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Conferences on:\u00a0 What makes a masterpiece in art? Part 1<\/a> and Part 2<\/a> \u2013 Women Artists in Paris 1850-1900<\/a> \u2013 Female avant-gardists in Paris, Berlin, Moscow and New York 1900-1940 –\u00a0 Women Artists in New York 1940-1970<\/a> \u2013 Feminist Art in USA 1970-1990<\/a> \u2013 Top Women Artists in Contemporary Art 1990-2020<\/a> \u2013 C\u00e9zanne<\/a> \u2013 Picasso<\/a> \u2013 Matisse<\/a> \u2013 Magritte<\/a> \u2013 Pollock\/Rothko<\/a> \u2013 Warhol<\/a> \u2013 Leo Castelli Gallery<\/a>\u00a0 \u2013 Contemporary Art:\u00a0 Part 1 (1960-1990)<\/a> and Part 2 (1990-2020)<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span>\u2013 Famous Fakes<\/a> \u2013 How photography becomes an art :\u00a0 Part 1 (1900-1950<\/a>) and Part 2 (1950-2000)<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p> <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \t <\/div>\r\n\t \r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t

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Christiane Struyven is a speaker, \u00a0an art historian and expert on modern and contemporary art. She gives conferences on painting and sculpture 1850-2020 in 4 languages. She is a guide of cultural trips with artistic themes in Belgium and abroad, such as the Venice Biennal, a Seinecruise on impressionist painters, guided visits of major museums in Paris, London and New York on modern and contemporary art. In March 2022 she published a book on 50 international top-women artists 1850-2020, edited by Lannoo Editors. It was very well acclaimed\u00a0 in the Dutch and Belgian Press.<\/p>\n

Christiane studied law (Louvain University), History of Art (Cambridge University) and she also got a diploma of antiquairon (CREPAC Wavre).<\/p>\n

In the \u201880\u2019s, she lived\/worked in Mexico D.F., where she curated exhibits on 19th<\/sup> and 20th<\/sup> century painting for the Mexican\u00a0Ministry of Public \u00a0Education. As of 1988, she was a barrister for 20 years at the Brussels\u2019bar. In the meantime, she remained active in the artistic field. She was a TV (VRT) presentator on art, an advisor to Europalia Mexico<\/em> and a boardmember of the Proximus Art Foundation.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

Since 2009 she gives talks on modern and contemporary art and guides the important temporary exhibits at BOZAR (till 2017). She is president of Jeunesses Musicales Brussel, administrator of the Montgomery Club Brussels and member of the board\u00a0 of the Dutch Cultural Foundation d\u2019Ouwe Kerke Retranchement nearby Knokke-Le Zoute.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She published two books on women artists in plastic art. The first “Do women have to be naked to be in the Museum? 50 top international women artists 1850-2020” was published in Dutch in March 2020 by Lannoo Editors. The second book is “Who is afraid of women artists? 50 Belgian women artists 1880 – 2020” is published in Dutch and French in October 2025 by Lannoo Editors.\u00a0<\/p> <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n

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How to read Modern and Contemporary Art?<\/h1>\n

Conferences on:\u00a0 What makes a masterpiece in art? Part 1<\/a> and Part 2<\/a> \u2013 Women Artists in Paris 1850-1900<\/a> \u2013 Female avant-gardists in Paris, Berlin, Moscow and New York 1900-1940 -\u00a0 Women Artists in New York 1940-1970<\/a> \u2013 Feminist Art in USA 1970-1990<\/a> \u2013 Top Women Artists in Contemporary Art 1990-2020<\/a> \u2013 C\u00e9zanne<\/a> \u2013 Picasso<\/a> \u2013 Matisse<\/a> \u2013 Magritte<\/a> \u2013 Pollock\/Rothko<\/a> \u2013 Warhol<\/a> \u2013 Leo Castelli Gallery<\/a>\u00a0 \u2013 Contemporary Art:\u00a0 Part 1 (1960-1990)<\/a> and Part 2 (1990-2020)<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/strong>\u2013 Famous Fakes<\/a> \u2013 How photography becomes an art :\u00a0 Part 1 (1900-1950<\/a>) and Part 2 (1950-2000)<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\"Home\"\n

Christiane Struyven is a speaker, \u00a0an art historian and expert on modern and contemporary art. She gives conferences on painting and sculpture 1850-2020 in 4 languages. She is a guide of cultural trips with artistic themes in Belgium and abroad, such as the Venice Biennal, a Seinecruise on impressionist painters, guided visits of major museums in Paris, London and New York on modern and contemporary art. In March 2022 she published a book on 50 international top-women artists 1850-2020, edited by Lannoo Editors. It was very well acclaimed\u00a0 in the Dutch and Belgian Press.<\/p>

Christiane studied law (Louvain University), History of Art (Cambridge University) and she also got a diploma of antiquairon (CREPAC Wavre).<\/p>

In the \u201880\u2019s, she lived\/worked in Mexico D.F., where she curated exhibits on 19th<\/sup> and 20th<\/sup> century painting for the Mexican\u00a0Ministry of Public \u00a0Education. As of 1988, she was a barrister for 20 years at the Brussels\u2019bar. In the meantime, she remained active in the artistic field. She was a TV (VRT) presentator on art, an advisor to Europalia Mexico<\/em> and a boardmember of the Proximus Art Foundation.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>

Since 2009 she gives talks on modern and contemporary art and guides the important temporary exhibits at BOZAR (till 2017). She is president of Jeunesses Musicales Brussel, administrator of the Montgomery Club Brussels and member of the board\u00a0 of the Dutch Cultural Foundation d\u2019Ouwe Kerke Retranchement nearby Knokke-Le Zoute.\u00a0<\/p>

She published two books on women artists in plastic art. The first \"Do women have to be naked to be in the Museum? 50 top international women artists 1850-2020\" was published in Dutch in March 2020 by Lannoo Editors. The second book is \"Who is afraid of women artists? 50 Belgian women artists 1880 - 2020\" is published in Dutch and French in October 2025 by Lannoo Editors.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n \"Home\" <\/a>\n\n \"Home\" <\/a>\n\n \"Home\" <\/a>\n\n \"Home\" <\/a>\n\n \"Home\" <\/a>\n\n \"Home\" <\/a>\n\n \"Home\" <\/a>\n\n \"Home\" <\/a>\n\n \"Home\" <\/a>\n\n \"Home\" <\/a>\n\n \"Home\" <\/a>\n\n \"Home\" <\/a>\n\n \"Home\" <\/a>\n\n \"Home\" <\/a>\n\n \"Home\" <\/a>\n\n \"Home\" <\/a>\n\n \"Home\" <\/a>\n\n \"Home\" <\/a>\n\n \"Home\" <\/a>\n\n \"Home\" <\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianestruyven.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianestruyven.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianestruyven.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianestruyven.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianestruyven.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2498"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianestruyven.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4232,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianestruyven.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2498\/revisions\/4232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianestruyven.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}