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Antwerp Art is your guide to the contemporary art scene in Antwerp. The next Antwerp Art Weekend is happening from 13-16 May, 2021.

Continuing its position as an avant-garde city, Antwerp harbors a vibrant contemporary art scene, ranging from internationally renowned museums and galleries to project spaces, an artist-in-residence program, two prominent art schools, a Kunsthal and young, upcoming artist initiatives. Conveniently located in the proximity of Brussels, Paris, London, Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Cologne, Antwerp hosts a continuous flow of artists and art lovers, complementing the already, strongly present local scene. Since 2014, Antwerp Art connects and promotes the activities by its members, as well as a brisk pool of upcoming art initiatives and temporary exhibitions, located in Antwerp. Antwerp Art is the joint platform for these exhibition spaces, listing relevant exhibitions and openings for both professionals and a wider audience. Antwerp Art organizes the annual Antwerp Art Weekend, a citywide manifestation for contemporary art in Antwerp, its main goal being the promotion of contemporary art as a valuable and essential part of society. Antwerp Art is a non-profit organization supported by its members and the City of Antwerp. If you'd like to stay up to date on art in Antwerp, subscribe to our newsletter through: antwerpart.be/info/

24/10/2026

Kunsthal Extra City and the Guillaume Bijl Estate present: In Remembrance of the Earldom of Watou, the first posthumous exhibition of Guillaume Bijl (1946–2025). The work was previously shown only once, during Poëziezomer Watou in 2002.

Twenty-four years later, this unique work is being reconstructed for the first time in the former Dominican church of Kunsthal Extra City. The installation brings together a fictional-historical museum, a banquet hall, and The Early Years of the Earldom of Watou, the only theatre piece in Bijl’s oeuvre. As in the original presentation in Watou, a festive procession will also form part of the exhibition opening.

The theatre piece will be performed live twice during the opening today, at 15:00 and 17:00. Each performance lasts approximately 20 minutes.

Would you like to attend? Both performances are free, but advance booking is required .

Can’t make it to the opening? The exhibition runs until December 27 and can be visited on Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays.

Image Guillaume Bijl, De prille jaren van het graafschap Watou (2002), Photo by Diane Betrand

23/10/2026

Making plans for the weekend? Discover all Antwerp Art member venues, from galleries and art spaces to museums and artist-run initiatives:

• AAIMACHINE • Annette De Keyser Gallery • Annie Gentils Gallery • Axel Vervoordt Gallery • Base-Alpha Gallery • CALLEWAERT VANLANGENDONCK GALLERY • C A S S T L • Coppejans Gallery • de boer • De Warande • De Zwarte Panter • DMW Gallery • Eva Steynen Gallery • Follie • FOMU • FRED&FERRY • Galerie Zwart Huis • Gallery FIFTY ONE • Gallery FIFTY ONE TOO • Gallery Sofie Van de Velde • GNYP Gallery • Het Bos • IBASHO • IN-DEPENDANCE by IBASHO • Jacobs’ Booth • Keteleer Gallery • KMSKA • Kunsthal Extra City • L’Édition Populaire • Lichtekooi • LLS Paleis • MASEREEL • M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp • Middelheimmuseum • MoMu – Fashion Museum Antwerp • MORPHO • Newchild • NQ Gallery • OUT OF SIGHT • Pedrami Gallery • Pizza Gallery • PLUS-ONE Projects • Rik Rosseels Gallery • Rik Rosseels Gallery (KAAI) • Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp • Schönfeld Gallery • Sint Lucas Antwerpen • Stieglitz 19 • TACK TICK • TICK TACK • Tim Van Laere Gallery • Tique – art space for books • valerie_traan gallery •

Scroll through the full exhibition calendar on antwerpart.be

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22/10/2026

Opening today : With roots this deep, you would think I would touch something by Mariami Tsotadze.

Born in Georgia and raised in Belgium, Mariami Tsotadze explores the complexities of identity, belonging and the search for one’s roots. Through intimate, veiled portraits, figures turned away from the viewer and intertwined hands, her paintings navigate the space between memory and recognition, between the place one comes from and the place one calls home.

Drawing on motifs of gardens, flowers, trees and braided forms, Tsotadze weaves personal memory with cultural heritage. Her paintings become quiet reflections on what it means to belong, revealing traces of a search that remains unresolved yet deeply felt.

→ Opening today at PLUS-ONE Projects, from 17:00-21:00.

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17/10/2026

Final day to visit El Pulso del Agua by Nils Verkaeren in Antwerp.

Bringing together paintings created during the final three expeditions of Verkaeren’s long-term project in Colombia (2018–2026), the exhibition explores his encounters with the Río Magdalena, Río La Miel and Río Cauca, tracing the connections between water, landscape and lived experience.

