Lecture
Fatah-Hamas, is reconciliation possible?
Thursday 21 February 2019, at 7 pm
Leila Seurat, expert on the Middle East, discusses the issue of reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas, the two leaders of the Palestinian liberation movement.
Lecture and book signing
Children of the void, from individualist impasse to citizen awakening
Friday 15 February 2019, at 7 pm
Democracy in crisis, social diversity in decline, ecological disasters, populist insurrection… Raphaël Glucksmann reflects on paths to escape this impasse with Emmanuelle Danblon at the Boghossian Foundation.
Round Table Discussion
The stakes of a metaphor made concrete: bonds and ruptures
Tuesday 22 January 2019, at 7 pm
Curator Nadia Sabri offers a new perspective on the theme addressed in the exhibition Of links and exiles during a round table discussion bringing together Moroccan and French intellectuals.
Lecture
Iran – how to make peace with this regional power?
Thursday 13 December 2018, at 7 pm
Is the withdrawal of the United States’s signature on the multilateral agreement on the Iranian nuclear deal a game-changer in the Middle East? Specialists on Iran Thierry Kellner, Yann Richard, and Mohammad-Reza Djalili shed light on these issue.
Literary Salons
Lebanese literary evenings
Tuesday 20 and Wednesday 21 November 2018, at 7 pm
On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Lebanon’s independence, the Boghossian Foundation honours Lebanese literature and welcomes Hoda Barakat, Jabbour Douaihy, Venus Khoury-Ghata, Alexandre Najjar and Marwan Zoueini during two evenings that combine poetry, contemporary literature and music.
Lecture
The ‘returnees’ of Syria and Iraq: between threat and the challenge of reintegration
Wednesday 7 November 2018, at 7 pm
Since 2012, nearly 5000 Europeans have left for Syria and Iraq, many to fight alongside jihadist forces. Some of them have already returned, while others could return in the foreseeable future, Thomas Renard discusses the challenges of these returns.
Lecture
What future for Palestinians?
Thursday, October 25, 2018, at 7 pm.
While the process of peacemaking with Israel seems stalled, where does the Palestinian question stand in this political and diplomatic fog? Henry Laurens, historian and author tackles these thorny issues at the Boghossian Foundation
Literary salon
L’Espoir à l’arraché
Wednesday 3 October 2018 at 6pm
With L’Espoir à l’arraché, poet Abdellatif Laâbi leads a new battle against the “barbaric rule” he has been combatting since he wrote his first book in the mid-sixties.
Lecture
Arabian cultural immigration in Europe
Tuesday, September 18, 2018, at 7 pm.
The journalist Coline Houssais traces back threads of history by showing that many links unite the Arab world and Europe.
Lecture
Léa Salamé – Journalism, politics and culture
Friday 15 June 2018, at 7 pm
Journalist Léa Salamé talks about her career and the links that unite journalism, politics and culture in contemporary society.
Film screening – lecture
Reverend Father Hamel, Martyr of the Republic
Monday 11 June 2018, at 7 pm
Journalist Alfred de Montesquiou looks back on the murder of priest Jacques Hamel with a documentary that tries to unravel both the bloody course of events and the symbolic significance. The screening is followed by a lecture debate.
Lecure
Pascal Convert, a conversation with Philippe Dagen and Yves Ubelmann
Thursday 31 May 2018, at 7 pm
Cliffs of Bamiyan, a major exhibition piece of Melancholia, is the result of a hybrid of processes linking more contemporary and ancient technologies. Artist Pascal Convert will reflect on his piece during an open discussion on monuments – from Mossoul to Yerevan – currently at risk, alongside Yves Ubelmann and Philippe Dagen.
Lecure
Is there still a chance for peace between Israel and Palestine?
With Elie Barnavi
Thursday 17 May 2018, at 7 pm
Following the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel by the United States, is the Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking process permanently frozen? Whilst the Near East is unable to escape its rationale of war, does evoking peace between the Israeli and Palestinians make sense? Elie Barnavi, a historian, diplomat, and politically engaged intellectual known for his open-mindedness will reflect upon this difficult issue.
