An invitation to dive into the world of modern and contemporary artistic creation.

The Mudam Akademie offers an introduction to modern and contemporary art, showing how artists of the past and the present act as inventors of aesthetic universes, as well as catalysts and interpreters of major societal events.

In direct dialogue with Mudam’s wide-ranging exhibition programme, this lecture series demonstrates that the museum seeks to be an open space that remains attentive to the world’s transformations. Accessible to both, newcomers and more experienced audiences, the Mudam Akademie aims to make art history approachable for everyone.

The Mudam Akademie is organised in collaboration with the Ministry of National Education, Children and Youth.

This series is conceived and led by Fanny Weinquin.

Session 7 – Painting after painting: gestures, materials, narratives 
In dialogue with Seven Paintings – Seven Encounters
Although painting has often been declared ‘dead’, it continues to reinvent itself at the intersection of other media, between abstraction and narrative, figuration and archival practice. This session examines the complex status of painting today: a return to gestures, hybridisation of formats and extended temporalities.