Art Brussels

Curated by Nadège Metzler

06/06/2026 – 30/08/2026

With chrysalis, the BPS22 inaugurates a new summer event dedicated to its collections. Each year, a selection of works will emerge from the shadows of the storage rooms into the light of the museum, offering a renewed and singular perspective on the collection. This initial chapter draws inspiration from the Latin word chrysalis, denoting the cocooning stage – a state of latency in which matter prepares itself to be reborn in another form. The exhibition seizes this fragile instant of meta­mor­pho­sis, suspended between two shapes, two worlds, between what is no more and what is not yet – a moment in which reality holds its breath, when everything shifts without yet revealing itself.

The exhibition brings together instal­la­tions, sculptures, paintings, photographs and videos that capture this moment when things appear to falter, when certainties fracture, when forms are still searching for themselves.

22 Boulevard Solvay
6000 Charleroi

With Refik Anadol

08/05/2026 – 08/11/2026

 The internationally acclaimed new media artist Refik Anadol brings a groundbreaking exhibition to BRUSK. The Turkish-American pioneer in digital art is internationally renowned for his large art installations, created together with artificial intelligence. For the first time, Refik Anadol is bringing his visionary work to Belgium for the impressive opening exhibition at BRUSK.

Over the past ten years, Refik Anadol Studio has trained proprietary machine learning models using more than five million images of cities worldwide, developing unique algorithms that reimagine the metropolis as a living, breathing entity. The exhibition ‘Refik Anadol. Latent City’ marks the beginning of a new series in which Anadol’s long-standing engagement with urban imagination is presented in a museum context for the first time.  

Dijver 12
8000 Bruges

With Sarah Caillard

27/02/2026 – 23/05/2026

The sculptures on display at the Prinsenbos in Grimbergen bring together 3 works from the French artist Sarah Caillard: Venus (2023), Sirocco (2023), and Watteau Pleats (2026). Although created across several years, they are connected by a shared exploration of the notion of imprint. Through casting, the artist uses the body as a means of recording a trace, something that remains after a presence has disappeared. Made from reinforced concrete, the sculptures emerge from direct contact with the body, producing forms suspended between presence and absence, memory and materiality.

Prinsenbos Grimbergen
Guldendal 20
1850 Grimbergen

With Françoise Schein

05/06/2026 – 28/08/2026

Belgian artist Françoise Schein is collaborating with residents of Strombeek to design the Banquet of Utopias: a long table will be installed in the new car-free zone. During the summer months, the space in front of the cultural center becomes fertile ground for dialogue, where residents, passersby and visitors gather around a work of art that invites both reflection and participation.

With contributions from: Sabiha Demirel, Betty Maes, Ingrid De Backer, Heidi Vercauteren, Cathy Pittevils, Carine De Hertog, Chris De Coninck, Ela Erenler, Marianne Coeugniet, Eliane De Greveleer, Bea Massy, Ann Jacobs, Greet Verstraete, Liliane Sterckx, Casper Bulens, Dilan Rashidon, Cindy Goossens, Barbara Maere en Elisabeth Van Hemelrijck

Gemeenteplein 1
1853 Strombeek-Bever

With Carrie Mae Weems

Curated by Sarah Hermanson Meister

20/03/2026 – 23/08/2026

The Heart of the Matter is the first retrospective of influential American artist Carrie Mae Weems (1953) in Belgium. Through her incisive photographic works and video installations she explores themes of race, gender, power and memory. 

The exhibition comprises more than 100 photographs and videos, including landmark works such as Museums (2006) and Kitchen Table Series (1990). Especially for this exhibition, Weems created the series Preach (2024), which points to the importance of faith both personally and societally. In this series, the art and architecture of spirituality emerge as powerful forms of resistance.

Waalsekaai 47
2000 Antwerp

With Céline Vahsen

23/06/2026 –20/09/2026

The artist Céline Vahsen uses textile techniques to create pictorial compositions that are rooted in the materiality of her medium. She stretches woven canvases, dyed with natural coloring, onto a square format, which transforms them into vibrating, expressive works. Her pieces emphasise the autonomy of the textile medium, which plays a central role in her practice. In 2022, she won the regional prize of the Feminist Art Prize organized by IKOB.

Four years later, she has developed an exhibition for IKOB tailored to the spatial and contextual conditions of the institution. New works enter into dialogue with existing ones, opening up a multi-layered exploration of materiality, form, and perception. The presentation highlights both continuities and developments in her artistic practice and invites viewers to discover her textile work as an independent visual language.

