Art Brussels

With Julien Creuzet, Chloë Delanghe & Mattijs Driesen, Els Dietvorst, Forensic Architecture & Salman Abu Sitta, Laura Huertas Millán, Lou Le Forban, MUXX collective (EYIBRA, Oldo Erréve, Lukas Avendaño, nnux), Rana Nazzal Hamadeh, Miguel Peres Dos Santos, Subash Thebe Limbu

07/02/2026 – 28/06/2026

Historically, ancestral knowledge has been closely tied to Indigenous cosmologies and how they look at memory, land and time as non-linear. Reclaiming it has been a vital part of their identity and resistance after centuries of dispossession. Western cultures have long exoticized this different form of knowledge production and transmission, denying the presence and possibilities of ancestrality for the West itself. Through their works, the artists in the exhibition ask what it means to be connected or disconnected from our ancestors, and how both experiences might serve as starting points for imagining different futures.

14/02/2026 – 14/02/2027

ROTONDE is a permanent light and sound installation situated around the lower dome of the Atomium.  A circular structure of LED lines follows the architecture of the rotunda, while a down-lighting system projects vertical beams toward the ground, structuring the space in a full 360-degree experience. The installation unfolds in a cycle of approximately twenty minutes. Light movements, vertical descents and variations in intensity are fully synchronized with an original sound composition, composed of subtle rhythms, spatial textures and finely crafted transitions.  Certain sequences are deliberately minimal, almost motionless; others introduce greater movement and contrast. The programming is designed to evolve calmly throughout the evening, establishing a continuous and lasting presence.  The project is conceived as a spatial composition, developed specifically for this part of the Atomium and for the visitors’ journey. Light structures the space, highlights the building’s lines and amplifies its nighttime presence, offering a new way of experiencing the architecture through movement and rhythm.  The installation is designed to accompany the life of the Atomium every evening. It gives the monument a nocturnal identity, presenting it as a place that remains active, visible and inhabited after dark. It forms part of a broader ambition to animate architectural heritage through contemporary digital creation.  Designed for a minimum duration of twelve months, the installation offers a contemporary interpretation of the Atomium while placing its architecture at the very center of the experience.

With Romain Tardy

14/02/2026 – 14/02/2027

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.

With Visual System

14/02/2026 – 14/02/2027

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.

With Emilie Terlinden

Curated by Célestin Fresnay

05/02/26 – 26/04/26

With Timelapse, Emilie Terlinden transforms images into autonomous, ambiguous forms, emerging from a slow process of fragmentation and painting. At the heart of the exhibition, a monumental site-specific work, inspired by Daguerre’s diorama, unfolds a shifting scene where light and time become material.

With Ibrahim Ahmed, Yumna Al-Arashi, Francesca Allen, Sarah Amrani, Susan Anderson, Eleanor Antin, Alexandra Barancovà & Jae Perrins, Baloji, Valérie Belin, François Bellabas, Kwame Brathwaite, Nakeya Brown and many more.

07/03/2026 – 16/08/2026

After exploring love in 2024, physical beauty is the second thematic exhibition at Bozar focusing on what motivates us as humans. Through the lens of photography and video, made from the 1960s to today, this exhibition explores how artists depict and challenge established norms of who is considered beautiful. Unveiling the pressures and excess of what it means to be beautiful today, the works in this exhibition offer a diverse range of propositions, from the critical to the emancipatory. 

With Ho Tzu Nyen

06/02/2026 – 14/06/2026

Ho Tzu Nyen explores big questions in his ambitious artworks that bring together deep research, popular visual culture, and new technology. For Bozar, he is creating a new work titled P for Power that builds upon his earlier work The Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia.​​​​​​​

At a moment in which the notion of power is being challenged and reconsidered, not least in the light of worldwide challenges to democracy but also in relation to developments in AI, Ho Tzu Nyen’s work dares to challenge pressing political and philosophical issues head-on.

With Botticelli, Titian, Tintoretto, Leonardo da Vinci​​​​​​​, Michelangelo, Cranach the Elder, Massys, and many others.

20/02/2026 – 14/02/2026

Beauty and ugliness have always fascinated people, yet their meanings shift over time. Bellezza e Bruttezza explores how artists from Italy and Northern Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries depicted these extremes, from refined ideals to deliberate grotesques. A rare opportunity to see extraordinary works, some appearing in Belgium for the first and only time.

With Bachelot & Caron

Curated by Dorothée Duvivier

31/01/2026 – 03/05/2026

Porcelaine et faits divers, the duo’s first museum exhibition in Belgium, offers a ret­ro­spec­tive, immersive journey where art converses with humanity’s darkest drives. Throughout the show, Bachelot & Caron summon forgotten myths, debauched banquets, unsettling images and hybrid forms. Through photography, ceramics and performance, their universe is as fascinating as it is disquieting. Crime becomes opera, cruelty takes on a festive air, and (dark) humour runs through each scene, laying reality bare.

