Open Studios 2026
Welcome to our yearly Open Studios!
For two days, workspacebrussels is opening its doors and inviting you to explore the inner workings of our residency programme. Experience work-in-progress showings, installations, conversations, oracle readings, one-on-one manicure sessions, a rollercoaster, a party, and more!
This year, our Open Studios takes place at Kaaistudios and workspacebrussels.
On Saturday 25 April, you can discover
work-in-progress showings (in many different formats) by Haolin Huang,
Bilal El-Had, Estefanía Álvarez Ramírez & Luisa Fernanda Alfonso,
Marijn Ottenhof, Federico Protto, Maria Ferreira Silva, Emi Kodama and
Valentina Stepanova. Alongside this, you can join Anyuta Wiazemsky
Snauwaert's BELGification party at Gemeentehuis Anderlecht. We will
round off the day with a party, this time back at Kaaistudios.
On Sunday 26 April, come join us for more
work-in-progress showings by Anna Tierney, Júlia Rúbies Subirós, Simon
Van Schulyenbergh and Eszter Némethi. The sharings of Maria Ferreira
Silva, Emi Kodama and Valentina Stepanova are also still on. In the evening there will be the performance Young Dreams
by Laure Betris and our newly associated artist Amina Abouelghar. We
will finally close the festival with a light installation by vinny
jones.
Food and drinks will be available in the bar of the Kaaistudios.
The full schedule & tickets can be found here
All festival shows
Valentina Stepanova
Reading Session: abg - autos (self) bios (life) grafein (writing)
An invitation to read, listen and exchange thoughts together on the theme of murder, horror and violence.
Valentina Stepanova
abg: autos (self) bios (life) grafein (writing)
How does an individual memory echo within the larger movements of history and politics?
Simon Van Schuylenbergh
The Residency
A fictional studio visit in three portraits exploring the production of development- and discourse-based art, full of irony and performativity, D.I.Y.-style.
Marijn Ottenhof
We will not be missed
A dystopian audiovisual performance that explores the emotional impact of looming climate catastrophe and the collapse of future imaginaries.
Maria Ferreira Silva
Mani_bonding_festo
How do we collaboratively imagine, practice, and reinvent togetherness and collectivity?
Júlia Rúbies Subirós
She Spells Sea Shells on the Shea Sore
A choreographic research investigating the sonic pathways of the feminised voice in Western culture.
Federico Protto
Aprender Ser Ese Ser
A pop-up performance by Federico Protto that emerges from the artist's book of the same title: a selection of writings interwoven with songs, invoking a cabaret-esque, yet tender landscape.
Eszter Némethi
An Oracle of the Real
Oracles are usually asked to speak about the future. This one refuses.
Estefanía Álvarez Ramírez & Luisa Fernanda Alfonso
Quinceañeras
A choreography of inheritance and reinvention inspired by Quinceañeras, marking the transition from childhood to womanhood.
Emi Kodama
A tender roller coaster ride
In this intimate encounter, the participant enters the story world through language, the body, and the senses.
Bilal El-Had
Ch’ttahh
Between tribute and innovation, humor and grievance, Ch’ttahh channels the explosivity of the present while allowing us to gaze lovingly to a collective past.
Anyuta Wiazemsky Snauwaert
BELGification Party
What if becoming Belgian was treated not merely as an administrative formality, but as a shared civic celebration?
Anna Tierney
Grand Repos
An homage to the fantasies and stories we tell ourselves, giving space to the images of the past that haunt and shape our identities.
Amina Abouelghar & Laure Betris
Young Dreams
Dreams, invisible stories and memories weave together a world in which sound and movement collide.
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