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iMAL Art Centre for Digital Cultures and Technology iMAL is an art center for digital cultures and technology, located in the center of Brussels.

Our international position as pioneer in this field since 20+ years was reinforced in 2020 with the opening of our new venue, including a large exhibition space, an expanded state-of-the-art Fablab, residency spaces and more. We support artistic and creative practices using (digital) technologies as their medium. Next to providing support for artists in their experimentation-, research- and production processes, iMAL is hosting art exhibitions, conferences, performances. Furthermore we also facilitate critical reflection, research and debates around the current and future challenges of our technological society, by stimulating cross-pollinations between art and technology. With our wide range of activities and elaborated mediation program, we aim to empower people and inspire the next generations to actively participate in today's and future digital cultures. Our Fablab encourages social inclusion and innovation towards sustainable development within the local community of Molenbeek. For updates on our FabLab-activities, check out our FabLab facebook-page: https://www.facebook.com/FabLab.iMAL/

Expo alert! ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ 21.10, vanaf / dès 18.00 uur / heuresAan het begin van de negentiende eeuw kwamen arbeiders in ops...
21/09/2026

Expo alert!
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21.10, vanaf / dès 18.00 uur / heures

Aan het begin van de negentiende eeuw kwamen arbeiders in opstand tegen oneerlijke arbeidsomstandigheden door bewust minder goed te werken, de productie te vertragen of te saboteren, en machines buiten werking te stellen. Ook de arbeiders van vandaag – van magazijnmedewerkers tot werknemers in start-ups – grijpen naar vormen van microverzet. Met subtiele tactieken verzetten zij zich tegen de door algoritmen opgevoerde werkdruk, stellen zij misstanden aan de kaak, proberen zij systemen te slim af te zijn en organiseren zij collectief tegenwicht.

De tentoonstelling nodigt uit tot reflectie op urgente vragen: waar bevinden zich vandaag de creatieve acties en technologieën die de uitbuitingsmechanismen van het kapitalisme ontregelen? Hoe zetten kunstenaars inventiviteit, verbeeldingskracht en ongehoorzaamheid in om een ‘poëzie van disfunctie’ te scheppen? En tot slot: zullen de machines zich uiteindelijk bij dit verzet aansluiten?

Au début du XIXe siècle, les travailleur·euses protestaient contre des conditions de travail injustes en travaillant délibérément mal, en ralentissant ou détériorant la production ou encore en mettant les machines hors service. Les travailleur·euses d’aujourd’hui — qu’il s’agisse de manutentionnaires ou d’employé·es de start-up — déploient des tactiques de micro-résistance pour contrer l’intensification du travail dictée par les algorithmes, dénoncer les abus sur le lieu de travail, déjouer les algorithmes et organiser une riposte collective.

L’exposition invite à réfléchir à des questions urgentes : où se trouvent aujourd’hui les actes créatifs et les « technologies de la déstruction » qui perturbent les mécanismes d’exploitation du capitalisme ? Comment les artistes mobilisent l’inventivité, la fiction et la ruse pour produire une « poésie du dysfonctionnement » ? Et enfin : les machines rejoindront-elles la rébellion ?

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This project is co-funded by the Vlaanderen verbeelding werkt through the Projectsubsidies kunsten and the Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles.

With the support of the King Baudouin Foundation and the Goethe Institut.

We are so excited to welcome our newest resident, Noah Destrée!  Noah Destrée Noah is one of two chosen artists to be a ...
07/07/2026

We are so excited to welcome our newest resident, Noah Destrée! Noah Destrée Noah is one of two chosen artists to be a part of the Fablab Experiments residency program which offers the opportunity to explore the iMAL fablab.

Noah’s project is titled “(s*x)toyBending” which involves “the creation of s*x machines using second-hand toy carcasses as raw material.” He plans to play with the idea of children’s toys and putting them into conversation with the playfulness of s*x toys. In his work, he addresses themes such as transhumanism, cyberfeminism, q***r existence, and archiving. Blending different techniques, both digital and analog, his work combines serious subjects with absurdity. Through video games, drawings, animation, and more recently 3D printing, Noah creates fantastical worlds that question social structures, homogenization, lack of representation, and the seriousness of the contemporary art world.

