temporary exhibitions
In Flanders Fields
Berlinde De Bruyckere
- main galleries
- artist in residence
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Pedigrees
Lieve Van Stappen
- main galleries
- artist in residence
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Infinite space
Ann Veronica Janssens
- main galleries
- artist in residence
Encounter
Mark Anstee
- main galleries
- artist in residence
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Border
Hans Op de Beeck
- main galleries
- artist in residence
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Group Picture with a War
Doron Solomons
- main galleries
- artist in residence
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Diary
Kingsley Baird
- main galleries
- artist in residence
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What remains
Camiel van Breedam
- main galleries
- artist in residence
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More force than necessary
Rodrigo Braga
- main galleries
- artist in residence
In 2010 the In Flanders Fields Museum invites the young Brazilian artist Rodrigo Braga as Artist in Residence. Born in Manaus ...
Fairplay?
Sport and WW1
- display cabinets (museum café)
- dossier exhibition
Around 1900 a fresh sports culture started to slowly gain a foothold in an ever more modern society. However, the ...
Warfare Canaries
Thorsten Brinkmann
- main galleries
- artist in residence
After a gap of a number of years, the IFFM is resuming its former practice of appointing an artist in ...
1914 Ypres & Yser
the First Battle
- royal hall
- temporary exhibition
After two and a half months of waiting, the First World War finally arrives in the Westhoek. Within a matter ...
British headgear in WW1
from tradition to protection
- display cabinets (museum café)
- dossier exhibition
At the start of the Great War the British army, unlike its future allies, had already undergone several reforms. Based on its ...
To school?
Belgian children '14-'19
- temporary exhibition
When the German armies invaded Belgium on 4 August 1914, Belgium was hit by considerable population movements. Between August and ...
1915 Gas! Dream Castles?
the Second Battle
- royal hall
- temporary exhibition
The first major gas attack in history took place on 22 April 1915. Chlorine gas from the German front line ...
Flowers of Remembrance
- display cabinets (museum café)
- dossier exhibition
On 3 May 1915, the Canadian officer John McCrae wrote his famous poem, In Flanders Fields, with the powerful image of poppies blowing ...
Even the Dust remains
Mehdi-Georges Lahlou
- main galleries
- artist in residence
Even The Dust Remains invites us to delve into the history of war, politics and aesthetics through deliberately contemporary forms ...
Menin Gate at Midnight
Will Longstaff
- main galleries
- temporary exhibition
Will Longstaff (Ballarat, 1879 - London, 1953) was an Australian painter of landscapes, allegorical works and war scenes. During the ...
a Group Photograph
before, now & in between
- royal hall
- temporary exhibition
For many years, British researcher Andrew Tatham studied the ancestors and descendants of the officers of one British battalion, shortly before it ...
Edgard Saey
Donation in the spotlight
- display cabinets (museum café)
- dossier exhibition
Safeguarding heritage for future generations is one of a museum's basic tasks. Ever since In Flanders Fields Museum opened its ...
1916 Canada
in Flanders
- royal hall
- temporary exhibition
Canada lost almost 65,000 lives during the First World War. A quarter of all the victims that perished outside of Canada ...
Landscape, Form & Psyche
Eva Kot’átková
- main galleries
- artist in residence
On a proposal by curator Johan Tahon and his team, the In Flanders Fields Museum invited Czech artist Eva Kot’átková as ...
The War in Writing
- royal hall
- temporary exhibition
How did we hear about the First World War in written words ? And why is it so necessary for ...
Seeing
without being seen
- display cabinets (museum café)
- dossier exhibition
Man has always sought ways to feel safe at night, by providing light and by reacting to any risk of danger. But ...
The Lions
of the Menin Gate
- display cabinets (museum café)
- dossier exhibition
In 1936 the Ypres city authorities donated two monumental but seriously damaged heraldic lions to Australia. The statues were created in ...
1917 Total War
in Flanders
- royal hall
- temporary exhibition
In 1917, three years after it began, the war turned into a worldwide conflict. All countries involved did their utmost ...
Fire Bill's Spook Kit
Wilmer Wilson IV
- main galleries
- artist in residence
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the U.S.A.'s participation in World War I. The In Flanders Fields Museum proudly ...
French headgear in WW1
from tradition to protection
- display cabinets (museum café)
- dossier exhibition
This dossier exhibition offers an overview of the evolution of French headgear from the eve of the First World War ...
Traces of War
WWI archaeology
- royal hall
- temporary exhibition
By the end of the First World War the front line landscape had been turned into a huge wilderness. When ...
Japan
and the Great War
- display cabinets (museum café)
- dossier exhibition
This dossier exhibition offers an overview of how the war was reported in Japan, the image of Japan as one ...
Assembly
Val Carman
- main galleries
- artist in residence
Between August 2014 and August 2018 the British artist Val Carman had the installation Assembly travel throughout the United Kingdom ...
King Albert’s Heroes
the Belgian Corps A.C.M.
- display cabinets (museum café)
- dossier exhibition
This dossier exhibition tells the incredible story of the 400 Belgian military of the Corps 'Autos-Canons-Mitrailleuses' who fought on the ...
