Bâtard Brussels

05/04/2026

this week Astrid Sweeney x Weixin Chong at Beursschouwburg in coprogrammation with Bâtard

More info & 🎫: https://beursschouwburg.be/en/events/astrid-sweeney-ontogenesis-dreams/

05/04/2026

this week at Beursschouwburg in Brussels 👇

Do you also love ART (assisted reproductive technologies) ? w/ Bâtard

11/12/2024

📣 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫(𝐬) 📣

𝐴 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑒𝑟𝑎 𝑖𝑠 𝑢𝑝𝑜𝑛 𝑢𝑠.
Bâtard is looking for a new artistic direction!
Always a platform, sometimes a festival, Bâtard has been a breeding ground for artistic development and experimentation in Brussels, Belgium and abroad for 20 years. After 5 years with the current team, fostering artistic experimentation and community engagement, Bâtard is now transitioning to a new phase.

𝑰𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒆’𝒓𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓?

We are looking for one or more people who want to shape the future of Bâtard while in some way continuing the existing links with the community of artists and partners. Bâtard has always had a team of curators, and we would like to stay away from an individual direction. Nevertheless you can apply on your own (and then be potentially teamed up with other applicants) or apply as a team or collective already.

The current team can assure a handover of skills, knowledge and network. There is a limited budget available as remuneration for writing the new dossier.

We invite you to reach out to us in whatever format you feel is the most fitting to express your vision for Bâtard. We would like to know who you are, how you perceive Bâtard, what it represents for you and where you want to take it next. Written texts should be no longer than 1 A4, other formats ideally take a maximum of 10 minutes to receive.

→ 𝖣𝖾𝖺𝖽𝗅𝗂𝗇𝖾 : 𝖲𝖾𝗇𝖽 𝗒𝗈𝗎𝗋 𝗏𝗂𝗌𝗂𝗈𝗇 𝗍𝗈 𝖺𝗉𝗉𝗅𝗂𝖼𝖺𝗍𝗂𝗈𝗇𝖻𝖺𝗍𝖺𝗋𝖽@𝗀𝗆𝖺𝗂𝗅.𝖼𝗈𝗆 𝖻𝗒 𝖣𝖾𝖼𝖾𝗆𝖻𝖾𝗋 𝟥𝟣, 𝟤𝟢𝟤𝟦. 𝖠𝗇𝗒 𝗊𝗎𝖾𝗌𝗍𝗂𝗈𝗇𝗌 𝖼𝖺𝗇 𝖻𝖾 𝖽𝗂𝗋𝖾𝖼𝗍𝖾𝖽 𝗍𝗈 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝗌𝖺𝗆𝖾 𝖺𝖽𝖽𝗋𝖾𝗌𝗌.

→ 𝖠𝖿𝗍𝖾𝗋 𝖼𝗈𝗇𝗌𝗂𝖽𝖾𝗋𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝖺𝗉𝗉𝗅𝗂𝖼𝖺𝗍𝗂𝗈𝗇𝗌, 𝖺 𝗌𝖾𝗅𝖾𝖼𝗍 𝗇𝗎𝗆𝖻𝖾𝗋 𝗈𝖿 𝖼𝖺𝗇𝖽𝗂𝖽𝖺𝗍𝖾𝗌 𝗐𝗂𝗅𝗅 𝖻𝖾 𝗂𝗇𝗏𝗂𝗍𝖾𝖽 𝖿𝗈𝗋 𝖺𝗇 𝗂𝗇𝗍𝖾𝗋𝗏𝗂𝖾𝗐 𝗂𝗇 𝖩𝖺𝗇𝗎𝖺𝗋𝗒 𝟤𝟢𝟤𝟧.

🔗 Read more about the offer through the link in bio 🔗

13/11/2024

The last day of Bâtard flew by in the blink of an eye, leaving a trail of sparkly dust in its wake. A Houdini-like trick and there we were, dancing away the final hours to the closing saluting cheers and the farewell tears.

With a gut punch of a closing piece by Stephanie Kayal, a duo performance involuntarily turned into a one woman show, her partner Abed Kobeissy having to stay in Beirut with his family amid the ongoing war-inflicted horrors. Mustaf Ahmeti delivered once again with his immersive futuristic show. A short films projection curated by (.tv) and a celebration party Bastards One More Time that reunited old and new Bastards.

