Brussels' Flowercarpet
For this new edition of the Flower Carpet, Japan will once again colour the cobblestones of Brussels’ Grand-Place. Already a successful partner of the event in 2016, they are returning this year with a new artistic fresco that the Flower Carpet teams will create in record time using thousands of multicoloured dahlias. See you from 13 to 16 August on the most beautiful square in the world.
Grand-Place
Brussels
Exhibitions
Brussels' Flowercarpet
The Festival of the New European Bauhaus
“First life, then spaces, then buildings. The other way around never works.”
(Jan Gehl, Danish architect)
Buildings and common spaces should be designed around the people who live in them. That’s why we place communities at the heart of the 2026 Festival of the New European Bauhaus. The Festival creates a place to understand people’s needs and aspirations and showcase projects that successfully reflect them. In doing so, it demonstrates how an inclusive, sustainable and high-quality built environment can foster community, strengthen resilience and boost competitiveness.
Join us for the third edition of the Festival of the New European Bauhaus! For five days, communities, creators and changemakers will come together to celebrate creativity, explore innovative ideas and shape a more inclusive, sustainable and vibrant future.
The biennial Festival showcases the best practices of the New European Bauhaus, the European Commission initiative that brings the clean transition to our built environments and improves everyday life for everyone. It aims to inspire communities to reimagine spaces, design better living environments and drive sustainability and inclusivity.
The 2026 edition of the NEB Festival will focus on Democratic Engagement, showing how citizens can be involved in shaping their communities, and on Affordable Housing, the foundation for strong, inclusive societies.
Art & History Museum (RMAH)
Brussels
Fairs and shows
The Festival of the New European Bauhaus
Mosaik festival
L'Os à Moelle
Schaerbeek
Festival
Mosaik festival
VOLTA Solidarity Festival
Born from Volta’s artist board, the VOLTA SOLIDARITY FESTIVAL !
A festival created by Volta artists, rooted in solidarity, collaboration and the shared desire to build the future of our community together.
VOLTA, Centre for music
Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
Festival
VOLTA Solidarity Festival
Park Poetik
Various locations in Saint-Gilles and Forest
Saint-Gilles
Festival
Park Poetik
Maatwerk Festival
A location beyond anything we imagined…
En plein air — surrounded by nature, with Brussels in the background.
On June 13th, we take you into a Maatwerk experience once only dreamed of. 2 open-air stages… or can you find the others?
A one-day affair where music, architecture and energy collide.
MAATWERK FESTIVAL - where we reconnect with nature.
BILLY B2B BISOUX
BURNR
DC NOISES B2B ARTER
JOKESONYOU
KARISH B2B ANDREASZ
LB AKA LABAT
PANTEROS666
RADIO CARGO B2B CIEL.
RE-BASS
UNREGULAR
Quai Béco/Quai des Péniches/Pont Van Praet/Quai de Heembeek/Park Drie Fonteinen/Vilvoorde Centrum
Brussels
Festival
Maatwerk Festival
Alone, Not even scared (to be scared!)
For 20 years, Alone has captivated millions of readers with a question as simple as it is unsettling: what would children do if left to their own devices in a world without adults?
This summer, the Comic Art Museum in Brussels is celebrating this must-read series with "Alone, not even scared (to be scared!)", an immersive exhibition designed to send shivers down young readers’ spines and get their hearts racing… whilst bringing back memories for older visitors.
Meet the heroes created by Fabien Vehlmann and Bruno Gazzotti, with colours by Usagi, and dive into a world where adventure, friendship and mystery go hand in hand.
Step into the world of Alone… if you dare!
Curator: Thierry Bellefroid
Exhibition design: Élodie Descoubes
In collaboration with Publishers Rue de Sèvres and Dupuis.
Comic Art Museum
Brussels
Exhibitions
Alone, Not even scared (to be scared!)
Bxl Tour
The BXL TOUR is back for its 10th edition!
On Sunday 14 June 2026, join the start at Place des Palais to ride 40 km or 32 km by bike on Brussels roads that will be completely closed to traffic. The route passes through tunnels, the Bois de la Cambre, and the Royal Château de Laeken… before a festive finish under the Atomium.
Cyclists, athletes, or amateurs: everyone is welcome!
The BXL TOUR is an annual event that has become legendary among cycling enthusiasts, as well as for those looking to challenge themselves or simply have fun. And guess what? It’s coming back in 2026 for its 10th edition! This event, well-known to the people of Brussels, closes off the capital’s streets for a morning so participants can give it their all and push their limits!
