Brahms Festival
Bozar
Brussels
Festival
Brahms Festival
ceramic brussels
ceramic brussels brings together more than 60 galleries, institutions and key players in ceramics, in a unique scenography, in the heart of Europe. For this 2025 edition, the fair opens its doors to modern ceramics, welcomes the participation of renowned institutions and emphasises its international scope.
ceramic brussels brings together more than 60 galleries, institutions and key players in ceramics, in a unique scenography, in the heart of Europe.
For this 2025 edition, the fair opens its doors to modern ceramics, welcomes the participation of renowned institutions and emphasises its international scope. As such, a special focus on Norway highlights its vitality, and the rich and innovative ceramic art scene.
Gilles Parmentier & Jean-Marc Dimanche (directors)
Shed1&2bis
Brussels
Fairs and shows
ceramic brussels
PhotoBrussels Festival - 9th Edition
The unmissable photography event in Brussels is back for its 9th edition! The festival offers visitors a journey through exhibitions in 47 cultural venues spread across the Belgian capital for an entire month. Created in 2016, PhotoBrussels Festival aims to bring together all lovers and professionals of contemporary photography for a month.
The 47 venues for this 9th edition are: A Fondation, Archiraar, Berlin Brussels Art Projects, box galerie, Centre Culturel Jacques Franck, Chapitre XII, Chez Olivia, Cloud Seven, Contraste, Contretype, Cultures et Publics ASBL, Elevensteens, Espace Intermédiaire, Frédérick Mouraux Gallery, Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Galerie Eric Mouchet, Galerie La Forest Divonne, Galerie Obadia, Geopolis, Hangar, Hopstreet Gallery, ISELP, JAP- Entre deux portes, Klotzschows, L’Enfant Sauvage, La Belladone, La Nombreuse, Lee Bauwens Gallery, Liszt Institute Brussels, M ART Project Space, Mathilde Hatzenberger Gallery, Melissa Ansel, Michèle Schoonjans Gallery, Modesti Perdriolle, Nationale 8 Gallery, Plagiarama ASBL, Schönfeld Gallery, Spazio Nobile, Stieglitz19, Studio Baxton, The K Art Signatures, The Palm Beach, Tiny Gallery, V/MSP Gallery, Visual Gallery, WIELS, and 254 Forest.
Careful! Each venue has its own opening hours.
For more information, visit our website: https://www.photobrusselsfestival.com/
Hangar
Ixelles
Festival
PhotoBrussels Festival - 9th Edition
Semaine du son
Various places in Brussels
Brussels
Festival
Semaine du son
Belgian Music Week
Various places in Brussels
Brussels
Festival
Belgian Music Week
Festivals Courts + Queer Mais Trash 2025
For its 20th edition, COURTS MAIS TRASH festival is once again joining forces with QUEER MAIS TRASH to kick off the film season in Brussels. From January 31 to February 9, 2025, this crucial event for independent, underground, political, and offbeat cinema will for the first time take place at Espace Magh, a couple of steps away from the iconic Manneken-Pis.
For its 20th edition, COURTS MAIS TRASH festival is once again joining forces with QUEER MAIS TRASH to kick off the film season in Brussels. From January 31 to February 9, 2025, this crucial event for independent, underground, political, and offbeat cinema will for the first time take place at Espace Magh, a couple of steps away from the iconic Manneken-Pis.
To mark this symbolic anniversary, the College of Mayor and City Councillors have approved the creation of a unique Manneken Mais Trash costume for the Manneken-Pis statue. A reception will celebrate this momentous occasion a few hours before the official launch of the festival. With over 7,500 festival-goers expected, screenings, school sessions, festive evenings, a cinema-concert and professional events, COURTS MAIS TRASH and QUEER MAIS TRASH are once again set to be major highlights of Brussels’ artistic scene. More than 150 films will be screened, and over 50 filmmakers will share their work with the audience.