Rotenberg 12b

4700 Eupen


With Barbara & Michael Leisgen

23/06/2026 – 20/09/2026

After meeting in art school in Karlsruhe in the 1960s, Barbara and Michael Leisgen abandoned their respective disciplines of painting and sculpture to pursue work as an artist duo. They chose analog photography as a their medium, as they found it to depend less on facture—the material evidence of the artist’s making embedded in the artwork—and therefore well-suited to equal collaboration. The couple first settled in East Belgium, where they worked for many years before moving to nearby Aachen, across the German border. Although they traveled all over Europe for their work, many of the duo’s photographs were shot in Belgium—including the image from the Pink Depression series, captured in and around rivers and brooks polluted by waste from a nearby aluminum plant.

The Leisgens were never formally trained in photography and approached the medium from a conceptual standpoint: they considered the camera as a tool and the film as a physical material, both of which could be manipulated. With Mimesis and their later series Sonnenschriften (Sunwritings)—in which they used sunlight to burn letters into the negatives—Barbara & Michael Leisgen wanted to explore what they perceived as an ancient human inclination to mimic nature and its forms. These works urge us to reconnect with the stars, the Earth, and the sky, and to “read what has never been written,” as they put it.

In Pink Depression, the Leisgens’ concern for the exploitation of the environment becomes more explicit: Barbara is no longer upright but horizontal and therefore vulnerable, her body contaminated by the landscape rather than just visually tracing it. Her silhouette and appearance are coded as feminine, yet the pink clothing contrasts starkly with the atmosphere of danger, death, and decay looming over the photographs.

Rotenberg 12b

4700 Eupen


With Alessandro Cugola

20/06/2026 – 23/08/2026

Developed at Jester, in dialogue with the institution’s archive, the exhibition reactivates fifty years of artistic production. Through site-specific installations and a durational performance, Cugola triggers a chain reaction in which the archive is moved, exposed, contaminated, conserved and eventually packed away again. The archive enters a temporary traffic system, a joy ride.

With this exhibition, Jester celebrates its fifth anniversary, alongside the fortieth anniversary of FLACC and fiftieth anniversary of CIAP, the organizations that came together to form Jester.

Schachtboklaan 11
3600 Genk

With James Ensor, Rik Wouters, Jules Schmalzigaug

11/04/2026 – 30/08/2026

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. 

Leopold de Waelplaats 1
2000 Antwerpen

With Bert De Leeuw

11/06/2026 – 20/09/2026

Dive into the work of Bert De Leeuw (1926–2007) during the summer of 2026. An artist to the core, who was born a hundred years ago in Antwerp’s Zuid district. One major theme runs through his extensive oeuvre: a fascination with the origins and the transience of life within a cosmic totality.

Throughout his life, Bert De Leeuw continued to search for ways to translate ideas into visual form. As a self-taught artist, he drew on his experience as a painter of cinema posters and set designer at the BRT (Belgian Radio and Television Broadcasting). Throughout his career, he experimented with a wide range of materials: glass beads for a sparkling effect, or pieces of expanded polystyrene to try out large volumes.

With the scenography designed by his son Hendrik De Leeuw, the exhibition promises to be a compelling experience.

Leopold de Waelplaats 1
2000 Antwerpen

With Antony Gormley 

Curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

23/05/2026 – 20/09/2026

Antony Gormley (London, 1950) gained worldwide fame with his sculptures and monumental installations that focus on the human body in space. His work explores how a person relates to architecture and landscape through the body. With minimal and powerful forms, and materials such as lead and iron, he raises fundamental questions about the position of humanity in relation to nature and the world.

This KMSKA exhibition explores the depths of Gormley’s oeuvre, the museum’s collection, and the layered foundations of our shared visual and material culture. What emerges extends beyond mere sculpture. It concerns emotion, physical perception, and our presence in the world.

Leopold de Waelplaats 1
2000 Antwerpen

29/05/2026 – 23/09/2026

To mark the tenth anniversary of La Boverie’s reopening (2016–2026), the Liège Museum of Fine Arts is dedicating a major exhibition to the richness of its collections.

Through a journey featuring three hundred works, displayed throughout the entire upper gallery, visitors are invited to move from shadow to light. They will get a behind-the-scenes look at the museum through two major, intertwined themes: the rediscovery of the collections and the inner workings of museums.

