Papier Charleroi Carbone
May 7↔10, 2026
+ extras → May 24
Papier Carbone makes its grand return to Charleroi. Two days of art fair, conferences, workshops, tattooing and performances, exhibitions, concerts — with 65+ artists and publishers from Belgium, France, Germany and beyond. A unique event in French-speaking Belgium: a celebration of images for all audiences. In collaboration with BPS22, PBA, Vecteur, Le Chien Vert and Charleroi CentreVille.
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The Art Fair: The Heart of the Festival
The heart of the festival unfolds at BPS22. 65+ Belgian, French and international publishers and artists present zines, posters, artists' books and micro-editions.
Bonus: about fifteen art schools will also be present to showcase their work and animate the festival.
3 exhibitions at BPS22
Sophie Cure presents her Bureau des Affaires Lexicales.
Fotokino (Marseille): Discover the posters from the Laterna Magica festival and prints by Nathalie Du Pasquier, Kitty Crowther…
Raum für Illustration (Hamburg): the German collective arrives with its "Riso Print 2025" collection and its Zine Library.
Designer Talks
Saturday
Lissa Choukrane10:30am
Postindustrial Animism11:30am
Sunday
Sophie Cure10:30am
A.R.D.V.L.11:30am
Your turn to play!
Saturday
Family Tree — Emil MBR2pm→4pm
Drawing — Emperatriz2pm→4pm
Sunday
Kitchen gravure — Léa Marchet2pm→5pm
Pop-up — France Gilbert2pm→5pm
It's performing at BPS22
Saturday & Sunday
Chez Nadineall weekend
Mia Brena-Minettiall weekend
Saturday
Print & Dance5pm→6pm
Sunday
Maysec — musicographisme5pm
Papier Carbone under the skin
Saturday
Piet du Congo10am→5pm
Sunday
Nina Izycka10am→5pm
Party at Vecteur
Friday
MIMO (Le Club des Chats)8pm
Mona HKL — DJ set10pm
Saturday
Hassan K8pm
Bureau de Change10pm
DJ surprise11:30pm
Images all over the city
City tour with:
Julie Legrand — "Objet : Cafetière" at Chien Vert.
Charlotte Burgaud — "Ici bientôt" (with Vecteur).
Mathieu Gargam — Picture books and "Birds Girls & Waterfall" (with Charleroi CentreVille).
Poster Rex — "Ça va faire mal" : collective screenprinted posters.
Studio PBA × Anne Brugni
Illustrator Anne Brugni designs the sets for Ravel's "Les Histoires Naturelles", directed by Helene Bracke. A singular dialogue between live arts and printed image.
Thursday May 7 — Let's go!
Le Chien Vert
Opening
Julie Legrand — "Objet : Cafetière"
6pm · Av. des Alliés 28
"Objet : Cafetière" — monograph around an iconic everyday object.
Festive opening with musical atmosphere to launch the festival.
Downtown
Tour
Window opening
24/7 · Visible until May 24
Charlotte Burgaud takes over empty windows (with Vecteur).
Mathieu Gargam — Picture books and "Birds Girls & Waterfall" (with Charleroi CentreVille).
Poster Rex — Slanted : collective screenprinted posters (with Charleroi CentreVille).
Opening tour from Chien Vert from 6pm.
Friday May 8 — First evening
Le Vecteur
Before the stands, books and posters, we start the weekend with MIMO and Mona HKL. Pay what you wish.
Concert
MIMO — Le Club des Chats
Doors 7pm · Concert 8pm · R. de Marcinelle 30
The musical visit of an imaginary museum: paintings from Maïa Roger's personal collection.
Texts written by authors and art critics, set to music by Le Club des Chats.
Each work has its song, each song has its image.
DJ set
Mona HKL
10pm · R. de Marcinelle 30
Clarinetist, radio maker and DJ, she builds sets that connect traditional and electronic music from the Mediterranean region.
From the Balkans to Iran. From raï to trap to turbofolk to dabke.
Also that day
Expo
Julie Legrand — "Objet : Cafetière"
Chien Vert · Av. des Alliés 28 · 10am→5pm
Monograph around an iconic everyday object. Exhibition visible from May 7 to 24.
Windows
Downtown tour
Downtown · 24/7
Charlotte Burgaud (with Vecteur), Mathieu Gargam and Poster Rex (with Charleroi CentreVille) activate the empty windows in downtown. Visible from May 7 to 24.