Location outside Brussels – Address: 
BPS22 Musée d’Art de la Province de Hainaut
Boulevard Solvay 22
6000 Charleroi

Free access on presentation of the Art Brussels VIP Card

With Chantal Maes

Curated by Jean-François Chevrier et Elia Pijollet

31/01/26 – 03/05/2026

With the artist, curators Jean-François Chevrier and Elia Pijollet have broken free from Maes’s existing photograph series to create new collections for this exhibition. Photographs, video sequences and sound recordings intertwine, somewhere between weaving and cutting, guided by the idea of a cinema on paper. A body of work centred on rela­tion­ships with others, but designed as an autobiographical introspection.

Location outside Brussels – Address: 
BPS22 Musée d’Art de la Province de Hainaut
Boulevard Solvay 22
6000 Charleroi

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With Bertrand Cavalier, Léonore Chastagner, Eva Claus, Ellen Dhondt, Melissa Medan, Kemy Obafemi, Ooops I drew it again, Clara Villier, Serena Vittorini & Yue Yuan

Curated by Badïa Larouci & Sébastien Ricou

09/04/2026 – 23/08/2026

Ten artists, ten approaches, the same attention to gestures, to stories, to what links bodies to places, individuals to systems, memories to objects. Through photography, video, drawing, painting and installation, the laureates weave a sensitive cartography of the present, where the intimate meets the political, where the personal illuminates the collective.

With Harold DELHAIE – Sevdenur DOGAN – Barbara Salomé FELGENHAUER – Nanténé TRAORÉ – Quinten VERMEULEN – Serena VITTORINI

Curated by Olivier Grasser- Fabrice LINTERMANS

16/04/2026 — 5/07/2026

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With Copy Planet

Curated by Tamara Beheydt

03/04/2026 – 24/05/2026

Copy Planet is an international artist collective that works with new digital media. Their work questions conventions around contemporary art and technology. This exhibition immerses you in the poetic virtual universe of Copy Planet and introduces you to digital arts. The artists present utopian worlds as a critical look at the current state of our society.

Location outside Brussels – Address: 
Cultuurplein 1, 2220 Heist-op-den-Berg

Free access

01/04/2026 – 20/09/2026

Through pieces from its collections, the museum emphasises the vitality of design in Belgium, in resonance with major international narratives. It reveals an approach that is attentive to children’s needs, integrating ecological and educational issues from an early stage. From children’s bedrooms designed by Sylvie Feron in the 1930s to Jules Wabbes, to the current initiatives of the ecoBirdy duo with the Charlie chair made from recycled plastic, Belgian designers also introduce childlike singularity into the domestic space. Thus, design in Belgium reflects a creativity where formal innovation is combined with a reflection on society and the environment

With Younes Baba-Ali, Sammy Baloji , Steve Bandoma , Banksy, Ruben H. Bermudez, Alain Bizos & many more

Curated by Kieran Burns, Ayoko Mensah, Simina Badica & Joanna Urbanek

Mon : 01:00 PM – 06:00 PM

Tue : 09:00 AM – 06:00 PM

Sat-Sun : 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM

Exhibition exploring the long lasting effects that colonisation and its ending have had in Europe over the last 70 years.

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With James Ensor, Rik Wouters, Jules Schmalzigaug

11/04/2026 – 30/008/2026

James Ensor, Rik Wouters and Jules Schmalzigaug are known as Belgium’s Big Three modern colour artists for good reason. Theirs are illustrious names, each of whom sought to transcend the soft colour palette of the Impressionists in their own way. For them, the power of a renewed, post-Impressionist composition lay precisely in the play of rich pigments. In Singing Red, the KMSKA explores their vermilion reds, intense blues and bright yellows, and the role that this fresh visual language played within the greater artistic picture. 

Location outside Brussels – Address: 

Leopold de Waelplaats 1, 2000 Antwerpen

28/03/2026 – 30/08/2026

ArtFactFinders is all about seeing the unseeable. What you can see is just the start. The real secrets lie hidden below the surface. We make children the sleuths whose task is to unscramble our art mysteries. This involves studying paintings and objects layer by layer. But that in itself is not enough. Our researchers must use all their creativity and curiosity to discover how artists made their work of art or how a picture came to be damaged. Thinking outside the box and asking the right questions will take the children ever-closer to unravelling our art secrets. But meanwhile the race is on and the clock is ticking! 

Location outside Brussels – Address: 

Leopold de Waelplaats 1, 2000 Antwerpen

06/02/2026 – 17/05/2026

The KMSKA holds a painting of the demolition of the Antwerp citadel in 1577. At first glance, it seems a lively cityscape full of activity. But look closer, and you’ll find a story with many layers – about power, manipulation, and quackery. A story that reveals how images shape our view of the past.

