Artists in Architecture – Re-Activating Modern European Houses: After a two-week residency in some of the most incredible houses of the 20th century in Belgium, Italy, Romania and Spain, the artists and architects selected for the Artists in Architecture programme will present their work in the Horta Hall in BOZAR.
Jacques Ligot in House Strebelle in Uccle, Something Fantastic & Fernanda Tellez in the Willy van der Meeren House in Tervuren, Susanne Mariacher & Helene Schauer in the Marcel Iancu House in Bucharest, Luke James in Casa LeWitt in Praiano, Elena Mazzi in Casina Fiorelli in Pompeii and Ben Weir in Casa Vilaro in Barcelona, have taken up residence in houses that were built or once inhabited by remarkable cultural figures. Each artist elaborated a unique proposal that BOZAR will present as a wall project in the Horta Hall. www.bozar.be/en
Man of La Mancha: On 4 October 1968, the US musical Man of La Mancha opened at La Monnaie, translated into French by Jacques Brel. Now the KVS and La Monnaie are joining forces to stage a new production as a tribute to Brel and perhaps also as a symbol of ‘le temps où Bruxelles brusselait’, but with its gaze firmly fixed on the city of today and tomorrow. Michael De Cock, the Artistic Director of the KVS, directs this emblematic musical, in which Cervantes, with the manuscript of his novel Don Quixote under his arm, ends up in an Inquisition prison and performs the story of the Don for his fellow prisoners. “To dream the impossible dream… to follow that star…”. 4 December – 10 December. La Monnaie. www.lamonnaie.be/en
