7 new galleries to look out for at our Brussels fair
21 exhibitors will be joining Affordable Art Fair Brussels for the first time.
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Marie De Saedeleer
Tuesday 23 December, 2025
Join us from 4 – 8 February 2026 for the 17th edition of Affordable Art Fair Brussels! Explore 91 galleries, including 21 exciting newcomers, and start with these 7 must-see highlights.
HU! (BE)
HU! is the winner of the 2026 Emerging Gallery Grant powered by KBC Brussels, an initiative launched to support one young Brussels-based contemporary art gallery established after February 2021. HU! opened in Ixelles in June 2024 and is dedicated in presenting refined, technically strong works by Belgium-based artists in a welcoming setting.
Elodie Antoine specializes in soft sculptures. In her work she explores the potential of materials such as thread, fabric, wallpaper, wool carpet and felt, by allowing them to proliferate and contaminate space in a way natural to them.
Frederic Biesmans creates miniature ceramic “snapshots” merging organic and mechanical forms. Inspired by science fiction and his background as a stone carver, he builds futuristic scenes that explore the aesthetics of the infinitesimally small with playful precision.
GALERIE VEYSSIÈRE (FR)
Located in the historic centre of Tours, Galerie Veyssière focuses on Japanese, modern, and contemporary prints, alongside paintings, drawings, and photography. With a strong emphasis on authenticity and quality, the gallery contributes actively to the cultural life of the city.
Esmaël Bahrani is an Iranian artist whose work channels the tension between Middle Eastern heritage and Western underground culture. Through a hybrid practice that spans drawing, painting, and street art – often layering wax, scratches, and expressive, chaotic figures – he denounces oppression and gives form to the rebellious energy of youth.
Sacré Fred creates surreal scenes using 3D compositing software, later translating these digital environments onto canvas with precise yet ethereal brushstrokes that feel like fleeting dreams.
BURONZU GALLERY (BE)
Buronzu Gallery, located in the heart of Liège, showcases Belgian and international artists without limiting itself to a particular style, highlighting both their works and stories.
The Belgian artist Jaune‘s stencil work focuses on sanitation and construction workers, exploring the paradox between their fluorescent uniforms and social invisibility. His playful universe allows these workers to abandon duties and engage in absurd adventures.
David Bruce’s work focuses on simple forms and everyday objects rather than scale or realism, creating a playful contrast with contemporary, connected society. Drawing inspiration from both the urban environment and sources like fashion magazines, he blends spontaneity with vivid, street-art–influenced colors.
ELECTRON LIBRE (FR)
Electron Libre is a nomad contemporary art gallery that aims to promote young, emerging French talent as well as international artists to a European audience. In her series Once upon a pink moon, the Brazilian artist Daura Campos examines the complex relationship between domestic spaces and the notion of safety. Using corroded 35mm film, she captured the white walls of her Brazilian home as a blank canvas transformed by spices into amorphous, dreamlike landscapes that envision a post-pandemic utopia bathed in pink.
The Nigerian painter Henry James skillfully blends vibrant colors and fabrics to highlight the beauty of African people and their environment, using his work to celebrate the richness of Nigerian culture and heritage.
The French artist Clara Tournay believes that painting, sculpture and light are all in dialogue. She explains: “Everything starts with matter, its capacity for metamorphosis. It absorbs, reacts and resists. It shapes a shifting territory, between appearance and erasure, between memory and becoming.”
NAGYHÁZI CONTEMPORARY (HU)
Nagyházi Contemporary aims to strengthen the presence of contemporary Hungarian art and represents emerging contemporary artists at home and abroad.
Patrick Tayler’s work explores the tension between classical painterly methods and modern sensibilities, transforming real-life models and still-life arrangements into intimate, detailed compositions. He blends traditional techniques with contemporary imagery, creating surreal, emotionally layered scenes that reinterpret everyday objects and nostalgic motifs.
Endre Kecső’s practice centres on dream symbolism, which he views as universal across cultures and eras, using free association to access the subconscious. His paintings merge the achievements of classical art with the visual language of the twenty-first century.
LAUREN VAN MIDDELEM (BE)
Lauren Van Middelem Gallery is a contemporary art gallery located on the seafront in Knokke, run by the 26-year-old art historian, Laura Van Middelem. The gallery opened its doors in 2023 and focuses on collaborations with young, emerging, and occasionally more established contemporary artists.
Kjell Robberecht‘s recent series of acrylic paintings Einzelgänger (2023–2025) is an exploration of human loneliness. In these works, he delves into feelings of isolation, misunderstanding, and the urge toward self-reflection.
Ferre Leriche, aka Bleper, explores the boundaries between visual art and cartoon. In his Unprovoked Thoughts series, he takes a good view of himself and his fellow humans. His drawings focus on self-introspection, interpersonal contact and the relationship between humans and their environment.
CULTO GALLERY (CO)
The Bogotá-based Culto Gallery is committed to connecting its audience with art in a fresh way, allowing one to lose oneself in fear of what they don’t understand. In her work, Silvia Carvajal reconnects with play, emotion, and slowness amid contemporary pressures, creating ’emotional maps’ that invite viewers to pause, inhabit the present, and rediscover forgotten joys.
One of their represented artists Diana Santafé describes her practice as a figurative exploration of the city’s contrasting realities, using circular compositions as visual metaphors to reflect on how we perceive and inhabit urban environments shaped by profound social inequalities.
Other new galleries to our Brussels fair include Farm Prod, Sablon d’Art, Fragile Concept from Belgium, ar-gallery, Galerie Alex F. from Germany, Meesters van het Realism, Chez Freddy art & design, 60 cent gallery, Galerie Post + García from The Netherlands, Ange Monnoyeur and Galerie Deux6 from France, Olivia Connelly and ArtDog from UK and tree art space from China. If you’re on the hunt for new artwork, then head to these fantastic newcomers at our fair in February. It’s a great opportunity to grow your collection and find new favourite artists.
Curious to see which other galleries will be participating at the fair? Check out our complete galleries list here. Don’t forget to buy tickets now in order to visit Affordable Art Fair Brussels on 4 – 8 February at Tour & Taxis.
Header image: Annick Lizein, Sans Titre, 2025, oil on canvas, 200x180cm, €4800, HU!
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