Flemish modernism.
Words, images, sounds
that wanted to change the world.

Modernism in the picture

Sometimes it seems like the story of the avant-garde is exhausted. Nothing could be further from the truth. Take the recently rediscovered oeuvre of Arthur Jacobs.

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26 NOV 2024 – 30 MAR 2025
Music-Hall. Paul van Ostaijen and the soundtrack of the roaring twenties (in Dutch)
Museum Albert Van Dyck (Schilde)
With his debut collection Music-Hall, Paul van Ostaijen drew Dutch-language…

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22 NOV 2024
CATALOGUE – Music-Hall. Paul van Ostaijen and the soundtrack of the roaring twenties
With his debut collection Music-Hall, Paul van Ostaijen took Dutch-language…

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15 March 2025
Kataklump (in German)
Paul van Ostaijen, Heinrich Campendonk, Fritz Stuckenberg and the struggle…

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What is Flemish modernism, other than modernism that happened to take place in Flanders?

Dynamism! (re)tells the unique story of artistic renewal in Flanders at the beginning of the 20th century. In its full breadth. With Paul van Ostaijen as guide.

Dynamism! puts on a series of exhibitions and events. The destination is 2028 – the centenary of Paul van Ostaijen’s death.

Dynamism! is a project of the Paul van Ostaijengenootschap.

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