This fall, STUK opens a season of immersive encounters. Sound stretches across halls, movement traces new paths, and images reveal hidden layers of memory and ritual. The concerts, performances, and exhibitions invite your curiosity and attentive presence, resulting in a programme that transforms spaces into experiences and where art sparks discovery at every turn. Discover it with us!
STUK START
18+19.09.2025, STUK (18.09.2025 is free for DC members)
The new season begins with STUK START, a two-day festival that turns the building into a trail of discovery. On 18.09, the journey unfolds as a vibrant parcours through dance, image, and sound. Legendary turntablist DJ Grazzhoppa sets the tone, scratching the roof off with an all-vinyl set drawn exclusively from Dennis Tyfus’ cult label Ultra Eczema. Club Efemeer & Berlinde Deman follow with soundscapes balancing fragility and depth, while choreographer Dovydas Strimaitis explores the body as a vessel for rhythm and silence. Courtney May Robertson then pushes movement to its physical and emotional edge, before Kin’Gongolo Kiniata ignites the night with explosive rhythms channelling Kinshasa’s raw creativity. Closing the evening, the DansBAaR afterparty transforms the house into a collective release.
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Tristan Perich - Infinity Gradient
29.10.2025, Sint-Michielskerk
New York composer and sound artist Tristan Perich brings his monumental Infinity Gradient to the baroque setting of Sint-Michielskerk. Known for his pioneering use of 1-bit electronics, the most elemental form of digital sound, Perich pairs an electronic orchestra of one hundred tiny speakers with the vast Contius organ, one of Belgium’s finest since its 2018 restoration. Each speaker voices its own high-frequency pattern, forming a shimmering electronic constellation around the organ’s thunderous tones. At the keys is James McVinnie, an organist equally at home with early music and collaborations with Philip Glass and Squarepusher. Together, they shape a new polyphonic cloud of sound, colliding sacred acoustics and digital precision.
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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. A Blickwinkel DJ, from the label behind Suzan’s release, closes the evening.
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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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