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BRAFA 2026

BRAFA 2026, the 71st Brussels Art Fair, brought together around 150 galleries from 18 countries, including 23 new and returning participants,...

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Light Festival in Mons 2026

A gloomy Belgian winter is lit up for the third time by the lights of the Mons en Lumières festival. It feels like this time the jewel of Wallonia...

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Sammy Baloji – a solo exhibition at Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerp

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 interiors of...

Marina Yee – the final confessional interview at Sofie Van De Velde

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. Her family...

The bicentenary of the Val Saint Lambert Crystal Works

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...

“Metamorphoses: after Ovid” exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam

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...

BXL Gourmand – Exploring Brussels finest chocolatiers on the 28–29 March

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...

“Picture Perfect” – Beauty through a Contemporary Lens at Bozar

The exhibition centre BOZAR in Brussels, having opened the lavish exhibition Bellezza e Bruttezza (Beauty and Ugliness) on 20 February 2026 - running until 14 June 2026 - which explores beauty and ugliness in the Renaissance, continues to reflect on the concept of...

Stef Van Looveren with his futuristic “COSMIC BODY” at M HKA

In 2025, arriving slightly late but still in time for the opening of the season after the renovation of De Singel, we witnessed a procession of half-naked people covered in silver paint moving along the new red carpet of the concert complex to a meditative soundscape....

“The Collectible 2026” in Brussels

For the past two years, it’s been worth emphasising: the collectible design festival “The Collectible 2026” we’re talking about is happening in Brussels. The project, dreamed up by Clélie Debehault and Liv Vaisberg in Belgium, has since crossed the Atlantic, with a...

BANAD – Art Nouveau, Art Deco + Modernism Festival in Brussels

BANAD - the Brussels Art Nouveau & Art Deco Festival - celebrates its first milestone this year with its 10th edition. The festival traditionally takes place in March, a month that highlights the beauty of these architectural styles with the lush blossoming of...

The “Artefact” festival at the STUK arts centre in Leuven

On the narrow Naamsestraat in university town Leuven, there stands a building that seems to breathe with time. Today, it houses STUK - the House for Dance, Image & Sound - yet its walls still remember both scientific laboratories and the vibrant student energy of...