Bach Heritage Festival 2023
Centre for Fine Arts - Bozar
Brussels
Festival
Bach Heritage Festival 2023
Flagey Piano Days 2023
The tenth edition is all about new and enriching musical experiences. The festival concerts highlight numerous exchanges and will explore the boundaries between cultures and styles.
The tenth edition is all about new and enriching musical experiences. The festival concerts highlight numerous exchanges and will explore the boundaries between cultures and styles. As usual, the programme include big names from the piano world, as well as young emerging stars.
Flagey
Ixelles
Festival
Flagey Piano Days 2023
Carte de Visite | ARTopenKUNST
Lieu éphémère
Laeken
Exhibition
Carte de Visite | ARTopenKUNST
Brussels Independent Film Festival 2023
60+ Films scheduled // From 5 to 12 February 2023 // Free screenings at Cinema Galeries, Cinema Ritcs, online, and much more!
Brussels Independent Film Festival is back! The full lineup will feature numerous World, International and European Premieres. In total, Brussels Independent Film Festival will show 64 features and shorts from 25 countries including narrative features, documentary features, narrative shorts, documentary shorts, animation and experimental films. On February 5th, the festival will begin its in-person screenings at Cinema Galeries at 8:30pm, with the Belgian narrative film Dor (Longing) by Jannes Callens. To find the complete festival schedule and to reserve (free) tickets, check www.brusselsfilmfestival.com.
HIGHLIGHTS
It’s difficult to just highlight a couple of films out of the more than 60 selected films! An attempt:
Dor (Longing) (Belgium) by Jannes Callens
A cinematic and existential encounter between Belgian-Romanian Stefan Gota and a group of young shepherds. Running time: 00:52:30. Also selected at Visions du Réel and 30__70 DOC FEST.
Screening on Sunday 5 February at 20:30 in Cinema Galeries / Free entry
Chaylla (France) by Clara Teper, Paul Pirritano
Chaylla is fighting to free herself from an abusive relationship. Her determination comes up against a part of herself that still hopes it is possible to share her life with the father of her children. This magnificent documentary sheds upsetting light on violence against women and the difficulties of finding a way to justice. Running time: 01:12:00. Also selected at Visions du Réel.
Screening on Tuesday 7 February at 19:30 in Cinema Ritcs / Free entry
A Perfect Day for Caribou (USA) by Jeff Rutherford
An estranged father and son named Herman and Nate spend a perilous day together in the high desert looking for family and stumbling through their heartaches. Running time: 01:35:00. Also selected at Locarno Film Festival, Slamdance, Cork International Film Festival.
Screening on Thursday 9 February at 19:30 in Cinema Ritcs / Free entry
People We Know Are Confused (Lithuania) by Tomas Smulkis
Set in Vilnius, a modern city still in search for its relation to the past, three parallel stories with three average people marooned in a state of change, looking to the future with hope, but not letting go of constricting and reassuring fears of their past. Running time: 01:41:26. Winner of FIPRESCI Award at the Vilnius International Film Festival.
Screening on Sunday 12 February at 22:00 in Cinema Galeries / Free entry
OFF ON SELECTION: AN ONLINE SECTION
In addition to its regular physical screenings, the Brussels Independent Film Festival will also offer a small online program entitled 'OFF ON Selection'. The 'OFF ON Selection' will be available for streaming one from 1 February to 14 February 2023. More info at www.brusselsfilmfestival.org/off-on-selection.
PARTNERSHIPS WITH CINEMATEK AND ARGOS
The Brussels Independent Film Festival aims to celebrate and connect the Brussels film scene. This is why we are delighted to collaborate this year with two established names within the capital's cultural landscape.
As part of a "tribute to the masters of independent cinema," the festival is supporting three screenings at CINEMATEK. On the program: "Trust" by Hal Hartley, "Submarino" by Thomas Vinterberg and "Elephant" by Gus Van Sant. For these screenings, the Brussels Independent Film Festival is giving away 20 free tickets, more info at www.brusselsfilmfestival.com.