Centre culturel Espace Magh asbl
Brussels
Festival
Festivals Courts + Queer Mais Trash 2025
TOM Festival (Théâtre Objet Matière)
Centre culturel d'Uccle
Uccle
Festival
TOM Festival (Théâtre Objet Matière)
Affordable Art Fair Brussels
In February 2025, Affordable Art Fair Brussels will return to Tour & Taxis for its 16th edition.
Join us in February for another unforgettable fair edition, featuring 1000s of contemporary artworks from over 85 Belgian and international galleries, along with an exciting programming. Whether you're an art enthusiast or a seasoned collector, get ready to discover captivating artworks that are sure to delight and inspire you.
Tour & Taxis - Shed 1
Brussels
Fairs and shows
Affordable Art Fair Brussels
When We See Us
A Century of Black Figuration in Painting
How have artists from Africa and its vast diaspora depicted daily life over the past century? Koyo Kouoh, Executive Director and Chief Curator of Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town, and her team have sought to answer this question with a landmark exhibition. Bozar proudly presents this vast kaleidoscope of Black figurative painting from the 1920s to the present day.?
Inspired by Ava DuVernay's series When They See Us, the exhibition title "When We See Us" reflects a fundamental perspective exploring Black self-representation and global Black subjectivities. The approximately 150 works by around 120?artists are grouped into six themes: "The Everyday”, "Joy & Revelry”, "Repose”, "Sensuality”, "Spirituality”, and "Triumph and Emancipation”.?
By focusing on these themes, the exhibition offers a rich, nuanced view of Black life and thought, emphasising the resilience, essence, and political charge of Black joy. It highlights relationships between artists and artworks across geographic, generational, and conceptual contexts, fostering a deeper understanding of a complex and underrepresented genealogy rooted in African and Black modernities. When We See Us encourages discussion on Black liberation and intellectual movements and celebrates experiences from Africa and the African diaspora contributing to the art historical canon.?
This exhibition is conceived and organised by Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA) In Cape Town.
When We See Us is presented at Bozar under the Patronage of Her Majesty the Queen.
With works by: Nina Chanel Abney, Olusegun Adejumo, Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Maxwell Alexandre, Tiffany Alfonseca, Benny Andrews, Cornelius Annor, Gideon Appah, Michael Armitage, Malang Badji, Firelei Báez, Romare Bearden, Gerard Bhengu, Wilson Bigaud, Amoako Boafo, Margaret Taylor Burroughs, Dominic Chambers, Chéri Chérin, Kudzanai Chiurai, Beauford Delaney, Elladj Lincy Deloumeaux, Aboubacar Diané, Aaron Douglas, Gervais-Emmanuel Ducasse, Edouard Duval-Carrié, Ibrahim El-Salahi, Ben Enwonwu, Esiri Erheriene-Essi, Scherezade García, Ablade Glover, Gherdai Hassell, Barkley L. Hendricks, Clementine Hunter, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, Gavin Jantjes, William H. Johnson, Kangudia, Ibrahima Kébé, Joy Labinjo, Wifredo Lam, YoYo Lander, Akinola Lasekan, Jacob Lawrence, Petson Lombe, Sahara Longe, Danielle McKinney, Mustafa Maluka, Marvelous Mangena, Arjan Martins, Wangari Mathenge, Luis Meque, Roméo Mivekannin, Sungi Mlengeya, Moké, Meleko Mokgosi, Richard Mudariki, Geoffrey Mukasa, Cinthia Sifa Mulanga, Lavar Munroe, Ian Mwesiga, Cassi Namoda, Eric Ndlovu, Chemu Ng’ok, Malangatana Ngwenya, Nicholas Njau, Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi, Eria Nsubuga ‘Sane’, Nestor Vuza Ntoko, Boris Nzebo, Antoine Obin, Télémaque Obin, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Chris Ofili, Augustin Okoye, Kambui Olujimi, Eniwaye Oluwaseyi, Bruce Onobrakpeya, Richard Onyango, Marc Padeu, Zéh Palito, Emma Pap’, George Pemba, Naudline Pierre, Prosper Pierre-Louis, Horace Pippin, María Magdalena Campos Pons, Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe, Chéri Samba, Kingsley Sambo, Cinga Samson, Mmapula Mmakgoba Helen Sebidi, Gerard Sekoto, Tschabalala Self, Amy Sherald, Devan Shimoyama, Monsengo Shula, Alex Shyngle, Sthembiso Sibisi, Ancent Soi, Olivier Souffrant, Moustapha Souley, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, Nirit Takele, Matundu Tanda, Henry Taylor, Mickalene Thomas, Bob Thompson, Edward Saidi Tingatinga, Katlego Tlabela, Cyprien Tokoudagba, Zandile Tshabalala, Sane Wadu, Charles White, Kehinde Wiley, Richard Witikani, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Centre for Fine Arts - Bozar
Brussels
Exhibitions
When We See Us
Flagey Piano Days 2025
For five days, Flagey will be dedicated to the piano in all its forms: concerts, conferences and exhibitions. You'll discover traditional recitals as well as jazz performed by world-renowned artists and emerging talents.
