Activiteiten voor de Herfstvakantie
Museum of Medecine (ULB)
Anderlecht
Animations
Activiteiten voor de Herfstvakantie
Animatorcursus met Kazou
GC De Kriekelaar
Schaerbeek
Courses and workshops
Animatorcursus met Kazou
Visite du Musée + Animations de l'Halloween
Fantastic Art Museum
Saint-Gilles
Animations
Visite du Musée + Animations de l'Halloween
Pink Screens Festival
25 years and still going strong!
Pink Screens is celebrating its 25th edition. Almost a quarter of a century of showing queer films, shaking things up on screen, stirring up desires, strong emotions, and ideas… and clearly, we still have no intention of slowing down. For this anniversary edition, yellow and fuchsia are once again taking over the cinemas and cultural venues in the centre of Brussels. Films, discussions, readings, performances, meet-and-greets, parties, and a few surprises: at 25, we can still go all out.
Genres d'à côté - Pink Screens
Brussels
Festival
Pink Screens Festival
Filem'On - International Film Festival for Young Audiences
Filem’On, the International Film Festival for Young Audiences in Brussels, is celebrating its 20th edition with a spectacular program. From October 25 to November 7, schools, families, and groups with children aged 2 to 16 are warmly invited to discover the festival.
Filem’On, the International Film Festival for Young Audiences in Brussels, is celebrating its 20th edition with a spectacular program. From October 25 to November 7, schools, families, and groups with children aged 2 to 16 are warmly invited to discover the festival.
Under the theme “Filem’On Flashes", the festival presents over 130 international films—both past and present—spanning all genres and formats.
Come to the festival to meet the directors and actors behind brilliant films, sign up for one of the many workshops, or get swept away by the Ciné-concert at the festive opening. And don’t forget to vote for the Audience Award, presented on closing night (everyone welcome!).
Are you a young film fan? Looking for a fun family outing during the autumn break? Visit Brussels' most beautiful cinemas for a film-tastic adventure!
Filem'on asbl
Brussels
Cinema
Filem'On - International Film Festival for Young Audiences
Mini-Golf Halloween
CAF - Centre d'Art Fantastique
Saint-Gilles
Animations
Mini-Golf Halloween
Mind of a Serial Killer : The Experience
Step into the twisted minds of history’s most notorious murderers at Mind of a Serial Killer in Brussels! Explore chillingly accurate crime scene recreations, decode evidence, and master criminal profiling. This immersive 90-minute journey at Tour & Taxis goes beyond the headlines to reveal the dark psychology of killers like Dahmer and Bundy. Dare to solve the case? (376 characters)
Are you ready to confront the darkest corners of the human mind? Mind of a Serial Killer: The Experience has arrived in Brussels, inviting you on a chilling, immersive 30-stop journey through the psychology and history of the world's most notorious murderers. Located at Tour & Taxis, this extraordinary exhibition goes far beyond the true-crime headlines.
Step straight into the eerily accurate recreations of infamous crime scenes—from Ted Bundy's Beetle to Jeffrey Dahmer's kitchen. But you won't just be a spectator. You’ll step into the shoes of a lead investigator! Examine victimology reports, decode hidden evidence, and learn the real forensic profiling techniques used to bring these monsters to justice. You can even strap in for a gripping VR experience to help solve a case in real-time.
Designed for mature audiences (16+), the 90 to 120-minute experience does not glorify the killers. Instead, it dissects the psychology of what drives a person to commit unthinkable acts, explores how these real-life horrors inspired Hollywood blockbusters, and creates a space to respectfully honor the slain victims. Discover the unsettling link between reality and fiction. Do you have what it takes to face the darkness?
Tour & Taxis
Brussels
Exhibitions
Mind of a Serial Killer : The Experience
Tour guidé en bus Hop-on Hop-off
Discover the wonders of Brussels on board Tootbus Brussels. This 100% electric, silent bus covers the capital's “must sees”. The line has 12 stops, where you can hop on and off as you please. Take a ride on these double-decker buses and enjoy the breathtaking views of the capital's jewels. On board, audio commentaries are available in eleven languages - French, English, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Arabic
Tootbus Brussels
Brussels
Guided tours
Tour guidé en bus Hop-on Hop-off
De Troostboom (The Comfort Tree)
The Comfort Tree invites you to pause and reflect on loss. You can do so on your own or by taking part in one of the act
The Comfort Tree embraces you in your grief. Whether you are experiencing the loss of a loved one, the loss of something you can no longer do, the loss of a pet, a move, or any other form of loss… the tree welcomes all the emotions that come with it. The Comfort Tree invites you to take your time, to write, hang a name in the tree, or create your own small ritual. You are warmly welcome at The Comfort Tree, throughout the opening hours of GC Ten Weyngaert. Discover workshops and activities organised by, among others, Citizenne-Avansa, GC Ten Weyngaert, Pass’Ages, De Wereldbrug and Vorst Library.
GC Ten Weyngaert
Forest
Courses and workshops
De Troostboom (The Comfort Tree)
Expo Verscheuring
GC Ten Noey
Saint-Josse-Ten-Noode
Guided tours
Expo Verscheuring
Bruxelles sur Scènes, the Café-theatre festival
Various locations in the Brussels Capital Region
Brussels
Festival
Bruxelles sur Scènes, the Café-theatre festival
Mois du Doc 2026
Various places in Brussels
Brussels
Cinema
Mois du Doc 2026
The Children's Museum on display !
Children’s Museum
Ixelles
Animations
The Children's Museum on display !
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
Laeken
Exhibitions
Identita - The Story of Czech Graphic Design
Halloween at Owaza Etterbeek: dress up, play & enjoy a little surprise!
This autumn break, Owaza Etterbeek is getting into the Halloween spirit! From October 19 to November 8, 2026, children can come dressed up to play in our indoor play park and receive a little surprise.
On Sunday, November 1, we're also hosting the Owaza Halloween Special, a fun Halloween afternoon featuring face painting for kids!
This autumn break, Owaza Etterbeek is getting into the Halloween spirit! From October 19 to November 8, 2026, children can come dressed up to play in our indoor play park and receive a little surprise.
On Sunday, November 1, we're also hosting the Owaza Halloween Special, a fun Halloween afternoon featuring face painting for kids!
Come in costume and get a little surprise!
Witches, monsters, superheroes or imaginary characters: all costumes are welcome during our Halloween celebrations!
Put on your favourite costume and come climb, slide and explore our indoor play park, designed for children aged 3 to 12.
Owaza Halloween Special on November 1
Something extra special is happening on Sunday, November 1! During the Owaza Halloween Special, children can enjoy an afternoon of play with an exciting Halloween activity.
Our professional face painters will transform children into their favourite characters. A brave tiger, a little witch or a colourful butterfly? The choice is theirs!
The Owaza Halloween Special takes place on Sunday, November 1, with two time slots between 1 PM and 5 PM. Discover the offer and book your tickets online!
Owaza Etterbeek
Etterbeek
Animations
Halloween at Owaza Etterbeek: dress up, play & enjoy a little surprise!
Halloween@Mini-Europe
During the autumn holidays, Mini-Europe offers Halloween@Mini-Europe. For two weeks, this is an opportunity to immerse yourself in the world of Halloween and its classic, life-size decorations, witches and pumpkins. It is above all an opportunity to discover how the mini skeletons and mini zombies have turned the miniature world of Mini-Europe upside down.
Tremble in fear on Halloween@Mini-Europe
During the autumn holidays, Mini-Europe offers Halloween@Mini-Europe. For two weeks, this is an opportunity to immerse yourself in the world of Halloween and its classic, life-size decorations, witches and pumpkins. It is above all an opportunity to discover how the mini skeletons and mini zombies have turned the miniature world of Mini-Europe upside down. Spiders have invaded the Eiffel Tower and zombies (good mummy and her little girl) create a crazy and humorous amusement park. Of course, Mini-Europe would not be Mini-Europe if a cultural feature was not added by describing the fate of witches in the Middle Ages or the story of Frankenstein for example.
From October 17 to November 8, Mini-Europe makes you tremble with fear – but also shiver with pleasure. For the occasion, the park takes on the colors of Halloween: hundreds of skeletons and monsters have turned the park upside down. It’s a party for skeletons and zombies in the Lunapark but also in and under the cemetery. What happened with the plane crash at the airport? And over there, is it the ghost train or the train of ghosts? There will be thousands of details to observe. Let’s also mention the revolt of the figurines against the model maker: in their turn to crush his arms, to drill him, to glue him and to paint him.
True to its reputation, Mini-Europe makes it a point of honor to entertain its visitors with fun and humor, but also to highlight our European heritage. Would you like to know the origins of the Halloween tradition? Not afraid of the darkest witch stories of the Middle Ages? Then you are making the right choice by visiting Mini-Europe during the autumn holidays.
Additional entertainment is planned for October 30 and 31 as well as November 1
From October 30 to November 1, our familiar 1/25 scale models will be visited by live actors and extras who will bring the park even more to life. For three days, visitors will benefit from additional entertainment. During your visit, you may come across a balloon-sculpting Bellboy looking for his haunted hotel, a pirate in search of adventure who will challenge you to a sword fight or the angel of death who will freeze your blood!
A make-up stand will allow visitors to treat themselves to an even more marked horror look.
Mini-Europe
Laeken
Animations
Halloween@Mini-Europe
MashaaDunya Festival
Various places in Brussels
Brussels
Festival
MashaaDunya Festival
Exposition Géographie humaine
Two photographers. Two paths. Two sensibilities.
And yet, a shared need: to observe the human spirit.
For over fifty years, Baudoin Lotin has traveled the world with a camera that seems constantly to seek out the human encounter.
Daniel Boreux is a general practitioner and... a photographer.
He, too, photographs people, but with a more intimate and contemplative approach.
"Human Geography" Exhibition – Baudoin Lotin and Daniel Boreux
Two photographers. Two journeys. Two sensibilities.
And yet, a shared need: to observe the human experience.
For over fifty years, Baudoin Lotin has traveled the world with a camera, seemingly seeking out human encounters rather than specific events. His images focus on gestures, faces, bodies, silences, and the ordinary scenes that—better than any long-winded explanation—tell the stories of men and women. It is a deeply human, attentive, and committed form of photography, where the distance between the observer and the observed tends to vanish.
Daniel Boreux is a general practitioner and... a photographer.
He, too, photographs the human experience, but with a more intimate and contemplative approach.
His images often seem to capture things in their primal simplicity: a body, a presence, a posture, a fragment of life. His gaze rests quietly, paying special attention to what might easily go unnoticed.
Their photographs do not tell the same stories.
They are not taken from the same vantage point.
But they look in the same direction.
Exhibition from October 1 to November 29.
Opening reception: October 1, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
Baxton Gallery – Place de la Vieille Halle aux Blés 29, 1000 Brussels.
Photographers : Baudoin Lotin and Daniel Boreux
Studio Baxton
Brussels
Exhibitions
Exposition Géographie humaine
Pink Memories: from Stonewall (1969) to the emergence of AIDS (1982): queer cinema between self-affirmation, activism and sexual liberation
Hidden, ashamed, and ostracized for decades!
In the 1970s, films began to openly address the lives and demands of gay men, lesbians, and transgender people.
One of the catalysts for these changes was the Stonewall Riots, during which gay men, lesbians, transgender people, sex workers, and homeless youth who frequented the bar took to the streets to respond to daily harassment by the police.
Other factors, such as the sexual revolution and the rise of feminist movements, contributed to the emergence of films in which gay and lesbian characters are (almost) like any other fictional characters, and activist films advocating for equal rights.
On the occasion of its 25th edition, the Pink Screens festival invites you to explore this brief period when screens flourished with films free of taboos and increasingly provocative—films featuring liberated queer people, far removed from the victimization that had been their lot in previous decades.
This diverse—though by no means exhaustive—retrospective is scheduled primarily at Cinematek throughout November.
A lecture by Didier Roth-Bettoni, author of the book “QUEER CINEMA 1895–2025,” will be held on Tuesday, November 3, at 7:00 p.m. at LaVallée (39 Rue Adolphe Lavallée - Molenbeek). The theme will be: FROM STONEWALL (1969) TO THE EMERGENCE OF AIDS (1982): QUEER CINEMA BETWEEN ACTIVISM AND SEXUAL LIBERATION.
Program:
29/10 - 21:30 - Cinéma Aventure : Stand Up For Your Rights (session of political shorts)
30/10 - 19:15 - Cinéma Aventure : Johan
31/10 - 14:00 - Cinéma NOVA : Born in flames
31/10 - 21:30 - Cinéma Palace : The Rocky Horror Picture Show
02/11 - 21:30 - Cinematek : Sunday Bloody Sunday
03/11 - 19:30 - LaVallée : Conférence de Didier Roth-Bettoni
04/11 - 19:00 - Cinematek : Sebastiane
05/11 - 19:00 - Cinematek : Hélène, trésore transnationale
06/11 - 19:00 - Cinematek : Cruising
07/11 - 21:00 - Cinematek : Mineshaft:The Cruising Murders
08/11 - 20:30 - Cinematek : Cambio de Sexo
09/11 - 18:00 - Cinematek : Miss O'Gynie et les Hommes fleurs
10/11 - 20:00 - Cinematek : Céline et Julie vont en bateau
15/11 - 18:00 - Cinematek : Cambio de Sexo
15/11 - 19:00 - Cinematek : Laberinto de Pasiones (le labyrinthe des passions)
16/11 - 20:00 - Cinematek : Miss O'Gynie et les Hommes fleurs
17/11 - 21:00 - Cinematek : Heat
18/11 - 18:00 - Cinematek : Un autre regard
19/11 - 21:15 - Cinematek : Pink Flamingos
20/11 - 18:00 - Cinematek : Les tueurs fous
20/11 - 21:00 - Cinematek : Les lèvres rouges
21/11 - 19:00 - Cinematek : Glissements progressifs du plaisir
21/11 - 20:00 - Cinematek : Céline et Julie vont en bateau
22/11 - 19:00 - Cinematek : Le Décameron
23/11 - 20:00 - Cinematek : Un autre regard
23/11 - 21:15 - Cinematek : Faustrecht der Freiheit (Le droit du plus fort)
25/11 - 18:00 - Cinematek : Ce n'est pas l'homosexuel qui est pervers, mais la société dans laquelle il vit
26/11 - 20:15 - Cinematek : Les tueurs fous
28/11 - 17:00 - Cinematek : A Bigger Splash
30/11 - 20:00 - Cinematek : Ce n'est pas l'homosexuel qui est pervers, mais la société dans laquelle il vit
30/11 - 21:00 - Cinematek : Je t'aime, moi non plus
Cinematek
Brussels
Cinema
Pink Memories: from Stonewall (1969) to the emergence of AIDS (1982): queer cinema between self-affirmation, activism and sexual liberation
Kurt Peiser and the Marolles
In its final exhibition before the gallery is refurbished, the Parenthesis Space will be presenting the realistic and sensitive works of Kurt Peiser. In 2025, the Museum acquired 79 of his works. Discover around thirty of these pieces, which bear witness to everyday life and the history of the Marolles district during the interwar period.
In its final exhibition before the gallery is refurbished, the Parenthesis Space will be presenting the realistic and sensitive works of Kurt Peiser. In 2025, the Museum acquired 79 of his works. Discover around thirty of these pieces, which bear witness to everyday life and the history of the Marolles district during the interwar period.
Kurt Peiser (1887–1962), takes an honest yet sensitive view of his adopted home city of Brussels. He walks around the capital, paying special attention to the Marolles. In this way he becomes a uniquely close observer of that neighbourhood. Through his engravings and drawings, the artist captures the everyday spirit of its narrow streets, bustling cul-de-sacs and the people living in the shadow of the Palace of Justice. He immortalises the men and women he meets in the taverns along the Rue Haute and in the public spaces. Rejecting all forms of sentimentalised misery, Kurt Peiser’s portraits reveal the dignity, inner lives and humanity of the people who make up the fabric of this neighbourhood. A century later, his works still have the power to move us.
In 2025, the Brussels City Museum acquired a collection of 79 works by Kurt Peiser. Created mainly in the 1920s, around thirty of them are on display at the Brussels City Museum. This major acquisition allows the museum to continue with its mission: to tell the story of Brussels in all its richness and highlight the lives of the men and women who have lived in the city, shaping it and giving it life over the years.
Museum of the City of Brussels / The King’s House
Brussels
Exhibitions
Kurt Peiser and the Marolles
Exit Patience
The window of Constant becomes the backdrop of a puppet & sound installation, by audiovisual Sonic Storyteller Suzanne Cleerdin.
