With a sharp and generous programme that spans visual arts, performance, music, and nightlife, Beursschouwburg brings together artists and audiences around urgent themes and radical aesthetics. Whether you're into intimate concerts, conceptual installations, collective rituals or genre-defying club nights — here are five events Different Class is especially excited about.
Emeka Ogboh – Elu na Álà
19.09.2025, expo + opening party
The smell of rain on dry ground sets the tone for Elu na Álà, a powerful multisensory installation by Nigerian artist Emeka Ogboh. Known for his sonic and olfactory practice, Emeka invites visitors to physically experience memory, land, and belonging through smell and sound. Curator Evelyn Simons, who previously worked with him at Horst, places this poetic work at the heart of Beursschouwburg’s autumn programme. The opening party — co-curated with Brussels-based artist and DJ M I M I — turns the theme of embodied listening into a collective experience on the rooftop. Emeka takes to the decks alongside Chinnamasta, LIL RISK and Erykah. Expect five hours of Afro-diasporic grooves, bass-heavy catharsis and spiritual sweat.
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Open Secret w/ Dana Dawud & 0nty & Redacted Cut
11.10.2025, screening + talk
Open Secret is a touring internet cinema curated by Dana Dawud, exploring the overflow of images that shape our lives online. From personal videos to war footage, selfies to ads, these fragments of the digital stream find new resonance when watched together on the big screen. This edition features a screening of Redacted Cut, followed by a conversation between Dawud and 0nty, a writer, artist, and early Open Secret contributor. Their talk will delve into porous boundaries between digital culture, experimental cinema, and collective viewing. A rare chance to experience images too often consumed in solitude, this night asks what changes when we sit with them, side by side.
Chloë Chignell & Amina Szecsödy – Shadow Text
17+18.10.2025, performance
With Shadow Text, artists Chloë Chignell and Amina Szecsödy bring Monique Wittig’s legendary feminist novel Les Guérillères into a new performative life. The piece unfolds as an embodied reading, where language slips into rhythm, sound, and movement until the line between text and body begins to blur. Circular in its form, it reflects the novel’s vision of collective force and reimagines community beyond patriarchal structures. Through fragments of poetry, sonic textures, and choreographed repetition, the work conjures a space of lesbian relationality and resistance. Words are not just spoken but lived, turning the stage into a field where literature becomes tactile and revolutionary. It is a performance about how language shapes us, and how we, in turn, can reshape language to tell different stories.
Mohamed Toukabri – Every-Body-Knows-What-Tomorrow-Brings-And-We-All-Know-What-Happened-Yesterday
23+24.10.2025, dance
With his latest solo, Tunisian-born dancer and choreographer Mohamed Toukabri examines the body as both archive and prophecy. Drawing from his path, from breakdance on the streets of Tunis to the institutions of P.A.R.T.S., Needcompany and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, he creates a dance language that is virtuosic yet vulnerable, political yet poetic. This is not a performance that seeks harmony, but one that embraces friction: between dance styles, histories, and inherited narratives. Through movement, Mohamed challenges the dominant canon and asks: What do we carry, erase, or pass on? A powerful solo that will resonate long after the final bow.
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Tarta Relena + Maricas
22.11.2025, concert + party
On this special night, two worlds collide and merge: the mystical vocal layers of Catalan duo Tarta Relena meet the radical queer energy of MARICAS, Barcelona’s most beloved FLINTA+ techno collective. Tarta Relena draws from Mediterranean laments and sacred music, reshaping it into a vocal-electronic language that feels ancient and futuristic. Afterwards, MARICAS takes over with an all-star DJ lineup featuring ISAbella, D. Tiffany and Rosa Terenzi. They transform the dancefloor into a playground of freedom, sensuality and self-expression. This evening, in collaboration with EUROPALIA ESPAÑA, celebrates queer resilience, feminist history and sonic pleasure — all in one.
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