What to do this weekend in Belgium? Our agenda for November 23 and 24

What are we doing this weekend? Le Vif Weekend gives you ideas for having a good time, in Brussels and Wallonia, outside and inside. Have fun!

We toast natural wine in Brussels

Living wine continues to be emulated and will flow freely in the capital this weekend. This is because natural wine – meaning made without any input – is increasingly attractive, despite relatively confidential production (only 2% of the French wine market is dedicated to it), more and more establishments pride themselves on offering several so-called living bottles.

Yet another proof of this craze for these freer wines, the natural wine festival is arriving for a second edition this weekend in Brussels. For two days, this committed festival will give pride of place to these new winemaking techniques which are attracting the public’s favor. In addition, numerous round tables and panel discussions will be organized to examine the future of the sector, which in the light of climate change faces immense challenges.

We celebrate surrealism in Wallonia

Fasten your seat belts, this weekend we’re taking a quick trip to the land of the absurd and the imaginary. This year, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Surrealism, Wallonia has pulled out all the stops and intends to blow out the candles of this large-scale movement as it should.

In our viewfinder we mainly have three exhibitions which are to be discovered until the beginning of 2025. Firstly, we head to the Cité Ardente, at La Boverie, to understand the work of Paul Delvaux, a major figure in Belgian surrealism, including the works are brought together in a retrospective exhibition which plunges us into the very heart of the artistic movement.

We then move on to the BAM, in Mons, which offers its visitors a unique vision of surrealism by putting the object at the center of an exhibition: “Surrealism, disrupting reality”.

And then we head to Charleroi, to the Museum of Photography where various photos of the great masters of the movement can be discovered in its exhibition “Surrealism, so to speak”.

We are moving the lines, in Brussels

Today, more than ever, art has become political. Its deep links with the world around it and the reflections of our societies that it sends back to us in its various forms are all gateways to a reflection (and often a critique) of our ways of life.

In a dedicated exhibition, entitled Changemakers, from committed art to democratic activism, the European Parliament draws on this thread of social activism through art by bringing together different works by contemporary artists who have positioned themselves in favor of freedom of expression. expression and thought. It’s on display until February 16.

We discover the crème de la crème of applied arts, in Mons

This is the new exhibition of the Former Abattoirs of Mons – BeCraft. For the 6^e Once this cultural hotspot will welcome the crème de la crème of European applied arts during its Maestria exhibition, which opens its doors from November 24.

In total, nearly 58 artists from 16 European countries will be represented in this exhibition which aims to show what is best in applied arts professions, ranging from ceramics to glass, including goldsmithing, woodworking, textiles, paper and even contemporary jewelry… Pleasure for the eyes guaranteed!