Cultural Escape: Baldessari at Bozar
Cultural Escape: Baldessari at Bozar
This season, The Standard, Brussels invites you to pair elevated comfort with cultural discovery.Enjoy 10% off room rates and discounted tickets to Parables, Fables, and Other Tall Tales—Bozar’s unmissable exhibition on John Baldessari, the iconic rule-breaker of contemporary art.
Available from 19 September 2025 – 30 January 2026.
John Baldessari (California, 1931–2020) was a giant of contemporary art, whose codes turned artistic conventions upside down. Baldessari wittily combined text, photography, and painting to challenge the traditional boundaries of art. He was a master of appropriation and collage, drawing on popular culture — frequently from films, television, press clippings, and other appropriated images — to create a new visual language that was irreverent and playful.
From 19 September 2025 to 1 February 2026, Bozar presents the first major European exhibition dedicated to his work since his death in 2020. Occupying the 1,000 m2 of the Ravenstein galleries in the Centre for Fine Arts of Brussels, the exhibition features over 60 works, many of them monumental. Photographs, paintings, installations, videos, and wallpaper will be on display, some for the very first time in Europe.
The exhibition is a lively and joyful immersion in the work of a key artist of the late 20th century, which also questions our relationship with images and language today.