Arts at Night

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 afterhours drift through evolving ways of looking. Explore exhibitions at twilight and enjoy

music and sunset views from the city’s rooftops.

Curated by ELS.

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:

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

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

Old Masters Museum — Forum / Salle Rubens
19:20 — Soa Ratsifandrihana -  “Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna”  
Performance I — 15 min

Bozar — Rotunda Bertouille
20:00 — Michelle Tshibola - BLOOD DRINKER
Performance I — 10 min

Old Masters Museum — Forum / Salle Rubens
20:35 — Soa Ratsifandrihana -  “Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna”
Performance II — 15 min

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

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

Bozar — Rotunda Bertouille
22:35 — Michelle Tshibola - BLOOD DRINKER
Performance II — 10 min

Bozar — De 23
18:00–22:45 zakkiyyah najeebah dumas-o’neal— To Render the Infinite (korte 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 — Tuin
18:30 — Aisha Orazbayeva
Live 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.

Old Masters Museum — Forum / Rubenszaal
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.

Old Masters Museum — Forum / Rubenszaal
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 — Tentoonstelling
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

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.

Bozar Maecenas

Patrick Derom Gallery • Monsieur et Madame Bertrand Ferrier • Baron en Barones Marnix Galle-Sioen • Baron Xavier Hufkens • Monsieur et Madame Laurent Legein • Madame Heike Müller • Monsieur et Madame Dominique Peninon • Monsieur et Madame Antoine Winckler • Monsieur et Madame Bernard Woronoff • Chevalier Godefroid de Wouters d'Oplinter

Bozar Fine Art Circle Founding Members

Mr and Mrs Ravi Bhansali • De Heer en Mevrouw Dirk Cavens • Monsieur Simon Devolder • Baron Xavier Hufkens • Monsieur Charles Riva

Bozar Patrons

Monsieur et Madame Charles Adriaenssen • Madame Marie-Louise Angenent • Madame Joséphine d’Ansembourg • Monsieur Werner d’Ansembourg • Comtesse Laurence d'Aramon • Monsieur Jean-François Bellis • Docteur Amine Benyakoub • Baron et Baronne Berghmans • De heer Stefaan Bettens • Monsieur Philippe Bioul • Mevrouw Roger Blanpain-Bruggeman • Madame Laurette Blondeel • Comte et Comtesse Boël • Monsieur et Madame Thierry Bouckaert • Monsieur Thierry Boutemy • Madame Anny Cailloux • Madame Valérie Cardon de Lichtbuer • Madame Catherine Carniaux • Madame Paloma Castro Martinez de Tejada • Monsieur Jim Cloos et Madame Véronique Arnault • Mevrouw Chris Cooleman • Monsieur Emile Culot • Madame Marguerite Culot • Monsieur et Madame Denis Dalibot • Madame Bernard Darty • De heer en mevrouw Philippe De Baere •  De heer Frederic Depoortere en mevrouw Ingrid Rossi • Madame Louise Descamps • Madame Hélène Deslauriers • Monsieur Amand-Benoit D'Hondt • De heer Bernard Dubois • Madame Claudine Duvivier • Madame Dominique Eickhoff • Baron et Baronne William Frère • Baron et Baronne Pierre Gurdjian • De heer en mevrouw Philippe Haspeslagh - Van den Poel • Madame Susanne Hinrichs et Monsieur Peter Klein • Monsieur Jean-Pierre Hoa • Madame Bonno H. Hylkema • Madame Fernand Jacquet • Baron Edouard Janssen • Madame Elisabeth Jongen • Monsieur et Madame Jean-Louis Joris • Monsieur et Madame Adnan Kandiyoti • Monsieur Sander Kashiva • Monsieur Sam Kestens • Monsieur et Madame Klaus Körner • Madame Marleen Lammerant • Monsieur Pierre Lebeau • Monsieur et Madame François Legein • Monsieur et Madame Charles-Henri Lehideux • Monsieur et Madame Philippe le Hodey • Madame Gérald Leprince Jungbluth • Monsieur Xavier Letizia • Monsieur Bruno van Lierde • Madame Florence Lippens • Monsieur et Madame Clive Llewellyn • Monsieur et Madame Thierry Lorang • Madame Denise Louterman • Madame Olga Machiels-Osterrieth • De heer Peter Maenhout • Monsieur et Madame Alain Mallart • De heer en mevrouw Frederic Martens • Monsieur et Madame Dominique Mathieu-Defforey • De heer en mevrouw Frank Monstrey (urbion) • Madame Philippine de Montalembert • Madame Nelson • Dr. Bram Peeters et Monsieur Lucas Van Molle • Madame Christine Perpette • Famille Philippson • Monsieur Gérard Philippson • Comte et Comtesse Antoine de Pracomtal • Monsieur Bernard Respaut • De heer en mevrouw Guy en Martine Reyniers • Madame Elisabetta Righini et Monsieur Craig Finch • Monsieur et Madame Michael Rosenthal • Monsieur et Madame Frédéric Samama • Monsieur et Madame Philippe Schöller • Monsieur et Madame Hans C. Schwab • Monsieur et Madame Olivier Solanet • Monsieur Eric Speeckaert • Monsieur Jean-Charles Speeckaert • Madame Apolline de Spoelberch • Monsieur Guillaume de Spoelberch • Monsieur Paul de Spoelberch • Vicomte Philippe de Spoelberch et Madame Daphné Lippitt • Madame Anne-Véronique Stainier • Monsieur Didier Staquet et Madame Lidia Zabinski • De heer Karl Stas • Mevrouw Caroline Steyaert • Monsieur et Madame Philippe Stoclet • Monsieur Nikolaus Tacke et Madame Astrid Cuylits • De heer en mevrouw Coen Teulings • Monsieur et Madame Philippe Tournay • Dr. Philippe Uytterhaegen • De heer en mevrouw Koen en Anouk Van Balen-Stulens • Monsieur et Madame Xavier Van Campenhout • De heer Marc Vandecandelaere • De heer Alexander Vandenbergen • Mevrouw Barbara Van Der Wee en de heer Paul Lievevrouw • Monsieur Michel Van Huffel • De heer Koen Van Loo • De heer en mevrouw Anton Van Rossum • De heer Johan Van Wassenhove • Monsieur et Madame Albert Wastiaux •  Monsieur Luc Willame • Madame Danuta Zedzian • Monsieur et Madame Jacques Zucker 

Bozar Circle

Monsieur Axel Böhlke et Madame Clara Huizink • Monsieur et Madame Paul De Groote • Monsieur Rodolphe Dulait • Madame Liliane Gam • Madame Valeria Onofrj • Mevrouw Natasja Peeters • Sir Gabriel Smit Pergolizzi • De heer en mevrouw Remi en Evelyne Van Den Broeck • Monsieur Guillaume van Doorslaer et Madame Emily Defreyne  

And all our Members who wish to remain anonymous.