Most art, certainly in Flanders, is privately owned. In the north of Antwerp, Jan De Vylder and Inge Vinck converted two houses and a warehouse to make a private collection accessible to the public.

According to its website, ‘The Phoebus Foundation is an art foundation with philanthropic objectives’, established to manage the private collections of entrepreneur Fernand Huts and his wife Karine Van den Heuvel. Textile art, among other things, is on display at the headquarters of Katoen Natie, the Huts family’s logistics port company, designed by Robbrecht and Daem. Another part of the collection consists of works created within the Cobra group, a movement of artists from Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands that existed from 1948 to 1951 – the name is an acronym of the capitals of these countries. Since the beginning of last year, this collection, which includes paintings, sculptures, drawings, documents and publications, has been on display in the Cobra Depot, close to the head office, on the other side of De Waghemakerestraat.