Aftermovie coming soon!

📷 Frames by

07/11/2024

Last night, we travelled back and forth between Jamaïca, Europe and Congo with the moving musical storytelling of 𝐓𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐓𝐨 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐞, set to reggae rhythms and monochrome images. The dynamic duo 𝐁𝐚𝐦𝐁𝐚𝐦 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐲𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐎̈𝐬𝐭𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐠 𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐭𝐞́ put on their show for the second time in the premises of Beursschouwburg.

𝖳͟𝗁͟𝗎͟𝗋͟𝗌͟𝖽͟𝖺͟𝗒͟ 𝟩͟/𝟣͟𝟣͟
Bastards unite for the penultimate evening of Bâtard, with a 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆 musical interlude by Aziza and her softly raspy voice, a 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆 video installation by 𝐒𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐚 𝐀𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐮𝐢 (Maqam.tv) and the sold out performance of 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐟 𝐀𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐢.

📷 Frames by : rehearsals of Toussaint To Move and Mustaf Ahmeti.

07/11/2024

“Marginalized films seem to be a thing only when at least three decades old”
Screening program by .tv (Sophia Attigui) and with the tender and devoted curatorial contribution of Grocco a.k.a. Trick54

▌Friday 8 November
▌ Black box
🔗 free entrance

The selected films tell tales of liberty, refusal and resistance. All three film works stand at the extremities of the image making machine through, inter alia, their formats, their narrations, their subjects and their objects. They will be preceded with a short intervention by Sophia Attigui dwelling on the ways by which filmmakers of the Global South must sanitize, smoothen, filter, regulate, revise, rectify their languages to meet Western (now turned universal) standards of film development, production and dissemination.

⇝ ‘Cyanosis’ directed by Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami - Iran, 30’, 2007 (english subtitles)
Jamshid Aminfar is a painter, forced to work on the streets of Tehran but determined to pursue the art he loves despite constant interruption and hassle from officials and the public. With the help of his friends he prepares for an exhibition. Aminfar’s animated paintings are talking about his inner life, dreams, nightmares and memories…ghaem

⇝ ‘Si Mohamed’ directed by Salim Bayzou - Morocco, 25’, 2016 (french subtitles)
Si Mohamed and his family of 6 live in extreme poverty and share a single room within a large house located in the old medina of Salé. Often, Si Mohamed runs away from his environment until he is found and brought back to his home.


⇝ ‘Untitled Life Experience’ directed by Grocco a.k.a. Trick54 - Morocco, 17’, 2022 (english and arabic subtitles)
The story of the film tells the experience of a young Moroccan from a modest background and underprivileged environment, who invested his human capital, his potential, and more, into his art although at the end, he finds himself in the street and without any income. Even in this situation of homelessness, in total isolation from the art world, he works on keeping his mental balance and creativity.

06/11/2024

Bâtard had its last opening 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 last night, a stirring joy every edition, shared with all of the attending Bastards. As the timeline gets bleaker with each passing day, the need for community and collective resilience swells consequently, and those sweet moments of togetherness reverberate even more loudly.

⇝ with performances by 𝐀𝐥𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐄𝐤𝐥𝐨𝐮 𝐔𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐞 & 𝐁𝐚𝐦𝐁𝐚𝐦 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐲𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐎̈𝐬𝐭𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐠 𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐭𝐞́.

𝖶͟𝖾͟𝖽͟𝗇͟𝖾͟𝗌͟𝖽͟𝖺͟𝗒͟ 𝟨͟/𝟣͟𝟣͟
Today, for the second day ever, come enjoy a 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆 performance at 19:00, a 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆 ongoing video installation and the melodic performance of 𝑻𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕 𝑻𝒐 𝑴𝒐𝒗𝒆 in the Gouden Zaal.

Anyway, stream “𝘍𝘋𝘛” by YG feat. Nipsey Hussle 💅

ƁɑsեɑɾժƖყ Ƴօմɾs.

📷 frames by Alex Cepile

06/11/2024

As the ƁɑsեɑɾժƖყ Ƴօմɾs edition gets under way, we want to share again our goodbye letter to those 5 years of riotous bastardization and the family we have come to create.

Get your pass and join us for the final days of Bâtard Festival 𝘢𝘴 𝘸𝘦 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘪𝘵.