Brainwash Festival

One festival at different locations

These are the locations where the Brainwash Festival also takes place, click on the location name for the program Melkweg, Paradiso, De Balie, the Kring and Theater Bellevue.

Exploring the limits of reason

Where the French Enlightenment philosopher René Descartes only assumed that he doubted, there seems to be no room for doubt in our current society. Who are you? What do you stand for? What do you believe in?

A clear answer is constantly expected to all these questions. A rock-solid belief in your own truth and right. But what do 'right' and 'truth' still mean in times of controlling algorithms, screaming politicians and incomprehensible technological developments?

At Brainwash Festival we explore the boundaries of reason, present radical proposals that turn your worldview upside down, celebrate contradictions and make you doubt everything you thought you knew for sure.