Between corporate scenography riddled with flaws and works oscillating between irony, glitch and administrative fiction, the artists explore precariousness, automation and the alienation of bodies and emotions. In this unstable landscape, capitalist and bureaucratic logic is subverted, sketching out other ways of working, resisting and coexisting, reminding us that ‘another world is possible’.

With: Sophia Abderrazak (Sculpture, 2022) – Alexandre Barbé (Urban Space, 2024) – Clara Bougon (Typography, 2024) – Tom Rambaud (Fashion Design and Styling, 2024) – Fañch Le Bos (Photography, 2025).

Since 2019, on the initiative of Stéphanie Pécourt, LABOS_DEMOS has been promoting emerging artists in non-book literature and visual arts, highlighting the specificities and interconnections between Belgian and French higher education institutions. In the visual arts, this initiative takes the form of group exhibitions, including Labo Demo – Bullshit Job.

Plusieurs jeunes diplômé·e·x·s de La Cambre ont été distingué·e·x·s lors du Concours TREMPLIN organisé par Becraft, plateforme des métiers d’art contemporains.
Ce concours, destiné à révéler et soutenir la jeune création, récompense chaque année les démarches les plus prometteuses dans le champ des arts appliqués et du design.

Les lauréat·e·x·s issu·e·x·s de La Cambre sont:

Hovic Der Sarkissian (Apothéose de l’ornement en réplique au crime – Céramique)
Prix idem + arts, Prix THANKSgalerie et Prix Michelangelo Foundation

Florentin Mathon (Silent Remains – Accessoires)
Prix du Ministère de la Culture de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles

Mopsa Marciano (Twinkle, twinkle, little star. How I wonder what you are! – Design textile)
Prix ISELP

Nina Pothier (Hors-Normes – Design industriel)
Prix WBDM – Wallonie-Bruxelles Design Mode

Simon Aubry (Plaisir d’Offrir, Joie de Recevoir – Céramique)
Prix de l’Enseignement supérieur artistique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles

La Cambre in Hyères

At the 40th edition of the Hyères Festival at Villa Noailles, Lucas Emilio Brunner (Fashion Design) received the Grand Prix du Jury Mode, Adrien Michel (Fashion Design) was awarded the Prix le19M des Métiers d'art, and Alyssa Cartaut (Accessories) received the Prix du Public.

The Urban Space department is launching a new publication: Journal 7.427.

To mark the occasion, the Brunfaut Pavilion will be transformed into Pavilion 7.427, hosting both the newspaper kiosk and the workshop's artistic projects.

The first event is scheduled for 23 October 2025, from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. The programme includes readings, drinks, and the presentation of a set of furniture designed especially for the pavilion.

During the official ceremony on Monday, 13 October 2025, 16 prizes were awarded, highlighting the talent and commitment of the new generation of artists and designers. Thanks to our partners for their valuable support: Les amis de La Cambre, SAFFCA, Jacqueline and Benoît des Cressonnières, and the CAB Foundation.

Screening of the film “Kinshasa Beta Mbonda” (2019)
As part of the “Territoires subjectifs” series
(In the presence of director Marie-François Blissard)

In Kinshasa, a dozen young percussionists bring life to a working-class neighborhood. They are the Beta Mbonda, former delinquents from violent gangs. Music has given new meaning to their lives and sealed their friendship. Like a Greek chorus, using traditional instruments or everyday objects, their songs echo a global city adrift.

This screening is part of the “Subjective Territories” series of events. Based on a film, it explores how the relationship to territory is constructed and deconstructed, combining representations and imaginations. Traveling through these territories—whether geographical or physical, and always marked by political issues—provides a space for recognition of voices and stories that are often invisible.

GRESAC (Research Group in Arts and Cultural Sciences) and the Cultural Management Department at ULB are pleased to welcome Pascale Bédard, sociologist of arts and culture at Laval University.

Terunobu Fujimori is a Japanese architect, historian, and designer renowned for his ability to meld contemporary forms with traditional craftsmanship and natural materials. Beginning his career as an architectural historian, he gained international prominence in the 1990s through works that are at once imaginative and often playful, such as the Too-High Teahouse (Takasugi-an), the Lamune Onsen complex, and La Collina in Shiga. His creations combine charred wood, earth, copper, and vegetation, giving rise to buildings that are both poetic and tactile, deeply rooted in Japanese culture, and offering a renewed vision of architecture as an art capable of engaging in dialogue with history and landscape.

