In his own words: Antwerp museum uses AI to recreate Magritte's voice
The DEK Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) has used artificial intelligence to recreate the voice of Surrealist artist René Magritte for its exhibition "Magritte. La ligne de vie." The AI voice reads a 1938 lecture Magritte gave at the museum—the only known text of him discussing his work—which was never recorded but survived as slides and a transcript transcribed by fellow Surrealist Marcel Mariën. The exhibition, on view until February 2026, features over 100 works and is structured around key themes from that lecture, culminating in a room where visitors hear Magritte's reconstructed voice in French with English and Dutch subtitles.