EUROPALIA ESPAÑA will unfold a multidisciplinary programme from 8 October to 1 February 2026.
The aim is to unite heritage and contemporary art forms and provide fascinating perspectives on themes that connect and challenge us.
EUROPALIA, the Brussels festival that produces a multifaceted artistic programme every two years around a particular country or theme, celebrates its 30th edition this autumn with a large-scale Spanish biennial.
This comes exactly forty years after a first edition in 1985.
With Francisco de Goya as its main focus and inspiration, the festival highlights the cultural richness of Spain through visual arts, architecture, theatre, dance, music, performance, film, and literature, featuring both renowned names and lesser-known figures alike.
The artistic teams from both countries have consciously chosen to select artists from different generations and not only from major cities like Madrid and Barcelona but also from different regions of Spain.
Exactly 40 years after the first time EUROPALIA was dedicated to Spain, the question of how to re-present EUROPALIA ESPAÑA today has posed a challenge.
It prompted EUROPALIA to focus on the changes that Spanish society has experienced since the beginning of democracy and its incorporation into the European Union in 1986, as well as to explore artistic creation over the last four decades.
The festival takes place in various venues in Brussels.
