Kanal - Opening weekend
Kanal opens 28 & 29.11.2026
Kanal opens! For a whole weekend, wall-to-wall, non-stop. With ten exhibitions and a host of live
performances and opening rituals, concerts and DJ sets, films and installations, workshops for
kids and families, as well as explorations and activations of the new building and its surroundings.
All free of charge.
Kanal - Centre Pompidou
Brussels
Festival
Kanal - Opening weekend
ArtContest 22nd Edition
ATOMA Art Center
Forest
Exhibitions
ArtContest 22nd Edition
Ali Cherri - 'Soul Witness'
For the first time, several of Ali Cherri’s major bodies of work are gathered, including his upcoming film The Sentinel (2026). Alongside, a series of sculptures, watercolour drawings and installations act as a sustained inquiry into how institutions of power — the nation-state, the military and even the museum — shape the ways history is constructed and remembered.
Wiels - Contemporary art centre
Forest
Exhibitions
Ali Cherri - 'Soul Witness'
The Shape of Elsewhere
Marcel Berlanger, Raoul De Keyser, Sanam Khatibi, Thomas Lerooy, Sam Moyer, Stephen Shore, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Gert and Uwe Tobias
Rodolphe Janssen
Ixelles
Exhibitions
The Shape of Elsewhere
Alessandro Teoldi - 'Le piccole cose'
Sorry We're Closed
Brussels
Exhibitions
Alessandro Teoldi - 'Le piccole cose'
Habiter le paysage - sous le commissariat d’Amélie Adamo
Ronan Barrot, Vincent Bioulès, Jean-Marie Bytebier, Damien Cabanes, Guy De Malherbe, Patrice Giorda
Alexandre Hollan, Abel Pradalié, Gérard Traquandi
Galerie La Forest Divonne
Brussels
Exhibitions
Habiter le paysage - sous le commissariat d’Amélie Adamo
Brankica Žilović - 'Tellurique'
Galerie Emilie Dujat
Ixelles
Exhibitions
Brankica Žilović - 'Tellurique'
Michael Kenna - ' Beautiful Fukushima'
box galerie
Ixelles
Exhibitions
Michael Kenna - ' Beautiful Fukushima'
Lieve Lambrecht - 'La dame au chapeau en verre'
JAP / Vitrine Rivoli
Uccle
Exhibitions
Lieve Lambrecht - 'La dame au chapeau en verre'
Danny Moynihan - 'Prometheus'
Nino Mier Gallery
Brussels
Exhibitions
Danny Moynihan - 'Prometheus'
Pierre Alechinsky
Le Salon d'Art
Saint-Gilles
Exhibitions
Pierre Alechinsky
FAME 2026
Femmes Artistes - Mouvement Engagé
In honor of Mary CASSATT (1844-1926)
Curated by Flavie Durand-Ruel
A group show of 16 women artists:
Pauline Bazignan, Sophie Blanc, Raphaële De Broissia, Françoise Catalàa, Carole Chebron, Sacha Floch Poliakoff, Estelle Garcia Blanco, Anne Giscard, D'Estaing, Barbara Kandiyoti, Sophie de Laporte, Carmen Mariscal, Lucy Orta, Françoise Pétrovitch, Fab Rideti, Patricia De Solages, Hogétsu Takahashi
Frédérick Mouraux Gallery
Uccle
Exhibitions
FAME 2026
Cheikha Sigil - 'Sous les jupes de sa mère'
Cloud Seven - Frédéric de Goldschmidt Collection
Brussels
Exhibitions
Cheikha Sigil - 'Sous les jupes de sa mère'
MAD Parcours: Casual/Fashion
For this year’s edition, Cloud Seven joins MAD Parcours with a program dedicated to fashion, featuring a monumental installation by designer and teacher Cheikha Sigil and a dance performance by Pi Wos.
Born and based in Dakar, Cheikha Bamba lives in Brussels where he teaches at ERG. He founded SIGIL in 2004 and is the artistic director of Espace Médina, an independent space at the heart of the city’s cultural life. For MAD Parcours, Cheikha enters Casual/Tease, the Brussels chapter of The Memorial for Those Who Did Not Fall in War at Cloud Seven, presenting Sous le regard de la jupe de ma mère… un autre regard, a monumental dress installation born from the experience of African mothers who have had to send their young children to war. Visitors are invited to put their heads beneath an enormous skirt and return, for a moment, to a very basic childhood memory: hiding beneath our mother’s dress, perhaps the first shelter we ever knew. But the dress is full of holes shaped like faces. What should conceal and protect suddenly exposes, opening that childhood refuge onto the systematic vulnerability of children to war.
