On Friday 17 September, Belgian visual artist Karolien Chromiak opened her studio door to find her workspace unusually dark and stuffy. A plastic smell pervaded the still, close, air. The day before a massive banner had been installed on the side of the building where she works, unrolling down four...

A new regulation, in force since yesterday, requires motorists on Belgium’s roads and motorways to pull over as far as possible in the lane during stop-and-go traffic, leaving space for emergency vehicles. The idea is to ensure that all emergency vehicles have enough space to get through slow-...

Brussels university students took to the Grand Place this week for a graduation ceremony they will never forget. The public could see from afar the bright blue robes and the cheery atmosphere as students from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) accepted...

Artist Delphine Boël, after a seven-year legal battle to show she is the daughter of Belgium’s former king, Albert II, has won the right to be called a princess. The Brussels Court of Appeal ruled that Boël, 52, can use her father’s surname. Her bitter battle for acknowledgement began in 2013, when...

KU Leuven’s experiments on monkeys are inhumane, says the Belgian branch of campaign group Animal Rights, which took part in a protest outside the Flemish university on Thursday. “In 2019, the Flemish government lent nearly €2 million’s worth of taxes to KU Leuven to fund new experiments on monkeys...

Many anti-far-right organisations including Stand Up, Agir pour la Paix, Antifascist Action Belgium and Blokbuster, will stage a protest at 14.00 this Saturday (3 October) at Brussels-Central station. The 14 associations supporting the event headlined ‘The extreme-right is criminal’, are angry that...

Brussels’ museum of outsider art, Art & Marges , is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Part of the museum’s 4,000-piece colletion has become a backdrop for the work of 10 invited artists who have created installations, be they sound, visual, literary or culinary, inspired by the displayed works...

The multi-disciplinary Artonov Festival bridges old and new in sublime and surprising ways. The ‘Art’ stands for Art Nouveau and Art Deco, two architectural styles abundant and famed in Belgium’s capital. The ‘nov’ refers to newcomers to the arts, from dance to music, breaking ground in the way...