Belgium Art, architecture and travel
Let Wallpaper* guide you through the worlds of art, design and architecture in Belgium - and discover where to go and what to see when you travel to Belgium.
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Independent Brussels 2018: what to see at the Belgian fair
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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Food, sexuality and domesticity: Anthea Hamilton reconsiders the familiar in Antwerp
Subversive and playful, Anthea Hamilton’s first survey exhibition, ‘Mash Up’ has opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp
By Hannah Silver Last updated
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Everything Architecture: OFFICE KGDVS stages ambitious retrospective
By Sara Sturges Last updated
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Brussels gallery opens art bar for experimental parties
1b is a new art bar designed by Koenraad Dedobbeleer, hosting a series of art-filled, drink-fulled evenings curated by a roster of acclaimed artists
By Mary Cleary Last updated
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1960s bungalow renovation cuts cinematic dash in Belgium
House BPB, created by Belgian architect David Bulckaen, is the imaginative reintepretation of a 1960s bungalow into a dark, mysterious, contemporary house inspired by the movie A Single Man
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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South side: Wallonia’s contemporary architecture is surveyed at the Sicli Pavilion
By Siska Lyssens Last updated
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Introducing the MC20 – the new Maserati super sports car
We spoke to Klaus Busse, the man who heads up FCA’s design team, overseeing Fiat, Abarth, Lancia, and Alfa Romeo, as well as Maserati, about the origins and aspirations for the company’s new super car model
By Jonathan Bell Last updated
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Rachel Eulena Williams weaves poetry and abstraction in Brussels
In ‘Joy & Rain’ at Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, New York-based artist Rachel Eulena Williams presents new hybrid works that are bold, subversive and steeped in complex histories
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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Contemporary architecture blossoms in Brussels
In our latest architectural exploration, we turn to the Belgian capital of Brussels, where a balance is being struck between new projects and the city’s time-tested 20th-century gems
By Jason Sayer Last updated
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Govaert & Vanhoutte unveils brutalist villa in the Belgian woods
A brutalist concrete villa, nestled in its terrain in the Belgian woods outside Brussels, is the latest residential offering by Bruges-based architecture studio Govaert & Vanhoutte
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Ann Demeulemeester’s first foray into homeware ‘returns to the essence of things’
The Belgian fashion designer collaborates with Serax for a collection launching at Maison et Objet this week
By Siska Lyssens Last updated
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Friedrich Kunath on pushing paint and why he loves the ‘empty promise’ of Los Angeles
By Jessica Klingelfuss Last updated
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Magic circle: Arjaan De Feyter casts a spell over a silo in Antwerp
By Harriet Thorpe Last updated
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Mario Botta and Koen Vanmechelen are behind Labiomista, a studio and biodiversity project
By Giovanna Dunmall Last updated
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Metallic moments: Michael Young presents the evolution of aluminium
By Sujata Burman Last updated
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A former printworks makes an impression as a gallery and home for designer Xavier Lust
By Siska Lyssens Last updated
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Antwerp retail and dining destination Graanmarkt 13 opens The Apartment
By Henrietta Thompson Last updated
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Studio MOTO and Hans Op de Beeck clad a villa in rubber
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Ground up: the much-anticipated Kanaal development completes in Antwerp
By Clare Dowdy Last updated
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Fosbury & Sons Boitsfort in Brussels brings home comforts into the workplace
By Harriet Thorpe Last updated
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Belgian architect Vincent Van Duysen’s Low Countries home is perfectly balanced
A monolithic and modernist house clad in Grandina limestone near Ghent creates a tranquil atmosphere
By Siska Lyssens Last updated
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Belgian Brutalist: Van Wassenhove House by Juliaan Lampens opens its doors
By Siska Lyssens Last updated
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Xavier Hufkens' new gallery space bolsters Brussels' art scene
Designed by Bernard Dubois, who takes over the @wallpapermag IGTV channel today with an architecture tour, the new home of Xavier Hufkens gallery opened last week with a bold new show by Sterling Ruby
By Diane Theunissen Last updated
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Contemporary artists find a common thread with 1970s and 1980s Belgian textile art
By Siska Lyssens Last updated
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Step inside Chiharu Shiota’s doll’s house
In ‘Living Inside’ at Galerie Templon, Brussels, the Japanese artist cocoons dolls houses and miniature furniture in her signature thread
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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The magic mushrooms of ceramic artist Jos Devriendt offer a sculptural trip
By Yoko Choy Last updated
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Hé Architectuur’s home transformation is a triumph of reuse
Wallpaper* Architects’ Directory is our annual round-up of exciting emerging architecture studios. From our 2022 list, meet Belgian studio Hé Architectuur and explore its house in Molenbeek that is a triumph of reuse
By Martha Elliott Last updated