Invitation to the press preview of David Claerbout / At the window

26.06.2025 at 10.30 am

David Claerbout, The Woodcarver and the Forest, 2025, filmstill

Dear journalist,

From June 27th 2025, we welcome At the window: an exceptional solo exhibition by the internationally celebrated artist David Claerbout (born 1969). His latest creation The Woodcarver and the Forest will premiere at Gaasbeek Castle. In addition to this new film, an ensemble of works by Claerbout will be integrated into the historic rooms of the castle. They offer a new look at the collection and architecture of Gaasbeek Castle as a palimpsest or hub of time and on the relationship between culture and nature.

We would like to invite you on Thursday 26 June to discover the exhibition for the first time, in the presence of the artist.

Programme

10.30 am
​» Welcome by Isabel Lowyck, director Gaasbeek Castle
​» Introduction by the artist David Claerbout
​» Q&A

11.15 am
​» Free visit of the exhibition At the window

12.30 pm
​» End

Would you like to attend? Please let us know by emailing to tess.thibaut@vlaanderen.be. An interview with Claerbout is possible upon request.

We hope to welkome you.

Tess Thibaut

Press and communications, Gaasbeek Castle

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Practial

Thursday, June 26, at 10.30 a.m.
​At Gaasbeek Castle, Kasteelstraat 40, 1750 Gaasbeek (Lennik) ​
​Please note that from the (bicycle) parking lot or the bus stop, it is another 600 metres walk to the castle.

Website preview
David Claerbout / At the window
27.06 - 16.11.2025
kasteelvangaasbeek.prezly.com

 

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About Gaasbeek Castle

Gaasbeek Castle sits enthroned amidst the rolling hills of Pajottenland just outside Brussels. The medieval castle has had an eventful history, evolving from a strategic stronghold to a spacious country house. The Count of Egmond, was one of its best-known owners. The present building was given its romantic restyling at the end of the nineteenth century by the enigmatic French Marchioness Arconati Visconti. She was the daughter-in-law of aristocrats Giuseppe and Costanza Arconati Visconti, who, between 1821 and 1839, turned the castle into a unique meeting place for intellectual exchanges between exiled Italian politicians, European writers and scientists. Marie Arconati Visconti was also interested in the great intellectual debates of her time, as her correspondence with and support for Alfred Dreyfus testify. She set up the castle as a museum for her considerable art collection and treated it like a historical theatre set. The dream castle created then is still something of a time machine with its historic interiors, tapestries, paintings, furniture, sculptures and other valuable objects.

The castle park, with its centuries-old trees, ponds, lanes, winding paths and occasional historic buildings, is the ideal place for winding down. The estate also includes a unique museum garden where old varieties of fruit and vegetables are cultivated. 

Contact

Kasteelstraat 40 1750 Gaasbeek (Lennik)

+3225310130

kasteelvangaasbeek@vlaanderen.be

www.kasteelvangaasbeek.be