Art Antwerp

With Sanam Khatibi

03/10/206 – 17/09/2028

Sanam Khatibi is a Belgian artist who lives and works between Brussels and Paris. Painting lies at the centre of her practice, alongside sculpture, embroidery, installation, and tapestry. Her practice examines our reactions to situations of danger, trauma, disasters (manmade or environmental) and how we encounter power structures.

Her work brings together human and animal figures, plants, landscapes, and objects in scenes that hover between beauty and unease, attraction and danger. She is interested in the ambiguities and predispositions that shape human behaviour, and in the tension between what we consider civilised and the more unruly forces that remain beneath the surface.

Begijnhofpark
8500 Kortrijk

With Hrair Sarkissian

Curated by Louma Salamé

18/06/2026 – 24/01/27

The Boghossian Foundation presents Shape of absence, an exhibition initiated at the invitation of Louma Salamé, which bears witness to the ongoing heritage tragedy unfolding in Syria since 2011. he exhibition is centered on Hrair Sarkissian’s monumental installation Stolen Past, presented in dialogue with Iconem’s immersive images of the site of Palmyra. A poignant reflection on disappearance, memory, and resilience.

The monumental installation presents forty-eight lithophanes arranged like funerary stelae, creating an atmosphere of contemplation and remembrance. When illuminated, they reveal images reminiscent of black-and-white photographs depicting artefacts that disappeared from the Raqqa Museum in Syria.

Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 67
1050 Brussels

With William Kentridge

18/09/2026 – 07/03/2027

William Kentridge began his artistic career at the height of the political struggle against the apartheid regime in his native South Africa. His work bears witness to a profound commitment – at once social, political and poetic – that continues to shape his artistic practice to this day.

Kentridge’s artistic output ranges from drawings, animated films and sculptures to prints, installations and videos. These works often emerge while he is directing a theatre or opera production, another field to which he devotes his energies. I am not me, the horse is not mine, William Kentridge’s solo exhibition at Bozar, offers a comprehensive overview of his oeuvre from the early 1980s to the present day. Several of his major stage productions receive special attention. The exhibition highlights the performative and collaborative nature of Kentridge’s practice, in which he allows art to evolve into a space for political inquiry, historical reckoning and poetic transformation.

Rue Ravenstein 23
1000 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

Curated by Karen Van Godtsenhoven & Michel Dewilde

30/10/2026 – 14/03/2027

High Tide shows how fashion and art can help us look at the sea with fresh eyes. They invite us to feel, reflect on, and marvel at our relationship with water at a time when this vital connection is under greater pressure than ever before. The exhibition is a sensory journey through fashion and contemporary art, enriched by video, sound, and heritage. A journey that inspires wonder, moves us emotionally, and encourages reflection, dialogue, and a sense of connection. Not only with the beauty and power of the sea, but also with our own place within it. 

High Tide invites visitors to rediscover the sea. Not as a distant horizon, but as a living world of which we ourselves are a part. The exhibition unfolds as a contemporary odyssey through the oceanic imagination. 

Dijver 12
8000 Brugge

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 Philippe Van Wolputte

29/011/2026 – 18/04/2027

In ‘Child’s Play’ (2026), Van Wolputte presents a new series of works in which the artist focuses on an unexpected place in the city: the playground, the illegitimate child of architecture and urban planning. Familiar forms are transformed into alienating designs that balance between dystopia and utopia.

The exhibition takes you on a journey through the Expo Hall, inspired by locations that the artist encountered during his urban walks and that left a deep impression on him. The public puts itself in the shoes of an urban explorer and decides how much perseverance it has to complete the exhibition and discover everything. In doing so, Van Wolputte questions whether there is still room for freedom and self-examination, or are we increasingly allowing ourselves to be led from above?

Warandestraat 43
2300 Turnhout

24/10/2026 – 14/02/2027

Beneath the canopy lies a world of thriving fungi, insects, flowers and other inhabitants of the forest floor. Messy, fragile and indispensable. In the 17th century, the Dutch artist Otto Marseus van Schrieck depicted this hidden world for the first time using a new genre: Sottobosco, the forest-floor still life. It is not the spectacular that takes centre stage, but what usually goes unnoticed.