In addition, the Brussels Independent Film Festival is an official partner for the exhibition 'Oriana' by the Puerto Rican artist Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, organized by the ARGOS centre for audiovisual arts. The exhibition will celebrate its opening on 11 February from 6-9pm, and will run until 7 May. 'Oriana', the artist's first solo exhibition, consists of a single multi-channel audiovisual installation. Beatriz Santiago Muñoz develops her films and videos through writing, as well as through chance encounters and structured improvisation with non-actors. Using tools of ethnography, the artist mines local histories and indigenous mythologies, creating multilayered filmic interventions that juxtapose documentary with fiction and storytelling. More info at www.argosarts.org
EDIBLE FILM AWARDS
On Friday February 11 at 21.00 in Cinema Galeries, the festival will announce the 2023 Atomium Film Awards. Crowned with Belgian chocolate and thus edible medallions of the Atomium, made by “Gault & Millau Finest Chocolatier” Wim Vyverman. The award ceremony will be followed by a screening of 7 short films. After the screening, the audience and the filmmakers can enjoy a free drink at the bar together.
FREE ENTRY
Tickets can be reserved on the website: www.brusselsfilmfestival.com. Our screenings are always free of charge to provide opportunity for interested film goers to view up and coming, challenging, and inspiring pieces of art, encouraging students, seniors, and those in underprivileged environments to share the experience of film and cinema. We welcome film-goers, regardless of income and financial status.
CLIMATE NEUTRAL FILM EVENT
Brussels Independent Film Festival is a 'Climate Neutral Film Event'. By planting a total amount of 3,000 trees with Treeplan.org the festival is more than offsetting its carbon footprint.
ABOUT THE BRUSSELS INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL
Inspired by the legendary Festival International du Film Indépendant de Bruxelles, that was founded in 1974, but stopped existing in 2012; the revived Brussels Independent Film Festival continues to emphasize lesser known, vanguard cinematic works and further its tradition of galvanizing budding talent. Most importantly, the Brussels Independent Film Festival creates a space for unique visionaries and voices. True to its history, the festival screens films of both novices and veterans —with medium and low budgets— from all over the globe. The festival’s goal is to create a warm, open atmosphere in which filmmakers, fans, critics, and producers can watch the films of emerging talents, explore new cinematic techniques and styles, and award cinematic excellence.
The Brussels Independent Film Festival aims to create an intimate atmosphere in which to revel in the beauty and wonder of the cinema with like-minded cineastes from all over the globe.
Various places in Brussels
Brussels
Festival
Brussels Independent Film Festival 2023
Back to nature 1900
With this temporary exhibition, the Musée de la Ville de Bruxelles wishes to draw attention to the rich Art Nouveau heritage preserved in the city's collections. These collections are wide and diverse: from embroidery and painting to fashion and architecture. The starting point of the exhibition is the inspiration that artists found in nature at the turn of the century. The subtle aesthetics and powerful lines and shapes of flowers and plants attract attention, as does the sublime representation of women, in all their variations, presented by the artists. The exhibition presents a small but enchanting selection of works, most of which are previously unseen or rarely exhibited.
Museum of the City of Brussels
Brussels
Exhibition
Back to nature 1900
Swedish Ecstasy
Hilma af Klint, August Strindberg and other visionaries
In the spring of 2023, all eyes will be on the far north. We know Sweden mainly for its pragmatism, great engineers and entrepreneurs. But there is an important yet lesser known aspect of the nation’s spiritual life, visible in its art and literature. Bozar is therefore staging an exhibition that brings together a number of figureheads from the Swedish art scene. Mysticism and esoteric speculation runs like a thread through their work.
We will be showing work by some of the country’s most important literary figures, from the 18th-century Emanuel Swedenborg to the turn of the 20th century with August Strindberg, who is known as a writer but who also created wonderful drawings and paintings. In the same period, we find visual art by visionaries such as C.F. Hill, Ernst Josephson and Hilma af Klint.
Up to this day, these visions continue to inspire contemporary artists like Carsten Höller, Christine Ödlund, Daniel Youssef, Cecilia Edefalk and Lars Olof Loeld.
Centre for Fine Arts - Bozar
Brussels
Exhibition
Swedish Ecstasy
Animalia
Animalia is a poetic and scientific journey through the main challenges
of our times: threats to the environment, losses of biodiversity and
global warming. In this context, trains are an incredible asset towards
sustainable mobility.
Pierre-Yves Renkin, a renowned Belgian animal sculptor, showcases
a series of life-like animal art works in Train World. These sculptures
enter into dialogue with our railway collections. Through this poetic and
confronting journey, you will discover the causes and challenges of the
current biodiversity and climate change crises. What are the dangers and
what can be done about it?
