main partner
10—13.12.26 Antwerp Expo
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Group exhibition
11/12/2026 – 20/12/2026
Located at Kattendijkdok-Oostkaai 12, 12Antwerp occupies a former Art Nouveau warehouse from 1907, designed by Liège architect Xavier Hanson and renovated by AIM Architecture in 2023. Throughout its history, 12 has been a place where people, goods, ideas and new opportunities came together. A place of movement, culture, collaborations and encounters.
During the visit you can enjoy the exhibitions by Studio DŌ and Thibeau Scarcériaux.
Bouquet Belge —Studio DŌ
What colours the ground of the Belgian landscape flourishes above. At the heart of Bouquet Belge is Table Rouge Belge, a table assembled from red marble slabs sourced from different Belgian homes, bringing together fragments of domestic histories in a shared setting. Around this table, Studio DŌ brings botanical forms into dialogue with Belgian stone, cultivation and taste. Through collaborations, including with Jeroen Van Vaerenbergh, The Food Archaeologist, the project explores cultural expressions that bring people together.
Ouroboros —Thibeau Scarcériaux
Ouroboros begins with a snake skin Thibeau Scarcériaux found over ten years ago, now becoming an exhibition about transformation and the uncertainty of letting go.Through glass, skin and light, he explores how we outgrow former versions of ourselves while carrying traces of what we leave behind.
Credit photo: image Studio DŌ
With Guillaume Bijl
Curated by Guillaume Bijl Estate (Nadia Bijl and Ulrike Lindmayr) & Antony Hudek
24/10/2026 – 27/12/2026
Kunsthal Extra City presents In Remembrance of the Earldom of Watou, an exceptional project by Guillaume Bijl that was shown only once before, during the Watou Arts Festival in 2002.
Twenty-four years later, this unique work is being reconstructed for the first time in the former Dominican church of Kunsthal Extra City. The installation combines a fictional-historical museum, theatrical scenery and live performances of The Early Years of the Earldom of Watou, the only stage play in Bijl’s oeuvre. For this new presentation, the play is directed by artist Aline Bouvy and performed by amateur actors from Antwerp.
Who was Rubens exactly? The artist and the man behind the brush. And why is he so well loved? Find out by visiting the Rubens Experience. Find out what he was really like thanks to life-like videos and interactive tools. Or look straight into his mind by observing his self-portrait.
With Ignaz van der Stighelen, Laurence Petrone, Ria Pacquée, Vaast Colson and more
Curated by Jana Coolen, Mara Harbon and Cécile Taylor
Les Fleurs du Mal: Part III brings THONK TANK’s three-part 2026 program to a close. Following an exhibition in May and a performance festival in October, this multidisciplinary retrospective revisits the works, images, texts and traces left behind. Through an archival installation, a new publication and selected live contributions, documentation becomes the starting point for a new exhibition.
Group Exhibition
Curated by Beatriz Colomina & Mark Wigley
30/09/2026 – 31/01/2027
Architecture has contributed both to the destruction and survival of bacteria. Increasingly, modern ailments like obesity, diabetes, allergies, and depression are linked to a decline in microbial diversity. According to curators Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley, these are ‘diseases of the built environment’ – inseparably tied to the health of the planet and the biosphere.
The exhibition invites us to view humans differently: not as individuals, but as mobile ecosystems coexisting with bacteria.
We The Bacteria was previously showcased at the Triennale Milano, where it became a groundbreaking exhibition. Now it holds up a mirror here too. Meet your own microbes and trace their journey – from deep within the earth to outer space, from billions of years ago to today. Discover how scientists and architects together explore an alternative history of architecture, told from the perspective of bacteria.
Credit photo: Scanning electron micrograph of Yersinia pestis, which causes bubonic plague, on proventricular spines of a Xenopsylla cheopis flea. – produced by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious diseases (NAID) – public domain