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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Main content
August

21u00     Fri 7 Aug
Herstory Edition
music

This pride it’s time to get existential… Where do we come from? Where are we going? And is there a setting spray that can make this all last forever?

The clowns are taking you on a journey through time exploring our own herstory, paying homage to the drag artists and communities at the forefronts of our queer rights and liberation movement. Join us as we travel across eras of gaggy, boots slayed, work it hunty divas – and most importantly the political message behind it ALL.

SEND IN THE CLOWNS XII, HERSTORY Edition

show + party

23u00     Fri 7 Aug
Herstory Edition
music

This pride it’s time to get existential… Where do we come from? Where are we going? And is there a setting spray that can make this all last forever?

The clowns are taking you on a journey through time exploring our own herstory, paying homage to the drag artists and communities at the forefronts of our queer rights and liberation movement. Join us as we travel across eras of gaggy, boots slayed, work it hunty divas – and most importantly the political message behind it ALL.

SEND IN THE CLOWNS XII, HERSTORY Edition

party

17u00     Tue 11 Aug
Indra Hauben & Lennert Van Nuffel
theatre

What came first: the body or the rhythm?

Two figures try to function. They optimize, repeat, accelerate. Their days unfold according to the logic of a simulation in which nothing can be wasted and every movement must serve a purpose. Until their bodies begin to fall out of sync.

15u00     Wed 12 Aug
Indra Hauben & Lennert Van Nuffel
theatre

What came first: the body or the rhythm?

Two figures try to function. They optimize, repeat, accelerate. Their days unfold according to the logic of a simulation in which nothing can be wasted and every movement must serve a purpose. Until their bodies begin to fall out of sync.

15u00     Mon 24 Aug
Big Mouse Kids Drama Group
theatre

Based on the Hungarian writer Ágota Kristóf's play The Monster, this piece is a bleak fable about human desire and destruction. 

A monster appears silently in a village. The terrified villagers resolve to destroy the unknown being. However, its intoxicating fragrance slowly seduces them all, replacing their fear with growing obsession. A young man Robert sees the true danger. He refuses to succumb and launches a determined campaign to exterminate the creature. 

17u30     Mon 24 Aug
Big Mouse Kids Drama Group
theatre

Based on the Hungarian writer Ágota Kristóf's play The Monster, this piece is a bleak fable about human desire and destruction. 

A monster appears silently in a village. The terrified villagers resolve to destroy the unknown being. However, its intoxicating fragrance slowly seduces them all, replacing their fear with growing obsession. A young man Robert sees the true danger. He refuses to succumb and launches a determined campaign to exterminate the creature. 

15u00     Tue 25 Aug
Solid'Art et Ty
theatre

Gay-Rire is a theatrical performance where singing and dance are fully integrated. The story takes place in the late 1980s and early 1990s in a conversion camp for young gay people that claims it can ‘cure’ them. Amid questions, confessions, violence, feelings and emotions, the young protagonists grow up within this unhealthy environment.

How do you build your identity when your very self is constantly being questioned? Should one, like April, give up and marry a man? In any case, the audience is invited to her wedding…

 

17u30     Tue 25 Aug
Solid'Art et Ty
theatre

Gay-Rire is a theatrical performance where singing and dance are fully integrated. The story takes place in the late 1980s and early 1990s in a conversion camp for young gay people that claims it can ‘cure’ them. Amid questions, confessions, violence, feelings and emotions, the young protagonists grow up within this unhealthy environment.

How do you build your identity when your very self is constantly being questioned? Should one, like April, give up and marry a man? In any case, the audience is invited to her wedding…

 

September

20u30     Thu 17 Sep
Re/scored
film, music

De Studio, Het Bos and De Cinema present Philippe Garrel’s Le Révélateur (1968) with a live soundtrack of the duo Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (Jerusalem In My Heart) and Réka Csiszér (VÍZ).

October

20u30     Wed 14 Oct
music

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.

November

20u30     Sat 7 Nov
music

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.”