Preview of Salon de RendezVous: September 3, 2025 | 7 pm
Opening Night: September 4, 2025 | 5 – 9 pm
On View: September 5 – 7 | 11 – 7 pm
August 13, 2025 (Brussels, Belgium) — 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.
RendezVous 2025 is realized thanks to the kind support of Art Brussels, ARTSVP, Brucity, Commune d'Ixelles, Duvel, Eurostar, Flanders State of the Art, Fondation pour les Arts, Fotorama, Loterie national, The Standard Brussels, Polestar electric cars, visit.Brussels and all participating galleries.
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NOTES TO EDITORS:
Address | Salon de RendezVous
Rue de la Régence 67
1000 Brussels, Belgium
Schedule Overview
Preview of Salon de RendezVous
September 3 | 7 pm
Preview of Salon de RendezVous with Zoe Williams
September 4 | 5 – 9 pm
Collective Opening Night at all participating galleries
Brussels Art Week Days
September 5 (Downtown Brussels) | 11 am – 7 pm
Participating venues open for visits
September 6 (Uptown Brussels) | 11 am – 7 pm
Participating venues open for visits
September 7 (Midtown Brussels) | 11 am – 7 pm
Participating venues open for visits
Participating Galleries:
Almine Rech, Berlin Brussels Art Projects, Bernier/Eliades, Claes Gallery, Christie’s Belgium, Damien & The Love Guru, Dorotheum, Edji Gallery, Esther Verhaeghe – Art Concepts, Frédérick Mouraux Gallery, Galerie Christophe Gaillard Brussels, Galerie Conradi, Galerie Eric Mouchet, Galerie Greta Meert, Galerie La Forest Divonne Bruxelles, Galerie Sept, Gladstone, Grège Gallery, Harlan Levey Projects, Hopstreet Gallery, Irène Laub Gallery, La Patinoire Royale Bach, La Peau De L'ours, Lempertz, Lmno, Martins&Montero, Maruani Mercier, Meessen, Mendes Wood DM, Nathalie Obadia, Nino Mier Gallery, Nosbaum Reding Bruxelles, Pierre Marie Giraud, GQ Gallery, Rodolphe Janssen, Sorry We're Closed., Spazio Nobile, Stems Gallery, Xavier Hufkens, Modesti Pedriolle, Christophe Person.
Participating Museums, Institutions and Private Collections:
Cloud Seven, Fondation Boghossian, Fondation Cab, La Loge, Jewish Museum Belgium, MAD Brussels, Publiek Park, Themerode, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Walter & Nicole Leblanc Foundation, WIELS.
Participating Artist-run Initiatives:
CCINQ, HECTOLITRE, MINERVE, SB34, spasss, SUPERDEALS, The Green Corridor Brussels, The Smoking Room - Chez Michel, Urban Societies, Winona.
About RendezVous – Brussels Art Week:
RendezVous — Brussels Art Week is a yearly recurring event, celebrating the richness and variety of the Brussels contemporary art scene, connecting galleries, institutions, artist-run spaces, and collective artist studios. Each September, after the summer pause, RendezVous demarcates the starting point for all these dynamic art forces to come into play again.
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About the Founders:
Founders Laure Decock and Evelyn Simons have both been operating in the Brussels’ art field and beyond for the past 10 years. Laure has worked for galleries such as Almine Rech Gallery, Albert Baronian and Axel Vervoordt, and served as a consultant with focus on fundraising for WIELS, La Loge and Netwerk Aalst. She was a founding member of Elders Collectief. Evelyn has been active as a curator, both freelance (for Fondazione Prada, Casino Luxembourg, KANAL, FOMU and others) as well as in artistic directional roles at Horst Arts & Music and Fondation CAB. She regularly writes artist statements, exhibition texts and exhibition reviews for national and international magazines.
Their complementary backgrounds combine experiences in working with galleries, private foundations and public institutions; working on strategy, development, partnerships and fundraising; as well as curating and writing on contemporary art. Passionate about the richness and variety of the Brussels’ art scene, they are excited to bundle their expertise, ambitions and network for this celebration of contemporary art in a city they both call home.
Image Credits:
1. Courtesy of RendezVous – Brussels Art Week 2025.
2. ‘The Tip Inn’, 2025, 3D sketches by Biche Jaouen for Zoe Williams, commissioned for Brussels Art Week 2025. Courtesy of the artist and Ciaccia Levi, Paris–Milan.
3. Julien Creuzet, 'Nos diables rouges, nos dérives commotions', solo exhibition at Mendes Wood DM. Courtesy of the artist and Mendes Wood DM.
4-5. Villa Empain, Fondation Boghossian. Photography by Sander Muylaert. Courtesy of RendezVous - Brussels Art Week.