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Light as Language at The Atomium

Light as Language at The Atomium

There is a particular clarity to the Atomium this year. Not nostalgia. Not spectacle. A sharpened presence. Twenty years after its reopening in 2006, the building marks its renovation not with a retrospective, but with activation. The anniversary programming makes...
KANAL: Before the Opening

KANAL: Before the Opening

In November 2026, the former Citroën garage on the Brussels canal will open as a museum. Not a symbol, not a landmark, but a sequence of public spaces designed to be used. KANAL Pompidou opens with ten inaugural exhibitions alongside...
Paradise City Begins With Names

Paradise City Begins With Names

Paradise City does not arrive all at once. It starts with a list. Twenty six names released early, read slowly, saved, shared, discussed. The festival takes shape before summer through recognition. You know some immediately. Others take time. Together, they...
Objects With Narratives: Where the Hand Thinks

Objects With Narratives: Where the Hand Thinks

In Brussels, at Objects With Narratives, the question is not what contemporary culture looks like, but how it is shaped. The gallery’s new exhibition unfolds as a quiet proposition. Meaning today may still come from slowness, from touch, from memory,...
Elene Shatberashvili at La Verrière

Elene Shatberashvili at La Verrière

Elene Shatberashvili does not paint scenes. She builds situations. At La Verrière, her exhibition Quatre gathers paintings, furniture and companion works into a space that feels closer to a studio than a white cube — a place where looking is...
BRAFA 2026: Living Inside the Long Now

BRAFA 2026: Living Inside the Long Now

Contemporary culture no longer advances in straight lines. It circles, returns, overlaps. We live inside what feels like a long now, a moment where centuries coexist in the same room, the same city, the same frame of mind. The Renaissance...
After the Future: The Atomium at Night

After the Future: The Atomium at Night

Some monuments are born as promises. The Atomium was one of them, a mid century dream cast in steel and scaled to the size of a nation that believed progress could be elegant, rational, and shared. Twenty years after its...