Arts creation and performing arts activities
Bankruptcies
Recent bankruptcies
| Date | Company |
|---|---|
| 09-11-2026 | TECHNOPIA
BE 1006.336.792 |
| 19-10-2026 | REMEMBER ME
BE 0437.103.081 |
| 29-04-2026 | LA VOLTA stage productions
BE 0732.825.595 |
| 20-04-2026 | THE BRUSSELS ART_INSTITUTE
BE 0597.749.236 |
| 15-04-2026 | Light It Up Agency
BE 0692.736.782 |
| 09-04-2026 | Kinnart, Lee
BE 0839.359.410 · sole trader · Berlaar |
| 09-04-2026 | Thys, Stina
BE 0873.252.396 · sole trader · Putte |
| 25-02-2026 | Agris Management Group
BE 0712.599.909 |
Spread across the country
by region and province · 2,338 of 2,707 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Flanders
- Wallonia
- Brussels
- Abroad
The balance sheets of division 90 on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Division 90: Creative and performing arts
Filed accounts of the division
NACE division 90 · financial year 2025 · 3,774 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | - | - | 40.5% | 44.3% | 45.4% | 45.8% | 47.5% | 47.3% |
| Median net result | - | - | €2,494 | €6,973 | €7,914 | €7,649 | €8,232 | €7,425 |
| Filed late | 42.3% | 48.6% | 44.5% | 43.0% | 42.0% | 40.7% | 38.3% | - |
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Bankruptcies per year in division 90
| Per year | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bankruptcies | 40 | 45 | 44 | 50 | 59 | 60 | 31 | 83 | 55 | 56 | 69 | 58 |
| Jobs lost | 73 | 85 | 60 | 63 | 68 | 72 | 52 | 152 | 73 | 92 | 83 | 93 |
2026 through September. Every bankruptcy, also of companies that have since left the register. Source: Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics), NACE classification of 2008.
Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 90
437 employers| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| fewer than 10 FTE | €62,800 | €49,100 to €77,600 | 259 |
| 10 to 49 FTE | €67,600 | €59,800 to €75,200 | 150 |
| 50 to 249 FTE | €77,000 | €70,700 to €83,600 | 26 |
Employers with the highest staff cost per FTE in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench
Running bankruptcies in the sector
NACE division 90Measured nationally: Of 108,768 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 29% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn. After five years, 20% were still open. Half had ended after 26 months (a quarter after 15, three quarters after 51 months).
This counts companies with this main activity in the register on 13 November 2026. The outcome itself is not measured by sector. The activity of a company that leaves the register after its bankruptcy is too often not kept to compare closed cases fairly.
5 of the 11,235 companies in NACE division 90 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: France (2), Germany (1) and Denmark (1). Together they employ 139 of the division's 7,599 FTE: 1.8%, against 14% for Belgium as a whole.
Subsidies in this sector
per register · legal entities with an enterprise number- Flemish subsidies €664.0m awarded
- Wallonia-Brussels Federation €644.5m paid
- Federal transfers 236.9m amount as published
- EU budget €28.4m attributed share
- EU research €6.6m EU contribution
Insights on Arts creation and performing arts activities
Inflow and structure. Brussels holds 18.4% of the seats, against 12.5% in Belgium. This activity holds 9.3% of the registrations of Creative and performing arts.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 13-11-2026 05:30.
Method and sources
Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. Staff counts once, under the employer's first main activity, from its latest accounts and only where it fits the staff costs. The count follows the NACE 2008 classification, the version in which code 90021 exists.
The bankruptcies over five years count only companies still registered today, because the activity of a company that left the register is not kept. So they are fewer than the bankruptcies of those years, and the figure is not a probability for the future. Over twelve months the count is nearly complete, because a bankrupt company stays registered while its bankruptcy runs. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other NACE divisions rests on an overview of every division, counted again each night. Each division is counted in the version of the NACE classification in which it exists. A standing such as "more than in 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Belgium here counts the 1,276,396 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 700,156 registrations publish no activity.