Beware of BEWAREN

The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, presents Beware of B E W A R E N: an invitation to engage boldly with tradition.

When you enter the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp through Mutsaertstraat, pass through the gatehouse and arrive in the tree-lined inner courtyard, you encounter a collection of buildings deeply rooted in history, like a natural sedimentation, layered and accumulated over time. Here you’ll find a former Franciscan monastery dating from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, surrounded by studios, some of which date back to the early nineteenth century, when the monastery was repurposed into the Academy and, temporarily, for ninety years, housed the Museum of Fine Arts.