→ El Pulso del Agua is on view for one final day: finissage from 13:00–18:00 for a closing drink with the artist and a final opportunity to discover the exhibition.

15/10/2026

The fourth edition of NowBelgiumNow is now open across three locations in Antwerp, bringing together emerging artists and artist collectives from across Belgium.

Curated by Simon Delobel and Stella Lohaus, offers an open space for artistic practices that resist expectations and established conventions. With no medium excluded, the exhibition embraces experimentation and uncensored expression, making room for unexpected ideas and a diversity of perspectives. Rather than seeking consensus or responding to the expectations of an audience, politics or a majority, it invites artists to speak freely and bring their work into dialogue.

NowBelgiumNow is on view until November 8, across three locations in Antwerp:
→ Paleisstraat 140
→ Vlaamsekaai 47
→ Maanstraat 17

Open Thursday–Sunday, 14:00–18:00, and by appointment.

Exhibiton view by Isabelle Arthuis, NowBelgiumNow at Paleisstraat 140.

14/10/2026

Kevin Osepa is now on view Antwerp with an in situ installation bringing together photography, sculpture and installation.

Through photography and film, Osepa explores the intersection of the everyday and the mystical, drawing on Afro-Caribbean rituals, ancestral memory and personal histories. Rooted in his upbringing and the spiritual practices of Brua, his work reflects on identity, masculinity, gender and belonging in a postcolonial world, making tangible the stories and traditions passed down through generations.

↳ On Saturday 17 October, Kevin Osepa will also be part in the panel Ancestral Intelligence: Shifting Worlds (15:00–16:30) , as part of the FTI Festival, exploring Indigenous rituals and memory as technology.

Image: Irene blousa by Kevin Osepa

12/10/2026

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

Flanders is cutting €47 million in funding for 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. In doing so, 25 years of cultural heritage policy are being extinguished.

This is no minor issue. Behind these figures are people who preserve, connect and give a voice to what would otherwise be lost.

And what will be left? Darkness.

For the entire sector, this is unacceptable.

stands in solidarity with our colleagues in the cultural heritage sector, socio-cultural work, our support organisations, and all other organisations and people severely affected by these cuts.

Share this post and help keep the lights on.

10/10/2026

Today, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp opens its doors for the 12th edition of the Antwerp Academy Art Book Fair, bringing together a wide range of art books, artists’ publications and printed matter from the 20th and 21st centuries.

From rare antiquarian finds to contemporary publishing and first editions by emerging artists, the fair is a place to discover new voices, revisit forgotten histories and find that one artist’s book you’ve been looking for.

The fair is divided into three sections: PAST, dedicated to modern antiquarian material; PRESENT, bringing together contemporary publishers; and FUTURE, showcasing publications from Belgian art schools, with a focus on artistic research.

A celebration of print in all its forms, set within the historic halls of the .

The 12th opens today, 10 October, from 10:00 to 18:00.

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09/10/2026

Tonight opens The Illegal Club, a new permanent space for sound and performance located in the former bomb shelter of The Sundial (Léon Stynen, 1955), the building that houses TICK TACK.

The opening features Pressure Chamber, a sound installation by Berlin-based artist (1981, Mainz). Through sculptural sound systems, Nik Nowak explores how amplified sound has been used as a weapon, a tool for propaganda, a form of armour and a cultural catalyst, from the loudspeaker war across the Berlin Wall to Jamaica’s 1970s election sound systems and their global afterlives.

Extending throughout the building, the opening also brings together more than 50 artists living and working in Belgium, each presenting a studio work made off the record: an experiment, an early work or a sidetrack from their usual practice. Turning its attention to the local art scene, the presentation offers a glimpse into the processes, experiments and parallel directions that exist beyond the finished work.

The Illegal Club opens tonight, from 19:00 to 00:00.

Image: Nik Nowak, Simulacra, exhibition view, Simulacra, Beijing, 2023. Photo: Sun Shi / Courtesy of the artist and Simulacra.

07/10/2026

We’re hiring!

Antwerp Art is looking for an 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝑆𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑀𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎 & 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝐶𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 to join our team and bring Antwerp Art Weekend 2027 to life online.

Do you have a passion for contemporary art, a strong eye for visual storytelling, know Instagram inside out? We’d love to hear from you.

Send your cv, a short intro about yourself and at least one example of your work (portfolio, link to an account or a reel) to [email protected] before 23 November.

Find the full job description via the link in our bio.

Antwerp Art welcomes applications from everyone, regardless of background, age, gender, sexual orientation, or disability affecting their ability to work.

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