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DECEMBER 2024
caner teker — killjoy
20:30
performance
ticket
caner teker — killjoy
20:30
performance
ticket
Freakmass w/ Playback + Spring Showers
18:00
drag show, closing night
free
JANUARY 2025
Hot Bodies Night w/ Hot Bodies + CLAP! Collectif + BEA
21:00
performance, concert, party, OPENING NIGHT
FEBRUARY 2025
Agata Siniarska null & void
20:30
dance
ticket
Agata Siniarska null & void
20:30
dance
ticket
Paula Almiron The River and The Devil
20:30 premiere
choreography
ticket
Paula Almiron The River and The Devil
20:30
choreography
ticket
MARCH 2025
Cherish Menzo Killed and Extended Darlings: Subtle Whine
20:30 BE premiere
dance
ticket
Cherish Menzo Killed and Extended Darlings: Subtle Whine
20:30
dance
ticket
Leandro Souza Musa Insistente
20:30
dance
ticket
Leandro Souza Musa Insistente
20:30
dance
ticket
APRIL 2025
Discover the 2025 programme at the launch party
18:30
performance, festival
Sana Ghobbeh — These roots never blossomed
20:30 avant-premiere
performance
ticket
Sana Ghobbeh — These roots never blossomed
20:30
performance
ticket
Festival Centre
11:00 - 18:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
Festival Centre
11:00 - 18:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
Festival Centre
11:00 - 18:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
Festival Centre
11:00 - 18:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
Festival Centre
11:00 - 18:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
Festival Centre
11:00 - 18:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
Sara Dziri — Black Hole: The New Cycle
21:30
performance
ticket
Festival Centre
11:00 - 18:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
Festival Centre
11:00 - 18:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
Camilo Mejía Cortés — VAIVÉN
20:30 premiere
dance, coproduction
ticket
Camilo Mejía Cortés — VAIVÉN
20:30
dance, coproduction
ticket
Towards Documentary Choreography encounter #2 : Attending to bodies
14:00
conversations, performance, film
free
Towards Documentary Choreography encounter #2 : Attending to bodies
10:30
conversations, performance, film
free
Festival Centre
11:00 - 18:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
Towards Documentary Choreography encounter #2 : Attending to bodies
10:30
conversations, performance, film
free
Festival Centre
11:00 - 18:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
MAY 2025
Festival Centre
11:00 - 18:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
Festival Centre
11:00 - 18:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
Festival Centre
11:00 - 18:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
Festival Centre
11:00 - 18:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
Festival Centre
14:00 - 20:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
Festival Centre
14:00 - 20:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
Tianzhuo Chen & Siko Setyanto — Moyang 先祖 & Seaman 漁師
20:30 premiere
performance, premiere, KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
ticket
Festival Centre
14:00 - 20:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
Tianzhuo Chen & Siko Setyanto — Moyang 先祖 & Seaman 漁師
20:30 + talk
performance, premiere, KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
ticket
Festival Centre
14:00 - 20:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
Tianzhuo Chen & Siko Setyanto — Moyang 先祖 & Seaman 漁師
18:00
performance, premiere, KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
ticket
Festival Centre
14:00 - 20:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
Tianzhuo Chen & Siko Setyanto — Moyang 先祖 & Seaman 漁師
18:30
performance, premiere, KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
ticket
Tianzhuo Chen & Siko Setyanto — Moyang 先祖 & Seaman 漁師
20:00
performance, premiere, KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
ticket
Festival Centre
14:00 - 20:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
Tianzhuo Chen & Siko Setyanto — Moyang 先祖 & Seaman 漁師
20:30
performance, premiere, KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
ticket
Festival Centre
14:00 - 20:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
Festival Centre
14:00 - 20:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
Festival Centre
14:00 - 20:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
Festival Centre
14:00 - 20:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
Lina Majdalanie & Rabih Mroué — Four Walls and a Roof
20:30
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS, theater
ticket
Festival Centre
14:00 - 20:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
Lina Majdalanie & Rabih Mroué — Four Walls and a Roof
20:30 + talk
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS, theater
ticket
Festival Centre
14:00 - 20:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
Mang Tri Ray Dewantara — Dancing with Marya
18:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS, lecture performance, dance
ticket
Lina Majdalanie & Rabih Mroué — Four Walls and a Roof
19:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS, theater
ticket
Festival Centre
14:00 - 20:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
Mang Tri Ray Dewantara — Dancing with Marya
18:00 + talk
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS, lecture performance, dance
ticket
Lina Majdalanie & Rabih Mroué — Four Walls and a Roof
20:30
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS, theater
ticket
Festival Centre
14:00 - 20:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
Mang Tri Ray Dewantara — Dancing with Marya
18:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS, lecture performance, dance
ticket
Lina Majdalanie & Rabih Mroué — Four Walls and a Roof
19:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS, theater
ticket
Mang Tri Ray Dewantara — Dancing with Marya
20:30
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS, lecture performance, dance
ticket
Festival Centre
14:00 - 20:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
Mang Tri Ray Dewantara — Dancing with Marya
18:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS, lecture performance, dance
ticket
Mang Tri Ray Dewantara — Dancing with Marya
20:30
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS, lecture performance, dance
ticket
Festival Centre
14:00 - 20:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
Festival Centre
14:00 - 20:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
Mila Turajlić — Non-Aligned Newsreels: Fragments from the Debris
21:00 + talk
lecture performance, KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
ticket
Festival Centre
14:00 - 20:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
Mila Turajlić — Non-Aligned Newsreels: Fragments from the Debris
21:00
lecture performance, KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
ticket
Festival Centre
14:00 - 20:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
Mila Turajlić — Non-Aligned Newsreels: Fragments from the Debris
21:00
lecture performance, KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
ticket
Festival Centre
14:00 - 20:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
Mila Turajlić — Non-Aligned Newsreels: Fragments from the Debris
21:00
lecture performance, KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
ticket
Festival Centre
14:00 - 20:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
Mila Turajlić — Non-Aligned Newsreels: Fragments from the Debris
21:00
lecture performance, KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
ticket
Festival Centre
14:00 - 20:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
Festival Centre
14:00 - 20:00
KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS

