Us by Night

Procreate is back at Us By Night - Antwerp 2026. ✏️

Driven by a belief that creativity begins with the human hand, Procreate continues to champion artists, illustrators, and storytellers around the world.

Representing Procreate on our stage this year is Form Play Animation, the Brighton-based animation duo of Catharine Pitt and Mark Davis.

Known for their expressive characters, hand-crafted animation, and emotionally rich storytelling, Form Play has created work for Google, YouTube, Sephora, and Comedy Central. Their playful visual language proves that humour, narrative, and character can leave a lasting impression.

Join us for an inspiring session on character animation, storytelling, and the power of human creativity.

See you in Antwerp! 😘

🚨🚨🚨 BIG ONE!

Our final addition to this insane 2026 lineup… 🔥

Our dear friend Ruben Beddeleem at Google, who has already helped bring some incredible people to the Us By Night stage over the years, highly recommended . Not only because of his incredible talent, but also because he’s simply one of the nicest people you’ll meet.
Then we discovered we had already crossed paths years ago at Nike 👟, together with the amazing Michaelspo23 from Nike Brand Design, who was also behind some of the most legendary appearances on our stage.

There were just too many signs not to make this happen. ✨

is a creative director from Montreal, based in Paris 🇫🇷. He currently collaborates with Pharell Willams at Louis Vuitton, 𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐎® at KENZO, and Chitose Abe at sacaiofficial across image-making, runway shows, and collections.

Trust us… you’re going to want a front-row seat for this one. 🎤👀❤️

We promised to make the final additions to our 2026 lineup something special… ✨

Well… here we are. 🍎

Please give an enormous Us By Night welcome to Media Arts Lab. (TBWA\Media Arts Labb)⚡️

Media Arts Lab is the agency that works exclusively with Apple. They’ve been responsible for some of Apple’s most iconic global campaigns, creating work that has shaped how millions of people experience one of the world’s most influential brands. Their storytelling, craft, and obsessive attention to detail continue to set the standard for creative excellence.

Earlier this year, we ran into James Taylor James Taylor 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇸 ), Global Head of Design at Media Arts Lab, at Cannes Lions, just after the agency had won the Grand Prix 🏆 for the Apple TV brand refresh. There was only one possible question:
“Would you consider speaking at Us By Night?”

Thankfully, the answer was yes. 🙌

For the past five years, James has built and led the design function across Media Arts Lab’s global network, working directly alongside Apple’s in-house creative teams on some of the most scrutinized creative work in the world. Before that, his career spanned more than two decades across boutique studios and global agencies, including creating the inaugural identity for Zaha Hadid Architects.

What fascinates us most isn’t just the award-winning work, it’s everything that happens behind the scenes. 👀 How do you build creativity inside an agency that operates under extraordinary secrecy?

We’re incredibly honored to welcome James and Media Arts Lab to Antwerp.

Let’s make sure they never forget Us By Night. ❤️🔥

We’re handing the main stage over to Antwerp’s favorite electronic anarchists, Noah and Boris of Borokov Borokov (Borokov Borokov) ! Across all three nights, they’ll be unleashing our stellar lineup of speakers through a series of wild, compact musical interventions.

And the stage itself is getting a serious upgrade. A scaffolding balcony will wrap around the entire main-stage hall, allowing you to experience the talks from higher ground and see the space from a completely new perspective. Together with Borokov Borokov’s unpredictable introductions, the main stage will become an experience entirely of its own.

No doubt, over the course of three nights, you’ll build a very special relationship with your hosts.

For the uninitiated: Borokov Borokov is a band maintaining a strict DIY ethos out of pure necessity. They write, record, and produce their own music, direct their own videos, handle the bookkeeping, build their own instruments, and—yes—even invent their own protein powder brands.

Musically? Think a volatile mix of angular synth pop, work-incapacitated hi-NRG, krautrock with a double “t,” birthday-acid house, supra-Freudian elektrapunk, and multilingual lamentations. Every track is an escape attempt, writhing its way out of its own straitjacket.

Please welcome to Us By Night. From his roots in the ’90s Brussels graffiti scene, he now builds large-scale installations all over the globe that still carry that graffiti DNA.

Based in Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium, Arne Quinze leads a multidisciplinary atelier where oil painting, sculpture, large-scale installations, spatial thinking, and research into nature and the built environment come together.

His practice moves across ceramics, Murano glass, phosphor bronze, aluminium, digital interfaces, sound, and immersive light-based environments. Each material is carefully explored and refined within his ateliers, opening up new ways to engage with nature’s endless spectrum.

The result: sculptural works and spatial experiences that feel like portals for reconnecting with nature.

A first glimpse of what’s happening beyond the stages at UBN 🚀

We are 95% locked in on speakers, but Us By Night is so much more than just the main stages. Turn the sound ON to hear the full breakdown, or swipe through the slides to check out the playground we’re building this year:

🎶 So Me is back: Returning to Antwerp to close out the festival with another legendary DJ set. 🎧🔥

🎨 The 70m Collage Wall: Our massive wheatpasting wall is officially back by popular demand. 💥

📸 Portrait Photo Studio: A long-time dream come true, hosted by London’s incredible Craig Fleming . 🖤

🖼️ Antwerp Poster Festival: Featuring a brand-new, wrap-around scaffold balcony in the Main Stage hall acting as an exhibition space and vantage point. 🪜✨ APF

🎹 Live Interventions: Borokov Borokov will be on the Main Stage dropping short, playful musical intros for speakers all weekend. 👋🎶 Borokov Borokov

🎬 The Screenings: by Rinus Van de Velde, Frederik Heyman and David Wilson, with David live on the main stage for a quick hello! ❤️✍️ Rinus Van de Velde Frederik Heyman David Wilson

📱 The UBN App is back! 🚀 Create your own events, join the community, and explore the city beyond the festival grounds. Updates are dropping soon, including a focus on local open-door studios. Stay tuned!

🏟️ The Stadium Stage: A brand-new mega-space merging the Nightmarket stages with the exact same premium audi & video quality as the Main Stage. 🔊🎚️

Don’t wait too long on tickets, we’re hitting the final ticket waves soon and they’re moving fast. 🎟️💨

See you in Antwerp! 🇧🇪👋