Projects
The royal museums of art and history: the history of its buildings ans its collections based on the museum's archives (RMACH). University of Antwerp
RETINA Rethinking technical interventions to advance visual literacy of young people in art museums. KU Leuven
This project wil explore the opportunities digital technologies offer to support visual literacy education in museums. This will be done by organizing pop-up co-disign studios within art museums in Belgium and abroad. These pop-up studios entail a very close collaboration with the two key stakeholders: art museums and young people. The results of the studios will uncover future directions for art museums to incorporate digial technologies for ...
Museums of contemporary art in Flanders how / what / where? - The M HKA case Ghent University
M HKA case Museums of contemporary art in Flanders how / what / where? - the M HKA case Vl. Handed. - the P. Administration TVB_CR_04042013
Osaka Idols in the Brussels Limelight. The Belgian Reception of Kamigata-e and their late Acquisition by the Royal Museums of Art and History in a Western European Context KU Leuven
The principal objective of this project is a thorough investigation of the Belgian reception of kamigata-e and their relatively late acquisition by the Brussels Royal Museums of Art and History (henceforth RMAH).
It appears that during the fin de siècle kamigata-e were initially ignored by Belgian Japonisants, upstaged as they were by the prints produced in Edo. Despite the RMAH having laid the foundation of their Japanese prints ...
Unlocking the photographic archives of the pioneering years of egyptology at the Royal museums of Art and History in Brussels. KU Leuven
SURA (Arabic for photo) is an inderdisciplinary project that ties together Egyptology, digital imaging, archival studies and digital humanities to valorise the historical collection of ca. 7000 glass plate negatives kept in the Egyptological library of the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels (RMAH).
The Meiji prints in the collection of the Royal Museums for Art and History, Brussels. KU Leuven
Ukiyo-e 浮世絵, literally meaning or known under its English equivalent of ‘pictures of the floating world’, refers to the Japanese traditional genre of woodblock printing. Despite their contemporary exclusive character, Japanese woodblock prints were a popular commercial art that produced multicolored printed images in very large quantities at low cost to satisfy the growing middle-class clientele of Edo (present-day Tokyo). Integral to the ...
[Exhibition Project] James Ensor in context : Ensor and the history of European art from the collection of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
Japan has only relatively recently strongly embraced the modern museum culture, which in Europe is also only 250 years old. Thus was the Tokyo Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan (National Museum) ...
Valorisation and preservation of friable medium on paper. Case study on the collection of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (RMFAB). KU Leuven
This project aims at assessing the fragility of modern works on paper made with friable media (i;e. pastel, charcoal and chalk), at developing a protocol to guarantee their preservation and to train professionals for a better preventive conservation of those types of works. Adopting a holistic approach, it will merge together knowledge from (technical) history of art, conservation and engineering for a better understanding of the condition ...
Art perception and appreciation in galleries and museums: Multi-method studies with a focus on mobile eye-tracking and questionnaires KU Leuven
Research in empirical aesthetics has mainly been limited to laboratory experiments or large-scale online studies, presenting natural images (photographs of outdoor or indoor scenes) or images of paintings to convenience samples (mainly students or Amazon Mechanical Turk workers). Everyone realizes that the insights gained from such studies are quite limited in terms of their generalizability to the sometimes really deep aesthetic emotions ...