Art Brussels

With Barbara Kruger, Antoni Muntadas, Cory Arcangel, Jimmy Baker, Michael Bell-Smith, Bob Bicknell-knight, Jacob Ciocci, Alex Galloway, Ben Grosser and many more.

Curated by Bob Bicknell-Knight

23/04/2026 – 03/05/2026

The exhibition reflects on the various anxieties and worries that collectively surround us on a daily basis, with works offering potential – or pessimistic –  solutions. The exhibition focuses on a range of themes, from the extremes of digital worlds and the distortions of online temporality to questions surrounding authorship, control and what might be responsible for this escalating sense of global unease.

With Myrthe van der Mark

Hosted by Michel François

24/04/26 – 05/06/26

What’s that?
A videotape.
I found it outside on the steps.
Who’s it from?
I don’t know.
There isn’t anything on the envelope.
Does it say anything on the tape?
No. Nothing.
Well, let’s see what’s on it.
Come on.
Must be from a real-estate agent.
Maybe.

With Louis Chopinx, Zuzanna Ozga, Elliott Schott, Magdalena Galus, Leo Marybrasse, Justine Salamin

Curated by Florence Laprat & Leo Marybrasse

23/04/26 – 26/04/26 

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With Babeth Rambault

24/04/26 – 26/04/26

Snowmelt.
Rana, the little frog who fell asleep, full of urea, in the Alaskan forest at the start of winter, wakes up, groggy, in a cellar at 63 Hops Street in Brussels, Belgium, Europe.

In the building at number 63, there are bricks, and, amongst other things, urine aplenty. There’s also a biologist. Her name is Karine and she lives on the third floor.

Three elements of a bacteriological riddle.
In addition to all that, there’s a lot of time flowing very, very slowly over a large safe.
A large safe that holds back a joke.

With Marta Krześlak

Curated by Ivana Momčilović & Martin van der Belen

24/04/26 – 26/04/26 

gaze is a site-specific exhibition by Polish artist Marta Krześlak, presented in an unconventional setting: an entire floor of a preserved modernist office building from the 1960s in Anderlecht, Brussels. Conceived in close dialogue with the architecture of the building, the project unfolds through a series of kinetic installations that respond to its spatial rhythm and atmosphere.

The exhibition points to the necessity of closely observing processes, drawing attention to micro-movements that gain significance over time, and engaging with the eye’s ability to perceive layers and planes of vision. The act of viewing the exhibition—with its shifting attention, noticing and overlooking movements and objects—becomes a metaphor for positioning oneself within the universe and its forces.

gaze is realized with the support of the Orangeries de Bierbais and the Polish Institute Brussels.

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With Set&Chloé, John Lippens

Curated by John Lippens

23/04/2026 – 26/04/2026

Has artistic research become essential? What are its specific characteristics? What are its different modes? What does it imply in terms of scenography? These are some of the questions that will be addressed in a collective exhibition of two different artistic research projects and a conference on this theme.

The duo Set&Chloé has been studying the concept of quasars for several years and will soon embark on a trip to Indonesia in search of new scientific evidence of the presence of these mysterious waves.

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With Daniel Boccato, Walker Evans, Myranda Gillies, Adrianna Glaviano, Micah Hesse, Shelby Jackson, Quincy Langford, Alexander Page, Marrow, Alicia Mersy, Jonathan Monk, Loup Sarion, Charlotte vander Borght.

Opening on the 24 April 2026

Charlotte vander Borght and Loup Sarion are Lips, a coming together of two sculptors to make small, everyday objects. In 2024, Lips manifested as a fully functioning and much-visited bar, hosted within the walls of Galeria Mascota in Mexico City. The Lips Bar became a space to gather, drink, and encounter art, and one another, differently. Now, in April 2026, at the invitation of EDEN ISLAND, a new iteration of the Lips Bar will emerge, this time in Brussels. On the top floor of a temporarily vacant hôtel particulier in the Sablon, behind one of a kaleidoscope of doors, Lips again collapses fiction onto function. Conceived in the atmosphere of a warm, spring sunset and the yellow hues of tobacco-stained dive bars, this version features amber-toned glassware hand-blown in Mexico, leather stools crafted from goat skins, handmade coat-hooks, and ochre-plastered walls as its backdrop.

