Rendezvous Inaugurates The First Edition Of Brussels Art Week | Celebrating The Diversity And Richness Of The City’s Artistic Ecosystem

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

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.