A strike is announced at the airport. People are already in the airport hall…. There are loads of us; really filling up the airport hall. Some are waiting for their suitcases.
People wait, become impatient. Another group is waiting before the departure board. The check in desks are not showing yet. They wait, become impatient.
At some point the luggage belt stops turning, and people start to leave. Three suitcases are left.
Out of one of the suitcases five characters appear.
The moon, a plane, two people and patience.
They have no problem going on strike.
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The window of Constant becomes the backdrop of a puppet & sound installation, by audiovisual Sonic Storyteller Suzanne Cleerdin.
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Opening with Puppet show (FR/ENG/NL): Thursday 22-10-26 19:00 & 20:30
Workshop "Stop deportations" : 11-11-2026, 15:00 > 17:00 @ Figs & Pears Studio, Jetsesteenweg 388 Chaussée de Jette, 1081 Koekelberg
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Bio
Suzanne Cleerdin is an artist active in Brussels making performative and audiovisual works. She is also a DJ under the alter ego Mandy Pixel. Her sets and work revolve around the familiar while they are at the same time constantly trying to disrupt this, and are like being around many strangers: awkward and stimulating. Her work blurs and redefines the boundaries between film, sound, and performance, maintaining a militant yet optimistic approach.
Suzanne Cleerdin (artist)
Constant
Saint-Gilles
Exhibitions
Exit Patience
Autoworld 40 Years – Looking back to the future
From 11 September to 13 December, Autoworld will bring back to the museum the crème de la crème of more than 100 temporary exhibitions. The exhibition will feature cars and motorcycles that have appeared in one of Autoworld’s many past exhibitions and that each have a special link with the history of the museum.
From 11 September to 13 December, Autoworld will bring back to the museum the crème de la crème of more than 100 temporary exhibitions. The exhibition will feature cars and motorcycles that have appeared in one of Autoworld’s many past exhibitions and that each have a special link with the history of the museum.
‘Autoworld 40 Years – Looking back to the future’ will not be a classic retrospective, but an eclectic and surprising look back at 40 years of Autoworld. Visitors will discover vehicles ranging from pre-war models to modern supercars, including the Bugatti Type 35, the Lamborghini Miura, the rare Muntz Jet, the unique Toyota 2000GT Targa from James Bond, the “flying” Citroën DS and the Porsche 918.
The latter is coming at the request of the public. In July, Autoworld asked visitors which cars they would like to see again at the museum. The answers were enthusiastic and remarkably diverse, but one thing became clear once again: supercars remain extremely popular. The Porsche 918 clearly stood out as the most requested car. We are therefore delighted to announce its presence.
Each vehicle will be linked to the exhibition in which it was once displayed. The exhibition will also include a wall presenting an overview of all the exhibitions Autoworld has organised over the years. A short video will summarise 40 years of Autoworld through images, moments and memories from the museum’s history.
Autoworld
Brussels
Exhibitions
Autoworld 40 Years – Looking back to the future
Museum of Illusions
Museum of Illusions Brussels invites you to discover a fascinating world where reality is transformed! Explore amazing optical illusions, put your senses to the test, and discover how your brain interprets the world around you. An interactive, fun, and educational experience to enjoy with family, friends, or colleagues in the heart of Brussels.
Museum of Illusions Brussels – An experience where reality plays tricks on you!
Step into a fascinating world where your senses are challenged and where nothing is always as it seems. Located in the heart of Brussels, the Museum of Illusions invites you to explore a world full of optical illusions, interactive experiences, and surprising discoveries to share with family, friends, or colleagues.
Discover amazing installations that challenge your perception: change your size in the Ames Room, lose your sense of direction in the Mirror Room, test your balance in spaces where reality seems to transform, and capture unique moments with incredible photos.
More than just a museum, the Museum of Illusions Brussels offers a fun and educational experience that reveals how our brain interprets the world around us. Both children and adults can learn while having fun through interactive games, puzzles, and fascinating illusions.
An ideal visit for families, school groups, tourists, and anyone looking for a unique experience in the heart of Brussels.
Come and discover a place where the impossible becomes possible!
Museum of Illusions
Brussels
Exhibitions
Museum of Illusions
Exhibithion Simplicities
In the summer of 2026, the Fashion & Lace Museum invites you to discover the simplicity of clothing. Spanning more than two centuries of history, this new exhibition looks back at moments when clothing leaned towards simplicity, functionality, and naturalness.
In the summer of 2026, the Fashion & Lace Museum invites you to discover the simplicity of clothing. Spanning more than two centuries of history, this new exhibition looks back at moments when clothing leaned towards simplicity, functionality, and naturalness. Often associated with luxury, glamour, and novelty, fashion is revealed here as a mirror of cultural and social change. A theme that, until now, has been little studied.
Simplicites begins at the end of the 18th century. The philosophy of the Enlightenment, along with medical and hygienist discourse, called for a profound reform of the way people dressed. A return to nature manifested itself in a rejection of corrective artifices, new cuts, breathable materials, and an aesthetic vocabulary inspired by Antiquity. The clothing ideal became a reflection of a new lifestyle combining comfort, freedom of the body, and closeness to nature.
The exhibition is divided into six chapters, each highlighting the different aspects of this simplicity. Drawn from history, the pieces shown in these thematic capsules reveal the continuity, resurgence, and paradoxes of this aesthetic. Discover this lesser-known side of fashion history.
Fashion & Lace Museum
Brussels
Exhibitions
Exhibithion Simplicities
Afterwork Halloween
CAF - Centre d'Art Fantastique
Saint-Gilles
Animations
Afterwork Halloween
Embodied Practices
Embodied Practices explores the relationship between body and object, considering the body as a site of knowledge and matter as something capable of retaining gesture, memory and experience.
Through touch, repetition and technique, the works move between presence and absence, gesture and trace, transformation and memory.
With Nina Anduiza, Léa Belooussovitch, Juana Bustamante, Johan Dussart, Agathe Egret, Marina Gasparini, Juliette Kovács, Maaike Leyn, Lucien Lyon, muesli, Besnike Saraishta, Justine Taillard, Raf Thienpont and Félicien Umbreit.
Curated by Yasmin Van ’tveld.
ATOMA Art Center
Forest
Exhibitions
Embodied Practices
Atelier ouvert : Around Arié Mandelbaum
With Atelier Ouvert, the Jewish Museum of Belgium extends the exhibition beyond its walls into the surrounding neighbourhood. While the museum building is closed for renovation, around ten paintings by Arié Mandelbaum are presented in venues within walking distance of the museum. Shown in a variety of settings, they engage with new audiences and new contexts.
These displacements create unexpected correspondences, tensions and affinities, allowing the works to resonate beyond the conventional exhibition space and into everyday life.
Born in 1939, Arié Mandelbaum grew up in a Jewish family of Polish origin near Brussels South Station. He created the greater part of his oeuvre in Brussels, where he established and relocated his studios over the decades. Since the late 1950s, his paintings have woven together collective history, political commitment and personal experience. Over time, his visual language has become increasingly distilled, placing traces, erasure and memory at its centre. Fragile figures, overlooked histories and the violence of history emerge in compositions where white is not an absence, but an active force.
The exhibition unfolds across CINEMATEK, Cinéma Galeries, the Maison des Arts et de la Culture Sociale (MACS – Grands Carmes), the Bruegel Cultural Centre, the Brussels Public Social Welfare Centre (CPAS), Maison CFC, Théâtre des Tanneurs and the Jewish Museum of Belgium. Guided tours, public conversations, film screenings and encounters with the artist will accompany the project, extending the resonances the works generate as they move from one place to another.
Partner Locations: Cinematek , Cinéma Galeries , Maison des Arts et de la Culture Sociale (MACS – Grands Carmes) , Centre culturel Bruegel , CPAS de Bruxelles , Maison CFC , Musée Juif de Belgique
Various places in Brussels
Brussels
Exhibitions
Atelier ouvert : Around Arié Mandelbaum
Postcolonial?
The House of European History explores Europe’s colonial legacy in its new temporary exhibition “Postcolonial?”
Starting with the structural foundations of European colonialism, going through how Europeans preserved power as their empires collapsed and in what manner that affected newly independent countries, the exhibition takes us to present times. It invites us to reflect on the ways colonial history still shapes life today.
Following the Second World War, colonial power seemed to crumble. From 1945 to the end of the twentieth century, more than 80 colonies overcame European rule and declared independence. After decades or even centuries of resistance to brutal oppression, their victories appeared to mark a decisive break with the past. But appearances can be deceiving.
How did the colonial matrix of power – the ideas, events, inequalities and injustices born of colonialism – continue to shape the modern world?
Unique artworks, historical objects and personal stories accompany the visitor throughout this much-needed European reckoning with colonialism.
House of European History
Brussels
Exhibitions
Postcolonial?
Harry Potter: The Exhibition
Get ready to discover the largest touring exhibition ever created around the enchanting world of Harry Potter™ at Harry Potter™: The Exhibition, from July 16 util November 8th at Brussels Expo, Hall 2! Explore authentic film props, iconic costumes, step into unforgettable scenes, test your wizarding skills and experience a magical adventure for witches, wizards and Muggles of all ages!
From July 16 until November 8th 2026, Harry Potter™: The Exhibition invites visitors in Hall 2 at Brussels Expo to immerse themselves in the enchanting world of Harry Potter. The world’s largest touring Harry Potter exhibition brings together authentic film props, original costumes and interactive technologies in a truly immersive experience. The exhibition has already captivated more than 4.6 million visitors worldwide. Tickets are available at www.brussels.harrypotterexhibition.com/en/
Brussels Expo - Palace 2
Laeken
Exhibitions
Harry Potter: The Exhibition
M.C. Escher - Beyond Infinity
The M.C. Escher – Beyond Infinity exhibition in Brussels invites you to explore the complex and fascinating oeuvre of this legendary artist.
Featuring over 150 original works, the exhibition charts the entirety of M.C. Escher’s career: from his early Italian landscapes to his iconic metamorphoses, tessellations, and impossible worlds.
The M.C. Escher – Beyond Infinity exhibition in Brussels invites you to explore the complex and fascinating oeuvre of this legendary artist.
Featuring over 150 original works, the exhibition charts the entirety of M.C. Escher’s career: from his early Italian landscapes to his iconic metamorphoses, tessellations, and impossible worlds. The journey is enhanced by an innovative scenography that seamlessly blends architectural structures with visual creations, allowing for a total immersion into the artist’s mind.
As you move through the galleries, the sheer diversity of the Dutch engraver’s output unfolds—a body of work that is at once playful, artistic, and intellectual. Interactive modules further enrich this experience, offering a closer, more intimate look at his creative process. Step into a faithful recreation of the master’s workspace, help bring a metamorphosis to life, and transport yourself into the heart of an impossible shape…
Evoking the warm glow of a sunset over the Italian landscapes Escher held so dear, the staging is conceived as an integral part of the exhibition itself. It serves to elevate the master’s works, showcasing them in all their profound complexity.
Tour & Taxis - Shed 4bis
Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
Exhibitions
M.C. Escher - Beyond Infinity
Expo Adios Mama Carlota - A Forgotten Empress
A unique tribute to Charlotte, First Princess of Belgium and last Empress of Mexico, exactly 100 years after her death.
Born in Laeken as the first princess of Belgium and married to Archduke Maximilian of Austria, Charlotte ascended the throne as Empress of Mexico in 1864. After a compelling and tragic life, she spent the last sixty years of her life at Bouchout Castle, in the heart of what is now the Botanical Garden. Her story is one of extreme highs and lows — a history in which resilience and vulnerability are inextricably linked. These are themes that not only shaped her life, but are also more relevant than ever in our contemporary society.
Meise Botanical Gardens
Meise
Exhibitions
Expo Adios Mama Carlota - A Forgotten Empress
Adventure Golf
DROHME Park
Uccle
Sport
Adventure Golf
2020, embroidered epic
From 27 June 2026 to 3 January 2027, the Brussels City Museum presents a unique work of contemporary embroidery.
From 27 June 2026 to 3 January 2027, the Brussels City Museum presents a unique work of contemporary embroidery. This monumental piece was created in the textile workshop at the Centre for Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Integration into Work in a collective project that brought together artists and participants.
Inspired by the Bayeux Embroidery, often regarded as one of the first journalistic accounts in textile, this contemporary work offers a sensitive reinterpretation of the major events of 2020. By bringing to life these recent events, the project reflects on a tumultuous year that is etched in people’s minds: as was the case with the Battle of Hastings, there is a before and an after Covid.
Half textile art and half social project, this collective work stands for the wealth of different perspectives and the power of shared artistic expression. Discover it in the heart of Brussels, at a museum that promotes dialogue between historical heritage and contemporary creativity. A work created by the people of Brussels that tells of a time we all went through.
Practical information
•2nd floor of the Brussels City Museum – Maison du Roi, accessible by stairs only
•Access included in the admission charge: see our prices
Museum of the City of Brussels / The King’s House
Brussels
Exhibitions
2020, embroidered epic
All Levels Heels Classes
Discover Heels at Flow Factory Brussels, a brand-new studio in Schaerbeek with 100+ five-star Google reviews. Learn to dance in heels while working on technique, choreography, musicality, confidence and expression. Classes are open to all levels, from complete beginners to experienced dancers. More info and bookings at flowfactorybrussels.be.
Looking for Heels classes in Brussels? Flow Factory Brussels offers all-level classes where you can learn to dance in heels while developing confidence, technique and expression through movement.
Classes combine choreography with technical training to develop posture, lines, coordination, musicality and fluidity. You'll progressively learn to feel more comfortable in your heels while developing your own movement style and interpretation of choreography.
Classes are open to all levels. Whether you're discovering Heels for the first time or already have some experience, exercises and movements can be adapted so everyone can progress at their own pace.
Classes take place in our brand-new studio in Schaerbeek, near Place Liedts and easily accessible from central Brussels and Brussels North Station. Flow Factory Brussels already has more than 100 five-star Google reviews, reflecting the quality of the classes and the experience offered at the studio.
Ready to put on your heels? Find all the information about our Heels classes in Brussels, schedules and bookings at flowfactorybrussels.be.
@ady_pllssr (teacher), @daphlilsunshine (teacher), @flowfactorybrussels (location)
Flow Factory Brussels
Schaerbeek
Courses and workshops
All Levels Heels Classes
Tutankhamun - The Immersive Exhibition
TUTANKHAMUN - THE IMMERSIVE EXHIBITION IN BRUSSELS
For over 100 years, the myths surrounding Pharaoh Tutankhamun have captivated people around the world. Now ancient Egypt is being resurrected: Tutankhamun - The Immersive Exhibition takes you into the legendary ancient Egypt and its secrets through new, digital multimedia Egyptian art.
Step into Ancient Egypt like never before with Tutankhamun: The Immersive Exhibition in Brussels! This stunning technological production features a 360-degree video mapping room with 6-meter-high projections, a virtual reality experience in the Valley of the Kings, and a gallery filled with carefully selected replicas and historical Egyptian artifacts. This limited-time exhibition in Brussels is a must-see—an exceptional outing for culture lovers, tech enthusiasts, history fans, school groups, families, and anyone eager to dive into a unique and pharaonic experience. Get your tickets now for Tutankhamun: The Immersive Exhibition in Brussels!
Brussels Expo Palais 1/ Paleis 1
Laeken
Exhibitions
Tutankhamun - The Immersive Exhibition
Badminton Koekelberg op donderdag
Comenius-site Koekelberg
Koekelberg
Sport
Badminton Koekelberg op donderdag
La Belgique émaillée
You may have come across them before without even noticing. Yet these enamel signs are true design icons that have shaped the visual identity of Belgian streets. They have withstood changing trends, the elements, and the passage of decades. “Enameled Belgium” invites you to discover how these everyday objects have become witnesses to our history and a source of inspiration for today’s artists. An exhibition where heritage meets design, and where every sign has a story to tell.
Featuring Belgian artists Liliane Vertessen, Kasper Bosmans, Hugo Janin, and Jacques Weemaels.
Opening reception on September 18 at 6 p.m.—reserve your spot here
The exhibition, produced by Les Halles Saint-Géry, was conceived and coordinated by Jan De Plus and La Brigade. This project received generous support from Mr. Laurent Levaux.
Halles Saint-Géry Culture et Patrimoine ASBL
Brussels
Exhibitions
La Belgique émaillée
Musical Theatre Foundations
Learn how to combine acting, singing and dance, and become a triple threat on The Bridge Theatre's Musical Theatre Workshop.
