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Yves Degryse / Berlin / NTGent: Living Apartment Together
Reinaartlaan 14 · Linkeroever
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Edition 01 · Week 38
1420September2026
This week in Antwerp
An unusually dense crossover week sends live sound through an opera house, museum, church, park, apartment façade, café and artist-run spaces.
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This week’s top picks
Editorial
Our three picks move from a building-scale projection to an intimate meeting of oud and guitar, then into a gallery transformed into a live film set.
Monday—Sunday
This Week
Every listing is checked for date, venue, live character and ticket status before publication.
MondaySEP14
20:00
Emily Hennessey & Tom Van Mieghem
Den Hopsack · Historic Centre
The British storyteller and Flemish theatre-maker interweave English and Dutch through ancient myths, folklore and oral tales: an intimate performance where rhythm, language and musicality do the live work.
TuesdaySEP15
20:00
Neeka and the Nuance
AMOR · Borgerhout
Neeka presents new English-language material with Maarten Schelkens on drums, Toon Van Volsem on piano and Zeno Vandaele on bass: a compact band launch rather than a routine catalogue show.
TuesdaySEP15
21:00
De Muze 5
Jazzcafé De Muze · Historic Centre
Jan De Coninck, Bram Weijters, Chris Mentens, Vincent Dierickx and Vincent Brijs bring trumpet, piano, bass, drums and saxophone into De Muze’s close-range upstairs-room tradition.
WednesdaySEP16
19:00
Metric + Broken Social Scene + Stars
De Roma · Borgerhout
The large-room exception this week: three interlinked Toronto and Montréal groups share personnel, history and an instinct for layered arrangements. Stars begin at 19:00, Broken Social Scene at 19:50 and Metric at 21:10.
WednesdaySEP16
20:00
Louis Andriessen / Phia Ménard: De Materie
Opera Antwerpen · Antwerpen
Andriessen’s four-part theatrical ultrasymphony is staged by Phia Ménard with choreography by KOR’SIA. Bas Wiegers conducts soprano, tenor, two speakers, eight voices and a large ensemble. Also Thursday 17 and Saturday 19 at 20:00; Sunday 20 at 15:00.
WednesdaySEP16
20:30
Yves Degryse / Berlin / NTGent: Living Apartment Together
Reinaartlaan 14 · Linkeroever
Life-size projections occupy five apartments and a stairwell while headphone-wearing spectators watch filmed residents and live performers cross the façade’s threshold. Runs Wednesday 16 through Saturday 19 at 20:30.
ThursdaySEP17
17:00
The Image Generator
Kunsthal Extra City · Antwerpen
Across Thursday 17 through Saturday 19, installations, sound works and live actions circulate through the former Dominican church. Highlights include Charlotte Bouckaert, Younes Baba-Ali and Ildikó Horváth.
ThursdaySEP17
17:00
KMSKA Late: Joffrey Anane × Antony Gormley + Planquartet
KMSKA · Zuid
At 18:00, 19:00 and 21:00, dancers Joffrey Anane and Pommelien Vloemans activate Gormley’s Orbit Field III with ambient electronics, soundscape, guitar and voice. Planquartet plays from 18:30 to 21:30.
ThursdaySEP17
18:30—19:30
POL — New Song, Live Film Shoot by Yaël Temminck
Tommy Simoens · Zuid
Dutch brothers Ruben and Matthijs Pol perform a new song as Yaël Temminck films the one-hour session inside his exhibition. The audience becomes part of the live take.
Free
ThursdaySEP17
19:00
Zwerm: Calling Songs
Hobokense Polder · Hoboken
Zwerm places small synths and guitar pedals beside the calls of local crickets and frogs, composing with the polder’s living biodiversity rather than treating it as scenery.
ThursdaySEP17
19:30
Philippe Garrel: Le Révélateur — Live Score
De Cinema · Historic Centre
Radwan Ghazi Moumneh and Réka Csiszér build an improvised score from cello, buzuq, rababa, voices, electronics and analogue synth. Sources disagree between 19:30 and 20:30; confirm the screening start with the box office.
ThursdaySEP17
20:00
Ahmed Hawwash
AMOR · Borgerhout
The Palestinian clarinettist, saxophonist and composer connects contemporary jazz phrasing with Middle Eastern melodic traditions in De Roma’s small room.
ThursdaySEP17
20:00
Thomas Jillings, Max Dobbertin & Yannick Dupont
Den Hopsack · Historic Centre
Jillings’s third-Thursday series adds Dobbertin and Dupont: clarinet, flute, flugelhorn, bass and drums are threaded through three synth setups in an unusually open café-scale configuration.
ThursdaySEP17
20:30
B’net Chaabi & Think of One: Habibi Beats
Rataplan · Borgerhout
B’net Chaabi’s women-led vocals, percussion and keyboards meet Think of One’s guitar, bass and drums in a new residency project built on oral transmission, repetition and trance.
FridaySEP18
14:30
La Ramada del Cóndor
Blikfabriek · Hoboken
An all-day community programme moves from cueca and traditional dances to Llaktapura’s Andean ensemble, masked dance by Le Masque qui bouge, Chamanto’s Latin fusion and Conexión Cubana.
FridaySEP18
19:30
Maddie Ashman
Trix Bar · Borgerhout
The classically trained composer-producer pulls choral vocal writing, heavy breakbeats and microtonality into compact pop forms on her first headline tour.
FridaySEP18
20:00
GHOST + Jules Reidy: Ghost/Spirit
Het Bos · Antwerpen
GHOST combines four performers in a séance-like meeting of composition, voice and theatre; at 21:30, Jules Reidy follows with processed guitar, unstable tuning and fragmented song.
