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Workspacebrussels is a laboratory for research, experiment and creation in the performing arts. We focus on research, experimentation and creation.

We work with a dynamic community of artists, who are invited to develop their practice through residencies, coaching, production support & test presentations. Workspacebrussels is a laboratory for artistic development in the performing arts. Openness, transparency and curiosity are central to us, both in our discussions with artists and in our choice of projects and makers. We love new forms and u

nexpected crossovers between genres, artistic languages and ways of working. Young and independent artists can come to us for studio space, exchange and feedback. Every year we welcome about 50 makers and collectives who together form a vibrant and diverse community. For several projects per year, we also provide financial and/or administrative support. Thanks to our intensive collaboration with a number of partners in the city we can offer artists a wide range of spaces. Kaaitheater Arts Centre, Les Brigittines Arts Centre for Movement, and dance companies Rosas and Ultima Vez reserve a part of their studio space for our activities.

08/04/2026

✧ ･ﾟ:* 𝓞𝓟𝓔𝓝 𝓢𝓣𝓤𝓓𝓘𝓞𝓢 *: ･ﾟ✧

𝟐𝟓. - 𝟐𝟔.𝟎𝟒.

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!

𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒄𝒌 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒘𝒆𝒃𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒎!
𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒍𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒅, 𝒔𝒐 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒐𝒏!

𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘴:

23/02/2026

Snippets of 𝐋𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞, a project by 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐊𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 and 𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐞𝐧 𝐕𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭, from their residency at in Copenhagen last June, as part of our longterm collaboration with HAUT.

and explore the ambiguity of the human desire to coincide with each other as an endless series of failed duets.

They bring together different fascinations in a sad and witty performance concert: the red echo caves of the oracle masses in Malta, the childlike sensuality of Kinke Kooi’s drawings and the magical-realist performances of Aldous Harding.

16/02/2026

𝐄𝐳𝐫𝐚 𝐕𝐞𝐥𝐝𝐡𝐮𝐢𝐬 and 𝐁𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐭t are the collaborative duo behind a series of immersive performances that blur the line between installation and theatre. Since 2018, they have been creating scenic poems where light, sound, and silence shape ever-changing spaces. Drawing inspiration from science fiction and poetry, their work explores the twilight zone between presence and absence, inviting audiences into a metaphysical adventure that challenges how we perceive space, time, and the world around us. 
During their residency they will work on 𝐇𝐈𝐊𝐄𝐑, a solo performance with Gerben Vaillant.
HIKER blurs the boundaries between body, landscape, and hiking gear. The entire world of the performance (scenography, lighting, sound, fictions, unexpected images, shapes, and volumes) emerges from a figure laden with gear: the clothing, tools, bags, shelter, food, and protective equipment that a person uses to survive in an inhospitable environment. 
HIKER uses the contents of a mountain hiker’s backpack as its vocabulary. Ezra and Bosse stretch and distort the possibilities of hiking materials to represent what drives us into the ‘wilderness’. What desires do we project onto the mountains, onto the ‘untouched’, onto the ‘no man’s land’? And what are we trying to escape there? In what ways are our dreams and desires marketed into stuff?  
📸: .yvan  
𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵: 𝘌𝘻𝘳𝘢 𝘝𝘦𝘭𝘥𝘩𝘶𝘪𝘴, 𝘉𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘰𝘰𝘴𝘵 - 𝘊𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯: 𝘎𝘦𝘳𝘣𝘦𝘯 𝘝𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵, 𝘉𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘰𝘰𝘴𝘵, 𝘌𝘻𝘳𝘢 𝘝𝘦𝘭𝘥𝘩𝘶𝘪𝘴 - 𝘋𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘺: 𝘋𝘢𝘨𝘮𝘢𝘳 𝘛𝘦𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘹 - 𝘖𝘶𝘵𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘦𝘺𝘦: 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘰𝘴 𝘚𝘪𝘮𝘰𝘦𝘴 - 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯: 𝘏𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘴 - 𝘊𝘰-𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯: 𝘒𝘢𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳, 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘴, 𝘗𝘦𝘳 𝘗𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘶𝘮 - 𝘔𝘦𝘵 𝘥𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘶𝘯 𝘷𝘢𝘯: 𝘬𝘶𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘮 𝘉𝘜𝘋𝘈, 𝘚𝘛𝘜𝘒, 𝘊𝘈𝘔𝘗𝘖

09/02/2026

What does it mean to remember in public? How does the act of recalling create meaning? And what happens when memory loses its ground?

𝐄𝐬𝐳𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐍é𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢’s work explores the interplay between language, listening, and political imagination, often through participatory formats that create space for quiet and polyphonic expression.
During her residency at workspacebrussels Némethi will continue her performance research for 𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥, which investigates the act of public memory recall through the lens of an evolving oral archive. Moving across performance, oral history, speculative writing, and material practice, the project challenges the control of memory in an era of political erasure and automation.