Between the start village (Place des Palais) and the finish village (Atomium), cyclists pass through Brussels’ most iconic landmarks: the Cinquantenaire, Laeken Cathedral, the Japanese Tower, and the Bois de la Cambre. Plus, the four categories offered by the BXL TOUR make the event accessible to everyone! With a shorter course or and the normal course which is accessible for people with reduced mobility, there’s something for everyone.
- Ride: featuring a 32 km route with a minimum average speed of 16 km/h, this category is designed for enjoying the experience without a competitive goal. The following are only permitted in this category:
E-bikes
Child seats
- Master: A 40-km route with a minimum average speed of 40 km/h. Pushing your limits is the name of the game in this category. This route is open to participants aged 19 and older.
- Cyclo: The same route, but at a more leisurely pace. This category features a 40 km course, with a minimum average speed of 20 km/h.
- Paracycling: This category is designed for people with reduced mobility. It features a 40 km course, open to participants aged 12 and older, with a minimum average speed of 25 km/h.
The end of the race is celebrated at the foot of the Atomium in the finish village, featuring all these activities: Music, food trucks and cold drinks, goodies, association booths... Participants can stretch their legs in a great atmosphere and see their efforts rewarded!
Practical information:
Where? Departure from Place des Palais
Time? First category starts at 9:00 a.m.
How to register? https://www.bxltour.be/en/registrations
Place des Palais
Brussels
Sport
Bxl Tour
Fête de la musique
From Thursday 18 to Sunday 21 June 2026, the Fête de la Musique will once again bring the whole of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation to life for its 42nd edition.
Various locations in the Brussels Capital Region
Brussels
Festival
Fête de la musique
TECTONICS Festival
Tectonics is a trailblazing festival for new and experimental music, launched in 2012 by conductor Ilan Volkov—a true musical omnivore, driven by insatiable curiosity and an eclectic ear.
Since its inception, the festival has become one of the world’s most acclaimed platforms for adventurous listening—celebrating bold sounds, boundary-pushing experiments, and music that dares to explore the unknown.
In June 2026, the Brussels Philharmonic and Ictus bring Tectonics to Brussels for the very first time, transforming every corner of Flagey into a vibrant hub of sonic exploration for two unforgettable days.
Flagey
Ixelles
Festival
TECTONICS Festival
Les Estivales de la Woluwe
Parc de roodebeek
Woluwe-Saint-Lambert
Festival
Les Estivales de la Woluwe
Mutamorphosis
MUTAMORPHOSIS is a transdisciplinary project bringing together performances, concerts, DJ sets, and other artistic forms, dedicated to contemporary expressions of hybridity. This second edition is conceived as an evolving research process exploring the transformations of bodies, identities, and genders in our societies.
MUTAMORPHOSIS is a transdisciplinary project bringing together performances, concerts, DJ sets, and more, dedicated to contemporary forms of hybridity. This second edition is conceived as an evolving research project exploring the transformations of bodies, identities, and gender in our societies.
Presented as part of Various Voices, this new edition showcases queer artists through works that blend performance, music and experimental sound. MUTAMORPHOSIS explores the physical, social, cultural and political shifts that are redefining the ways in which we relate to one another, whilst imagining new forms of dialogue and solidarity. Through a performance that blends personal memory and documentary fiction, Victor Abraham Lacô revisits the imagery associated with bullfighting and Catalan cultural heritage from a queer perspective, where personal narratives become spaces for reappropriation and transformation. Hot Bodies presents a musical and performative project at the crossroads of pop, club music and collective experience. Combining electronic textures, vulnerability and dancefloor energy, his practice views music as a space for the circulation of emotions and desires. With her hybrid sets blending hard house, breakbeat, guaracha and Latin influences, Vera Moro transforms the dancefloor into a space for connection, emancipation and collective celebration. Rooted in stories of circulation, transmission and resilience, MUTAMORPHOSIS views sound and space as active zones of metamorphosis. By making visible the fluid nature of a changing society, the project seeks to create spaces for imagination, reflection and encounter, where hybridity becomes a way of being together.
Victor Abraham Lacô (Performance); Hot Bodies (Musical Performance); Vera Moro (DJ Set)
Vaux Hall, Parc de Bruxelles
Brussels
Festival
Mutamorphosis
Festival Musiq3 | 2026
For this new edition of the Festival Musiq3 Brussels, we have embraced plurality. Music never follows a single path, but opens a multiplicity of landscapes, sometimes unexpected, where eras, cultures, and imaginations intersect. Each concert becomes a crossing, each act of listening becomes an invitation to travel.
