Ganymed Goes Brussels

Director Jacqueline Kornmüller and producer Peter Wolf present an original version of their creation "Ganymed" for the first time at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. This award-winning theatrical performance invites contemporary authors and composers to draw inspiration from the great old masters to compose original works. These original texts and compositions are then performed in front of the art works with an ensemble of actors, musicians, singers and dancers. The whole produces the effect of a total performance.

After the success of the Ganymed concept at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, a brand new edition is presented in Belgium: Ganymed goes Brussels.

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old masters

Zadie Smith, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Lize Spit, Stefan Hertmans and many more have selected a picture in the gallery that speaks to them, and grappled with the significance the old masters have for the present. The texts are then performed by a renowned ensemble of artists. Jacqueline Kornmüller and Peter Wolf develop a brief but unique theatrical scene for each picture.

vlaams radio koor & peter paul rubens

With Peter Paul Rubens’ Assumption of the Virgin Mary in the background, we venture a glance into paradise, and with the assistance of the Vlaams Radio Koor, angels and audience alike take off in flight. Johanna Doderer’s piece for choir is based on a sentence by the philosopher Franz Schuh: "I reflect on death because I know that it will come; I know it, but I cannot believe it."