• Opening times

  21/02/2020 - 29/08/2021: * monday, friday, saturday and sunday: from 11:00 to 19:00 * tuesday, wednesday and thursday: closed

• Price

  Normal: 10,00 €

With Standing Stones, the Design Museum Brussels is launching its program of exploring the dialogue between art and contemporary design through a carte blanche. The current installation is designed by the Greek duo Eleni Petaloti and Leonidas Trampoukis who founded the studio Objects of Common Interest together in 2015. Through the use of inflatable figures made out of biodegradable acryl, the unique installation Standing Stones reinterprets the used forms and figures of the Cycladic civilization during the Bronze Age. The visitor is submerged in a space that looks dreamy and illusionary because of the use of mirrors. Here, the visitor reflects on the duality between transparence and opacity, softness and hardness and, the temporary and the permanent. In the middle of the installation a circle of stools can be found, placed around a reflecting ‘pond’ of mirrors, that invites the visitor to contemplate and have a moment of introspection. https://objectsofcommoninterest.com/

• Opening times

  30/09/2020 - 03/10/2021: * monday, friday, saturday and sunday: from 11:00 to 19:00 * tuesday, wednesday and thursday: closed

• Price

  Normal: 10,00 €

A pop-up laboratory where the successive presentations that are sometimes subjective and never exhaustive will be representative of Belgian design. Pieces from different eras, materials, statuses and natures build side by side a history of design in Belgium. For this first selection, objects from the plastic design collection – the particularity of our institution – interact with pieces of modern and contemporary design from the King Baudouin Foundation.

Bauhaus is the home of the avant-garde and the foundation of modern architecture. Today, almost 100 years after being founded, the Bauhaus-masters continue to be the stars of the architecture and design history. However, the (his)story of the Bauhaus remains male dominated. Only experts know the names of the female contributors of the art school, even though a great part of its innovative potential goes to its women. The documentary “Bauhausfrauen” (The Women of the Bauhaus) is a homage to the forgotten Bauhaus women and shows: The Bauhaus idea is alive and is also HERstory. The screening will be followed by a Q/A session with the director, Susanne Radelhof. As part of the Women’s Rights Week of the City of Brussels and with the support of the Equal Opportunities Unit. INFO Find the link on our Facebook page Duration: 43 minutes (documentary) Language: Original language, English subtitles

• Opening times

  26/03/2021 - 29/08/2021: * monday, friday, saturday and sunday: from 11:00 to 19:00 * tuesday, wednesday and thursday: closed

• Price

  Normal: 8,00 €

For reasons of utility, need, demand, irony or simply through experimentation and the desire to design it, the chair seems to be an essential step in the journey of many designers. With the ambition to reconcile functionality, comfort and aesthetics, it continues to adapt to the habits of society and to the evolution of different ways of sitting. As an everyday object par excellence, it is designed to fit our adapted to our needs. Through the use of different materials and textures, the design and concept eventually takes shape in the form of a chair, a bench, a lounge chair, an office chair and even in forms such as a rocking chair, ottoman chair or a folding chair. From Marcel Breuer's Wassily to Konstantin Grcic's Myto, through Joe Colombo's Tube Chair, the chair is the materialization of the cultural, technical and social background of the era it is designed in. Created from the collections of the London Design Museum, Design Museum Brussels and Galila's Collection (Brussels), the exhibition Chaise. Stoel. Chair: Defining Design retraces the design world of the past 100 years through this object - the chair – that is in constant redefinition, reaffirmation and breaking the borders it finds itself in.