A venue for a young audience and a hub for young talent.

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De Studio is a creative hub based at the Mechelseplein in the heart of Antwerp. At De Studio, children and young adults are spectators as well as artists/creators.

In 2011, the Province of Antwerp bought the building that used to house the famous drama and acting school Studio Herman Teirlinck. The arts organization Villanella acquired the long lease of the building. It was renamed De Studio and in addition to that new name, Villanella also gave it a new focus: theatre, cinema, music, literature, dance, parties, debates,… De Studio is a unique venue where every lover of performing arts feels at home.

Today, De Studio provides space and support to, among others, Theater FroeFroe, Laika, De Spiegel, fABULEUS, ZEBARBAR, Compagnie Barbarie and Theater Artemis. Artists turn their dreams into reality at De Studio, in order to blow the audience’s mind. 24/7.

One can never know what tomorrow brings, but as long as it innovates and surprises, what tomorrow brings deserves its place at De Studio.

We hope to see you soon at a theatre matinée by day or at a funky party in the middle of the night!

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October

20u30     Fri 9 Oct
Youran
Joachim Badenhorst / support: SRY FR RNNG YR PRTY
music
TICKETS

Youran 揺籃, the Japanese word for “cradle,” is Joachim Badenhorst’s latest project. He has assembled a unique ensemble—a group of musicians who play an eclectic mix of instruments, such as taiko, koto, trumpet, electronics, trombone, guitar, reed instruments, and more..

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20u30     Wed 14 Oct
IT IT ANITA
music
TICKETS

With their ’90s Noise rock riffs and primal screams coming from every fibre of their being, IT IT ANITA might seem pretty simple. But if you take the time to really listen, you’ll find some subtle nuances and intriguing depth. Besides seething fire there’s also intense desire, crippling fear, anger and restlessness.

After their acclaimed 2023 album “Mouche”, the follow-up “HI HI HA HA”, recorded and mixed by Amaury Sauvé (Birds in Row, Bison Bisou) was released on Vicious Circle Records (SLIFT, The Psychotic Monks, Lysistrata) in January 2026.

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Excuses voor het ongemak © Bram Van Bree
15u00     Sat 24 Oct
4+
Excuses voor het ongemak
vanwege*
family
TICKETS

Dirty dirty DIRTY?!
What is actually dirty?
When does something become dirty?
Life, yes...
Life itself is
simply dirty!
Or isn’t it?

Or isn’t it? In a time of aroma diffusers, lice shampoos, day creams, care robots, and drain uncloggers, more and more of life seems to be hidden away, disguised, or kept out of sight... Not this time. Take a look at what grown-ups have learned to turn their eyes from, and discover what happens when this side of life steps out of the shadows and into the spotlight of the stage.

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première

20u00     Sat 24 Oct
Music Video Sessions: Vol 1. w/ So Me
film, music
TICKETS

MUSIC VIDEO SESSIONS celebrates the music video as a fully-fledged cinematic form. Many of today’s most influential filmmakers, from David Fincher, Jonathan Glazer and Melina Matsoukas to Sofia Coppola, developed their visual language in the world of the music video, where image and sound came together in experimental ways.

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Excuses voor het ongemak © Bram Van Bree
15u00     Sun 25 Oct
4+
Excuses voor het ongemak
vanwege*
family
TICKETS

Dirty dirty DIRTY?!
What is actually dirty?
When does something become dirty?
Life, yes...
Life itself is
simply dirty!
Or isn’t it?

Or isn’t it? In a time of aroma diffusers, lice shampoos, day creams, care robots, and drain uncloggers, more and more of life seems to be hidden away, disguised, or kept out of sight... Not this time. Take a look at what grown-ups have learned to turn their eyes from, and discover what happens when this side of life steps out of the shadows and into the spotlight of the stage.

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20u30     Fri 30 Oct
Maxi!
album release ANALBUM
music
TICKETS

Moving between f-art pop, dance, cabaret and performance, Maxi! turns desire, heartbreak, shame and bodily excess into songs that are playful, theatrical and unapologetically physical. Sex can become grief, a breakup can disappear down a toilet and a fart can be an act of honesty.

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November

20u00     Wed 4 Nov
Dopamine
Tim Oelbrandt & De Studio
theatre
TICKETS

Love?
Baby, that ain’t love.
That’s just dopamine.
Your brain ain’t looking for love,
it’s looking for more.
More clicks, more pics, more kicks.
More. More. More.