FridaySEP18
20:20
Peter Verhelst & Bjorn Eriksson: The Eagle Has Landed
’t Kerkske · Kapellen · Province of Antwerp
Two guitarists cross Arabic-Andalusian music, avant-garde, pop, jazz and classical language for a deliberately limited audience. Included as a province exception because of their direct connection to the programme’s orbit.
SaturdaySEP19
13:00
Shadow Creatures Discovery Lab + Roll Into a Tear
Middelheimmuseum · Antwerpen
Make nocturnal creatures in a drop-in lab until 17:00, then physically enter and roll inside a giant bubble-like tear, becoming part of Monster Chetwynd’s living artwork until 18:00. Also Sunday 20.
SaturdaySEP19
13:30
15 Years of ’t Akkoord: Parade
Terloplein to Moorkensplein · Borgerhout
The neighbourhood fanfare gathers Centers, RIF Fanfare, Banda Quetzal and Reutel while crossing Terloplein, Krugerplein, Laar and Moorkensplein. A paid WOOM afterparty opens at 21:00.
SaturdaySEP19
13:30
Out in the Streets
Arenbergstraat and theatre district · Historic Centre
Arenberg and Toneelhuis turn the district into a mixed live circuit with music, dance, storytelling, guided walks and in-progress work. Radio(z)Onderdak broadcasts live.
SaturdaySEP19
16:00
Rurik de Weerdt pEXPO + Peter Verhelst
Pekfabriek / De Steeg · Borgerhout
Rurik de Weerdt opens a small pEXPO with a live solo concert by guitarist Peter Verhelst: a compact artist-run encounter more easily missed than the institutional programme around it.
SaturdaySEP19
17:00 / 20:00
Jeremy Nedd: Slidin’thru
Sporthal Linkeroever · Linkeroever
Three dancers bring a 1970s US social dance onto a basketball court, using smoothness, repetition and collective style as tools for moving through a difficult present.
SaturdaySEP19
20:00
Fleur Khani / HERMESensemble: ZAN
DE SINGEL Theaterstudio · Antwerpen
Nour Darwish and Andrea Cortes Moreno sing against a chamber body of viola, cello, clarinet, accordion and harp. Fleur Khani’s libretto combines the Persian Simurgh myth with testimony from Narges Mohammadi’s White Torture.
SundaySEP20
15:00
Gwen Cresens & Boho Strings Antwerp: Bach Works in Mysterious Ways
De Roma · Borgerhout
Bach concerti are refracted through Stravinsky and Villa-Lobos before arriving at Betsubara, Cresens’s new accordion concerto: a meeting of historical material and a living composer-performer.
SundaySEP20
15:00
Lucas Espildora & Band
Djingel Djangel · Historic Centre
The Brazilian guitarist and band connect slide guitar, blues pulse and North Mississippi hill-country repetition in one of the week’s smallest rooms.
SundaySEP20
19:00
Vtoroi Ka
KAVKA Oudaan · Historic Centre
The Bishkek duo’s final European tour moves from underground hip-hop through post-punk, electronics and rave pressure while presenting their final album. The venue has changed to KAVKA Oudaan.
Next eight weeks
Forward look
Announced early enough to put in the diary.
NEWLY DISCOVERED
Elisabeth Harnik / Milana Zarić / Richard Barrett
The trio treats Fred Van Hove’s grand piano as the centre of a hybrid electro-acoustic body during a two-day Sound in Motion residency.
NEWLY DISCOVERED
Jon Birdsong, Nathan Daems, Filip Vandebril, Simon Segers & Karel Ceulenaere
A high-level local lineup makes this jam session closer to a structured improvising encounter than an open-mic routine.
NEWLY DISCOVERED
Elisabeth Klinck Trio: Silent Soundscapes
Klinck’s violin-led trio works at the border of instrumental intimacy, field-recorded atmosphere and spatial sound.
NEWLY DISCOVERED
Rites of Noise #10
Suzan Peeters, Tzu Ni, Maya Verlaak & Luca Piovesan and Kaboom Karavan form an unusually strong tenth-edition bill, performed for the room and streamed live.
NEWLY DISCOVERED
Ever Present / Tijl Piryns
Two new records share one launch night, with contemporary jazz and song-based writing placed in direct dialogue.
NEWLY DISCOVERED
Omjan (Omid Aghajani)
Rataplan’s Living programme relocates to the instrument museum for a free artist-led takeover by Omid Aghajani.
NEWLY DISCOVERED
Catharina Evens: Artist in Residence
The composer and multi-instrumentalist opens her residency process in a public showing rather than presenting a fixed touring set.
NEWLY DISCOVERED
Fat Dog
The London band’s collision of punk physicality, electronics and rave rhythm is precisely the kind of high-energy larger-room show that clears this guide’s threshold.
NEWLY ANNOUNCED · WAITLIST
Fontaines D.C. + Chalk
Fontaines D.C.’s largest Belgian indoor show brings the new Dopamine Chamber material to Antwerp with electro-punk duo Chalk: a justified large-venue exception.
A short train away
Brussels
When the reasons to travel are unusually strong.
Palestine, A Song of the Land
BOZAR · Global music / poetry / dance · €22–42
SǒN Screening & Live Soundtrack
AB Salon · Live film score / electro-acoustic performance · free
LAST TICKETS
A Love Supreme
AB Flex · Dance / spiritual jazz · €30 / €31 door
Shabaka presents Of the Earth + Ola Tunji
AB Flex · Experimental / spiritual jazz · €36 / €37 door
Erykah Badu: Imeho / One Human Show
BOZAR · Improvised voice / piano / percussion · €99–225