Saturday May 9 — THE big day
At BPS22 — The beating heart of the festival
Free entry
Art Fair
Printed Images Fair — day 1
10am→6pm · Bd Solvay 22
65+ publishers and artists from Belgium, France, Germany, Spain and Mexico, plus about fifteen art schools.
Books, posters, graphic projects — independent micro-publishing in all its forms.
All of this for free, for all audiences.
Exhibition
Sophie Cure — Bureau des Affaires Lexicales
10am→6pm · BPS22
A fictional administration that ensures no word is mistreated.
Word of the day elections, mobile typography peddling unit and lexical things to manipulate.
Exhibition
Fotokino (Marseille)
10am→6pm · BPS22
Posters from the Laterna Magica festival and prints by Nathalie Du Pasquier, Kitty Crowther…
Marseille art center dedicated to illustration and moving images.
Exhibition
Raum für Illustration (Hamburg)
10am→6pm · BPS22
Riso Print 2025 edition and Zine Library.
Hamburg gallery dedicated to contemporary illustration and independent editorial practices.
Talk
Lissa Choukrane
10:30am→11:30am · BPS22
Independent researcher and artist, archive enthusiast.
Her research focuses on the intertwined histories of women & queer people and the book trades.
A journey through archives and their stakes, between personal experiences and theoretical references.
Talk
Postindustrial Animism
11:30am→12:30pm · BPS22
Artist, teacher and activist, Eric Angenot bridges creation and ecology through Postindustrial Animism.
Author of "Vivre la Forêt" (Ulmer), he explores how art can fuel environmental struggles.
Talk: Fanzines & activism — when the small format becomes a weapon of massive protest.
Tattoo
Papier Carbone under the skin — Piet du Congo
10am→5pm · BPS22
Atypical figure of European tattooing, Piet du Congo mixes religious icons, 8-bit aesthetics, art brut and propaganda posters in a joyful mash-up.
Flash tattoo on site, first come, first inked.
Workshop
Family tree — Emil MBR
2pm→4pm · BPS22
Based on a reading of his children's book, Emil MBR invites you as an adult-child team to draw your family tree.
While reflecting on the terms each person uses to name their loved ones.
Workshop
Drawing — Emperatriz
2pm→4pm · BPS22
Sometimes, not knowing what to draw causes such great frustration that it can paralyse us.
This workshop offers a series of exercises to draw despite frustration and uncertainty.
Bookshop
maxi kiosque du paratoner
10am→6pm · BPS22
Accessible all day, a selection of zines from even more publishers and artists. Sales and browsing in a friendly space. By PARATONER-ELI asbl.
Performance
Print & Dance
5pm→6pm · BPS22
Participatory performance mixing printing and dance. We'll let you discover the secret on site!
Performance
Chez Nadine
All weekend · BPS22
Nadine takes you into her ruthless universe: 45 RPM records from her grandparents' youth, slow dance with Nadine, immersive printing on the song "Arizona Caca" by Wafca — you leave with your protest T-shirt and go wild in the 1m² "Stilte Pogo" zone.
Performance
Mia Brena-Minetti — ALLÔ !
All weekend · BPS22
The fictional cult ALLÔ! arrives with its guru, a giant banana and a mountain of merch: stickers, posters, loyalty cards… Non-stop performance, meditation session and telephone miracles. Will you be part of it?
Le Vecteur — Evening
You've taken a million images in your eyes. It's time to take care of your ears. Pay what you wish.
Concert
Hassan K
Doors 7pm · Concert 8pm · R. de Marcinelle 30
A one-man band from Persia, equipped with an augmented electric setar and a rhythm box.
He mixes folklore and new technologies, West and East, surf music and belly dance, swing and metal.
A very energetic live performance, on the verge of trance.
Concert
Bureau de Change
10pm · R. de Marcinelle 30
A British post-punk quartet with music that's both fun and politically charged.
They make a lot of noise and seem to really enjoy doing it.
Don't miss the hit "Office Chair" which talks about Excel spreadsheets.
DJ set
DJ surprise
11:30pm · R. de Marcinelle 30
And to finish the night, a surprise DJ set that only Vecteur knows about.
We're waiting for you.
Also that day
Expo
Julie Legrand — "Objet : Cafetière"
Chien Vert · Av. des Alliés 28 · 10am→5pm
Monograph around an iconic everyday object. Exhibition visible from May 7 to 24.
