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BRAFA is one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious art fairs, famous for its high quality.
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The Brussels Art Fair (BRAFA) is one of the leading European art fairs. Here, all art works on show are for sale and quality and authenticity are two of the key requirements exhibitors face. BRAFA is an eclectic fair which encompasses a variety of specialities, from antiquity to the 21st century...

Save the date for our 2026 edition, from 25 January - 1 February, and visit our website brafa.art to discover our online catalogue, exhibitors, art talks and art videos.

21/06/2026

Today, music spills into the streets of Brussels, Paris and cities across Europe — Fête de la Musique, the one day a year when every corner becomes a stage. A fitting moment to look back at how music found its way onto the BRAFA floor too.

A cello, cut and reassembled in bronze, standing 2.10 metres tall. Arman returned to musical instruments throughout his career — his father, an antiques dealer in Nice, was an amateur cellist, and something of that early sound stayed with him. Shown this year by Galerie Patrice Trigano, the work captures the spirit of a cello as much as its form.

Nearby, on Galerie Taménaga's stand, Marie Laurencin painted rhythm itself — soft, dreamlike figures caught mid-movement, dancers suspended in her signature palette of greys, pinks and blues. A tempo you feel rather than hear.

And this year, the King Baudouin Foundation brought its 50th-anniversary celebrations to BRAFA itself, with a series of classical concerts held right on the exhibition floor — a wonderful way of demonstrating that music and the visual arts go hand in hand at BRAFA.

Three moments across three centuries united by one pulse.

Happy Fête de la Musique.

📌 BRAFA Art Fair: 24–31 January 2027 | Brussels Expo
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Principal Sponsor: Delen Private Bank

Photos: Olivier Pirard and Emmanuel Crooÿ

19/06/2026

A summer worth slowing down for. ☀️

From 18 June to 30 August, Francis Maere Fine Arts transforms the historic Goed te Réables, beside Kasteel van Ooidonk, into the Ooidonk Art Festival — over 30 Belgian, Dutch and French artists presented across a 17th-century farmstead, its surrounding fields and open landscape. No white walls. Contemporary art in direct dialogue with the land it stands on.

Among the artists: Jan Fabre, Wim Delvoye, Johan Creten, Koen Vanmechelen, Dirk Braeckman — names many will recognise from the BRAFA floor, where their work finds a different kind of dialogue each January. The festival's partner galleries include several familiar faces too.

Indoors in January, outdoors in summer — the same artists, the same galleries, a different landscape each time.

Thursday to Sunday, 14:00–19:00, with a summer bar and pop-up restaurant by Garçon Catering for those who want to linger.

A cultural day trip, in one of the most beautiful settings Flanders has to offer.

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📌 BRAFA Art Fair · 24–31 January 2027 · Brussels Expo
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11/06/2026

Five editions. Five works that stayed with you.

Every January, certain pieces stop visitors mid-step. A Brueghel the Younger at Galerie De Jonckheere that pulls you into a 16th-century Flemish celebration as if you were standing in it. Kusama's dots at Boon Gallery — playful on the surface, infinite underneath. A Magritte from his Paris years at Galerie de la Béraudière, now in the permanent collection of the Hamburger Kunsthalle. A monumental Egyptian-style bed at Marc Maison that caused a sensation at the 1889 Exposition Universelle and did so again at BRAFA 2025. And a René Lalique necklace at Epoque Fine Jewels — thistle flowers in gold, diamond, enamel and glass — preserved in its original Place Vendôme case.

These are five works from five editions. Each one a conversation starter. Each one, in its own way, irreplaceable.

The full stories are in the BRAFA newsletter — subscribe at www.brafa.art and stay in the loop ahead of BRAFA 2027.

📌 BRAFA Art Fair: 24–31 January 2027 | Brussels Expo
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10/06/2026

Today is World Art Nouveau Day — you could call it a Brussels celebration.

Art Nouveau was a conviction: that beauty belongs in everyday life, that craft and art are one, that a door handle or a stained-glass window deserves the same attention as a painting. Brussels understood this earlier than most, and its streets, interiors and institutions still carry that argument today.

BRAFA has always been part of this conversation. Every edition, a remarkable group of exhibitors brings Art Nouveau and Art Deco works to the fair floor — glass, jewellery, furniture, applied arts and objects of extraordinary refinement. Among them: Thomas Deprez Fine Arts, Galerie BG Arts, Epoque Fine Jewels, Florian Kolhammer, Francis Janssens van der Maelen, Galerie Mathivet, Victor Werner, Galerie Haesaerts-le Grelle and Galerie Cento Anni. Alongside them, our enduring relationships with Brussels' great Art Nouveau houses, institutions and museums — places that keep this legacy alive and accessible.

A movement that believed art should reach everyone. Agree?

📌 BRAFA 2027: 24–31 January | Brussels Expo
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Principal Sponsor: Delen Private Bank

Images:
Stairway of the Hôtel Tassel, Brussels, Belgium designed by Victor Horta (1892–93)

03/06/2026

Three BRAFA exhibitors, three very different reasons to be in Belgium this summer.

Patrick Derom Gallery opens Léon Spilliaert: Through Half-Open Doors on 3 June - around forty interiors, still lifes and self-portraits by the Ostend master. Spilliaert's rooms are always empty of people, yet never feel abandoned. Objects - a carafe, a pair of discarded gloves, a silent piano — take on a presence of their own. As Spilliaert himself described it: sometimes, quite unexpectedly, an object throws off its name and reveals itself in new and striking ways. Around forty works, on view through 14 August. Open Wednesday to Saturday, 11am–6pm.