Learn how to combine acting, singing and dance, and become a triple threat on our Musical Theatre Workshop.
Across 15 weeks, you'll train in acting, singing, and dance, connect with an inspiring group of people, and bring a musical to life on stage — no matter your level of experience.
Dates: Sundays | 20 September 2026 - 31 January 2027
Time: 15:45 – 19:00
Venue: The Bridge Theatre Studio, Saint-Gilles
Open to all aged 18+, all levels
Sign up via the following link: https://thebridge.brussels/musical-theatre
Instructors:
Edward McMillan - Singing
Heidi Chadjideris - Dance
Alexandre Diaconu - Acting
The Bridge Theatre Studio
Saint-Gilles
Courses and workshops
Musical Theatre Foundations
Speeches Workshop
Learn how to speak with confidence at The Bridge Theatre's 5-week long SPEECHES Workshop.
Learn how to speak with confidence.
Clear and confident communication changes everything. At work, on stage, and in everyday life.
Our SPEECHES Workshop is a 5-week journey designed to help you strengthen your voice, overcome speaking nerves, and express yourself with clarity and conviction.
Through playful, embodied exercises inspired by theatre, you’ll build presence, confidence, and tools you can use in any situation.
Dates: Thursdays, 5 weeks in total - Multiple courses available from 24 September 2026 until 24 June 2027
Times: 18:45 - 21:00
Venue: Artincelle - Rue de la Victoire 158, St Gilles.
More info & Registration: https://thebridge.brussels/speeches
Instructor: Jonathon Sawdon
Artincelle
Saint-Gilles
Courses and workshops
Speeches Workshop
Improv for Beginners
Discover the world of improv on The Bridge Theatre's IMPROV Beginner workshops - In collaboration with ImproBubble
Discover the world of improv on our IMPROV Beginner workshops.
Across two 15-week courses, you'll go from the basics of improvisation to performing fully-fledged scenes on stage: building character work, quick thinking, and a whole toolbox of skills, in a fun and safe environment. No experience necessary.
Time: Mondays or Tuesdays | 18:45 – 21:30 (day varies by term)
Venue: Artincelle, Rue de la Victoire 158, St Gilles
Open to all aged 18+ | No experience required
Sign up via the following link: https://thebridge.brussels/improv
Artincelle
Saint-Gilles
Courses and workshops
Improv for Beginners
Postcolonial? exhibition guided tours
Guided tour of the Postcolonial? exhibition are available upon booking, in English, French, Dutch and German for groups of 10+. For a general (adult) audience, duration: 90 minutes
The general guided tour offers an overview of the Postcolonial? exhibition for adult visitors, focusing on the historical link between colonialism and racism. Through selected artworks and objects, the tour explores how colonial expansion contributed to the formation of political, economic, and social structures that still organise power, wealth, and inequality today.
House of European History
Brussels
Guided tours
Postcolonial? exhibition guided tours
Postcolonial? art & resistance guided tours
Art & resistance - for advocacy groups/special interest groups. Duration: 90 minutes.
This tour focuses on art as a tool for empowerment, self-representation, and anticolonial and decolonial struggle. It proposes an interpretive path that foregrounds how artistic practices can challenge dominant narratives, connect histories, and speak back to structures of oppression.
House of European History
Brussels
Guided tours
Postcolonial? art & resistance guided tours
Entry to the Children's Museum
A museum like no other, in the heart of Ixelles!
For nearly 50 years, the Children’s Museum has offered a unique space where kids aged 3 to 12 can experiment, build, climb, cook, imagine and dream. In its 600 m² screen-free exhibition space, everything is designed to promote learning through play, spark curiosity, and build self-confidence.
All exhibitions are 100% interactive and created in-house with input from child development experts. They invite children, parents and grandparents to enjoy a playful, creative and hands-on experience together.
Our mission? To help every child better understand themselves, others, and the world around them.
Committed since 1976, our museum thrives thanks to a vibrant ecosystem of passionate people
Every day, they work together to bring the Children’s Museum to life by designing playful, interactive and multilingual exhibitions that spark each child’s curiosity and imagination.
Children’s Museum
Ixelles
Exhibitions
Entry to the Children's Museum
Escape Game - Masonic Quest
Escape Game - Masonic Quest
A mysterious bagpack has been found in the Museum…
The Belgian Museum of Freemasonry invites you to embark on a truly immersive experience: Masonic Quest, a thrilling escape game that takes place throughout the entire museum. Each puzzle you solve will bring you one step closer to uncovering the hidden treasure.
Succeed in your mission, and you’ll be rewarded with a photo alongside the treasure, an exclusive badge, and a certificate of investigation to commemorate your adventure.
Step into Masonic Quest, the captivating escape game at the Belgian Museum of Freemasonry! Dive into a world of intrigue, where mystery, symbols, and riddles intertwine. Follow in the footsteps of a historian who once hid a treasure deep within the museum’s walls.
Work as a team, explore every corner, crack codes, and solve puzzles to discover what’s been concealed.
Book your spot now by emailing info@mbfm.be
1h30 | 15€ pp | Recommended age 15+ | FR/NL/EN
Belgian Museum of Freemasonry
Brussels
Animations
Escape Game - Masonic Quest
A tasty travel into the world of chocolate
A unique immersive experience in the fabulous world of cocoa and chocolate.
With the help of an audio guide, deep into this gourmet universe, walk through a Mayan temple, board Cortes' ship and discover how cocoa is grown in tropical countries and transformed into chocolate in Europe. The icing on the cake: a demonstration of how pralines are made at the end of the tour.
Take a dive in the universe of cocoa and chocolate, pass a Maya temple where cocoa beans have been consumed 5000 years ago, step aboard the boat of Cortez who imported the cocoa beans in Europe; discover how chocolate was being used at the French Court in the 17th Century and afterwards how the “praline” was crafted beginning of the 20th Century in Belgium. The cocoa culture and its transformation won’t have any secrets left for you. Demonstration, tasting and audio guide are included in the visit.
More than 600 objects are on display at the Choco Story Brussels museum.
It's a magnificent collection that shows how cocoa was consumed by the Mayans, and how a sweeter beverage was consumed at the Spanish and French Courts. You will then discover how cocoa is grown in tropical countries and how it is transformed into chocolate in Europe.
Finally, you'll learn how we sublimate this chocolate in Belgium through the creation of our delicious handmade pralines.
Choco-Story - The Chocolate Museum
Brussels
Guided tours
A tasty travel into the world of chocolate
Individual tour of the van Buuren Museum & Gardens
Discover the van Buuren Museum & Gardens, a gem of Art Deco architecture built in 1928. Immerse yourself in a meticulously preserved interior, home to an exceptional collection of masterpieces dating from the 15th to the 20th century. The gardens, true treasures of landscape art, transport you through time. A unique experience where history, art, and nature converge.
Van Buuren Museum and Gardens
Uccle
Exhibitions
Individual tour of the van Buuren Museum & Gardens
Visit of Frietmuseum Brussels
Welcome to the Fry Museum in Brussels !
Dive into the fascinating history of the Belgian fry, an essential symbol of our culinary heritage. Located in the heart of Brussels, our unique museum invites you to discover the origin, culture, and secrets behind this world-famous treat.
A crispy and educational experience !
The history of the fry : Explore the origins of the potato and how it became the star of Belgian chip shops.
The myth of Belgian fries : Discover the legends surrounding the birth of fries and their global fame.
Cooking techniques : Learn all the secrets — from potato selection to the traditional double frying in beef fat.
Fry culture: Understand the key role of chip shops in Belgian life and how they bring generations together.
The visit includes access to the museum, an audioguide and a tasting of food and drink.
Frietmuseum Brussels
Brussels
Exhibitions
Visit of Frietmuseum Brussels
Nimbus
Nimbus is a new artwork created by Visual System to mark the twentieth anniversary of the Atomium’s renovation. It extends the unique dialogue the collective has been cultivating for several years with this iconic architectural landmark and with its audiences from all over the world.
The work plays with and disrupts geometry: the monument’s original tubes are reconfigured into gigantic columns that give rise to a living, inhabited space, while the building’s characteristic mirrored spheres multiply across the surfaces, unsettling spatial and temporal references.
Nimbus shapes a suspended environment in which light and sound, carried by an original musical composition by Thomas Vaquié, form a vibrating halo, a protective sphere. The audience engages in dialogue with an evolving artwork, creating a singular, plural and universal experience through movement and individual sensibility.
In this way, Nimbus celebrates the architecture of the Atomium, revealing a monument in perpetual transformation, where diversity, contemplation and the collective imagination converge.
Visual System is a multidisciplinary artists’ collective that, since 2007, has been exploring the connections between creative techniques and visual perception.
Atomium
Laeken
Exhibitions
Nimbus
Supply Chain
Supply Chain combines mirrors, mobile LED screens, light beams and sound installations to create a choreography of light and reflections. The artwork is composed of hybrid modules installed on structures derived from industrial assembly tables, and is complemented by LED tubes, a central luminous circle and graphic matrices. It transforms the space while evoking the production and supply chains that underpin contemporary technologies.
Through this poetic and dynamic staging, the work reveals the connections between material, industry and the digital realm, inviting audiences to experience an immediate sensory immersion while questioning the invisible infrastructures that shape our technological societies.
Atomium
Laeken
Exhibitions
Supply Chain
With Brel in Brussels - Walking Tour
Brel Foundation
Brussels
Exhibitions
With Brel in Brussels - Walking Tour
Les Adieux de Jacques Brel à l'Olympia
Brel Foundation
Brussels
Cinema
Les Adieux de Jacques Brel à l'Olympia
Individual tour of Hotel Van Eetvelde
Nestled in a UNESCO World Heritage building designed by the architect Victor Horta, the Art Nouveau Interpretation Centre (LAB-An) offers four exhibition spaces. These will offer you different keys to understanding this fascinating artistic and cultural movement.
The discovery of the Van Eetvelde Hotel and its extraordinary dome will undoubtedly be the highlight of your visit.
Important Notice
Disabled access :
Unfortunately, the buildings are not accessible to people with reduced mobility (Mainly because of the presence of many stairs that are difficult to negotiate - between three and fifteen steps)
Reduced rates :
Please note that in order to benefit from the reduced rates, you will be asked for proof on arrival.
Guided tours :
The following rates give you access to a self-guided tour of the van Eetvelde complex (Hotel, Office and exhibition spaces).
Guided tours are available for groups by prior arrangement via info@lab-an.be.
Photos authorised, without flash and only on smartphone. For all requests for professional photo shoots, please contact info@lab-an.be.
Hôtel van Eetvelde X LAB·AN
Brussels
Guided tours
Individual tour of Hotel Van Eetvelde
With Cineville, enjoy infinite cinema!
For a fixed monthly fee starting at € 18,50, Cineville gives you infinite cinema access.
++ Infinite screenings ++ Always something new to discover ++ You support your favourite cinema
With your Cineville Pass you go to the cinema whenever and wherever you like from €18,50 / month (–26 years) or €22,50 / month (+26 years).
Cineville cinemas in Brussels: Cinéma Aventure • Cineflagey • CINEMA RITCS • CINEMATEK • Cinema Galeries • Cinéma Le Stockel • Cinéma Nova • Cinéma Palace • Cinéma Vendôme.
With over 25 Cineville cinemas in Belgium, you’ll always find one nearby: www.cinevillepass.be/en-BE/cinemas.
Various independent cinemas - Cineville
Brussels
Cinema
With Cineville, enjoy infinite cinema!
Belfius Art Gallery
Unlocked – The Art of Possibility at the Belfius Art Gallery, Place Rogier 11, in 1210 Brussels.
From the first intuition to the final masterpiece, we take you behind the scenes of creativity. To that moment when possibilities come to life.
Let yourself be inspired. Discover Unlocked.
Unlocked – The Art of Possibility
From the first intuition to the final masterpiece, the Belfius Art Gallery takes you behind the scenes of creativity. From that moment when possibilities come to life.
What happens when creativity has the space to express itself? When imagination, connections, and innovation are encouraged?
Through Unlocked, the artists of the Belfius Art Collection invite you to look beyond the ordinary. To touch with your eyes what becomes possible when an idea awakens and takes shape.
They express the power of dreams. They reveal how much trials, doubts, and erasures can spark a flame. How inspiration, connections, passion, and resilience nurture the creative spirit. And how daring to explore the unknown can pave the way for innovation.
Enter their worlds and their stories with, among others, Jan Cox, James Ensor, Panamarenko, Pol Bury, Liliane Vertessen, Jan Cobbaert, Michel François, Léa Belooussovitch and Marie Rosen. What these artists make visible lives within each of us. Listen to what this awakens in you. Discover The Art of Possibility !
Also with testimonials from several personalities from the creative world : Marie Cloquet, Florence Derck, Philip Huyghe, Claire Leblanc, François Schuiten, Elke Timmerman, Joris Van de Moortel, Koen Vanmechelen, Victor Verhelst and Christophe Veys.
Belfius
Saint-Josse-Ten-Noode
Exhibitions
Belfius Art Gallery
Multimove Sint-Pieters-Woluwe op zaterdag
Sportzaal Atheneum SPW
Woluwe-Saint-Pierre
Sport
Multimove Sint-Pieters-Woluwe op zaterdag
G-multimove Anderlecht op zaterdag
Sportzaal Campus Spoor West
Anderlecht
Sport
G-multimove Anderlecht op zaterdag
Sportacademie Nieuwland op zaterdag
Campus Nieuwland
Brussels
Sport
Sportacademie Nieuwland op zaterdag
Multimove Nieuwland op zaterdag
Campus Nieuwland
Brussels
Sport
Multimove Nieuwland op zaterdag
Schooljaar 2026-2027: Circus (woensdag)
Jeugdcentrum Aximax
Brussels
Courses and workshops
Schooljaar 2026-2027: Circus (woensdag)
Musical Theatre Academy
Take your musical theatre skills to the next level and become a true triple threat on The Bridge Theatre's Musical Theatre Academy.
Take your musical theatre skills to the next level and become a true triple threat on our Musical Theatre Academy.
Across 30 weeks, you'll train in acting, singing, and dance, dive deep into a different musical each term, and work towards our grand community End-of-Year Showcase, all alongside a dedicated group of fellow performers.
Entry is by audition, taking place in September.
Dates: Sundays | 20 September 2026 – 20 June 2027
Time: 12:30 – 15:45
Venue: The Bridge Theatre Studio, Saint-Gilles
Open to all aged 18+ | Audition required
Sign up via the following link: https://thebridge.brussels/musical-theatre
Instructors:
Edward McMillan - Singing
Heidi Chadjideris - Dance
Alexandre Diaconu - Acting
The Bridge Theatre Studio
Saint-Gilles
Courses and workshops
Musical Theatre Academy
Play Workshops
Expand your acting toolbox and sharpen your skills on The Bridge Theatre's PLAY workshop.
Across 30 weeks (divided into two 15-week modules), you'll explore new techniques, dig into text work, and build towards a showcase performance — all in a safe, supportive space led by our professional actors.
Expand your acting toolbox and sharpen your skills on our PLAY workshop.
Across 30 weeks (divided into two 15-week modules), you'll explore new techniques, dig into text work, and build towards a showcase performance — all in a safe, supportive space led by our professional actors.
PLAY runs across five levels, from Beginner to Master, so you can join at whatever stage fits your experience — no matter where you're starting from.
Dates: Various days, Sundays–Saturdays, depending on level
Venue: The Bridge Theatre Studio & KosmoStudio, Saint-Gilles
Open to all aged 18+ | All levels
Sign up via the following link: https://thebridge.brussels/play
Instructors: Desi Krsteva, Michelle Scott, Rozana Radu, Lucy Harwood, Mehmet Avcu, Petar Leventić, Jacey Schult
The Bridge Theatre Studio
Saint-Gilles
Courses and workshops
Play Workshops
2 Parties de Laser Game 150% Fun pour 2 Personnes
Space Fun Games
Etterbeek
Various
2 Parties de Laser Game 150% Fun pour 2 Personnes
1 heure de Team Game 150% Fun pour 2 Personnes
Space Fun Games
Etterbeek
Various
1 heure de Team Game 150% Fun pour 2 Personnes
1 H Quiz Game 150% FUN : 2 persons
Space Fun Games
Etterbeek
Various
1 H Quiz Game 150% FUN : 2 persons
The Giant Wheel : The View
A new permanent tourist attraction in Brussels, the giant Ferris wheel known as "The View", invites you to climb high above the city and enjoy an unforgettable experience. As the highest point in Brussels, it offers you a breathtaking panoramic view of the capital.
