FABRICA VITAE
This year offers a particularly beautiful opportunity for dialogue.
The triennial exhibition FABRICA VITAE (founded in 2014, Zakynthos, Greece) enters into conversation with the existing exhibition CARITAS & ARS MEDICA at the Lambotte Museum.
The exhibition space lends itself naturally to exchange and reflection. Glass display cabinets allow room for subtle interventions. Sofie Muller’s sculpture of a seated child on a bed forms a powerful focal point at the heart of the room, while a work by Kiki Smith enters into quiet dialogue with the bronze bust of Andreas Vesalius.
The artists of FABRICA VITAE work with great care and sensitivity—responding to the existing display, entering into dialogue rather than interruption, and collectively shaping a thoughtful and resonant new presentation. The overarching theme is CARITAS. Traditionally translated as charity, CARITAS holds a far broader meaning: an active love for humanity; compassion rooted in responsibility; and care that binds knowledge, medicine, art, and ethics. It speaks not only of giving, but of attention, dignity, and the commitment to stand with one another—body, mind, and spirit.
We would be very happy to explore this with you.
Pascale Pollier, Curator
Location: Lambotte Museum, Heilige Geeststraat 21, Antwerp
Adjacent to the Museum Plantin-Moretus and the Vrijdagmarkt, in the historic centre of Antwerp
Vernissage: Saturday 9 May 2026, 10h00
Finissage: August 2026 (date to be announced)