Exhibitions in Ostend: what's on now
5 exhibitions at the museums of Ostend from our list — with dates, venues and what each is worth seeing for.
In Memoriam: a hundred years since Paster Pype
The priest whom Ostend called the father of the fishermen, and the country’s first chaplain at sea. Antony’s photographs of his funeral procession and pieces from his estate are shown for the first time, among them a lifebuoy from the training ship that bore his name.
Three films by Guillaume Bijl and Jean Strijckers beside photographs: a staged portrait of Ensor passed off as authentic, and a 1958 reel of Ostend shot by an academy student.
Graffiti before it became street art: a route through the dark fort after an invented writer, a metro carriage under tags, and a wall the visitors write on themselves.
Sculpture you can pick up: bronze, stone, terracotta, wood, plaster. Not the monument on the square but the thing that stood in a room.
The collection laid out as a chain: who learned from whom, who argued with whom. One work sets the next in motion, like a domino tile.