Dragons
on the western front
- display cabinets (museum café)
- dossier exhibition
In 1919 thousands of Chinese stayed in the Westhoek. From 1917 this Chinese Labour Corps had arrived in the area ...
Letter to Pain
Fabrice Samyn
- main galleries
- artist in residence
Fabrice Samyn (°1981), artist-in-residence 2019 of the In Flanders Fields Museum, discovered 6,000 letters from and to soldiers in the ...
Feniks
reconstructing Flanders Fields
- royal hall
- temporary exhibition
“Reconstruction is more important than destruction and deserves to be remembered.” These words of the Belgian war reporter Rudi Vranckx ...
Place
Philippe Viérin
- main galleries
- artist in residence
In 2020, the former front region of the First World War focuses on post-war reconstruction. It is now almost a ...
Tanks
in the living room
- main galleries
- temporary exhibition
The First World War was the first industrialised war, with the tank as one of the newest modern weapons. The ...
…and to those North Sea waves whispering sunken stories
Sammy Baloji
- main galleries
- artist in residence
Sammy Baloji was born in 1978 in Lubumbashi, Congo, and has lived alternately in Lubumbashi and Brussels since 2006. He ...
Missing at the Front
unearthing names
- main galleries
- temporary exhibition
Countless soldiers lost their lives on the battlefields of the First World War. Many found eternal rest in a military ...
'for Civilisation'
the Great War in the Middle East
1914-1923
- royal hall
- temporary exhibition
In 1914, war broke out not only in Europe, but also in the Middle East. This region was largely dominated ...
Music and War
- display cabinets (museum café)
- dossier exhibition
On 1 October 2021, museum director Piet Chielens retired. He was appointed coordinator of the In Flanders Fields Museum in ...
Agar is dharti tay koyi jannat hai, o ay hi hai...
Baptist Coelho
- main galleries
- artist in residence
Baptist Coelho (Mumbai, 1977) is a visual artist from India and is the artist-in-residence at the In Flanders Fields Museum ...
Feuilles de Poilus
- display cabinets (museum café)
- dossier exhibition
With the falling of the leaves, IFFM pays attention to leaves from the First World War. Not just any leaves, ...
Raoul Servais
Memories of War
- main galleries
- temporary exhibition
It is said that those who have lived through war are forever changed. Raoul Servais (Ostend, 1928), the internationally award-winning ...
FOR EVERMORE
Cemeteries of the First World War
- royal hall
- temporary exhibition
On 30 June 2022, more than 100 years after his death in 1917, Canadian soldier John Lambert found his final ...
Explosions near the Museum
Y. Malashchuk & R. Khimei
- main galleries
- video installation
Between 24 and 26 October 2022, the Russian army looted thousands of archaeological, historical and religious objects from the Regional ...
The Veil of Irpin
Nikita Kadan
- main galleries
- artist in residence
Nikita Kadan (Kyiv, 1982) is this year's artist in residence at the In Flanders Fields Museum. He currently lives in ...
Vern-Event
art happening
- Elverdingestraat, Ypres
- dossier exhibition
Vern-Event - or: vernissage event - is an annual art happening that takes place in the Elverdingestraat in Ypres, a ...
knowledge centre
Mind, Body & Soul
Salvation Army & YMCA
- knowledge centre
- lecture
The In Flanders Fields Museum and the University of Kent (School of History) present a series of eight seminars on Thursday evening, ...
Canadian Memorialisation
St. Julien Memorial
- knowledge centre
- lecture
The In Flanders Fields Museum and the University of Kent (School of History) present a series of eight seminars on ...
Maurice of Battenberg
his grave, IWGC & Princess Beatrice
- knowledge centre
- lecture
The In Flanders Fields Museum and the University of Kent (School of History) present a series of eight seminars on ...
Fighting among friends?
British soldiers & their allies
- knowledge centre
- lecture
The In Flanders Fields Museum and the University of Kent (School of History) present a series of eight seminars on ...
Poppy Petals
WW1 in 21st Century Britain
- knowledge centre
- lecture
The In Flanders Fields Museum and the University of Kent (School of History) present a series of eight seminars on ...
Tracing Belgian Refugees
research project and dbase
- knowledge centre
- lecture
The In Flanders Fields Museum and the University of Kent (School of History) present a series of eight seminars on ...
Notes and Swearies
Blasphemy & obscene language
- knowledge centre
- lecture
Under the title "Gateways to the First World War", the In Flanders Fields Museum and the University of Kent (School ...
Returning Veterans
Pilgrimage & War Cemeteries
- knowledge centre
- lecture
Under the title "Gateways to the First World War", the In Flanders Fields Museum and the University of Kent (School ...
Mud, Blood & Darkness
Australian War Writing
- knowledge centre
- lecture
Under the title "Gateways to the First World War", the In Flanders Fields Museum and the University of Kent (School ...
Imagining
the West Indian soldier
- knowledge centre
- lecture
Under the title "Gateways to the First World War", the In Flanders Fields Museum and the University of Kent (School ...