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Visual arts creation

NACE 90120
Current registrations1,999
Starters, 12 months · division 90
2,806
Employment (FTE) · division 90
10,535
Median age · division 90
7.0 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)
1
Historical share
0.05%

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 89% 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 · 747 of 1,999 enterprises with a registered office on file
Flanders 305 · 40.8%
Brussels 252 · 33.7%
Wallonia 190 · 25.4%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

1
Date Company
14-05-2025 Cadmium
BE 0751.513.141

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address
fewer moremax 252

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 2025 nomenclature, the one in which code 90120 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 90120 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.