a programme on listening differently

2025
wailing whispering whining hissing breathing moaning shushing voicing humming ...
12.12.2024
20:30
13.12.2024
20:30

caner teker — killjoy

performance
Mourning through the Moira, where intimate labor meets profound grief.
20.12.2024
18:00
free

Freakmass w/ Playback + Spring Showers

drag show, closing night
Queer Christmas is here for you!

No words anymore…

performance
A Goodbye Love Letter by Elisa Liepsch.
24.01.2025
21:00

Hot Bodies Night w/ Hot Bodies + CLAP! Collectif + BEA

performance, concert, party, OPENING NIGHT
Electro-folk and live porn come together in a swirl of intimacy, vulnerability and energy. Hear ye, hear ye ...
Play
Stop
20.02.2025
20:30
21.02.2025
20:30

Agata Siniarska null & void

dance
In a desolate landscape, ravaged by war, a half-human dancer tries to listen to the voices of the stones, the plants, the animals.
27.02.2025
20:30
premiere
28.02.2025
20:30

Paula Almiron The River and The Devil

choreography
The audience becomes a choir, listening to a drying river.
14.03.2025
20:30
BE premiere
15.03.2025
20:30

Cherish Menzo Killed and Extended Darlings: Subtle Whine

dance
Nuances and mechanics of whining - not the English wail, but the Caribbean gyration of the hips.
19.03.2025
20:30
20.03.2025
20:30

Leandro Souza Musa Insistente

dance
When words are repeated and repeated and repeated until they lose all meaning, can dance still offer a way out?
01.04.2025
18:30

Discover the 2025 programme at the launch party

performance, festival
kunstenfestivaldesarts at beursschouwburg
03.04.2025
20:30
avant-premiere
04.04.2025
20:30

Sana Ghobbeh — These roots never blossomed

performance
An Iranian sugar factory, shaped by Belgian craft, now fading into the quiet shadows of a forgotten history.
9.04–31.05.2025

Festival Centre

KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
Kunstenschouwburgdesarts <3
18.04.2025
21:30

Sara Dziri — Black Hole: The New Cycle

performance
A lone raver’s body in the void, restless.
24.04.2025
20:30
premiere
25.04.2025
20:30

Camilo Mejía Cortés — VAIVÉN

dance, coproduction
This is salsa in fugitivity: Black, migrant, and dissident bodies resisting through memory, rhythm, and desire.
28.04.2025
14:00
29.04.2025
10:30
30.04.2025
10:30
free

Towards Documentary Choreography encounter #2 : Attending to bodies

conversations, performance, film
The body as a critical site of knowledge, memory, and agency to disrupt dominant narratives.

The Cake

KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS, performance
Surprise!
10.05.2025
20:30
premiere
11.05.2025
20:30
+ talk
12.05.2025
18:00
13.05.2025
18:30
13.05.2025
20:00
14.05.2025
20:30
sold out

Tianzhuo Chen & Siko Setyanto — Moyang 先祖 & Seaman 漁師

performance, premiere, KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
Age-old traditions merge with expressive dance improvisation, against an impressive set design. A journey between the real and the spiritual.
18.05.2025
20:30
19.05.2025
20:30
+ talk
20.05.2025
19:00
21.05.2025
20:30
22.05.2025
19:00
sold out

Lina Majdalanie & Rabih Mroué — Four Walls and a Roof

KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS, theater
A historical trial of Bertolt Brecht in America gives rise to this political reflection on censorship, democracy, and exile in Europe today.
20.05.2025
18:00
21.05.2025
18:00
+ talk
22.05.2025
18:00
22.05.2025
20:30
23.05.2025
18:00
23.05.2025
20:30
sold out

Mang Tri Ray Dewantara — Dancing with Marya

KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS, lecture performance, dance
An exploration of traditional Balinese dance in dialogue with colonial archival footage. What is lost when art is captured through a foreign lens?
25.05.2025
21:00
+ talk
26.05.2025
21:00
27.05.2025
21:00
28.05.2025
21:00
29.05.2025
21:00

Mila Turajlić — Non-Aligned Newsreels: Fragments from the Debris

lecture performance, KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS
Forgotten archival footage of an underestimated counter-movement from the Cold War comes to life in this thought-provoking documentary performance.
upcoming — past 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30