RendezVous proudly inaugurates the first edition of Brussels Art Week from September 4–7, 2025. The citywide initiative brings together galleries, institutions, artist- run spaces and studios in a shared moment of visibility and momentum, both locally and internationally.
Following its soft launch in 2024 and drawing on Brussels’ closely knit cultural community, RendezVous introduces a newly curated itinerary focused on three districts. This format opens up new ways of experiencing Brussels, uncovering the city’s creative bandwidth and hybrid cultural fabric. Anchoring the program is the Salon de RendezVous at Rue de la Régence 67—an immersive installation-bar by artist Zoe Williams that doubles as a performative social space. Kicking off the fall season, RendezVous – Brussels Art Week affirms the city as a site of artistic discovery and dialogue within the international art landscape.
The program of Brussels Art Week’s inaugural edition unfolds over three days, with synchronised openings and events across the city’s main districts: Downtown (Centre Brussels & Molenbeek) on September 5, Uptown (Ixelles) on September 6, and Midtown (Sablon, St. Gilles & Forest) on September 7. The central meeting spot, Salon de RendezVous, serves as your bridge into all of Brussels Art Week’s activities and a daily programme. Conceived by Marseille-based British artist Zoe Williams, the site-specific installation transforms the space into a performative setting. In her multidisciplinary practice—spanning ceramics, moving image, drawing, and performance— she constructs playful and seductive environments that explore power, excess, desire, and consumption. Conceived as a bar with artist cocktails, the installation will serve as a grand stage for a discursive programme featuring panel talks, performances, and listening sessions bringing together the diversity of the local contemporary art scene.
As part of the wider Brussels Art Week program, local galleries present exhibitions that showcase the artistic breadth and global resonance of the city’s art scene. Among the highlights, Xavier Hufkens shows bold new abstract works by Charline von Heyl, while Gladstone features Nicholas Bierk’s emotionally charged figuration. At Almine Rech, Kenny Scharf channels 1980s New York street energy through vivid Pop-Surrealist forms, and Mendes Wood DM presents Julien Creuzet’s poetic installations exploring identity and diaspora. Claes Gallery spotlights Vitshois Mwilambwe Bondo’s deconstructions of colonial imagery, as recently seen in Kings and Queens of Africa at the Louvre Abu Dhabi. Martins&Montero pairs Xerox body-art pioneer Hudinilson Jr. with Charbel-Joseph H. Boutros’s minimalist reflections on absence. Galerie Christophe Gaillard hosts Hélène Delprat’s Belgian solo debut, referencing Magritte’s irreverent période vache, while Nino Mier debuts Gregory Hodge’s illusionistic, layered figuration. At Nathalie Obadia, Johanna Mirabel evokes Caribbean ex-voto traditions, and Harlan Levey Projects presents Amélie Bouvier’s speculative cosmologies in graphite and ink.
Eleven museums, institutions, and private collections complement the programming of Brussels Art Week, revealing how historical context, conceptual rigor, and experimental formats shape their approach to art and culture. At Fondation CAB (Ixelles), Super Conceptual Pop brings together artists including Pierre Bismuth, Stefan Brüggemann, Martin Creed, Elsa Werth, and Léon Wuidar in a playful reimagining of conceptual art through the lens of Pop, irony, and nihilism. At Fondation Boghossian (Villa Empain), Timeless Gazes: From Pharaohs to the Present Day draws on the Fondation Gandur’s collections to trace connections between Egyptian antiquity and contemporary African art, exploring themes of continuity, visibility, and cultural resonance. WIELS concludes its current curatorial cycle with a focus on Magical Realism, engaging surreal atmospheres, liminal states, and dreamlike ambiguity in contemporary practice. At La Loge, Inas Halabi’s solo exhibition The Right of Return presents a 16mm film and sculptural installation investigating Israeli national parks built atop erased Palestinian villages, revealing layers of colonial violence, ecological erasure, and memory embedded in landscape through moving image and sound.
Opening their doors to the public, ten artist-run spaces unveil Brussels’ grassroots art scene and emergent curatorial thinking beyond institutional frameworks. CCINQ hosts GAY SUMMER, a group exhibition bringing together artists like Saïd Abitar, Éric Croes, Irina Favero Longo, and Justin Morin. Through painting, sculpture, performance, and sound, the show explores layered queer identities in a setting that invites sweat, pleasure, and critical play. The Green Corridor opens its doors to present Situated Interventions, a constellation of performative and textual works by former residents, reflecting on 13 seasons of site-responsive practice rooted in local communities. At MINERVE, nestled in a modernist apartment with sweeping city views, 360° presents Germaine Kruip’s first solo exhibition in Belgium. Welcoming London-based artist Corey Bartle-Sanderson, spasss presents asss x Corey Bartle-Sanderson, a sculptural and photographic exploration of domesticity, nesting, and material memory, staged as an open studio and curator-led tour.
Brussels has established itself as a vital hub in Europe’s contemporary art landscape, supported by a dense network of internationally engaged collectors, galleries, institutions, foundations, and artist-run spaces. With RendezVous – Brussels Art Week, these diverse forces converge to unite the city and create a dynamic hub for art and culture.
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