Following a celebrated edition of the Horst Arts and Music Festival in May and the conclusion of the summer exhibition There Will Come Soft Rains, the community-driven arts and music collective Horst is unveiling the third season of its renowned 24-hour event series, Horst Club.
Set to unfold across five weekends in October, November, January, February, and March, Horst Club inhabits three distinctive dancefloors and numerous exploratory spaces within the heart of the Asiat Park site, located just 20 minutes from downtown Brussels. While the venue will be familiar to past festival-goers, this season introduces a reimagined design and experiential approach, encouraging visitors to slow down, wander freely, and rethink what a club night can be.
“Horst has never been about chasing climaxes,” shares co-founder and Head of Architecture Mattias Staelens. “We’re interested in what happens just before and after—the build-up and the comedown. This season is about the pleasure of edging, of soft transformation, of not arriving too quickly.”
At the heart of this ethos are new architectural and sensory elements woven throughout the club. The main room undergoes a complete redesign by architect Laura Muyldermans and stage designer Sofia Holst, alongside audiovisual artist Ofer Smilansky. Their integrated approach reuses industrial materials from past iterations while blending structure and light into a fluid, open environment that invites play with shadow, texture, and reflection.
Returning favorites include the infamous Rain Room, designed in 2023 by BURR Studio, and the beloved Garage, an intimate low-end haven celebrating sweatbox clubbing with minimal lighting and maximal sound. Across multiple rooms, new layers encourage resting, wandering, and softening the club experience without losing energy. Tangled foam roots in vibrant colors spill from corners like digital-age dreamscapes, while an updated playroom supports consensual connections. A refreshed tropical-themed food and bar area rounds out the redesign.
The third season of Horst Club launches October 4–5 with a carefully curated lineup that champions extended sets, genre-deep explorations, and artists known for their sensitivity to setting and sonic detail. Head of Music Programming Simon Nowak explains, “For this season, we’re carving out space to dive deeper into sound with exceptional local talent and prolific selectors. The club becomes more than a dancefloor—it’s a meeting spot for communities, friends, and strangers, with endless possibilities over each 24-hour cycle.”
Opening weekend performers include a. brehme, Ampe, Basic Chanel, Dyed Soundorom, Kn1ps, LEGRAM VG, LNR, Malo Z, Mandana, ojoo & NVST, Pjay, Ploy, Riet, Sherelle, shoplifter, Sunday Slowdown w/ Jan Maria G, and Thojo. Sundays welcome a slower pace with workshops, gentle interventions, and low-key happenings for rest and reflection.
The art program complements this softer approach, featuring works by Daisy Ray, Isabel Brems, Laura Muyldermans & Sofia Holst, Monica Kamara, Ofer Smilansky, Osamu Shikichi, and Art Against Apartheid w/ Palettes of Palestine.
Later in the season, Horst Club will host APOLEMIA as its performance collective-in-residence. The Brussels-based group will explore the intersections of clubbing, installation, and performance art through a three-part series, activating Club Weekend #2 and #5, culminating in a final piece at the Horst Arts and Music Festival in May.
True to its mission, each 24-hour event integrates food from local vendors, immersive art interventions, and an off-space program designed to stretch the boundaries of the club format. With its third season, Horst Club continues to innovate and expand the possibilities of nightlife—lingering in the in-between, creating space for transformation, and proving that the journey can be just as profound as the destination.