Chaise. Stoel. Chair. Defining Design
2021-03-26 - 2021-08-29
For reasons of utility, need, demand, irony or simply through experimentation and the desire to design it, the chair seems to be an essential step in the journey of many designers.
With the ambition to reconcile functionality, comfort and aesthetics, it continues to adapt to the habits of society and to the evolution of different ways of sitting. As an everyday object par excellence, it is designed to fit our adapted to our needs. Through the use of different materials and textures, the design and concept eventually takes shape in the form of a chair, a bench, a lounge chair, an office chair and even in forms such as a rocking chair, ottoman chair or a folding chair.
From Marcel Breuer’s Wassily to Konstantin Grcic’s Myto, through Joe Colombo’s Tube Chair, the chair is the materialization of the cultural, technical and social background of the era it is designed in.
Created from the collections of the London Design Museum, Design Museum Brussels and Galila’s Collection (Brussels), the exhibition Chaise. Stoel. Chair: Defining Design retraces the design world of the past 100 years through this object – the chair – that is in constant redefinition, reaffirmation and breaking the borders it finds itself in.

Double Bill: Beyt Al Tapes + Bloedneus & de Snuitkever
2021-12-02
This is a Covid Safe Ticket concert! What do you need?﻿Don’t forget your Covid Safe Ticket, proof of identity and facemask to gain access to this concert. Beyt al Tapes is (aside from being a label) the solo project of Niels Latomme, avant-garde-cycl(terror)(tour)ist, tape composer and modernist romantic who (with a healthy dose of 2000’s-DIY-aesthetic) reinterprets old-fashioned musique concrète via spectral detours into tape collages, quadrophonic spatialisations and performances that (sometimes) transcend the silly joke. Key concept in his work is “confusion”. Released tapes on KERM (BE), Chocolate Monk (uk) and Meat Based Leftovers (BE). Latest feat is the tape/CD ‘Une Rose’ on IKUISUUS tapes (FI); a concept album where the concept hides behind 7 compositions that sway between minimalism, brutal chunks of synth and extended vocal techniques. Think: Maryanne Amacher who has read to much Guust Flater. Bloedneus & de Snuitkever is the nom de plume of Brussels soundartist and Aulos-player Lukas De Clerck. The Aulos is an ancient wind instrument consisting of two double-reeded playing pipes. De Clerck performs contemporary compositions in a completely unique way with this age-old instrument. Along with self-released work, there have also been releases via QO2 and on Krut (Kraaks online sublabel) and Beyt Al Tapes.

4th Stream Festival
2021-12-04
Why ‘4th Stream’? If classical music is first stream and jazz second, then, according to composer Gunter Schuller, anything which combines, distorts and extends the two genres is ‘third stream’. At Bozar, however, we’re going even a step further. At 4th Stream promises traces of every musical genre.​​​​​​​

Thylacine
2021-12-09

Double Bill: Lea Bertucci & Elisabeth Klinck
2021-12-15
This is a Covid Safe Ticket concert! What do you need?We are delighted to once again welcome American experimental composer/musician Lea Bertucci to the AB Salon. Earlier this year, we saw the release of the wonderful album ‘A Visible Length Of Light’: Created, or the most part, in 2020 and making use of bass-clarinet, alt-sax, manipulated tape, organ, a wooden Venu flute and field recordings, it became a work of real-time responses and reflections on the instability of the year, distilled in a series of prophetic aural compositions that sparkle with life and hope. In the AB Salon, Lea will play the last concert of her European fall tour. One of the newcomers in the Belgian experimental music scene is violinist/sound-artist Elisabeth Klinck. Aside from her work for the NEMØ ensemble, she is working on an own repertoire and performing pieces by (young) contemporary composers. Her release on the HUIS label, recorded in the modernist Joseph Schellekens house, gives a good picture of the talent and the vision of this very promising artist (see: links).

Saint-Saëns - Requiem + Oratorio de Noël - European Union Choir
2021-12-17
What could be a better way to end this difficult year than by enjoying the creative sounds of Camille Saint-Saëns with the European Union Choir?!
​ In remembrance of his death 100 years ago, we pay tribute to this tremendous composer.
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The European Union Choir, the Orchestra of Brussels and the 5 soloists, conducted by Dirk De Moor, will transcend you with his rendition of the magnificent Requiem which is about both hope and rebirth.
Then this hope and this rebirth will be emphasized in his Oratorio de Noel which will delight us and put us in a festive spirit as the holidays approach.
This not-to-miss concert will take place on Friday, December 17th at 8pm at Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.
Mark your calendars now for this exceptional event.
https://www.bozar.be/nl/kalender/saint-saens-requiem-kerstoratorium
02 507 82 00

