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The Centre for Fine Arts aims to be a European cultural centre, anchored in the 21st century, with a novel and innovative view of society, a laboratory of ideas attuned to society’s current and future challenges. In the coming decade, Bozar aims to embody change, and contribute to seven major and evolving societal challenges. Sitting atop Coudenberg Hill, monumental and yet discreet, the Brussels Centre for Fine Arts is Belgium’s major cultural venue. In 1913, Queen Elisabeth and King Albert I expressed their desire to build “a temple devoted to Music and the Arts”. Designed by renowned Belgian architect Victor Horta (1861-1947), construction began after the First World War. Upon returning from his stay in the United States, Horta abandoned his flamboyant, industrial Art Nouveau style for the more monumental and geometric language of Art Deco. Inaugurated in 1928, the Centre for Fine Arts is a testimony to this aesthetic revolution. For nearly a century, the centre has hosted the art world’s crème de la crème, and it is where most of Bozar’s cultural and artistic activities are held. FR

Le Palais des Beaux-Arts entend être un centre culturel européen ancré dans le XXIe siècle, un laboratoire d’idées en dialogue avec les enjeux d’aujourd’hui et de demain. Dans la décennie qui s’ouvre, Bozar veut ainsi incarner le changement autour de 7 chantiers sociétaux majeurs. Niché sur la colline du Coudenberg, le Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles est un haut lieu de la culture en Belgique, à la fois monumental et discret. En 1913, la reine Élisabeth et le roi Albert Ier expriment le souhait de voir bâtir « un temple dédié à la Musique et aux Arts plastiques ». Après la Première Guerre mondiale, le projet de construction est lancé et confié au célèbre architecte belge Victor Horta (1861-1947). De retour des États-Unis, Horta fait évoluer son style, d’un Art nouveau très floral et industriel vers un Art déco plus monumental et géométrique. Fruit de cette révolution esthétique, le Palais des Beaux-Arts est ouvert en 1928. Durant près d’un siècle, il accueillera la crème de la crème des artistes du monde entier. Aujourd’hui, il est l’écrin où se déroule l’essentiel des activités culturelles et artistiques de Bozar. NL

Bozar is het culturele project van het Paleis voor Schone Kunsten. Het is opgebouwd rond een dynamisch en veelzijdig programma van concerten en tentoonstellingen dat aansluit op een multidisciplinair aanbod waarin debatten, theater, film, literatuur en andere kunstvormen samensmelten in een denkproces over de samenhang tussen kunst en maatschappij. Het Paleis voor Schone Kunsten van Brussel bevindt zich op de heuvel van de Coudenberg. Het is een belangrijke cultuurtempel in België, die tegelijk monumentaal en discreet oogt. In 1913 drukten koningin Elisabeth en koning Albert I de wens uit om “een tempel, gewijd aan muziek en plastische kunsten” te laten oprichten. Na de Eerste Wereldoorlog startte het bouwproject, dat was toevertrouwd aan de beroemde Belgische architect Victor Horta (1861-1947). Eenmaal terug uit de Verenigde Staten evolueerde Horta’s stijl van een door de natuur en industrie beïnvloede art nouveau naar een meer monumentale en geometrische art deco. Het Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, dat in 1928 werd ingehuldigd, is het resultaat van deze esthetische revolutie. Bijna een eeuw lang waren de beste artiesten uit de hele wereld er te gast. Vandaag is het dé plek waar het gros van de culturele en artistieke activiteiten van Bozar plaatsvinden.

For Jeanine De Bique, Baroque music and Caribbean folk traditions are not separate worlds. They carry shared histories, ...
09/10/2026

For Jeanine De Bique, Baroque music and Caribbean folk traditions are not separate worlds. They carry shared histories, rhythms and memories. Sometimes in ways that only become clear once you hear them side by side.

In a new interview, she reflects on Bach, Trinidad, musical inheritance and the connections that shape her work.

👀 Read the complete interview on Bozar.be.

With four concerts, we are giving our portrait artist every opportunity to meet, exceed and even defy our high expectations.

📆 Next up 18 Nov. 'Apollo’s Fire & Jeanine De Bique. Echoes Across the Atlantic'

€760,000 isn't just a budget line. This is the annual subsidy of the Flemish Government to Bozar that will disappear fro...
09/10/2026

€760,000 isn't just a budget line. This is the annual subsidy of the Flemish Government to Bozar that will disappear from 2027 onwards.

On paper, it's 35 remarkable concerts and 2 major exhibtions. Beyond the numbers, it means artists given a stage. Collaborations made possible. Audiences brought together. This is more than a cost. It makes things possible.

We stand in solidarity with all cultural organisations affected by the announced cuts.

"I remember when I started working here in 2010, I had three names in mind that I hoped to welcome to Bozar one day. Ann...
08/10/2026

"I remember when I started working here in 2010, I had three names in mind that I hoped to welcome to Bozar one day. Anne Carson was one of them.

At the time, we were preparing an exhibition of Cycladic art, and I invited her to write a poem for it. She did — but the exhibition never took place.

