Antwerp
Known for fashion, design, and graphic arts, Antwerp has a well connected creative industry with many studios, agencies, and independent initiatives.
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Meeting Creatives in Belgium: Cities, Communities and Events
Belgium's creative sector spans design, fashion, film, and the visual arts, supported by a dense network of cultural institutions and recurring events.
Belgium has a long-standing creative reputation shaped by design, fashion, architecture, visual arts, and a strong contemporary cultural sector, with close connections to the wider European scene. This creates many natural points of contact where creatives encounter each other through shared cultural and professional contexts.
Best Cities
These cities in Belgium are home to creative communities and places where creatives regularly connect and collaborate.
Brussels
Belgium’s main creative hub with strong scenes in design, visual arts, media, and cultural production, supported by international institutions and organizations.
Ghent
Ghent offers a smaller but active creative scene, where creatives often connect through cultural projects, local networks, and collaborative formats.
Communities & Networks
In this section you'll find communities and networks to meet other creatives in Belgium.
Creative Lunch Club
Creative Lunch Club is a community for people working in creative industries. It gives you the chance to regularly meet other creatives for lunch.
In Belgium, Creative Lunch Club is active in Antwerp, Brussels and Ghent.
Join the Creative Lunch Club and meet other professional creatives for lunch.Conferences & Festivals
These conferences and festivals bring creatives in Belgium together around culture, design, and the creative industries.
Us By Night
24-26 Sep 2026 · Antwerp, Belgium
Us By Night is a design and creativity festival featuring inspirational talks, a vibrant nightmarket, and club programming, built to bond, inspire, and reenergize the creative community.
usbynight.beAntwerp Art Weekend
Antwerp Art Weekend is a four-day citywide celebration of contemporary art held every May, where galleries, museums and project spaces across Antwerp open their doors together. It's been running since 2014 and has grown into a solid annual moment for the local art community and visitors alike.
antwerpartweekend.beDesign September Brussels
Design September is Brussels' month-long design festival held every September, with over 100 events across the city including exhibitions, open studios, conferences and market days. It's the best time of year to see the breadth of Belgian design talent and get into spaces that are normally closed to the public.
designseptember.beBrussels Design Market
Brussels Design Market is one of Europe's most important vintage design markets, held twice a year at the Gare Maritime on the Tour & Taxis site. It brings together hundreds of dealers in 20th-century furniture, lighting, ceramics and objects, in one of the most impressive industrial spaces in the city.
designmarket.beArt Antwerp
Art Antwerp is a contemporary art fair held every December at Antwerp Expo, organised by the team behind Art Brussels. It brings together a focused selection of Belgian and international galleries and tends to feel more accessible and less overwhelming than the bigger international fairs.
art-antwerp.comSmashingConf Antwerp
12-15 Oct 2026 · Antwerp, Belgium
SmashingConf Antwerp is a focused conference for UI/UX designers and front-end developers diving into web design, accessibility, performance, and best practices for building modern websites. It offers a mix of talks and hands-on workshops to sharpen your daily workflow and broaden your skill set.
smashingconf.com/antwerp-2026We hope this guide gives you a helpful overview of how creatives connect in Belgium. Whether through professional networks, cultural institutions, or local initiatives, meeting other creatives often starts with being curious, engaged, and open to conversation.
If you are looking to put this into practice, Creative Lunch Club builds on these existing ways of connecting by bringing creatives together in small groups with a focus on meaningful conversations, making it easier to meet other creatives in a relaxed setting.
I love to get inspired by fellow creatives and the Creative Lunch Club makes this easy for me. The conversations during these lunches have always an energizing impact on me.
Barbara Standaert
Interior Architect, Antwerp
I moved to Brussels a year and a half ago, from a small town, to pursue more photography opportunities. The Creative Lunch Club has been instrumental in helping me connect with other creatives and discover the wonders of this city. Sharing lunch with like-minded creatives has opened up new ideas and perspectives for me. The passion and energy from these gatherings never fail to inspire and motivate me.
Whitley Isa
Photographer, Brussels
I am an East London girl with a busy life and have found it hard to meet like-minded creatives but after only using the creativelunchclub once, I met one of my soul mates. Not only are we doing some collaborating with her being a singer and myself working in fashion and modelling which has all been really useful but we have also become best friends. Loved my experience and would highly recommend it for anyone that wants to network in the creative ares and you never know, you might meet your bestie too.
Amber Smith
Model and print designer, London