During Arts at Night, the Mont des Arts shifts perspective. This edition, titled Shifting Gazes, invites you into a night where seeing is never neutral. From image to gaze, from archive to desire, three major cultural venues open their doors for an after-hours drift through evolving ways of looking. Explore exhibitions at twilight and enjoy music and sunset views from the city’s rooftops.

What to expect

Access to three cultural venues. With one combo ticket, you can visit three cultural venues on the Mont des Arts, each offering its own programme:

• KBR museum: a curatorial programme blending heritage and contemporary perspectives, connected to KBR’s medieval manuscripts and the temporary museum trail In the Footsteps of Bart Van Loo and the Burgundians.
• Bozar: discover Picture Perfect. Beauty through a Contemporary Lens, alongside Delcy Morelos’ Bozar Monumental in the Horta Hall, offering an immersive experience at the heart of the evening.
• Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (RMFAB): experience the permanent collection through a renewed lens, including the presentation Art x Gender, exploring dialogues between art, identity, and representation.

Outdoor animations and rooftops

The Mont des Arts transforms into a lively cultural landscape. The rooftops of Bozar and KBR offer drinks, music, and a relaxed summer atmosphere overlooking the city. A food truck near the Royal Museum completes the experience.

Program

Bozar — le 23
18:00–22:45 zakkiyyah najeebah dumas-o’neal— To Render the Infinite (short film loop)

To render the infinite (2021, 11’23”) combines archival and personal footage to explore memory, intimacy, and the continuity of Black experience through representations of Black women, grounded in the thought of Lorraine Hansberry. Original score by Ayana Contreras.

KBR — Garden
18:30 — Aisha Orazbayeva
Live music set — 20 min

Kazakh violinist and composer Aisha Orazbayeva works across contemporary music, performance, and sonic experimentation. Together with Peiman Khosravi, she forms Liebestraum Duo, a project combining violin, voice, and electronics.

MRBAB — Forum / Salle Rubens
19:20 — Soa Ratsifandrihana –  “Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna”
Performance I — 15 min

Brussels-based French-Malagasy dancer and choreographer Soa Ratsifandrihana explores diasporic identities through dance, music, and storytelling. Joined by Constant-Amand Bitihuse Shami and Joël Rabesolo, she revisits Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna at the RMFAB forum.

Bozar — Rotonde Bertouille
20:00 — Michelle Tshibola – BLOOD DRINKER
Performance I — 10 min

Self-taught artist, performer, and director Michelle Tshibola develops a punk-informed practice bringing together dance, poetry, and performance. BLOOD DRINKER follows a non-human figure searching for love, identity, and belonging between shadow and light.

MRBAB — Forum / Salle Rubens
20:35 — Soa Ratsifandrihana –  “Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna”
Performance II — 15 min

Brussels-based French-Malagasy dancer and choreographer Soa Ratsifandrihana explores diasporic identities through dance, music, and storytelling. Joined by Constant-Amand Bitihuse Shami and Joël Rabesolo, she revisits Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna at the RMFAB forum.

KBR — Forum / Peristyle
21:00 — Tony Njoku
Live music set — 35 min

British composer and multidisciplinary artist Tony Njoku blends electronic, ambient, and contemporary composition. His work explores emotion, sonic abstraction, and personal storytelling. His album All Our Knives Are Always Sharp brings together several key voices from the British music scene.

Bozar — Exhibition
21:50 — MELANIN
Hybrid music set — 45 min

DJ, composer, and instrumentalist MELANIN draws from soundsystem, rave, and diasporic cultures in sets combining jungle, dub, breakbeat, and field recordings. Her practice connects sound, performance, and research through themes of memory, transmission, and community.

Bozar — Rotonde Bertouille
22:35 — Michelle Tshibola – BLOOD DRINKER
Performance II — 10 min

Curated by ELS.

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