On 4 December 2025, VUB and ULB jointly award honorary doctorates to five Brussels artists: Stromae, Amélie Nothomb, Lize Spit, François Schuiten and Ever Meulen. The festive ceremony takes place at Bozar in the great hall Henry Le Bœuf.
VISU director Pieter Martens acts as VUB ‘proximus’ awarding the honorary degree to visual artist François Schuiten, who is honoured for his exceptional artistic contribution and his ability to create worlds where imagination and reality meet. His work transcends disciplines and eras, invites us to think differently and offers a critical perspective on society. For Schuiten, Brussels is a recurring universe – a city of lines, perspectives and dreams.
In his laudatio Pieter Martens specifically praises also Schuiten’s visionary contribution to our knowledge and appreciation of Brussels’s architectural history and heritage.
Image: François Schuiten, Bruxelles : un rêve capital (2021)