belgisch design belge
A pop-up laboratory where the successive presentations that are sometimes subjective and never exhaustive will be representative of Belgian design. Pieces from different eras, materials, statuses and natures build side by side a history of design in Belgium. For this first selection, objects from the plastic design collection – the particularity of our institution – interact with pieces of modern and contemporary design from the King Baudouin Foundation.
Design Museum Brussels
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belgisch design belge
the Plastic Design Collection
the Plastic Design Collection pays tribute to the diverse and heterogeneous plastic design that has transformed our domectic environment since the 1950s. From material to object and from object to society, the permanent exhibition from this collection develops a cultural history of design.
Design Museum Brussels
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the Plastic Design Collection
Identita - The Story of Czech Graphic Design
From 16 October 2026 to 7 March 2027, the Design Museum Brussels presents Identita – The Story of Czech Graphic Design, an exhibition dedicated to more than a century of graphic design in the Czech Republic. The exhibition explores the role of graphic design in shaping the country’s identity and bears witness to the profound political, social and cultural changes that have marked its history.
Located in Brussels, the capital of Belgium and home to the main institutions of the European Union, the Design Museum Brussels also aims to serve as a showcase for European creativity and the diversity of its design cultures. With this in mind, the museum regularly hosts temporary exhibitions that offer a particular European country’s perspective on its history and design culture. Identita is part of this initiative, inviting visitors to Design Museum Brussels to discover the history and distinctive characteristics of Czech graphic design, while placing them within a broader European context.
Graphic design plays an important role in the way a country presents itself and shapes its identity. Posters, books, magazines, logos and national symbols not only tell the story of their time, but also reflect the social developments of their era. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the development of graphic design in the Czech Republic, and, prior to 1993, in Czechoslovakia, has therefore been closely linked to the country’s turbulent history. The 20th century brought profound changes, from the establishment of an independent state and two world wars to the succession of two totalitarian regimes. After 1989, society and the economy underwent a fundamental transformation, with the transition from a socialist planned economy to a market economy. All of these developments were reflected in the country’s graphic culture.
Through original works and reproductions, the exhibition introduces visitors to some of the most striking examples of Czech graphic design and to the designers behind them. Each work is presented within its cultural, historical and political context. This makes it possible to see how graphic design and society have influenced one another over the years.
Identita at the Design Museum Brussels brings this story to a new audience, offering visitors the opportunity to discover how Czech graphic design evolved over the course of nearly a century in dialogue with politics, technology, everyday life and cultural trends. The exhibition is curated by Filip Blažek and Linda Kudrnovská, in collaboration with curator David Korecký and the team at the Design Museum Brussels for the Brussels presentation.
The touring exhibition Identita is a joint project of the Typo association, Mowshe studio, the Museum of Literature and the network of Czech Centres. The graphic design was created by Marvil studio. The architectural design was developed by Adam Blažek, Jan Kloss and Matěj Činčera of studio Okolo.
Design Museum Brussels
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Identita - The Story of Czech Graphic Design
Future Generation, MAD Graduation Show 2026
A ceramic installation evoking a rural interior and textiles made from reclaimed cardboard collected in Brussels. Following its annual tradition, the group exhibition 'Future Generation: The MAD Graduation Show' celebrates the winners of the MAD Graduation Prize 2026 while showcasing their innovative graduation projects. No fewer than seven institutions are represented in the exhibition: Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, College of Art and Design, Ateliers Saint Luc, École supérieure des arts Saint Luc, Haute Ecole Francisco Ferrer, La Cambre and LUCA School Of Arts. From textile design and interior design to industrial product development and fashion design, a total of 14 winners are honoured at MAD Brussels from 1 October to 12 December.
MAD Brussels
Brussels
Exhibitions
Future Generation, MAD Graduation Show 2026
Icons, 20 years Designer of the Year
In 2006, the first “Designer of the Year” award was presented in Belgium. The prize was originally established by the Interieur Biennale and the magazines Knack Weekend and Le Vif Weekend, and was awarded that year to Brussels-based designer Alain Berteau. Over the years, various partners joined the initiative, and it grew into a well-established reference in the Belgian design landscape.
