Art Brussels

With Seyni Awa Camara, Pierre Bonvoisin, Charlotte Beaudry, Géraldine Beaupère, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Umberto Bergamaschi, Jean-Baptiste Bernadet and many more.

Curated by Gwenvael Launay & Tatiana Veress

23/04/2026 – 01/11/2026

Works from the Art et marges museum collection successively transform the spaces in which they are displayed.
A botanical garden, a planetarium, an anthropological cabinet, a folklore museum… these settings unfold before the viewer like a series of temples, each infused with its own atmosphere by the Muses. Is the museum a sacred place?
MUSEUM OF MUSEUMS sets out to dismantle the walls we so often imagine standing between artwork and audience. Through scenographic and educational displays inspired by different museum typologies, and with objects brought out from the reserves, visitors are invited to immerse themselves in the exhibition as a total experience.
Amid the Art brut collections — between tissue paper and the scent of popcorn (come and see for yourself!) — works from the contemporary visual arts scene also appear. While the Art et marges museum may delight, for the occasion, in spotting categories everywhere, its true specialty lies in creating dialogue between them.

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 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.

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.

The BNP Paribas Fortis Series

With Delcy Morelos

28/06/2026 – 30/08/2026

In the summer of 2026, Colombian artist Delcy Morelos creates a new monumental installation for Bozar’s Horta Hall. For this piece, Morelos draws on South American ancestral building techniques and European vernacular architecture. Using local, bio-sourced materials such as earth, clay, and fibres, her sensory works highlight the fundamental role of indigenous knowledge in maintaining both an ecological and spiritual balance.

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 Harold Delhaie, Sevdenur Dogan, Barbara Salomé Felgenhauer, Nanténé Traoré, Quinten Vermeulen, Serena Vittorini 

Curated by Olivier Grasser & Fabrice Lintermans 

16/04/2026 — 05/07/2026

archipel is a project designed to support the emerging photography scene in Belgium, created by Contretype in 2023. This is its fourth edition. The initiative operates as a support programme, focusing on research, the production of new works, and fostering dialogue between different practices.

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

Immerse yourself in the heart of the City Hall of Brussels and let yourself be transported back through the centuries thanks to an interactive experience. As soon as you arrive on the Grand-Place, you’ll be captivated by the imposing silhouette of this emblematic building, a jewel of Gothic architecture.

In 23 different steps, around the bend of a monumental staircase, a precious cabinet or a room well known to the people of Brussels, this tour will take you from one era to another, retracing nearly 6 centuries of history. You can explore the City Hall at your own pace with the help of your videoguide

With Péter Puklus

Curated by Boróka Takács

31/03/26 – 04/09/26

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.

With Fernand Khnopff, Cécile Douard, Pierre Bonnard, Marie Laurencin, Louis Gallait, Jane Graverol, Vic Gentils, Anna Staritsky, Arman, Olga Morano and many more.

Curated by Audrey Lasserre & Géraldine Barbery

Part of the “Collections in Question” series

19/11/2025 – 27/09/2026

How to unravel gender stereotypes in the collections? The virile, brutal man; the gentle, maternal, nurturing woman, confined to domestic roles; or on the contrary, the temptress, sinner, even guilty one: examples of stereotypes deeply rooted in the collective imagination and also conveyed through art. 

Through a new display, the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium focus on these gender-related stereotypes. Art x Gender questions how images and artworks reinforce or challenge such representations. 

With Germaine Rimbout

20/05/2026 – 18/10/2026

This spring, the Spilliaert Room brings to light a figure who long remained in the shadows: Germaine Rimbout (1894–1973), a Brussels-based artist with a singular trajectory.

Influenced by Cubism and Fauvism, her work evolved after the Second World War toward a freer abstraction and an increasingly daring colour palette.

An exhibition driven as much by the strength of the work as by the personality of the artist. As a female creator in a world still largely dominated by men at the time, she succeeded in forging her own path.

Her artistic journey reflects the tensions and aspirations of an era.

With Dora Budor, Niloufar Emamifar, Annaïk Lou Pitteloud, Georgia Sagri, Gianna Surangkanjanajai, and Sung Tieu

Curated by Pauline Hatzigeorgiou

12/06/2026 – 20/09/2026

The thematic exhibition Call me gravity explores the concept of debt from various angles — focusing in particular on its impact on bodies and contemporary perceptions. Beyond its economic meaning, debt encompasses social, spatial, historical and emotional dimensions. It manifests concretely in the proliferation of credit lines, but also lurks in what eludes measurement, in what is neither accounted for nor recognised.

Call me gravity brings together international artists who explore these dynamics primarily through sculptural forms embedded in the building’s post-industrial architecture. The works draw attention to what remains invisible — what is considered useless or superfluous, such as forms of labour and care, yet proves indispensable to the system. They also point to the shrinking of the public sphere and its infrastructure, caught in the grip of capital, and raise questions about artistic production itself.

With Lutz Bacher

Curated by Helena Kritis & Solveig Øvstebø

28/03/2026 — 09/08/2026

Burning the Days offers an expansive view of conceptual artist Lutz Bacher’s provocative, genre-defying oeuvre that exists across a wide range of found materials. Moving between affect and sentiment, humor, and pop-cultural touchstones, the exhibition turns to unflinching examinations of sexuality, violence, political paranoia, and cosmic metaphysics.