BEPAPER talks - Belgian historic avant-garde works on paper

With an eye toward new generations of art historians, curators and researchers, the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium propose a series of three talks on the Belgian avant-garde, the specificities of museum work and the role that paper plays within these contexts. This event will be concluding the research project ​“BePaper - Belgian Art on Paper in a European Perspective. 1918−1950” that started in 2020.

**This conference will be held in English**
This conference aims to understand why and how a wide variety of Belgian classic avant-garde artists turned to paper during the interwar period. The use of paper served different aesthetic, artistic and practical reasons that will be showcased with the help of different case studies from the Royal Museum’s’ collection.

Sarah Eycken is a PhD student at the University of Leuven, where she prepares a thesis on Belgian historic avant-garde works on paper in close collaboration with the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. She holds master’s degrees in Art History and Western Literature and has a strong interest in the relationship between word and image, magazine and print culture, and, of course, artistic experimentation employing paper.