Led by two driving themes, ivresse and trompe-l’œil that meet under the sign of doubling, or double vision, vander Borght and Sarion have invited mostly New York-based artists, both living and dead. Their works, and their spirits, are brought into resonance with the intoxicating and sensual atmosphere of the Lips Bar.

With this project, EDEN ISLAND continues its commitment to opening up intimate contexts for interacting with narratives, ideas, artworks, and artists. Whether facilitating dedicated solo exhibitions or orchestrating group exhibitions in unconventional settings, EDEN ISLAND coalesces hospitality, storytelling, and a thoughtful, integrated approach to display across each new endeavour.

With Damien Deroubaix (main artist), Xavier Antin, Ignasi Aballi, Maarten Vanden Eynde, Vivien Roubaud, Tom Callemin, Nicolas Lamas, Louise Sartor, Caroline Van den Eynden

Curated by Tom Jonckers

24/04/26 – 26/04/26

Vernissage 02/04/2026

03/04/26 – 31/05/26

Through a journey combining art, research, and interactive devices, the exhibition offers a critical and sensitive exploration of self-representation, from the tradition of self-portraiture to contemporary digital practices. It questions the artistic, social, political, economic, and psychological dimensions of self-image: aesthetic (re)interpretation, militant uses, affirmation of identities, commercialization of image, narcissism, and the excesses of the selfie.

With Muriel Toulemonde

Curated by Mathieu Jacques de Dixmude

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With Sarkis

23/04/26 – 26/04/26

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With Kim Farkas, Agata Ingarden, Minne Kersten, Vibeke Mascini, Mónica Mays, Chantal van Rijt

Curated by Koi Persyn

MOThS is a group exhibition curated by Koi Persyn in collaboration with Komplot, presenting the artistic practices of Kim Farkas (1988, FR), Agata Ingarden (1994, PL), Minne Kersten (1993, NL), Vibeke Mascini (1989, NL), Mónica Mays (1990, ES), and Chantal van Rijt (1984, NL). Drawing on the French mots and The Death of the Moth – two eponymous essays by Virginia Woolf and Annie Dillard – the exhibition explores the moth as a literary metaphor for both transience and transformation, embodied in the tension between life and death. The moth becomes a symbol of ecstatic self-sacrifice, reflecting human resilience and artistic creation. Through themes of mourning and desire, the artists ‘illuminate’ the metamorphosis within the cycle from caterpillar to moth. The Chapel of Boondael thus becomes a giant cocoon in which these emerging voices take shape, unfolding further through a public programme before ultimately taking flight.

MOThS is realised with the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Polish Institute Brussels.

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With Natalija Gucheva & Julia Tröscher

Curated by Camille Van Meenen

23/04/2026 – 26/04/2026

Komplot Brussels is proud to present rippling through, a duo exhibition with Ghent-based artist Natalija Gucheva and Antwerp-based artist Julia Tröscher. rippling through seeks the porous boundaries between our inner and outer ontology, approaching modes of imaging and imagining as active tools for accessing deeper layers of our emotional landscape. Through their video and installation practices, Gucheva and Tröscher engage in a meditative methodology, bringing about a potentially healing process by tapping into suppressed emotions and memories. Taking the intimate and the personal as a starting point, the exhibition simultaneously questions how internal messages resonate within a wider collective consciousness.

Fueling the thinking-feeling process for this exhibition is the notion of autotheory, which explores the entanglement of subjectivity and criticality. Developing new works both together and in parallel, Gucheva and Tröscher experiment with autotheory in their own distinct yet interconnected ways.

Presenting an immersive installation with video and sensory elements at its core, the artists create a space for rippling through that invites the audience to enter into their emotional realms and experience relationality as something felt rather than explained. How can the personal and universal come together? What can sensibility reveal that language alone cannot?

