Arts creation and performing arts activities

NACE 9020

Current registrations10,508

Starters, 12 months · division 902,805

Employment (FTE) · division 909,986

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 03-10-2026 05:30.

Key figures for NACE division 90

fiscal year 2025 · median over 3,179 filed annual accounts

Median solvency

47.9%

higher than 68% of 79 divisions

Median equity

€58,842

lower than 90% of 79 divisions

Median net result

€7,226

lower than 82% of 79 divisions

Annual accounts in sample

3,179

Foreign control in NACE division 90

11,209 registered companies

Companies with a foreign parent

0.0%

5 of 11,209; Belgium 0.3%

Staff at those companies

1.8%

139 of 7,635 FTE; Belgium 14%

Mostly from France (2), Germany (1) and Denmark (1).Show on the map by municipality

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 90

439 employers

Median

€66,100

Belgium €61,200

Middle half

€53,600 to €77,600

half of the employers lie between

Place among sectors

38 of 78

by median staff cost per FTE

By size class
Size	Median	Middle half	Employers
fewer than 10 FTE	€62,400	€49,300 to €77,700	262
10 to 49 FTE	€67,700	€59,800 to €75,000	150
50 to 249 FTE	€77,800	€70,600 to €81,800	25

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Bankruptcies

past five years

Bankruptcies (5y)

Historical share

0.30%

Nationally, 1.61% of current registrations have a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. This sector's historical share is lower than that of 83% of the 88 NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 90 is 0.1%, against 0.2% nationally, over 10,829 scored companies. Comparison: as of 03-10-2026 05:30.

Bankruptcies still running

NACE division 90

Running bankruptcies

Half have run longer than

18 months

Belgium: 21 months

Longer than three years

23%

Belgium: 31%

Measured nationally: Of 107,673 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 28% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn; 20% were still open after five years. Half had ended after 26 months (a quarter after 15, three quarters after 51 months).

Counts companies with this main activity in the register on 3 October 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.

Outcome by court and division

Regional split

by region · 3,850 of 10,508 enterprises with a registered office on file

Flanders 2,584 · 67.1%

Brussels 679 · 17.6%

Wallonia 584 · 15.2%

Unknown 3 · 0.1%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

Date	Company
02-10-2026	Senave, Telly BE 0772.521.262 · sole trader · Assenede
17-09-2026	FLANDERS FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA BE 0470.135.442
22-06-2026	Claeys, Jurgen BE 0711.663.561 · sole trader · Zelzate
15-04-2026	TAIO Facilities BE 0840.819.259
14-04-2026	SEA OF CLOUDS BE 0723.952.075
08-04-2026	Tilleman, Joey BE 0672.972.934 · sole trader · Sint-Niklaas
09-03-2026	Seynhaeve, Marco BE 1014.887.541 · sole trader · Izegem
02-03-2026	Floren, Jan BE 0889.204.443 · sole trader · Lille

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address

West Flanders WVL 322

East Flanders OVL 692

Antwerp ANT 981

Flemish Brabant VLB 353

Limburg LIM 236

Brussels BRU 679

Hainaut HAI 156

Walloon Brabant WBR 121

Namur NAM 82

Liège LIE 185

Luxembourg LUX 40

fewer moremax 981

Where are this sector's balance sheets registered? By municipality, down to the address

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number

Flemish subsidies €721.3m awarded 1,419 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 €646.7m paid 1,219 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 9020 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 9020 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.