Festival LEGS 2023
Each spring dance has a scheduled appointment with its history at the LEGS festival. Mythical artists, traditions from all over the world, great classics or vanished gestures, the choreographers at the LEGS festival delve into the past, geography and the dance repertoire.
For this edition in 2023, Bryana Fritz and Thibault Lac will be there with Knight-Night centred on the figure of Don Quixote, Marco da Silva Ferreira is coming with his new work CARCASS, the result of his research of folklore and urban dances, plus Milø Slayers will be premiering DEMONstratio, a game with multiple interpretations. Programme to be confirmed.
Charleroi danse / La Raffinerie
Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
Festival
Festival LEGS 2023
Festival Elles Tournent - Dames Draaien Festival
Dozens of films made by women will be screened at this festival. The emphasis is on films that break moulds, in a festival that includes previews, films never previously seen in Belgium, classics and hidden gems, documentaries and fiction, shorts and feature films, and even animation.
Dozens of films made by women will be screened at this festival. The emphasis is on films that break moulds, in a festival that includes previews, films never previously seen in Belgium, classics and hidden gems, documentaries and fiction, shorts and feature films, and even animation. The guests include directors from all over the world, from an array of different cultures: women who resist, who innovate, who are disquieting, who demolish stereotypes and change the way we see things.
Various places in Brussels
Brussels
Festival
Festival Elles Tournent - Dames Draaien Festival
Bru.X.elles
GC De Vaartkapoen / VK Concerts
Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
Concert
Bru.X.elles
Brosella Spring Festival
A brand new festival in LaVallée, Molenbeek!
Starting on Thursday March 23rd, Brosella launches its very first edition of the Brosella Spring Festival with releases, workshops, premieres and a brunch on Sunday.
4 days with the crème de la crème of Belgian jazz & urban etno. Tickets are available in limited numbers, so act fast! See you there!
Julien Tassin solo, Gratitude Trio, Too Noisy Fish ft. Dj Grazzhoppa & Dimitri Verhulst, Fnussjen, LupaGangGang, Under the Reefs Orchestra, The Gallands, 3'Ain, Las Lloronas, Osuna, Bandler Ching, Antoine Flipo
Brunch by cassonade
Workshop by Ultima Vez
LaVallée
Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
Concert
Brosella Spring Festival
Bike Brussels 2023 - Expo - Urban Mobility
Discover, test & advice ! This is the motto of this 5th edition of Bike Brussels, that will take place in Tour & Taxis from Friday 24 to Sunday 26 March 2023.
Gare Maritime - Tour & Taxis
Brussels
Fairs and shows
Bike Brussels 2023 - Expo - Urban Mobility
Digital Spring
The next Digital Spring will take place in Reset on 24 and 25 March. The new edition will focus on the theme: ‘From sky to earth, the challenges and opportunities of digital in the air’.
Digital Spring, a visit.brussels and Paradigm initiative (the ICT partner of all public institutions in the Brussels-Capital Region), aims to promote and encourage all initiatives that:
simplify the life of citizens, administrations and companies
democratise new technologies (make them known and usable)
develop an inclusive, ethical and sustainable digital environment
activate the creation of jobs and training paths for young people
The fair will host a variety of activities such as animations, conferences, performances, exhibitions, educational workshops, round tables and demonstrations.
Are you passionate for all things digital? Or are you just curious? The digital sector in Brussels is waiting for you!
Reset
Brussels
Festival
Digital Spring
Passa Porta Festival 2023
A hundred writers, thinkers and artists taking over the centre of Brussels to bring literature in all its forms to life: welcome to the Passa Porta Festival! The theme of the ninth edition is REFUGE.
As it does every two years, the International House of Literature Passa Porta is pleased to announce a new edition of its festival in Brussels, an eagerly awaited event in the literary world and the most important multilingual literary gathering in Europe.
2023 will mark a special edition for this biennial event: this year, the Passa Porta Festival will include the hosting, from 22 to 24 March, by Passa Porta and the City of Brussels, of the ICORN Network Meeting, a major annual gathering of the International Cities of Refuge Network for writers, artists and journalists in exile. The two events were therefore conceived in line with each other and around a shared theme: that of REFUGE.