Peter Sattler (AT) is a visual artist and researcher currently working and living in Brussels. Between 2009 and 2017 he ...
23/06/2026

Peter Sattler (AT) is a visual artist and researcher currently working and living in Brussels. Between 2009 and 2017 he has been closely collaborating with Kristinn Gudmundsson (DAI, 2016). During this period they have been committed to a practice as duo, which resulted in works that have been shown around Europe.

In December 2022 they started to host, cook and design a series of dinner events, called ‘Bread and Butter Supper’, to which they bring their individual passions and interests in food. These curated dinners offer them a way to share their new research as well as older works, with audiences, offering people a collective experience and platform of pleasure and knowledge creation.
Apart from teaming up with Kristinn, Peter also processes and digests research through other artistic forms and approaches, such as film/video, installation, performance and writing.
Notions of friendship, curiosity and being together animate Peter Sattler’s process, while he attempts to challenge perceptions of authenticity, nature and sustainability.

Do you have your ticket for Friday’s dinner and concerts at iMAL?

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Click in the link of our bio to reserve the last spots!

Btw, our concert space is freshhhhhh freshhhhhhh

Some souvenirs of last dinner experience on May 29th

Some souvenirs of last dinner experience on May 29th

Some souvenirs of last dinner experience on May 29th

Some souvenirs of last dinner experience on May 29th

Some souvenirs of last dinner experience on May 29th

iMAL & EMAP present .b.csonka our EMAP artist in residency 2026Out of 643 submissions from across Europe, the participat...
18/06/2026

iMAL & EMAP present .b.csonka
our EMAP artist in residency 2026

Out of 643 submissions from across Europe, the participating member institutions jointly selected the 2026 artists during the jury conference hosted at the MEET Digital Culture Center in Milano back in April.

The selected artist for iMAL is Éva Csonka with her project The Most Dangerous Games We (Might) Play.

The Most Dangerous Games We (Might) Play seeks to create an orchestra composed of interactive robotic instruments that explore a shared soundscape.

The project has a deeply poetic component and aligns perfectly with iMAL’s vision, prioritising the use of low-tech and recycled materials in the form of DIY robotics. The project shares our philosophy of degrowth and perfectly embodies a critical approach and resistance against the techno-liberal monoculture that increasingly seeks to scale at the expense of planetary boundaries and dominate our cultural and political imagination. This installation/performance will allow us to delve deeper into the debate on the need for a more sustainable digital creation that embraces limits as an opportunity to reclaim creativity.

Congrats! We are looking forward to welcoming you in October!

EMAP is cofunded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.

30/05/2026

Meet our residents in the framework of .art ❤️

23/05/2026
Next Friday 29th, we invite you to an unforgettable dinner concert experience combining live coding and gastronomy art b...
23/05/2026

Next Friday 29th, we invite you to an unforgettable dinner concert experience combining live coding and gastronomy art by .sttlr as part of the artist duo formed with Kristin Gudmunsson

A delicious dinner will be served at the same time as Alex and Agathe perform.
This will be starting at 7pm in our main exhibition space and we are just telling you that it would be a pity to miss this for many many reasons.

So hurry up! get your ticket fast (link to purchase in our website, easy easy!). Just remember, seats are limited!

Come and enjoy the non metaphorical part of our Cookery programme.

With love,

the iMAL team

20/05/2026
30/04/2026

Concert alert 🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨

29th May will be an evening dedicated to live coding.
We are delighted to count on the greatest Alex MacLean
We start at 5 pm with a talk followed by a concert-dinner at 7pm.
On that evening we will also have the amazing and she will also have her dedicated post of course!

Together and on the weekend following (30 and 31 May) they will get deep into pattern thinking and how it can ground contemporary creative technology in ancient arts and crafts.
To do this they will be working with glue guns, motors, lollypop sticks and code examples, to explore how complex patterns of sound and movement can be made from simple parts.
They will introduce the free, web-based strudel software for this, exploring its possibilities for live coding music, while connecting it with other pattern-based codes like knitting and weaving patterns.

Check our programme and register fast!!! Seats are limited.

If you are joining both, the talk/performance/dinner + workshop, we recommend to select the combo ticket in our website!

All info in the link 🔗 of our bio

21/04/2026

Adresse

Koolmijnenkaai 30 Quai Des Charbonnages
Brussels
1080

Heures d'ouverture

Mercredi 10:00 - 18:00
Jeudi 10:00 - 18:00
Vendredi 10:00 - 18:00
Samedi 11:00 - 19:00
Dimanche 11:00 - 19:00

Téléphone

+3224103093

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