Opening hours: 11am - 11pm
Location : Place Poelaert 1000 Brussels
Take advantage of the exclusive online discount of - €1/ticket.
Place Poelaert
Brussels
Various
The Giant Wheel : The View
A stroll past Senne Dehandschutter’s “Lichtzoekers” sculptures
Lichtzoekers, Street art sculptures escaping the dark
Rage, rage
Difficult poses, precarious positions, and the fear of falling. Yet they seem to climb, searching for light and a view. Dreaming of what lies beyond the blind wall or high rooftop. Longing for an elusive horizon.
A rebellion too, against the dark shadow of our time. To put it in the words of the poet Dylan Thomas: "Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
Lichtzoekers are a silent spectacle woven through the city. Initially set against the backdrop of sometimes grey Brussels. Soon to appear in other cities as well. We are grateful to the museums and other institutions that believe in us and support the project.
Bruxelles Centre
Brussels
Exhibitions
A stroll past Senne Dehandschutter’s “Lichtzoekers” sculptures
Happy Hour
Join us at Share&Fun to enjoy our Happy Hours everyday, from 5pm to 7pm!
Happy Hour at Share&Fun
Join us at Share&Fun to enjoy our Happy Hours everyday , from 5pm to 7pm!
Special offers:
Buy one 25cl beer, get one free
Buy two cocktails, get one free
Buy one jug of wine (1 litre), get free nachos
The perfect opportunity to relax with friends in a friendly and festive atmosphere.
We look forward to seeing you at Share&Fun!
Share & Fun
Brussels
Various
Happy Hour
Ciao amici: stadswandeling door Brussel
BELvue museum
Brussels
Guided tours
Ciao amici: stadswandeling door Brussel
Cours de Salsa Bachata pour Débutant & Inter/Avancé
Salsa Latina Brussels
Ixelles
Courses and workshops
Cours de Salsa Bachata pour Débutant & Inter/Avancé
Lignes de fracture
Dance, words, graphic gestures, music and light: Lignes de fracture immerses us in a fragmentary and multidimensional narrative. The piece, performed by four dancers from different generations, explores a choreographic style rooted in the observation of traces, both physical and mental.
Théâtre Les Tanneurs
Brussels
Theatre
Lignes de fracture
Lignes de fracture
Transcendant les générations, un quatuor de femmes explore les intersections de la danse et de l’art plastique. Inspirée par les logogrammes de Christian Dotremont ou les graffitis qui recouvrent les murs de nos villes, Michèle Noiret revisite le corps et la trace. Autant de propositions pour inventer des partitions chorégraphiques à partir de traces existantes.
The dance/cinema fashioned by Michèle Noiret is present here, with no camera, in a haze of reality-fiction, temporal overlaps, deliberately disrupted perception. On stage are four women, of various ages. Between them is a web of questioning taken from Siri Hustvedt in Vivre Penser Regarder, regarding human interaction, memory, imagination. Within them, intimate monologues. Through them, an onslaught on the conventions governing the fate of women, for so long erasing them from history, and even now threatening the progress they have made.Sustained from the start by literature, cinema, the plastic arts, guided by her intuition towards unknown territories, the choreographer crowns forty years of creation with Lignes de fracture. Her journey has been one of tirelessly inventing, together, step by step, “something that was previously unknown to us”.
Michèle Noiret
Théâtre Les Tanneurs
Brussels
Show
Lignes de fracture
dyke injection
camille freychet À partir de 14 ans[ Durée : 1h10 ] co-présentation Rideau ❤ atelier210 les cicatrices de la terre ont été faites dans une violence inouïe, et pourtant maintenant elles sont magnifiques. ça nous apprend que les cicatrices ça peut être beau.carla, twingo orange, 11h47 quel est ce moment où tout bascule ?ce point vacillant et sublime entre la mort et l’extrême vitalité. ce point de rupture, qu’il soit amoureux, politique, familial ou identitaire, et parfois, tout à la fois. dyke injection c’est le récit de ma dyke* naissance qui a eu lieu à 144 km/h sur l’A7.entre glissements de terrain, auto-stop, pannes en bord de route, soleil de minuit, changements d’itinéraires, rencontres hasardeuses, sandwich triangle sur l’aire de montauban sud, découverte de l’ère glaciaire et des jours sans nuit, je raconte comment plus rien ne pourra être comme avant. *dyke (argot, péjoratif) lesbienne, gouine.(géologie) injection magmatique verticale qui coupe à travers les roches dominantes. AFTER SCENE - Je 05 novembre après la représentation. Avec l’équipe du spectacle. VISITE Queering Brussels – Sa 07 novembre. De 14h à 16h. Par l’asbl L’Architecture qui dégenre.
Le Rideau
Ixelles
Show
dyke injection
Je suis un voleur • Loutfi Chama Fabrice Murgia
A life spent almost entirely in a state of confinement. Since childhood, Loutfi, aged 44, has gone from one institution to another
Fabrice Murgia returns to the Théâtre National with a production that combines an epic scope with the realism of a deeply immersive narrative.
A life spent almost entirely in a state of confinement. Since childhood, Loutfi, aged 44, has gone from one institution to another: sent to a care centre at the age of 2 on the initiative of social services, he was subsequently put through a series of institutions for minors before being sent to prison several times for petty crimes. His meeting with Fabrice Murgia sparked the idea of telling his story, a necessary step towards finally managing to deal with life ‘on the outside’.
Designed for an intimate stage setting, in close proximity to the audience, Je suis un voleur unfolds the episodes of Loutfi’s past as a series of scenes brought to life by the performers. This unique, almost novelistic journey sheds light on a whole facet of life in detention centres, a violent, dead-end world that still deserves our attention today.
Coproduction Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles
Copresentation La Montagne Magique
Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles
Brussels
Theatre
Je suis un voleur • Loutfi Chama Fabrice Murgia
A SECOND LIFE + MIGUÉ
A SECOND LIFE — Laurent Slama • FR — 2025 — 77’ — FIC — VO FR — ST ENOn the opening day of the Paris, Elizabeth - already fragile - is overwhelmed by the rental apartment she manages. Only by removing her hearing aids can she briefly enjoy a much-needed moment of calm. The freshness, spontaneity, and freedom of Elijah - a sort of mischievous pink-haired white rabbit she meets by chance - upend her routine and her perspective on the world. A breath of fresh air, an ode to serendipity and the surprises of unexpected encounters.MIGUÉ (TRICK) — Rodrigo Ribeyro • BR — 2025 — 15’ — FIC — VO PT — ST EN/FROne fine morning, Elisa decides to skip work and go to the beach...
Cinéma Aventure
Brussels
Cinema
A SECOND LIFE + MIGUÉ
La convivialité
The representations take place at the Centre Culturel d’Uccle (Rue Rouge, 47 à 1180 Uccle).
This lecture/debate – which celebrated its 600th performance in July 2025 – explores, through a pop-based and iconoclastic approach, the invariability of the past participle of (French) verbs that use the auxiliary verb ‘avoir’.
In co presentation with the Centre culturel d’Uccle
Centre Culturel d'Uccle
Uccle
Theatre
La convivialité
Queen Kong
Théâtre de Poche
Brussels
Theatre
Queen Kong
Le jour du kiwi
Théâtre Royal des Galeries
Brussels
Theatre
Le jour du kiwi
House of Memory / by Basil Al-Rawi
A VR journey through archives and Iraqi stories.
House of Memory / is an immersive Virtual Reality experience by artist Basil Al-Rawi. Based on photographs and oral testimonies from the Iraq Photo Archive, he transforms archival material into a virtual space where memories can be revisited and explored.
In this 15-minute experience, you encounter personal stories of Iraq in the 1970s, as remembered by those who lived there. Through voices and images, Iraq emerges as a space of cultural richness and everyday life, shaped by memory and displacement of its people. The work offers a rare perspective on Iraqi history and diaspora experience.
Basil Al-Rawi works across photography, moving images, sculpture and digital technologies, exploring memory, identity and archival storytelling. The project was developed as part of his PhD research at the Glasgow School of Art.
House of Memory is part of Ireland's cultural programme for the Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
Iraq Photo Archive Contributors: Zena Abbas, Mais Al Aloosi, Ahmed Al-Bayati, Betool Al Fekaiki, Dalia Al-Dujaili, Farid Al-Haddad, Vivian Al Haddad, Al-Rawi Family, Tamara Alattiya, Sarah Almukhtar, Maissa El-Hassany, Reem El-Hassany, Abdulkarem Hamza, Ahmed Kahatab, Rasha Kamaliddin, Helen Massoud, Idris Jassim Al-Oboudi, Shathel Nawaf Taqa, Ayah Wafi, Kifah Wafi, Muafaq Wafi.
A ticket for the exhibitions of William Kentridge, Jean Brusselmans, Edith Dekyndt x Cristóbal Balenciaga or Central. Never Alone gives you free access to the exhibition House of Memory / by Basil Al-Rawi on the same day.
Bozar - Centre for Fine Arts
Brussels
Cinema
House of Memory / by Basil Al-Rawi
The Six - Reiner Holzemer
In the presence of the director on the 3rd of November
Forty years ago, six young fashion designers from Antwerp conquered the international runways and permanently transformed the world of fashion. Through their avant-garde designs, Walter Van Beirendonck, Ann Demeulemeester, Dries Van Noten, Dirk Bikkembergs, Dirk Van Saene and Marina Yee placed Belgium at the forefront of the international fashion scene.They soon became known as The Antwerp Six, a label that, despite their differing visions, united them into a mythical collective. But was this group identity a reality, or mainly a construct created by the outside world?In The Six, they share their personal stories, their vision of fashion, the impact of their friendship, and the enduring influence they have had around the world.Reiner Holzemer has been working as a documentary film director since 1983. The portraits of internationally renowned artists, especially from the fields of photography and fashion, are the focus of his work to date. His films Dries (2016) about fashion designer Dries Van Noten, and Martin Margiela - In His Own Words (2019) have been screened at film festivals worldwide. In his most recent documentary (2026) he explores the cultural significance of the Leica camera and its lasting impact on visual history.
Bozar - Centre for Fine Arts
Brussels
Cinema
The Six - Reiner Holzemer
Edith Dekyndt x Cristobal Balenciaga
The Fabric Decides
Enter a unique dialogue between Belgian artist Edith Dekyndt and the rarely seen archives of Cristóbal Balenciaga. The exhibition examines the memory embedded in materials and the way they endure through time, revealing unexpected resonances between contemporary art and haute couture. It offers a poetic reflection on the present through gestures, skills, and forms in constant transformation, inviting you to discover this intimate and singular encounter up close.
Bozar - Centre for Fine Arts
Brussels
Exhibitions
Edith Dekyndt x Cristobal Balenciaga
Jean Brusselmans - Painter by nature
In autumn 2026, Bozar will present a major retrospective of the painter Jean Brusselmans (1884–1953), the first comprehensive exhibition of his work since 1980. From the early 20th century onwards, Brusselmans developed a distinctive body of work, independent of artistic trends yet firmly rooted in painterly tradition. His deep connection to the Brabant landscape and his modest way of life are translated into an authentic and recognisable visual language, situated at the intersection of abstraction and figuration. Through some 120 works, the exhibition introduces visitors to the remarkable oeuvre of a still underappreciated Belgian artist. Dialogues with contemporaries such as Fernand Léger, Piet Mondrian and Rik Wouters offer a fresh perspective on his work.
The exhibition also highlights Brusselmans’ decorative commissions for the theatre, including the monumental sets he designed for the first French-language production of the opera Erwartung by Arnold Schoenberg at the Centre for Fine Arts in 1936. These lost stage designs are brought back to life by the contemporary Belgian painter Kristof Santy (b. 1987), who frequently draws inspiration from Brusselmans in his own work.
Bozar - Centre for Fine Arts
Brussels
Exhibitions
Jean Brusselmans - Painter by nature
Alone, Not even scared (to be scared!)
For 20 years, Alone has captivated millions of readers with a question as simple as it is unsettling: what would children do if left to their own devices in a world without adults?
This summer, the Comic Art Museum in Brussels is celebrating this must-read series with "Alone, not even scared (to be scared!)", an immersive exhibition designed to send shivers down young readers’ spines and get their hearts racing… whilst bringing back memories for older visitors.
Meet the heroes created by Fabien Vehlmann and Bruno Gazzotti, with colours by Usagi, and dive into a world where adventure, friendship and mystery go hand in hand.
Step into the world of Alone… if you dare!
Curator: Thierry Bellefroid
Exhibition design: Élodie Descoubes
In collaboration with Publishers Rue de Sèvres and Dupuis.
Comic Art Museum
Brussels
Exhibitions
Alone, Not even scared (to be scared!)
expo RAW
GC Pianofabriek
Saint-Gilles
Exhibitions
expo RAW
SOS Haunted BELvue
The nice ghosts of the BELvue have hidden the Halloween candy. Come and catch them so that they can tell you where it is hidden.
At the end of the game, the children look for the chest thanks to the information they got from the ghosts and get the treasure inside.
Make-up or costume highly recommended.
BELvue museum
Brussels
Animations
SOS Haunted BELvue
William Kentridge - I am not me, the horse is not mine
William Kentridge began his artistic career at the height of the political struggle against the apartheid regime in his native South Africa. His work bears witness to a profound commitment – at once social, political and poetic – that continues to shape his artistic practice to this day.
Kentridge’s artistic output ranges from drawings, animated films and sculptures to prints, installations and videos. These works often emerge while he is directing a theatre or opera production, another field to which he devotes his energies. I am not me, the horse is not mine, William Kentridge’s solo exhibition at Bozar, offers a comprehensive overview of his oeuvre from the early 1980s to the present day. Several of his major stage productions receive special attention. The exhibition highlights the performative and collaborative nature of Kentridge’s practice, in which he allows art to evolve into a space for political inquiry, historical reckoning and poetic transformation.
William Kentridge will take over one of Bozar’s major exhibition spaces, create site-specific works, and curate a rich, multidisciplinary programme. This is by no means the first time we have welcomed Kentridge to Brussels. He has a long-standing connection with the city, where he premiered his first opera (Faustus in Africa! 1995), and where Bozar presented his first solo exhibition in Europe in 1998.
Bozar - Centre for Fine Arts
Brussels
Exhibitions
William Kentridge - I am not me, the horse is not mine
Meet the expert, Apolline Malevez
Maison des Arts
Schaerbeek
Exhibitions
Meet the expert, Apolline Malevez
Autumn break: Games and ghosts in the museum
Looking for a fun activity during the autumn break? It’s a celebration every day with us! Explore the museum together with our interactive game trails, or dare to try our Halloween activity ‘SOS Ghosts in the BELvue’. Whatever you choose, fun is guaranteed for young and old alike!
BELvue museum
Brussels
Animations
Autumn break: Games and ghosts in the museum
Discovery Tour in French
Guided tours for children (ages 6 to 12) and adults
Accompanied by a guide, children and adults will embark on a joint exploration of paintings in the exhibition Jean Brusselmans. The tour will include creative activities designed to help everyone develop their powers of observation and imagination. Your guide will alternately challenge, encourage, and engage you, as you take part in fun activities suitable for all ages!
Bozar - Centre for Fine Arts
Brussels
Guided tours
Discovery Tour in French
Discovery Tour in Dutch
Guided tours for children (ages 6 to 12) and adults
Accompanied by a guide, children and adults will embark on a joint exploration of paintings in the exhibition Jean Brusselmans. The tour will include creative activities designed to help everyone develop their powers of observation and imagination. Your guide will alternately challenge, encourage, and engage you, as you take part in fun activities suitable for all ages!
Bozar - Centre for Fine Arts
Brussels
Guided tours
Discovery Tour in Dutch
Mimili Maku Arts - 'Là où la terre se chante'
Aboriginal Signature Estrangin Gallery
Koekelberg
Exhibitions
Mimili Maku Arts - 'Là où la terre se chante'
Smithsonian Journey into deep space
Smithsonian Journey into deep space takes audiences on a journey to the far reaches of the Universe, right from the heart of Brussels at Tour & Taxis. Developed in collaboration with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), a research centre founded in 1890, the immersive experience draws on decades of astronomical research to explore stars, galaxies, exoplanets and black holes.
The exhibition features observations made by some of the world’s leading space observatories, including the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes and the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Through scientific data and discoveries, visitors can gain a deeper understanding of the life cycle of stars, the formation of galaxies, worlds beyond our solar system and some of the most extreme phenomena in the cosmos.
