Gustave Van de Woestyne and Anto Carte at the Van Buuren Museum

From May 22 to September 27, 2026, the Museum & Jardins van Buuren presents Interior Territories, an exhibition dedicated to Gustave van de Woestyne and Anto Carte, two major figures of 20th-century Belgian art. Through a dialogue between their works, the exhibition explores common themes where introspection, nature, and the rural world intersect. Both artists develop a deeply internalized vision of the human condition, marked by a particular attention to spirituality and the relationship to the earth. "Gustave van de Woestyne was born in Ghent in 1881. Anto Carte was born in Mons in 1886. One grew up in Flanders, the other in Hainaut. The history of Belgian art has long placed them in distinct families — Van de Woestyne on the side of the Laethem-Saint-Martin school, Carte on the side of the Nervia group. What they share is a way of seeing the sacred in the simplest everyday life. A sower who throws his grain. A shepherd who stares at the horizon. A mother who holds her child. For both artists, these ordinary gestures carry a universal dimension. But their sensibilities are not identical. Chez Van de Woestyne, the figures seem to want to rise: the golden background, the hieratic pose pull them upward. Chez Carte, they remain anchored in the flesh, in the heaviness of the world. One sublimes. The other anchors. Together, they say something complete." With this exhibition, new works complete the collection of the museum Van Buuren which possesses the largest collection of works of art by Gustave Van de Woestyne (1881-1947). After the visit, you will be able to walk freely in the garden.