Expertise centre for visual arts, performance arts & classical music

BAR aims to re-establish relationships between Flanders and the UK, with a specific focus on inclusion and multi-voicedness.

We can help you with finding the right contacts, the necessary information and/or a budget for trips to England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland to meet artists or organisations.

Discuss what connections you would like to make in the UK. We can suggest and arrange introductions for you.

Masters from Flanders in major art collections and art biennials all over the world. From van Eyck to Tuymans, a centuries’ long tradition of visual artists.

The Flemish performing arts’ field is a landscape of relations with a dense network of interdependent functions. Flanders is envied for the great diversity of its houses and institutions.

The importance Flanders has afforded to music appears to date back as far as Flanders itself. An historical retrospect reveals that not only listening to music acquired a prominent social position in Flanders.