KUNSTEN-FESTIVALDESARTS
Open every day from 3 to 25 May from 18:00
Late night specials: on Friday nights the festival centre will open its doors for free performances and special acts.
Architectural intervention by B-architecten
Resto by L'Affaire Culinaire
B-architecten was founded in 1997 by Evert Crols, Dirk Engelen, and Sven Grooten. The practice comprises of a multidisciplinary team of architects and designers who create architectural and urban projects. In addition to this, they also conceive designs for exhibitions and theatre performances. In 2004 B-architecten were contracted to do the renovation of the Beursschouwburg. Now, in 2013, they are taking on the transformation of the building, ensuring its metamorphosis into the beating heart of the Kunstenfestivaldesarts. Several interventions make possible another circulation pattern (inside and out!), and reform the ground floor into a pleasant space for encounters and celebration.
The Kunstenfestivaldesarts takes place in May every year. For a threeweek period, it takes over around twenty theatres and arts centres in Brussels, as well as various other venues in the city, which kindly open their doors to the festival.
The Kunstenfestivaldesarts comprises a selection of artistic work created
by Belgian and international artists: remarkable new works which translate a personal vision of the world today that the artists would like to share with audiences who are prepared to challenge and broaden their perspectives.
The Kunstenfestivaldesarts is a cosmopolitan city festival. We are part of a complex network of communities that makes territorial, linguistic and cultural divides increasingly porous. The city is the environment “par excellence” in which this cosmopolitan society can be seen.
The Kunstenfestivaldesarts takes place in Brussels, the only city in Belgium where the country’s two largest communities live together. Several Flemish- and French-speaking institutions are involved in the project. Fundamentally conceived as a bilingual undertaking, it contributes to encouraging dialogue between the communities living in the city.
The Kunstenfestivaldesarts also runs a series of encounters and workshops alongside its programme that are aimed at putting its artistic project at the heart of the city and the people who live there.
Tickets & Information:
Auguste Ortsstraat 20-28
1000 Brussel
T +32 (0) 70 222 199
F +32 (0) 70 222 209
tickets@kfda.be
