The Arp Museum opens a window into the art world of Belgium and presents masterpieces from the renowned collection The Phoebus Foundation in Antwerp. Under the title “Soul Landscapes,” 28 paintings and sculptures from Impressionism to Classical Modernism are showcased.

Brussels as a pulsating center of the avant-garde in the late 19th century comes to life here. Belgian artists such as Léon Spilliaert, Théo Van Rysselberghe, George Minne, and James Ensor engaged in an intense exchange with their French colleagues and found their own expressions of the epochal and groundbreaking art movements that culminated in Impressionism, Symbolism, and Fauvism. In dialogue with 27 works of French masters from the Rau collection for UNICEF, ranging from Claude Monet to Paul Signac to Maurice Denis, a lively exchange emerges, highlighting the mutual enrichment of the art scenes. The exhibition reflects this group’s search for an existentialism deeply rooted in the human soul, fueled by the dark, often absurd intoxication of the Fin de Siècle.