Beaufort 24, the Triennial of Contemporary Art by the Sea, returns to the Belgian coast in 2024. From March until November, 18 installations will be on display in the provinces of West Flanders and Westtoer, Belgium.
First created in 2003, for the eighth edition the organisers are emphasising Beaufort’s seaside setting and accessibility, as well as the permanent sculpture park. The exhibition is free to the public. Eight of the sculptures will become part of the sculpture park.
Works at Beaufort 24
Curator Els Wuyts has chosen a selection of works by 18 international and Belgian artists, including works by Filip Vervaet, Maëlle Dufour, Johan Creten, Jorge Macchi, Selva Aparicio, Alexandra Bircken, Lucy and Jorge Orta, Jef Meyer, Femmy Otten, Marius Ritiu, Sara Bjarland, Pei-Hsuan Wang, Romain Weintzem, Driton Selmani, Monika Sosnowska, Ivan Morison, Richard Deacon and Lucie Lanzini. You can learn more about the artists here.
“The eighth edition of the Beaufort Triennial is …an invitation to explore various perspectives and familiar expressions, and to unravel the intricate web of relationships, threads, loops, braids, cables, swarms, and scales,” says Wuyts.
You can also visit the Beaufort Sculpture Park, which has 30 sculptures from previous versions of Beaufort. Selected sculptures from this year’s festival will be displayed here permanently.
Beaufort is not the only triennial in Flanders in the summer of 2024. Read our preview of the Bruges Triennial which takes place at roughly the same time. The triennials overlap in Zeebrugge where a shared artwork by British artist Ivan Morison will be on display to the public.
Images of Beaufort 21
When is Beaufort 24?
It will be held from 27 March to 3 November.
Where is Beaufort 24?
It will run at all the Belgian coastal towns and cities. Read about the things you can do in Ostend and along the coast, or alternatively why not stay at the Hotel des Brasseurs in De Haan, the first carbon neutral hotel in Flanders.
For more details on Beaufort 24
Click here. And for things to do in Flanders as a whole, visit: www.visitflanders.com.
