On 5 May, artist Kevin Trappeniers removed a piece from Kaaitheater theatre’s floor. The Take Away Project is a travelling intervention by Trappeniers. Every time, he removes a piece from the floor or wall of a place that plays an important role in a local community.

Kunst werkt. Ook in Kaaitheater. Vandaag maken wij, kunstenaars, cultuurwerkers en kunstenorganisaties, ons grote zorgen. De tot in het buitenland geroemde creatieve diversiteit en vernieuwing die onze kunstensector de voorbije decennia opbouwde, dreigt verloren te gaan als de overheid niet ingrijpt. Daarom vragen we vandaag aan Jan Jambon en de Vlaamse regering om haar verantwoordelijkheid te nemen en passende werkingsmiddelen te voorzien. Zet de slogan ‘Verbeelding werkt’ om in daden!

The Kaaitheater renovations, commissioned by the Flemish government, will take off this summer. We are delighted to announce that multidisciplinary artist Elen Braga has been selected to create a work that will have a prominent place in the new building. This commission was prepared by Platform Kunst in Opdracht, Kaaitheater and Architectuuratelier Ambiorix and was assigned by the Flemish government.

Last year, as part of our long-term project How to Be Many?, Kaaitheater launched a 'Pay What You Can' experiment in ticket sales.
From the 2022-2023 season, this is no longer an experiment but policy.

A written interview with Marcos Simões, on his performance How not to be Understood?

Along with the performance Domestic Violence by Markus Öhrn, Kaaitheater partnered up with Lungomare to set up an awareness campaign on relational violence. In line with the existing poster campaign #qualcosanonva, new posters were made in Dutch, English and French and distributed 750 times throughout the city of Brussels.

At the end of January it was announced that the Brussels research centre a.pass, just like the Higher Institute for Fine Arts, would lose its subsidies from the Flemish government. Agnès Quackels, general and artistic coordinator at Kaaitheater, responds with an open letter to theatre goers. ‘This decision affects the public too.”

A Second Series of More-Than-Human Encounters #2: recent technological advancements have drastically altered (and accelerated) contemporary scientific insights into fungi. This lecture will uncover the dizzying multitude of relationships, opportunities and implications that fungi represent for life on our planet, and for our limited/growing body of knowledge on the intricate workings of the planet and the life it harbours.

The northern quarter of Brussels is undergoing huge transformations - yet it is very unclear for the inhabitants and social organisations of the neighbourhood what exactly is going to happen (when), and who is behind it. Wouter De Raeve and Lietje Bauwens attempted to give an overview (and interpretation) of all the public and private plans that are projected onto the area. On 10 sept 2021, they presented the booklet Le Quartier Nord, une collection d’histoires at Kaaitheater. Get a sneak peek or discover the online version.

The programme from January to June announces the last moments of our time together here in this house by Sainctelette square. For almost thirty years, Kaaitheater has been inhabiting this place with visions, movements and ideas on stage. Thirty years of history and yet in six months time, this building will be closed for major renovations and over the next season, most of what we will see will be torn-down walls, rubble and reinforced concrete structures.

But a construction site is also beautiful. It heralds new beginnings.

Kitchen Broadcast is an online radio broadcast curated by Joachim Ben Yakoub and Reem Shilleh. In the presence of Lara Khaldi en Rolando Vazquez this episode proposes to discuss Rolando’s new book ‘Vistas of Modernity. Decolonial Aesthesis and the End of the Contemporary.’ and Lara her recent curatorial work and reflections.