Exhibition: Anatomy of a Garden

30/05/2025 - 06/09/2025

Constant Montald - Parc de Solvay à Bruxelles (1917)

The occasion for our new exhibition is the start of the redevelopment of the Adornes garden. Gardens have always reflected social status, and Anselm Adornes, who was certainly aware of this, must have designed his garden with particular care.

We will not try to reproduce what has disappeared. But we do want to create a garden that is inspired by the values that prevail in the Adornes estate: the religious character, the family, authenticity, scientific curiosity, the integration of modernity but also the search for a calm and peaceful place. At this stage, we are taking a modest step, with the transformation of the small garden behind the almshouses into a green cloister.

In this exhibition, you will look in vain for a coherence of style or for a chronology between the works presented. Anatomy of a Garden is an exhibition that is to be discovered like a garden made up of a succession of contrasting landscapes that reveal themselves one after the other. Much like in a Chinese garden, each step leads you from surprise to surprise, towards new worlds, new perspectives, hidden treasures. The exhibition's sole ambition is to take you on an exploration of the very essence of the garden. What is a garden? Which elements should or may it contain?

More information: ANATOMY OF A GARDEN — Adornesdomein