Arts creation and performing arts activities

NACE 9003

Current registrations7,081

Starters, 12 months · division 902,806

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 26-09-2026 05:30.

Key figures for NACE division 90

fiscal year 2025 · median over 2,784 filed annual accounts

Median solvency

47.9%

higher than 68% of 79 divisions

Median equity

€59,614

lower than 89% of 79 divisions

Median net result

€6,847

lower than 84% of 79 divisions

Annual accounts in sample

2,784

Bankruptcies

past five years

Bankruptcies (5y)

Historical share

0.17%

Nationally, 1.41% of current registrations have a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. This sector's historical share is lower than that of 84% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 90 is 0.0%, against 0.5% nationally, over 10,771 scored companies. Comparison: as of 26-09-2026 05:30.

Regional split

by region · 1,553 of 7,081 enterprises with a registered office on file

Flanders 704 · 45.3%

Brussels 494 · 31.8%

Wallonia 354 · 22.8%

Unknown 1 · 0.1%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

Date	Company
07-07-2026	The House of Film BE 1003.660.186
26-06-2026	COUFRA BE 0466.849.221
05-05-2026	Sole trader BE 0731.370.496 · Dessel
20-04-2026	ComUnity BE 0800.101.134
11-02-2026	INTEMPO BE 0737.845.049
29-10-2025	Sole trader BE 0779.806.259 · Antwerpen
16-07-2025	HOOOP GALLERY BE 0778.414.013
02-06-2025	Sole trader BE 0766.201.812 · Oostende

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address

West Flanders WVL 82

East Flanders OVL 200

Antwerp ANT 253

Flemish Brabant VLB 113

Limburg LIM 56

Brussels BRU 494

Hainaut HAI 85

Walloon Brabant WBR 80

Namur NAM 53

Liège LIE 112

Luxembourg LUX 24

fewer moremax 494

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 9003 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 9003 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.