More than ten years later, I bumped into Carson at the breakfast buffet of a hotel in Copenhagen. She seemed to have forgotten the Cycladic incident, so I repeated my invitation. She asked me whether we also did dance at Bozar. I said yes, and we ended up making plans for a poetry reading combining dance, music and visual arts. We even assembled a choir of Brussels-based artists to give voice to her text.

In September 2025, Carson read her sonnets on our Writers & Thinkers stage — and, quite by accident, also the poem about the Cycladic art that she had written 15 years earlier.

It was the only time she has read in Belgium, and we still cherish the memory, together with the 1500 people who joined us that evening.

Today, Anne Carson has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Today, that memory feels even more special."

- Tom Van de Voorde, Programmer Writers & Thinkers

Pictures by Fred Debrock. During 'Meet the Writer: Anne Carson. A poetry performance with video, dance and music'. 13 September 2025 at Bozar.

From long shifts in a steel mill in Gary, Indiana, to becoming a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Music: Jerrilynn Pa...
06/10/2026

From long shifts in a steel mill in Gary, Indiana, to becoming a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Music: Jerrilynn Patton, better known as Jlin, has followed an extraordinary path. With blistering polyrhythms and a raw, dark sonic palette, she has established herself as one of the most singular voices in contemporary electronic music.

Read the full article via Bozar.be

See you 9 October for the first meet up with this season's portrait artist, Nkisi - Jlin

“The past clings, especially when you try to run from it.”The days may be getting shorter, but the stories aren’t.⁠Films...
04/10/2026

“The past clings, especially when you try to run from it.”

The days may be getting shorter, but the stories aren’t.
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Films you won't see anywhere else. Find the full programme of 'The 23' via Bozar.be⁠
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🎨 Still from Le maitre de musique by Gérard Corbiau, Quote from New Beginnings, Isabelle Ingold & Vivianne Perelmuter.

More than forty years after the last major retrospective of Jean Brusselmans, some 120 works have come together at Bozar...
02/10/2026

More than forty years after the last major retrospective of Jean Brusselmans, some 120 works have come together at Bozar to reconsider one of Belgium’s most distinctive painters. A major exhibition rooted in our own art history, made possible in large part through Flemish cultural funding.

Funding that is now being withdrawn.

"The scale of the announced budget cuts is forcing us to rethink our future programme. All of this undermines the promotion of local culture and the reputation of the capital and of Belgium as a whole. We stand in solidarity with all the cultural organisations affected." - Christophe Slagmuylder

Exhibitions like Jean Brusselmans. Painter by Nature show what public investment in culture makes possible: bringing Belgian artistic heritage back into view, creating new perspectives on it, and sharing it with new generations.

We stand in solidarity with all cultural organisations affected by these cuts.

The exhibition ‘Jean Brusselmans. Painter by Nature’ will be on view until 31 January.

Find your tickets via Bozar.be 🙂 as it matters all the more today

Partners: Fine Arts Belgium, KBR, MSK Gent, Musea Brugge, Mu.ZEE and Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen

02/10/2026

When all the lights go out, what will be left?

Flanders is cutting €47 million from culture. The cultural heritage sector is being hit hard. Museums, heritage organisations, archives, heritage libraries, national service providers, the organisation for intangible cultural heritage and the sector support centre are all affected. Twenty-five years of cultural heritage policy are being extinguished.

This is no minor detail. Behind those figures are people who preserve, connect and give a voice to what might otherwise be lost. People who create space for encounter, participation and democracy.
And what will remain? Darkness.
For the entire sector, this is a no-go.

Share this post and show that the lights need to stay on.

The creative outburst we hoped this would be 💥Grand Invité William Kentridge has been all over the Palace. Inside. Outsi...
30/09/2026

The creative outburst we hoped this would be 💥
Grand Invité William Kentridge has been all over the Palace. Inside. Outside. On stage. Off Stage. On the first page of your book. And as your first little animation to take home with you.

We just can’t get enough and luckily, it seems like you neither. Book your tickets in advance via Bozar.be

Snapshots of our past few weeks with William Kentridge ❤At Bozar his studio expands onto our exhibition walls .. and eve...
17/09/2026

Snapshots of our past few weeks with William Kentridge ❤

At Bozar his studio expands onto our exhibition walls .. and even our stairs! Draw. Erase. Redraw. Step by step four decades of practice take shape. Trying to make sense of an irrational world one idea at a time.

Because "When the world is irrational, sometimes the absurd makes more sense."

William Kentridge from 18 September '26 until 7 March '27. Book your tickets in advance!

To understand William Kentridge, enter his studio.“I make drawings and sometimes the drawings are filmed and become anim...
14/09/2026

To understand William Kentridge, enter his studio.

“I make drawings and sometimes the drawings are filmed and become animated films. Sometimes there are performers in front of the animated film and they become theatre or opera. So it becomes a drawing in four dimensions.”

On 18 September, enter his world and see where it takes you. Discover the exhibition and our Grand Invité programme on Bozar.be

Portrait of William Kentridge, 2025, Courtesy Kentridge Studio © William Kentridge. Photo : Jabulani Dhlamini

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