For five days, Flagey will be dedicated to the piano in all its forms: concerts, conferences and exhibitions. You'll discover traditional recitals as well as jazz performed by world-renowned artists and emerging talents.
Flagey
Ixelles
Festival
Flagey Piano Days 2025
Bright Festival
Imagine strolling through one of Europe's most beautiful capitals as night falls and illuminated silhouettes appear in the distance. Bright Festival, from 13 to 16 February 2025, offers you a magical discovery of Brussels.
Imagine strolling through one of Europe's most beautiful capitals as night falls and illuminated silhouettes appear in the distance. Bright Festival, from 13 to 16 February 2025, offers you a magical discovery of Brussels.
Over four evenings, more than twenty light installations and just as many sparkling activities will illuminate the capital's Royal and European quarters. Artists from all over the world will be transforming Brussels into an enchanting journey, every evening, from 18:30 to 23:00. Get ready for an unforgettable nocturnal tour, dotted with grandiose works and poetic interludes!
Bright Festival is the best form of light therapy to give you a boost in the depths of winter!
Various places in Brussels
Brussels
Festival
Bright Festival
Unsound Brussels
The renowned Polish festival comes to Brussels
Together with Bozar, the Polish festival Unsound presents its first Belgian edition. Expect a wide range of contemporary music: from emerging talent to leftfield and experimental work. Regardless of genres, Unsound goes for a full-on radical sound.
Centre for Fine Arts - Bozar
Brussels
Festival
Unsound Brussels
FestiVita!
Cercle Royal Gaulois
Brussels
Festival
FestiVita!
Berlinde De Bruyckere. Khorós
Khorós
In 2025, Bozar will present a large-scale solo exhibition featuring the work of Berlinde De Bruyckere (b. 1964, Ghent) for the first time. Humanity and the condition humaine are at the core of her compelling oeuvre. De Bruyckere draws on various sources of inspiration: Christian iconography, classical mythology, the works of the Flemish masters and cultural lore. She introduces these influences into a contemporary context; the violence that surrounds us, the images of human suffering on a global scale, but also the beauty and hope for change.
For Bozar, De Bruyckere will create an exhibition as a mind map conceived specifically for the historic halls designed by Victor Horta. The show will feature a blend of older and newer works, woven together with artistic dialogues that include work by a.o. Lucas Cranach, and Patti Smith.
Centre for Fine Arts - Bozar
Brussels
Exhibitions
Berlinde De Bruyckere. Khorós
Anima Festival 2025
The Anima Festival is a ten day dedication to animation films during the Carnival Holidays.