Sottobosco invites you to take a closer look. At hidden lives, unexpected connections and new ways of working together. For what makes a forest grow rarely sees the full light of day. Often, the greatest strength is hidden in the shadows.

Josef Guislainstraat 43B
9000 Gent

With Edgar Sarin

Curated by Stephane Ibars

02/09/2026 – 17/04/2027

Borrowed from Johann Sebastian Bach, the title Matthäus-Passion refers here to a composition of autonomous voices, in which each presence acts upon the others.

Passion is understood here as a state, one of intensity, where works coexist and test one another. The artist stands amid that which has shaped him, not to produce a synthesis, but to sustain its living tension, beyond homage.

Matthäus-Passion is a place where looking becomes an undeniably physical experience; where art history is no longer a backdrop but an active material; where works do not merely respond to one another ; they persist alongside us.

Rue Borrens 32-34
1050 Brussels

With Juliette Leperlier

13/11/2026 – 11/04/2027

Pâte de verre occupies a distinctive place in Juliette Leperlier’s artistic journey. Fascinated by the processes through which matter is transformed, she did not immediately turn to this demanding technique. Before making it her own, she chose to explore other artistic horizons and experiment with different materials, gradually developing a personal visual language in which matter, light and image play an essential role.

Her work is rooted in an ongoing exploration of light, transparency and texture. Through pâte de verre, Juliette Leperlier creates sensitive, organic works in which matter itself becomes a language. Playing with solid and void, opacity and transparency, she explores both the depth of glass and its relationship with light. Her artistic approach, enriched by the dialogue between sculpture and photography, reveals the many possibilities of a material whose perception she continually questions.

Rue du Cazier 80
6001 Marcinelle

Permanent exhibition

Six centuries of Belgian visual arts in one location, with work by Flemish primitives such as Jan van Eyck, Hans Memling and Gerard David, neo-classicism by Joseph Odevaere and Joseph Ducq, Flemish expressionism, and 20th century modern art by René Magritte, Roger Raveel, Raoul De Keyser

Dijver 12
8000 Brugge

With Daniel Buren

27/09/2026 – 27/06/2027

Daniel Buren was one of the 51 international artists who created a work in situ, integrated in the daily living space of the residents who were willing to open up their house for the artist and subsequently to the public. Buren’s work, Le Décor et son Double, was conceived as a work in two parts. In accordance with the concept of ‘Chambres d’Amis’, Daniel Buren realised his in situ work in the guest room of the private residence of Annick and Anton Herbert. He applied his ‘outil visuel’ on the walls of the guest room.

The artist, however, refused to entirely abandon the space of the museum – as Hoet intended it – and placed a complete and fully identical reconstruction of the guest room within the walls of the public Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent, which was still part of the Museum of Fine Arts at that time. At the end of the exhibition, the Herberts retained the intervention in their guest room and the work currently forms part of the collection of Herbert Foundation. The public part of Le Décor et son Double was reconstructed in 2011 and included in the collection of S.M.A.K.

Coupure Links 627A
9000 Gent

28/11/2026 – 09/01/2028

A truly immense journey invites you on a voyage without a fixed destination – an exploration of the forces that propel people, ideas and artistic practices across geographies and histories, from the early 1900s to the present. More than 350 major works, predominantly from the Centre Pompidou and Kanal, but also from other Belgian public and private collections are gathered within the exhibition.

Inspired by the museum’s location along the Charleroi-Brussels canal – a historical conduit of trade, exchange and migration – A truly immense journey unfolds in three movements. The first examines stories of circulation, tracing how people around the world, including in Belgium, are displaced for political, social or environmental reasons. Another floor situates early 20th-century European Modernism within its colonial entanglements with Africa, Oceania and the Caribbean, and highlights the role of travelling and migrating artists in disseminating new artistic languages. The final section places the visitor in motion, showing how artists across geographies and generations – from Constructivism, De Stijl and Bauhaus to Minimalism and Kinetic art – moved beyond traditional static forms to embrace chance and participation.