A particularly inspiring theme that the festival will develop through some sixty programmes building bridges between novels and society, between literature and other artistic disciplines, between Belgian and international authors. Discussions, debates, readings and performances: writers will share the stage with essayists, musicians, actors and other artists with a single objective: to offer our imaginations and our thoughts new refuges.
The announcement of the festival by Passa Porta coincides with the launch of the sale of ‘early bird’ tickets. These tickets at a preferential rate will be on sale from 8 December to 31 January. A festive perspective to start 2023.
Passa Porta
Brussels
Various
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Passa Porta Festival 2023
Judith Vanistendael. Artfully moving.
Bronze Adhemar laureate Judith Vanistendael (1974) is a true ambassador of comics and reaches a wide and international audience with her drawings. She always delivers socially relevant comics, always in a different style. Thus, it should not be a surprise that she is influencing the new generation of comics creators.
Vanistendael is a master in creating the right atmosphere and scenography and each of her comic books can rightly be called a true piece of art. A piece of art that is carefully constructed, that gets under your skin, that alternates melancholy with lightheartedness, that touches and that is beautifully moving every time.
Judith Vanistendael (author)
Kurt Morissens (Curator)
In cooperation with Stripgids and De Warande. With the support of Literatuur Vlaanderen.
Comic Strip Museum (Centre Belge de la Bande Dessinée)
Brussels
Exhibition
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Judith Vanistendael. Artfully moving.
Victor Horta versus Art nouveau. Horta's vocabulary
To understand Horta from the inside by going off the beaten track. This is the aim of this exhibition: to understand his expression and vocabulary without any preconceived ideas...
In 1893, Victor Horta drew up the plans for the Tassel Hotel. For art historians, this date corresponds to the birth of Art Nouveau, a style that would spread throughout the Western world until 1914. Yet behind this term lies a multitude of architects and designers with a singular, personal and sometimes antithetical expression. Behind this title, the exhibition seeks to question Victor Horta's approach without any considerations of style or belonging to a movement.
Sponsors : Delen Bank, Baillet Latour Fund.
Curator: Benjamin Zurstrassen Scenography: Aurélie Ranalli.
Guest artist: François Schuiten.
Partners: IRPA, Alice Laboratory, La Cambre Horta Faculty of Architecture, Institut Saint Luc secondaire Brussels
Museum Horta
Saint-Gilles
Exhibition
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Victor Horta versus Art nouveau. Horta's vocabulary
Couleur Café Club
We are delighted to welcome the virtuoso drums & keyboard house phenomenon Lander & Adriaan, Portuguese Dj Lycox with his irresistible polyrhythmic grooves, the wonderful Dushime who made a solid impression at Niveau 4, one of Belgium’s dopest DJ’s: Assia Mk, the talented artist Hulk Van JMF, Armelbizzman with his impressive and unique dj skills, the four-headed dj collective K4 and some key-members of the Montreal-based collective Moonshine: San Farafina with her unique blend of afro sounds and percussive beats, the outstanding Pierre Kwenders’ with his one-of-a-kind mix of R&B and Congolese rumba and last but not least Vanyfox with his multifaceted, cosmopolitan and banging beats.
Lander & Adriaan (Band), DJ Lycox (DJ), San Farafina (Moonshine)(DJ), Pierre Kwenders (Moonshine)(DJ), Vanyfox (Moonshine)(DJ), Dushime(DJ), Assia Mk(DJ), Hulk Van JMF (singer), Armelbizzman(DJ) and K4(DJ).
BUDA BXL
Haren
Clubbing
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Couleur Café Club
Millenium Festival - 15th edition
The MILLENIUM Festival is a high-level international event in Brussels, the heart of Europe.