Location outside Brussels – Address: 

Leopold de Waelplaats 1, 2000 Antwerpen

With Sébastien Alouf, Benoit Bastin, Priscilla Beccari, Frédéric Biesmans, Jan de Vliegher, Myriam Hornard, Louise Limontas & Antoine Moulinard

06/03/2026 – 15/11/2026

For the exhibition Habiter la maison, artists draw inspiration from the little monsters in the dining room, shake up bourgeois conventions, or slip under the living room rug. There was little left of the family furniture in the attics of the Maison des Arts. For this anniversary, the scenography combined the artists’ interventions with a few pieces of furniture. Two or three armchairs and antique pedestal tables make the house even more lively for visitors during the exhibition.

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With Priscilla Beccari, Paul Gérard, Aurélien Goubau, Myriam Hornard, Romane Iskaria, Louise Limontas & Anne Sedel

07/03/2026 – 24/05/2026

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With Arnold Gross

Curated by András Gross

23/04/26 – 26/04/26

Thu : 07:00 – 09:00 PM

Fri – Sat : 03:00 – 07:00 PM

Sun : 03:00 – 06:00 PM

Launched in December 2024 on the occasion of the 95th anniversary of the birth of Gross Arnold (1929–2015), our traveling exhibition presents themes from the artist’s oeuvre that span his entire life’s work. Starting with visual interpretations of his birthplace and garden, and of Torda and its surroundings, the exhibition gradually expands toward Hungarian landscapes, foreign cities, and finally imaginary regions.

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With Péter Puklus

Curated by Boróka Takács

23/04/26 – 26/04/26

Thu : 07:00 – 09:00 PM

Fri – Sat : 03:00 – 07:00 PM

Sun : 03:00 – 06:00 PM

The exhibtion Sacred Structures points to what holds us together: the body, the home, and the relationships that inhabit them. Through a restrained and contemplative visual language, the exhibition reveals the sacred as something quiet and immanent — woven into ordinary spaces, carried by touch, light, and the simple fact of being.

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Artists: Leen Voet, Koenraad Dedobbeleer, Pieter Vermeersch, Vincent Geyskens, Lili Dujourie, Marthe Wéry, Tina Gillen, Bram Demunter

Curator: Eva Wittocx, Marjan Debaene

Opening hours during Art Brussels:
Thu – Sun 11:00 am – 06:00 pm (on Thursday untill 10:00 pm)

Location outside Brussels – Address: 
Museum Leuven 
Leopold Vanderkelenstraat 28
3000 Leuven

With Bram Vanderbeke, Linde FreyaTangelder, Maya Eline Leroy, Bethan Laura Wood, Sabine Marcelis, Roosje van Donselaar, Kwangho Lee and more.

Curated by Connie Hüsser

11/03/2026 – 25/04/2026

The exhibition Home Sweet Home explores the idea of home with a playful twist. Birdhouses by internationally renowned designers demonstrate how living, care, and beauty come together for both humans and nature. This small but meaningful object is reimagined into creations where material, form, and color reflect the designer’s identity. From ceramics and metal to wood and textiles, some birdhouses appear delicate and precious, others are robust or playful, functional or sculptural.  Home Sweet Home, curated by Swiss interior stylist and curator Connie Hüsser, presents more than 75 unique birdhouses designed by prominent Belgian and international designers. 

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With Judith Leyster, Alida Withoos, Clara Peeters, Johanna Koerten-Block, Rachel Ruysch, Geertruydt Roghman, Anna Maria van Schurman, Maria Faydherbe, Margareta de Heer, Johanna Vergouwen, Josina Margareta Weenix and Maria Sybilla Merian

Curated by Dr. Frederica Van Dam & Dr. Virginia Treanor & Dr. Katie Altizer

07/03/2026 – 31/05/2026

The impressive list of works of art on show, created by more than 40 women, proves that women artists were anything but rare or unknown. Their influence on the visual culture of the Low Countries can be felt to this day. Unforgettable presents these artists you might not know, but whom you will definitely never forget.

Location outside Brussels – Address: 
Fernand Scribedreef 1, 9000 Gent

With Francisca García & Mario Navarro

Curated by Philippe Van Cauteren

23/04/26 – 26/04/26

Thu – Fri : 09:30 AM -05:30 PM

Sat- Sun : 10:00 AM – 06:00 PM

Chilean artists Francisca García and Mario Navarro’s exhibition – ‘Unearthed Conversation’ – is inspired by the Atacama Desert. Located at the mouth of the Loa River in northern Chile, this is a landscape shaped by diverse narratives: ancient Chango archaeological sites, a geological resemblance to the planet Mars, home to the world’s largest telescopes, and still scarred by the Pinochet dictatorship.

Location outside Brussels – Address:

Jan Hoetplein 1, 9000 Gent

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With Marie Zolamian

Curated by Sofia Dati

21/02/2026 – 17/05/2026

Marie Zolamian’s work invokes constellations where interior geographies, fabulated presences and microhistories intertwine to form visual worlds operating between observation and imagination.  

Through painting, moving image, sound, drawing and site-specific work, Confabulations considers how memory is continuously reactivated and transformed, opening new routes towards shared imaginaries.