Schools and Associations
Educational Intentions
The BPS22 mediation team aims to create the perfect conditions for introducing children, teenagers, and community audiences to contemporary art. This introductory encounter is devised to help people learn to be moved and to reflect, both individually and collectively. It offers an opportunity to create lasting links between a museum and audiences sometimes distant from the world of culture.
Free Guided Tours
To facilitate this encounter, BPS22 mediators organise visits and workshops tailored to each group. During these visits, our guides accompany groups in discovering the exhibitions through observation, contextualisation, and exchange.
Free Workshops
Upon request, the visit can be followed by a practical or reflective workshop. This choice is made by the mediation team based on the parts of the exhibition that elicited the most reactions or questions, with the aim of extending the reflection.
On view until 5 January 2025
ALAIN SÉCHAS. I never get bored...
A major contemporary art exhibition full of curves and colours
The artist presents a broad overview of his multifaceted work, rooted in drawing. Alongside the variety of techniques Alain Séchas explores (drawings, paintings, sculptures, and large-scale installations), this exhibition also showcases his ability to address societal issues with a tone that is both humorous and disenchanted.
The exhibition centres around 4 key themes:
- Very colourful, cartoon-like paintings and sculptures.
- A rounded and appealing aesthetic that sometimes contrasts with enigmatic and critical content.
- Very slender cats with wide, startled eyes, placed in humorous or unsettling situations.
- More than 180 black-and-white Insta Dessins (Insta Drawings) created daily and published on the artist’s Instagram
email hidden; JavaScript is required
email hidden; JavaScript is required
Juliette Vanwaterloo - Burn it all down
A small textile art exhibition raising big questions
Juliette Vanwaterloo creates embroideries, lacework, and tapestries on tough, socially engaged topics. Her exhibition explores the issue of freedom of expression, the right to protest, the right of citizens to break the law in defence of a cause they deem just (such as the ZADs), and even the right to insurrection. Alongside this, it raises awareness of police violence and how a democracy must balance everyone’s rights to prevent abuses of power.
Practical Information
Free visit and workshop for schools and community groups (booking required).
Museum open Tuesday - Sunday, 10:00 am - 6:00 pm.
Upon request, groups can be welcomed from 9:00 am.
Visit Duration:
- Guided tour: 1 hr - 1 hr 30
- Guided tour + workshop: 2 hr 30 - 3 hr
Teachers and chaperones must be present for the entire duration of the activity.
> Your contact at BPS22 for any requests and reservations:
Mario Lancini - email hidden; JavaScript is required - +32 71 27 29 82
> Your contact for PECA coordination in the Hainaut South Zone:
Julie Bouniton - email hidden; JavaScript is required - +32 477 64 87 89