Art talk
Gesprek met Geert Goiris
Wednesday 2 May 2018, at 7 pm
On the occasion of its presence in the show Melancholia, Belgian artist Geert Goiris evoques the work Liepāja, his oeuvre and his projects in a conversation with Sam Steverlynck.
Lecture
The Kurdish issue in the Middle East
Thursday 19 April 2018, at 7 pm
What is today the situation of the Kurds, main players in the war against the Islamic State, in the Middle East? Analysis by Gérard Chaliand, geostrategist and specialist in Kurdish issues.
Lecture – Performance
Hip hop
Thursday 1 February 2018, at 7 pm
In the framework of La Belle Hip-Hop festival, the Boghossian Foundation hosts the opening conference about “Women in Hip-Hop?”
Lecture
How will music save the East?
André Manoukian
Thursday 1 February 2018, at 7 pm
Author and composer André Manoukian discusses the inter-musical links which unite styles, cultures, and tastes of cultures of the East and the West during a musical sociology conference.
Conversation
David Claerbout
With Christoph Wiesner
Wednesday 10 January 2018, at 7 pm
Belgian artist David Claerbout revisits the process behind his piece The Algiers’ Sections of a Happy Moment presented in the exhibition Ways of Seeing and his conception of photography during a conversation led by Christoph Wiesner.
Book launch and presentation
The German Library Pyongyang
Sunday 5 November 2017
The Villa Empain as a centre for dialogue between East and West is proud to host the launch and presentation of the publication The German Library Pyongyang by Sara van der Heide (Sara Sejin Chang).
Lecture
Is this the beginning of a neo-national era?
Thursday 19 October 2017 at 7 pm
International current events are upsetting the world order and disrupting nation-states. Political scientist Bertrand Badie, and geographer Michel Foucher decrypt our world’s evolution and its possible digressions.
Conferences
Mondialité : Readings
Saturday 9 September 2017, from 11 am to 9 pm
To mark the publication of the book Mondialité, ou les archipels d’Edouard Glissant, editors Hans Ulrich Obrist and Asad Raza invite artists, writers and special guests for a day of talks, readings and performance at the Villa Empain. The day will include a book signing at 3 pm.
Lecture
European culture and globalisation
Thursday 22 June 2017, at 7 pm
Historian and politician Jean-Noël Jeanneney evokes the powerful transformation of exchanges around the world, influenced by new technologies, which call upon an evolving Europe tu put forth ambitious cultural policies.
Lecture – Signing
Le roman d’Héliopolis
Monday 22nd of May 2017
Historian Amélie d’Arschot will take us back to the fantastical adventure that was the construction of Héliopolis in the middle of the desert a few kilometres away from Cairo imagined by the Baron Empain. She will present her book at a lecture followed by a signing session.
Conference:
What are the contemporary repercussions of the 1915 genocide?
Wednesday 26th of april 2017
In honour of the commemoration of the Armenian genocide, the Boghossian Foundation welcomes an afternoon of conferences organised the Comité des Arméniens de Belgique in collaboration with the Armenian General Benevolent Union and the Centre Communautaire Laïc Juif.
Conference
OPENING I Mondialité
Tuesday 18 April 2017, from 3pm to 9pm
The exhibition Mondialité will be inaugurated by the curators Hans Ulrich Obrist and Asad Raza with an opening day of interviews, talks, screenings, poetry and performances.
Performance-Lecture:
Villa Liminal
Wednesday 1st February 2017, at 7 pm
Artist Marcos Lutyens invites the visitors of the Boghossian Foundation to a unique artistic experience, a performative session of collective hypnosis, to experience liminality, a state of disorientation between consciousness and unconsciousness.