With David Llosa Juan Agustin, Luna-Isola Bersanetti, Zoé Lemoine, Daphné Tellier, Lucie Thery, Rosamonde Pacteau, Déborah Zeitoun.

Curated by L’ESCAUT

23/04/2026 – 26/04/2026

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With Carole Vanderlinden

Curated by Maud Salembier & Elisabeth Van Caelenberge

23/04/2026 – 26/04/2026

With Werker Collectief, Divided Publishing, Set Margins, A.Pass, Wages for Wages Against

23/04/26 – 26/04/26

What does it mean to produce, circulate, and sustain artistic work today? How can printed matter offer a vessel for ideas about the artist and artistic labour?

NICC introduces DRUKDRUKDRUK, an art book fair that gathers essays, zines and independent publications on the theme of Art and Labour. It questions how printed matter can play a crucial role in exhibiting the working conditions reality and infrastructuresfuture of artists and art workers.

In a scenography by the artist collective Shif—t*; we present publications by Set Margins, Divided publishing, Werker Collectief, Wages for Wages against, A.pass and more.

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With Guðný Rósa Ingimarsdóttir, Gauthier Hubert, Cédric Noël, Mira Sanders

22/04/2026 – 26/04/2026

4 brings together four artists already familiar with one another’s work. The exhibition calls neither for fusion nor for the mere reaffirmation of an existing proximity. Instead, it maintains a certain distance, while making room for a shared space between practices. 4 may then be understood as a minimal measure: that of a shared rhythm. Odradek does not stand as a centre, but as the opening of a passage between singular positions.

What meets here is a form that withdraws even as it is composed, an image displaced by language, a site traversed by narrative, and an experience constructed through montage. The exhibition is less concerned with presenting objects than with activating the intervals between them. The banner gives this measure its clearest form: a minimal sign drawn from the visual codes of consumption. In the context of Art Brussels, the figure echoes the market’s instantly readable promises. Yet the exhibition sets itself against that cadence. Outside Halls 5 and 6, in the city, it takes place in an adjacent site.

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With Francisco Correia and Andrea Kerstens

Curated by Siemen Van Gaubergen & Elena Opt ‘t Eynde

23/04/26 – 26/04/26

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With Léonor Gomez, Marion Guillard, Mélanie Vincent

24/04/2026 – 26/04/2026

Brick, concrete, and wood,
Spotlights, wax, and lights,
Diamond Grotto,
A custom-designed space,
for a luminous exhibition
in a gallery that’s far too dark.

With APIACOAB, Carla Robin, Diptych, Joseph Coëffic

Curated by Concepteur

23/04/26 – 26/04/26

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With Hélène Moreau

24/04/2026 – 25/04/2026

Silice & Capitons is a long-term project by artist Hélène Moreau, exploring the role of reading aloud within a visual arts practice. The project unfolds through multiple entry points, navigating between installation, set design, performance, poetry, and furniture, within a setting that encourages hospitality.

Packaging foam can become a garment, a drawing, or a carpet. A sculpture transforms into an accessory; a hanging element, when held in the hand, becomes a tool for concentration. The text accompanies and nuances the evocative power of these different elements, while following their transformations and shifting in response to the audience.

The residency at SB34 Concorde marks a moment of reflection, situated between two phases of writing work developed on stage around the activatable piece Reading Module, created at Théâtre Le Boson in Ixelles. This project underwent an initial phase of research in Marseille between 2024 and 2025, with the support of Voyons at La Voilerie Phocéenne.

Two reading sessions (FR) will offer the audience an opportunity to pause, to interweave narratives and forms of writing around the capacities for adaptation and experimentation.

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With Banksy, Daan Gielis, Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Metahaven, Anselm Reyle, Thomas Scheibitz, Narcisse Tordoir, Koen van den Broek, Tom Van Puyvelde, Liliane Vertessen, Rik Wouters (in collab with Hof van Busleyden)

25/04/2026 – 26/04/2026

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