On 17 April, a solo exhibition by Sammy Baloji arrived -like a mnemonic vessel of historical memory – at Kunsthal Extra City in Antwerp, a former Dominican monastery now functioning as a contemporary art space. The exhibition settles seamlessly into the...
Marina Yee – the most “little-known” member of the world-famous Antwerp Six – not for any lack of God-given talent. A girl who grew up in Congo, where her father worked as a colonial official, she showed an early gift for drawing and for altering clothes....
The history of the Val Saint-Lambert crystal manufactory deserves a place in school history textbooks at the intersection of eras and revolutions. A Cistercian abbey, founded in the Middle Ages near the town of Seraing, was closed by the passionate agents of the...
In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas corpora; di, coeptis (nam vos mutastis et illas) adspirate meis primaque ab origine mundi ad mea perpetuum deducite tempora carmen. My mind now strives to tell of bodies changed,Which gods transformed into forms anew;Breathe...
Announcement! It all began in 1912, when chocolatier Jean Neuhaus created the first praline in the Royal Galleries of Saint-Hubert. Since then, the Belgian capital has become one of the world’s centres of chocolate craftsmanship. Today, more than 150 companies and...
BRAFA 2026, the 71st Brussels Art Fair, brought together around 150 galleries from 18 countries, including 23 new and returning participants, offering a dynamic mix of tradition and contemporary practice. The King Baudouin Foundation (KBF) was the honorary guest,...