Dopamine tells the story of a man who is swallowed up by the digital world and finds himself in an obscure nightmare where the boundaries between dream and reality begin to blur. Where gravity does not exist and objects take on a life of their own.

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PLANT-aardig © Senne Van Loock
11u00     Thu 5 Nov
6mnd tot 2j
PLANT-aardig
De Spiegel
family
TICKETS
PLANT-aardig is both a performance and a playful installation where everything grows and flourishes organically. A garden of delights for your senses and imagination. Two musicians and a vegetable vendor experience a special day there.
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PLANT-aardig © Senne Van Loock
15u00     Thu 5 Nov
6mnd tot 2j
PLANT-aardig
De Spiegel
family
TICKETS
PLANT-aardig is both a performance and a playful installation where everything grows and flourishes organically. A garden of delights for your senses and imagination. Two musicians and a vegetable vendor experience a special day there.
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20u00     Thu 5 Nov
Dopamine
Tim Oelbrandt & De Studio
theatre
TICKETS

Love?
Baby, that ain’t love.
That’s just dopamine.
Your brain ain’t looking for love,
it’s looking for more.
More clicks, more pics, more kicks.
More. More. More.

Dopamine tells the story of a man who is swallowed up by the digital world and finds himself in an obscure nightmare where the boundaries between dream and reality begin to blur. Where gravity does not exist and objects take on a life of their own.

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PLANT-aardig © Senne Van Loock
11u00     Fri 6 Nov
6mnd tot 2j
PLANT-aardig
De Spiegel
family
TICKETS
PLANT-aardig is both a performance and a playful installation where everything grows and flourishes organically. A garden of delights for your senses and imagination. Two musicians and a vegetable vendor experience a special day there.
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PLANT-aardig © Senne Van Loock
15u00     Fri 6 Nov
6mnd tot 2j
PLANT-aardig
De Spiegel
family
TICKETS
PLANT-aardig is both a performance and a playful installation where everything grows and flourishes organically. A garden of delights for your senses and imagination. Two musicians and a vegetable vendor experience a special day there.
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20u30     Sat 7 Nov
Ana Roxanne
music
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American artist Ana Roxanne is internationally renowned for her intimate and dreamlike blend of ambient, minimalism, jazz, and folk. Her music has left a lasting impression at acclaimed festivals such as Pitchfork Music Festival and Le Guess Who?. Her songs have been described as both “ecstatic” and as embodying an “introverted euphoria.”

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12u00     Fri 20 Nov
Grafixx 2026
festival
COMBITICKET

During this fourteenth edition of Grafixx, a selection of artists journeys into the possibilities of the theme “Veil”. Across three days, enjoy workshops for all ages, lectures by emerging and established creatives, animation screenings, and exhibitions. To top it all off, lose yourself in a zine fest with hard-to-source publications by visual storytellers from around the globe.

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- zo 22 nov 26 18u00

12u00     Sat 21 Nov
Grafixx 2026
festival
TICKETS

During this fourteenth edition of Grafixx, a selection of artists journeys into the possibilities of the theme “Veil”. Across three days, enjoy workshops for all ages, lectures by emerging and established creatives, animation screenings, and exhibitions. To top it all off, lose yourself in a zine fest with hard-to-source publications by visual storytellers from around the globe.

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20u00     Fri 27 Nov
Aram. Poetry in Music
Klanken van de Steden
music
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The brand-new trio Aram blends poetry, captivating melodies, and subtle percussion into an enchanting sound. With roots in diverse musical traditions, the trio creates a refined ensemble performance centered on listening, improvisation, and mutual inspiration.

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20u00     Fri 27 Nov
12 - 112 jaar
The Last Chapters
Urland
theatre
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In his (for now) eternal quest to find the Story of Stories, primordial storyteller Thomas Dudkiewicz tackles his never-ending story in his new solo The Last Chapters. An existential, immersive experience in which a storyteller dives into the mind of the comatose actor ‘Thomas’, in a final desperate attempt to bring him back to consciousness. The storyteller drags Thomas along on a personal odyssey through the frayed edges of imagination and the Self. In the subconscious, chaos reigns; in storytelling, there is order. But the subconscious fights back.

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LUCHT_2 © Kathleen Michiels
11u00     Sat 28 Nov
4-10j
LUCHT
Laika
family
TICKETS

What is air? Two little creatures set out to find out. From breathing and whistling to a little fart. But who does the air actually belong to? And can it be caught? Then the previously invisible air suddenly becomes very tangible between them and it’s every creature for itself.

