Us by Night

Please welcome to Us By Night. From his roots in the ’90s Brussels graffiti scene, he now builds large-scale installations all over the globe that still carry that graffiti DNA.

Based in Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium, Arne Quinze leads a multidisciplinary atelier where oil painting, sculpture, large-scale installations, spatial thinking, and research into nature and the built environment come together.

His practice moves across ceramics, Murano glass, phosphor bronze, aluminium, digital interfaces, sound, and immersive light-based environments. Each material is carefully explored and refined within his ateliers, opening up new ways to engage with nature’s endless spectrum.

The result: sculptural works and spatial experiences that feel like portals for reconnecting with nature.

A first glimpse of what’s happening beyond the stages at UBN 🚀

We are 95% locked in on speakers, but Us By Night is so much more than just the main stages. Turn the sound ON to hear the full breakdown, or swipe through the slides to check out the playground we’re building this year:

🎶 So Me is back: Returning to Antwerp to close out the festival with another legendary DJ set. 🎧🔥

🎨 The 70m Collage Wall: Our massive wheatpasting wall is officially back by popular demand. 💥

📸 Portrait Photo Studio: A long-time dream come true, hosted by London’s incredible Craig Fleming . 🖤

🖼️ Antwerp Poster Festival: Featuring a brand-new, wrap-around scaffold balcony in the Main Stage hall acting as an exhibition space and vantage point. 🪜✨ APF

🎹 Live Interventions: Borokov Borokov will be on the Main Stage dropping short, playful musical intros for speakers all weekend. 👋🎶 Borokov Borokov

🎬 The Screenings: by Rinus Van de Velde, Frederik Heyman and David Wilson, with David live on the main stage for a quick hello! ❤️✍️ Rinus Van de Velde Frederik Heyman David Wilson

📱 The UBN App is back! 🚀 Create your own events, join the community, and explore the city beyond the festival grounds. Updates are dropping soon, including a focus on local open-door studios. Stay tuned!

🏟️ The Stadium Stage: A brand-new mega-space merging the Nightmarket stages with the exact same premium audi & video quality as the Main Stage. 🔊🎚️

Don’t wait too long on tickets, we’re hitting the final ticket waves soon and they’re moving fast. 🎟️💨

See you in Antwerp! 🇧🇪👋

Please welcome our dear friend Kim Lê Boutin ( )!

Kim was originally scheduled to join us last year but unfortunately had to pull out, so we’re extra excited to finally welcome her to Us By Night, hopefully once again together with her amazing Paris crew of UBN regulars! You know who you are. Let’s party once again! 🎉🎉🎉

Kim Lê Boutin is a creative director and designer whose work has consistently operated at the frontier of digital culture. She shaped the online presence of Kenzo as Digital Art Director, co-founded the London/Paris studio DVTK →↓↑←, and launched loadmo.re — one of the first platforms dedicated to curating mobile web experiences.

Most recently, she founded New Ways of Seeing, a festival bringing together artists, technologists, and researchers to explore the future of visual culture.

Today, through New Narratives, she advises brands and institutions on identity, interfaces, and storytelling. Her work has been commissioned by Apple, Nike, Dior, and Bottega Veneta, and has been exhibited at the Barbican Centre and the Peabody Essex Museum.

We can’t wait to have her finally on stage at Us By Night. ✨

In partnership with Maxon (), we are thrilled to announce Italian visual artist Giusy Amoroso (). Working across digital and physical sculpture, moving image, XR, and immersive media, her practice explores how life adapts within synthetic environments through what she refers to as “Hybrid Anatomies” — speculative organisms where organic and artificial systems merge.Her work has been presented at NXT Museum, Printworks London, Videocittà, MIRA, Immersive Tech Week (VRDays), Amsterdam Dance Event, Pukkelpop, and featured in live performances at Coachella and Red Valley Festival.Clients include Nike, Afterlife, Anyma, Riot Games, Harper’s Bazaar, Sony Music, and Cartoon Network.

🚨Early Bird tickets are nearly gone!!!
We’ll keep the shop open until Wednesday, 4PM CET.
After that, tickets move to the next phase.
Already joined by thousands of creatives from 45+ countries around the world. Party!!! 🌍🎉

Can’t wait to reunite with all of you in Antwerp.

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🚨🚨🚨🚨 Let’s Go!!!

🚨 Last 200 Early Bird tickets on sale!

We are absolutely thrilled to see tickets moving this fast. Can’t wait to reunite with all of you in September. 🖤

We also have a bunch of super fun additions in the works that we’ll start revealing over the coming weeks. The lineup is now pretty much complete… except for one final spot we intentionally kept open for a massive headliner. We’re currently in some very exciting conversations, so bear with us while we finalize things. 👀

In the meantime: we are officially down to the last 200 Early Bird tickets. We expect these to sell out very soon, so don’t wait too long before prices go up.

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We are beyond thrilled to welcome the visionary Johanna Jaskowska () to the Us By Night stage!
Johanna is no stranger to the Belgian creative scene, arriving not just as a global pioneer, but as a close friend and long-time collaborator of our very own local powerhouses Charlotte de Witte () and Marie Wynants ()

Johanna Jaskowska is a digital artist and creative technologist exploring beauty, identity, and perception through technology. She is best known for Beauty3000, a viral AR face filter experienced by over 500 million users that helped define digital beauty as a creative field. Her practice spans augmented reality, AI-generated imagery, and speculative design, from chrome-skinned self-portraits to work that questions what the senses can become when technology intervenes.

She recently co-founded PATIO Studio (), an image-making studio based in Madrid at the intersection of fashion and technology, together with Yuri R. Galván, Felina H. del Barrio, and Carlos Ojeda.

Please welcome Stockholm Design Lab () to our 2026 lineup!

When we visited OFFF a few weeks back, one major highlight was Björn Kusoffsky from Stockholm Design Lab. His talk left the audience with an absolute hunger to get busy creating again. SDL is one of Europe’s most highly respected multidisciplinary design studios, boasting a roster of international clients that includes IKEA, Polestar, SAS Scandinavian Airlines, and the International Art Biennale in Venice. Björn brings a wealth of expertise, having received more than 200 awards throughout his career, including 2 Gold Cannes Design Lions, 6 Red Dots, Gold Eurobest, Gold Asia Design Awards, and 6 Golden Eggs.