Be Nice To Me (Flatten 04) from Open My Glade (Flatten), 2000, video installation by Pipilotti Rist (video still) © Pipilotti Rist / 2025, SABAM Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Luhring Augustine

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Bozar Magazine Feb. → Aug.'26

This Spring, you will spell Bozar more than ever with the B of Beauty. Or in Italian: Bellezza e Bruttezza. Beauty and ugliness have formed an inseparable duo since the Renaissance. Ugliness often lurks within beauty. Not only in the art of Da Vinci, Cranach, Massys & co., but also in the vocal music of Graindelavoix or the fragile sonic landscapes of Fennesz. Without friction, there is no brilliance.

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Literature & Society

Interview with James Bridle

James Bridle seeks practical approaches to art and life which re-orient us towards a fairer, more regenerative world.

Joline Vermeulen

Detail of '5 lines of pink in the air' - Ann Veronica Janssens

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A performance that cherishes time

For the next Staging the Concert, Ann Veronica Janssens will create a movement of colour with HERMESensemble in which you can come and go as you please.

Guillaume De Grieve & Cedric Feys

Frans Floris de Vriendt, Pomona, 1565, Stockholm © Hallwylska Museet/Statens Historiska Museet, Stockholm.

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The Beauty and the Beast

What is beautiful? What is ugly? These questions have preoccupied artists and their audiences for centuries.

Kurt De Boodt

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Inside Ho Tzu Nyen’s Universe

Entering one of Singaporean artist Ho Tzu Nyen’s installations is like entering a condensed version of the world.

Emma Dumartheray

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The future is ancestral

For the next Bozar Monumental, Colombian artist Delcy Morelos presents in Bozar’s iconic Horta Hall a multisensory installation.

Emma Dumartheray & Anamaria Pazmino

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Between Castle and Palace

Valérie Fritz and Goran Stevanovich perform music in an unusual location: a small room opening onto the courtyard of the Petit Château in Brussels.

Lotte Poté