This website was originally activated to accompany a symposium on Pop art in December 2011. All information related to this symposium, organised by Drs. Carl Jacobs, can be found on this website.

The website will also update on a forth coming exhibition at the ING Art Center, curated by Carl Jacobs and Patricia De Peuter. More information will follow soon.

On December 1st, 2011, Carl Jacobs was interviewed by Kurt Van Eeghem on the occasion of the symposium "The Reception of Pop art in Belgium". The result of this interview can be listened here: here.

© 2011 Klara, Babel (1 December 2011)
 

Find all pictures taken on the symposium here.
 

The international symposium on Pop art in Belgium, 'Pop?', held on december 1 and 2, 2011 at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium has been a great succes, thanks to the help of many colleagues at the museum, advisors, the scientific committee, keynote speakers, junior speakers and the public.

The organization therefore would like to thank everybody who was involved for their enthousiastic contributions to this symposium.

We will now take some time to take into account the great results of the symposium and examine how we can disperse them in an optimal form. Please stay tuned for more information.

POP?
International Symposium
on the Reception of Pop Art
in Belgium (1960 - 1970)

On 1 and 2 December 2011 the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium organise the international symposium "Pop? On the reception of Pop Art in Belgium (1960-1970)". At this symposium, internationally renowned lecturers and young researchers will focus on the reception of Pop Art in Belgium and Europe. How was America related to Europe? When did the European art scene shifted its interest in new aesthetic developments from Paris to New York? In which way did young artists responded to new Trans-Atlantic stimuli? Thanks to contributions from England, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, completed with a call for papers addressed to young researchers, this symposium is bound to provide stimulating answers to these questions. At this symposium, research on the local developments in European art from the 1960s aspires to redirect the interpretation of the driving forces and the development of the Belgian and European art world.

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