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21u00     Sat 28 Nov
Heimr
music
TICKETS

Heimr is an immersive event where art, music, and light meet within one cohesive aesthetic. 
Its sound moves between ambient, house, electro,...

Line-up

Clang (live)
Eversines (live)
Jorg Kuning (live)
Lorenzo Ola Trio (live)
Jules Waeterschoot
Logan
Penelope
Radio Heimr
 

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December

19u00     Thu 3 Dec
Work in progress: Battling Barbara
Luna Schepens
theatre
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Writer, actress and director Luna Schepens presents her new performance, inspired by Barbara Buttrick, the legendary boxer who put women’s boxing on the map in the 1950s.

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20u00     Sat 5 Dec
injuries & remedies
Simon Baetens & Micha Goldberg
theatre
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Two figures ask each other questions about the many forms of pain and uncertainty we can experience in life. Are we witnessing an artistic post-show conversation? An interview? A therapy session?

In injuries & remedies, actors and theatre makers Simon Baetens and Micha Goldberg try to advise, confront, mirror and comfort each other. Thus, a constantly transforming conversation emerges, driven by one persistent impulse: the urge to keep questioning the other, convinced that our inner world reveals something about who we ‘really’ are.

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20u00     Sun 6 Dec
injuries & remedies
Simon Baetens & Micha Goldberg
theatre
TICKETS

Two figures ask each other questions about the many forms of pain and uncertainty we can experience in life. Are we witnessing an artistic post-show conversation? An interview? A therapy session?

In injuries & remedies, actors and theatre makers Simon Baetens and Micha Goldberg try to advise, confront, mirror and comfort each other. Thus, a constantly transforming conversation emerges, driven by one persistent impulse: the urge to keep questioning the other, convinced that our inner world reveals something about who we ‘really’ are.

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February

11u00     Thu 11 Feb
3 maanden tot 3 jaar
Caban
De Spiegel
family
TICKETS

Welcome to Caban – a creative experience space for the very young.

In this artistic play space, children discover at their own pace a cosy environment filled with surprising modules around the theme of houses: a sleeve tunnel, a bamboo forest, a ladder tent, stacking cushions, a nest... Meanwhile, musicians and dancers move like free satellites among the audience, while live music fills the space. Together, this creates an enchanting cocoon of sounds where children and their companions can look, feel, listen and move.

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15u00     Thu 11 Feb
3 maanden tot 3 jaar
Caban
De Spiegel
family
TICKETS

Welcome to Caban – a creative experience space for the very young.

In this artistic play space, children discover at their own pace a cosy environment filled with surprising modules around the theme of houses: a sleeve tunnel, a bamboo forest, a ladder tent, stacking cushions, a nest... Meanwhile, musicians and dancers move like free satellites among the audience, while live music fills the space. Together, this creates an enchanting cocoon of sounds where children and their companions can look, feel, listen and move.

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11u00     Fri 12 Feb
3 maanden tot 3 jaar
Caban
De Spiegel
family
TICKETS

Welcome to Caban – a creative experience space for the very young.

In this artistic play space, children discover at their own pace a cosy environment filled with surprising modules around the theme of houses: a sleeve tunnel, a bamboo forest, a ladder tent, stacking cushions, a nest... Meanwhile, musicians and dancers move like free satellites among the audience, while live music fills the space. Together, this creates an enchanting cocoon of sounds where children and their companions can look, feel, listen and move.

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15u00     Fri 12 Feb
3 maanden tot 3 jaar
Caban
De Spiegel
family
TICKETS

Welcome to Caban – a creative experience space for the very young.

In this artistic play space, children discover at their own pace a cosy environment filled with surprising modules around the theme of houses: a sleeve tunnel, a bamboo forest, a ladder tent, stacking cushions, a nest... Meanwhile, musicians and dancers move like free satellites among the audience, while live music fills the space. Together, this creates an enchanting cocoon of sounds where children and their companions can look, feel, listen and move.

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11u00     Sat 13 Feb
3 maanden tot 3 jaar
Caban
De Spiegel
family
TICKETS

Welcome to Caban – a creative experience space for the very young.

In this artistic play space, children discover at their own pace a cosy environment filled with surprising modules around the theme of houses: a sleeve tunnel, a bamboo forest, a ladder tent, stacking cushions, a nest... Meanwhile, musicians and dancers move like free satellites among the audience, while live music fills the space. Together, this creates an enchanting cocoon of sounds where children and their companions can look, feel, listen and move.

