Let me be your guide

Through a series of online guides and who’s who’s, Flanders Arts Institute regularly publishes short overviews of contemporary players and organisations, often in combination with short landscape texts or essays by critics. In this way, we also introduce international arts professionals to makers and organisations in Flanders and Brussels.

The selection of portraits is always done with external working groups. An online special or who’s who is always a limited sample of players, a snapshot of an art discipline or niche under the heading ‘Let me be your guide’.

Let me be your guide: Sound art in Flanders

When was sound art created? How did it take shape in Flanders?

Let me be your guide: Contemporary visual art in Flanders

Learn more about the contemporary visual arts scene in Flanders (and Brussels) and its players.

Let me be your guide: Photography in Flanders

Exploring the edges of contemporary photography through the eyes of Stefan Vanthuyne

Let me be your guide: Contemporary dance

Let yourself be guided by portraits of dance makers and multiple essays.

Classical Music

The importance Flanders has afforded to music appears to date back as far as Flanders itself. An historical retrospect reveals that not only listening to music acquired a prominent social position in Flanders.

Let me be your guide: This book like a book

Get introduced to the peculiar world of artists' books

Let me be your guide: Theatre texts from the Lowlands

Discover Flemish and Dutch theatre authors and download their texts.

Let me be your guide: 21st century choir music in Flanders

Flanders has a rich tradition of choir music. But what about the 21st century? Read the essay and meet the composers in our online who's who.

Let me be your guide: chamber music from Flanders & Brussels

A short who’s who of Flemish chamber music developed in the context of Chamber Music America 2019

Let me be your guide: Into the streets – location theatre in Flanders

Browse through short profiles of site-specific theatre-makers and companies in Flanders, and of festivals that feature this kind of work.

Let me be your guide: Turning Photography

Visual guide of contemporary Belgian photography

Let me be your guide: Media art in Flanders, a hybrid history of its origins

About a young and dynamic sector that works at close proximity to its artists

01 Mar 2021

Analysis

Let me be your guide: contemporary performing arts for young audiences in Flanders

Discover the scene, artists and trends in this short essay and in a brief online who’s who

Let me be your guide: Artists’ Moving Image in Flanders

From artisanal, analogue DIY practices to the lavish gallery installations, from the essayistic and political to the narrative and performative, from the cinematic to the resolutely digital ...

12 May 2020

Analysis

Let me be your guide: contemporary jazz

Discover contemporary jazz from Belgium through the eyes and ears of jazz professionals.

Residencies and workspaces in Flanders and Brussels

Flanders Arts Institute aims to inform artists and art professionals from home and abroad by providing easy access to information about residencies and workspaces in the fields of visual arts, performing arts and music in Flanders and Brussels as well as internationally.

This online tool provides a mapping of artist-in-residence programmes and workspaces in Flanders and Brussels available for local and international artists.

Find a residence or workspace