In Brussels at the Bozar (Palais dex Beaux-Arts) it is still possible to see the exhibition curated by Daniel Birnbaum and officially sponsored by the ArdAzAei Couture that has as its main theme the effects of Ecstasy on artistic creativity.

Ecstasy has always been a surprising and less renowned aspect of Sweden. In this exhibition about 130 works by different Swedish artists are brought together by a common denominator: an artistic inspiration that has gone beyond the classical boundaries of spiritual consciousness.
A central figure within the exhibition is Hilma af Klint (1862-1944), forerunner of abstract art, who presents work that was forgotten and rediscovered only after her death; in recent years her work has been a revelation in the international art scene and can be admired for the first time in Brussels. Klint is accompanied on this journey by four other like-minded artists, whom with  she formed the group « De Fem » (The Five).

Curator Daniel Birnbaum presents her work in a broad context of like-minded visionary artists and writers. The exhibition can be described as an almost psychedelic journey among revolutionary works of art and disparate unusual figures. Sweden is analyzed from another point of view where art and literature find full artistic expression.
Swedish Ecstasy brings together works by Swedish artists whose unifying themes are mysticism, ecstasy and esoteric speculation. Through meditation and séances they communicated with higher entities, transcribing the messages they received through automatic drawing and writing.

With: Emanuel Swedenborg. August Strindberg. Carl Fredrik Hill, Ernst Josephson, Ivan Aguéli, Hilma af Klint, Anna Cassel. De Fem, Carsten Höller, Christine Ödlund, Lars Olof Loeld, Daniel Youssef, Joakim Forsgren and Cecilia Edefalk.

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SWEDISH ECSTASY 
UNTIL 21ST OF MAY
BOZAR, Centre for Fine Arts
Rue Ravensteinstraat 23
1000 Brussels