Set within a 3D environment, the experience takes visitors among representations of thousands of galaxies, across the Milky Way and towards the Sun, where they can observe its activity up close. Along the way, they encounter exoplanets with extreme conditions, a star nearing the end of its life and the edge of a supermassive black hole. By bringing these distant worlds and phenomena into an immersive setting, the experience offers a tangible sense of the vast scale and extraordinary diversity of the Universe, while making some of the most complex astronomical phenomena easier to understand from an Earth-based perspective.
Tour & Taxis
Brussels
Exhibitions
Smithsonian Journey into deep space
Mangatopia 30: years of manga from Kana!
For thirty years, Kana Editions has been at the forefront of manga’s rise within the French-speaking cultural landscape. Through works that have become essential reading and a remarkable diversity of stories, it has enabled several generations of readers to discover a medium that has become a true global cultural phenomenon.
To mark this anniversary, the Brussels Comic Strip Museum presents MANGATOPIA: 30 Years of Manga from Kana!, an exhibition that invites the public to immerse themselves in this world. Thanks to a thoughtfully designed exhibition layout, a varied selection of works and exclusive accounts from leading mangaka and key figures on the Japanese scene, visitors can discover the many facets of an art form that has constantly reinvented itself.
Conceived as a museum exhibition in its own right, MANGATOPIA brings together in Brussels an exceptional collection of original artwork (some of which has never left Japan) and other rare pieces, offering an enriching insight into the history and aesthetics of manga. For the first time in the Belgian capital, these historical and artistic artefacts are brought together in a single exhibition, allowing the public to appreciate this heritage in all its richness.
Designed for enthusiasts and newcomers alike, MANGATOPIA celebrates creativity, the power of storytelling and manga’s extraordinary ability to bring together different generations and cultures. More than just an anniversary exhibition, it is an invitation to explore a boundless world of imagination and to understand why manga is now one of the most universal cultural languages.
Curator : Frederico Anzalone
A collaboration with Kana and the Kyonto Manga Museum, Kyoto Seika University - international manga research center.
With the support of the Japanese Embassy in Belgium.
Poster : Inio Asano
Comic Art Museum
Brussels
Exhibitions
Mangatopia 30: years of manga from Kana!
Highlights tour Jean Brusselmans in French
Guided tour for individuals
Join us for an hour's introduction to an exhibition! Whether you're an experienced art lover or looking for a new experience, let yourself be carried away by our guides' fascinating stories. The Highlights Tour allows individual visitors to discover the essential works in an exhibition as a group. You can then complete your visit at your own pace by lingering a little longer in the exhibition halls.
Bozar - Centre for Fine Arts
Brussels
Guided tours
Highlights tour Jean Brusselmans in French
Highlights tour Jean Brusselmans in Dutch
Guided tour for individuals
Join us for an hour's introduction to an exhibition! Whether you're an experienced art lover or looking for a new experience, let yourself be carried away by our guides' fascinating stories. The Highlights Tour allows individual visitors to discover the essential works in an exhibition as a group. You can then complete your visit at your own pace by lingering a little longer in the exhibition halls.
Bozar - Centre for Fine Arts
Brussels
Guided tours
Highlights tour Jean Brusselmans in Dutch
Mayhem at the Workshop!
The 2025–2026 Master’s students at ESA Saint-Luc are exhibiting the work they created during their residency
Every year, young artists complete their training in comic art with a project that marks the culmination of several years of research, experimentation and creative work. This exhibition brings together the work of Master’s 2 students from the École supérieure des Arts Saint-Luc in Brussels, produced during their residency at the Comic Art Museum.
For five months, the Comic Art Museum hosted the students in residence at the Maison Marc Sleen. This residency enabled the students to experience life in a studio, build a sense of community, and develop their final-year projects whilst already having one foot outside the school.
By opening its workspaces to these future professionals, the museum reaffirms its commitment to supporting contemporary creativity and nurturing emerging talent. This exhibition offers a glimpse into the richness of the visual and narrative styles currently shaping the young comics scene, whilst introducing readers to comic creators whose first books are set to be published in the coming years.
Comic Art Museum
Brussels
Exhibitions
Mayhem at the Workshop!
Jean Brusselmans
Painter by Nature
Bozar presents a major retrospective of the painter Jean Brusselmans (1884-1953), the first comprehensive exhibition of his work since 1980. From the early 20th century onwards, Brusselmans developed a distinctive body of work, independent of artistic trends yet firmly rooted in painterly tradition. His deep connection to the Brabant landscape and his modest way of life are translated into an authentic and recognisable visual language, situated at the intersection of abstraction and figuration. Through some 120 works, the exhibition introduces visitors to the remarkable oeuvre of a still underappreciated Belgian artist. Dialogues with contemporaries such as Fernand Léger, Piet Mondrian and Rik Wouters offer a fresh perspective on his work. The exhibition also highlights Brusselmans' decorative commissions for the theatre, including the monumental sets he designed for the first French-language production of the opera Erwartung by Arnold Schoenberg at the Centre for Fine Arts in 1936. These lost stage designs are brought back to life by the contemporary Belgian painter Kristof Santy (b. 1987), who frequently draws inspiration from Brusselmans in his own work.
Partners: Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, KBR, MSK Ghent, Musea Brugge, Mu.ZEE, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
A ticket for the exhibitions of William Kentridge, Jean Brusselmans, Edith Dekyndt x Cristóbal Balenciaga or Central. Never Alone gives you free access to the exhibition House of Memory / by Basil Al-Rawi on the same day.
Bozar - Centre for Fine Arts
Brussels
Exhibitions
Jean Brusselmans
Kris Knight, Alireza Shojaian, Syed Hussain - 'There is a field ... I'll meet you there!'
EDJI Gallery
Ixelles
Exhibitions
Kris Knight, Alireza Shojaian, Syed Hussain - 'There is a field ... I'll meet you there!'
Art History : Bordalo2, Flog, Insane51, Leon Keer, Levalet, Murmure, Tamara Alves, Vuk Vidor, YZ
Loin de la copie ou de la citation, les œuvres présentées révèlent combien les grandes créations du passé continuent d’inspirer, de questionner et de nourrir la création contemporaine.
À travers les regards singuliers de YZ, Levalet, Bordalo II, Pantonio, Leon Keer, Tamara Alves, Alfred Cheng, Ardif et de nombreux autres artistes, Art History fait dialoguer les époques et invite le visiteur à découvrir les liens invisibles qui unissent les chefs-d’œuvre d’hier aux œuvres d’aujourd’hui.
Chaque création raconte ainsi une double histoire : celle de l’œuvre qui l’a inspirée et celle de l’artiste qui la réinvente pour écrire son propre langage.
Art History réunit une quinzaine d’artistes contemporains autour d’une idée commune : réinterpréter un chef-d’œuvre de l’histoire de l’art pour créer une œuvre originale.
De l’hommage à la réappropriation, chaque artiste s’empare d’une œuvre fondatrice pour prolonger sa propre recherche artistique.
Mazel Galerie
Ixelles
Exhibitions
Art History : Bordalo2, Flog, Insane51, Leon Keer, Levalet, Murmure, Tamara Alves, Vuk Vidor, YZ
En 2026, La Maison des Arts a 200 ans !
Maison des Arts
Schaerbeek
Exhibitions
En 2026, La Maison des Arts a 200 ans !
Exposition à l’occasion des 200 ans de la Maison des Arts
Maison des Arts
Schaerbeek
Exhibitions
Exposition à l’occasion des 200 ans de la Maison des Arts
Au jardin
Maison des Arts
Schaerbeek
Exhibitions
Au jardin
Visites guidées et ateliers créatifs
Maison des Arts
Schaerbeek
Guided tours
Visites guidées et ateliers créatifs
Le labo
Maison des Arts
Schaerbeek
Courses and workshops
Le labo
Tatiana Trouvé - 'The Auxiliaries'
Xavier Hufkens
Ixelles
Exhibitions
Tatiana Trouvé - 'The Auxiliaries'
Hans Op de Beeck - 'Vanishing Point'
Almine Rech
Ixelles
Exhibitions
Hans Op de Beeck - 'Vanishing Point'
Oda Jaune - 'The Other'
Templon
Saint-Gilles
Exhibitions
Oda Jaune - 'The Other'
Canicool (visual art duo composed of artists and curators Antonin Kremer & Benjamin Jaubert) – ‘Demain Demain’
Canicool is a visual art duo composed of artists and curators Antonin Kremer & Benjamin Jaubert
JAP / Vitrine "Entre deux portes"
Brussels
Exhibitions
Canicool (visual art duo composed of artists and curators Antonin Kremer & Benjamin Jaubert) – ‘Demain Demain’
Au jardin
Maison des Arts
Schaerbeek
Exhibitions
Au jardin
Camille Pennequin, Colorful Escapes
Camille Pennequin is a painter based in Brussels. Havind graduated in graphic design from the University of the Arts London (UAL Camberwell) and subsequently in jewellery design from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, she has developed a visual art practice enriched by the precision of drawing, the rigour of craftsmanship and the power of colour.
Camille Pennequin’s world invites us to pause time and let our minds wander. Drawing inspiration from her travels, the artist goes beyond simply depicting the landscape to capture its emotion, light and atmosphere: the enchanting reflections of Venice, the brightness of Menorca and the mystery of Calabria all become fragments of memory.
On the canvas, gouache and oil pastels intertwine in a tactile interplay of textures and reliefs, brought to life by free-flowing brushstrokes and vibrant colours. The energy of the moment blends with memory, making each work a poetic bridge between recollection and wonder.
Chez Martha
Ixelles
Exhibitions
Camille Pennequin, Colorful Escapes
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 horizon is an abstraction
Between figuration and abstraction, Annabelle Drory reduces landscapes to their skeleton: horizons, reliefs, architectures as volumes of colour. In a diffuse light, forms emerge and fade. Silence, presence and disappearance, the said and unsaid create an enigmatic atmosphere. The outer landscape becomes inner, open to memory and imagination.
n Annabelle Drory's painting there are places and elements we believe we recognise without ever being quite able to situate them. A horizon line, a few reliefs, structures reduced to their essential forms.
In her marine paintings, the visible world is subjected to a slow work of effacement. Details disappear, volumes simplify, architectures become blocks of colour. Between figuration and abstraction, Annabelle Drory no longer leads the gaze towards a precise point; it lingers in the expanse and suggests.
Her paintings are often organised around a dominant horizontality. The sky occupies a considerable place, while the earth, the water or the structures contract into the lower part of the canvas. These proportions give the void an almost physical presence. The landscape is no longer the setting for an action: it becomes the event itself.
The palette — bluish greys, water green, chalky whites and deep blues — restores the particular atmosphere of the North. The light fixes no precise hour. The landscape seems caught in an indeterminate duration, between appearance and effacement.
A few accents of ochre, red or black interrupt the chromatic continuity and introduce a tension into the horizontality. These isolated forms lend the landscape an enigmatic, at times almost narrative presence. A simple shoreline can tip, almost imperceptibly, into abstraction.
These marine paintings by Annabelle Drory bring Marguerite Duras to mind. Annabelle Drory shares with Duras's writing the same use of silence, of waiting and of absence. Here too, the landscape seems to wait. Something has withdrawn, yet remains perceptible. And this silence is at times eloquent.
The deep subject of this marine painting is perhaps not so much the landscape as the threshold: the boundary between sky and earth, presence and disappearance, the said and the unsaid, figuration and abstraction.
On the whole, Annabelle Drory paints less the exact reality of a place than the memory we may keep of it, or the meaning we are free to give it. From it emanates a meditative, slightly melancholic atmosphere, in which the void plays a role as important as the elements depicted.
In her abstract works, Annabelle Drory no longer seeks so much to represent a place as to bring a space into being. The painting gradually frees itself from the observable landscape to build its own territory, made of coloured masses, lines, fragments and traces. Though the horizon sometimes remains perceptible, it is no longer the description of a specific expanse: it becomes a principle of organisation, a pretext for conveying what she feels.
Annabelle Drory works in a constant balance between construction and intuition. The palette knife lays down the colour, but can also remove it, displace it or erode it. The painting is built through a succession of decisions, observations and responses to what arises on the canvas. The reworkings, the transparencies and the accidents are not concealed: they fully take part in the image and give it its depth.
Here too the void plays an essential role: it is not a passive background but an active space that allows the forms to breathe and determines their intensity.
This way of proceeding produces an abstraction that never breaks completely with the sensory world. The landscape is therefore not absent: it has been internalised. It persists as sensation, rhythm and memory; it suggests a message without formulating it. It is offered to the viewer's interpretation and imagination.
Sometimes the composition fragments further. Interrupted lines and partially covered surfaces establish a discontinuous perception. The eye moves about without being able to reconstitute a single image. The line itself seems to hesitate between contour, writing and trajectory. As with Paul Klee, it may be understood as a movement before being a boundary: it crosses space, opens a passage and goes on suggesting.
Annabelle Drory's work thus lies in an in-between space: between the visible and the invisible, premeditation and accident, stability and disappearance, the said and the unsaid.
Her paintings do not deliver a fixed image. They give us to see a process in the course of which forms emerge, transform, and always remain liable to fade away.
Their strength lies in this openness. Nothing is imposed, yet nothing is left to chance. The painting offers thresholds and directions that each viewer is free to inhabit. It no longer represents the world: it retains certain fundamental experiences of it — light, distance, the passing of time, the vagaries of existence, the fragile persistence of things — in order to recompose them in a language that has become fully pictorial.
Espace Maurice Amaraggi
Ixelles
Exhibitions
The horizon is an abstraction
Île/Mer/Froid with Richard Dewar, Daniel Dewar & Gregory Gicquel, Philippe Godderidge, Marianne Marić, Julien Meert
La Verrière
Brussels
Exhibitions
Île/Mer/Froid with Richard Dewar, Daniel Dewar & Gregory Gicquel, Philippe Godderidge, Marianne Marić, Julien Meert
Sayre Gomez - 'Sim City'
Xavier Hufkens
Ixelles
Exhibitions
Sayre Gomez - 'Sim City'
Season XL, Mae Engelgeer & Matsubayashi Hosai XVI, Echoes of Wa, Duo Show
Spazio Nobile Gallery
Ixelles
Exhibitions
Season XL, Mae Engelgeer & Matsubayashi Hosai XVI, Echoes of Wa, Duo Show
Chisato Yasui - 'Monad'
Spazio Nobile Studiolo
Ixelles
Exhibitions
Chisato Yasui - 'Monad'
Jonas Moenne - 'Au delà de la ville'
Galerie La Patinoire Royale Bach
Saint-Gilles
Exhibitions
Jonas Moenne - 'Au delà de la ville'
Charlotte vander Borght & Tapta - 'The Unknown'
By appointment via laurencedujardyn@gmail.com or +32492215758
SYBIL @ Maurice Verbaet Exhibition Space
Forest
Exhibitions
Charlotte vander Borght & Tapta - 'The Unknown'
Shota Nakamura - 'seven lakes'
Mendes Wood DM
Brussels
Exhibitions
Shota Nakamura - 'seven lakes'
Soleil Noir : Léon Spilliaert, Michaël Borremans, James Ensor…
Soleil Noir presents this autumn at Villa Empain nearly one hundred works by exclusively Belgian artists. Spanning 130 years of artistic creation, the exhibition invites visitors to explore the work of Léon Spilliaert alongside major figures of modern and contemporary art.
The exhibition unfolds through themes such as the self-portrait, the nude, melancholy, landscape, and the North Sea. An exceptional selection of more than thirty works by Léon Spilliaert enters into dialogue with creations by his contemporaries, including James Ensor, Constant Permeke, Edgar Tytgat, George Minne, and Henry Van de Velde. The exhibition also highlights the profound influence of this Belgian artistic tradition on subsequent generations, from Luc Tuymans and Thierry De Cordier to Hans Op de Beeck and Michaël Borremans.
An invitation to discover the many echoes that connect the great masters of Belgian art with the artists who continue to shape the way we see the world today.
Boghossian Foundation - Villa Empain
Ixelles
Exhibitions
Soleil Noir : Léon Spilliaert, Michaël Borremans, James Ensor…
Elena Ferrer with Anaïs Chabeur and Edurne Rubio - 'Become the Sky'
ISELP
Brussels
Exhibitions
Elena Ferrer with Anaïs Chabeur and Edurne Rubio - 'Become the Sky'
Creation et handicap mental. champ / Hors-champ
Centre Culturel Jacques Franck
Saint-Gilles
Exhibitions
Creation et handicap mental. champ / Hors-champ
INUIT - Impressions of the Canadian Far North
With nearly 250 artworks on display, this major exhibition offers the European public a rare opportunity to discover contemporary Inuit art. This expo shows the Inuit world, exploring traditions, Arctic fauna, and contemporary concerns such as climate change. Using prints, drawings and sculptures, these artists explore the human-animal relationship, identity and the transformation of landscapes.