The MILLENIUM Festival is a high-level international event in Brussels, the heart of Europe. The Festival highlights films whose themes are linked to the major challenges and objectives of the 21st century, adopted by the United Nations in 2000, and which reflect humanity’s dreams and ambitions for a fairer and more equitable world. Since its creation in 2009 by Lubomir Gueorguiev and Zlatina Rousseva, the MILLENIUM Festival presents every year the best of committed documentary cinema from around the world. It supports innovation in documentary creation, authenticity and investment by independent directors. We are particularly attentive to new emerging talents.
Flagey
Ixelles
Festival
Millenium Festival - 15th edition
Listen Festival 2023
Listen Festival is a Brussels-wide celebration of music and diversity, bringing together some of the most talented artists from Belgium and abroad.
Since its inaugural edition in 2016, Listen is Brussels’ first urban music festival dedicated to alternative electronic music. Our festival was born out of a common desire: drive local talent to the next level and support the development of a local alternative music scene.
Over the past couple of years our festival has evolved into a 5 day take-over of the city of Brussels with DJ-sets, concerts, talks, workshops, expo and more in various unique locations throughout the Belgian capital. The musical scope has also broadened quite a bit over the years. Next to the main electronic genres like House and Techno that were present from the very beginning, Listen now also incorporates a much broader alternative sound with genres like Hyperpop, Drum'n'bass, Amapiano and Hip Hop.
The link to the city of Brussels and its local music scene has been very important from the early days of Listen. As a festival we aim to create and nourish a platform, within the city of Brussels, with an international reach to showcase local talent and place them among the most exciting international acts in the industry.
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Thanks to : La Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/Brussel Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, BXL La Ville | De Stad, la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Francophones de Bruxelles, Vlaamse Overheid, Equals, Wallonie Bruxelles Musique, Visit Brussels, La Loterie Nationale/De Nationale Loterij, Sabam For Culture, Monkey Shoulder, Fritz-Kola, Vedett, Jägermeister & Red Bull.
visit.brussels
Brussels
Festival
Listen Festival 2023
Foire du livre de Bruxelles 2023
The Brussels Book Fair is back at Tour&Taxis from 30 March to 2 April.
Admission is free (ticket reservation required on our website www.flb.be)
Tour & Taxis
Brussels
Fairs and shows
Foire du livre de Bruxelles 2023
Expedition Egypt
Expedition Egypt narrates the story of two centuries of fascinating archaeological discoveries in the Land of the Pharaohs and the development of the Egyptian collection of the museum.
The exhibition Expedition Egypt brings together more than two hundred objects from its eminent Egyptian collection. Highlights include the sumptuously decorated coffins from the priestly cache of Deir el-Bahari. In addition, a wide variety of stunning pieces from the collection will be shown to the public for the very first time. Objects like funerary stelae, canopic vases for the entrails of the deceased, and shabti figurines meant to accompany the dead in the afterlife, will introduce the visitors to the Egyptian world of the gods and eternal life. The exhibition will also be richly provided with unique historical photographic material.
This journey through time will be punctuated by the artistic interventions of Sara Sallam (°1991, Cairo). The artist explores contemporary Egyptian cultural identity and questions the history and meaning of Egyptology. Nourished by childhood memories and archaeological and museum sources , Sara Sallam’s works offer a new look on the heritage of ancient Egypt.
Art & History Museum (RMAH)
Brussels
Exhibition
Expedition Egypt
HAPPINESS. Art, a positive boost for your brain.
HAPPINESS, a new digital exhibition and a family friendly experience full of good boosts for your brain.
It’s official! Art makes us happy. Discover the positive boost of art on your brain in the new digital art exhibition HAPPINESS. Step inside a world of color, sound, music, and interaction. Explore 360° art installations and discover how art gives your life more color.
- An immersive experience where art and science meet
- Interactive rooms full of good boosts for your brain
- Multimedia art installations for young and old
- Learn more about the impact of art on your happiness hormones
Studio Irma (Amsterdam, Barcelona) & PLEIN PUBLIEK Brussels
PLEIN PUBLIEK
Brussels
Exhibition
HAPPINESS. Art, a positive boost for your brain.
Hors Pistes #12
This twelfth edition of Hors Pistes is an invitation to discover the many facets of circus.