Windows
Downtown tour
Downtown · 24/7
Charlotte Burgaud (with Vecteur), Mathieu Gargam and Poster Rex (with Charleroi CentreVille) activate the empty windows in downtown. Visible from May 7 to 24.
Sunday May 10 — It continues
At BPS22 — The beating heart of the festival
Free entry
Art Fair
Printed Images Fair — day 2
10am→6pm · Bd Solvay 22
65+ publishers and artists from Belgium, France, Germany, Spain and Mexico, plus about fifteen art schools.
Books, posters, graphic projects — independent micro-publishing in all its forms.
All of this for free, for all audiences.
Exhibition
Sophie Cure — Bureau des Affaires Lexicales
10am→6pm · BPS22
A fictional administration that ensures no word is mistreated.
Word of the day elections, mobile typography peddling unit and lexical things to manipulate.
Exhibition
Fotokino (Marseille)
10am→6pm · BPS22
Posters from the Laterna Magica festival and prints by Nathalie Du Pasquier, Kitty Crowther…
Marseille art center dedicated to illustration and moving images.
Exhibition
Raum für Illustration (Hamburg)
10am→6pm · BPS22
Riso Print 2025 edition and Zine Library.
Hamburg gallery dedicated to contemporary illustration and independent editorial practices.
Talk
Sophie Cure
10:30am→11:30am · BPS22
Sophie Cure deploys the Bureau des Affaires Lexicales (B.A.L.), an administration that pays keen attention to lexical things — word of the day elections, typographic peddling, objects to manipulate.
Talk
A.R.V.D.L.
11:30am→12:30pm · BPS22
Under the acronym A.R.V.D.L., Raphaël Van Lerberghe and Alexia de Visscher create editorial objects at the intersection of their practices as artists/publishers. They question the boundaries between art and publishing, mediation and exhibition, unique and multiple, paying particular attention to the contexts of appearance, production and circulation.
Tattoo
Papier Carbone under the skin — Nina Izycka
10am→5pm · BPS22
Illustrator with an organic and inked style, Nina Izycka mixes medieval and folk inspirations in soft and expressive forms.
Flash tattoo on site, first come, first inked.
Workshop
Kitchen Gravure — Léa Marchet
2pm→5pm · BPS22
Kitchen gravure is a relief engraving technique made in milk brick and printed with a pasta machine!
An accessible and surprising technique to discover engraving.
Workshop
Pop-up — France Gilbert
2pm→5pm · BPS22
Have you always been in awe of pop-up books?
Come create your own pop-up cards! You'll learn the basic folds and techniques, and you can leave with your creation.
Bookshop
maxi kiosque du paratoner
10am→6pm · BPS22
Accessible all day, a selection of zines from even more publishers and artists. Sales and browsing in a friendly space. By PARATONER-ELI asbl.
Performance
Chez Nadine
All weekend · BPS22
Nadine takes you into her ruthless universe: 45 RPM records from her grandparents' youth, slow dance with Nadine, immersive printing on the song "Arizona Caca" by Wafca — you leave with your protest T-shirt and go wild in the 1m² "Stilte Pogo" zone.
Performance
Mia Brena-Minetti — ALLÔ !
All weekend · BPS22
The fictional cult ALLÔ! arrives with its guru, a giant banana and a mountain of merch: stickers, posters, loyalty cards… Non-stop performance, meditation session and telephone miracles. Will you be part of it?
Installation + Performance
Maysec — musicographisme_4 · quadraria
5pm · BPS22
Wall installation of about 300 photocopied drawings and sound performance with a stone instrumentarium.
Inspired by the memory of a former quarry, where the resonance of stones gave birth to a mineral dialogue.
Also that day
Expo
Julie Legrand — "Objet : Cafetière"
Chien Vert · Av. des Alliés 28 · 10am→5pm
Monograph around an iconic everyday object. Exhibition visible from May 7 to 24.
Windows
Downtown tour
Downtown · 24/7
Charlotte Burgaud (with Vecteur), Mathieu Gargam and Poster Rex (with Charleroi CentreVille) activate the empty windows in downtown. Visible from May 7 to 24.
May 11 — 21 — The festival continues
Expo
Julie Legrand — "Objet : Cafetière"
Chien Vert · Av. des Alliés 28 · 10am→5pm
Monograph around an iconic everyday object. Exhibition visible from May 7 to 24.
Windows
Downtown tour
Downtown · 24/7
Charlotte Burgaud (with Vecteur), Mathieu Gargam and Poster Rex (with Charleroi CentreVille) activate the empty windows in downtown. Visible from May 7 to 24.