With nearly 250 artworks on display, this exhibition offers the European public a rare opportunity to discover contemporary Inuit art. Moving beyond an ethnographic approach, the exhibited works are first and foremost those of artists whose creations engage with the major challenges of our time and with
the authentic voices of the Inuit communities of Nunavut and Nunavik.
Using prints, drawings and sculptures, these artists explore the human-animal relationship, along with concepts such as memory, identity and the transformation of landscapes and territories.
Inspired by the collection assembled by the Belgian poet Carl Norac, with additional contributions from several major European museums, the exhibition highlights the rich variety of materials and the diversity of artistic techniques.
Art & History Museum (RMAH)
Brussels
Exhibitions
INUIT - Impressions of the Canadian Far North
Art nouveau versus Art Deco? 1850–1950: a century in 31 seats
Dive into a century of revolutions in design and architecture! Between Art Nouveau and modernism, discover 31 iconic chairs revealing the evolutions and continuities that have shaped the way we live.
From June 25, 2026, to January 10, 2027, the Horta Museum presents the exhibition Art Nouveau versus Art Deco? 1850–1950: A Century in 31 Seats. The exhibition features thirty chairs by leading designers, from Victor Horta and Henry van de Velde to Le Corbusier and Marcel Breuer, offering insight into a century of transformation in design and architecture in the Western world. Although Art Nouveau and Art Deco are often seen as opposites, this exhibition brings them into dialogue through the chair, an iconic object in interior architecture. The chair serves as the central thread and illustrates how designers are connected across generations.
Horta Museum
Saint-Gilles
Exhibitions
Art nouveau versus Art Deco? 1850–1950: a century in 31 seats
Tony Cragg - 'Symmetries'
Bernier/Eliades
Ixelles
Exhibitions
Tony Cragg - 'Symmetries'
Sasha Kurmaz & Danylo Halkin - 'Liturgie des jours'
Galerie La Patinoire Royale Bach
Saint-Gilles
Exhibitions
Sasha Kurmaz & Danylo Halkin - 'Liturgie des jours'
Raymond Tsham, Reinata Sadimba - 'Héritages vivants. Réinventer les formes '
PERSON
Brussels
Exhibitions
Raymond Tsham, Reinata Sadimba - 'Héritages vivants. Réinventer les formes '
Portia Zvavahera: Kuzviramba Mamuri
Zimbabwean artist Portia Zvavahera’s large-scale painterly compositions mix printmaking and painting techniques to record scenes, human figures and ghostly creatures that visit her in the otherworldly plane that opens up when the conscious mind goes to rest.
Zvavahera has developed a distinctive artistic language that embodies the visible and invisible force fields born from her own “inner battles.” Her work, which weaves together personal and collective experience, is animated by a syncretic blend of Christian traditions and the spiritual dimensions of Shona culture in Zimbabwe.
The exhibition in WIELS encompasses early paintings exploring themes akin to the artist’s experience of womanhood, dreamscapes incorporating elements of her surroundings such as leaves and lace, all the way to her most recent venture into ceramics. While hinting at traditions of Zimbabweanfiguration, textile patterns and motifs of religious iconography, the work makes space for a shared, affective vocabulary of loss, love, grief, and joy.
Curator: Sofia Dati
The exhibition is organised in collaboration with Fridericianum, Kassel; David Zwirner, New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Hong Kong; and Stevenson, Cape Town, Amsterdam.
Wiels - Contemporary art centre
Forest
Exhibitions
Portia Zvavahera: Kuzviramba Mamuri
Italo 2000 - Brussels' New Italians
Since 2000, at least 10,000 Italians have made Brussels their home. Not migration out of necessity, but a conscious choice for a city that offers more opportunities. Based on 77 interviews, Italo 2000 paints a portrait of these new Italo-Bruxellois: their choices, their identity and their view of the city they now call home.
MigratieMuseumMigration
Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
Exhibitions
Italo 2000 - Brussels' New Italians
Animazing
SEE NATURE LIKE NEVER BEFORE
Sleeping upright, changing colour with the seasons, running like a marathon champion, or seeing in every direction at once…
Incredible, but true!
Welcome to the fascinating world of ANIMAZING. Through captivating stories, 78 animals reveal their extraordinary abilities and remarkable survival strategies. From the sea slug that can photosynthesise to the acrobatic spider monkey, every species has an amazing story to tell.
A bold exhibition design invites visitors of all ages into a world where nature never ceases to astound and inspire.
Both moving and playful, ANIMAZING encourages everyone to look at the living world with fresh eyes, reflect on the relationship between humans and nature, and imagine the future. This colourful journey awakens the senses, stirs curiosity, and sparks positive emotions at every step.
What if nature pushed the boundaries of the possible?
Yes, they can!
ANIMAZING – the exhibition where every animal hides something extraordinary. For explorers ages 8 and up.
Institute of Natural Sciences
Brussels
Exhibitions
Animazing
Tapta meets Judd
A key figure in contemporary Belgian sculpture, Tapta, born Maria Wierusz Kowalski (1926–1997), is today receiving the renewed recognition she deserves. Originally trained in textile arts, the Belgian artist of Polish origin began to develop her sculptural practice from the 1980s onwards, using neoprene, a synthetic rubber.
The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium preserve two works that mark this artistic trajectory. One of them, Néoflexibles 2, has not been shown to the public for many years and will be exceptionally presented on this occasion.
As part of the Collection Meets programme, the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium create dialogues between their collections and those of other collectors – in this instance, several original works by Tapta come from the collection of Maurice Verbaet and from another private collection.This edition brings together Tapta and Donald Judd (1928–1994), two artists of the same generation who, on opposite sides of the Atlantic, each contributed to rethinking the relationship to space while working with industrial materials.
This encounter forms part of a broader project aimed at bringing renewed visibility to the Royal Museums’ remarkable collection of modern and contemporary art.
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Brussels
Exhibitions
Tapta meets Judd
Casual/Tease as part of The Memorial to Those Who Did Not Fall in War
The Memorial for Those Who Did Not Fall in War, a nomadic lab developed by Columbia University’s Global Center for Peace Innovation, arrives in Brussels with Casual/Tease.
Curated by Hadas Zahavi, founder of the Columbia Global Center for Peace Innovation.
We think we know what harm looks like. From breaking news to social media, we are saturated with a constant stream of images of victims set against collapsed facades, darkened walls, dust hanging in the air, and streets brought to a halt under rubble. In this flow of images, we learn where to look for casualty and, just as crucially, where not to: within the uninterrupted course of day-to-day routine. Casual/Tease lingers exactly where nothing seems to happen, within the casual continuity of everyday life: a quiet view from a window onto a flowering boulevard, a household ladder leaning within reach, a handmade ceramic vessel ready to hold a bouquet. Each work in Casual/Tease first appears as a small, innocent fragment of daily life, caught in a fleeting moment of ease. Look a little longer, however, and that ease begins to fracture. The window view borrows the gaze of a military drone; the ladder becomes the impossible reach for food amid genocide; the delicate vessel reveals the form of a grenade, handmade in wartime Japan. To look here, then, is not simply to uncover what was hidden, but to confront what perception itself has been trained to overlook.
What comes into view is a dispersed field of implication in which neither injury nor agency remains confined to the site of war. First, the works bring us face to face with those who produce its casualties from spaces that still carry the appearance of casual life: from bright university laboratories associated with human progress where technologies of warfare take shape, through spacious offices where their production is financed and their sale negotiated, along everyday routes of commerce where weapons move among the ordinary flow of goods, to the safe distance from which armies deploy remote warfare technologies, preserving the appearance of everyday life here while bringing it to a halt elsewhere. The exhibition extends this encounter, too, to those who live with war’s casualties in places where everyday life appears to have resumed: walking across poisoned ground, breathing contaminated air, inhabiting landscapes scattered with the remnants of past wars, and living among materials in which military violence quietly persists long after the moment of impact has disappeared from view. In holding these two ends of the same continuum together, Casual/Tease resists the structures that bind them, reaching toward another kind of casual reality; one that leaves no casualties in its wake.
Reza Aramesh, Julieta Aranda, Kader Attia, Nina Berman, Julian Charrière, Baptist Coelho, Detex, Kendell Geers, Shilpa Gupta, Dan Halter, Majd Abdel Hamid, Mona Hatoum, Hideyuki Ishibashi, Benoît Jacquemin, Will Kerr, Lesia Khomenko, Kapwani Kiwanga, Daria Koltsova, Vera Kox, Anton Kusters, Rachel Labastie, Emilio López-Menchero, Edgar Martins, Ismail Matar, and others.
Cloud Seven - Frédéric de Goldschmidt Collection
Brussels
Exhibitions
Casual/Tease as part of The Memorial to Those Who Did Not Fall in War
"Attrape-couleurs" par Laura Brodzki
MIRA
Ixelles
Exhibitions
"Attrape-couleurs" par Laura Brodzki
Saul Steinberg The Americans - Part 3
The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium present The Road – South and West and Farmers – Middle West, two panels from The Americans, Saul Steinberg’s monumental work created for the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair.
Created on site for the American Pavilion, this work measuring more than 70 metres in length is a vast collage inspired by the “American way of life”, in which Steinberg gave free rein to his imagination and wit. Composed of eight thematic panels, The Americans is now regarded as one of the artist’s greatest achievements.
At the close of Expo 58, the work was acquired by the Belgian State and incorporated into the collections of the RMFAB. Because of its monumental scale and fragility, this major work is rarely displayed, despite having originally been conceived for an open space designed to welcome thousands of visitors. At the time, it served as the elegant backdrop to the daily fashion shows organised by Vogue in the heart of the pavilion.
In spring 2025, three panels from The Americans were exceptionally loaned to Maison Delvaux for a press presentation during Paris Fashion Week. Upon their return, the works were presented to museum visitors before a second group of three panels went on display. With the presentation of these final two panels, the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium bring this exhibition cycle to its conclusion. The chapter closes with the satisfaction of having restored to public view, in its entirety, a remarkable ensemble that had remained out of sight for too long, and of having given this jewel of the collections the visibility it deserves.
As a Diamond Member of the Corporate Club, Maison Delvaux has partnered with the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, helping to ensure the preservation and renewed appreciation of these works in all their splendour.
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Brussels
Exhibitions
Saul Steinberg The Americans - Part 3
Kaftanorama
More than an exhibition, an ancient tradition that continues to resonate.
The Moroccan caftan—textile of memory, distinction, and identity—is both an art form and a living heritage. From its origins to its global recognition, KAFTANORAMA explores the richness of its regional expressions and the craftsmanship that brings each creation to life. A legacy of gestures, fabrics, and grace—preserved and reinterpreted to tell how an ancient tradition continues to resonate.
Admission fees:
Non-residents of Molenbeek: €5
Molenbeek residents: €3
Sunday: free
More information about our rates: momuse.be
Rabiâ Fattah (artist)
Municipal Museum of Molenbeek Saint-Jean
Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
Exhibitions
Kaftanorama
Shape of Absence
The Boghossian Foundation presents 'Shape of absence', an exhibition which bears witness to the ongoing heritage tragedy unfolding in Syria since 2011. It is centered on Hrair Sarkissian's monumental installation and the immersive images produced by Iconem.
The Boghossian Foundation presents 'Shape of absence', an exhibition initiated at the invitation of Louma Salamé, which bears witness to the ongoing heritage tragedy unfolding in Syria since 2011. The exhibition is centered on Hrair Sarkissian’s monumental installation 'Stolen Past', presented in dialogue with Iconem’s immersive images of the site of Palmyra. A poignant reflection on disappearance, memory, and resilience.
As cradle of ancient civilisations and major cultural crossroads, Syria has, since 2011, seen its heritage gravely threatened and exploited by war through destruction, looting, and the illegal antiquities trades. The exhibition seeks to bear witness to this ongoing tragedy while underscoring the urgent need to document sites in the face of the loss of millions of archaeological objects.
'Stolen Past', Hrair Sarkissian’s powerful installation, lies at the heart of this enquiry. Trained from an early age in his father’s photographic studio in Damascus, the artist is now recognised as one of the leading conceptual photographers of his generation. Deeply rooted in history and memory, his practice finds a particularly poignant resonance here.
The monumental installation presents forty-eight lithophanes arranged like funerary stelae, creating an atmosphere of contemplation and remembrance. When illuminated, they reveal images reminiscent of black-and-white photographs depicting artefacts that disappeared from the Raqqa Museum in Syria. Founded in 1981, the institution once housed some 8,000 objects spanning a vast historical period. Between 2013 and 2017, the Islamic State took control of the city and systematically looted its museums and collections. Of these thousands of invaluable pieces, only 880 are known to remain today.
By adapting a technique dating back to the mid-nineteenth century, the artist documents these absent remnants through lithophanes produced by means of 3D printing on thin translucent plaques. The project highlights the ways in which absence may be made visible, while more broadly exploring the forms of memory that emerge within communities shaped by violence.
In resonance with this work, the immersive images presented in the exhibition stem from ICONEM’s 3D digitisation and reconstruction technologies, revealing the site of Palmyra in Syria, fragile under the effects of time and conflict. Through monumental remains, sculpted details, and silent expanses, visitors are invited to contemplate not only what endures, but also what has been lost. Absence here becomes a visible form, embodied in traces, ruins, and fragments that continue to tell a story.
At the intersection of art, memory, and innovation, 'Shape of absence' questions our relationship to lost heritage and the capacity of images to preserve what once seemed irretrievably gone.
Hrair Sarkissian
ICONEM
Boghossian Foundation - Villa Empain
Ixelles
Exhibitions
Shape of Absence
Jirō Taniguchi. Portrait lointain
The Fondation Folon presents Jirô Taniguchi. Portrait lointain, the first major exhibition devoted to the manga master in Europe in more than a decade.
Presented as part of the celebrations marking 160 years of friendship between Belgium and Japan, it invites visitors to immerse themselves in the sensitive, poetic and deeply human world of the celebrated mangaka. A unique opportunity to discover the work of one of Japan’s greatest comics artists.
The Japanese comic strip artist and screenwriter Jirô Taniguchi (Tottori 1947 – Tokyo 2017) holds a special place in the history of manga. Best known in Europe for A Distant Neighbourhood, The Walking Man and The Summit of the Gods, he developed a deeply personal oeuvre that fused Japanese and European culture. He was a prolific author who explored a wide range of genres over the course of his career: intimate narratives, crime, westerns, historical chronicles, adventure, fantasy, animal stories and even gourmet manga.
Taniguchi’s work is notable for its unusual focus on emotions, silence and the details of everyday life, which transforms themundane into a universal experience. In his extraordinarily delicate drawings, he accords as much importance to the characters as to the scenery, the light and the passage of time. Comprising original comic strips from Japan, this exhibition is a fantastic opportunity to discover this outstanding artist. It explores the major themes that permeate his work.
Although fascinated by European comic strips, Taniguchi remained profoundly Japanese. He helped to project a different image of manga, far removed from the stereotypes associated with the genre. His work appeals to both comic strip enthusiasts and readers who are discovering manga for the first time.
Jirô Taniguchi
Folon Foundation
La Hulpe
Exhibitions
Jirō Taniguchi. Portrait lointain
Highlights tour William Kentridge in French
Guided tour for individuals
Join us for an hour's introduction to an exhibition! Whether you're an experienced art lover or looking for a new experience, let yourself be carried away by our guides' fascinating stories. The Highlights Tour allows individual visitors to discover the essential works in an exhibition as a group. You can then complete your visit at your own pace by lingering a little longer in the exhibition halls.
Galerie Ravenstein
Brussels
Guided tours
Highlights tour William Kentridge in French
Highlights tour William Kentridge in Dutch
Guided tour for individuals
Join us for an hour's introduction to an exhibition! Whether you're an experienced art lover or looking for a new experience, let yourself be carried away by our guides' fascinating stories. The Highlights Tour allows individual visitors to discover the essential works in an exhibition as a group. You can then complete your visit at your own pace by lingering a little longer in the exhibition halls.
