Art in the metro

When Brussels started work on the metro in the 1960s, the feeling was that such an avant-garde project deserved some avant-garde art. That’s why the first metro stations contain some touches of modern art from the epoch.

But it doesn’t end there, because the more recent metro stations also combine art and public transport. Each one has its own personality, creating a different feel every time.

A External linklist of stations and artists (FR) is published on the STIB website.
Alternatively, download or buy External linka special brochure about art in the metro (PDF Format) (FR).

• Vandervelde: underground murals
• Aumale: photos in realist documentary style showing the construction of the metro in the 1970s
• De Wand: Belgium’s biggest mural, which keeps growing every year
• Parvis de Saint-Gilles: the Declaration of Human Rights in mosaic form
• Stuyvenbergh: Statues of Queen Elisabeth in a grotto
• Stockel – Ribaucourt: large murals of comic strip characters
• Hankar: a huge mural critiquing society in graffiti style.
• Roi Baudouin: 31 fluorescent ducks fly through the station
• Simonis (Léopold II): huge designs reminiscent of carpets and wallpaper bedeck the walls

• La Roue: metallic partitions and meandering works of art
• CERIA: a life-size panoramic photo of two Brussels neighbourhood.
• Eddy Merckx: a surrealist dream in which humans, animals and nature interact, in a metallic backdrop
• Érasme: a metro station without a roof but with vaults, embellished with Erasmus’ evocations and adages