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Brussels’ Cinquantenaire Arch lights up in support of Ukraine

Four years to the day after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Cinquantenaire Arch in Brussels was illuminated in the colours of the Ukrainian flag on Tuesday evening. Belgium’s foreign minister Maxime Prévot said of the fateful anniversary: “Four years ago, Russia launched a full-scale invasion...

‘Bellezza e Bruttezza’: Exploring the beauty and the beast myth in Renaissance art

If the ever-resonating myth of Beauty and the Beast originates from antiquity, it was in the Renaissance that these two contradictory ideals were vividly interpreted by artists. Bozar’s flagship exhibition of the season, Bellezza e Bruttezza. The Ideal, the Real and the Caricature in the...
Marie Zolamian - Exhibition Confabulations WIELS Brussels

Between memory and imagination: Marie Zolamian’s ‘Confabulations’ at WIELS Contemporary Art Center

Brussels is home to many layered identities and overlapping histories, which is why Marie Zolamian’s exhibition Confabulations finds a fitting home at WIELS Contemporary Art Center. Showing work from the past two decades of her career, it includes notable projects creating sequences of images for...

Atomium management to take legal action against base-jumpers

The Atomium will file a legal complaint after two men carried out an illegal base jump from the iconic Brussels landmark last week. The parachute jump, which took place at night, has prompted the monument’s management to tighten security and launch a full review of safety procedures. The video was...

Outstanding Renolution grants will finally be paid out

The new Brussels government has greed to allocate €56 million to pay outstanding Renolution premiums to almost 2,700 Brussels households awaiting them this year. The Renolution grants were subsidies promised to Brussels residents who renovated their homes to be more energy-efficient, but the budget...

Anderlecht overtakes Schaerbeek to become Brussels' second-biggest commune

Anderlecht has overtaken Schaerbeek as Brussels’ second most-populated municipality after the City of Brussels, new figures reveal. The change is due to a drop in the number of inhabitants in Schaerbeek over the past 10 years and strong population growth in Anderlecht, Bruzz reports. In no other...

“Expat Brat”: Growing up American in Brussels — A family, a city, and an era of change

In this first of a two-part essay, David Simpson reflects on growing up as an American child in Brussels during the transformative decades of the 1960s and 1970s. Part One explores the rise of the postwar expatriate community, the schools that shaped a generation, and the surprising cultural...
Belgian deminers in Syria and Iraq - UNMAS

Belgium maintains its demining commitment in Iraq and Syria as part of historical military specialisation

Belgium continues its commitment to humanitarian demining in Iraq and Syria with a €1.35m contribution to United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) activities in 2025, says the foreign office. Since 2019, it has invested more than €13m in mine action initiatives in the two Middle Eastern countries...

Photo Exhibition "Two" - Meet the photographer

Submitted by aborrini on Sun, 02/22/2026 - 13:00

Didn't you make it to the vernissage of the photo exhibition "Two"?!? No worries! This is the perfect opportunity to catch up with Andrea, the photographer, to get insights about his exhibition and the "behind the lens" stories!

“Two” is breaking the “One” to give origin to a multiplicity of emotions. The relation between the different parts generated from such division can bring about complementarity or rather contrast.

The photo exhibition is my vision of the concept of “Two”, a journey of visual words written by the light.

Bach’s Matthew Passion

Submitted by yttap on Sun, 02/22/2026 - 12:08

Join us on Wednesday 4 March and learn more from Sandy Burnett about this musical masterpiece - Matthew Passion created by Johann Sebastian Bach.  At the Maison Communale of Woluwe Saint Lambert, 19h30 for complimentary drinks, talk at 20h00.

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