Festival
Ongoing
Pilar ASAP
Thu 06 Mar—Thu 03 Apr .25
Pilar ASAP
The Liminal Edition
Thu 06 Mar—Thu 03 Apr .25
Price
Each event has different prices. Be sure to check our discounts if you are under 26y.
Location
Pilar Building
Triomflaan, VUB Entrance 6, 1050 Brussels
Triomflaan, VUB Entrance 6, 1050 Brussels
Spaces of empathy and inclusion are shrinking, demanding vigilance to protect. How do we navigate this uncertain, in-between phase of existence?
ASAP Pilar: The Liminal Edition invites reflection on liminality—on not knowing, simply being, and embracing transitions. Imagine discovering a cookie tin from your grandmother’s home, now empty, bathed in light. What feelings emerge in this moment of change? Liminality is both a physical and mental state—familiar yet strange, melancholic yet transformative. It’s a space where change becomes possible.
This year, artists like Elena Colombi (live), Callahan & Witscher, Gyeongsu, Sans Age upsammy & Valentina Magaletti, CEM, Lamina and Pippin bring this theme to life. Medusa Offspace curates the expo ‘Are We Nearly There Yet?, & plays with themes of desire, transition, and critique of modern systems. With performances, films, and a community dinner, we explore liminality and collective connection. Want to join the waiting room?
ASAP Pilar: The Liminal Edition invites reflection on liminality—on not knowing, simply being, and embracing transitions. Imagine discovering a cookie tin from your grandmother’s home, now empty, bathed in light. What feelings emerge in this moment of change? Liminality is both a physical and mental state—familiar yet strange, melancholic yet transformative. It’s a space where change becomes possible.
This year, artists like Elena Colombi (live), Callahan & Witscher, Gyeongsu, Sans Age upsammy & Valentina Magaletti, CEM, Lamina and Pippin bring this theme to life. Medusa Offspace curates the expo ‘Are We Nearly There Yet?, & plays with themes of desire, transition, and critique of modern systems. With performances, films, and a community dinner, we explore liminality and collective connection. Want to join the waiting room?
Program
Category
Concert
Subtitle
Opening concerts ASAP PILAR curated by In vitro
Line-up
20:00 / Kieran Daly
20:45 / Augustė Vickunaitė
21:30 / Seijiro Murayama & Axel Dörner
Description
Iv (In vitro*) is a project space and event series based in Brussels. It focuses on promoting contemporary music and sound art through live performances and time-based exhibitions. By cultivating new frameworks for experimental practices, it tries to nurture an artistic community that’s often overlooked in their commercial and institutional fields. In vitro seeks to create a platform for the dissemination of sound on an international scale.
Price
€7.00 / Presale (-26y)
€10.00 / Presale
€10.00 / At the door (-26y)
€13.00 / At the door
Category
Exhibition
Subtitle
Group Exhibition curated by Medusa
Description
Are We Nearly There Yet?" — a question often asked with impatience, curiosity, or wishful anticipation of a destination to come — frames Medusa’s exhibition on cultural memory. While image trends fade quickly, certain visual tropes endure, shaping a generation’s coming-of-age. From cartoons and pop culture to the bold, simple forms of “naïve” aesthetics, these icons hold meaning beyond their fleeting presence. The works nod to such imagery but avoid mere nostalgia. Instead, they explore how playful visuals convey longing, liminality, and critique of "adult" power structures. This exhibition focuses less on answers and more on validating what is often dismissed as “childlike” in contemporary life.
Price
Free
Category
Movie
Subtitle
A film about the power of sisterly love and much more
Description
Our film program continues during the ASAP Arts Festival, this time curated around the theme of liminality. Liminality is a complex concept—difficult to grasp because it feels so personal when you experience it yourself. In addition to music, we use film to make liminality tangible both collectively and individually through personal stories. The first film in our series, Ana + Yek (Me + You), powerfully conveys the theme of liminality as Zohra and Romy search for their identity as sisters and for themselves.
DOORS: 19H
START: 19H30
DOORS: 19H
START: 19H30
Price
€5.00 / Presale (-26y)
€6.00 / Presale
Category
Concert
Subtitle
3 experimental performances in one night
Line-up
19:30 / Lamina
20:15 / CEM
21:00 / Puce Mary
Price
€10.00 / Presale (-26y)
€13.00 / Presale
€13.00 / At the door (-26y)
€16.00 / At the door
Category
Concert
Subtitle
upsammy & Valentina Magaletti + Pippin
Line-up
TBA / Pippin
TBA / upsammy & Valentina Magaletti
Price
€10.00 / Presale (-26y)
€13.00 / Presale
€13.00 / At the door (-26y)
€16.00 / At the door
Category
Performance
Subtitle
Between a guided meditation and a séance
Line-up
TBA / Tineke De Meyer
Description
Inland Island finds itself between a guided meditation and a séance. A guided meditation, where attention becomes an act of imagination. And a séance for unfolding the limited dichotomies through which we tend to look at the world around us: fiction/reality, near/far, I/other. With a central part and fascination for the hands of the listener.
TIME SLOTS: START / 14:30 / 15:30 / 16:30 / BREAK / 18:30 / 19:30 / 20:30 / END
TIME SLOTS: START / 14:30 / 15:30 / 16:30 / BREAK / 18:30 / 19:30 / 20:30 / END
Price
€7.00 / Presale (-26y)
€9.00 / Presale
€10.00 / At the door (-26y)
€13.00 / At the door
Category
Concert
Subtitle
Callahan & Witscher + Gyeongsu + Sans Âge
Line-up
19:30 / Sans Âge
20:30 / Gyeongsu
21:30 / Callahan & Witscher
Price
€10.00 / Presale (-26y)
€13.00 / Presale
€13.00 / At the door (-26y)
€16.00 / At the door
Category
Movie
Subtitle
Moonlight (2016)
Description
Our film program continues during the Art festival ASAP, this time curated around the theme of liminality. Liminality is a complex concept—hard to define because it feels so deeply personal when you're experiencing it. Alongside music, we’re using film to explore liminality, both collectively and individually, through personal stories. The second screening features Barry Jenkins’ acclaimed Moonlight, which won three Oscars in 2017. Moonlight follows three pivotal stages in the life of Chiron, a Black gay boy growing up in one of Miami’s toughest neighborhoods. We see him as a child, teenager, and adult, struggling with his identity, masculinity, and his mother’s drug addiction. The only role model in his life is Juan, a drug dealer who unexpectedly takes him under his wing.
Price
€5.00 / Presale (-26y)
€6.00 / Presale
Category
Performance
Subtitle
A relaxed theatre performance by Julie Asenova & Flora Van Canneyt
Price
€10.00 / Presale (-26y)
€13.00 / Presale
€16.00 / At the door (-26y)
€13.00 / At the door
Category
Concert
Subtitle
Elena Colombi (live) + Naomie Claus
Line-up
20:00 / Naomie Klaus
21:00 / Elena Colombi (live)
Price
€10.00 / Presale (-26y)
€13.00 / Presale
€13.00 / At the door (-26y)
€16.00 / At the door
About Pilar ASAP
PILAR ASAP is a boundry-pushing festival with a narrative programme. Attuned to the pulse of society, we merge different artistic and scientific disciplines. At PILAR ASAP you can experience a challenging, varied offer: from exhibition, debate and workshops to concert evenings. Central to it is the work of (young) artists that we think you should discover as soon as possible. For a month they will be part of our Art Science Association Platform. (ASAP)
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