Horst Club is back, and it’s still not interested in taking the easy route.

Following the huge success of Horst Festival 2025, the collective now shifts its attention to the more intimate, but equally ambitious, Horst Club. For its third season, the 24hr concept stretches across five weekends between October 2025 and March 2026, once again transforming the Asiat Park site just outside Brussels into a playground for sound, light, and community.

I attended Horst Festival earlier this year, and what stood out wasn’t just the music, but the way the environment was sculpted to make you think differently about how you move and connect. Horst Club feels like a continuation of that thought experiment: the same DNA, but compressed into a tighter space where every detail matters.

This season brings a complete redesign of the main room, replacing the much-loved ‘Swirl’. Architect Laura Muyldermans, stage designer Sofia Holst, and audiovisual artist Ofer Smilansky have created something more fluid, using industrial materials from previous iterations to blend shadow, texture, and reflection. It’s club design that asks you to notice what you might otherwise overlook.

Alongside it, favourites like the Rain Room and the Garage return, maintaining their status as two of Horst’s most distinctive spaces: one immersive, the other intimate. But what’s most interesting this year is the focus on “softness”, rest areas, playful design touches, and a new take on food and social space that suggests the dancefloor is only part of the story.

The opening weekend (4–5 October) is packed with names who understand pacing as much as energy: Ploy, Sherelle, ojoo & NVST, Dyed Soundorom, Basic Chanel, LEGRAM VG, and shoplifter among them. It’s less about relentless peaks and more about creating room for shifts, mood changes, and long-form storytelling. As Head of Programming Simon Nowak explains, the intention is to give DJs the time and space to dive deeper into genres while connecting with the club’s evolving architecture.

Sundays lean into something different altogether, workshops, gentle interventions, and slower energies for those who don’t want the weekend to end in a blur. Later in the season, Brussels-based collective APOLEMIA will bring a residency that merges clubbing, performance, and installation across multiple weekends before closing at next May’s festival.

Dates for the Calendar

• 4 & 5 October – Opening Weekend
• 22 & 23 November – Horst Club #2
• 31 Dec & 1 Jan – NYE at Horst Club
• 14 & 15 February – Horst Club w/ Gay Haze
• 14 & 15 March – Closing Weekend w/ Kiosk Radio

If Horst Festival is about scale and spectacle, Horst Club is about intimacy and tension—the FAULTLess in-between moments that linger after the drop. As co-founder Mattias Staelens puts it, the aim isn’t to chase climaxes but to embrace “the blur, the almost.” It’s an approach that might not work everywhere, but at Horst it feels entirely natural.

With a season that promises new architecture, bold programming, and space for reflection as much as release, Horst Club 3.0 continues to push forward what clubbing can be.

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