Caring is never self-evident. It asks for attention, patience, and the choice to preserve what is valuable and protect what is fragile. What if we saw care not as duty but as a way of engaging consciously with the world? Àmare is an art trail in and around Damme that connects contemporary art with landscape, heritage and experience. Founded in 2023 by entrepreneur Luc Beke and curator Annelies Ysebaert, it grows from 2026 into a biennial. The third edition, The Art of Care, u

Glass is never innocent. It seduces, glints, cuts, shatters, preserves. What happens when artists stop treating this fragile material as decoration and start using it to carry tension, metamorphosis, loss? GLASSTRESS 2026 returns to Venice and Murano. Founded in 2009 by Adriano Berengo as a collateral event of the Venice Biennale, GLASSTRESS brings together more than fifty artists this year, all working alongside the master glassmakers of Murano. Curated by Adriano Berengo, J

On 2 April, the Belgian Embassy in Beijing inaugurated Cosmopolitan Fossil, a temporary bronze sculpture (220 cm) presented as part of the Embassy’s cultural programme. The installation introduces Chinese audiences to Vanmechelen’s exploration of biocultural diversity, hybridity, and humanity’s relationship with life and nature. Max Recollecte, Public Diplomacy Counsellor, states: “The Belgian Embassy is pleased to welcome Koen Vanmechelen for the inauguration of Cosmopolitan

A landscape is never finished. It shifts with the light, the seasons, the hand that works it. What happens when contemporary art settles into that landscape and the walker is asked to slow down? The Ooidonk Art Festival returns for a fifth edition, this year deliberately concentrated: one location, around twenty artists from Belgium, Northern France and the south of the Netherlands, a trail through meadow, grazing cattle and the open horizon of the historic Goed te Réables es

Intimacy is the space where we come closest to another and where we are most exposed. Why does nearness draw us in and unsettle us at the same time? What do we surrender when we let someone in, and what do we keep behind the door? Intiem (Intimate), the summer exhibition at Villa Les Zéphyrs, is curated by guest curator Jan Leysen as a meditation on closeness. Leysen, a criminal defence lawyer and a collector of contemporary art since the age of seventeen, drew together eight