Program:
Thursday 12 November – MAD Parcours: Opening
12:00-21:00 Unveiling of Sous le regard de la jupe de ma mère… un autre regard, a monumental dress installation by Cheikha Sigil
16:30-17:30 Meet & Greet: Cheikha Sigil
Saturday 14 November – Casual/Fashion
12:00-18:00 Exhibition visit with the mediators
16:30-17:30 Meet & Greet: Cheikha Sigil
18:00-18:30 Pi Wos: Dance Performance
Sous le regard de la jupe de ma mère… un autre regard
18:30-19:00 Cloud Bar
For the final day, Senegalese dancer and choreographer Pi Wos joins Cheikha Sigil for a dance performance conceived in dialogue with the installation. A former dancer with the National Ballet of Senegal and founder of PIAMART, Pi Wos enters into a physical exchange with the monumental dress, exploring the encounter between two bodies, one seeking protection, the other unable to guarantee it.
Free admission. Registration is advised for Saturday 14 November.
Cheikha Sigil, Pi Wos.
Cloud Seven - Frédéric de Goldschmidt Collection
Brussels
Exhibitions
MAD Parcours: Casual/Fashion
Veronika Eberhart
Affiliate (Wiels)
Brussels
Exhibitions
Veronika Eberhart
Floryan Varennes - 'Floryan Varennes'
Irène Laub Gallery
Ixelles
Exhibitions
Floryan Varennes - 'Floryan Varennes'
Fabrice Souvereyns - ‘Wireless Connection’
Hopstreet Gallery
Ixelles
Exhibitions
Fabrice Souvereyns - ‘Wireless Connection’
What Remains … : Ballet, Bonardet, Bouchard, Brueder, Delprat, Dumortier, Guzman, Hocks, Mercier, Van de Velde, …
After six years of encounters, exhibitions, projects and fairs, the Michèle Schoonjans Gallery brings together, for the first time, all the artists with whom it works. What Remains… invites visitors to discover how their singular approaches speak to one another across a wide range of media, techniques and scales
How do we give form to what escapes immediate perception? Light, elusive and ever-changing, has long been one of art history’s great motifs, and artists have never stopped studying its variations and testing its limits. Michiko Van de Velde observes it in its most fleeting appearances. Nicolas Delprat explores it through layering and erasure, where light seems to surface without ever fully revealing itself. In Natacha Mercier’s works, darkness shifts the conditions of seeing, at the very edge of the visible.
But this attempt to grasp the ungraspable reaches beyond light itself. It asks how an experience, a sensation or an observation of the world can become form. After six years of encounters, exhibitions, projects and fairs, the Michèle Schoonjans Gallery brings together, for the first time, all the artists with whom it works. What Remains… invites visitors to discover how their singular approaches speak to one another across a wide range of media, techniques and scales.
Some artists unsettle our sense of time and reality. Luis Guzman’s spaces seem suspended outside the rhythm of everyday life, while Sam Ballet’s meticulous drawings hover between dream and reality. Laurent Dumortier weaves narrative, memory and strangeness to reveal a more uncertain side of the real. Rather than representing the world, these practices shift its contours, bringing to light what usually lingers at the margins of perception. As for Xavier Duffaut, he reappropriates the codes of popular culture and contemporary technologies to create situations in which fiction, irony and social critique converge.
Landscape and architecture offer other ways of questioning our relationship with reality. Jean-Baptiste Brueder explores the transformations of the urban environment, reworking its materials and gestures to offer new ways of interpreting it. Drawing on LiDAR surveys and scientific data, Jérôme Bouchard brings to light territories made visible through specialised observation tools. Manon Sarah Thirriot, meanwhile, approaches space through memory and sensory experience. Bea Sarrias explores architecture through painting, depicting modernist interiors in which light, objects and perspectives suggest human presence without ever depicting it directly. Space thus becomes a place of interpretation, shaped by transformations and by distinctive ways of inhabiting it.
