Pilar believes that young people can grow, connect, and see the world differently through art and culture. 
By fostering artistic and social reflection, Pilar encourages both personal and collective development. 
We aim to make a difference by amplifying young voices and creating space for experiment, imagination, and dialogue.

Pilar is a multi-faceted, open Brussels laboratory. It is an exhibition area for art by young, innovative creators and established figures, cross-fertilised with the ground-breaking knowledge of scientists. With its artistic offer, Pilar is looking for links between different artistic and scientific disciplines, the content fuelled by social impulses, a unique offer that challenges, stimulates and imagines. Pilar is targeted at adventurous art and culture lovers who dare to surrender to experience. Pilar is a creative space for budding artistic talents, an incubator that stimulates experimentation, failure, creation and development. Within this space, Pilar offers promising creators a support framework, so that innovators under the radar are given an opportunity to grow. Pilar is an intermediate space where future thinkers and doers can creatively rebel. Culture means being critical and reflecting on the world views that determine our actions, but also thinking of alternatives that can offer a counterbalance. Pilar offers enthusiastic nonconformists a place to come up with crazy ideas – ideas that can translate rhizomatically into small- or large-scale cultural projects or businesses. In this way, through personalised guidance programmes, Pilar stimulates cultural entrepreneurship in generations Y and Z.

Generations Y and Z: young experienced experts. Their culture, in all its diversity, forms the basis of our story. Art and culture lovers: admirers who passively or actively give themselves to the experience of art and culture. Budding creators: talented young people who eagerly experiment, create and present. Future (free) thinkers and doers: thinkers and DITers (Do It Together-ers), convinced of the values of radical humanism, who figure out and develop crazy ideas in a rapidly changing world.