Sainctelette Square 21
1000 Brussels

07/11/26 – 03/01/2027

Quand l’architecture s’engage (When architecture engages) explores a recent production (2023–2026) in French-speaking Belgium, where architecture goes beyond the mere production of forms to engage, in its processes as well as in its positions, in the face of contemporary environmental and societal issues.

To make this commitment perceptible, the exhibition focuses on an element that is as simple as it is essential: the window. Both an opening to the city and a threshold of intimacy, it connects interior and exterior, makes visible or protects, invites us to observe as much as to be seen, and organizes interactions.

Avenue Fernand Golenvaux 18
5000 Namur

With Nefeli Papadimouli

20/11/2026 – 09/05/2027

With a background in architecture and visual arts, Nefeli Papadimouli works across media, from participatory actions in public space to sculpture, drawing, costume design, moving image, installation and performance. Inspired by phenomenology, feminism and contemporary political theory, she explores spatial configurations of distance as essential elements in processes of social conflict, negotiation and equilibrium.

Conceived as spaces of encounter, her radically inclusive works manifest a desire to engage the bodies of performers and spectators, humans and non-humans, in gestures and reciprocal movements. Her textile objects both produce and dissolve the boundaries of the body, individual and collective, in a playful and emancipatory shift of perspective.

Leopold Vanderkelenstraat 28
3000 Leuven

01/10/2026 – 12/12/2026

A ceramic installation evoking a rural interior and textiles made from reclaimed cardboard collected in Brussels. Following its annual tradition, the group exhibition ‘Future Generation: The MAD Graduation Show’ celebrates the winners of the MAD Graduation Prize 2026 while showcasing their innovative graduation projects. 

From textile design and interior design to industrial product development and fashion design, a total of 14 winners are honoured at MAD Brussels.

Pl. du Nouveau Marché aux Grains 10
1000 Brussels

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 Dr. Johan De Smet & Dr. Marjan Stercks

10/10/2026 – 10/01/2027

Discover the poetical world of the Impressionist artist Jenny Montigny (1875–1937) from Ghent. Discover her versatile, intimate and luminous body of work, characteristic of this artist’s idyllic world. The exhibition highlights Montigny’s individuality and the artistic quality of her work as an independent painter, pastellist, draughtswoman and etcher.

Her depictions of the local school and the sun-drenched playground are unrivalled. Likewise, her paintings of outdoor life and rural existence along the Lys (Leie), her fascination with interiors and portraits, and her sensitive portrayal of motherhood and childhood reveal her unique and remarkable vision of the world.

Fernand Scribedreef 1
9000 Gent

28/03/2026 – 03/01/2027

When reflecting on ‘sculpture’, many people’s minds initially turn to monumental works and statues. Yet a large number of sculptures are small in scale: compact, portable objects executed in bronze, stone, terracotta, wood, plaster, or other materials. These small sculptures were often intended for the private sphere, namely domestic interiors.

The exhibition Statuettes. Small Sculpture at Home explores the diverse roles such works have played in people’s homes, from 1880 to tomorrow. It draws on Mu.ZEE’s rich collection and is complemented by a number of exciting loans. 

Parijsstraat 2
8400 Oostende

With Diamond Stingily

Diamond Stingily (b. 1990, Chicago; lives and works in New York) explores how identity and lived experience become embedded in the objects and spaces that surround us. Working with familiar materials and fragments of the built environment, she transforms ordinary objects into evocative sculptures, installations, photographs, and texts that reveal the emotional and social histories they carry. Whether found or meticulously constructed, these works invite viewers to reconsider the ways everyday things shape both personal and collective memory.

Through a restrained yet deeply resonant visual language, she uncovers the layers of meaning embedded within ordinary materials, allowing them to speak simultaneously to intimate experience and shared histories.