After integrating music, dance, performance, visual and digital arts, the circus is now unleashing its inventiveness on set design. The performance space becomes a character in its own right, one that plays with — and toys with — the performers. L’Absolu and Danse Macabre are inseparable from the machinations of their design; the Galactik Ensemble has made the battle with the elements of scenography its trademark ; PLI is a poem for paper ; and the relationship between the performer and the scenographic universe is at the heart of Mérydes. Hors Pistes 2023 explores these new and surprising dramatic compositions.
Les Halles de Schaerbeek
Schaerbeek
Festival
Hors Pistes #12
Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFFF)
The BIFFF, the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, will this year celebrate its 41th anniversary. During the festival, three cinemas will show over a hundred feature films and shorts, and allow you to encounter a truly unique audience.
The BIFFF, the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, will this year celebrate its 41th anniversary. During the festival, three cinemas will show over a hundred feature films and shorts, and allow you to encounter a truly unique audience.
Thanks to the master classes held by prestigious guests, lively debates, exceptional exhibitions, and breathtaking animations, this is not merely a festival you are going to attend. It is an experience like no other… Be prepared!
Brussels Expo
Laeken
Festival
Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFFF)
Nocturnes
Every Thursday evening from 13 April to 18 May between 5pm and 10pm, the Nocturnes will open your eyes to the treasures waiting for you in Brussels’ museums and art centres. During the Nocturnes you’ll get the opportunity to discover the exhibitions and collections of 37 exceptional places in the capital through guided tours, artistic workshops and backstage visits.
Every Thursday evening from 13 April to 18 May between 5pm and 10pm, the Nocturnes will open your eyes to the treasures waiting for you in Brussels’ museums and art centres.
During the Nocturnes you’ll get the opportunity to discover the exhibitions and collections of 37 exceptional places in the capital through guided tours, artistic workshops and backstage visits.
Combine the pleasures: Each Nocturnes evening will be clustered per municipality with additional extra-mural walks that will help you discover the treasures of our city. Each week you can also admire an Art Nouveau jewel.
Whether you visit the museum on your own or with an activity, there is only one price: €5 for a standard ticket or €2.50 for people under 26 years old per museum.
Full programme and tickets on nocturnes.brussels as from 23.03.
Brussels Museums
Brussels
Festival
Nocturnes
The Artwork As A Living System
In media art, Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau are regarded as pioneers of the “Art of Interface.” In 2023 iMAL will welcome a retrospective dedicated to these influencial artists: The Artwork as a Living System.
In media art, Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau are considered pioneers of the "Art of Interface". This Austrian-French artist couple takes inspiration from systems, as we know them from nature, when developing their interactive and visually spectacular installations. Since the early 1990s, they have been working with the most advanced techniques, such as the algorithm or artificial intelligence, while bringing us closer to the secrets of what we call "life".
In 2023, iMAL dedicates a retrospective exhibition to these influential artists: The Artwork As A Living System.
The exhibition is a co-production with ZKM, Karlsruhe (DE) and the OÖ Landes-Kultur, Linz (A).
Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau
iMAL, Center for Digital Cultures and Technology
Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
Exhibition
The Artwork As A Living System
Mini D Festival
Théâtre Marni
Ixelles
Show
Mini D Festival
TROUBLE#12 (Festival de la Cie Thor)
The performance get-together in Brussels is back!
TROUBLE has retained the ingredients that previously ensured its success. The get-together, spanning four days has a lot to offer artistically by means of a structured and dense programming, featuring non-standard and un-common formats. Performances using the body as a conduit, but created by artists from the visual arts and contemporary dance, experimental theater, digital arts, music and the night scene ... for an intermingling of artistic families and audiences. Rather than spectacles to consume, TROUBLE focuses on raw live experience, dealing with commitment to self, risk-taking, vulnerability, interactivity. It strikes a balance between local figures and international artists – often discoveries for the Belgian public. A program that proudly gives pride of place to women, to queers, to racialized and minority groups, for a more diverse vision of art, and also a place for emerging artists.
A demanding reflective dimension that nonetheless does not exclude an engaging festive dimension!
