Win tickets to three exhibitions opening at Botanique in Brussels on 5 February

There’s more than music vibrating at the Botanique cultural centre in Brussels. The francophone arts hub boasts a visual and contemporary art space that is preparing to stage three exciting exhibitions from 5 February.

Brussels-based artist Emilie Terlinden, who exhibits widely in Belgium and abroad, presents in the spectacular museum space a series of paintings and a reinterpretation of Daguerre’s Diorama (pictured below) in the show Timelapse.

She possesses a unique technique that centres on the transformation of images inspired by Flemish masters, European paintings and everyday life. She painstakingly folds, unfolds, cuts, assembles and paints to create works that explore the interplay between abstraction and still life. The result is a poetic interpretation of reality, which is open to multiple interpretations.

In the greenhouse space, a duo show by Valentine Jolibois and Elvy Tremor explores rituals and speculative fiction. Following Jolibois’ 2025 residency at the SB34 studios, the space is transformed into an experimental setting where soft textiles, fragile ceramics, industrial objects and figurative drawings come together in hybrid compositions that play with traditional codes.

In Lacrymatory, the Brussels-based French artist imagines a fictional religion, a cult without human figures, where unworn costumes, a ceramic font and sculptural elements form a suspended ritual. Alongside, under the name Elvy Tremor, Jolibois and Léonore Bienert present What Lies in the Puddle, a wall installation reinterpreting Hans Christian Andersen’s classic tale The Daughter of the King of the Mire.

Finally, in Mythica, Ghita Remy looks to fossils and archaeological archives to transpose historical myths by layering intertwining narratives, ancient figures, archaic images and buried fantasies. Here, myths shift and transforms, moving from image to word, from word to symbol, and from symbol to new images.

The Belgian-Italian multidisciplinary creates a dialogue between art and science, offering a unique perspective on interactions between these fields. Her projects seek to make visible and accessible themes that invite reflection on the future of our archaeological heritage.

Timelapse 5 February to 26 April
Valentine Jolibois and Elvy Tremor 5 February to 15 March
Mythica 5 February to 22 March
Le Botanique
Rue Royale 236
Brussels

Photos: (main image) Beyond Horizons by Emilie Terlinden ©Hugard & Vanoverschelde; Diorama schema by Emilie Terlinden; Valentine Jolibois, Excavation (2024) ©Kamand Razavi

Win! A pair of tickets giving access to all three exhibitions. Simply fill in your details below and we'll email you on Sunday (1 February) if you've won.