Working with techniques from oral tradition and spatial mnemonics, Eszter Némethi explores performance-as-listening to think through the School of Magical Politics archive; a body of interviews with artists, social scientists and journalists on politics, magic, and pedagogy.

At the centre of the research stands the figure of the Oracle, a pragmatic « Oracle in Training » from the underworlds of the Carpathian basin who, with little interest in the future, is summoned to difficult speech by the need to reveal the real.

📸: .kaminska

𝘖𝘶𝘵𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘦𝘺𝘦: 𝘔𝘢𝘳* 𝘚𝘻𝘺𝘥𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘴𝘬𝘢 - 𝘔𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴: 𝘝𝘢𝘯𝘫𝘢 𝘚𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘫𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘤, 𝘙𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘭 𝘍𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘯, 𝘋𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢 𝘋𝘳𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘤 - 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵: 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘴, 𝘸𝘱𝘡𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳, 𝘎𝘊 𝘋𝘦𝘡𝘦𝘺𝘱, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘰𝘳, 𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭_𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦, 𝘎𝘊 𝘋𝘦𝘙𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘬, 𝘛𝘺𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘎𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘦 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘦, 𝘖𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘴 - 𝘚𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘎𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵

02/02/2026

𝐌𝐚𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐢 ميّي is the common word for water both in Congolese Lingala and Levantine Arabic. Maayii ميّي is a piece that explores intersections of anger, love, resistance, confrontation, and transnational solidarity. Drawing from the rhythmic structures of Dabke (folkdance of Bilad Al-Sham), along with repetitions and loops, Nancy and Kongi create a space for collective processing in a world ravaged by greed, genocides, and collective trauma. In a time when colonial violence continues to shape our existence, Maayii ميّي serves as a space for reflection and a platform for imagined liberation; It is an ode to our peoples in our geographies and diaspora.
 
Mbunga Kongnstai is a self-taught performance artist based in known as 𝐊𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐢 𝐌𝐛𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐚. Kongi combines visual and corporeal languages, merging history and performance to explore the role of Black womxn in African and Western societies.
 
𝐍𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐍𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐥 𝐃𝐞𝐞𝐧 is a multidisciplinary performance artist and scenographer. Nancy’s collaboration-based practice focuses on audiovisual archives and corpo-spatial dynamics. Through architecture, movement and voice, Nancy investigates politics of space, marginal bodies, and transnational solidarities.
 
For Maayii, Nancy and Kongi collaborate with 𝐘𝐚𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐠 for the live sound.

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𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘴 + 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵: 𝘕𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘕𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘈𝘭 𝘋𝘦𝘦𝘯 & 𝘒𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘪 𝘔𝘣𝘶𝘯𝘨𝘢 - 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥: 𝘠𝘢𝘯𝘨 𝘊𝘩𝘦𝘯𝘨 - 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘚𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵: 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘴

26/01/2026

𝐓𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐫 𝐋𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐭 and 𝐘𝐚ë𝐧 𝐒. 𝐋𝐞𝐯𝐢 work their way around the seam lines of fashion, design research, and performance art to speculate on how personal, social and political systems manifest themselves through clothing.
 
The history and current flow of what people wear emerge from social protocols, moral expectations, and economic pressures — grounded in sensorial genealogy and collective phantasmagoria. Levit and Levi gather these via site visits, interviews, academic research, somatic and sartorial scores. From these threads, they construct poetic–spatial–ritualistic (sometimes wearable) formats, allowing the accumulated histories to assume structure, volume, and the counter space around one’s body.
 
During their residency, they will continue their work on 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐦 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚. It is an ongoing research and artistic project tracing the deep seams of the denim industry — its labour, resistance, and the material’s joy and exhaustion. Jeans, omnipresent, are both tangible objects central to industrial and economic exchanges and an analogy — mediators connecting bodies, objects, spaces, and cities.

𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩: 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘭𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘫𝘯 - 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘴: 𝘕𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘦 (𝘉𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘴) 𝘉𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘬-𝘴𝘦𝘯 (𝘎𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘱) - 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘴/𝘚𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴: 𝘕𝘢𝘳 𝘚𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘵 (𝘎𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘱), 𝘝𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘢 𝘌𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯-𝘉𝘰𝘨𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘍𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 (𝘉𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘴), 𝘈𝘝𝘛𝘖 (𝘐𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘣𝘶𝘭) - 𝘚𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘎𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵

12/01/2026

𝐒𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐕𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐲𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐡 lives and works in Brussels. He obtained his Master’s degree in Drama at KASK, Ghent. Since 2015, he has created several solos with zebras. With these solos, he toured various cities in Flanders and the Netherlands and was selected for JONG WERK Theater aan Zee 2018. In the summer of 2019, together with Anna-Franziska Jäger and Nathan Ooms, he co-founded the performance platform Ne Mosquito Pas, where a community of Brussels artists reflects on their personal notions of failure and success. Since August 2025, Van Schuylenbergh’s new alter ego, A**l Pompidou, has opened a performance cabaret in the centre of Brussels between Sablon and the Marolles.

