Cinémas Art Déco à Bruxelles

Cinémas Art Déco à Bruxelles

From the end of the 1920s, cinemas were the meeting point between cinema and architecture, thanks to the advent of Art Deco. The needs of cinema operators in terms of volume, acoustics and decor for sound cinema, as well as the desire for comfort and prestige, were matched by the innovative construction techniques and aesthetics of Art Deco. The result is an architecture of dreams, inside and out.

A new exhibition, Cinémas Art Déco à Bruxelles, at Sint-Goriks Hallen in Brussels, offers visitors the opportunity to explore this era through written and visual evocations of the grand ‘first exclusive’ city-center cinemas of the period, including the Plaza, the Métropole, the Eldorado, the Variétés, and the Cinéma des Galeries.

Image: Black and white interior: Cinéma Eldorado, Marcel Chabot, 1933 © CIVA Collections, Brussels

Exhibition
30 Jan 2025 - 11 May 2025