ConcertExhibition

Opening with music, food & drinks

FAÇADE: Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven

02/09/2023

For the second edition of FAÇADE, a series of monumental works in the public space taking over the scaffolding at the site of the future KANAL-Centre Pompidou museum, artist Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven (AMVK) pays homage to the city. Inauguration with Sara Dziri, DDV - Carl Cryplant plays Music for Cars & The Grateful Jazz plays Easy Listening (Rudy Trouvé & band).

Rendez-vous

Nocturne at KANAL

22/04/2021 — 23/04/2021

As part of Brussels Museum Nocturnes, KANAL-Centre Pompidou exceptionally opens its doors by night on April 22nd! KANAL invites you to an evening full of art and surprises through the It Never Ends exhibition. (Re)Discover by night the multidimensional artistic proposal conceived and staged by John M Armleder.

KANAL is one of the 22 museums in Brussels taking part in the event Brussels Museum Nocturnes.

#OrigamiForLife Livestream

Thursday 23rd April

Orange Belgium and KANAL – Centre Pompidou join forces to build THE multidisciplinary art hub of the future

Rendez-vous

Ninon Mazeaud

Beguinage Stories

24/04/2021

25/04/2021

The church of Saint John the Baptist in the Brussels Beguinage, not too far from Place Sainte-Catherine, has been occupied by more than 150 undocumented immigrants ever since January 30th, 2021. In its recent history, it has not been the first time that a group of women, men and children have taken over the church as a battlefield with one common goal: the regularisation of all undocumented immigrants in Belgium.

Claudia Radulescu & Els Vermang

HIT

14/12/2019 — 26/01/2020

HIT, a collaboration between Belgian-Romanian artist Claudia Radulescu and Belgian curator and artist Els Vermang, is a project in which music, visual arts, and avant-garde pop culture effortlessly fuse together. Within the framework of the EUROPALIA CURATOR’S AWARD, the project’s exhibition will take place at KANAL - Centre Pompidou from December 2019 until January 2020.

Nocturne at KANAL

22.04.2021

Doppelgänger

Press release 24.08.2021

At Kanal - Centre Pompidou

BRIGHT

14/02/2019 — 15/02/2019

15/02/2019 — 16/02/2019

16/02/2019 — 17/02/2019

17/02/2019 — 18/02/2019

Bright Brussels is a light festival, a fascinating route through the city made up of a dozen captivating artistic and interactive light installations. Bright Brussels is a free event, open to all, from 18:30 to 23:00 from 14 to 17 February.

This year, an installation by Romain Tardy will be on display in the extraordinary and iconic KANAL – Centre Pompidou at Yser and Yannick Jaquet will be presented by Les Garages Numériques at the Halles Saint Géry.

Exhibition

Doppelgänger

08/09/2021 — 26/09/2021

Doppelgänger is an art stroll that brings together around ten emerging artists, who represent the dynamism and diversity of the Brussels' art scene. This exhibition appears in eight storefronts in a walk that runs from the Bourse/Beurs to Atelier KANAL from KANAL-Centre Pompidou.

Guided tour

Avec : Samuel N'Sengi

PERSPECTI.EF.VE

29/05/2022

The exhibition ‘The Act of Breathing' through the eyes of Samuel N'Sengi

In this subjective guided tour, artists or personalities from the visual arts’ world plays the role of mediator and shares with the public their artistic ‘crush’ and their own vision of the exhibition 'The Act of Breathing' presented in Horst as part of the Living Traces project led by KANAL-Centre Pompidou.

SAMUEL N'SENGI

KANAL, the future museum for modern and contemporary art, has received a planning permit

The construction of the future contemporary and modern art centre can start

NOA/EM2N/SERGISON BATES win the international architecture competititon

ScreeningInstallation

Vernissage

The Models & The Porters

18/01/2024

How do young people view their careers? Is working a dream come true for them or something more of a necessary evil? In The Models, filmmaker Sarah Vanagt looks at the aspirations of the young people of Brussels just before they take the plunge into the job market. The installation, together with her earlier film, The Porters, can be seen at K1.

PerformanceScreening

Paula Almiron and Wouter De Raeve

Swamp Sacrifices

24/02/2024

Since 2021, artists Paula Almiron and Wouter De Raeve have been working in Brussels’ Northern Quarter to investigate the impact of urban planning on local communities. The neighbourhood, like many others in the city, is located in a large swampy area, which was drained to provide space for the growing city. The swamp buried under the asphalt streets of Brussels serves as a starting point of Swamp Sacrifices, a two-day programme of performances, a concert, screenings, and talks.

Rendez-vous

Book launch + Talk

The Lifetime of a Policy — Mathieu Berger

16/05/2019

Book launch of The Lifetime of a Policy — Chronicle of Brussels Neighbourhood Contracts (CIVA, 2019). The book will be presented by its author, Mathieu Berger, followed by a debate on the future of urban policymaking in Brussels with Kristiaan Borret, Isabelle Doucet, Rafaella Houlstan-Hasaerts en Benoit Moritz.

Book presentation

• Mathieu Berger (UCLouvain - CityTools)

Press release: A prefigurative year

5 May 2018 > 10 June 2019

BEM18 - Fuse x C12 • Kanal Centre Pompidou

12/10/2018 — 14/10/2018

In a historic first, two Brussels powerhouses Fuse and C12 unite with Brussels Electronic Marathon to host an underground launch party in a vast area in the midst of the former Citroën garage, Kanal - Centre Pompidou. This space has never before seen an event like this, nor will it see any other before the renovations commence in 2019 during which the building will close for 5 years. Blink and you'll miss it.

Workshop

Eric Van Uytven

SCAR THE CAR

24/09/2020 — 27/09/2020

How do people mourn? How do we remember someone? How do we deal with the loss of something precious? Every culture, every conviction, every person deals with it in different ways, with specific rituals.

The project Scar The Car by Brussels based artist Eric Van Uytven, son and grandson of Brussels car mechanics, was planned to be a weekend-long happening at the gallery Waldburger-Wouters, coinciding with the opening of It Never Ends in KANAL at the end of April. The Covid-19 pandemic decided otherwise.

Talk

The Arab World, Africa and Europe in the Light of the Gaza Tragedy: Is a Common Future Still Possible?

10/04/2024

Which future can we still imagine and construct together? Which role to play for Europeans out of Brussels and for Africans and Arabs out of Tunis and the entire MENA-region. Together with key-thinkers and activists from Tunis and Brussels we will reflect on these complex issues.