In February 2025, the Roger Raveel Museum temporarily closed its doors for renovation work. Structural improvements enhanced the climate control in two exhibition galleries and the storage area, and the building and garden underwent a thorough…

This summer, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Roger Raveel Museum and mudel are marking a special milestone: the tenth edition of the Biennial of Painting.

The exhibition Emptiness surrounding me focuses on a number of curious, often underexposed motifs in Roger Raveel's oeuvre. One of these concerns the boundaries and scale of the painting, and the way the image relates to the space in which it is…

The museum looks back on its 25 years of existence through photos, archive material, an overview of exhibitions and highlights, and video interviews with honorary curators Roland Jooris and Piet Coessens, among others. Special attention is also paid…

The year concludes with MONOS. Artist Museums: Shrines and Reflections, an exhibition in the rectory wing of the Roger Raveel Museum that examines the architecture of the monographic museum. Using interesting examples from Belgium and its…

Opening: Sunday 11 February 2024, 11am-5pm Curator: Carlos Alleene As the story goes, there is a strong woman next to every important artist. Zulma De Nijs was everything to Roger Raveel. Or, as Hugo Claus, the long-time family friend, put it in…

At the invitation of the museum, a group of contemporary artists enter into dialogue with the Roger Raveel, his works and his museum, the village and the many stories involved. The artists, none of whom are exclusively focussed on the medium of…

Curator: Melanie Deboutte Roger Raveel Museum will celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2024. A quarter of a century ago, Raveel opened his dream museum, the place where his most important works would be cherished and displayed. The Roger Raveel…

Opening: Sunday, 8 October 2023, 11 am - 5 pm To mark the centenary year of the artist Maurice Wyckaert’s birth, the Roger Raveel Museum presents Informal Expressions. This exhibition brings together works made between 1955 and 1963 by Maurice…

Since its opening in 1999, the Roger Raveel Museum has housed an extensive collection of paintings, drawings and objects by Roger Raveel (1921-2013). Since 2020, annually changing collection presentations offer a broader insight into the rich oeuvre…

Opening: Sunday 16 april 2023, 11 am - 5 pm

From June 26 to October 2, 2022, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens (MDD), Museum van Deinze en de Leiestreek (mudel) and Roger Raveel Museum (RRM) are organizing the 8th edition of the Biennale of Painting. Since 2008, the three museums for visual art on the…

In collaboration with LUCA School of Arts & Claessens Canvas

On Sunday 13 December, the Roger Raveel Museum will reopen with De page en page, the third exhibition in the extraordinary trilogy by the Brussels artist Jacqueline Mesmaeker (1929) in this year 2020. Over a period of 50 years, Mesmaeker realized an…

Op 26 september 2018 overleed cineast en televisieregisseur Jef Cor- nelis. Hij liet een uniek oeuvre na van films en programma’s over he- dendaagse beeldende kunst die in opdracht van de voormalige BRT en later de VRT tot stand kwamen.