09/08/2026
August — and BRAFA has a few suggestions.
At Kanaal in Wijnegem, Axel Vervoordt Gallery reopened again with three simultaneous exhibitions: Sopheap Pich's first solo show in Belgium — new work rooted in material, process and the relationship between form and experience; Human Traces, a meditation on presence and absence with works by El Anatsui, Bosco Sodi and others; and Threads of Being, a textile exhibition threading memory and time through eight artists. Three rooms, one address, on view through late August and September.
In Milan through August, Brun Fine Art presents L'oro e l'infinito — a dialogue spanning more than six centuries, from gold-ground masters of the 14th and 15th centuries — Luca di Tommè, Álvaro Pirez d'Évora, Tommaso de Vigilia — to Fontana, Pistoletto, De Chirico and Dorazio. In these works gold is never decoration: it opens a space between matter and transcendence. One of the more quietly ambitious summer exhibitions to be found anywhere in Europe. Via Gesù 17, Tuesday to Saturday.
At the Kröller-Müller Museum in the Hoge Veluwe, The Europe of Isaac Israels closes 30 August — last weeks to see it. Son of the celebrated Jozef Israëls, Isaac belongs alongside Breitner and Van Gogh as one of the most important Dutch artists of his generation. A passionate traveller who loved European literature and spoke several languages, he captured his journeys across Paris, London, Scandinavia and the Mediterranean in sketchbooks, watercolours and canvases of vivid, worldly immediacy. The Kröller-Müller holds 23 paintings and almost 300 drawings by Israels — the ideal setting for this survey of a nomadic life spent entirely at work. And the sculpture park, free bicycles and the Veluwe forest beyond the museum doors make it a day worth bui in the Hoge Veluwe, The Europe of Isaac Israels closes 30 August — last weeks to see it. Son of the celebrated Jozef Israëls, Isaac belongs alongside Breitner and Van Gogh as one of the most important Dutch artists of his generation. A passionate traveller who loved European literature and spoke several languages, he captured his journeys across Paris, London, Scandinavia and the Mediterranean in sketchbooks, watercolours and canvases of vivid, worldly immediacy. The Kröller-Müller holds 23 paintings and almost 300 drawings by Israels — the ideal setting for this survey of a nomadic life spent entirely at work. And the sculpture park, free bicycles and the Veluwe forest beyond the museum doors make it a day worth building around.
Three very different encounters with art — and still time to catch all of it.
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