Shunga, the Japanese Erotic Prints:
Lecture-performance by Ana Prvački
Wednesday 1st February 2017, at 7 pm
The Boghossian Foundation invites Ana Prvački at the occasion of a lecture-performance on Shunga in the framework of its public programme Embassy of Uncertain Shores. The word Shunga means erotic art in Japanese and refers to graphic images of sexual activity.
Decor, Exhibitions and the Role of Art:
A conversation by Dorothea von Hantelmann, Jan Mot and Asad Raza
Friday 20 January 2017 at 7 pm
Jan Mot of Jan Mot Gallery will join Dorothea von Hantelmann and Asad Raza, co-curators of the exhibition Decor, in a conversation on the role of decoration in exhibitions of modern and contemporary art. The conversation will be coupled with a nocturne of the exhibition.
In English
Zen art
Marie Camelbeeck
Wednesday 18 January 2017 at 7 pm
Marie Camelbeeck presents Zen’s history and evolution, by replacing it not only in the context of Buddhist thinking but also in Japanese history. The Japanese art is explored within the framework of its philosophy and in its multiplicity.
When you’re the Indian in a country of John Waynes
Rajkamal Kahlon
Wednesday 23 November 2016 at 7 pm
A talk by Rajkamal Kahlon about the criminalization of otherness. Framed by the War on Terror her recent work on the project Blowback attempts to locate the relationship between anthropological portraiture and political violence labeled as terrorism.
Talk
Régis Debray
Thursday 20 October 2016 at 7 pm
In the wake of the debate around Brussels’ future Museum of Contemporary Art, the Boghossian Foundation invites internationally renowned French philosopher and mediologist Régis Debray to share his reflections on contemporary art and on the role of museums today. Dialogue with Nicola Setari, Curator of the Public Programme of the Boghossian Foundation.
Execute The Few Hundred Sensual and Sentimental Motions That Define Your Limits
Chus Martínez | That Art Exhibits
Thursday 13 Oktober 2016, at 7 pm
The Boghossian Foundation Chus Martínez, in the framework of the European Artistic Network conference of this year entitled That Art Exhibits. In this talk Chus Martínez addresses hylomorphism as ways of renewing and challenging our imagination of the „museum“ and of generating a space that could defy our historical ideas of culture.
Slavs and Tatars
The Tranny Tease
On Wesdnesday 21 September 2016 at 7 pm
The Boghossian Foundation presents the third lecture-performance of Slavs and Tatars. Indulging a phonetic, semantic, and theological slippage, with The Tranny Tease, Slavs and Tatars explores the potential for transliteration as a strategy equally of resistance and research into notions such as identity politics, colonialism, and faith.
Meeting and Book signing
Laurent Gaudé, Ecoutez nos défaites,
15 September 2016 at 6 pm
The writer Laurent Gaudé, laureate of the Prix Goncourt, will present his new novel Ecoutez nos défaites, an epic in which four ages of History are mixed and the plot takes place in Beirut. He will answer to the question of the journalist Sophie Creuz. An exceptional meeting that will end with a signing session.
Round table
The Situation of Refugees, from Iraq to Calais
14 September 2016 at 6:30 pm
The Boghossian Foundation organizes a round table around the problematic of the assistance to refugees. For this occasion we are welcoming Elise Boghossian founder of the association EliseCare, Gérard Dubois, Mayor of the municipality of Pessat-Villeneuve which welcomed 66 migrants and the musical interlude of Marwan Zoueini.
Lecture
Eastern Christianity
on Thursday 9 June 2016 at 7 pm
The Boghossian Foundation invites you to around able on the topic of Eastern Christians, by assessing the situation of the people and its heritage in the Middle East, from Iraq to Egypt, Lebanon and Syria.
Slavs and Tatars
Molla Nasreddin: Embrace You Anthithesis
25th of May 2016 at 7 pm
The Boghossian Foundation – Villa Empain hosts the Embassy of Uncertain Shores, a public programme by and with artists and researchers. The programme starts on 25 May with this first lecture-performance by Slavs and Tatars.
