{"id":446848,"date":"2026-01-30T07:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T07:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/446848\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T07:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T07:06:14","slug":"kanal-centre-pompidou-complex-in-brussels-to-reopen-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/446848\/","title":{"rendered":"kanal-centre pompidou complex in brussels to reopen in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kanal-Centre Pompidou compleX to relaunch in brussels<\/p>\n

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Brussels<\/a> is set to open a new chapter in its cultural history with the relaunch of Kanal-Centre Pompidou<\/a>, a museum<\/a> and cultural complex inside a former Citro\u00ebn factory. To open again on November 28th, 2026, the project is being described as Europe\u2019s largest new museum development and marks the city\u2019s first institution that\u2019s fully dedicated to modern and contemporary art and architecture. The opening exhibitions<\/a> are co-created with Paris\u2019 Centre Pompidou, bringing together more than 350 artworks drawn mainly from the Pompidou\u2019s collection, alongside works from Kanal and other Belgian and international collections.<\/p>\n

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The transformed industrial building is located along the Brussels canal, spanning 40,000 square meters. Under one expansive roof, the museum and public cultural space is expected to house five floors of exhibition galleries, performance and film spaces, workshops, community areas, cafes, shops, and a rooftop restaurant and bar overlooking the city. The plans also include an in-house bakery and large circulation areas open to visitors even without a museum ticket. The redesign of the former factory is being led by Atelier Kanal, a team formed by Swiss architects EM2N, Brussels-based noAarchitecten, and London\u2019s Sergison Bates architects. <\/p>\n

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all images courtesy of Atelier Kanal \u00a9 Secchi Smith, unless stated otherwise<\/p>\n

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long-term collaboration between two institutions<\/p>\n

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The exhibition<\/a> at the reopening of the Kanal-Centre Pompidou complex<\/a> in Brussels will include works by major 20th-century artists such as Henri Matisse, Sonia Delaunay, Alberto Giacometti, and Wifredo Lam, as well as contemporary artists connected to Brussels and the international art scene.\u00a0 Aside from the re-opening, the relaunch doubles as a long-term collaboration between the two institutions, as they aim to often bring international art to Brussels. The Kanal-Centre Pompidou complex in Brussels is also set to be the new home for the CIVA collection, Brussels\u2019 archive of architecture, landscape design, and urban planning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Several exhibitions are set to open at once during the re-opening on November 28th, 2026. The highlights include An infinite woman, examining colonial imagery and its reclamation, alongside solo and commissioned works by Jo\u00eblle Tuerlinckx, Manon de Boer (with Latifa La\u00e2bissi and Laszlo Umbreit), Joshua Serafin, Banu Cenneto\u011flu, and Otobong Nkanga. Group projects involve D\u00e9partement des Pi\u00e8ges curated by Cl\u00e9mentine Deliss, NO SHOW by Deborah Bowmann and Maoupa Mazzocch\u00e8, and contributions from Guillaume Bijl, Kasper Bosmans, Laurent Dupont, Aline Bouvy, P\u00e9lagie Gbaguidi, Val\u00e9rie Mannaerts, Miao Miao, and others. <\/p>\n

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rendering of the interior street in Kanal<\/p>\n

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indoor playground created by British collective Assemble<\/p>\n

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The program also features \u2018A truly immense journey\u2019 with artists including Lygia Clark, Sonia Delaunay, Natalia Goncharova, Henri Matisse, Wifredo Lam, Katarzyna Kobro, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Sammy Baloji, Edith Dekyndt, Aglaia Konrad, and Hana Mileti\u0107, and a community print room by WERKER Collective. Inside the renovated architecture lies an indoor playground created by British collective Assemble, winners of the Turner Prize. Covering 700 square meters is an installation filled with hills, volcanoes, and distant planets. So far, the official date for the reopening of the Kanal-Centre Pompidou complex in Brussels is in November 2026.<\/p>\n

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view of the Reading Room inside the complex<\/p>\n

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view of the nave<\/p>\n

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the showroom inside the cultral complex<\/p>\n

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the Koekelberg viaduct near Sainctelettesquare, around 1958. Postcard by Colorprint, Brussels \u00a9 CIVA Collections, Brussels<\/p>\n

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Garage Citro\u00ebn. Negatives. \u00a9 CIVA Collections, Brussels<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kanal-Centre Pompidou compleX to relaunch in brussels \u00a0 Brussels is set to open a new chapter in its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[93252,449,458,459,64,63,1767,460,134,15941,48842],"class_list":{"0":"post-446848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-architecture-in-belgium","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-au","13":"tag-australia","14":"tag-centre-pompidou","15":"tag-design","16":"tag-entertainment","17":"tag-exhibitions","18":"tag-museums-and-galleries"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}