Art Brussels

With Anita Molinero

Curated by Camille Gouget

26/09/2026 – 03/01/2027

An icon of French sculpture, Anita Molinero (Floirac, 1953) works exclusively with discarded man­u­fac­tured objects that she rescues and recycles. Often described as ​”punk”, her work is char­ac­terised by brutal, irre­versible gestures that assault the salvaged objects: heating, burning, twisting, slashing, compressing and bashing them, pushing the material to the very limits of form­less­ness. Her work is driven by the encounter between gesture and materiality. Between destruction and shaping, death and rebirth, Anita Molinero creates sculptures that are emblematic of a world dominated by over­pro­duc­tion and the depletion of natural resources. For her first major exhibition in Belgium, the artist has created a number of new works from materials collected in the region.

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

01/07/2026 – 01/07/2027

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 Graciela Iturbide

Curated by Sophia Greiff & Melissa Harris

18/09/2026 – 17/01/2027

Eyes to Fly With is the first major retrospective of the work of renowned Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide in Belgium. Her work explores themes such as identity, social relationships and ephemerality.

The exhibition has been developed in close consultation with the artist and comprises around 160 works, from iconic black-and-white photographs to rarely seen vintage prints, colour photos and contact prints. Together they offer a unique insight into over half a century of photographic work.

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 Eglė Budvytytė & Espace Aygo

10/10/2026 – 10/01/2027

Budvytytė’s moving-image work, with its focus on the body’s entanglement with other forms of life, meets Espace Aygo’s large-scale installation, where human-made structures begin to lose their vertical stability. The exhibition asks what becomes possible when the impulse to build, grow and look upward falters and gives way to horizontality and other forms of mutual dependence.

In Budvytytė’s films, this fluidity between past and future is expressed through the human body losing its separateness. As protagonists sink into forests and descend into clay deposits, they enter a process of decay and decomposition, simultaneously becoming enmeshed with wider ecological and communal systems. Espace Aygo’s collapsed architectural structures challenge vertical monumentality and instead offer something closer to a ground, a support, and a place for gathering, extending beyond the Kunsthal’s usual confines, out into the open.

Schachtboklaan 11
3600 Genk

With Ossip Zadkine

31/10/2026 – 18/04/2027

Sixty years after his death, KMSKA pays tribute to sculptor Ossip Zadkine (Vitebsk 1888 – Paris 1967). Although Zadkine gained world fame when living in the Paris of the roaring twenties, his career found an early foothold in Belgium. ‘Les Belges étaient mes premiers amateurs,’ he wrote himself. In 1933 he got his first retrospective not in France, but in Brussels, at the Palace of Fine Arts (now BOZAR).

Ossip Zadkine was a tireless, unquantifiable and prolific artist with an impressive oeuvre. Today we count more than 600 sculptures, over 750 gouaches and drawings, and some 200 lithographs and etchings.

Leopold de Waelplaats 1
2000 Antwerpen

With Guy Vandenbranden

16/10/2026 – 17/01/2027

To mark the centenary of Guy Vandenbranden’s (1926–2014) birth, the KMSKA presents a special exhibition dedicated to one of Belgium’s leading representatives of constructivism. Discover how Vandenbranden became a pioneer of geometric abstraction and explore the career of a key figure in the post-war European avant-garde.

The exhibition traces Vandenbranden’s artistic development, from his early expressionist works to his clear, geometric compositions of colour and line. Inspired by artists such as Paul Klee, Piet Mondrian and Victor Vasarely, he developed a distinctive constructivist visual language in which form, colour and space are carefully balanced. His pursuit of precision also led him to experiment with industrial materials and fuelled his interest in modern architecture.

Leopold de Waelplaats 1
2000 Antwerpen

With Philip Aguirre y Otegui

03/10/2026 – 17/01/2027

Philip Aguirre believes in the universal power of art. For him, the search for beauty is a necessity of life. As essential as water and bread. His work expresses the hope that beauty can contribute to alleviating social inequality. His sculptures therefore come into their own in public spaces.

This solo exhibition at the KMSKA offers an overview of his oeuvre, from the 1980s to the present day. For this, Aguirre has opted for monumental sculptures that enter into dialogue with his smaller works.

Leopold de Waelplaats 1
2000 Antwerpen

09/10/2026 – 29/03/2027

Step into a fascinating artistic journey that redefined our view of the world. To mark the tenth anniversary of the Musée de La Boverie, discover how Belgium became one of the most fertile hotbeds of Impressionism. This major exhibition celebrates the boldness of a movement we think we know, yet which still holds many secrets.