This exhibition also highlights the efforts of SNCB and Infrabel to reduce the
ecological footprint of their activities on the climate and the environment.
An exhibition to understand and to act!
Train World
Schaerbeek
Exhibition
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Animalia
FestiVita! - Brussels Early Music Festival
Cercle royal Gaulois Artistique et Littéraire
Brussels
Festival
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FestiVita! - Brussels Early Music Festival
Bright Festival
Bright, the Brussels Festival of Lights, will bring some sparkle to your evenings from 16 to 19 February 2023.
For this new edition, Brussels' brightest event will illuminate three neighbourhoods: the Royal Quarter, the European Quarter and from the Sainte-Marie/Lehon Quarter to Avenue Louis Bertrand in Schaerbeek. The routes will be subtly punctuated by some twenty immersive and poetic works of art.
Alongside these artistic installations, the festival will feature an equally luminous fringe programme, consisting of evening events in the museums, guided tours and ephemeral installations by the event's partners. This edition also promises a magnificent spotlight, both literally and figuratively, on our region's rich Art Nouveau heritage.
Mark your calendar!
Various places in Brussels
Brussels
Festival
Bright Festival
Anima, the Brussels International Animation Film Festival
Anima, the Brussels International Animation Film Festival, will take place from 17 to 26 February and will celebrate its 42nd edition.
Anima, the Brussels International Animation Film Festival, will take place from 17 to 26 February and will celebrate its 42nd edition. Ten days during the Carnival holidays to celebrate animation with over 100 screenings, events, virtual VR films, exhibitions, workshops for children and professional meetings... This year, animation films from Spain will be put in the spotlight!
Discover our official short film selection and get your accreditation from Friday 9 December.
The entire Anima 2023 programme will be online from Tuesday 24 January.
Flagey
Ixelles
Festival
Anima, the Brussels International Animation Film Festival
Collectible 2023 - Design Fair
The international fair COLLECTIBLE, dedicated to 21st century collectible design, returns for a 6th edition from 9 to 12 March 2022 at Tour & Taxis in Brussels. COLLECTIBLE features a refined selection of established and emerging galleries, design studios, independent editors and leading architects.
The international fair COLLECTIBLE, dedicated to 21st century collectible design, returns for a 6th edition from 9 to 12 March 2022 at Tour & Taxis in Brussels. COLLECTIBLE features a refined selection of established and emerging galleries, design studios, independent editors and leading architects. The MAIN, BESPOKE and CURATED sections form the heart of COLLECTIBLE. To mark its 6th edition, COLLECTIBLE launches two new sections: NEW GARDE dedicated to emerging galleries; and Architect ⇔ Designer dedicated to architects and interior designers who wish to showcase furniture they recently developed.
Tour & Taxis
Brussels
Fairs and shows
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Collectible 2023 - Design Fair
Michel François
Contre nature
A look at 40 years of artistic practice by Belgian artist Michel François, from early work to several new creations he made especially for Bozar. Using sculpture, photography, video, painting and installation, the artist creates a web of shifting connections between his artworks. The exhibition is a unique concept in which the 'total artwork' is central and the exhibition space becomes an extension of his studio. François shakes up reality, questions it, and time and again breathes new life into its relationship with art. He transforms seemingly simple objects and materials into bearers of meaning. How can a gesture change the status of an object? What is the influence of the artist's hand? And what is the role of coincidence?
Centre for Fine Arts - Bozar
Brussels
Exhibition
Michel François
Fiesta Latina : Carnival Edition
A winter edition of Belgium's biggest latino event
For the very first time, the Fiesta Latina presents its Carnival edition on 17, 18 and 19 March 2023 in Tour & Taxis, for a journey to the heart of the most famous carnival traditions of Latin America!
This year and for the very first time, the emblematic Fiesta Latina is taking on a winter edition where Latin American folklore and carnival traditions will be honored: The Fiesta Latina : Carnival Edition! A great way to warm up in the cold of winter with the most caliente event of the year!
For this new edition, the famous sheds of Tour & Taxis will host the most emblematic Latin carnivals in the world, with its amazing dancers, extravagant costumes, lively music and folkloric activities.