The Living Earth Festival invites you to explore our relationship with the living world through four days of meetings, exhibitions, performances, and workshops. Artists and scientists come together to share knowledge and experiences at the intersection of the arts, sciences, and research, offering sensitive and informed insights into contemporary issues related to life.

A specific educational program, designed for the La Cambre community, offers workshops, masterclasses, and conferences to develop critical thinking and engagement.
Registration required before September 27, 2025.

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La Cambre is organizing its 2025 academic year opening session on Monday, October 13, starting at 6 p.m.

From August 24 to September 7, 2025, the Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art workshop will participate for the third consecutive year in the Blended Intensive Project – International Conservation Workshop Lopud.

An important milestone for the world of design | The Klassik Stiftung Weimar publishes an online catalogue raisonné of Henry van de Velde's furniture designs

After more than twenty years of research, 1,657 designs created between 1891 and 1941 by the Belgian designer are now available to the public via a free digital catalog.

This catalog lists all known works in metal, textiles, ceramics, wood, etc. created by Henry van de Velde throughout his career. Each entry documents the date of design, dimensions, technique used, materials, production, clientele, provenance, and preserved examples.

The online edition includes, for the first time, a presentation of 377 models of chairs, leisure furniture, and wicker furniture.The initiative builds on the previous publication of three volumes devoted to van de Velde's works, published between 2009 and 2016. The catalog entries published in book form include 825 metal works, 196 textiles, and 256 ceramics, accompanied by more than 2,700 photos. The online edition is designed as a dynamic platform that greatly simplifies research on Henry van de Velde and can be enriched with new content as needed. By 2027, some 700 entries on tables, storage furniture, and small furniture, as well as additional sources, are planned.

The project was carried out with the support of several international partners: the Henry van de Velde Fund ASBL (Brussels), the Archives and Museums of Literature and the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR) in Brussels, the Ghent University Library, and the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich.

From September 19 to 28, ENSAV La Cambre will take over the Espace Vanderborght to present the projects of its Master's class of 2025. Installations, videos, visual artworks, and performances will offer a broad overview of contemporary experimentation. The exhibition invites visitors to explore the research, approaches, and worlds of a generation in the making.

Exhibition curator: Lola Meotti
Graphic design: Estelle Vanmalle

Une exposition pour célébrer les 100 ans de La Cambre

Masters of Ceramics exhibition at the Boghossian Foundation

With: Simon Aubry Picaudot, Hovic Der Sarkissian, Simone Machuel

The ‘Backyards’ exhibition showcases the graduation work of three young artists from La Cambre's Ceramics studio. The exhibition, which takes place in the studio and garden at the rear of the Villa Empain, bears witness to the diversity of contemporary ceramic creation. Discover the chimerical territory of Hovic Der Sarkissian, created from ornaments taken from Armenian culture. Simon Aubry Picaudot will take you on a journey through an installation inspired by a backroom, where objects and pieces of furniture fan the flames of desire. As for Simone Machuel, she invites you to a garden party with royal poodles, a glass of dry martini in hand.

Enter the backyard of this eclectic trio, a space that, for a weekend, opens doors to new adventures.

On 27 June, La Bellone will be hosting ‘Times for New Roman’, a series of readings put on by the Masters of the Texts and Literary Creation department.

These readings, the high point of the course, bring to life texts shaped over the course of the academic year. They also mark the opening of a path of writing and creation, the beginning of an adventure in the literary and artistic world.

The event is free and open to all.

To coincide with the 2025 juries, the Textile Design, Drawing and Industrial Design departments are presenting ‘Tisser, tracer, transformer’ on 25 June at Citydev.

At the crossroads of thread, line and form, the exhibition brings together the work of the Masters students, who have developed singular approaches and thought-provoking reflections on the languages of design, materials and objects.

Opening on Wednesday 25 June, 6pm.

Exhibition of graduation work by Louise Cauchy, Jana Di Leva, Inès Guillen Coste and Dieuwke Raymaekers.

Opening: Friday 20 June, 6-9pm.

L'Atelier Accessoires is taking over MAD Brussels to present its Master collections.
The exhibition is conceived as much as a moment of passage as a gesture of unveiling: that of patiently elaborated research, forms and materials. Each project develops a way of thinking about the object - worn, carrying, signifying - that resonates with contemporary issues of the body, image and clothing.
Between rigorous gesture and plastic freedom, the proposals question the boundaries between the functional, the symbolic and the sculptural. Here, accessories become language.


Master 1
Martin Deman - Aria Lehovetzki De Runz - Simone Teseo

Master 2
Clément Benoît - Alyssa Cartaut - Romy Hanniquet - Florentin Mathon