Twenty years later, the list of laureates reads as a best-of-the-best of what the country has to offer in contemporary design: from ceramic designers and silversmiths to product and lighting designers. Concepts such as innovation, originality, and ecology are often central to their work. The list includes names such as Muller Van Severen, Alain Gilles, Nedda El-Asmar, Julien Renault, and Linde Freya Tangelder. On the occasion of the 20th edition of the title, all twenty names come together in an exhibition at MAD Brussels, on view from 1 October to 12 December.
MAD Brussels
Brussels
Exhibitions
Icons, 20 years Designer of the Year
Trouble Parfait
Two generations, two worlds, two approaches and a multitude of materials come together in dialogue in Hectare’s new exhibition.
A regular at the gallery since Miroir Miroir with his reworkings of camera lenses, Jiro Kamata (b. 1978, Hirosaki, Japan – lives and works in Munich) propels them into new dimensions. These ‘optical gems’, once destined to capture light and preserve memories, now give way to laboratory-grown quartz. The real and the unreal pass through the sensory portal of his Celestial Eyes. Mutations, distortions and reflections take centre stage in a parallel world inspired by astronomy, mythology and spirituality.
Extreme meticulousness and the utmost attention to detail are echoed in the illusions – very different, yet equally fascinating – created by Benedict Haener (b. 1992, lives and works in Lucerne, Switzerland). Under the title Kill your darling, from sandpaper to sugar cubes and sour sweets, the artist reinterprets the everyday, pulverises precious materials, initially devaluing them only to imbue them with new value through unique pieces that are wildly technical and irresistibly playful.
Whilst each of these creators’ approaches embodies a pop aesthetic that is resolutely contemporary, they nonetheless contain a nostalgic or fantastical element woven into their work.
It is at this intersection that the scenographic collaborators of Trouble parfait come into play. Through the speckled ceramic of her photo frames, Léna Babinet (b. 1994, Paris – lives and works in Brussels) creates a disruption. The image is missing; the reflection is absent. What remains is the object – recognisable as ever – and its intimate mystery, its vibrant presence, its familiar strangeness. As if freshly picked, Olga Flór’s (b. 1995, based in Eindhoven) sunflowers capture the fleeting and the shifting at the heart of a boldly impure eternity.
Contemporary jewellery exhibition: Jiro Kamata, Benedict Haener
Hectare Galerie
Ixelles
Exhibitions
Trouble Parfait
Soft Assemblies
Augusta Gallery presents Soft Assemblies, an exhibition highlighting innovative techniques of joining, weaving, and braiding. Through research and experimentation, six European designers interlace reused and natural elements to create new forms and transform spaces.
Augusta Gallery presents Soft Assemblies, an exhibition highlighting innovative techniques of joining, weaving, and braiding. Through research and experimentation, six European designers interlace reused and natural elements to create new forms and transform spaces.
For this exhibition, Agnieszka Mazur crafts sculptural lamps and objects from discarded sand, inspired by the traditional sandcastles on the beaches of Zeeland. The collaboration between Amandine David and Esmé Hofman explores contrasts by combining digital techniques and basketry to create sculptural containers. Textile designers Juliette Berthonneau and Justine Gaignault experiment with textures, juxtaposing dense patterns with translucent areas as they felt linen and wool weaves into decorative and functional textiles. Laure Kasiers unveils new wall rugs featuring abstract motifs, employing a technique she developed using interlaced strips of wool and linen.
The exhibition explores a new facet of the transformation of materials through connections, intertwining, and the rhythm of successive layers.
Agnieszka Mazur, Amandine David and Esmé Hofman, Juliette Berthonneau and Justine Gaignault, Laure Kasiers.
Augusta
Brussels
Exhibitions
Soft Assemblies
MAD Parcours 2026
From Thursday 12 to Saturday 14 November, MAD Brussels presents the third edition of MAD Parcours, the annual event opening up Brussels’ fashion and design scene to the public. Over three days, Brussels-based creatives take over the city centre, transforming the capital into a vibrant creative trail.