Photography brings its own perspective to this question. Scarlett Hooft Graafland stages ephemeral interventions in remote places, mixing poetry, humour and strangeness. Denis Brihat reveals the forms of the living world through patient observation and meticulous processes. Danielle Kwaaitaal reshapes how reality is represented through her work on the image, and Teun Hocks blends photography, painting and staging until reality and fiction become hard to tell apart. Together, their images speak as much of what appears as of the transformations that make its appearance possible.
This research extends into the materiality of the works. Toru Hamada’s paintings reveal a particular attention to the relationship between material and form. Between drawing and sculpture, Mathieu Bonardet explores the relationships between line, surface and volume, in a dialogue between graphite and steel. Mathieu Meijers develops a drawing practice, on paper and at mural scale, on the border between abstraction and figuration, where drawing and painting meet. Tom Henderson composes pared-back works in which objects, materials and variations of light engage in an active relationship with space and the viewer. Elium’s practice draws on fiction to question everyday realities and contemporary tensions.
Across drawing, painting, photography, sculpture and installation, the same attention to gesture, process and material runs through the exhibition. Each practice rests on deep knowledge of its medium and on research built over time. Technical mastery, at times close to craftsmanship, is never an end in itself: it allows an intuition to take form, an experience to become image and an idea to find its materiality. The range of formats, from the most intimate works to more expansive pieces, reflects the variety of relationships the artists establish with space and with the viewer’s gaze.
It is in this plurality that the identity of the Michèle Schoonjans Gallery takes shape. Its artists share neither a single medium nor a uniform aesthetic. What unites them is the singularity of their research, the rigour of their execution and their attention to the relationship between idea, gesture and matter. By bringing these practices together, the gallery affirms an outlook built on the diversity of artistic languages and on letting them converse without erasing what makes each one distinct.
The title What Remains… points to what endures at the end of these processes: not necessarily a fixed form, but a trace, a sensation or an image whose resonance outlasts its appearance. Each artist will present a selection of works, some recent and some older, offering a view of research in motion, of continuities and shifts, and of six years of collaboration and trust.
What Remains… marks a stage in a story that is still being written. It invites visitors to discover the diversity of practices gathered by the gallery, and to observe what, from one work to the next, persists, transforms and opens up new ways of seeing.
Noémie Nomberg
Sam Ballet, Mathieu Bonardet, Jérôme Bouchard, Denis Brihat,
Jean-Baptiste Brueder, Nicolas Delprat, Laurent Dumortier, Xavier Duffaut,
Elium, Luis Guzman, Toru Hamada, Tom Henderson, Teun Hocks,
Scarlett Hooft Graafland, Danielle Kwaaitaal, Mathieu Meijers,
Natacha Mercier, Bea Sarrias, Manon Sarah Thirriot, Michiko Van de Velde
Michèle Schoonjans Gallery
Uccle
Exhibitions
What Remains … : Ballet, Bonardet, Bouchard, Brueder, Delprat, Dumortier, Guzman, Hocks, Mercier, Van de Velde, …
Louis-Cyprien Rials
Galerie Eric Mouchet
Forest
Exhibitions
Louis-Cyprien Rials
David Smalling - 'Flemish Light'
Templon
Saint-Gilles
Exhibitions
David Smalling - 'Flemish Light'
T.J. Wilcox - 'The Rose Garden'
Gladstone Gallery
Brussels
Exhibitions
T.J. Wilcox - 'The Rose Garden'
Léo Luccioni - 'Bananer, Chapter One'
Stems Gallery
Ixelles
Exhibitions
Léo Luccioni - 'Bananer, Chapter One'
Francisco Mendes Moreira - 'Unlonely'
When you cast your eyes upon a painting by Francisco Mendes Moreira, you are like a commuter standing at the edge of the platform, resisting the pull of a high-speed train rushing past at full speed. His painting opens a window onto a vertiginous and hypnotic unconscious.
What I mean by this is that a first glance is not enough to grasp the full extent of its magnetic power. The pictorial energy emanating from Francisco’s work reminds me of a sensation I experienced at the Museum of Modern Art when standing before a work by Max Beckmann, Max Ernst, Soutine and, of course, Picasso. Yet his universe may be closer to that of Frida Kahlo and René Magritte. The game of comparisons says more about the critic than about the painting itself, but the superlative nature of these comparisons reflects my conviction of the artistic excellence of the subject I am defending here.
