Grafixx 2026

A veil both conceals and reveals, turning shapes ambiguous. This new edition of Grafixx explores who hides behind masks, how identity can be built in layers, and which images speak louder by leaving something out. In a diffused world, the everyday becomes mysterious. A veil becomes a threshold: between looking and being seen, between life and the hereafter, between showing and carefully covering up. Grafixx invites us to step into the mist and lose ourselves among hidden meanings and that which slips just beyond our gaze…

grafixx open call mini zine fest 2026

OPEN CALL Minifest 2026

Mon 24.08.26 — Sun 25.10.26

Zine Fest

Grafixx EXTD.: Japan

Wed 09.09.26 — Wed 30.09.26

Exhibition

Ephameron(BE), Atsuko Ishii(JP), Chiara Lammens(BE), Céline Hudréaux(FR), Charlotte Dumortier(BE), Erika Cotteleer(BE), Juliane Noll(BE), Martha Verschaffel(BE)

The Seasons

Sat 03.01.26 — Thu 31.12.26

Performance

Juliane Noll(BE)

Pianist Marie François, in collaboration with VONK & Sons, is breathing new life into Tchaikovsky's 150-year-old suite ‘The Seasons’. Starting in January, François will release a new interpretation of one of his monthly compositions each month, accompanied by a brand-new poem and a matching illustration by Juliane Noll, entirely in the spirit of the original idea in which music, text and image together form a single imagined month.

GRAFIXX HOUSE CALL #16

Chihoi(HK)

For Grafixx House Call, artist-teacher-curator Ephameron travels the world to visit some of her favourite creative friends. In Taipei, she speaks with Chihoi. Since releasing his first comics in the 1990s, he has developed a poetic and introspective visual language, publishing internationally translated books and exhibiting drawings and paintings around the world.

GRAFIXX EXT.: Off the Wall @ Bureau Bouwtechniek

Fri 29.11.24 — Sun 01.11.26

Mural

Arthur Devisscher(BE)

Every two years, Bureau Bouwtechniek invites a new artist to create a wall painting at their headquarters located in the Nieuw Zuid neighbourhood of Antwerp. Grafixx selected Arthur Devisscher, whose detailed and colourful sequential works unfold in stories that pay tribute to nature and the animal kingdom.

Sporen

With its publishing imprint Sporen, Grafixx produces low-budget books that fill gaps within the comics field. These publications are spread to national and international bookstores through distributors Pinceel (BE and NL), kuš! (LV), Neoglyphic Media (US), and Domino Books (US). They are available through, among others, The Bries Space (BE), Boekarest (BE), Musée du Petit […]

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Compleet Vertekend

Erika Cotteleer(BE)

Compleet vertekend is a collection of painted and drawn women whose absurd demeanour forms a language that seeks not to please, but to disrupt. From a feminist and autobiographical perspective, Erika Cotteleer depicts how images of the female body are deformed by social, male, and comparative gazes, “completely distorted” by decades of judgment and comparison. […]

Quand on roule vers l’ouest, on a mal aux yeux

Rozenn Brécard(FR)

For years, Rozenn Brécard captured the bustle of city life in her sketchbooks, until her move to Bretagne replaced crowds with rocks, moors, and coastal paths. Using gouache and colored pencil, she constructs transparent, layered images. For this new publication, she followed the river Seine from Paris to Le Havre and contrasts industrial with natural […]