COMBINAISON focuses on mixtures and the creations that arise from them. For four days, in the heart of the city, artists with diverse creative practices invite us to see how seemingly different worlds can come together and, for a brief moment, create something new.

From photography to textiles, artists Jonas Reubens, Lauren Bouden, and Diana Waddington share their personal and collective stories through an exhibition co-curated with the Veduta collective. In the basement, a play of shadows and lights takes us into a creation developed with the young people of MJ88.

Throughout the four days of the festival, different musical artists enriched the exhibition with unique soundscapes. The festival features Martha Da’Ro, a performer whose musical world blends a captivating mix of neo-soul, hip hop, and funk. Several DJ sets punctuated the festivities with artists like Egidius, Elvira, and Judith Kiddo. Anna Masuco offers a performance that blends visual art with a narrative of construction and deconstruction, paralleling the history of the exhibition space, which has undergone changes over time.

The festival also includes activities organized in collaboration with other Brussels-based collectives. Notable is a writing workshop hosted by the Blurbs collective, as well as a relaxing sound-filled Sunday organized by the La Matinée collective.

A series of ‘urbex’ workshops were organised with the Maison de jeunes Le 88.  Accompanied by professional photographers, the youngsters visited the different floors of an abandoned building. The result was a series of photographs, which the participants then put on display at an exhibition to introduce them to scenography. In the same line, a workshop organised by Blurbs also took up this desire for co-creation, this time focusing on writing songs based on revolutionary texts. Thought up collectively, these songs live on within the community, beyond the individual.