Arts creation and performing arts activities
No bankruptcy in the past five years.
This view shows Belgium · 90130 · Arts creation and performing arts activities. Sector figures are national, so the place does not apply here.
Spread across the country
by region and province · 67 of 388 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Brussels
- Wallonia
- Flanders
The balance sheets of division 90 on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE 90130 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts- 1 Craft StudiosEtterbeek 3.0 FTEfinancial year 2025
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 1 company- 140.03 Road transport and logistics for third parties 1
Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.
Division 90: Creative and performing arts
Related activities
3 other activities| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Literary creation90111 | 6,548 | 355 | 7 | 46 |
| Visual arts creation90120 | 2,030 | 442 | 1 | 194 |
| Arts creation and performing arts activities90112 | 205 | 102 | 0 | - |
Filed accounts of the division
NACE division 90 · financial year 2025 · 3,768 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | - | - | 40.5% | 44.2% | 45.4% | 45.8% | 47.5% | 47.3% |
| Median net result | - | - | €2,479 | €6,991 | €7,914 | €7,649 | €8,232 | €7,425 |
| Filed late | 42.3% | 48.6% | 44.5% | 43.0% | 41.9% | 40.7% | 38.2% | - |
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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
436 employers| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| fewer than 10 FTE | €63,100 | €49,000 to €77,700 | 258 |
| 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 108,767 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 12 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 7,592 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
Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.1% is below Belgium's 0.2%.
Inflow and structure. In 12 months, 50.5 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. No NACE division counts more. Brussels holds 44.8% of the seats, against 12.5% in Belgium. 82.7% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 11-11-2026 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 2025 classification, the version in which code 90130 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 1,276,472 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,781 registrations publish no activity.
For NACE 90130, 12 annual accounts of financial year 2025 were filed. That is too few for a median, which needs at least 30.