{"id":13239,"date":"2026-09-01T15:20:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T13:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mjb-jmb.org\/rendez-vous-brussels-art-week-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T16:07:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T14:07:25","slug":"rendez-vous-brussels-art-week-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mjb-jmb.org\/en\/rendez-vous-brussels-art-week-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"RENDEZVOUS \u2013 Brussels Art Week 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On 12 September, the Jewish Museum of Belgium is joining RendezVous and invites you to discover two new creations at the<\/strong> Salon de RendezVous<\/strong><\/a>, the event\u2019s central meeting space, specially designed by<\/strong> Espace Aygo<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

RendezVous<\/strong><\/a> is an annual celebration of the Brussels art scene, bringing together galleries, public institutions, private foundations, auction houses and artist-led initiatives from across the city. From 10 to 13 September 2026, exhibitions, events and discursive programmes will take place throughout the capital. Every September, more than 60 venues open their doors to showcase new artistic voices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PROGRAMME : <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

3:30\u20134:30 pm | Ritual and sound performance<\/strong>
M\u00e9lodie Blaison<\/em> & Barbara Salom\u00e9 Felgenhauer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

5\u20136 pm | Culinary experience \u201c<\/strong> Table Dance<\/strong> \u201d<\/strong>
Michelle Woods & Roman Hiele<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Location:<\/strong> Salon de RendezVous<\/strong> \u2013 Av. Van Volxem 311, 1190 Forest<\/strong>
Admission:<\/strong> free, no reservation required<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With Table Dance<\/a><\/strong>, Michelle Woods and Roman Hiele create a unique work, a dialogue between performance and gastronomy inspired by their former pop-up restaurant.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a9 Thomas Ost<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Initiated by cook Michelle Woods and musician Roman Hiele, Table Dance was a restaurant and event space rooted in Antwerp. More aptly described as a practice than a venue, Table Dance now continues to operate nomadically as an ever-evolving body, although the duo officially celebrated its funeral at KVS in 2023. Table Dance made a name as providers of fine food, drinks, and entertainment. Existing far away from any standards, their practice consists of a hybrid mix of cuisine, music, performance, and scenography cherishing freedom, creativity, and collective quality time above all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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M\u00e9lodie Blaison<\/a> and Barbara Salom\u00e9 Felgenhauer<\/a> <\/strong>present an original creation in which sound, breath, and ritual gesture enter into dialogue.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This performance, created with the participation of ceramic artist Cl\u00e9mence Thomas<\/a><\/strong>, emerges from the meeting of the two artists\u2019 practices. M\u00e9lodie Blaison explores sound and breath, while Barbara Salom\u00e9 Felgenhauer draws from ritual gesture. Their respective universes\u2014voice, flute, ceramics, and performative actions\u2014come together in a shared space, where sound and gesture intertwine to move bodies in a continuous flow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a9 Camille Poitevin<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Barbara Salom\u00e9 Felgenhauer<\/strong> (born in 1992, lives and works in Brussels) develops a practice in which photography serves as an anchor point, in dialogue with video, installation, and performance. As an artist-researcher, she initiated her laboratory J\u2019ai r\u00eav\u00e9 l\u2019obscur in 2020, based on an in-depth exploration of Starhawk\u2019s text Dreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex and Politics (1982). This reference nourishes her multidisciplinary practice, which pays particular attention to the neopagan dimensions of ecofeminism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Felgenhauer <\/strong>creates immersive, collective, and sensitive forms that challenge dominant narratives and open spaces for transformation. Her artistic research, informed by history, sociology, and philosophy through a gender-conscious lens, explores the relationships between body and land, image and ritual, politics and the sacred. Narrative occupies a central place in her work\u2014as a critical tool, an emancipatory experience, and a force capable of reshaping imaginaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a9 Lars Duchateau<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Based in Brussels, M\u00e9lodie Blaison<\/strong> is a sound artist, composer, and flautist. She explores the boundaries between performance, electroacoustic composition, field recording, and ceramic instrument-making. Her work centres on breath as a primary material, shaping voices, instruments, and spaces to create listening situations in which sound emerges, transforms, and disappears according to the conditions that receive it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her works combine acoustic and electronic textures, field recordings, and instrumental gestures, creating unstable sonic environments in which perception is constantly reconfigured. She also designs ceramic instruments activated by air and water, which are used in performances and installations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cl\u00e9mence Thomas<\/strong>, a French ceramic artist based in Brussels, designed the shells used in this performance. Her practice, blending modeling and molding, is rooted in a sculptural approach where space becomes a living field of exploration. Inspired by mythology, architecture, and painting, her work brings to life forms born from stories and narratives, embodied in objects that are at once sculptural, tools, and artifacts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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