Pilar

House for Arts & Science in Brussel. Pilar is an open, artistic laboratory in Brussels @ VUB Een steunzuil voor en door jongeren.

Pilar is een open, artistiek laboratorium in Brussel, gelegen aan de VUB. Een huis waarin de kruisbestuiving tussen kunst en wetenschap en ook cultureel ondernemerschap een plaats krijgt. De potgrond waar talentontwikkeling centraal staat. Pilar presenteert, experimenteert, broedt, creëert, onderzoekt, mengt, versmelt en betrekt.

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Pilar is an open, artistic laboratory in Brussels, located at the VUB. A pillar of support for and by young people. A place for cross-fertilisation between art, science and entrepreneurship. A testing ground focused on developing talent. Pilar presents, experiments, nurtures, creates, researches, blends, integrates and involves.

08/10/2026

Get to know mari WED 14 OCT at Pilar w/ Rosso Polare
Music on a Whim
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Tickets via link our website.

07/10/2026

// 13 OCT: THE ZONE OF INTEREST - ARE YOU STILL WATCHING SERIES //

How does the continuous visual stream of violence influences us? And why do we keep watching?

Students Film History Nora & Trix tell you more about the ‘Are you still watching’ series in this video 👀

29/09/2026

Tonight
Tickets via our website ✨

21/09/2026

“I am standing still for a moment, and that’s a Great Leap Forward”

A snippet out of our new exhibition ‘The parliament of the Pitiful’ from Laura Vandewynckel, opening this Thursday at 6pm at Pilar expo.

Free entrance!

18/09/2026

// 𝟏𝟒 𝐎𝐂𝐓: 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐄𝐚𝐳𝐞 + 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐨 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐞 + 𝐑𝐨𝐛 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐋𝐞𝐨𝐝 - 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐎𝐧 𝐀 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐱 𝐏𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐫 //
Music on a Whim

✨ mari is the project of Brooklyn-based sound artist and multi-instrumentalist Mari Maurice. Her music explores themes of intimacy, yearning, Americana, and the transformation of abstract feeling into intense living through compositions that move seamlessly between the banal and the ethereal.

✨ Rosso Polare is a musical project born from the collaboration between Cesare Lopopolo and Anna Vezzosi, which today presents itself as a constantly evolving group, while still centering around Lopopolo as the sole curator and driving force. With an approach rooted both in solid theoretical preparation and spontaneous creative intuition, Rosso Polare explores counter-narratives on the representation of the animal world, whose research aims to reduce the distance between human-produced music and natural bioacoustics.

✨ Canadian-born and Belgium-settled, assembles lo-fi ambient tape loops using discarded cassette tapes and repaired 1990s four-track recorders. Those analog loops are filled with field recordings and lo-fi instruments run through cheap pedals. The result is a texture perhaps best described as “friendly noise” shaped by tape imperfections, nostalgic aesthetics, and physical wear

Tickets via our website 🤸

16/09/2026

A poetic parliament for those who were never given a seat at the table. Come over for our new exhibition ’The Parliament of the Pitiful’.

Over six years, Laura Vandewynckel explored how mechanical puppets, robots and kinetic sculptures can move us, bring us together and spark debate and action.

✨Expo runs from 24/09 - 23/10.
Open wed - fri 2pm - 8pm.
1st and 2nd floor at Pilar expo.

✨Vernissage on 24/09.
6pm - 9pm, free entrance.

04/09/2026

New season, fresh delivery 🥹✨
Graphic work by Lise Leën

Can you spot these funky beauties in Brussels this weekend? 👀

10/07/2026

// THU 5 NOV in Pilar: Eli Wewentxu & Indrė Jurgelevičiūtė + Sary Moussa //

Mapuche artist, 𝗘𝗹𝗶 𝗪𝗲𝘄𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘅𝘂, is based in Chomio - Wallmapu and trained as a violinist from an early age and studied in various locations throughout Latin America and Europe. Eli works in musical composition, audiovisual creation, and collecting sound archives from the territory to which he belongs. He participates in various artistic and educational projects in Wallmapu that seek to create spaces for reflection and emotional processing in the face of the current political and environmental crisis, proposing listening as a daily practice of dialogue with the living environment. wewentxu.eli

𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲̇ 𝗝𝘂𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗰̌𝗶𝘂̄𝘁𝗲̇ is a kanklės player and singer from Lithuania, based in Belgium. Often performing solo or as part of Merope—her long-standing collaboration with Belgian guitarist and electronic artist Bert Cools— weaving together elements of folk, ambient and electronics, their albums released on Stroom and granvat. Indrė’s creative collaborations include works with artists such as Shahzad Ismaily, Eli Wewentxu, Jessika Kenney, Surya Botofasina, Laraaji, Gyða Valtýsdóttir, Solo Cissokho. Indrė

Eli and Indré released “𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗽𝘂𝗲́𝘀 𝗱𝗲 𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿” on Stroom. The album is about musical conversations between two people who have only recently met; they come from very different places, do not speak the same languages, and perhaps have little in common other than the resonance of their instruments. Their album was recorded at Indrė’s home with kanklės, txompe and violin.

𝗦𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗠𝗼𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗮 is a musician who has been an active member of Beirut’s underground scene for around two decades. Specialising in sound design and textural experimentation, Moussa’s work spans drone-driven electro-acoustic compositions to dance-floor electronics. SARY MOUSSA

More info and tickets on our website: pilar.brussels 🪱

26/06/2026

// 𝑴𝒆𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕: 𝑹𝒖𝒖𝒏 //

Making coffees and studying Clinical Psychology at at day, diving in records at night 😎
_ merges progressive jungle house, trance, and the subtle breath of nature into journeys that attempt to mimic life. Shifting in color, depth but most emportantly emotion using both vulnarable and powerfull music. Each set is an exploration, a narrative told through basslines and atmospheres, crafted to move both body and mind.

Between 6 -8 PM at our open-air Summer Closing ☀️

23/06/2026

A small clip of the “Reimagining 16th Street”- docuseries.
During the summer of 2024, Marvin Tate led a group of North Lawndale community members on a storytelling journey. This was one of four pillars of “Reimagining 16th Street” - in which artists and residents came together to envision a revitalized corridor with art and culture infused throughout.

Catch Marvin Tate live tonight as part of Mike Reeds Separatist Party feat. Ben Lamar Gay and Bitchin Bajas 🌀

Adresse

Triomflaan VUB Entrance 6
Brussels
1050

Téléphone

+3226292326

Site Web

https://pilar.brussels/

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