Talk
Nicola Lees & Asad Raza
Friday 13 May at 7 pm
The Boghossian Foundation organizes, on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition ‘Répétition’, a conversation with curators Nicola Lees and Boghossian Foundation artistic director Asad Raza at the Villa Empain.
“Artist talk – Performance”
23d of April 2016
The Boghossian Foundation organizes at the occasion of Art Brussels, an Artist Talk with Natasha Ginwala, curator of Contour Biënnale 8, Natasha Ginwala in conversation with filmmakers and artists. It will be followed by a performance by Sahra Montalebi, artist in residence. Saturday 23 April, from 7.30pm.
“The legacies of eastern painting in Korea’s contemporary abstract production”
20th of April 2016
As part of the exhibition ‘Dansaekhwa’, the Boghossian Foundation invited Mael Bellec, a specialist in Chinese and Korean art. During this lecture Bellec approaches the legacy of oriental painting in Korea’s contemporary abstract production.
“How Korea became modern”
17th of March 2016
Pascal Dayez-Burgeon, professor of history and specialist of the two Koreas, addresses the Dansaekhwa movement by placing it in its political, economic and social context.
“Climbing the Mountain” third talk of the series”
22nd of June 2015
The Boghossian Foundation is pleased to invite you to an international meeting
Byzantium, Baghdad , Toledo , Paris. “Translatio studii” in medieval sciences
From 6th to 8th May 2015
The Boghossian Foundation is pleased to invite you to an international meeting organized by the CRA Speculum Arabicum (UCL)
Conferences on the current use of drones
17 and 18 March 2015
On the occasion of the exhibition Heaven and Hell. From magic carpets to drones, the Boghossian Foundation organizes twee conferences on the actual use of drones
Conference and presentation of the book “Le livre des Egyptes”
10 March 2015
On the occasion of the publication of the book “Le Livre des Egyptes”, the Boghossian Foundation organizes a conference
L’Inde et le labyrinthe de l’Univers
20 January 2015
La Fondation Boghossian rend hommage à l’un des savants les plus singuliers et universalistes du XXe siècle : Alain Daniélou
Transmission, sublimation et destruction du livre
20 May 2014
Une rencontre qui mêle histoire, philosophie, poésie et actualitéavec Roger-Philippe Della Noce-Bertozzi, Godefroid de Callataÿet François de Coninck
Journée de rencontres internationales à Beyrouth
17 May 2014
Reconstruire le dialogue mémoriel : l’exemple turco-arménien
Week-end du livre d’artiste les 29 et 30 mars 2014
30 March 2014
Dans le cadre de la nouvelle exposition « Entre deux chaises, un livre », la Fondation Boghossian s’est associée à BIBART, la Bibliothèque du Livre d’Artiste, pour l’organisation de Libre Livre, un week-end du livre d’artiste à la Villa Empain, les 29 et 30 mars 2014.
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The trips to the Blue Route
4, 5 and 6 December 2013
Whether it is the journeys of Moses leading his people out of Egypt, Alexander the Great’s Macedonian expansion, the Crusaders ‘holy’ wars, Tamerlane’ conquest, or Magellan and Marco Polo’s adventure…
The Turkish Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
6 December 2013
Famous for her Turkish Letters, Lady Montagu discovered Istanbul in 1716 when her husband was appointed by King George as ambassador of England in order to negotiate a lasting peace treaty…
The Turkish Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
12 November 2013
Famous for her Turkish Letters, Lady Montagu discovered Istanbul in 1716 when her husband was appointed by King George as ambassador of England in order to negotiate a lasting peace treaty…
Memories and images, a look at the Armenian catastrophe
23 October 2013
If images are intended to facilitate the process of memory, how can one explain those images that do not support any memories? What are the interpretation and visual representations of the disaster…
Figureheads
1, 8, 15 and 22 October 2013
A series of lectures given by Pierre Sterckx, writer of many books such as, Cinquante géants de l’art arméricain, Les plus beau textes de l’histoire de l’art (pub. Beaux Arts).