From Paris to Brussels, then the true capital of the European avant-garde, embark on an unprecedented trail. It is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to discover nearly 150 masterpieces from Belgian and international collections, rarely displayed side by side.

Parc de la Boverie
4020 Liège

25/01/2025 – 03/01/2027

Muhka presents a renewed, concise collection display that, through around thirty key works, features Flemish artists: artists who live and work here, now or in the past – including Marcel Broodthaers, Panamarenko, Luc Tuymans, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Otobong Nkanga and Laure Prouvost – as well as artists with a connection to Flanders, such as Marlene Dumas, Jimmie Durham, Gordon Matta-Clark and Nicola L. They are placed in dialogue with international artists from the collection of the Flemish Community, including Cady Noland, Barbara Kruger, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Taus Makhacheva and Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin.

The collection display starts from the post-war avant-garde in Antwerp and uses the past as a platform for understanding the multipolar world of today and the future, with the three collection perspectives – image, action and society – as its guide.

Leuvenstraat 32
2000 Antwerp

With Lee Bul

Curated by June Young Kwak and Doryun Chong, with Heyeon Kim and Sunny Cheung, from Leeum Museum of Art and M+.

13/11/2026 – 07/03/2027

Emerging in the late 1980s, Lee Bul developed her work in close dialogue with South Korea’s shifting social and political realities. Working across sculpture, installation, performance and two-dimensional media, she has consistently explored the relationships between the body and society, humanity and technology, nature and civilisation. Her work probes the promises and failures of modernity, as well as the political forces that shape our collective imagination.

Featuring more than 200 key works, Lee Bul: From 1998 to Now traces the artist’s sustained engagement with utopian thought, modernist architecture and the historical avant-garde. From early iconoclastic performances to immersive, multi-sensory installations, the exhibition reveals an artist who combines formal experimentation with philosophical depth. Today, Lee Bul is widely recognised as a pioneering figure for younger generations of artists worldwide.

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 Bendt Eyckermans

31/10/2026 – 21/02/2027

Bendt Eyckermans’ (b. 1994, Antwerp, Belgium) paintings are shrouded in a dreamlike, mysterious atmosphere. Within his universe, which is characterized by a muted colour palette, he incorporates elements from his immediate surroundings alongside art historical echoes. His paintings often possess a sculptural dimension through their focus on texture and depth. Family history also plays a major role in his work: Eyckermans comes from five generations of sculptors and craftsmen. The sculptures and objects they left behind remain in the studio where he works today – the former workspace of his predecessors – and their visual language resonates subtly in his paintings.

Eyckermans begins with photographs, translating them into paintings through preparatory sketches. The influence of photography and film is evident in his compositions, in which elements are deliberately omitted from the frame. In this way, he interweaves personal and art-historical references with multiple media, resulting in paintings that bear witness to a distinctive and idiosyncratic style.

Jan Hoetplein 1
9000 Gent

With Ana Lupas & S P A T A R U

10/10/26 – 21/02/27

Time and memory are fundamental to Lupas’s oeuvre. Works often unfold over extended periods or are revisited and recontextualized in response to changing social and political realities. On Ritual Time connects these cyclical movements to the rhythm of Lupas’s own life. Existing works, some of which have rarely been exhibited, acquire new coherence in relation to her increasingly sustained reflections on mortality, inheritance and continuity. The selection of works by sculptor, painter, draughtsman and teacher S P A T A R U (Mircea Spataru, 1937–2011), with whom Lupas maintained a personal and artistic dialogue, touches on these profound concerns. This exhibition is therefore not merely a historical presentation but can itself be understood as a ritual gesture.

Jan Hoetplein 1
9000 Gent

With Raphaela Vogel

Curated by Kevin Gallagher

04/10/2026 – 21/02/2027

TDe mens is geen vogel (Man is no bird) is the first Belgian solo exhibition by the internationally renowned artist Raphaela Vogel (b. 1988, Nuremberg, DE). With deadpan humor, Vogel channels the anarchic spirit of punk rock into theatrical, all-encompassing installations which blend personal experience, social themes, and emergent technology. At Z33, visitors journey through monumental installations, sculpture, paintings and a new multimedia artwork created specifically for this exhibition.

By utilising contrasting forces such as humour and alienation, or vulnerability and strength, Vogel’s artworks foreground sensation over comprehension. Her installations merge image, sound and space into complex sensory experiences. In De mens is geen vogel, Raphaela Vogel propels visitors into unsettling and fantastical environments. 

Bonnefantenstraat 1
3500 Hasselt