Galerie Ravenstein
Brussels
Guided tours
Highlights tour William Kentridge in Dutch
William Kentridge
I am not me, the horse is not mine
William Kentridge began his artistic career at the height of the political struggle against the apartheid regime in his native South Africa. His work bears witness to a profound commitment - at once social, political and poetic - that continues to shape his artistic practice to this day.Kentridge's artistic output ranges from drawings, animated films and sculptures to prints, installations and videos. These works often emerge while he is directing a theatre or opera production, another field to which he devotes his energies. I am not me, the horse is not mine, William Kentridge's solo exhibition at Bozar, offers a comprehensive overview of his oeuvre from the early 1980s to the present day. Several of his major stage productions receive special attention. The exhibition highlights the performative and collaborative nature of Kentridge's practice, in which he allows art to evolve into a space for political inquiry, historical reckoning and poetic transformation.William Kentridge takes over one of Bozar's major exhibition spaces, creates site-specific works, and curates a rich multidisciplinary programme. This is by no means the first time we have welcomed Kentridge to Brussels. He has a long-standing connection with the city, where he premiered his first opera (Faustus in Africa!, 1995), and where he held his first solo exhibition in Europe at Bozar in 1998.
"A journey in which all art forms interact to create performances like no other." Le Soir"How do you capture the work of a versatile artist in a museum gallery? Bozar answers with a theatrical journey through the mind-and studio-ofSouth African artist, animator, thinker and opera director William Kentridge." De TijdA ticket for the exhibitions of William Kentridge, Jean Brusselmans, Edith Dekyndt x Cristóbal Balenciaga or Central. Never Alone gives you free access to the exhibition House of Memory / by Basil Al-Rawi on the same day.
Galerie Ravenstein
Brussels
Exhibitions
William Kentridge
Fashion & Trains. Fashion by rail, since 1835.
To mark the centenary of SNCB-NMBS, Train World presents Fashion & Trains.
From the very beginning, railways have borne witness to the changing fashions of those who travelled by train. This exhibition offers a unique opportunity to cast a spotlight not on the train itself, but on the passengers and railway staff, seen through the fresh perspective of their clothes, from 1835 to the present day.
To mark the centenary of SNCB-NMBS, Train World presents Fashion & Trains, an exhibition exploring the fascinating world of fashion and rail travel.
From the very beginning, railways have borne witness to the changing fashions of those who travelled by train. This exhibition offers a unique opportunity to cast a spotlight not on the train itself, but on the passengers and railway staff, seen through the fresh perspective of their clothes, from 1835 to the present day.
This journey also offers the chance to admire superb railway posters, each capturing the spirit of travel and revealing how closely the worlds of rail and fashion have long been intertwined.
As an introduction to Fashion & Trains, four young designers were invited to imagine the clothes worn by the travellers of today and tomorrow.
Train World
Schaerbeek
Exhibitions
Fashion & Trains. Fashion by rail, since 1835.
Visit of BELvue Museum
Every Wednesday afternoon and every 1st Sunday of the month, admission to the BELvue museum is free for all visitors. There is no need to purchase a ticket in advance for this.
BELvue museum
Brussels
Exhibitions
Visit of BELvue Museum
Visit of BELvue Museum and Coudenberg Palace
For this type of tickets, you can purchase a maximum of 200 tickets. Are you over 18 and have a Museumpass or a Brussels Card ? All you have to do is present it at the museum counter without having to buy a ticket here. Do you want to come by train? Choose your ticket with "" SNCB "" in the title and benefit from a reduction for your train trip! This promotion does not apply to free tickets or to free temporary exhibitions.
BELvue museum
Brussels
Exhibitions
Visit of BELvue Museum and Coudenberg Palace
Combiticket Garderobe MannekenPis + Brussels City Museum
With this ticket, you will receive one entrance to the MannekenPis, which is also valid for the Brussels City Museum on the Grand Place.
GardeRobe MannekenPis
Brussels
Exhibitions
Combiticket Garderobe MannekenPis + Brussels City Museum
Visit of Bruxella 1238
Next to the stock exchange building, in the heart of Brussels, is a fascinating little archaeological site. It contains the remains of the Franciscan monastery founded in Brussels in 1238 and the tomb of Duke John I of Brabant. The foundations and various other objects offer a glimpse of an unknown side of the history of Brussels, and at the same time give a good idea of the different aspects of an archaeological dig.
Bruxella 1238
Brussels
Exhibitions
Visit of Bruxella 1238
Visit of the Erasmushouse and the Beguinage
Erasmus House–in which the famous philosopher and scholar stayed from May to October 1521–is one of the oldest Gothic houses in the Belgian capital, and hosts a sublime collection of paintings, prints and sculptures by 15th-17th century masters.
The beguinage has been restored in depth and is once again open to visitors each 1st Sunday of the month with guided tours (or on request).
The Erasmus House, beguinage, and collegiate church of Saints Peter and Guido forma magnificent historical ensemble, right in the heart of the commune. Erasmus House–in which the famous philosopher and scholar stayed from May to October 1521–is one of the oldest Gothic houses in the Belgian capital.
It hosts a sublime collection of paintings, prints and sculptures by 15th-17th century masters like Albrecht Dürer, Hugo Van der Goes, Cornelis Metsys... not to mention portraits of Erasmus inspired by Hans Holbein and Quentin Metsys. A rich collection of 16th century books is a nod to the singular humanist’s thinking.
A medicinal plant garden–designed by landscape architect René Pechère–presents around one hundred medicinal plants that were known to 16thcentury physicians. Beyond it stretches a philosophical garden that is home to the works of contemporary artists like Marie-Jo Lafontaine and Bob Verschueren. The beguinage of Anderlecht is Belgium’s smallest.
Founded in 1252, today it consists of two wings framing an enclosed garden with its own well. It housed beguines right up until the French Revolution. The beguinage has been restored in depth and is once again open to visitors each 1st Sunday of the month with guided tours. Discover this entirely restored architectural jewel in a pristine state.
To prepare for your visit, please consult the garden rules on the Erasmushouse & Beguinage website.
Erasmus House & Beguinage Museums
Anderlecht
Exhibitions
Visit of the Erasmushouse and the Beguinage
WOM - World Of Mind
The WOM, an interactive journey here to disturb your senses. Discover a museum dedicated to perceptions and illusions at the crossroads of science and fun.
WOM - World Of Mind
Brussels
Exhibitions
WOM - World Of Mind
Kurtág Fragments - Dénes Nagy
In the presence of the director on November 4
György Kurtág, a renowned contemporary composer and the last major figure of the post-war avant-garde, remains spiritually vibrant despite his old age. The film showcases his work with world-class musicians like Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Víkingur Ólafsson or Steven Isserlis, capturing the magical transformation of emotions into music.
This feature-length documentary offers a cinematic journey into Kurtág's profound musical world, it approaches its subject through observation, atmosphere and fragments of everyday life, reflecting the deeply personal character of Kurtág's music.
Through Dénes Nagy's distinctive cinematic language, music and image come together to create a portrait that is both personal and contemplative.
Producer : Julianna Ugrin / Main cinematographer : Tamás Dobos / Editor : Nicolas Rumpl / Sound : Péter Benjámin Lukács
Born in Budapest in 1980, Dénes Nagy is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. He graduated in film directing from the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest in 2009 and he studied for one year at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin. Nagy's first feature film, Natural Light (Természetes fény), premiered in competition at the 71st Berlin International Film Festival, where he received the Silver Bear for Best Director in 2021.
The screening forms part of a series of events celebrating Kurtág's centenary in Brussels. The programme also includes an exhibition by Judit Kurtág, opening at the Liszt Institute Brussels on November 3, and a concert by scArt featuring György Kurtág Jr, the composer's son, on 13 November.
Bozar - Centre for Fine Arts
Brussels
Cinema
Kurtág Fragments - Dénes Nagy
Œdipus
Théâtre Varia
Ixelles
Theatre
Œdipus
Montaigne
Théâtre des Martyrs
Brussels
Theatre
Montaigne
Ricochet
Théâtre des Martyrs
Brussels
Theatre
Ricochet
Fermeture exceptionnelle
Hey les curieux et les curieuses… on a un truc à vous montrer!!
Rendez-vous devant le théâtre pendant la semaine de fermeture… Mais chut!
Discretos…
La Cie Renards a tout chamboulé. C’est elle qui vous ouvrira les portes pour découvrir La montagne magique comme vous ne l’avez jamais vue.
Surprises à tous les étages!
Cie Renards
Théâtre La montagne magique
Brussels
Theatre
Fermeture exceptionnelle
ماحلى خیالك [Beautiful Shadows]
Exile and Shadows
Four dancers and a musician, all with backgrounds shaped by exile, invite us into a living ritual, exploring the traces left behind when we are forced to leave a country, a childhood, a home: traces etched into places and memories, traces that time cannot erase.
Like the enduring shadow cast on a wall by someone who is no longer there, memory remains. It surfaces unexpectedly, bringing the bustle of the present to a brief halt. It settles into a gesture, the scent of coffee, a song in the distance, an inner rhythm that you carry with you wherever you go, like the home you have never entirely left behind.
ماحلى خﯾالك [Beautiful Shadows] is the second production by Ahmed Ayed to be presented at Les Brigittines, following … And Nobody Else (2024).
Ahmed Ayed
Les Brigittines
Brussels
Show
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ماحلى خیالك [Beautiful Shadows]
Wild Horse Nine
Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris (John Malkovich) and Lee (Sam Rockwell) are dispatched from Santiago to Easter island by their bureau chief, MJ (Steve Buscemi). Amongst the Island's iconic statues, and as the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and present conspiracies, Chris's newfound bond with a pair of rebellious students (Mariana di Girolamo and Ailín Salas) threatens to send everyone’s trip to this remote paradise sideways.
Flagey
Ixelles
Cinema
Wild Horse Nine
Eruption
A romantic vacation goes awry when a volcanic eruption strands Bethany and her boyfriend, Rob, in Warsaw, Poland. Taking the explosive event as a sign to ditch her baggage, Bethany reunites with her childhood friend, Nel, to traipse through lofts, clubs, and back alleys—all while becoming entangled in an emotional web that challenges her sense of self.
Flagey
Ixelles
Cinema
Eruption
Gaspard Melville - Bruxelles Chaos
BXL, CADAVRE EXQUIS Dans une véritable déclaration d’amour à Bruxelles, Gaspard Melville révèle avec un humour décapant les secrets de fabrication de sa ville natale. Mi-historien, mi-stand-upper, il nous entraîne dans l’ADN de Bruxelles, un territoire surréaliste et réfractaire à toute forme de discipline.Coup de cœur du TTO, ce seul-en-scène investit la grande salle pour raconter l’épopée bruxelloise, depuis le voûtement de la Senne jusqu'à l’Expo 58, de l’humour de la STIB au bourgmestre à dos d’éléphant.Après avoir créé la page “Les Visites de mon voisin” sur les réseaux, Gaspard Melville condense dans ce spectacle ses meilleures anecdotes. Il nous emmène dans l’envers du décor pour tenter de capter l’âme insaisissable de cette ville en mille morceaux. Résultat : 80 minutes de natation désynchronisée dans le grand bain bruxellois. Et si Gaspard égratigne parfois la ville au passage, son spectacle lui rend tout de même hommage : une ville sans dogme, capable du pire comme du meilleur, où la beauté peut surgir du chaos. De et Avec Gaspard MelvilleCréation vidéos Julien MusMusique originale Julien Delcroix Production Vassilia van der HeydenCoproduction Théâtre de la Toison d’Or et Décadrages asbl
TTO - Théâtre de la Toison d'Or
Ixelles
Theatre
Gaspard Melville - Bruxelles Chaos
Lumson
LUMSON presents the results of an artistic research project by artist Aernoudt Jacobs, developed in collaboration with iMAL, UHasselt/imo-imomec, FARI/ULB/VUB and De Hoge Rielen.
LUMSON presents the results of an artistic research project by artist Aernoudt Jacobs, developed in collaboration with iMAL, UHasselt/imo-imomec, FARI/ULB/VUB and De Hoge Rielen. The project explores how inaudible frequencies become perceptible by connecting a luminous speaker foil with an AI component that translates hidden frequencies into vocal sounds. The exhibition brings together installations, prototypes, workshop results and documentation material from this process.
The luminous speaker is created by screen-printing several layers onto a thin, flexible piezoelectric foil. Conductive and electroluminescent inks are applied and encapsulated so that the same flat surface can vibrate to produce sound while also emitting light and colors. Its innovation lies in uniting material and technology in a single surface, so that the resulting object becomes not merely a container for technical components but the speaker, light source, and visual composition itself. Hidden signals and waves are translated into voice and this creates an environment in which invisible signals become audible, visible and tangible at once — with the voice functioning both as metaphor and as a concrete result of this translation.
Across different workshops, the project evolved through encounters with artistic, academic, DIY, and school audiences, each revealing a different aspect of the luminous speaker and the inaudible phenomena surrounding it. Participants explored the creative potential of constructing and presenting the screen-printed speakers collectively, and developed the material and technical knowledge needed to improve their performance and durability. They also investigated how urban electromagnetic signals could be translated into AI-generated voices and audiovisual compositions, while younger participants explored connections between technology, nature, storytelling, and collaborative making.
Working with a different audience each time tested the project from multiple perspectives, generating varied forms of knowledge and expression. The process showed how collective experimentation can make complex technologies accessible, imaginative, and socially engaging. The exhibition presents around 70 printed speakers made by around 40 people, including workshop participants.
Aernoudt Jacobs
iMAL, Center for Digital Cultures and Technology
Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
Exhibitions
Lumson
Anne-Marie Klenes - 'Strates'
Galerie Faider
Saint-Gilles
Exhibitions
Anne-Marie Klenes - 'Strates'
Lionel Estève - 'Souvenirs de Bruxelles'
Stems Gallery
Ixelles
Exhibitions
Lionel Estève - 'Souvenirs de Bruxelles'
"The Working Dead" - Renier Semidey
As Halloween approaches, the ZazafromBrussels gallery invites you to discover an entirely different world—that of artist Renier Semidey, whose work is being presented in Belgium for the very first time in an exhibition with a fittingly themed title.
As Halloween approaches, the gallery ZazafromBrussels invites you to discover a completely different world, that of Renier Semidey, a self-taught Brussels-based artist of Cuban origin being showcased in Belgium for the very first time with this aptly titled exhibition...
They are there, at least in appearance. They answer emails, move from one meeting to the next, and uphold the codes of professional courtesy. But are they still alive?
In "The Working Dead," Renier Semidey transforms corporate artifacts into weapons of visual rebellion. The exhibition brings together works created in the very heart of bureaucratic routine: drawings in ballpoint pen, ink, and marker on office paper; large India ink drawings; and acrylic paintings on canvas.
Influenced by Expressionism and Art Brut, Renier’s work subverts the sanitized language of corporate jargon. His hybrid, unsettling figures dismantle the mask of efficiency imposed by the institution. Oversized jaws, panoptic gazes, and heads turned inward embody a humanity in a state of decay.
Balancing the urgency of lines drawn on office paper against the raw intensity of acrylic paint, the exhibition portrays a form of organizational alienation in which the individual is gradually drained of their substance.
"The Working Dead" – Renier Semidey
Opening: Thursday, October 29, 2026 – 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Exhibition dates: October 29 to November 15, 2026
ZazafromBrussels
Brussels
Exhibitions
"The Working Dead" - Renier Semidey
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
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
Michel Butor & Ania Staritsky « Lorsque deux têtes de cochons se rencontrent... »
Wittockiana: Museum of book arts and bookbinding
Woluwe-Saint-Pierre
Exhibitions
Michel Butor & Ania Staritsky « Lorsque deux têtes de cochons se rencontrent... »
Juvenilia – 100 ans de typographie et de livres à La Cambre
Wittockiana: Museum of book arts and bookbinding
Woluwe-Saint-Pierre
Exhibitions
Juvenilia – 100 ans de typographie et de livres à La Cambre
Tina Gillen - 'LandFall'
Nosbaum Reding Bruxelles
Ixelles
Exhibitions
Tina Gillen - 'LandFall'
Quinten Ingelaere - 'Kruimeldief/ Voleur de miettes'
Dauwens & Beernaert Gallery
Brussels
Exhibitions
Quinten Ingelaere - 'Kruimeldief/ Voleur de miettes'
Reinventing Photography
Reinventing Photography celebrates the medium’s 200th anniversary through 20 original creative projects. From revisited historical techniques to the most contemporary technologies, from intimate and collective memory to the current upheavals of the image world, the artists explore the many paths through which photography continues to reinvent itself.