Parc de la Boverie
4020 Liège

With Jean Katambayi Mukendi

Curated by Emma Enderby and Linda Franken and Anne-Claire Schmitz 

06/06/2026 – 27/09/2026

RATIO, Jean Katambayi Mukendi’s commission for IN SITU, spans newly produced drawings, paintings and large-scale sculptures. The exhibition addresses global structural inequities in resource extraction and the distribution of power. It questions the dualities that shape our world: between the natural and the artificial, growth and destruction.

Mukendi’s sculptural works respond to contemporary technological developments, from agriculture to robotics and military systems. Built as composite structures, they merge and reconfigure machine functions, testing what these technologies might become when approached through recycling and repurposing, and when imagined for their ecological potential.

The artist’s drawings extend these inquiries, offering observations and speculative reflections on human experience in relation to ecology, economy and language, among others.

RATIO is Mukendi’s first solo museum presentation and is part of Muhka’s IN SITU programme, dedicated to newly commissioned work.

Leuvenstraat 32
2000 Antwerp

With Paul van Ostaijen, Michel Seuphor, Paul Joostens, Jozef Peeters, René Guiette, Floris Jespers and ELT Mesens.

06/06/2026 – 13/09/2026

Old Guard? Avant-garde! shows how the rediscovery and reappraisal of experiment rekindled the avant-garde fire among a generation of pioneers. For some of them, it was a surprising reunion. Although they were by then between sixty and seventy years old, they also rediscovered themselves in the years 1955-1965.

The responses of the historical avant-gardists to the neo-avant-garde were very diverse. Michel Seuphor’s triumphant attitude towards the renewed attention for abstract art stood in stark contrast to the critical position adopted by Paul Joostens, for example. To do justice to this diversity, this archive exhibition does not present one overarching story, but eight parallel stories that lift the veil on how the old guard became avant-garde once again.

Leuvenstraat 32
2000 Antwerp

06/06/2026 – 03/01/2027

In a context in which positions, structures and expectations are constantly shifting, this presentation does not propose a new narrative. It starts from a simple question: what happens when artists continue to act without knowing what that action will bring?

The exhibition unfolds across two rooms.

In the round room, ongoing appears as searching. Works by Jacqueline Mesmaeker, Guy Van Bossche and Raoul De Keyser show practices that keep trying, resuming and feeling their way forward. The gesture is not completed, the image is not fixed. The circular space supports an open experience in which meaning remains in motion.

In the rectangular room, ongoing takes on a different intensity. Here it is no longer about searching, but about holding on. Works by Bernd Lohaus, Alan Charlton, Marthe Wéry and Charlotte Posenenske show a sustained reduction of form and material. Ann Veronica Janssens makes perception uncertain, Chris Reinecke sets a small but clear boundary. The action no longer changes substantially, but it does not stop either. It remains.

Between the two rooms lies a transitional space. In Olympia by David Claerbout, time unfolds without human intervention. Shilpa Gupta’s Threat, by contrast, activates time through collective action. In this tension between natural duration and social circulation, ongoing is temporarily detached from intention or result. Sound poetry, listened to through headphones, reduces language to voice and breath: listening, too, becomes a form of continuing.

Within the permanent presentation De toestand is vloeibaar, Ongoing functions as a temporary accent. Where the collection shows the mutability of the world, this presentation focuses on an attitude within that mutability.

Not because change is guaranteed.
But because stopping is not an option.

Leuvenstraat 32
2000 Antwerp

With Valérie Mannaerts

04/04/2026 – 30/08/2026

Valérie Mannaerts’s multifaceted oeuvre departs from intuition, materials and sensory experience. Through hybrid works, she questions the forms and properties of things and examines themes such as metamorphosis, identity and physicality, drawing on feminist theories. Her work is layered, amorphous and flexible. She explores questions such as: what is the autonomy of an object? What story can an object tell? When do the organic and the inorganic intersect? Her work resists unambiguous interpretations and predetermined norms and boundaries. It remains in a state of constant transformation and movement, balancing between representation and abstraction.

Leopold Vanderkelenstraat 28
3000 Leuven

With Lucia Bru

14/06/2026 – 01/11/2026

Over the past thirty years, Lucia Bru (1970, Brussels) has developed a sculptural practice grounded in an experimental approach to materials – paper, crystal, porcelain, cement, and plaster – in which geometry and chance converge to form structures that are at once minimal and complex. The cubes, cages, grids, squares, and even mirrors that constitute the main ‘families’ of her work emerge as the empirical outcome of deliberate interventions and the erratic reactions of the materials. Attentive to the responses of the materials she explores through a creative process open to chance, the sculptor positions herself as an interlocutor for a mineral world whose agency, memory, and surprising fluidity she acknowledges, opening it to the organic, the animal, and the human. Through drawing, photography, and video, Lucia Bru seeks to render tangible the fragile and transient presence of a breath, a reflection, a fold, a curve, a hollow, or a shadow. This same attentiveness to the sketch — vulnerable by nature — has, since her early days, led her to preserve every attempt on the shelves of her studio, gradually forming a living and vital archive of her own practice. These experimentations – as discreet as they are surprising – whose composition recalls Eva Hesse’s celebrated Test Pieces, offer both a retrospective and forward-looking view of Lucia Bru’s practice.