Alice Gallery
Ixelles
Exhibitions
Francisco Mendes Moreira - 'Unlonely'
René Heyvaert
Lodovico Corsini
Saint-Gilles
Exhibitions
René Heyvaert
mountaincutters
Meessen
Brussels
Exhibitions
mountaincutters
Robin Wen
Belgian Gallery
Brussels
Exhibitions
Robin Wen
Joris Vanpoucke - 'Shifting landscapes'
Whitehouse Gallery
Saint-Gilles
Exhibitions
Joris Vanpoucke - 'Shifting landscapes'
Monica Gallab
Etablissement d'en face
Brussels
Exhibitions
Monica Gallab
Liliane Vertessen
Galerie Christophe Gaillard
Brussels
Exhibitions
Liliane Vertessen
Daniel Fleur - 'Good for You'
EDJI Gallery
Ixelles
Exhibitions
Daniel Fleur - 'Good for You'
OYA - 'Umbrellas'
JAP / Vitrine "Entre deux portes"
Brussels
Exhibitions
OYA - 'Umbrellas'
John McAllister - 'some ecstasies enthrall'
Almine Rech
Ixelles
Exhibitions
John McAllister - 'some ecstasies enthrall'
Karel Appel - 'Lithographs from the Archive'
Almine Rech
Ixelles
Exhibitions
Karel Appel - 'Lithographs from the Archive'
Etienne Pottier - 'Le sacrifice des IDOLS'
Galerie DYS
Ixelles
Exhibitions
Etienne Pottier - 'Le sacrifice des IDOLS'
Paola Pezzi - 'The Ordinary Infinite'
Lee-Bauwens Gallery presents The Ordinary Infinite, its fourth exhibition devoted to the Italian artist Paola Pezzi.
Since the late 1980s, Paola Pezzi has transformed humble materials, such as felt, rubber, pencils and spools of thread, into spirals, discs and spheres that evoke miniature galaxies. Every fold and every twist keeps the trace of the hand that shaped it. The critic Alberto Mattia Martini speaks of a "domestic cosmogony", in which the infinite resides in the most ordinary objects.
Drawing on the legacy of Arte Povera, Paola Pezzi presents her recent works, pared-down forms that seem to grow like living organisms.
Lee Bauwens Gallery
Forest
Exhibitions
Paola Pezzi - 'The Ordinary Infinite'
The Logic of Place : Shawanda Corbett, Pam Glick, Naotaka Hiro, Emily Kraus, Brie Ruais
Maruani Mercier
Ixelles
Exhibitions
The Logic of Place : Shawanda Corbett, Pam Glick, Naotaka Hiro, Emily Kraus, Brie Ruais
Time is an Emotional Muscle
group exhibition with Martha Araùjo, Charbel-Joseph Boutros, Deyson Gilbert, Barbara Hammer, Hudinilson Jr., Miriam Kongstad, Monilola, Lydia Okumura, Marco Siciliano, Franz Erhard Walther.
Galeria Jaqueline Martins
Brussels
Exhibitions
Time is an Emotional Muscle
Nissrine Seffar – 'Les restes du Silence'
Galerie Faider
Saint-Gilles
Exhibitions
Nissrine Seffar – 'Les restes du Silence'
Something Is Not Quite Right
Peter Gaugy Gallery
Brussels
Exhibitions
Something Is Not Quite Right
Lesley Vance
Xavier Hufkens
Ixelles
Exhibitions
Lesley Vance
Marianne Behaeghel - 'Steal life'
The Palm Beach
Forest
Exhibitions
Marianne Behaeghel - 'Steal life'
Pez - 'If i played the world'
Mazel Galerie
Ixelles
Exhibitions
Pez - 'If i played the world'
Slow Odradek Days : Eric Audoubert, Aika Furukawa, Atinka Di Muro, Etienne Tribolet, Dawo Zhang
Odradek XL
Ixelles
Exhibitions
Slow Odradek Days : Eric Audoubert, Aika Furukawa, Atinka Di Muro, Etienne Tribolet, Dawo Zhang
Past Continuous - Gereon Krebber, Semyon Agroskin, Anne Marie Finné, Igor Ost
In-Gate Gallery
Ixelles
Exhibitions
Past Continuous - Gereon Krebber, Semyon Agroskin, Anne Marie Finné, Igor Ost
Christa Näher
KIN
Brussels
Exhibitions
Christa Näher
Lee Mullican - 'Ritual Sounds'
Greta Meert
Brussels
Exhibitions
Lee Mullican - 'Ritual Sounds'
Johannes Wald - 'things from dust'
Greta Meert
Brussels
Exhibitions
Johannes Wald - 'things from dust'
Sasha Kurmaz - 'Liturgie des jours'
Galerie La Patinoire Royale Bach
Saint-Gilles
Exhibitions
Sasha Kurmaz - 'Liturgie des jours'
Dien Berziga - 'Quiet People'
Galerie Nathalie Obadia
Ixelles
Exhibitions
Dien Berziga - 'Quiet People'
Group Show Galerie
Julie Calbert, Simon Vansteenwinckel, Marie Sordat, Silvano Magnone, Damien Daufresne,
Martin Bogren, Sébastien Cuvelier, Chloé Azzopardi, Katherine Longly.