Rebuilding a memorial dialogue: the Armenian-Turkish example
21 September 2013
It is as a platform for dialogue that the Boghossian Foundation is organising this day of international meetings with the theme of the complexity in the recognition of tragedies such as the 1915…
Varujan Vosganian
07 March 2013
Le Livre des chuchotements n’est pas un livre de mémoires car les souvenirs de ces pages ne m’appartiennent pas.
Leili Anvar – Cantique des oiseaux
11 December 2012
Chef-d’oeuvre de la littérature persane, épopée mystique du XIIe siècle, Le Cantique des oiseaux d’Attâr est l’expression poétique d’une quête initiatique universelle, celle de l’Amour, de la Vérité, de l’Unicité.
Le manteau arménien de Jean-Jacques Rousseau
23 October 2012
Rencontre avec le Professeur Raymond Trousson, biographe de Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Les égyptomanies depuis le XIXe siècle
20, 21 and 22 November 2012
La campagne du général Bonaparte, l’ouverture du Canal de Suez en 1869, la découverte de la tombe de Toutankhamon en 1922, la vogue des grandes expositions universelles, les planches d’Edgar P. Jacobs et de Hergé, le cinéma hollywoodien des années 1960 ont contribué à l’essor de l’égyptomanie moderne.
Edouard Empain et Boghos Nubar
03 October 2012
A la Villa Empain, le 3 octobre 2012, Amélie d’Arschot Schoonhoven a évoqué la rencontre de deux hommes exceptionnels : Edouard Empain et Boghos Nubar.
Platon et L’Orient
08 September 2012
“La lumière est le lien universel”, écrivit Giordano Bruno.
Art is the Answer ! Artistes et designers libanais contemporains
24, 25 and 26 April 2012
A l’occasion de l’exposition Art is the answer !, la Fondation Boghossian souhaite mettre l’accent sur des démarches artistiques qui résistent obstinément aux mensonges et aux ombres menaçant le monde actuel, qui ne doutent pas qu’il soit possible de revendiquer un « ré-enchantement » du monde par la force d’un acte artistique.
Un rêve d’éternité
29, 30 November and 1 December 2011
Les rencontres internationales, organisées sur le thème de l’exposition Un rêve d’éternité, proposaient une réflexion sur le concept du temps en Orient, la patience et la transmission, la vieillesse et les savoirs du temps « long » qui disparaissent progressivement des cultures traditionnelles.
« Chateaubriand et Lamartine en Orient »
17 November 2011
Sophie Basch et Jean-Claude Berchet sont deux éminents spécialistes de la littérature, professeurs d’université à Paris et spécialistes de ce XIXe siècle intellectuel durant lequel l’Orientalisme a joué un rôle d’inspiration important.
Débat et projection du film “Miral”
21 September 2011
À l’initiative de la Fondation Boghossian, le film “Miral” du célèbre réalisateur et plasticien Julian Schnabel (« Le scaphandre et le Papillon ») a été présenté en sa présence au Parlement européen le 21 septembre 2011.
Pudeurs et colères de femmes
5, 6 and 7 April 2011
Les rencontres internationales, consacrées au thème de la pudeur féminine, complétaient l’exposition Pudeurs et colères de femmes.
L’Orient et l’Occident désorientés ?
9, 10 and 11 November 2010
Il semble que l’Orient et l’Occident soient actuellement « désorientés » dans leurs valeurs, dans l’équilibre traditionnel de leurs forces et influences, à travers l’évolution de leur développement économique, culturel, spirituel et intellectuel.
« Temps long/Temps court. L’Orient et l’Occident parlent d’un monde moderne »
23, 24 and 25 April 2008
Constituée en 1992, cette fondation de droit privé s’est engagée depuis quinze ans à contribuer à l’amélioration des conditions de vie des jeunes, spécialement au Liban et en Arménie, par le financement de nombreux projets pédagogiques (orphelinats, écoles, académies), urbanistiques (espaces publics, installation de réseaux d’eau potable) et culturels (théâtres et centres d’art).