Site du Grand-Hornu
Rue Sainte-Louise, 82
7301 Hornu

14/05/2026 – 31/01/2027

From 14 May onwards, dive into the memories of Raf Simons, Olivier Rizzo, Hannelore Knuts, Inge Grognard and other leading figures, each with a strong connection to Limburg.

Memory is Home shares stories never told before and offers a unique insight into the lives and work of influential figures, both in front of and behind the scenes of the fashion world. Explore themes such as nostalgia, movement & belonging, and togetherness, and experience how fashion and memories are deeply intertwined.

Gasthuisstraat 11
3500 Hasselt

Curated by Geert Bruloot, Romy Cockx & Kaat Debo

28/03/2026 — 17/01/2027

MoMu celebrates 40 years of the Antwerp Six with a unique exhibition in 2026.

The exhibition highlights the unique trajectory that connects these six exceptional designers. It began with their study at the fashion department at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and resulted in six highly influential solo careers. In 1986, Dirk Bikkembergs, Ann Demeulemeester, Walter Van Beirendonck, Dries Van Noten, Dirk Van Saene and Marina Yee put Antwerp on the fashion map when they each presented their own collections at the British Designer Show in London. This led to their international breakthrough and established the City of Antwerp as a capital of fashion. Their unique designs continue to influence international fashion today.

Nationalestraat 28
2000 Antwerp

Curated by Anne Pontégnie

28/06/26—18/10/26

The 10th edition of the Biennial of Painting at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens explores how and why artists expand what painting can be. Textile, ceramic, glass, wax, plastic, beads and stone are among the materials artists use to escape the modern pictorial space and its correlated notions of autonomy and separation. Every artist in the exhibition speaks a different visual language, yet each tells a story of belonging: to a territory, a culture, a heritage, a family or a community.

These questions have long been present in the Leie River region, where artists have drawn on international styles to speak about regional realities. The exhibition is conceived as a celebration of a global conversation between artistic languages that deepen, rather than erase, their differences and origins.

Museumlaan 14
9831 Deurle

Exhibition permanent

The MSK has an impressive collection. The revised presentation fills no fewer than 40 galleries and displays the full diversity of the museum collection, exploring new themes and exhibiting dozens of works that have never been shown before, all arranged along a route that is guaranteed to excite and surprise.

Fernand Scribedreef 1
9000 Gent

With Carole Vanderlinden

30/05/2026 – 11/10/2026

Belgian artist Carole Vanderlinden presents a solo exhibition featuring work from the past five years.

Vanderlinden’s paintings on canvas and works on paper are difficult to define. They appear simple and compact, yet are highly layered. They emerge from an unplanned, exploratory process of continuous experimentation with paint, colour and rhythm, resulting in compositions that can convey a multitude of meanings. To this end, Vanderlinden gathers preparatory material from her everyday surroundings, philosophy, music, and her sketchbooks. She associates these with chance, art historical references, avant-garde movements, abstract patterns, and more.

Jan Hoetplein 1
9000 Gent

With Francisca García & Mario Navarro

Curated by Philippe Van Cauteren

23/04/26 – 13/09/26

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.

Jan Hoetplein 1
9000 Gent

With Marianne Berenhaut, Ryan Cullen, Marlene Dumas, Hamishi Farah, Sirah Foighel Brutmann & Eitan Efrat, Rabih Mroué, Rosalind Nashashibi, Mohammed Sami, Luc Tuymans & Angharad Williams.

Curated by Tim Roerig

28/03/2026 – 23/08/2026

The act of looking is never neutral. What we choose to see, and what we avert our eyes from, says something about us. The exhibition Before Our Eyes explores how ten (inter)national artists question and navigate this responsibility. Their work responds to the political events of our time, with particular attention to the genocidal violence in Palestine, through images that take a stand or call for reflection. For how can artists address the violence? Not by simply showing it again, but by carefully choosing what to make visible—and what to withhold.

Bonnefantenstraat 1
3500 Hasselt