A distant line, always shifting, retreating as we move toward it. It is more a promise than a destination. An invitation to look further, to look differently.
For this new edition of the Festival Musiq3 Brussels, we have embraced plurality. Music never follows a single path, but opens a multiplicity of landscapes, sometimes unexpected, where eras, cultures, and imaginations intersect. Each concert becomes a crossing, each act of listening becomes an invitation to travel.
From jazz improvisation to the great works of Mozart, from echoes of the East, carried by Sufi traditions, to the rhythms of Brazil, from Vivaldi to Iranian rhythms: music flows and continually reinvents itself. Debussy enters into dialogue with our present, Bach meets Sofie Rohnstock, and today’s artists trace the contours of the musical world of tomorrow. The festival thus becomes a space where time is no longer linear, but living, vibrant, and open.
At a time when withdrawal and division run through society, affirming the circulation of works, artists, and ideas is far from insignificant. To programme is to choose. And to choose today also means rejecting narrow boundaries, single narratives, and fixed identities. This edition is driven by a conviction: that art can still re-enchant the world by making it tangible once again, by revealing what connects rather than what divides, by reminding us that other paths are possible.
From the sunlit energy of the opening concert celebrating Judy Garland to intimate dialogues between instruments from distant horizons, from engaged storytelling for young ears to the great orchestral frescoes of the closing concert, Flagey and Théâtre Marni become shared spaces where we listen, discover, and marvel together.
Horizons are never given. They are built, dreamed, and shared.
Flagey
Ixelles
Festival
Festival Musiq3 | 2026
Recyclart Holidays
Our end-of-season festival is baaaaack!!! 3 weeks × 3 days featuring: a series of concerts on Thursdays, Fridays with Recycatch-Cabaret or live shows, Saturdays Family or Club, and a joyful mix of activities as the beating heart of Brussels in the summer.
Recyclart
Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
Festival
Recyclart Holidays
Bruxelles fait son cinéma
Various locations in the Brussels Capital Region
Brussels
Festival
Bruxelles fait son cinéma
Various Voices Brussels 2026
Make the most of the LGBTQI+ choir festival Various Voices with the Full Festival ticket! We are offering a limited number of tickets at the Regular price (€240). Once all tickets at this price have been sold, the price will increase to €290. First come, first served!
This ticket gives you access to:
- Opening Ceremony on Wednesday 24 June at Bozar
- Treachery of Images on Thursday 25 June at the Cirque Royal
- Royalties on Friday 26 June at the Cirque Royal
- Let Your Heart Be Heard on Saturday 27 June at the ING Arena
- Closing Ceremony on Sunday 25 June at Bozar
- All 30-minute concerts organised on Thursday afternoon, Friday afternoon and Saturday afternoon
- All rehearsals organised at Bozar (19 April, 10 May and 7 June)
- Festival Village (Cour d'honneur du BIP, Place Royale)**
- All evening events organised at C12 from 11 p.m. on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday**
** Venues and events accessible only to people with a ‘Full Festival’ ticket.
NB: If you are a member of a participating choir, do not purchase your ticket here! Please visit our registration platform.
115 LGBTQI+ koren from 18 landen, 4000 zangers! Maak kennis met hen: https://various-voices.be/nl/koren
Centre for Fine Arts - Bozar
Brussels
Festival
Various Voices Brussels 2026
Festival Couleur Café
From June 26th to 28th, the lush Osseghem Park comes alive once again for Couleur Café. International headliners, emerging talent, dozens of DJs, unique experiences and culinary adventures: three days of pure celebration in the heart of Brussels, fueled by the energy of 70,000 festival-goers. The ultimate way to kick off summer.
Couleur Café is gearing up for its 35th edition. From June 26th to 28th, Osseghem Park will transform into a true cultural crossroads, where established artists and emerging talents come together. For three days, all the richness and diversity of Brussels converges around exceptional concerts, original experiences, culinary journeys from around the globe, and countless surprises. Because Couleur Café is more than just a music festival: it's a celebration that awakens all the senses, an invitation to travel without leaving home, a moment that marks the beginning of summer. More info at www.couleurcafe.be
Featuring: Rema, Ezra Collective, Amaarae, Danny Ocean, Lila Iké, Keblack, Greentea Peng, Thee Sacred Souls, and many more!