The Anima Festival is a ten day dedication to animation films during the Carnival Holidays. Anima 2024 will showcase the science fiction genre in animation films as one of its focal points, with a lot of conferences, work in progress, and guests.
www.animafestival.be
Flagey, Folioscope
Flagey
Ixelles
Cinema
Anima Festival 2025
River Jazz Festival
Jean-Paul Estiévenart, Thomas Leleu, Peter Bernstein & Jesse van Ruller, Little Louis, Ivan Paduart & Patrick Deltenre, 3'ain, Slang #25ans, Manuel Hermia & Simon Leleux, Trio Carneux, Leleux & Puma, David Linx Quintet, Blue Giant.
Théâtre Marni & Jazz Station & Le Senghor
Ixelles
Festival
River Jazz Festival
Mundo Pixar Experience
Brussels Expo Palais 1/ Paleis 1
Laeken
Various
Mundo Pixar Experience
Collectible Design Fair
COLLECTIBLE, the only fair exclusively dedicated to contemporary collectible design, returns to the Vanderborght Building in Brussels for its 8th edition from Thursday 13 March to Saturday 16 March 2025. It will bring together galleries, design studios, architects, and institutions in the heart of the capital. This edition will welcome back its current sections that have contributed to the fair’s success - MAIN, BESPOKE, NEW GARDE, along with its curated sections - DIALOGUE, CURATED, ARCHITECT <=> DESIGNER, and OUTDOOR.
collectible
Brussels
Fairs and shows
Collectible Design Fair
Brussels Art Nouveau & Art Deco (BANAD) Festival 2025
The unmissable annual event spanning three weekends, the ninth edition of the Brussels Art Nouveau & Art Deco Festival will take place on March 15 & 16; 22 & 23, and 29 & 30, 2025. The BANAD Festival invites you to discover remarkable locations showcasing the Art Nouveau and Art Deco architecture of the Brussels-Capital Region.
On the agenda: tours of around sixty interiors usually closed to the public (some accessible for the very first time), about twenty thematic guided routes to explore on foot or by bike, original lectures, inclusive and family-friendly activities, and finally the famous Object Fair and the Restorers & Experts Salon.
Following the success of the Art Nouveau Year 2023, its international acclaim, and record attendance, Urban and Visit.Brussels are launching an Art Deco Year 2025 in the Brussels-Capital Region to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1925 Paris Industrial Exhibition of Decorative Arts. The BANAD 2025 program will thus place greater emphasis on this style.
The BANAD Festival is organised by Explore.Brussels, a network of associations that organise guided tours: ARAU, Arkadia, Brussels Chatterguides and Pro Velo. For this event, Explore.Brussels will work together with many different partners on the topic of Art Nouveau and Art Deco in Brussels in order to offer a programme of guided tours and events that celebrate these two architectural styles.
Explore.brussels
Uccle
Guided tours
Brussels Art Nouveau & Art Deco (BANAD) Festival 2025
Klarafestival
Under the title We Are Now, this special anniversary edition pays tribute to the here and now, together with cultural parters such as Bozar, Flagey and Kaaitheater and with festival artist Patricia Kopatchinskaja.
Under the title We Are Now, this special anniversary edition pays tribute to the here and now, together with cultural parters such as Bozar, Flagey and Kaaitheater. No one embraces the magic of the moment more fearlessly than festival artist Patricia Kopatchinskaja. For her, every concert is a new beginning, a full moment in which anything can happen. Klarafestival 2025 paints a multifaceted portrait of Patricia Kopatchinskaja as a violinist, composer and inspiring presence.
Furthermore, look out for a line-up of international stars such as Wynton Marsalis, Bertrand Chamayou, the Danish String Quartet or Marin Alsop. And of course, there is also room for fine crossovers by ensembles such as Brussels Philharmonic, the Belgian National Orchestra, Revue Blanche and Ictus.
Festival van Vlaanderen Brussels
Brussels
Festival
Klarafestival
LEGS 2025
Various places in Brussels
Brussels
Festival
LEGS 2025
Brussels Pride
Get ready !
Brussels Pride – May 17, 2025
Let’s celebrate love and diversity
#BrusselsPride2025
City Centre
Brussels
Festival
Brussels Pride
