Offestival 2026 is a do-it-ourselves, artist-run festival celebrating Brussels’ independent art scene. It takes place over four weeks and five weekends in spring, from 15 May to 14 June 2026.

Initiated by Garage29, a space for emerging choreography renamed Metarage in 2025, Offestival has been organised since 2013 as a call to peer collectives to come and show together. It is now joined by Becue, a St Gilles bakery house and a collectively run space for art, social practice, and food.

The idea of Offestival is simple: to synchronize and mix the programmes of befriended artist-run spaces, collectives, and initiatives across all artistic disciplines and a wide range of activities, including performances, concerts, exhibitions, workshops, reading groups, dinners, conversations, parties, and who knows what else. Through shared communication and a spirit of collaboration, Offestival makes visible the richness of local, self-organized practices and makes them accessible to all.

Offestival 2026 brings together the following initiatives:

Anal Pompidou

Artist Commons

BARN core team of the Brussels Artist-Run Network

Becue

Espace Vanhomwegen

Gilbard

JAN

Komplot

Metarage

Les Iles Mardi

SB34

Offestival gives leverage to these interconnected communities and opens them to the public as places to gather, witness, imagine, and enjoy.