Welcome to the October edition of ICA-Belgium Colour News where we bring you colour related news from Belgium and around the world.
We wish you a beautiful and colourful autumn!
-your ICA-Belgium team
Recording of a Colour Talk with Harald Arnkil
In September our Sunday Morning Colour Talk guest was Harald Arnkil, a Finnish artist, writer, colour researcher, founder and former president of Suomen väriyhdistys, the Finnish Colour Association. He spoke about how contemporary artists use colours, and how they regard colour theories.
If you missed the talk, you can find the recording bellow.
Harald, thank you for a very inspiring and insightful talk!
His book Exploring Colour in Contemporary Art – Epistemic Boundaries and Artistic Practices is essential reading for anyone passionate about how artists and designers learn about colour. Drawing on in-depth qualitative research, he reveals the gaps in current approaches to colour education and offers a forward-looking vision for how it can truly matter, when certain key conditions are met. A thought-provoking and highly recommended read for anyone shaping the future of visual education.
Buy: https://shop.aalto.fi/p/2275-exploring-colour-in-contemporary-art/
Download for free: https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/items/00156cf0-da5c-48c4-a614-bad2b79713cb
Colour Exhibitions
Discovering Color Through Autumn Exhibitions in Ostend
by Vinciane Lacroix
October still offers soft, luminous days—perfect for exploring art by the sea. This autumn, Ostend presents three distinct exhibitions featuring photography, painting, and illustration.
Guided by a personal chromatic viewpoint, the selected works reveal how each artist uniquely approaches color, from subtle palettes to vivid or evocative ones. The Photography Biennale invites visitors to discover contemporary dialogues between light and shade across the city, while the Mu.Zee’s exhibition reflects on the sea’s symbolic and poetic resonance through classic and unexpected artworks. Finally, the Humo-ism exhibition at Villa Volta celebrates the graphic legacy of inventive Flemish illustrators, bridging historic and contemporary expressions of color and form.
These exhibitions offer a rich, interdisciplinary experience, perfect for anyone interested in the multifaceted role of color in visual culture and artistic expression… continue reading
Exhibitions for your Agenda
Donas, Archipenko & La Section d’Or. Enchanting Modernism
Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, until 11 January 2026
Let the colour, shape and movement of Antwerp artist Marthe Donas’ modernism enchant you. For the first time, an exhibition shows her central role in the international avant-garde, alongside the work of her partner at the time, Ukrainian sculptor Alexander Archipenko. Side by side, they take their innovations to a higher level. Surrounded by masterpieces by artist friends such as Mondrian, Modigliani, Goncharova and Vassilieff, the oeuvre and story of this forgotten leading lady offer a glimpse into a modernism that is colourful, groundbreaking and surprisingly gender-diverse.
More information: https://kmska.be/en/donas-archipenko-la-section-dor-enchanting-modernism
Colour and Momentum
Liszt Institute Brussels, 6 November 2025 - 15 February 2026
In this exhibition at the Liszt Institute Brussels, five distinguished Hungarian artists from two generations reveal what happens when the deliberate act of placing things side by side is not random, but intentional — when juxtaposition itself becomes a bearer of message. They speak in the language of abstraction, one that resists easy interpretation. They require time, attention, the viewer’s active gaze - a dialogue between two acts of creation.
More information: https://culture.hu/en/brussels/events/colur-and-momentum
Kandinsky - La musique des couleurs
Philharmonie de Paris, until February 1, 2026
The Musée de la Musique – Philharmonie de Paris and the Centre Pompidou are joining forces for a major exhibition on the role of music in Vassily Kandinsky’s work.
Scores, records, books, tools… This landmark exhibition brings together nearly 200 works by the master, along with objects from his studio, all reflecting the fundamental place of music in his daily life, his artistic vocation, and the evolution of his practice toward abstraction.
More information: https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/program/calendar/event/iqFaNfK
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