Galerie Oscar De Vos presents Langs de Leie — Licht, Kleur en Ritme in het Landschap, exploring the enduring dialogue between the Leie landscape and the painters it has drawn for generations. On view at Sint-Martens-Latem, Saturdays and Sundays 14–18h, through 21 June.

Meessen De Clercq shows Evariste Richer's It's Gonna Rain through 4 July — a politically charged and formally inventive exhibition that moves between a helicopter blade and a conductor's baton, Duchamp's Rotoreliefs and Hannah Arendt, camouflage and survival blankets. Quietly urgent, and one of the more compelling exhibitions currently in Brussels.

📌 BRAFA Art Fair 2027: 24-31 January | Brussels Expo
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Principal Sponsor: Delen Private Bank

Images:
Exhibition impressions. Courtesy the galleries.

31/05/2026

We pay our respects to Julio Le Parc, who passed away yesterday, 30 May 2026, at the age of 97.

A pioneer of kinetic and Op Art, co-founder of the G.R.A.V. in Paris, and Grand Prize winner at the Venice Biennale in 1966, Le Parc spent seven decades investigating light, movement and the relationship between a work of art and the person standing in front of it. Long before 'immersive' and 'interactive' became the language of contemporary art, he was already there — asking viewers to move, to participate, to look differently.

In 2017, he was BRAFA's Guest of Honour. His Continuel Mobile from 1963 activated the fair's entrance, and two mirrored spheres of 2.10 metres anchored the aisles — visitors found themselves stopping, turning, caught in light and reflection. It remains one of the editions of the fair we dearly cherish.

We are grateful to have welcomed him at BRAFA, and honoured to have known his work up close. His loss is felt deeply across the international art world. Our thoughts are with his family, and in particular his three sons Gabriel, Juan and Yamil.

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Images:
1-4: BRAFA 2017 impressions by A2pix
5: BRAFA 2017 impression with Julio Le Parc and fair director Beatrix Bourdon, by Emmanuel Crooy.

24/05/2026

A Belgian in Venice — and one worth the detour.

Dries Van Noten has inaugurated his Fondazione at the Palazzo Pisani Moretta on the Grand Canal with The Only True Protest Is Beauty — over 200 works spanning couture, contemporary art, historical objects and exceptional craft, staged throughout the palazzo's Venetian interiors. On view through 4 October 2026.

Conceived as a cultural foundation rather than a fashion destination, the space is dedicated to craftsmanship in its broadest sense: a dialogue between contemporary art, design, savoir-faire and material culture.

We filmed with Dries Van Noten for our Life of Objects series — watch it on our website and channels.

If you find yourself in Venice this spring, Palazzo Pisani Moretta is the address.

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Photos by Camilla Glorioso.

📌 BRAFA Art Fair: 24-31 January 2027 | Brussels Expo
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Principal Sponsor: Delen Private Bank

20/05/2026

Planning your long weekend? BRAFA exhibitors are keeping Brussels busy.

Thomas Deprez Fine Arts opens In David's Wake: Neoclassicism and its Belgian Lineage on May 21 at 6 pm — an intimate presentation tracing the legacy of Jacques-Louis David through the Belgian painters who followed: Navez, Paelinck, Van Bree, Closson, Kinson and their contemporaries. Among the works, a rare oil sketch by Gilles-François Closson, painted dal vero in Italy in the 1820s — executed with such immediacy that its unfinished passages read as deliberate.

Galerie Nathalie Obadia closes its Shirley Jaffe exhibition on 23 May. Around thirty works on paper spanning 1955 to 2012, ten years after the American artist's death: gouaches and silkscreens that her art historian described as a "second chronology" — unfolding alongside her painting as a fully autonomous body of work. An essential bridge between American and European abstraction, collected by the Centre Pompidou, Kunstmuseum Basel and the Art Institute of Chicago.

La Patinoire Royale Bach presents Marion Charlet's La musica non è finita through 30 May — paintings that occupy the space between sound and silence, in one of Brussels' most extraordinary venues. The title draws on Scipio's words, as recorded by Cicero: "Never am I more active than when I do nothing, never less alone than when I am alone." Irresistible.

Maruani Mercier — have you discovered their new Rue Saint-Georges space yet? The gallery opened its second Brussels address in Ixelles this spring, and the inaugural exhibition is George Rickey's Ordered Movement — kinetic sculptures of extraordinary precision, held in over 150 museum collections worldwide, on view through 6 June.

📌 BRAFA 2027: 24-31 January | Brussels Expo
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Principal Sponsor: Delen Private Bank

Images:
Gilles-François Closson (1796–1842), oil sketch.
Shirley Jaffe - exhibition installation view.
Marion Charlet (France, 1982). Kostos, 2026. Copyright of the artist.
George Rickey, Wild Carrot II, 1958-87.

18/05/2026

BRAFA supports museums all year round – and today is no exception. The fair may offer ten days of art without walls, but the permanent collections of museums large and small are invaluable. They give free rein to your imagination, help history fall into place, and offer the endless pleasure of unreserved enjoyment of beauty.

And they teach us to look. And looking – slowly, openly, without haste – is the common ground between a great museum and a great art fair. Every January, curators and patrons walk the floor of our fair. Works move from stand to public collection. The King Baudouin Foundation is with us at every edition and, in turn, provides support.

Happy International Museum Day.

📌 BRAFA 2027: 24-31 January | Brussels Expo
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Principal Sponsor: Delen Private Bank

Impression of the KBF Stand at BRAFA 2026. Photo by Olivier Pirard

10/05/2026

At BRAFA 2026, there were once again many mothers and children who came to listen, look and ask questions. Discovering things together — just like here, in front of an antique embroidered chest at De Wit Fine Tapestries. This is exactly what the fair is for.

Happy Mother's Day to everyone who celebrated today.

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Photo by Emmanuel Crooÿ

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