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Birney's throat-grabbing novel 'The Interpreter from Java' about the colonial past in the Dutch East Indies highlights the lasting consequences of a civil war in a penetrating way.

Camping Sunset proves that old and new, traditional theatre repertoire and rock-’n-roll, truly can go hand in hand.

The Dutch artist wonders whether she can translate the spatial aspect of her installations into something that could simply hang on the wall, like a painting.

Those who know where to look can read the history of the planet and the human race in trees and landscapes. Two researchers from the Low Countries, Salomon Kroonenberg and Valerie Trouet, tell the story of the earth, our past and perhaps al...

Nxt Museum represents both a new museum for Amsterdam and an art institution for a new generation.

Vincent van Gogh was not only a great artist, his letters bear witness to a great talent for writing.

Four leading Dutch historians call for insights from the past to be used to defeat today's pandemic.

Thanks to a sixteenth-century botanist from the Southern Netherlands, the potato became known throughout Europe.

His illustrations reveal the quality of timeless design, particularly the graphic spectacle of his cartoon biographies of Rembrandt and Warhol.

In this interview, the Surinamese writer talks about her texts, her language, and her homeland.

With their extraordinarily imaginative, poetic, grand-scale productions, the Antwerp theatre collective FC Bergman was quick to conquer the European stage.

A crowd continually running laps of a stage and actors tearing one another’s clothes off. Meet the radical, uncompromising theatre of Schwalbe.

The boundary between their own lives and acting is intentionally kept thin by the members of theater collective Wunderbaum.

Ons Erfdeel vzw launches a platform with the ambition to inform you about artistic, cultural and societal topics in the Low Countries.

Imaginative content, physical extremes and remarkable links and contrasts have made De Warme Winkel a favourite among theatre critics and audiences alike

Teaching material should exhibit diversity, according to policy organisations such as UNESCO. But textbooks for newcomers in Flanders and the Netherlands are lagging behind in diversity terms.

Loss of their mother tongue among children of Syrian refugees in Belgium leads to conflicting ideas about their identity.

The Dutch author absorbs influences from all major comic book traditions and aims her work at an eminently international audience.

Charlotte Van den Broeck tells a story of tragic architects who committed suicide in or because of the buildings they designed.

Stefan Zweig’s reportages on his visits to Belgium have been translated into Dutch and collected into a small, beautifully illustrated volume.

As Poet Laureate of Belgium, Kör wants everyone to feel the power of poetry, especially those who don't naturally come into contact with it.

After eleven years of renovations, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp is opening its doors once again. It intends to assume a leading role in the Flemish museum scene.

Writers Ivo Victoria, Sarah Meuleman and Geert Buelens all found it liberating to move to the Netherlands. But it wasn’t long before they encountered the downsides of their destination country.

Over the past fifty years, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven has built up an oeuvre that is not only extensive, colourful and futuristic, but also layered, feminist and strongly critical of society.

The young Dutch artist has built up a diverse oeuvre in which language is increasingly prominent both as a theme and as a medium.

The Dutch haven’t always been so mad about bikes. That close bond with cycling crept in quietly.

There is a constant tension in her videos between what moves and what stands still or has been stopped. Her exhibition 'Mall of Europe' can be seen in Mu.ZEE (Ostend) until 21 June.

In the Netherlands the harsh winter of 1944-1945 became a symbol of the people’s suffering during World War II.

Substantially declining student numbers, reduced social status, dropping budgets: Dutch studies is encountering heavy weather.

This beautiful city palace in Mechelen has re-opened its doors to the public after a year of renovations.

Young people make up a large proportion of society, and yet they very rarely feature in the media. That's why youth news agency StampMedia was founded.

One hundred years ago the world encountered a Spanish flu pandemic which cost an estimated 50 to 100 million lives. But in the Netherlands it was long underestimated by the government. Medical historian Leo van Bergen sketches the devastati...

A true writer’s oeuvre is an all-encompassing edifice, not a single theme, but life itself. That's also the case for the books of Connie Palmen.

400 years ago Johan van Oldenbarnevelt was beheaded.

Mobility policy in France, Belgium and the Netherlands is making way for the bicycle, with Groningen as a founding example.

No house is more Dutch than the terraced house. Yet this type of architecture has only recently come to be valued as it should. Time to redress the balance.

Meet one of the Netherlands’ most exciting contemporary composers.

One of the Netherlands' most legendary bands has been playing outside the establishment for the past forty decades.

It is strange how the Flemish media and government use the word vreemd, a word with connotations such as 'foreign', 'deviant', 'unusual'.

With a mere 58 cm, Manneken Pis has grown from a fountain into the symbol of Brussels, known throughout the world.

The importance of the resistance during World War II doesn’t form part of the Belgian collective memory. That’s remarkable, as the resistance represents an impressive achievement.

Dutch historians have long worked on the assumption that the significance of Atlantic slavery to the Dutch economy was marginal. This assumption is incorrect.

In the 17th century, the Dutch Republic was the center of the European book trade.

Belgian politician Charles Michel made a rapid rise to the political pinnacle of Europe.

The only remaining professional ballet company in Belgium celebrates. But the future is uncertain.

What did 'the Kurant' write about and who were its readers?

In 2020 Flanders is set to pay tribute to Jan van Eyck. The most impressive tribute to this Flemish Master will be presented in Ghent, where the Museum of Fine Arts is organising its biggest ever Jan van Eyck exhibition.

How do we have to treat books that have fallen out of favour or have become taboo due to a changing Zeitgeist and more progressive perceptions?

The painting style of this young Dutch artist is as dynamic as her images are still.

In his novel about a Flemish Nazi collaborator, bestselling author Stefan Hertmans presents a sharp image of life under German occupation, which he links perceptively to the personal history of his characters.

Our selection of Dutch-language books that have recently been translated into English.

Why not read a novel by a Dutch or Flemish author this spring? Take a look at our selection.

In her masterful novel 'Your Story, My Story' Dutch author Connie Palmen gives Ted Hughes a voice.

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