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Horst blends and celebrates the world of arts, architecture and music.

Upside down, inside out, and full of wild wonder: Horst Arts & Music Festival 2025 blooms between the cracks. From 1 to 3 May, we’re diving deep into the hidden potential of our home, instead of crossing the water just yet. 

What if the untapped potential didn’t lie ahead of us, but rather within? What if the room we were looking for was the sky and the extra space we longed for beneath the ground? What if upside down is the right way up? These questions will mark 3 festival days, a new Horst Expo, and prove to be the kick-off for the Horst Summer programme at Asiat Park. More about our 2025 ambitions will follow soon.

MUSIC

More than ever, we’re firmly pushing artists with substance over socials. In a scene obsessed with harder, faster, and easily consumable artistry, we’re doubling down on rich, challenging music. There’s always more than meets the eye, aye?

Expect cutting-edge sounds that often go unnoticed locally: MAKADSI bridges Arab and North American influences to the For All Queens! hosting, BADSISTA and Verraco showcase Brazil and Colombia’s club scenes, while gyrofield reinvents IDM from Hong Kong. And that's by no means all. DVS1 curates an entirely new stage on Thursday, bringing along a newly found dub techno collective Generations in Sync (DJ Pete, Erik Jabari, Moritz von Oswald), and live set by Surgeon following JakoJako and GiGi FM.

As always, the lineup is once again sprinkled with Belgium’s underground oddballs. We’ve got Boudewijn Ericx representing the Brussels penguins, Antwerp’s SRD (Sound Running Deep), dub digger Elisthere, Ghent’s own gguusstt and Gaiko among many, many others.

Furthermore, a series of widely praised (and some very first ever!) back-to-backs are about to take place, including electro house legend Erol Alkan who joins forces with Palms Trax, Polygonia and Steffi, iconic London duo Hannah Holland and Josh Caffé, longtime Horst resident AliA meets rising star Mia Koden, while Detroit legend DJ Stingray 313 and German electro powerhouse Helena Hauff unite forces.

ARCHITECTURE

Architecture has always been a cornerstone of the Horst Arts & Music DNA. 2025 promises to be no exception, welcoming old & new friends to see the site anew.

2025 marks the comeback of circular stage designs such as Ring by Piovenefabi and Moon Ra by Leopold Banchini, a thorough reinterpretation of the Veshcell stage and new iterations of unique stages across the site by a string of guest architects. Built and co-created with our Atelier participants.

Those straying from the predestined routes between those stages, end up in a Horsty wonderland. In 2025 Horst Arts will further embrace its home and run its roots ever deeper into the ground, eventually unveiling itself as a full-grown expo for everyone to see. After the festival, all art will be on public display during the summer exhibition of Horst 2025 and welcome visitors to engage with the Park.