This third edition brings together a diverse range of Brussels-based creatives across studios, boutiques, concept stores, galleries, showrooms and other iconic local addresses. Throughout the parcours, participating venues will host encounters with creatives, collection presentations, launches, demonstrations of craftsmanship, installations, as well as a selection of pieces and objects to discover or (re)discover and, for those who wish, to take home. It is an opportunity to step inside places that may be less familiar, meet the people shaping Brussels’ creative scene, and discover creations, collections and objects that reflect the diversity of approaches and expertise found across the city.
To help visitors find their way, MAD Parcours offers several thematic routes, allowing everyone to explore the city according to their interests. Independent fashion, collectible design, contemporary jewellery, contemporary ceramics or new creative addresses: each route highlights a different facet of Brussels’ rich creative scene, while encouraging visitors to venture beyond the usual circuits and rediscover the independent businesses that form part of it. A printed map, available at MAD Brussels and at participating venues, allows everyone to freely create their own itinerary and explore the city at their own pace.
Conceived as a journey of discovery, MAD Parcours offers a different way of experiencing Brussels: by following the thread of its creativity. The event shines a light on both emerging talents and established creatives, celebrates independent businesses and venues, and invites visitors to discover a local scene renowned for its diversity, boldness and spirit of innovation.
This initiative is supported by Entreprendre Bruxelles, Local Guide and the Alderman for Economic Affairs.
MAD Brussels
Brussels
Exhibitions
MAD Parcours 2026
Shaping the Possible. Pierre Lallemand, designer
The Design Museum Brussels presents Shaping the Possible. Pierre Lallemand, designer, from 27 November 2026 to 7 March 2027, an exhibition offering an intimate insight into Pierre Lallemand’s work as a designer. Rather than attempting to encompass his entire body of work, which also spans architecture, urban planning and other creative fields, the exhibition explores more than thirty years of research into objects, furniture, materials and manufacturing processes.
Developed in collaboration with Pierre Lallemand, Shaping the Possible, curated by Maude Willaerts (Design Museum Brussels) and independent curator Syuzanna Poulichet, brings together a selection of drawings, models, prototypes, objects, furniture and experimental pieces. This deliberately focused selection offers a closer understanding of his design process, from initial sketches and experiments through to production and the final form.
Trained in Brussels in the late 1970s, Pierre Lallemand developed an approach from the outset that defies strict boundaries between disciplines. His early lighting designs, exhibited in the 1980s at Galerie Théorème in Brussels, already demonstrate his interest in experimentation and in objects that bring together practical use, technology and artistic expression.
His international career further shaped this approach. His experiences in Italy, at the Milan-based architectural practice BBPR, and later in the United States, working with César Pelli, helped him develop a way of thinking about design across different scales. Furniture, objects, bicycles and sailing boats all became fields of experimentation in which drawing, technical expertise, attention to materials and formal exploration come together. It is an approach in which form and function develop hand in hand, as Pierre Lallemand explains: “I don’t believe that form and function should be seen as opposites. Form is already a function in itself. Whether I’m working on a bicycle, a car, a boat or a smaller object, I always seek a strong sculptural presence that incorporates technical and practical constraints from the very beginning. For me, function and form must develop together.”
Although the exhibition deliberately focuses on design, it cannot separate it from what Pierre Lallemand describes as an “architecture of the possible”. For him, objects and architecture share the same approach to questioning our environment: designing is not simply about responding to a need, but about exploring how things might be different.
Through this selection, Shaping the Possible reveals the continuity of an approach developed across design and architecture, without attempting to offer an exhaustive retrospective. It provides a unique opportunity to discover the thinking and practice of a creator for whom every project represents an opportunity for exploration.
Design Museum Brussels
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Shaping the Possible. Pierre Lallemand, designer
Duos en Résonances
From 20 November 2026 to 11 April 2027, Design Museum Brussels presents Duos en Résonances, an exhibition conceived and produced by Wallonie Design, dedicated to collaborations between Belgian designers and craftspeople. It showcases the research, experiments, material samples and prototypes developed by five duos who worked together for more than six months, exploring materials, techniques and applications.
