100 years ago, Belgium sees the world.

1918. The Great War is about to end. The belligerents are exhausted. The war effort had been extremely trying, as no one expected such a prolonged and intense conflict. But countries were also undergoing internal upheavals: the Russian Empire is swept away by the Bolshevik Revolution, the famine that ravaged Germany due to the Allied blockade triggers a revolutionary wave, the Ottoman Empire is dismembered. The Balkans definitively shed the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian imperial regimes, and new political entities emerge, such as the first Yugoslavia – the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes – and Czechoslovakia. National examples abound.

This world in total reconfiguration is what the Belgian Ambassadors accredited across the globe observe. It is through their eyes and excerpts from telegrams sent to Brussels that this exhibition offers a snapshot of the world, exactly one hundred years ago.

From December 14 to 23, 2018.