Visual arts organisations

• Contour (Mechelen)
  Contour Mechelen is an organisation dedicated to art as moving image. Its mission is to promote the creation and exhibition of art and the moving image.
• NICC (Antwerp)
  NICC is an autonomous association created by and for professional visual artists in Belgium with the intention of improving the position of the visual artist within both the arts and wider society.
• De Singel (Antwerp)
  De Singel is a large-scale arts campus which presents and produces contemporary and international art and aims to make its programme accessible to the broadest possible audience.
• Lokaal01 (Breda / NL; Antwerp / B)
  Lokaal 01 is a research and presentation space for contemporary art and sound. It programs the most recent developments in contemporary art and sound and connects the work of young artists with work of established artists within the context of the different disciplines.
• MDD (Deurle)
  The Dhont Dhaenens Museum is arts institution with both a national and international reputation whose rotating programme of exhibitions is as much respectful of the past as it is focused on the future.
• Objectif Exhibitions (Antwerp)
  Objectif Exhbitions is a non-profit space dedicated to contemporary art in Antwerp. Its aim is to use the organization’s public mandate to offer a support environment for the creation of and interaction with diverse artistic practices.
• Voorkamer (Lier)
  Voorkamer is an artist’s initiative that features a range of solo performances of contemporary visual artists from Belgium and abroad, on a yearly basis.
• Be-Part : (Waregem)
  Be-Part, Platform for Contemporary Art, is an international centre for the creation and dissemination of contemporary art.
• Triennial for Contemporary Art by the Sea, Beaufort 03
  The Beaufort 03 Art and the Sea Triennale presents works from a variety of multi-disciplinary artists along the length of the Belgian coast.

Local Aalst Cultural venues :

• CC De Werf
  De Werf (The Yard) is the cultural centre of Aalst which hosts concerts, dance and theatre performances, comedy performances, courses, lectures, workshops and exhibitions.
• Academy of Fine Arts
• Stedelijk Museum Aalst/City Museum
• Gallery C. De Vos
• In Situ Gallery
  In Situ is a gallery which focuses on art which interrogates the boundaries between diverse media and disciplines.
• Gallery EL
  Gallery EL is an exhibition space dedicated to showcasing contemporary arts in Belgium

Other attractions:

• Belfort, Aalst
  The belfry in the town hall, one of the oldest and most handsome of Flanders, contains a 52-bell carillon. Together with the adjacent Aldermen’s House, it was classified by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1999.

Arts publications

• Aprior magazine (Brussels)
  A Prior is an arts magazine which aims to emphasize close collaboration with artists and authors and to create unique moments and documents, so as to bring forward the depth and breadth of artistic practice, rather than publishing short reviews or brief descriptive articles.

Tourist info :

• www.aalst.be
  The official online tourist guide for Aalst and the surrounding area.