Sofiane Pamart
2022-01-09
Gold medalist of the National Conservatory of Lille and reference pianist of French rap, Sofiane Pamart starts his solo career in 2019 after working with many artists (SCH, Koba LaD, Maes, Vald, Scylla, Bon Entendeur, Aloise Sauvage…) . As one of the most streamed classical music artists in the world in 2020, Sofiane Pamart is a fixture on prestigious stages. His work is somewhere between great film music and adventure stories. Dark and poetic, his music embodies an emotional accuracy that allows him to reach a very wide audience

Sofiane Pamart - Extra show
2022-01-10

Chouk Bwa & The Ångströmers
2022-01-13

Bota Kids : Chouk Bwa & The Ångströmers
2022-01-15

Live at Museum : Mathieu Serruys
2022-01-21

Sega Bodega
2022-01-24

D Festival
2022-01-27

Live at Museum : Gavin Vanaelst & Jente Waerzeggers
2022-01-28

Meetsysteem
2022-01-28
Meetsysteem is the mystical pop outfit of Amsterdam based Ricky Cherim. He spent most of his youth in the basement of his parents making music. Through tech house, beat scene and rap, he finally found his voice in the Dutch pop song. His debut album ‘Geen Signaal’ on the Rotterdam-based label Nous’klaer goes down countless musical paths and creates an immersive world of poppy electronica. The record explosively entered the radar of international music media and brought him and his oddball band to an impressive handful of first gigs; Motel Mozaïque, Lowlands, FiftyFiftyLab, Amsterdam Dance Event & Wildeburg among others. Fresh out of isolation for a globally known reason; ‘Sinaasappels’ is the first taste of his upcoming album on Nous’klaer Audio; Cr:GO (forthcoming in the fall of 2020).

Super Besse
2022-02-02

Elder Island
2022-02-03

Live at Museum : Jente Waerzeggers
2022-02-04

100 gecs
2022-02-05

Magenta
2022-02-17

Lust For Youth
2022-03-16

Mezerg
2022-04-02

Black Marble
2022-04-02

Toots Thielemans 100th Anniversary Official Concert
2022-04-29
The 29th of April 2022 will mark the centenary of the birth of Toots Thielemans. Musicians of international renown will be paying homage to this Brussels born ket who became a worldwide jazz legend and who we lost in 2016.

Colin Stetson
2022-05-05
Saxophonist Colin Stetson is a master of circular breathing. The way he plays the tenor sax is immediately reminiscent of (free jazz) masters such as Evan Parker, Peter Brötzmann and Anthony Braxton. His resume is downright impressive: he has already played with or can be heard on records by Feist, Bon Iver, Tom Waits, TV On The Radio, David Byrne, LCD Soundsystem and The National. Stetson is also a member of the live band of Arcade Fire and Bon Iver. His first AB appearance dates back to 2011; in 2022, he will be making his fifth.

ascendant vierge - Les Nuits 2022
2022-05-13

Test Event
2023-11-25 - 2023-11-30 | Comès. Of Shadow and Silence, Place des Palais, 1000, Belgium

Inauguration Of The Pleasure Dome + Fireworks + Scorpio Rising
2023-12-06 | Inauguration Of The Pleasure Dome + Fireworks + Scorpio Rising, rue Baron Horta, 1000, Belgium

Dop Massacre aka DJ Saucisse
2023-12-07

Brussels Queer Graphics | Through the eyes of Joelle Sambi
2023-12-07 | Brussels Queer Graphics | Through the eyes of Joelle Sambi, Place de Belgique, 1020, Belgium
As part of the Through the eyes of program, external personalities offer their personal views on the exhibitions of the Design Museum Brussels. A unique customized visit where the choice of theme and approach is left to the speakers. Be inspired and guided by exceptional people who will help you see the exhibitions through a different lens.
The museum invites you to discover the exhibition Brussels Queer Graphics through the eyes of Joelle Sambi.
Joelle Sambi, born on a linguistic border between Brussels and Kinshasa, speaks out, manifests and produces a wide range of writings: short stories, novels, slams, poems, documentaries, radio programmes and militant sites… Through these traces, she explores a maze mixing struggles, desires and necessities.
A nomadic soul, she lifts and removes layers from the boxes of normative identity, sanding text, oiling images, soaping the stage. From post-colonial soil to lands of origin, she uses her voice as a migrant, lesbian, Afro-feminist or permanent exile writes not to live, but to abuse, to the point of hearing herself live. Anger, Fusion(s) and Creations.
Reservation : https://www.eventbrite.be/e/billets-through-the-eyes-of-joelle-sambi-748305039517