Studio Thor, Cie Thierry Smits
Saint-Josse-Ten-Noode
Festival
TROUBLE#12 (Festival de la Cie Thor)
HOPLA! Circus Festival
Various places in Brussels
Brussels
Festival
HOPLA! Circus Festival
Festival Courants d'airs
2023 edition wants to be more than ever a festival of openness to universality and the ability to adapt to unusual places.
We hope to collect a multitude of original projects, collective creations, multidisciplinary associations for general happiness !
Courants d’airs takes place at Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles and at the heart of the city of Brussels with partner sites : city hall, Brussels Parliament, The Music Village... During the festival, close to 9000 people discover over fifty artistic creations.
This event is a real opportunity to create and approach the professional circuit for young artists.
2023 edition wants to be more than ever a festival of openness to universality and the ability to adapt to unusual places.
We hope to collect a multitude of original projects, collective creations, multidisciplinary associations for general happiness !
Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles
Brussels
Festival
Festival Courants d'airs
Art Brussels
Art Brussels, one of Europe’s most original and established art fairs, organises its 39th edition, gathering over 150 International galleries.
Art Brussels, one of Europe’s most original and established art fairs, organises its 39th edition, gathering over 150 International galleries.
Brussels Expo
Laeken
Fairs and shows
Art Brussels
Mehdi-Georges Lahlou - Candice Breitz - extra
CENTRALE presents the exhibition extra by Mehdi-Georges Lahlou & Candice Breitz at CENTRALE | hall (20.04 > 17.09.2023).
For this exhibition, envisaged as a space of celebration and encounters, Mehdi-Georges Lahlou presents a whole new body of works including sculptures, drawings, engravings, reworked archive photos, as well as installations and videos. At CENTRALE, the artist continues to explore the representation of violence and its consequences on current geopolitical issues. He draws on war archives and ancestral history, as well as on his own experiences, both intimate and fictional. Between the representation of the self and the questioning of the other, Mehdi-Georges Lahlou seeks to understand the role of archives in our collective memory.
“As an artist, I have the privilege of being able to speak out. I want to take advantage of this, to open up the senses and consciences. “ – Mehdi-Georges Lahlou, interviewed by Annick Colonna-Césari, journalist and critic
Mehdi-Georges Lahlou has invited the Berlin-based artist Candice Breitz (1972, Johannesburg) as a guest artist. Born and raised in South Africa during the era of apartheid, Breitz has consistently sought to grapple with whiteness in her work, from early photographic series such as ‘Ghost Series’ (1994), to later installations such as ‘Extra’ (2011) and ‘Whiteface’ (2022). Breitz’s journeys into the violent terrain of whiteness often feature the artist herself and are strikingly auto-ethnographic, offering a compelling counterpoint to Mehdi-Georges Lahlou’s body of work, in which self-portraiture again and again opens onto some of the most urgent political conversations of our times.
The two artists work with (self-)portraits, as well as with images taken from the media or social networks and clichés from popular or ancestral/traditional cultures.
They examine the way in which identity and image are shaped and echo each other, whether within the local and familial microcosm, or within the wider national and international macrocosm.
The exhibition opens up beyond the museum walls with the unveiling of a monumental artwork by Mehdi-Georges Lahlou in Molenbeek at the Vaartkapoen Cultural Centre. Entitled Into the Palms the Birds, it was commissioned by the Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie (Flemish Community Commission).
Mehdi-Georges Lahlou (1983, Sables d’Olonne, France; lives and works in Brussels and Paris) is a multidisciplinary artist exploring performance art, installations, sculpture, photography, drawing. His work focuses namely on gender and cultural identity issues. The artist’s interest lies in the way in which emotions can be triggered by the subject, rather than in the object itself. His work calls upon the five senses as it includes sound creations, spices, and even food items such as couscous. Each element refers to a culture, a cliché, a ritual tradition, thus echoing the world we live in.
With the support of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation
Mehdi-Georges Lahlou ; Candice Breitz
CENTRALE for contemporary art
Brussels
Exhibition
Mehdi-Georges Lahlou - Candice Breitz - extra
