Terms and Conditions of Sale

General Terms and Conditions

The Customer formally acknowledges having read and accepted the general terms and conditions of sale set out below before finalising the purchase of tickets. These conditions also apply to reservations made by telephone or any other means, including in person at the Centre for Fine Arts. The CFA reserves the right to modify these terms and conditions at any time, such modifications shall be effective upon their publication on the website.

This website is managed by the Centre for Fine Arts, a limited company under public law with a social purpose, with registered offices at rue Ravenstein 23, 1000 Brussels, registered in the Brussels register of legal persons under company number 0895.408.978.

The present general terms and conditions apply to any sale of tickets processed by the Centre for Fine Arts (hereinafter "the CFA") or related activities through its website, provided that they are not derogated from by specific contractual provisions agreed between the CFA and the Customer. Consequently, the Customer cannot invoke the application of its own general or special terms and conditions, even if these stipulate that they are the only ones that apply.

The CFA acts:

  • as organiser, partner and co-producer of its own or joint productions.
  • as a service provider for the sale of tickets for its own productions.
  • as a service provider for other event organisers and/or parties booking the hall, and therefore cannot be held responsible for any changes in date, venue, price or cancellation of events resulting from a decision by the organisers and/or parties booking the hall. 

Tickets can be purchased online via the Bozar website, at the ticket office or via the Call Center.

Any order not paid within 10 working days shall be automatically cancelled. 

Tickets may be limited to a maximum amount per person, per credit/debit card and, for certain events, a restriction may apply per household. 

The CFA reserves the right to cancel reserved tickets that exceed this amount, without notice.

Online - e-tickets
For an order made online and for which you either print your e-tickets yourself or save them on your mobile phone, no administrative costs will be charged.

The e-tickets ("print at home") sent when you order online do not have to be printed. You can present the barcode on your smartphone prior to the performance.

Payment can be made by payconiq, bancontact via mastercard or visa.

Call Center
For an order made through the Call Center, an additional €3 transaction fee for administrative costs shall be charged per transaction (the cost of sending your tickets by post and e-mail is included in these administrative costs).

Payment can be made by credit card or by bank transfer.

At the CFA
You can also buy your tickets at the ticket office of the CFA and pay by debit or credit card, or use your culture vouchers or bozargifts if you wish.

Tickets already reserved and paid for for events taking place in the Henry Le Bœuf Hall, Hall M or in the Studio of the Centre for Fine Arts can be collected from the ticket office (BOZAR TICKETS).

Tickets for performances in the other halls can be picked up at the reception desk at the CFA one hour before the event.

In accordance with Article VI.53, 12° of the Code of Economic Law after payment, no right of withdrawal applies.

Your ticket is only valid for the day and performance indicated on it.

The ticket must be presented on request. It shall neither be taken back nor refunded (in particular in the event of loss or theft), nor exchanged, nor resold. Tickets may not be resold or transferred for commercial purposes. In the event of an applicable discount, the CFA reserves the right to request the Customer to show proof of the discount.

To avoid fraud, any loss or other problems relating to tickets must be notified to us by e-mail (tickets@bozar.be) as soon as possible before the event. If your ticket is lost, a new ticket can be issued for a fee of €5 per ticket.

Apart from paper tickets, printed versions of e-tickets or tickets on a smartphone are accepted at the entrance to the hall. If e-tickets are used, access to the event will be granted to the first person presenting the original. Access will therefore be prohibited to anyone presenting photocopies.

Do not purchase any tickets on the street. They may be forgeries. You may be refused entry at any time.

Do not purchase your ticket through second-hand ticket sellers or auction sites. The barcodes on these tickets will be refused, and access will consequently be denied to the ticket holder. 

Program, distribution, venue or schedule changes may occur for reasons beyond our control. Such changes will be announced on our website. In the event of cancellation or change of date and/or venue, we will make every effort to notify you in writing (e-mail and sms), to the extent possible. Such changes shall not entail a refund or exchange. Tickets will only be refunded in the event of cancellation.

Information concerning Hosted Events 

The Bozar website will publish information about the 'Hosted Events' communicated by the External Event Organiser, but we are unable to review this information. 

The CFA declines all responsibility for the accuracy of the information provided.

Up-to-date information regarding the event, in particular on the day of the performance, can be obtained in official communications from the Organiser, the promoter or the artist via its website or from other sources, as well as in the press. 

As is the case for our own productions, we shall make every reasonable effort to notify you of the cancellation or postponement of a 'Hosted Event', without guarantee. 