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15u00     Sat 13 Feb
3 maanden tot 3 jaar
Caban
De Spiegel
family
TICKETS

Welcome to Caban – a creative experience space for the very young.

In this artistic play space, children discover at their own pace a cosy environment filled with surprising modules around the theme of houses: a sleeve tunnel, a bamboo forest, a ladder tent, stacking cushions, a nest... Meanwhile, musicians and dancers move like free satellites among the audience, while live music fills the space. Together, this creates an enchanting cocoon of sounds where children and their companions can look, feel, listen and move.

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11u00     Sun 14 Feb
3 maanden tot 3 jaar
Caban
De Spiegel
family
TICKETS

Welcome to Caban – a creative experience space for the very young.

In this artistic play space, children discover at their own pace a cosy environment filled with surprising modules around the theme of houses: a sleeve tunnel, a bamboo forest, a ladder tent, stacking cushions, a nest... Meanwhile, musicians and dancers move like free satellites among the audience, while live music fills the space. Together, this creates an enchanting cocoon of sounds where children and their companions can look, feel, listen and move.

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15u00     Sun 14 Feb
3 maanden tot 3 jaar
Caban
De Spiegel
family
TICKETS

Welcome to Caban – a creative experience space for the very young.

In this artistic play space, children discover at their own pace a cosy environment filled with surprising modules around the theme of houses: a sleeve tunnel, a bamboo forest, a ladder tent, stacking cushions, a nest... Meanwhile, musicians and dancers move like free satellites among the audience, while live music fills the space. Together, this creates an enchanting cocoon of sounds where children and their companions can look, feel, listen and move.

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20u00     Sat 20 Feb
Fatherload
David Labi & Martha!tentatief
theatre
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After his youth, David Labi travelled halfway around the world in search of adventure and cheap thrills. Today, he is sober and facing the biggest challenge of his life: a child, a baby, his baby. As couscous and vomit fly around his ears, David asks himself the big questions: How do you raise a child while you’re still growing up yourself? How do you break the cycle of intergenerational trauma? And what happens to you when you snort baby formula? Fatherload is the story of a man who hopes his children will inherit more than his shortcomings.

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March

21u00     Sat 27 Mar
Send In The Clowns #13
music
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Thirteenth time’s a Charm? Send in the Clowns is ready to challenge your idea of drag for the 13th time. Luck be a drag queen tonight? Veronika Deneuve, Angel 666, Sexi Whispers, Meglo Mania, rostgoed and their extended family invite you to De Studio for their classic formula of show and party. Lucky number 13? Let’s see! In this edition, everything goes wrong, or according to plan? A setup! Who wants to be real? It’s going to be a disaster – if all goes well!

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show (21u) + afterparty (23u)

23u00     Sat 27 Mar
Send In The Clowns #13
music
TICKETS

Thirteenth time’s a Charm? Send in the Clowns is ready to challenge your idea of drag for the 13th time. Luck be a drag queen tonight? Veronika Deneuve, Angel 666, Sexi Whispers, Meglo Mania, rostgoed and their extended family invite you to De Studio for their classic formula of show and party. Lucky number 13? Let’s see! In this edition, everything goes wrong, or according to plan? A setup! Who wants to be real? It’s going to be a disaster – if all goes well!

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afterparty (23u)
April

20u00     Fri 23 Apr
Oui. Non. Attention.
fABULEUS & THERE THERE Company
theatre
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In Oui. Non. Attention., a group of ten young acrobats asks for your attention …  attention. Not only the on-the-edge-of-your-seat attention for breathtaking feats such as standing three high on top of each other or a spectacular fall that just ends well. But also attention to the gaze, the breathing, perhaps the hesitation that precedes them. Attentive awareness. Careful concentration.

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May

20u00     Thu 13 May
Impressions #1
Voetvolk / Lisbeth Gruwez & Maarten Van Cauwenberghe
theatre
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Voetvolk celebrates twenty years of artistic expression and adventure. Over that time, they have created 15 performances and toured in more than 100 cities across some 35 countries. In 2027, Voetvolk celebrates its 20th anniversary. To mark the occasion, the dance company presents the group performance Impressions #1 at De Studio.

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PLANT-aardig © Senne Van Loock
15u00     Wed 19 May
6mnd tot 2j
PLANT-aardig
De Spiegel
family
TICKETS
PLANT-aardig is both a performance and a playful installation where everything grows and flourishes organically. A garden of delights for your senses and imagination. Two musicians and a vegetable vendor experience a special day there.
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