Museumlaan 14
9831 Deurle

With Charles Paulicevich

03/10/2026 – 24/01/2026

Between 2019 and 2025, Charles Paulicevich travelled extensively through  various sectors of the Belgian working class – factories, quarries, construction sites, warehouses – drawing on the FGTB trade union network to negotiate, one by one, access to these sites and to meet the workers. But his project does not stop at the factory. Weddings, christenings, parties, demonstrations: the same faces, outside the workplace. These 130 images reveal the world of work as it is, without artifice or complacency. Dignified individuals, often invisible, rarely counted, whose imagination nevertheless transcends their circumstances. Taken together, these images constitute a record of our times — and, by implication, sketch out the horizon of a coming together. 

The title NOUS, la réserve is reminiscent of the Marxist theory of this invisible reserve, always there, always on standby. A workforce held in abeyance, preserved by capitalism, ready to be called upon or cast aside as economic tides ebb and flow. But through Charles Paulicevich’s lens, this phantom legion rises up. It is no longer that anonymous silence, that faceless crowd. It becomes a collective ‘We’, a community of faces, bodies and stories that resists being rendered invisible. 

Avenue Paul Pastur 11
6023 Charleroi

15/11/2026 – 14/03/2027

This exhibition brings together a selection of works by Lili Dujourie (1941) from different periods of her remarkable career.

Rather than a traditional retrospective, it offers a journey through an oeuvre in which time, stillness, and waiting are ever-present themes. Sculptures, video, photography, collages, and installations reveal how the body relates to space, architecture, and materiality. The exhibition thus unfolds one of the most coherent oeuvres in Belgian contemporary art.

Gildestraat 2-8
9870 Machelen-aan-de-Leie

With Maggy Dago

24/10/2026 – 05/09/2026

Through ten portraits accompanied by poignant testimonies, Maggy Dago offers these women a space to tell their stories, define themselves and reclaim their image. Their voices reveal life stories marked by strength and vulnerability, wounds and resilience, struggles and hope. Each photograph becomes a fragment of history, each word an affirmation of existence.

The series documents the tangible manifestations of systemic racism and sexism, thereby forming a visual map of resistance. The exhibition breaks the silence and opens a necessary dialogue on equality and solidarity.

Leuvensesteenweg 13
3080 Tervuren

With Tapta & Judd

Rooms of modern and contemporary art

06/10/2026 – 14/03/2027

This edition brings together Tapta and Donald Judd (1928–1994), two artists of the same generation who, on opposite sides of the Atlantic, each contributed to rethinking the relationship to space while working with industrial materials.y

Rue de la Régence 3
1000 Brussels

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 Elke Matthijs & Eline Van Riet

08/11/2026 – 18/12/2026

In this exhibition, Eline Van Riet and Elke Matthijs bring their works together, each from their own artistic practice. Different disciplines meet and enter into a subtle dialogue. Both artists work intuitively and are guided by feeling, reflection and stillness.

Their creations move between the visible and the intangible, touching on themes such as time, change and transience. The works start from a deep love for nature: its fragility, its silence, its ability to continue to grow, despite everything. At the same time, there is unrest simmering. Landscapes change, species disappear, balances shift. What was once taken for granted turns out to be fragile. The works bear traces of that tension, between admiration and concern, between beauty and loss. The works ask questions about our place in the world and the choices we make.

Elisabethlaan 103
3200 Aarschot

With Portia Zvavahera

Curated by Sofia Dati 

31/10/2026 — 28/02/2027

Zvavahera has developed a distinctive artistic language that embodies the visible and invisible force fields born from her own “inner battles.” Her work, which weaves together personal and collective experience, is animated by a syncretic blend of Christian traditions and the spiritual dimensions of Shona culture in Zimbabwe. 

The exhibition in WIELS encompasses early paintings exploring themes akin to the artist’s experience of womanhood, dreamscapes incorporating elements of her surroundings such as leaves and lace, all the way to her most recent venture into ceramics. 

Avenue Van Volxemlaan 354
1190 Brussels

With Raphaela Vogel

Curated by Kevin Gallagher

04/10/2026 – 21/02/2027

De 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