Exhibition of graduation work by Louise Cauchy, Jana Di Leva, Inès Guillen Coste and Dieuwke Raymaekers.

Opening: Friday 20 June, 6-9pm.

L'Atelier Accessoires is taking over MAD Brussels to present its Master collections.
The exhibition is conceived as much as a moment of passage as a gesture of unveiling: that of patiently elaborated research, forms and materials. Each project develops a way of thinking about the object - worn, carrying, signifying - that resonates with contemporary issues of the body, image and clothing.
Between rigorous gesture and plastic freedom, the proposals question the boundaries between the functional, the symbolic and the sculptural. Here, accessories become language.


Master 1
Martin Deman - Aria Lehovetzki De Runz - Simone Teseo

Master 2
Clément Benoît - Alyssa Cartaut - Romy Hanniquet - Florentin Mathon

The Master 2 students at the Atelier de Communication Visuelle et Graphique invite you to discover their final projects. This key moment in their careers is the culmination of two years of research, experimentation and creation.

Through a variety of approaches, each artist sets out his or her vision, approach and commitments, in a demanding dialogue between graphic design, society and culture.

Tuesday 17 June, exhibition of final year work from the Painting workshop.

The Interior Architecture and Typography departments are presenting ‘No Obligation to Buy’, a public exhibition of final-year projects.

At the crossroads of space, language and critical thinking, this evening promises singular and committed approaches.

At the end of two years of choreographic investigations, the students in the Master's programme in Dance and Choreographic Practices invite you to a public presentation of their personal projects.
This moment of sharing reveals singular paths, embodied thoughts and choreographic forms that reflect an in-depth relationship with the body, movement and the resonances of the world - all approaches that outline the choreographic creation of tomorrow.

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.

On 13 June, La Cambre Mode[s] unveils its 2025 show.
Under the neon lights of a stage that has become a laboratory, the Masters from La Cambre's Fashion Design and Creation workshop reveal inspired, intimate and resolutely innovative silhouettes.
Each passage is a narrative, each creation a signature.

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.

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.

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.