This fall, STUK sets the tone with a season of encounters across disciplines and spaces. From a house-wide festival to site-specific music, daring performance and a landmark exhibition, the programme invites audiences into unexpected dialogues between past and present, intimacy and collectivity, experiment and ritual. Here’s what we look forward to!
STUK START
18+19.09.2025, STUK
The new season begins with STUK START, a two-day festival that turns the building into a trail of discovery. To start, 18.09, will be a journey that unfolds as a vibrant parcours through dance, image, and sound. Legendary turntablist DJ Grazzhoppa sets the tone with finely cut beats, while Club Efemeer & Berlinde Deman weave soundscapes that balance fragility and depth. Choreographer Dovydas Strimaitis explores the body as a vessel for rhythm and silence, before Courtney May Robertson pushes movement to its physical and emotional edge. The energy peaks with Kin’Gongolo Kiniata, whose explosive rhythms channel Kinshasa’s raw creativity into a magnetic live show. Closing the night, the DansBAaR afterparty transforms the house into a space for collective release.
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Tristan Perich
29.10.2025, Sint-Michielskerk
Composer and sound artist Tristan Perich brings a special dialogue of code and acoustics to Leuven’s Gothic Sint-Michielskerk. Blending lo-fi electronics with instrumental clarity, his music unfolds as precise yet deeply resonant structures. In the vast architecture of the church, this interplay between technology and tradition becomes almost architectural itself; a sonic constellation where the digital feels sacred and the sacred turns contemporary.
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buren: Shoe/Farm – A Family Business
20.11.2025, STUK
photo Jonas Verbeke
In Shoe/Farm – A Family Business, the collective buren imagines a hybrid world where a shoe shop doubles as a farm. Potatoes and Buffalo boots exchange hands in a performance where daily gestures become choreography, sound and spectacle. At once humorous and incisive, the performance reflects on inheritance, value and shifting economies. With meticulous staging and a keen sense of rhythm, buren crafts again a piece that is as playful as it is thought-provoking.
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Suzan Peeters & Able Noise
26.11.2025, STUK
Accordionist Suzan Peeters presents her debut album in an event that redefines the sonic character of her instrument. Every breath, click and resonance expands into an acoustic-electronic spectrum that feels delicate and powerful. She shares the stage with Able Noise, a baritone guitar and drums duo, whose music balances composition with improvisation, intimacy with raw force. Blickwinkel DJ frames the evening, extending the atmosphere into shared space and time.
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Saodat Ismailova: Her Journeys, Her Lives
07.10.2025 - 14.12.2025, STUK
photo Hangar Bicocca
STUK hosts the first Belgian solo exhibition of filmmaker and artist Saodat Ismailova, a leading voice in contemporary art from Central Asia. Her Journeys, Her Lives unfolds women’s stories across history, spirituality and memory, weaving together film, sound, textiles and installation. Works such as Chillahona, Celestial Circle and Her Right trace a female cosmology where myth and ritual intersect with politics and lived experience. The exhibition offers a profound and rare perspective on resilience, heritage and the interconnection of worlds.
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