On the programme:
- 40 thematic stands, bars and food trucks with South American flavors that will give you a taste of Latin America
- Concerts and amazing shows that will immerse you in a Latin and festive atmosphere throughout the festival
- Dance initiation such as Bachata, Salsa, Zumba or Reggaeton
- Muy caliente After Parties
- And many more !
What's new?
Colorful parades of madness, to immerse you in the carnival world and the folklore of Latin American countries through wild dances, extravagant costumes and much more!
Schedule:
- Friday 17/03 : 6pm - 3am
- Saturday 18/03 : 2pm - 3 am
- Sunday 19/03 : 12pm - 12am
Practical information :
- Dates: 17, 18 and 19 March 2023
- Location: Shed 1, Av. du Port 86C, 1000 Brussels (Tour & Taxis)
- Required age: Open to all
- Accessible to PRM
- A parking (with fee) is available at the same address
Tickets :
Link to ticketing soon available
Free for children under 12 years old
Social Media :
- Website : http://www.fiesta-latina.be
- Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/Fiestalatinabrussels
- Instagram : @fiesta.latina
Tour & Taxis
Brussels
Clubbing
Fiesta Latina : Carnival Edition
Festival du Film Scientifique de Bruxelles
Festival where science movies and documentaries are made accessible to all, regardless of your previous science knowledge! | FREE | March 20th to 26th, 2023.
The Festival du Film Scientifique de Bruxelles (FFSB) is a free audiovisual cultural event, in french and english, during which recent and even exclusive scientific documentaries and films are shown to all. This year, this event will take place from the 20th to the 26th of March 2023.
You can find all of our information on our website (https://www.ffsbxl.be/en) or on our social media (Instagram: ffsbxl ; Facebook: Festival du Film Scientifique de Bruxelles).
Université Libre de Bruxelles - Bâtiment S
Ixelles
Cinema
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Festival du Film Scientifique de Bruxelles
Brosella Spring Festival
LaVallée
Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
Concert
Brosella Spring Festival
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
Victor Horta versus Art nouveau. Horta's vocabulary
Brussels Art Nouveau & Art Deco (BANAD) Festival 2023
The Brussels Art Nouveau & Art Deco (BANAD) Festival is a special event that promotes the Art Nouveau and Art Deco heritage of the Brussels-Capital Region.
What makes this festival so special are guided tours through Art Nouveau and Art Deco buildings that are normally not open for visitors.
Event Concept
The Brussels Art Nouveau & Art Deco (BANAD) Festival is a special event that promotes the Art Nouveau and Art Deco heritage of the Brussels-Capital Region. It takes place every year on the weekends of March.
What makes this festival so special are guided tours through Art Nouveau and Art Deco buildings that are normally not open for visitors. A unique opportunity to (re) discover these hidden architectural gems!
As part of the Festival, we also offer other activities that spotlight the Art Nouveau and Art Deco heritage and complement the guided tours: walking tours as well as bike and bus tours; concerts; seminars; shows; activities for families; an antique market; activities for disabled people; and activities for schools...
The event concept is unique in Europe!
The BANAD Festival is organised by Explore.Brussels, a network of associations that organise guided tours: ARAU, Arkadia, Brussels Chatterguides and Pro Velo.
Various places in Brussels
Brussels
Guided tours
Brussels Art Nouveau & Art Deco (BANAD) Festival 2023
Klarafestival
Klarafestival is the biggest classical music festival in Belgium.
Klarafestival is the biggest classical music festival in Belgium. Every year in March, international top musicians give the best of themselves in Brussels, but also in Antwerp (deSingel) and Bruges (Concertgebouw).
Various places in Brussels
Brussels
Festival
Klarafestival
Kidzik Festival
Various places in Brussels
Brussels
Festival
Kidzik Festival
PILAR ASAP : THE SEXUAL FEELING / HEALING EDITION
Pilar
Ixelles
Festival
PILAR ASAP : THE SEXUAL FEELING / HEALING EDITION
Listen Festival 2023
Listen Festival
Brussels
Festival
Listen Festival 2023
Mini D Festival
Théâtre Marni
Ixelles
Show
Mini D Festival
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 artist Candice Breitz (1972, Johannesburg, South Africa; lives and works in Berlin) as a guest artist. A selection of Breitz’s videos points to commonly conveyed identity clichés, reminding us that our identities are not set in stone.
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
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)
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