The CFA cannot be held liable:

  • in the event of cancellation or postponement of a performance
  • for the content of a performance
  • for a change in the cast
  • for any changes to the program
  • for any changes to the times of the performance
  • for any change in the seating arrangements as a result of a change in the seating plan in accordance with the Article.

The ticket holder must comply with the rules and customs of the venue, regardless of the performance/exhibition or other event.

The CFA reserves the right to deny access to the CFA for security reasons.

We reserve the right to cancel or postpone any performance or to prohibit access to the venues if chance events or cases of force majeure oblige us to do so, such as (and without this list being exhaustive) bad weather, strikes, fire, water damage, the illness of a performer, special measures imposed by the public authorities in the context of the fight against terrorism, etc. In such cases, we will propose another date to the extent possible.

Reductions are non-cumulative. Proof of your reduction may be requested at the time of your purchase or visit.

Music reductions

 Reductions do not apply to places in the 1st price category, nor to subscriptions. Current reductions are available via the following link: https://www.bozar.be/en/static-pages/120950-tickets-rates-reductions

Combi expo/ promotional offer

For more information on our combined packages, visit our EXPO pages regularly.

For our group rates and discounts, please see the Group Rates and Rates and Reductions pages.

Subscribers (can exchange performances from their subscription (for an administrative fee of €5 per ticket exchanged)) from 20 August onwards.

You can contact us no later than 10 working days before the performance to be exchanged, at BOZAR TICKETS (tickets@bozar.be).

The doors of the hall will open one hour before the start of the performance. 
This is to allow visitors to find their place in complete safety. 
The doors of the halls will open 30 minutes before the start of the performance. Spectators must be seated before the indicated time. If you arrive after this time, you will in principle no longer be admitted to the hall. The CFA may occasionally decide to let latecomers in during an ovation or an intermission. In such cases, your seat reservation is then no longer valid. As such, if your seats have been taken by other spectators, we are unable to assign them to you, in order to not disrupt the performance. The reservation will also be cancelled if you leave the hall during the performance.

In the event of low attendance figures, the CFA reserves the right to reduce the usable space of the hall, in order to enhance the quality of your experience, the performance and ensure better comfort for the orchestra or company. As the case may be, on the evening of the concert, we will therefore assign you a seat of comparable or higher quality than the one you reserved, upgrading your ticket from the balconies to the parterre.

The CFA reserves the right to close off certain areas in the CFA for private events. In these exceptional circumstances, the CFA undertakes to make every effort to minimize the impact of closing off these private areas.

The CFA shall ensure that the layout of the venue is adapted to meet current safety regulations. You may be assigned a new seat, similar to the one you originally purchased.

Any act of forgery shall be prosecuted.

Smoking is strictly prohibited in the CFA.

It is prohibited to eat or drink inside the performance halls.

Mobile phones must be put on silent mode throughout the performance.

The customer must respect the house rules of the CFA and the regulations for visitors.

For your order
The Customer undertakes to provide accurate, current and complete contact details when ordering tickets. The accuracy of the data is crucial to allow the CFA to notify the Customer of any changes to the program/hall. The CFA reserves the right, where it has reasonable grounds to believe that the information provided is inaccurate, incomplete or out of date, to refuse or cancel the requested transaction. These data shall be handled in accordance with the law in force and our Privacy Policy. Every Customer has the right to have their data corrected or deleted. For more information, see our privacy disclaimer.

To keep you informed
Your contact details allow us to keep you informed of our activities and to contact you in the event of changes to a program. For our paper publications, please inform us of changes to your address, or let us know that you no longer wish to receive them by sending us an email to info@bozar.be. For our electronic publications, please refer to the page of our website dedicated to this purpose if you wish to change your digital data or no longer wish to receive our newsletters. 

Any commercial use of the Bozar name, trademark or logo, and those of its commercial partners, is strictly prohibited and liable to prosecution.

The liability of the CFA is limited to the cover provided by its insurance policies.

These general terms and conditions shall govern the complete contractual relationship between the CFA and the Customer, to the exclusion of the Customer's own general terms and conditions. Any modification, derogation or addition to these general terms and conditions of sale must be agreed in writing. The CFA is entitled to modify at any time, and without prior written authorisation, the content of its general terms and conditions of sale and its merchant sites. Modifications shall apply from the moment they are published on the website, unless otherwise agreed. The relationship between the CFA and the Customer shall be subject exclusively to Belgian law. In the event of a dispute, the Courts of Brussels shall have sole jurisdiction.