on the dangers of the Asian hornet for bees. The event will highlight the innovative solutions devised by La Cambre students, calling on the public to take action to preserve biodiversity.

Free entrance on registration

Laurence Rosier is a linguist, professor at the ULB and specialist in verbal violence. An exhibition curator, co-author and coordinator of numerous publications, she is the author of ‘Petit traité de l'insulte’ (2006, republished and expanded in 2009), ‘De l'insulte... aux femmes’ (2017), ‘Cohabitante l'égale’ (2023) and, at the start of 2025, ‘La riposte. Femmes, discours et violences’, which uses women's words as an act of resistance.

‘De quoi le curating est-il le nom? Métamorphoses d'une pratique dans le champ d'exposition’ is published by La Lettre volée. This new essay by Julie Bawin is the fruit of a reflection on the exhibition and its players, on the museum and the role played by artists in particular, and on the way in which the curatorial offer is constantly being renewed.

Over the last fifteen years or so, the word ‘curating’ has become a particularly fashionable code word in the world of contemporary art exhibitions. But what practices does it refer to exactly, and why has this Anglicism come to supplant the term ‘commissariat’ in the French language? Answering these questions is not simply a matter of highlighting the role played by artists, museum curators, authors and exhibition ‘makers’ in the revival of the exhibition field from the 1960s-1970s onwards. The idea behind this book is that curating, far from being a recent phenomenon, relates to earlier and successive (r)evolutions, both in the field of hanging and scenography and in the professional and institutional sphere in which exhibition organisers operate. Since the mid-nineteenth century, curatorial activity has passed into the hands of an ever-increasing number of protagonists, and now oscillates between hyper-professionalisation and increasingly tangible deprofessionalisation. In fact, it would seem that nowadays the profession - recognised as such - is within the reach of everyone, and in particular of those whom the author calls ‘curatorial outsiders’.

La Cambre is taking part in the 3rd edition of the Festival du Dessin, to be held in Arles (France) from 12 April to 11 May 2025. A selection of works from the Drawing department will be on show as part of the exhibition ‘La jeune garde à l'honneur’.

On the occasion of the 2024-2025 Chaire à vif devoted to ‘Art and Money’, La Cambre is joining forces with the ULB's Groupe de Recherche en Sciences des Arts et de la Culture (GRESAC) to pursue its reflections on the notions of market, value and investment in the world of art and creation.
Between the act of creation free of all constraints and the art object conceived as a product of financial investment, there are many areas of intersection and progressive nuance, both historically and in the contemporary context.
The complex relationship between art, which is supposed to be pure, and money, which is supposed to be impure, is made up of a thousand facets that are still often a blind spot in the context of art schools.
Yet questions of value, marketing, insurance and, quite simply, price are on everyone's mind as soon as creation becomes a profession and professional structuring is posed as a necessary issue for students and young alumni.

Wednesday 9 April 2025
Questions of value in art
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Nathalie Moureau, in dialogue with Anne-Sophie Radermecker

What are the multiple values that make up a work of art? How do the players in the art world work together to create value, and who ultimately decides the price? Is the artistic value of a work necessarily reflected in its market value, and vice versa? Starting with the now-famous Comedian, a banana taped to a wall by the artist Maurizio Cattelan and sold for $120,000 at the Art Basel fair in Miami in 2019, Nathalie Moureau (Université Paul-Valéry-Montpellier) and Anne-Sophie Radermecker (ULB) discuss the strategies of distinction and legitimacy in the contemporary art world. Using this polemical case study as a starting point, they also ‘peel back’ the mechanisms by which the price of works is determined, extending their analysis to other categories of artistic production in order to gain a better understanding of buyers' motivations and willingness to pay for certain characteristics.

‘Affleurement’ is a group exhibition resulting from an initial encounter between the practices and personal research of the Masters 2 students in the Printmaking and Printed Image workshop.

With: Nathan Bédon-Rouanet, Louise Cauchy, Jana Di Leva, Léo Gasiglia, Inès Guillén Coste, Dieuwke Raymakers

Six young artists from the Photography workshop are invited to create a counterpoint to the themes and photographs selected by The House of European History.

Coordination: Hervé Charles & Olivier Thieffry

La Cambre opens its doors to you on Saturday 22 March 2025, from 10am to 6pm.

OPEN, to discover the different workshops and courses.
OPEN, to meet the teaching staff, enrolment officers and management.
OPEN, to take part in exhibitions, openings and workshops...

+ More info soon to come soon...

With: Isabel Baraona, Maud Brunstein, Sam Bouffandeau, Xavier Duffaut, Matilde Gazeau Frade, Felix A. D’Haeseleer, Sophie Holmström, Romane Iskaria, Jana Katanic, Maelle Luca-le Garrec, Oya, Célia Rancelot, Killian Ryan, Alba Suau et Maj-Britt Verheijen Van Dyck