During his residency at workspacebrussels, Simon will work on his new performance Dark Habits. 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐇𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐬 is a theatrical performance epic structured around seven chapters. Performers Micha Goldberg, Rosie Sommers, Castélie Yalombo, Hanako Hayakawa, Charlotte Nagel and Simon Van Schuylenbergh take the audience on an absurd and physical pilgrimage of a perverted nuns’ cult, against a backdrop of various pseudo-historical landscapes and falsified religious scenes and icons. During this frenzied journey, there is singing and healing, but it also strays into the hidden and dark side of religion, mysticism and sexuality.

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𝘈 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘣𝘺: 𝘚𝘪𝘮𝘰𝘯 𝘝𝘢𝘯 𝘚𝘤𝘩𝘶𝘺𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘩 - 𝘐𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩: 𝘙𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘦 𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘴, 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘦 𝘕𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘭, 𝘊𝘢𝘴𝘵é𝘭𝘪𝘦 𝘠𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘰, 𝘔𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘢 𝘎𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘨, 𝘏𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘬𝘰 𝘏𝘢𝘺𝘢𝘬𝘢𝘸𝘢 - 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤: 𝘓𝘰𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘢 𝘌𝘭𝘪𝘦 𝘍𝘪𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘯 - 𝘓𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯: 𝘔𝘢𝘹 𝘈𝘥𝘢𝘮𝘴 - 𝘚𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘺: 𝘝𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘬𝘢 𝘉𝘦𝘻𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘫𝘯𝘺𝘬𝘩 - 𝘋𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘺: 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘖𝘰𝘮𝘴, 𝘈𝘯𝘯𝘢-𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘻𝘪𝘴𝘬𝘢 𝘑ä𝘨𝘦𝘳 - 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯: 𝘒𝘞𝘗 - 𝘊𝘰𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯: 𝘉𝘜𝘋𝘈 𝘒𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘫𝘬, 𝘛𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘩𝘶𝘪𝘴, 𝘝𝘎𝘊, 𝘝𝘭𝘢𝘢𝘮𝘴𝘦 𝘖𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘥, 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘴, 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘢𝘯 𝘡𝘦𝘦 - 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩: 𝘒𝘞𝘗, 𝘊𝘈𝘔𝘗𝘖, 𝘈𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘳 210, 𝘉𝘳𝘢𝘬𝘬𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘥

12/01/2026

𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐚 𝐉𝐚𝐜𝐮𝐤𝐚 (1995, LV/NL) is a choreographer and performer, recently graduated from the DAS Theater Master program in Amsterdam.  During her Master’s research, Jana explored laughter as sound and primarily focused on the letters H and A. In her new work 𝐀𝐀𝐀 she wants to open up the whole alphabet and invite each letter onto the stage. She is curious to investigate each letter’s vocal, physical and political nuances. Her practice lies between extreme vocal techniques and choreography: she grunts, fry-screams, and speaks while inhaling, allowing the voice to become an extension of the body—like another limb with which to create choreography.  This residency is an invitation to revisit what was once discarded. She returns to the unperformed materials from her latest work HA—ideas, sounds, and fragments that never made it to the stage—to lay the foundation for her new work AAA in collaboration with Homo Novus Festival 2026 (LV).  We are happy to invite you to a work-in-progress showing of AAA on 𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟐𝟐, 𝟒𝐩𝐦 at 𝐊𝐚𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐬. Dm us to reserve your spot.

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𝘊𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘳 & 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘳: 𝘑𝘢𝘯𝘢 𝘑𝘢𝘤𝘶𝘬𝘢 - 𝘋𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘺: 𝘌𝘷𝘢 𝘚𝘶𝘴𝘰𝘷𝘢 - 𝘗𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘺: 𝘗𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘴 𝘝𝘪𝘬𝘴𝘯𝘢 - 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘴/𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘴: 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘰 𝘕𝘰𝘷𝘶𝘴 𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭 (𝘓𝘝), 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘯 𝘎𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘵 (𝘓𝘝), 𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘉𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘵 (𝘕𝘓), 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘴 - 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮: 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦

12/01/2026

𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐣𝐧 𝐎𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐡𝐨𝐟 is a visual artist, musician and DJ. She works across a wide range of media, including performance, video installation and music, exploring themes such as trauma, memory, (science) fiction and dystopia. She hosts a monthly radio show for Kiosk Radio and performs live and as a DJ at clubs and festivals.

