Arts creation and performing arts activities

NACE 90021

Current registrations2,769

Starters, 12 months · division 902,807

Employment (FTE) · division 9010,535

Median age · division 907.0 years

In NACE division 90, 9.6 companies per 100 started in the past twelve months, against 7.5 nationally; that is higher than that of 75% of the 87 NACE divisions. Comparison: as of 27-09-2026 05:30.

Key figures for NACE division 90

fiscal year 2025 · median over 2,797 filed annual accounts

Median solvency

47.8%

higher than 70% of 79 divisions

Median equity

€59,669

lower than 89% of 79 divisions

Median net result

€6,883

lower than 84% of 79 divisions

Annual accounts in sample

2,797

Bankruptcies

past five years

Bankruptcies (5y)

Historical share

1.23%

Nationally, 1.41% of current registrations have a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. This sector's historical share is higher than that of 58% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 90 is 0.0%, against 0.5% nationally, over 10,790 scored companies. Comparison: as of 27-09-2026 05:30.

Regional split

by region · 2,385 of 2,769 enterprises with a registered office on file

Flanders 1,421 · 59.6%

Wallonia 527 · 22.1%

Brussels 436 · 18.3%

Unknown 1 · 0.0%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

Date	Company
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	Sole trader BE 0839.359.410 · Berlaar
09-04-2026	Sole trader BE 0873.252.396 · Putte
16-02-2026	BASS BARBER BE 0795.355.656
22-09-2025	Events & Logistics BE 0677.705.544
22-09-2025	Sole trader BE 0772.365.072 · Izegem

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address

West Flanders WVL 230

East Flanders OVL 383

Antwerp ANT 508

Flemish Brabant VLB 190

Limburg LIM 110

Brussels BRU 436

Hainaut HAI 123

Walloon Brabant WBR 90

Namur NAM 96

Liège LIE 182

Luxembourg LUX 36

fewer moremax 508

Public money in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number

Flemish subsidies €721.4m awarded 1,420 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Professionele kunsten: Werkingssubsidie voor een kunstenorganisatie voor een periode van 5 jaar (Kunstendecreet 2021)
Federal transfers 51.8m amount as published 21 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Toelage aan het Nationaal Orkest van België.
Wallonia-Brussels Federation €646.8m paid 1,220 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Conventions et contrats programmes indexés dans le domaine des arts vivants
EU budget €28.4m attributed share 55 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Creative Europe
EU research €6.6m eu contribution 17 recipients · 2008 to 2027 · largest: Horizon Europe

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How these figures are counted

Current enterprise registrations are counted through their registered main activities; establishment units are excluded. Counted in the KBO's NACE 2008 nomenclature, the one in which code 90021 exists.

Share of currently registered companies with a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. Registered main activities in the selected classification can overlap. This retrospective share is not a future bankruptcy probability.

The comparison with the country and with the other NACE divisions comes from a nightly overview of every division, each counted in the nomenclature in which it exists. A standing such as "higher than 80%" counts the other divisions that have the figure. The bankruptcy probability is the median of our nightly score over the division's companies that have one; the count is stated.

The key figures cover the whole NACE division 90, not NACE 90021 on its own: there are too few filed annual accounts per five-digit code to compute them separately. The middle company of the sector, based on all filed annual accounts.