Slow Looking Saturday  

Slow Looking Saturday
Spotlight
05-04-2025 till 06-12-2025

Slow Looking Saturday

Bryssel
Europeiska historiens hus

Slow Looking Saturday is a museum series taking place during the temporary exhibition ‘Presence of the Past – a Photo Album’.

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Slow Looking Saturday

Bryssel
Europeiska historiens hus
Alla åldrar år
aaa Tillgängliga språk under aktiviteten EN

On the first Saturday of each month at 14:30, come and delve into a topic of the exhibition through specific photographs for an hour. A facilitator will accompany you and the group to look at a selected photograph at a different pace and take the time to reflect on it. Collectively the sessions will cover all the rooms in the exhibition, through the slow looking practice and learning of historical facts based on the group’s observations and reflections.

The exhibition ‘Presence of the Past’ explores how Europeans engage with the past, history and memories in their everyday lives today. This is through different documentary photographs, grouped in multiple topics to reflect on:

  • commemorations and de-commemorations
  • the difference between the past and history
  • the re-enactment of history or the remainders of the past in the everyday life through monuments, family stories or in the nature.

Programme

5 April (International Slow Art Day) – Post-heroic commemorations

Focus on ‘Our Family Garden’ by Smirna Kulenović – an artistic and citizen initiative to heal from the Bosnian War experience through nature.

3 May – Portraits’ Gallery

More info coming soon!

7 June – Hero-making

Focus on ‘Chi ama non dimentica’ by Michaela Cane – a passionate reportage about the cult of the football star Diego Armando Maradona in Naples.

5 July – Destination: History

Focus on ‘Mediterranean. The Continuity of Man’ by Nick Hannes – a look to the - sometimes troubling - tourist behaviours in heritage sites.

2 August – Everyday historians

Focus on ‘Moluccan Legacies’ by Elizar Veerman – a photographic project drawing links between four Moluccan generations to reflect about our own family links to the past.

6 September – Re-enactments

Focus on ‘Nostalgia for Mud’ by Hugo Passarello Luna – a contemporary look through a World War One camera at re-enactment events.

4 October – De-commemoration

Focus on ‘Washing Away the Past’ by Ria Pacquée – which traces the cleaning of a monument of Leopold II in Oostende, Belgium, that activists had doused with red paint.

1 November

Museum closed, no Slow Looking Saturday taking place.

6 December – The past as landscape

More info coming soon!

Practical information

Meet the guide at 14:30 in the Fables Room, just before the entrance of the temporary exhibition. Please be aware that to enter the museum, you would pass through security checks which can take some time. Please arrive 10 minutes in advance. The activity will be held in English.

The activity is suitable for people aged 16 years old and over.

Map

Europeiska historiens hus

Rue Belliard/Belliardstraat 135
1000 Bryssel
Belgien

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Bryssel–Luxemburg-stationen ligger närmast Europaparlamentet.

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