During her residency at workspacebrussels she will be working on 𝐖𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝐛𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝, a dystopian audiovisual performance that explores the emotional impact of the impending climate catastrophe and the disintegration of dreams for the future. Inspired by Tarkovsky’s Stalker, the work translates feelings of failure and exhaustion into a lyrical form through video, choreography and electronic music. The atmosphere draws on the tension and energy of the nightclub, as a place of both resistance and refuge.

You are warmly invited to the work-in-progress sharing of this project on 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟔 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 at 𝟑𝐩𝐦 at 𝐊𝐚𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐬. Please reserve your spot by DM.

📸 1: Jordan Hutchings
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𝘊𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘺 & 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦: 𝘔𝘪𝘳𝘢 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘳 - 𝘚𝘦𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 & 𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘴: 𝘕𝘢𝘨𝘪 𝘎𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘪 - 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘴: 𝘙𝘶𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘵 (𝘝𝘪𝘭𝘯𝘪𝘶𝘴), 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘴 - 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮: 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘢𝘯 𝘍𝘶𝘯𝘥, 𝘍𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺

05/01/2026

𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐝𝐚 is a performance artist whose research-based, in situ work develops institutions for a performative and affective knowledge of the world. During her residency at workspacebrussels, she will be working on a long term research project 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐉𝐨𝐲. 
Deeply rooted in q***r-feminist and decolonial discourses, the project addresses personal experiences of violence alongside the transformative potential of joy, asking how joy can be understood as a methodology for deepening artistic and political practice. Starting from the body and voice as loci of pleasure and artistic expression, Marialena will work with stories and songs that bridge the personal, professional, and political. 
A central focus is the ambivalent notion of “home” for q***r bodies - a place that can be linked to experiences of rejection or even violence, but that can also signify safety, community and flourishing. The research is driven by a desire to converse with q***r feminist artists and organizers who are creating pockets of space and time where joy can be experienced. These partially recorded conversations will form a series of podcasts that follow and celebrate the work that makes such nurturing homes possible.

𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘴: 𝘘-𝘖2, 𝘯𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘦, 𝘯𝘦𝘸𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘺𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘴 - 𝘚𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺: 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺

16/12/2025

𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐑𝐚𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐜𝐨𝐭𝐞 is a theater maker, writer and designer whose work centers on forms of truth-speaking, questioning whether narratives act as salvation or imprisonment. She is currently developing the project 𝐄𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐡, which imagines the crumbling middle class and its violent dream within a context of social fracture.

Each coming of age is a betrayal. A lonely figure wanders and spekas aloud. who saves you once you know the truth? Should old fantasies be kept alive? The project draws from the script and rules of play, expanding the classic idea of the journey. What happens when the “house” as a place of origin and indoctrination collapses, and its inhabitants discover a will for disavowal?

Created in collaboration with Jana De Kockere and special guest Ferre Vuye, 𝐄𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐡 occupies a space between a crazed refuge and willful ignorance. Hearthcote’s previous works include 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦, 𝘉𝘜𝘙𝘕 𝘎𝘓𝘈𝘚𝘚 𝘎𝘈𝘛𝘌, and 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘗𝘭𝘰𝘺.
 
𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴/𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘴: 𝘑𝘢𝘯𝘢 𝘋𝘦 𝘒𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘦, 𝘍𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘦 𝘝𝘶𝘺𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘈𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘻𝘪𝘴𝘬𝘢 𝘑ä𝘨𝘦𝘳 - 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘚𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵: 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘴

16/12/2025

𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐫 just finished his residency at KAOS.

Born in 1995 in Douai, France, and a graduate of Villa Arson, he lives and works in Marseille, where he is currently in residence at Les Ateliers de la Ville. With a transdisciplinary approach, he develops performances and collaborative co-creation projects, often outside institutional art spaces, combining fiction, objects, costumes, and sound. Language—spoken, written, misheard, or hybrid—is central to his practice, acting as a narrative and visual driver. He is involved in the Lonely Life Lovers Club collective and the poetry group Souci du Drame, and his work has been supported by several art and research institutions.

Over recent months, Carpentier has been researching regional languages and cultural practices along the Belgian-French border where he grew up, starting from his grandmother’s non-transmission of Ch’ti (Picard) and the internalised diglossia surrounding it. Through encounters with speakers, associations, and people from diverse linguistic backgrounds, he explores the polysemy of a “borderer” status and the creative potential of linguistic fragility. This research feeds into 𝐕𝐢𝐧𝐭’ 𝐝’𝐎𝐬𝐢𝐞𝐫, a multilingual performance currently in development, and into ongoing experiments on the plasticity of language as an emancipatory, performative practice—what he calls misunderstudies. Within the multilingual context of PSC Elsene, he further extended these experiments.

📸: Gabrielle Huygue

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