Centre for Fine Arts | Bozar Brussels

William Kentridge

Meet our first Grand Invité! Every season, we invite an artist to help shape the programme: with an exhibition, but also by working with a new generation of artists. Kentridge is doing this with The Centre for the Less Good Idea.

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Coltrane & Coltrane

John Coltrane would have been 100 years old in 2026; his wife Alice Coltrane 90 in 2027. Bozar celebrates both icons with concerts, films and talks.

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Performances at Bozar: an invitation to participate

The Centre for the Less Good Idea, Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust, Ça marche, Mónica Valenciano,... This season invites participants to engage with the artists’ works!

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Jean Brusselmans, The Harvest, 1934, oil on canvas, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Liège/La Boverie © Ville de Liège

A welcome return to Jean Brusselmans

The exhibition features several dialogues with his contemporaries and marks a renewed encounter with the Centre for Fine Arts, where Brusselmans was a regular visitor.

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Neo Muyanga & Bronwyn Lace (The Centre for the Less Good Idea) © Oliver Killig

Meet The Centre for the Less Good Idea

Situated in Johannesburg (South Africa), it's a space that encourages experimentation and the emergence of new forms through collaborative and interdisciplinary practices.

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Exhibitions

Contemporary Art

Highly Recommended

William Kentridge

I am not me, the horse is not mine

Now →
7 Mar.'27

From 20 €

Films

New release

Highly Recommended

In-I In Motion - Juliette Binoche

Now →
10 Oct.'26

From 8 €

Films

New release

Un Poeta - Simón Mesa Soto

Now →
4 Oct.'26

From 8 €

Films

New release

In the presence of the director

Like a Fortress - Lou Colpé

In the presence of the director on 25 and 27 September

Now →
10 Oct.'26

From 8 €

Films

Literature

Replay

Hamnet - Chloé Zhao

25 → 27
Sept.'26

From 8 €

Concerts

Violin

Contemporary Art

Highly Recommended

Salzburger Marionettentheater & Ensemble Isabelle Faust

L'Histoire du Soldat

27 Sept.'26

From 38 €

Talks & Debates

Literature

Highly Recommended

Meet the Writer: Maggie O’Farrell

28 Sept.'26
- 19:30

Films

New release

Little Trouble Girls - Urška Djukić

30 Sept. →
25 Oct.'26

From 8 €

Talks & Debates

Contemporary Art

Highly Recommended

Meet the Artist: Ai Weiwei

30 Sept.'26
- 20:00

From 14 €

Films

Literature

Contemporary Art

New release

Highly Recommended

Replay

Ai Weiwei's Turandot - Maxim Derevianko

1 → 4
Oct.'26

From 8 €

Highly Recommended

Guided Tours

Highlights tour William Kentridge in Dutch

Guided tour for individuals

Now →
28 Feb.'27

From 20 €

Highly Recommended

Guided Tours

Highlights tour William Kentridge in French

Guided tour for individuals

Now →
28 Feb.'27

From 20 €

Concerts

Global Music

Highly Recommended

Souad Massi

Zagate Tour

3 Oct.'26
- 20:00

From 32 €

Exhibitions

Contemporary Art

Highly Recommended

William Kentridge

I am not me, the horse is not mine

Now →
7 Mar.'27

From 20 €

Films

New release

Highly Recommended

In-I In Motion - Juliette Binoche

Now →
10 Oct.'26

From 8 €

Talks & Debates

Literature

Highly Recommended

Meet the Writer: Maggie O’Farrell

28 Sept.'26
- 19:30

Talks & Debates

Contemporary Art

Highly Recommended

Meet the Artist: Ai Weiwei

30 Sept.'26
- 20:00

From 14 €

Films

Literature

Contemporary Art

New release

Highly Recommended

Replay

Ai Weiwei's Turandot - Maxim Derevianko

1 → 4
Oct.'26

From 8 €

Exhibitions

Modern Art

Highly Recommended

Jean Brusselmans

Painter by Nature

2 Oct.'26 →
31 Jan.'27

From 20 €

Concerts

Early music

Highly Recommended

La Tempête

Monteverdi. Vespro della Beata Vergine

2 Oct.'26
- 20:00

From 30 €

Films

Vocal music

New release

Highly Recommended

Le Maître de musique - Gérard Corbiau

3 → 17
Oct.'26

From 8 €

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© William Kentridge. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2024. Courtesy the artist, Goodman Gallery, Galleria Lia Rumma and Hauser & Wirth

William Kentridge. I am not me, the horse is not mine

William Kentridge began his artistic career at the height of the political struggle against the apartheid regime in South Africa. His work bears witness to a profound commitment – social, political and poetic – that continues to shape his practice today.

Now → 7 Mar.'27

Still Life with Slices of Smoked Sausage, 1936, oil on canvas, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp - Flemish Community © photo: Hugo Maertens

Jean Brusselmans. Painter by Nature

From the early 20th century onwards, Brusselmans developed a distinctive body of work, independent of artistic trends yet firmly rooted in painterly tradition. Some 120 works highlight the remarkable oeuvre of an underappreciated Belgian artist.

2 Oct.'26 → 31 Jan.'27