At the intersection of design and craft, Duos en Résonances considers the craftsperson’s workshop as a true laboratory for innovation. Meeting a designer makes it possible to formulate new hypotheses, test processes and challenge established ways of working. Conversely, designers can draw on craftspeople’s expertise, their knowledge of materials and the precision of their gestures. Based on observation, dialogue and experimentation, this process invites each duo to learn from one another and develop a shared exploration. In a society facing major ecological, economic and social transitions, the exhibition also questions how rare skills are passed on and evolve, the availability of raw materials, production methods and the search for more sustainable practices. Duos en Résonances reminds us of the enduring value of the complementarity between design and craft in rethinking the objects and environments of tomorrow.
The exhibition brings together five duos that combine artisanal know-how with contemporary approaches: woodturner Hugh Roche Kelly and designer Heleen Sintobin; glass artist and glassblower Héloïse Colrat and designer Nicolas Verschaeve; gardener and natural dyer Gabriel Beaulieu and designer Sep Verboom; basket makers Jeanny Bouwen and Jefke Geysels with designer Lucile Soufflet; and, finally, leather goods workshop Niyona and design collective Studio Part. Through their exploration of materials, techniques and applications, each duo investigates new ways of designing and making objects.
By hosting the fifth edition of Duos en Résonances, Design Museum Brussels and Wallonie Design reaffirm their shared ambition to provide visibility and opportunities for research and knowledge transfer within contemporary design and craft practices. This collaboration fully aligns with the museum’s mission: to present design as a reflection of the cultural, technical, economic and social developments shaping our society, while supporting a transversal and accessible approach to creativity.
Duos en Résonances is a project conceived and overseen by Wallonie Design, realised with the support of the SofinaBoël Fund for Education and Talent, managed by the King Baudouin Foundation.
The exhibition has been made possible thanks to the support of the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, in partnership with the Design Museum Brussels.
Design Museum Brussels
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Duos en Résonances
80s & 90s. Design, graphics and fashion in Belgium
From 7 April to 12 September 2027 the Design Museum Brussels presents 80s & 90s. Design, graphics and fashion in Belgium , an exhibition co-organised with the Fashion & Lace Museum.
The exhibition explores the ways in which product, graphic and fashion design evolved throughout the 1980s and 1990s in Belgium. The combined effects of globalisation, state decentralisation and exponential technological progress, among other shifts, charted a new map of possibilities and challenges for the design field.
Global events impacted design in Belgium in surprising ways during these two decades. Design became ever more present and transformed into a financial asset in a new creative economy. In this context, Belgium consolidated its privileged geographical position as a centre for international exchange. Moreover, design was not immune to a climate of international sociopolitical agitation, against the backdrop of the rise of European identity. On the state level, promotional platforms mutated and new notions of national representation emerged. Following federalisation, public institutions and new regional governance bodies opened up numerous opportunities for the development of design proposals.
80s & 90s. Design, graphics and fashion in Belgium explores what it meant to design in Belgium on a global, national and regional level. It investigates how designers navigated a fragmented market which valued different scales of production, from one-offs to mass-manufactured products. The exhibition aims to show a diversity of approaches following a thematical structure that spans several fields of design such as ceramics, glass, clothing, textiles, furniture, electronics, lighting, ephemera, posters and logotypes. It surveys how design systems and technological changes shaped creation and reflects on how designers used their skills to support their professional fields, cultural institutions and ideological beliefs.
Exhibition highlights include the colourful sculpture furniture of Pieter De Bruyne; a silver condom holder by Nedda El-Asmar; the graphic identity of the Museum of Modern Art in Queens by Base Design; the design project for the euro coins by Luc Luycx; Tupperware lines designed and produced in Belgium clothing by the Antwerp Six & Martin Margiela; graphic work by Anne Kurris, Gorik Lindemans and Michel Olyff; and furniture made by Ann Demeulemeester, Pol Quadens, Ola-Dele Kuku, Lydia Kümel and Claire Bataille & Paul Ibens.
With 80s & 90s. Design, graphics and fashion in Belgium , the Design Museum Brussels continues its consistent efforts in highlighting important aspects of Belgian design history, here offering an immersion into a little-known yet fundamental period that shaped the design field as we know it today.
Design Museum Brussels
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80s & 90s. Design, graphics and fashion in Belgium