Galerie L'Enfant Sauvage
Brussels
Exhibitions
Group Show Galerie
Geert Goiris - 'First Person'
BEIGE
Brussels
Exhibitions
Geert Goiris - 'First Person'
Le Savon, et cetera :Isabel Banal, Teresa Estapé, Michel François, Olga Holzschuh, Robert Kleyn, Rokko Miyoshi, Pieter Laurens Mol, Louis Porter, Xana Sousa, Alba Yruela…
Chiquita Room
Ixelles
Exhibitions
Le Savon, et cetera :Isabel Banal, Teresa Estapé, Michel François, Olga Holzschuh, Robert Kleyn, Rokko Miyoshi, Pieter Laurens Mol, Louis Porter, Xana Sousa, Alba Yruela…
Jehoshua Rozenman - 'Echoes of Glass'
Galerie Fontana
Brussels
Exhibitions
Jehoshua Rozenman - 'Echoes of Glass'
Bela Silva - 'Mythologies of Being'
Spazio Nobile Studiolo
Ixelles
Exhibitions
Bela Silva - 'Mythologies of Being'
Liu Chien Kuang - 'Ethereal Geology'
Spazio Nobile Gallery
Ixelles
Exhibitions
Liu Chien Kuang - 'Ethereal Geology'
Sara Manente, Sandrine Schiller, Chris Tegho - 'ecomposing Or Speech of Words Before the Tongue Was Made'
n0dine
Brussels
Exhibitions
Sara Manente, Sandrine Schiller, Chris Tegho - 'ecomposing Or Speech of Words Before the Tongue Was Made'
Louis-Cyprien Rials - 'La mémoire de la Matière'
Galerie Eric Mouchet
Forest
Exhibitions
Louis-Cyprien Rials - 'La mémoire de la Matière'
Capsule Cosy #2 Art & Design Group Show
Esther Verhaeghe - Art Concepts
Ixelles
Exhibitions
Capsule Cosy #2 Art & Design Group Show
Christiane Blattmann
Damien & The Love Guru
Saint-Gilles
Exhibitions
Christiane Blattmann
Continuum : LMNO’s artist / Les artistes de LMNO
LMNO
Brussels
Exhibitions
Continuum : LMNO’s artist / Les artistes de LMNO
Aleksandra Chaushova
Nosbaum Reding Bruxelles
Ixelles
Exhibitions
Aleksandra Chaushova
Fabienne Verdier
Patrick Derom Gallery
Brussels
Exhibitions
Fabienne Verdier
Manu vB Tintoré
Belgian Gallery
Brussels
Exhibitions
Manu vB Tintoré
Camille Orso Caël
Affiliate (Wiels)
Brussels
Exhibitions
Camille Orso Caël
Alfredo Aceto - 'Water, WIELS, Woodworms, Molygramite, Joseph'
BEIGE
Brussels
Exhibitions
Alfredo Aceto - 'Water, WIELS, Woodworms, Molygramite, Joseph'
Kendell Geers and guests
Galerie Eric Mouchet
Forest
Exhibitions
Kendell Geers and guests
Lia D Castro - 'Ao descansar’
Galeria Jaqueline Martins
Brussels
Exhibitions
Lia D Castro - 'Ao descansar’