Hangar
Ixelles
Exhibitions
Reinventing Photography
Wet Conceptualism
Haseeb Ahmed, Lyndon Barrois Jr., Alighiero Boetti, Marcel Broodthaers, Jimmie Durham, TR Ericsson, Claire Fontaine, Andrea Fraser, Jef Geys, Mauro Giaconi, Liam Gillick, Mark Manders, David Maroto, My Barbarian, Warren Neidich, Laure Prouvost, Rob Pruitt, Martha Rosler, studiokhachatryan, Walter Swennen, Ria Verhaeghe, Oriol Vilanova.
Levey Kwok
Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
Exhibitions
Wet Conceptualism
Ai Weiwei - 'The Art of Defiance'
Patrick Derom Gallery
Brussels
Exhibitions
Ai Weiwei - 'The Art of Defiance'
Maria Thereza Alves - 'An Accounting'
Galeria Jaqueline Martins
Brussels
Exhibitions
Maria Thereza Alves - 'An Accounting'
Philippe de Gobert - 'Dedans / Dehors'
LMNO
Brussels
Exhibitions
Philippe de Gobert - 'Dedans / Dehors'
Mathias Toubro - 'In Shape of a Heart'
Damien & The Love Guru
Saint-Gilles
Exhibitions
Mathias Toubro - 'In Shape of a Heart'
Le Music-Hall
Théâtre Royal Les Coeurs de Bois
Laeken
Theatre
Le Music-Hall
Transparences liquides : Anne-Camille Allueva, Matan Mittwoch, Laure Tiberghien, Emmanuel Van der Auwera
Contretype
Saint-Gilles
Exhibitions
Transparences liquides : Anne-Camille Allueva, Matan Mittwoch, Laure Tiberghien, Emmanuel Van der Auwera
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
Edgar Sarin - 'Matthäus-Passion'
The exhibition at Fondation CAB brings together recent works by Edgar Sarin alongside works by Sol LeWitt, Cy Twombly, Robert Barry, Peter Buggenhout, Niele Toroni, Miquel Barceló, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Louise Lawler, Joseph Beuys, Merry Alpern, Brice Marden, and Nan Goldin.
Borrowed from Johann Sebastian Bach, the title Matthäus-Passion refers here to a composition of autonomous voices, in which each presence acts upon the others.
Passion is understood here as a state, one of intensity, where works coexist and test one another. The artist stands amid that which has shaped him, not to produce a synthesis, but to sustain its living tension, beyond homage.
Matthäus-Passion is a place where looking becomes an undeniably physical experience; where art history is no longer a backdrop but an active material; where works do not merely respond to one another ; they persist alongside us.
Fondation CAB
Ixelles
Exhibitions
Edgar Sarin - 'Matthäus-Passion'
Charles Pollock - Piero Dorazio
Ars Belga Brussels
Ixelles
Exhibitions
Charles Pollock - Piero Dorazio
//sabotage
At the turn of the 19th century, workers protested against unfair labour conditions by deliberately working badly, slowing down or degrading production, or putting machinery out of action. Today’s workers —whether they are warehouse staff or startup employees— deploy micro-resistance tactics to defy the algorithm-driven intensification of labour, exposing workplace abuses, outsmarting algorithms and organising collective pushback.
Likewise, contemporary artists embrace sabotage as a tool to dismantle oppressive systems. For them, it’s a form of creative resistance, bridging historical labour struggles with modern battles against exploitation, marginalisation and democratic backsliding.
The exhibition invites reflection on urgent questions: Where are today's creative acts and technologies of unmaking” that disrupt the exploitative mechanisms of capitalism? How do artists mobilise inventiveness, storytelling and mischief to produce a ‘poetry of dysfunction’? And, finally, will the machines join the rebellion?
Co-cutated by Régine Debatty and the iMAL team
Younes Baba Ali, Fayçal Baghriche, Gisela Carbajal Rodríguez and Felix Klee, Shannah Legrin, Adrian Melis, Amor Muñoz, Juan Obando & Yoshua Okón, Selma Selman, Maarten Vanden Eynde
iMAL, Center for Digital Cultures and Technology
Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
Exhibitions
//sabotage
Olga Tobreluts, Irina Annina, Dmitry Bulnygin - 'Notes from EDEN'
In-Gate Gallery
Ixelles
Exhibitions
Olga Tobreluts, Irina Annina, Dmitry Bulnygin - 'Notes from EDEN'
Cleopatra - The Fate of Egypt
From October 14, 2026, to January 3, 2026, come experience a virtual reality adventure. With Cleopatra: The Destiny of Egypt, families with children aged 8 and up are invited to step back in time to meet the famous Queen of Egypt at the heart of the major events that marked her reign.
This immersive experience by Sandora aims to tell the story of the stateswoman behind the legend.
Amidst political intrigue, grandiose sets, and majestic monuments, embark on a journey to the heart of ancient Egypt alongside Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, and Mark Antony.
From the palace of Alexandria to the waters of the Nile, passing through royal ceremonies and major turning points in history, this immersive adventure transports you to the final years of a fascinating civilization.
Equipped with virtual reality headsets, visitors move freely for nearly 30 minutes through full-scale reconstructed sets: Alexandria, the banks of the Nile, royal palaces, and encounters with Caesar and Mark Antony come to life right before their eyes.
What can you experience?
- Visitors witness several defining moments in Cleopatra's life:
- Her secret entry into Caesar's private chambers
- The Rite of Isis, during which a priest presents her with a sacred symbol
- The support left by Caesar before his departure from Egypt to consolidate his power
- A peaceful boat ride up the Nile at sunset
The experience also touches upon one of archaeology's greatest mysteries: the tomb of the famous queen, which remains undiscovered to this day.
The total tour lasts about an hour and combines immersion, historical discovery, and storytelling narrated by Lorànt Deutsch.
SANDORA VR
Brussels
Animations
Cleopatra - The Fate of Egypt
Atelier dessin | 8-12 ans leonardo
Cultural Center of Jette
Jette
Courses and workshops
Atelier dessin | 8-12 ans leonardo
Atelier dessin | 7-9 ans Piccolo
Cultural Center of Jette
Jette
Courses and workshops
Atelier dessin | 7-9 ans Piccolo
Houses in Comic Strips
The Autrique House is the ideal setting for a discussion on houses … in a graphic novel!
But when you think about it, what actually is a house? The word 'HOUSE' has several meanings. It can therefore be considered from several different perspectives: architectural, social, domestic, political…
With "Houses in Comic Strips", visitors can discover how comic book artists have explored this concept of a “house”. From History to decoration, and from the inhabitants themselves to the interiors of their homes.
From June 2026 to February 2027, five lectures will broaden the theme and open new perspectives: from the history of the Brussels townhouse to the story of a passionate Victor Horta enthusiast.
With the participation of: Romane Armand, Anne Baltus, Frédéric Bézian, Antoine Carcano, Baudouin Deville, Loïc Gaume, Ben Gijsemans, Jeroen Janssen, Adrien Le Strat, Benoît Peeters, Émilie Plateau, Elisa Sartori, Éléonore Scardoni, Étienne Schréder, François Schuiten, Judith Vanistendael, Patrick Weber
Autrique House
Schaerbeek
Exhibitions
Houses in Comic Strips
René Magritte Museum (house) & Abstract Art Museum
House where René Magritte (1898−1967) lived and worked from 1930 to 1954, which shows the apartment of the painter as it used to be, as well as watercolours, drawings and paintings, and hundreds of personal documents, photographs and letters.
The René Magritte Museum occupies the house in which the Belgian surrealist painter worked nearly 24 years of his life. On the ground floor the museum presents the apartment where the painter lived and worked from 1930 to 1954. A biographical exhibition is spread on the two other floors. The period spent at the rue Esseghem, the only house which is open to the public since 1999, remains the most fascinating one for anybody who wishes to approach the painter. An Abstract Art Museum will soon complete the René Magritte Museum in Jette (Brussels). This surprising pairing will remind visitors of the close links Magritte had with the Abstraction.
René Magritte Museum (house)
Jette
Exhibitions
René Magritte Museum (house) & Abstract Art Museum
Focus : Félix Labisse
René Magritte Museum (house)
Jette
Exhibitions
Focus : Félix Labisse
Discover More of Brussels by Bike – Highlights & Hidden Gems
Go beyond the tourist trail. See iconic Brussels alongside neighbourhoods and hidden gems along the less beaten tracks most visitors miss.
Discover more of Brussels than just the historic centre! Hop on a bike and explore the Belgian capital in 3.5 hours with a local guide. Cycling lets you go beyond the main sights and discover vibrant neighbourhoods and surprising places further afield.
Admire iconic landmarks such as the Palace of Justice and the Royal Palace, explore characterful areas like the Marolles and Sainte-Catherine, and discover what makes each neighbourhood unique. Depending on the route, you may also visit unexpected gems such as Tour & Taxis and the impressive Gare Maritime.
Your guide brings Brussels to life with fascinating stories, historical insights and local anecdotes. Along the way, we stop at a Brussels café to relax and soak up the local atmosphere.
Cycle further, discover more and experience Brussels from a different perspective. Book your spot on our website and experience an unforgettable adventure in Brussels on two wheels!
Cactus Brussel à vélo
Brussels
Guided tours
Discover More of Brussels by Bike – Highlights & Hidden Gems
Ceci n'est pas Noire: act II
Ceci n’est pas Noire: Act II by Alesandra Seutin at KVS is an immersive performance on identity, body and belonging. The work explores hybrid identity, transformation and the tension between vulnerability and strength.
Alesandra Seutin presents Ceci n’est pas Noire: Act II, a performance that understands the body as a site of echo and cultural resonance, where conceptions of identity and belonging are constantly transformed. Immersive in nature, the work reflects on Alesandra’s experience of being of both white European and Black Southern African heritage, a constant negotiation between intimacy and exposure, vulnerability and projection, Ceci n’est pas Noire: Act II is about embracing inner tensions in the discovery of one’s own truth. Between surreal visions and hybrid narrative forms the piece unfolds through an episodic structure, punctuated by multiple figures embodied effortlessly through Seutin’s movement vocabulary. Gestures, vocals and live sounds intertwine to awaken memories, traverse geographical and personal landscapes, and reveal the layered complexity of a hybrid identity. In Ceci n’est pas Noire: Act II, Seutin explores anew her earlier 2013 work of the same name. She deftly interweaves character devices to explore themes of the external gaze, transformation and assumed social roles, questioning how appearances can be fluid and deceptive. An intimate but frontal journey, Ceci n’est pas Noire: Act II invites audiences to consider the body as a space of memory, imagination, vulnerability and, ultimately, strength. Looking to delve deeper into Ceci n’est pas Noire: Act II?Read the dramaturgical text by Funmi Adewole Elliott, dramaturg for Alesandra Seutin and Ceci n’est pas Noire: Act II, HERE.
KVS BOX
Brussels
Theatre
Ceci n'est pas Noire: act II
Compromis - BXL sur Scènes
Le Jardin de ma Soeur
Brussels
Theatre
Compromis - BXL sur Scènes
I RARELY WAKE UP DREAMING
Oleh is a young Ukrainian trans man who shares his life with Olya. His life is turned upside down when Russia invades Ukraine. As men are conscripted into the army, Oleh grapples with questions about his masculinity, which also shake his relationship. This film shifts the focus of the question of identity from broad geopolitical spheres to the most intimate experiences.Trigger warning: physical and/or sexual violence.
Cinéma Aventure
Brussels
Cinema
I RARELY WAKE UP DREAMING
Emma Sampil
Emma Sampil creates deeply personal contemporary paintings in which colour, light and texture play an essential role. Inspired by nature, landscapes and the emotions, she transforms reality into vibrant and poetic compositions.
Her work is distinguished by a luminous colour palette, expressive textures and a remarkable sense of artistic freedom.
Emma Sampil creates deeply personal contemporary paintings in which colour, light and texture play an essential role. Inspired by nature, landscapes and the emotions they evoke, she transforms reality into vibrant and poetic compositions.
Her work is distinguished by a luminous colour palette, expressive textures and a remarkable sense of artistic freedom. Each painting invites the viewer not only to look, but also to feel.
Recognised in the art market since 2012, Emma Sampil has received several distinctions, including Artiste d’Excellence 2024, Grand Pinceau de France 2025, and the Claude Monet Tribute Trophy 2026. She continues to develop her artistic career through exhibitions in France and internationally.
Emma Sampil, Artiste Peintre
Photo Gallery
Brussels
Exhibitions
Emma Sampil
La Gradiva
A group of high school students sets off on a school trip to discover the ruins of Pompeii. They are seized by a sense of vertigo. They allow themselves to be overwhelmed by desire and anger, until they surrender completely.
Grand Prix for Best Film at the 53rd edition of Film Fest Gent 2026
Flagey
Ixelles
Cinema
La Gradiva
Ballroom
Maison communale de Watermael-Boitsfort
Watermael-Boitsfort
Show
Ballroom
Dracula
Théâtre de Toone
Brussels
Theatre
Dracula
L’image élargie
"Presented at the Chapelle de Boondael in Ixelles from 5 to 29 November 2026, the exhibition The Expanded Image showcases the work of a collective of artists based at the Usquare studios. The project challenges the traditional boundaries of photography by reinventing its materiality in the digital age. By bringing photography into dialogue with other media, such as weaving, painting, collage, analogue photography and 3D printing, the artists transform the photographic image into texture, pattern and sculptural form.
Opening hours
Thursday to Sunday, from 2 pm to 8 pm.
Opening reception
5 November, from 5 pm to 10 pm.
Closing reception
29 November, from 5 pm to 10 pm.
Guided tours
Guided tours lasting approximately 30 minutes will take place on the following dates:
- 7 November at 3 pm – English
- 7 November at 4 pm – French
- 8 November at 4 pm – Dutch
- 14 November at 4 pm – French
- 21 November at 4 pm – French and English
- 29 November at 4 pm – English
An opportunity for discussion and exchange will take place on Sunday, November 22, at 2:30 p.m.
No booking required.
Centre d'Art de la Chapelle de Boondael
Ixelles
Exhibitions
L’image élargie
Alluvions
Alluvions
Esther Babulik, Aurore Scotet, Jeanne Pruvot Simonneaux, Léa Brami
KULT XL Ateliers
Ixelles
Exhibitions
Alluvions
Les roses des sables
Château du Karreveld
Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
Exhibitions
Les roses des sables
Gabrielle Duplantier
Galerie L'Enfant Sauvage
Brussels
Exhibitions
Gabrielle Duplantier
Marc De Corte : "You Spell on Me" dancer sculpture exhibition
Born in Nieuwpoort in 1974, Belgian sculptor Marc de Corte creates sculptures that do not merely depict movement — they are movement, frozen in time yet pulsating with life.
Some sculptures catch the eye. Others touch something deep within us.
His dancing figures are silent storytellers, weaving narratives of balance, freedom, and transformation. They do not simply perform a dance; they embody the eternal rhythm of existence itself.
With You Spell on Me, Art Yī Gallery in Brussels invites you into a captivating new collection where fluid lines and expressive gestures give shape to the emotions we sometimes struggle to put into words. Suspended between strength and vulnerability, each sculpture captures the poetry of a fleeting moment — a feeling, a dream, a memory.
Like a spell that lingers long after the first encounter, these sculptures awaken something within us, reminding us that beneath every movement lies an emotion, and behind every gesture, a story waiting to be felt.
Discover You Spell on Me, and all other new art collections at Art Yī Gallery, Brussels — and let yourself be moved.
Marc De Corte (Belgian sculptor)
Art Yi
Brussels
Exhibitions
Marc De Corte : "You Spell on Me" dancer sculpture exhibition
Modern Slavery
Starting November 5, 2026, the Géopolis team will present a new two-part exhibition series on modern slavery.
The first part showcases the work of American photographer Lisa Kristine. Since 2009, she has been documenting forced labor and human trafficking where they occur: quarries and brick kilns in Nepal, gold mines and fishing in Ghana, mica and textile industries in India, and fishing fleets in Thailand.
The second part is dedicated to Afghanistan, as seen through the lens of French photojournalist Élise Blanchard, who documented the country’s history from 2018 to 2025. Her fieldwork offers a glimpse into the daily lives of women and girls under the Taliban regime.
Lisa Kristine, Élise Blanchard
Geopolis
Brussels
Exhibitions
Modern Slavery
ROBIN DES BOIS
Théâtre Royal du Parc
Brussels
Theatre
ROBIN DES BOIS
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
