2026(e)ko azaroaren 9(a)
KANAL - Centre Pompidou opens in the old Citroën garage on the 28th, free for its first weekend. Before that, the Fine Arts museums show two panels of Steinberg's collage for the 1958 World's Fair, the fair that left Brussels the Atomium. Kentridge fills Bozar, and the Comics Center's Alone closes on the 15th. Seven picks.
KANAL - Centre PompidouOpens 28 November
Mondrian's Composition en rouge, bleu et blanc II leads a hundred years of the Centre Pompidou's collection, hung in a former Citroën garage beside the canal. It is the Pompidou's own collection, minus the train to Paris.
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (Old Masters Museum and Modern Museum)Until 9 May 2027
Two panels of Saul Steinberg's 70-metre collage for the American pavilion at the 1958 World's Fair: The Road and Farmers. The New Yorker cartoonist at mural scale, shown in the city the work was made for.
BOZAR - Centre for Fine Arts Brussels (Palais des Beaux-Arts)Until 7 March 2027
Charcoal drawings erased and redrawn frame by frame, the method behind William Kentridge's animated films, set beside four decades of sculpture, prints, installations and stage productions.
WIELS Contemporary Art CentreUntil 7 March 2027
Portia Zvavahera paints from her dreams: large canvases and prints on womanhood, grief and care by the Harare-based artist, in the rooms of a 1931 brewery in Forest.
Boghossian Foundation - Villa EmpainUntil 19 March 2027
More than thirty works by Léon Spilliaert, the Ostend painter of empty sea walls and night shores, anchor nearly a hundred Belgian works across 130 years. They hang in the rooms of an Art Deco villa.
Art & History MuseumUntil 18 April 2027
Nearly 250 prints, sculptures and drawings from Nunavut and Nunavik in Canada's Arctic, spanning about 70 years. The subjects run from shamanism to climate change, told by the people living through it.
Belgian Comic Strip CenterCloses 15 November
Fabien Vehlmann and Bruno Gazzotti's Alone, the series about children who wake to find every adult in town gone, turned into an immersive exhibition for its 20th anniversary. Bring the friend who grew up reading it.
BOZAR - Centre for Fine Arts Brussels (Palais des Beaux-Arts)
First retrospective of the Brussels architecture office Central, with completed and ongoing projects seen by four photographers.
Art & History Museum
Two Mosan enamel plaques from about 1170, found in Hungary, shown in the Treasure Room beside Stavelot and Maastricht works.
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (Old Masters Museum and Modern Museum)
Sketches, unfinished paintings and archives from the donation of Brusselmans's heirs show how the Belgian modernist worked, in the Spilliaert Room.
Design Museum Brussels
Over thirty years of Pierre Lallemand's objects and furniture, shown through drawings, models, prototypes and experimental pieces.
Design Museum Brussels
Research, material samples and prototypes from five duos of Belgian designers and craftspeople, produced by Wallonie Design.
Belgian Comic Strip Center
Immersive show on the Alone series by Fabien Vehlmann and Bruno Gazzotti, which turns 20, with colours by Usagi.
BOZAR - Centre for Fine Arts Brussels (Palais des Beaux-Arts)
A 15-minute VR journey turning Iraq Photo Archive photographs and oral testimonies into a virtual space. Ages 12 and up.
WIELS Contemporary Art Centre
First major gathering of Ali Cherri's work: film, sculpture, watercolour and installation on how state, army and museum write history. Includes the new film The Sentinel.
Museum of the City of Brussels (Maison du Roi)
Around thirty works showing everyday life and the history of the Marolles district in the interwar period.
Horta Museum
31 chairs by Horta, Van de Velde, Le Corbusier and Breuer set Art Nouveau against Art Deco, plus La Cambre student seat prototypes.
Boghossian Foundation - Villa Empain
Hrair Sarkissian's installation Stolen Past, on artefacts lost from Raqqa's museum, set against Iconem's immersive images of Palmyra.
Belgian Comic Strip Center
Work by ESA Saint-Luc Master's students, made during a five-month residency at the museum's Maison Marc Sleen.
BOZAR - Centre for Fine Arts Brussels (Palais des Beaux-Arts)
Retrospective of the Belgian painter (1884-1953), about 120 works and his reconstructed 1936 sets for Schoenberg's Erwartung.
BOZAR - Centre for Fine Arts Brussels (Palais des Beaux-Arts)
Edith Dekyndt's work set against rarely seen Balenciaga archives, on how materials hold memory.
Atomium
Romain Tardy's installation in Sphere I3+ shows the invisible material and industrial structures behind everyday technologies.
Design Museum Brussels
A century of Czech and Czechoslovak graphic design, from posters and books to logos and national symbols.
WIELS Contemporary Art Centre
Large dream-based paintings and prints by Zimbabwean artist Portia Zvavahera on womanhood, grief and care. Curated by Sofia Dati.
BOZAR - Centre for Fine Arts Brussels (Palais des Beaux-Arts)
Solo overview of Kentridge's work from the early 1980s to today: drawings, animated films, sculpture, prints, installations and stage productions.
Atomium
Visual System's light and sound installation in Sphere I1 turns the Atomium's architecture into a sensory landscape, marking 20 years since its renovation.
House of European HistoryDoan
Examines Europe's colonial legacy in four sections, with eight personal stories, 195 historical objects and 25 contemporary artworks.
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (Old Masters Museum and Modern Museum)
Belgian sculptor Tapta and American minimalist Donald Judd, both working with industrial materials, face each other in the modern and contemporary rooms.
Boghossian Foundation - Villa Empain
Nearly one hundred works by Belgian artists across 130 years, centred on more than thirty works by Léon Spilliaert.
Art & History Museum
Nearly 250 prints, sculptures and drawings from Nunavut and Nunavik, spanning about 70 years, from shamanism to climate change.
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (Old Masters Museum and Modern Museum)
Two panels of Steinberg's 70-metre collage made for the 1958 Brussels World's Fair, The Road (South and West) and Farmers (Middle West).
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (Old Masters Museum and Modern Museum)
Recent modern and contemporary acquisitions, including Liliane Vertessen, Thomas Houseago, Chéri Samba and Thomas Verstraeten.
Belgian Comic Strip Center
Marks 30 years of manga publisher Kana with original artworks, some never shown outside Japan, for fans and newcomers alike.
AfricaMuseum (Royal Museum for Central Africa)
Installation by sculptor and spoken word artist Dieex Bitegets in the AFROPEA gallery, pairing plaster and bronze sculptures with poetry.
Museum of Natural Sciences (Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences)
Stories of 78 animals and their unusual abilities, from a photosynthesising sea slug to an acrobatic spider monkey.
AfricaMuseum (Royal Museum for Central Africa)
Photographer Maggy Dago presents ten portraits of Afro-European women with personal testimonies on racism and sexism, framed as a femmage.
Boghossian Foundation - Villa EmpainDoan
Outdoor trail in Drohme Park, on the former Uccle-Boitsfort racecourse, with works lent from the Foundation's collection.
Mezu labur bat noizean behin, merezi duen zerbait irekitzen denean.