May 22 — 24 · Closing
PBA — Palais des Beaux-Arts
Show
"Les Histoires Naturelles" de Ravel
Pl. du Manège 1 · Free upon reservation
Illustrator Anne Brugni creates the sets staged by Helene Bracke. Premiere on May 22, performances on the 23rd and 24th. A singular dialogue between live arts and printed image.
Also those days
Expo
Julie Legrand — "Objet : Cafetière"
Chien Vert · Av. des Alliés 28 · 10am→5pm
Monograph around an iconic everyday object. Exhibition visible from May 7 to 24.
Windows
Downtown tour
Downtown · 24/7
Charlotte Burgaud (with Vecteur), Mathieu Gargam and Poster Rex (with Charleroi CentreVille) activate the empty windows in downtown. Visible from May 7 to 24.
3 exhibitions at BPS22
Fotokino
Based in Marseille for over 20 years, Fotokino offers a space for experimentation for artists and the public. Here, a selection of publications — from posters to limited editions — and a set of posters created for the Laterna Magica festival by Benoît Jacques, Blexbolex, Atak and many others.
Accompanied by prints by Nathalie Du Pasquier, Kitty Crowther and Philippe Weisbecker.
Raum für Illustration
RFI presents its Risostudio and Zine Library! Plenty of images to discover with Anna Haifisch, Nadine Redlich, Lina Ehrentraut and others — printed in 4 or 5 colours, imitating CMYK.
Accompanied by a library of zines and artbooks available for free browsing.
Sophie Cure
The Bureau des Affaires Lexicales (B.A.L.) is an administration that pays keen attention to lexical things — word of the day elections, typographic peddling, objects to manipulate.
Born during the exhibition "Les champs sémantiques" in 2021, the B.A.L. deploys its tools between graphic design, performance and collective play.
Dozens of exhibitors
All artists and publishers at BPS22, May 9 & 10.
- Actes Nord éditions 🇧🇪 �
- Alice Monvaillier 🇫🇷 �
- ALLÔ x mia brena-minetti 🇧🇪
- Anne Brugni 🇧🇪 �
- Anne-Emilie Philippe 🇫🇷 �
- A.R.D.V.L. 🇧🇪 �
- Atelier McClane 🇫🇷 �
- Atelier Miracle 🇫🇷 �
- Atelier Ton Piquant 🇧🇪 �
- BarizaEstudio y amigos de Oaxaca 🇲🇽 �
- Bitoño 🇧🇪 �
- Chez Nadine asbl 🇧🇪
- Corinne vend des trucs & Broleskine 🇧🇪 �
- Courte Échelle 🇫🇷 �
- Drucken 3000 🇩🇪 �
- Éditions Tandem 🇧🇪 �
- Emil Mbr 🇧🇪 �
- En 3000 éditions 🇧🇪 �
- EPKoT Editions 🇧🇪
- Fanny Petra Henriette 🇧🇪 �
- Fémixion 🇧🇪 �
- Fotokino 🇫🇷 �
- François Tusséki 🇧🇪
- Gilda Fêlée 🇧🇪 �
- Haus303 🇧🇪 �
- Hélène Souillard 🇫🇷 �
- HSH CREW 🇫🇷 �
- HYPER STUDIO 🇧🇪
- Ice Screen 🇧🇪 �
- Impression Forte 🇧🇪 �
- Invoco Books + Emperatriz 🇧🇪 �
- Joana Estrela 🇧🇪 �
- Julie Legrand 🇫🇷
- Kiki Pompon 🇫🇷 �
- Koalath 🇧🇪 �
- La librairie furtive de la constellation CX BB LP 🇨🇭 �
- La "S" Grand Atelier 🇧🇪 �
- Le Marché Noir 🇫🇷 �
- Le Vilain Chien 🇫🇷 �
- Les Ateliers de l'escargot 🇧🇪 �
- les éditions musicographiques 🇫🇷 �
- Librairie Lame 🇫🇷 �
- Lissa Choukrane & Cloé Barbier 🇧🇪 �
- Maladita 🇧🇪 �
- Mathieu Gargam 🇫🇷 �
- Mona Hackel 🇫🇷 �
- Mr_TJoensy 🇧🇪
- Nina Cosco et Eloy Collado 🇧🇪 �
- Nina Izycka 🇪🇸
- Objet Papier x antoine lefebvre editions 🇫🇷 �
- Paulynka 🇧🇪 �
- Paygraphie Editions 🇫🇷 �
- Pomp it up éditions 🇫🇷 �
- Postindustrial Animism 🇧🇪 �
- Printsess 🇧🇪
- Quintal x Rnvp 🇫🇷 �
- Raum für Illustration 🇩🇪 �
- Riso des bois 🇧🇪 �
- Slanted Publishers 🇩🇪 �
- SO-RI 🇧🇪 �
- Sophie Cure – Bureau des Affaires Lexicales 🇫🇷 �
- STRAATES 🇧🇪 �
- Table Partagée 🇫🇷
- Thomas Diot 🇧🇪
- Maxi kiosque du paratoner 🇧🇪 �
Art schools
Art schools present their work and animate the festival.
