Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent

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In 2020, photographer Stephan Vanfleteren embarked on a challenging project that culminates in the exhibition Stephan Vanffeteren.

The Museum of Fine Arts (MSK) in Ghent has declined to restitute Gaspar de Craye’s Nazi-looted Portrait of Bishop Triest, saying that the painting’s original owner and heirs were previously compensated.

After thorough investigation, an independent committee unanimously concluded that there are no grounds for restitution of the painting ‘Portrait of Bishop Antonius Triest’ by Gaspar de Crayer to the heirs of art dealer Samuel Hartveld. On 20 November 2025.

The Museum of Fine Arts Ghent is dedicating an exhibition to the work of Jules De Bruycker (Ghent 1870-1945).

The conservation-restoration of the Ghent Altarpiece (1432), the world-famous masterpiece by brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck, began in 2012 at the Museum of Fine Arts (MSK) in Ghent.

This autumn, the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent is devoting an exhibition to German artist Erich Heckel (1883-1970).

From the modernists in Ghent to Leaps of Faith in Hasselt.

With the exhibition ‘Among Friends’, the Museum of Fine Art Ghent looks back on its 225-year history and 125 years of the Friends of the Museum, reflecting on all of the people who have enriched the museum through donations, gifts and legacies.

Over the 225-year history of the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, and during the 125 years of the Friends of the Museum, the MSK has established close ties with countless private art lovers.

From 21 January 2023 until 23 April 2023, the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent will host the very first monographic exhibition of work by the virtuoso of Flemish Caravaggism, Theodoor Rombouts (1597-1637). 

Theodoor Rombouts, a contemporary of Rubens and Van Dyck, is little known, but a new show aims to shine a light on his talents

On 24 September, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp was officially reopened by Flemish minister-president and minister of culture Jan Jambon.

This exhibition paints an imaginary portrait of Marc De Cock through artworks from the Matthys-Colle Collection and S.M.A.K. 

These 35 photobooks highlight excellence in publishing across a wide range of topics and photographic styles.

Interdisciplinary research by the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA, Brussels) and the University of Antwerp (AXIS Research Group, UA) has lead to a breakthrough in one of the greatest mysteries in art history...