Atomiumsquare
Laeken
Festival
Festival Couleur Café
Ommegang 2026
Once more, the annual Ommegang presents a breathtaking panorama of folklore, magic, and entertainment. More than 1,400 performers will help you relive the 1549 procession in honour of Charles V.
The Ommegang is recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Grand-Place
Brussels
Animations
Ommegang 2026
Visit the Royal Palace
From 3 July to 16 August, the Royal Palace in Brussels opens its doors. After a period of extensive renovation work, you can once again discover the administrative residence and main workplace of the King and Queen.
Booking a time slot is required.
Welcome to the Royal Palace of Brussels, where Belgium’s head of state has his principal office. It is here that the King works every day together with his staff. It is also where, either in audiences or at work meetings, he receives numerous people in positions of responsibility from the political, social, economic, cultural and military spheres, as well as leading figures from abroad. This, too, is where the Queen has her office and where she receives her guests.
The Royal Palace of Brussels symbolizes, above all other locations, the role of the monarchy in Belgium. Important events in the life of the nation take place here. For example, at the end of January each year, the King delivers a speech to the nation’s various authorities in the Throne Room, the largest of the Palace’s rooms. Built on the site where the Palace of the Dukes of Brabant and Burgundy once stood, the Royal Palace of Brussels is the result of successive architectural initiatives. A great many of the artworks and furnishings from the Royal Collection are to be found in its rooms and salons.
Palais Royal
Brussels
Various
Visit the Royal Palace
Brosella Festival 2026
Brosella Festival is an iconic open-air festival taking place from July 3 to 5 in the open-air theatre of the Ossegempark in Brussels. The festival presents a diverse programme of jazz and urban etno, bringing together national and international artists in a unique green setting near the Atomium.
Brosella Festival returns from July 3 to 5 to the open-air theatre of the Ossegempark in Brussels, near the Atomium, with a bold and adventurous line-up. Over three days, the festival presents around twenty artists across jazz and urban etno music rooted in tradition yet firmly looking ahead.
The programme features international artists such as Dhafer Youssef, Nneka, Cheikh Lô, Amaro Freitas and Joel Ross, alongside projects like BXL x LDN Interplay III, Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek and Adrian Younge.
Each day has its own focus: Friday opens with a special evening dedicated to Dhafer Youssef, Saturday highlights the vibrant and danceable urban etno scene, and Sunday is fully devoted to jazz, from intimate acoustic sets to boundary-pushing performances.
With family concerts and a “pay-what-you-can” ticketing system, Brosella remains committed to accessibility, offering a unique and welcoming festival experience in a beautiful green setting.
03.07 : Brosella Presents: Dhafer Youssef
04.07 : Urban Etno:
Nneka · Cheikh Lô · Folk Bitch Trio · Bamako Express · Jaune Toujours · Elina Duni & Rob Luft quartet · Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek
05.07 : Jazz:
Joel Ross · Adrian Younge · BXL x LDN Interplay III · Re#encounter · MiXMONK Supreme · Greg Foat Trio · Amaro Freitas
Théâtre de Verdure – Parc d’Osseghem
Laeken
Festival
Brosella Festival 2026
Bruxellons!
Festival Bruxellons! Au Château du Karreveld
Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
Festival
Bruxellons!
Cameristica Festival 2026
Cameristica Festival is an international chamber music festival based in Brussels, dedicated to artistic excellence, dialogue between generations, and meaningful musical encounters.
The festival brings together renowned professional musicians and outstanding young talents in a vibrant program of high-level chamber music concerts, fostering an atmosphere of closeness, listening, and shared artistic vision. Cameristica places chamber music at the center of its mission, valuing it as a space of deep communication, collective intelligence, and human connection.
Cameristica Festival is an international chamber music festival based in Brussels..
The festival brings together renowned professional musicians and outstanding young talents in a vibrant program of high-level chamber music concerts, fostering an atmosphere of closeness, listening, and shared artistic vision. Cameristica places chamber music at the center of its mission.
Various places in Brussels
Brussels
Festival
Cameristica Festival 2026
Festival Afrodisiac
Bois de la Cambre : Carrefour des Attelages
Brussels
Festival
Festival Afrodisiac
Detours Festival
Mont des Arts
Brussels
Festival
Detours Festival
Festival Classissimo 2026
Théâtre Royal du Parc
Brussels
Festival
Festival Classissimo 2026
