Latest Events in Brussels-Capital Region(December Updated)

The 2025 Brussels Christmas Markets will be five weeks of festive cheer and fun, from November 28, 2025, to January 4, 2026. Enjoy comfortable journeys on the Eurostar from London, Paris, Amsterdam, and Cologne. The Brussels Winter Spectacular brings cobblestone streets and charming squares to life – a 2-kilometer stretch of snow-covered chalets, bustling bars, and pop-up restaurants. Shop for last-minute Christmas gifts, enjoy panoramic views of the city from the Ferris wheel, or take a leisurely spin on the carousel while the air is filled with the sweet aroma of waffles and mulled wine. The market, spanning the Grand Place, the Bourse, Place Sainte-Catherine, and the Fish Market, is filled with festive cheer.

AGRIBEX, the international trade show for agriculture, livestock breeding, landscaping and green zones AGRIBEX, the international trade show for agriculture, livestock breeding, landscaping and green zones, has grown over the years into a unique event at which farmers, contract employees, representatives from suppliers, government officials, researchers and the general public come together to meet one another. Information Source: Fedagrim VZW | expotobi

Several key directions emerge from this policy, often closely interconnected. The first aims to strengthen the presence of women artists, who remain underrepresented despite having played a pivotal role in shaping contemporary art from its earliest days.

The fifth edition of the festival upholds its tradition and will host two concerts over four consecutive Sundays from November 23 to December 14, 2025, celebrating the depth and diversity of the human voice across time and culture. From 16th-century Franco-Flemish polyphony to Mozart's period instrument performances, from minimalist and poetic evening performances to works by 18th-century and contemporary female composers, the program also includes unconventional duets and new artistic encounters from pop to minimalism, aiming to conduct a profound reflection on identity, memory and the sound of the future.

The first 20 km de Bruxelles was held in Brussels on 8th of June 1980. 4659 runners took part. The Brussels 20km race takes you on a journey through Brussels most beautiful monuments and parks. Discover the new racetrack and prepare yourself for a great journey!

Guillaume Bottazzi has signed more than forty artworks in public spaces. He created the biggest painting in Japan (900 square meters) on all the walls of the Miyanomori International Museum of Art in Sapporo. The artist is also the author of 6 paintings, each one 6m x 6m, at La Défense in Paris, the largest open-air contemporary art space in France. The painting, which can be seen by the public at its location in the European District and which took two and a half months to produce, is already well-known. The monumental artwork, 16 metres by 7 metres, now belongs to the heritage of Brussels-Capital. The painting is one of the first abstract works to be painted in the manner of the Old Masters. The abstract nature of the work and the traditional techniques used to produce it create a feeling of strangeness, a dichotomy. The artist worked alone to produce the work, using fine brushes and oil paints. Successive transparent overlays give depth, diffuse light and softness to the colours. Before starting to paint, the artist installed a supporting structure that enabled him to reproduce as closely as possible the techniques of creation he uses in the workshop. The poetic dimension of this painting will extend throughout Place Jourdan: the colours of the painting will appear on the street furniture in particular, especially the cafe parasols. This project was carried out with the partnership of the European Commission in Belgium and support of the French Embassy. More reading: http://www.guillaume.bottazzi.org

Amélie Bouvier’s work explores how our society observes and interprets the sky, researching astronomical imagery to situate our understanding of space in its cultural and historical context.The cosmos is a dizzying thought, but our species has created languages to make sense of that which surpasses us – religion, science, poetry. Amélie Bouvier’s work explores how our society observes and interprets the sky, researching astronomical imagery to situate our understanding of space in its cultural and historical context.

Scattered across the millions of panels and magazine pages collected by Alain Van Passen, there is a secret and long forgotten history of vibrant, surrealist, breath-taking, even ‘visionary’ images. The Belgian collector was active from the earliest days of the comics clubs which campaigned for the recognition of comics as an art form worthy of study and critique. His pristine collection, built over decades of searching and exchanging, offers us unprecedented insight into the diverse trajectories of twentieth century popular publishing. Focusing on comics magazines published between 1935 and 1965, this exhibition reveals a lost world of French and Belgian comics and their translations and reworkings of American, British and Italian imports, across the genres of humour, science fiction, history and adventure. Shedding light on often forgotten or little-known artists, the exhibition traces a counter history of French-language comics in which new stars will be born and images long forgotten unveiled for the 2020s.

Enter the universe of Flemish comic book author Wauter Mannaert: a world where ancient myths are crossed with today's problems, where the city really begins to live and the personal enters into dialogue with the collective. Through his most important works,De Queeste, YasminaandWeegee, you will be introduced to Mannaert's artistic universe in all its richness. The exhibition highlights the artist's range of themes and graphic approaches, offering an immersion into the heart of his unique and poetic worldview.

French comic magazineMétal Hurlantis 50 years old! Jean-Pierre Dionnet, Philippe Druillet, Moebius and Bernard Farkas founded the magazine in 1975. So many years later, this dream machine is steaming ahead at full speed. From its early years,Métal Hurlantdid not just redefine comics: the magazine pushed the boundaries between artistic disciplines and opened a wholenew space for dialogue between drawing, science fiction, music, film and philosophy. Meanwhile, it is widely acknowledged to have changed the face of comics worldwide. In its half-century of existence, the cogs of the machine jammed a few times, but in 2021 the magazine, in a new guise, began a new life. This third revolution, meanwhile, counts 12 issues. To celebrateMétal Hurlant's 50th anniversary, the exhibition looks at the past and present, zooming in on the richness and influence of the revolutionary magazine, which reaches far beyond the world of comics.