Mu.ZEE Oostende

Romestraat 11, 8400 Oostende, Belgium

Mu.ZEE combines art and coast and is therefore an original location for:

exclusive nocturnes surrounded by works of art
study days
photo shoots

Mu.ZEE , in the art city of Ostend, is housed in an iconic former department store by architect Gaston Eysselinck. It is the only museum that focuses on modern and contemporary art in Belgium from 1880 to the present. In addition to showing the collection, which counts 8,000 works, we organize temporary exhibitions that highlight artists who played an important role in Belgian art history.

The upcoming exhibitions for an unforgettable nocturne are:

Anna Boch (1848-1936), An impressionistic journey from 1-07-2023 to 5-11-2023

This versatile Belgian post-impressionist artist was internationally acclaimed during his lifetime. As a free-spirited woman , she acquired a place at the end of the 19th century because of her oeuvre and because of her role as a patron and collector , in which she paid attention to the work of female artists . She often painted the North Sea. The Belgian coast and especially Ostend, the city of James Ensor , a personal friend, were familiar to her.

Mu.ZEE pays homage to this underexposed figure in Belgian art history on the occasion of her 175th birthday with rarely exhibited works from private collections and exceptional loans from renowned institutions , such as the Musée d'Orsay.

Rose, Rose, Rose à mes yeux! James Ensor and still life in Belgium from 16-12-2023 to 14-04-2024

In 2024, Mu.ZEE will open the commemorative year around the 75th death date of Ostend's grand master James Ensor. Still lifes by Ensor from public and private collections in the Netherlands and abroad are placed next to still lifes by contemporaries that are rarely or never shown. Together they form a unique journey through the still life of the 19th and 20th century in Belgium.

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