- École supérieure d'art de Lorraine 🇫🇷
- ARBA - cursus gravure 🇧🇪
- ACA Charleroi (atelier photo, gravure, sérigraphie) 🇧🇪
- Haute École Albert Jacquard 🇧🇪
- La Cambre - section typographie 🇧🇪
- Académie des beaux-arts de Namur option sérigraphie 🇧🇪
- ERG illustration + bande dessinée + sérigraphie 🇧🇪
- Saint-Luc Bruxelles ESA (illustration, graphisme, bande dessinée) 🇧🇪
- Condorcet Marcinelle 🇧🇪
- Département des arts appliqués - HEPH-Condorcet - arts graphiques & éco-design produits 🇧🇪
- Saint-Luc Liège 🇧🇪
- ARTS² gravure - image imprimée 🇧🇪
- ARTS² graphisme 🇧🇪
- FH Dortmund 🇩🇪
- FH Nuremberg 🇩🇪
- ESA Saint-Luc de Tournai, option de communication graphique et visuelle 🇧🇪
- ESAC Cambrai 🇫🇷
Images all over the city
Julie Legrand
"Objet : Cafetière" — monograph around an iconic everyday object.
A central figure of Julie Legrand's graphic universe, the coffee pot unfolds in thematic series since 2021, in many versions through drawings, collages and fanzines.
Julie is an illustrator, screen printer and graphic designer based in Sète. Exhibition visible from May 7 to 24.
Charlotte Burgaud
ICI BIENTÔT — Multitool artist, Charlotte Burgaud takes over the empty windows of downtown Charleroi.
Cardboard, small motors, glue, scissors: she brings life back where everything seemed deserted. What's going on behind? Is anyone there?
Mathieu Gargam
Two window projects:
The restitution of the Picture Books workshop led with children from BPS22.
"Birds Girls & Waterfall", visual poems from amateur Belgian slides from the 50s to 90s. Evening screenings.
Poster Rex
Poster Rex, project co-founded by Lars Harmsen (Slanted) and Markus Lange, born in Havana in 2014 and declined worldwide.
Each session produces collective screenprinted posters, conceived as graphic statements addressing contemporary issues.
Dive into the atmosphere
Where does it happen?
BPS22
Contemporary art museum housed in a 2,500 m² hall designed for the 1911 International Exhibition.
It hosts temporary exhibitions focused on current social issues and practices participatory mediation.
Le Vecteur
Cultural platform and arts center established in Ville Basse for fifteen years.
Concerts, exhibitions, residencies, readings, workshops — disciplines intersect and practices are decompartmentalized in an emerging, atypical and adventurous programming.
Le Chien Vert
Good coffee, beers & vibes in Ville Haute. Specialty coffee, craft beers, vinyls and vintage decor — a cozy and warm place run by Massimo, where you come for coffee in the morning and beers in the evening.
PBA — Palais des Beaux-Arts
Art Deco jewel built in 1957, adorned with black marble and an original luminous ceiling. Large hall of 1,800 seats, renovated Hangar of 1,000 m² and brand new Studio PBA — transdisciplinary creation space for live arts.
Who is Papier Carbone?
The association
Copie Carbone is a non-profit organization based in Charleroi, dedicated to graphic design, printed images and micro-publishing.
The Papier Carbone festival has existed since 2016 — three editions (2016, 2018, 2019) each welcomed more than 2,000 visitors. After adapted formats during Covid (Web TV, exhibitions, fanzine library), the association was constituted as a non-profit organization in 2025 and established a partnership with FIG. (Liège). In parallel, Copie Carbone runs Fric et Crayons, a series of meetings on economic issues for graphic artists, and the Rendez-vous dessinés at the QG in Marcinelle.
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