Horst Arts & Music Festival
Electronic music meets contemporary art and architecture in Vilvoorde's Asiat Park, with acts like Daphni and Gilles Peterson.
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- Festival lineup announcements and artist spotlights
- Interactive art installation guides and architecture highlights
- Festival experience recaps and attendee user-generated content
Horst Arts & Music Festival is a unique three-day laboratory where cutting-edge electronic music, contemporary art, and innovative architecture converge, located at the industrial Asiat site in Vilvoorde, just outside of Brussels, transforming a former military base into a temporary autonomous zone of creativity. The 2026 edition announces more than 120 artists, with a focus on "evolution over echo," celebrating the local scene as well as spotlighting emerging stars and established stalwarts from around the world.
Thursday 14 May
Festival opens at 13:00. Resident Advisor stage features Moogy Maserati, Helen Island (live), Tonito Yama, Low End Activist (live), Felix K, Ehua, Jan Loup & Mika Oki. Bank holiday.
Friday 15 May
Natasha Pirard (live), Captain Starlight, Kaito-Kai (live), i-sha, Barker (live), DJ Sotofett presenting Resonance Of Dub, Beatrice M., Mankiyan. Fallon Mayanja daily performance unfolds. Paul Maheke site-specific installation and performance.
Saturday 16 May
Studio Vaessen, spirit blue (live), Tia Cousins, Front De Cadeaux (hybrid live), DJ Bus Replacement Service & quest?onmarq, Marc Acardipane. Queereeoké radically inclusive karaoke format. Yoshi Sodeoka ISORAY projection on cooling towers. Festival closes at 02:00.
- 120+ artists across electronic music, live performances, and B2B DJ sets with curated stage takeovers from The Lot Radio, Kiosk Radio, and Resident Advisor
- Arts & architecture programme featuring commissions by Bureau Bas Smets (Building Biospheres), TAKK, TEd'A, L'ÉQUIPE architectes, and performance works by Fallon Mayanja and Paul Maheke
- Site-specific monumental installation: Yoshi Sodeoka's ISORAY projected on ENGIE Electrabel cooling towers
- Inclusive programming with Queereeoké karaoke, Brussels collectives Apolemia and Anal Pompidou programming autonomously
- 9 stages and bespoke architectural structures designed to remain semi-permanently, transforming the former military site
- Wheelchair-accessible stages and majority of artworks with dedicated support services