The Magritte Foundation is involved in mounting many exhibitions throughout the world. In 1998 it supported the impressive retrospective to mark the centenary of René Magritte’s birth staged by the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. Since that time it has supported several major exhibitions, including those of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen (August-November 1999), the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh (December 1999-March 2000) and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (May-September 2000). In Rome 2001, the Magritte Foundation took on total responsibility for an exhibition of the painter’s work for the first time. Since then the Foundation has sought to bring the benefits of its experience to the creation of exhibitions at Knokke (June – September 2001), in Japan (2002), at the Jeu de Paume in Paris (2003), at the Beyeler Foundation in Basel (2005). In 2005 the first major retrospective of Magritte’s photographic work will open in Brussels (Palais des Beaux-Arts). After this the exhibition will go on tour in Paris (Maison Européenne de la Photographie (2006). Since 2006, the Magritte Foundation continues to promote René Magritte’s art throughout exhibitions all around the world, amongst others at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (November 2006-March 2007), at the Seoul Museum of Art (December 2006-Februari 2007), at the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico (2010), at the Tate in Liverpool and the Albertina in Vienna (2011). The Magritte Foundation will support the major traveling exhibition The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938 opening this year in the MoMA New York, the Menil Collection in Houston and the Art Institute of Chicago. Currently the Foundation is organizing in close cooperation with the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium and the Yomiuri Shimbun a major exhibition in Japan, René Magritte : The Search for the Absolute, to be held at the National Art Center of Tokyo and the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art in 2015. It is Centre Pompidou in Paris which will welcome a big exhibition in 2016-2017. Then, it will be presented to the Schirn Kunsthalle de Frankfort in 2017.

A Committee for the Authentification of Works by René Magritte was set up on 30 March 2000 in Brussels under the aegis of the Fondation Magritte. The Fondation took this initiative in order to protect Magritte’s oeuvre and to continue the enormous task formerly performed by the authors of the catalogue raisonné. This Committee, which meets twice yearly, is composed of members of the Fondation’s administrative council and external experts.

The Fondation Magritte has helped to found the Centre de Recherches René Magritte at the Université Libre in Brussels. The Centre’s main aim is to promote research on Magritte by publishing doctoral theses, conference papers and correspondence, and by gathering and developing archives of written and visual materials. The project took a great step forward when a copy of the Magritte archives housed in Houston (Menil Foundation) was brought back to Belgium.

The Fondation Magritte is currently developing a range of projects, including its website and publications for children. The Fondation Magritte will continue to pursue these activities, while remaining open to new areas of investigation. The new Musée Magritte, an initiative of the Musées Royaux des Beaux Arts de Belgique, the Régie des Bâtiments, the Fondation Magritte and Groupe Suez, will open in spring 2009.