Preview of Salon de RendezVous: September 3, 2025 | 7 pm
Opening Night: September 4, 2025 | 5 – 9 pm
On View: September 5 – 7, 2025 | 11 – 7 pm
June 24, 2025 (Brussels, Belgium) — RendezVous proudly inaugurates the first edition of Brussels Art Week from September 4–7, 2025. The citywide initiative unites galleries, institutions, artist-run spaces, and studios in a shared moment of collective visibility and momentum. Following its soft launch in 2024 and taking its cue from Brussels’ closely knit cultural community, RendezVous proposes a newly curated itinerary across various city districts to reveal the city’s hybridity and creative bandwidth, where major institutions and grassroots initiatives coexist in close proximity. The Salon de RendezVous at Rue de la Régence 67, an immersive installation-bar by artist Zoe Williams, doubles as a performative social space, and the program also includes exclusive studio visits with Brussels-based artists. Kicking off the fall season, RendezVous – Brussels Art Week reaffirms the city as a site of artistic discovery and conversation within the international art landscape.
RendezVous brings together the city’s diverse cultural initiatives and institutions in a shared moment of visibility, both locally and internationally. Taking place over three days, the program invites visitors to explore Brussels’ vibrant artistic landscape through a series of synchronised openings and events across different districts: Downtown (Centre Brussels & Molenbeek) on September 5, Midtown (Sablon, St. Gilles & Forest) on September 6 and Uptown (Ixelles) on September 7. The program features exhibitions in galleries, public and private institutions, as well as artists’ studio visits organised in collaboration with galleries and Level Five, SB34, KultXL, and the WIELS Residency shared studio spaces. Facilitating exclusive access to studios, the program offers a rare glimpse into the places where Brussels-based artists live and work.
At the heart of this edition, Salon de RendezVous at Rue de la Régence 67, conceived as a site-specific installation by Marseille-based British artist Zoe Williams, serves as the central meeting point for the week. The space is a reflection of her multidisciplinary practice, blending installation with photography, sensorial elements, and performance to form playful, sensuous environments that reflect themes of power, excess, desire, and consumption. Conceived as a performative bar serving artist cocktails, the installation becomes the setting for a three-day programme featuring panel talks, performances, and listening sessions with local DJs and producers.
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. From leading venues like WIELS, Bozar, and the soon-to-open KANAL Centre Pompidou to a new generation of experimental platforms, the city offers fertile ground for artistic exchange. With RendezVous – Brussels Art Week, these diverse forces converge to unite the city and create a dynamic hub for the art and culture.
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NOTES TO EDITORS:
Address of 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 (Midtown Brussels) | 11 am – 7 pm
Participating venues open for visits
September 7 (Uptown Brussels) | 11 am – 7 pm
Participating venues open for visits
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. Website | Instagram | https://rendezvousbxl.com/, @rendezvousbxl
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. Websites | https://evelynsimons.com, https://lauredecock.com/
Image Credits:
Courtesy of RendezVous – Brussels Art Week 2025.