Colour News February 2026
Colour related news and events
Welcome to the February edition of ICA-Belgium Colour News, bringing you colour related news from Belgium and around the world.
Last call for our online Colour Talk - there are only a few places left. Read about our new Colour Circle Book Club and a guided tour in Brussels.
We thank you for reading us in 38 countries!
Warm greetings from Belgium,
-your ICA-Belgium team
Sunday Morning Colour Talk with Juan Serra Lluch
This Sunday, 8 February 2026, at 10 AM CET, join us for our next colour talk, this time with Juan Serra Lluch, PhD architect, Full Professor at the School of Architecture (ETSA) of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), and Sub-Dean of Research, who will present his book, Color for Architects.
Colour is essential to architecture yet often misunderstood and overlooked in education; this engaging, richly illustrated volume brings clarity to colour theory by seamlessly blending theory, practice, and real-world examples, offering designers practical tools to confidently use colour in architectural design.
There will be time for Q&A, we invite you to join the conversation.
The event is free but it requires registration, places are limited to 100.
There are only a few spaces left! Waiting list is available.
Introducing the Colour Circle Book Club
Reading, sharing, and exploring the world of colour together.
At ICA-Belgium we believe that colour becomes richer when we explore it collectively. That’s why we’re launching the Colour Circle - ICA-Belgium’s Colour Book Club - a space where you can discover inspiring books on colour, exchange insights, and reflect on how colour shapes our work, our thinking, and our daily lives.
Each session focuses on a selected book: sometimes a classic, sometimes a surprising new title. We read, discuss, and review together - always with an open mind and a playful spirit. Whether you’re a colour professional, an artist, a designer, or simply someone who loves the poetry and psychology of colour, you’re warmly invited to join.
The Colour Circle Book Club is designed to be:
Accessible - no prior expertise required
Interactive - conversations, reflections, and shared discoveries
Inspiring - from colour theory to perception, from art to science
Community‑building - connecting people who see the world through a colourful lens
Private - for ICA-Belgium members and paid subscribers (monthly or yearly) - with hybrid attendance, online and in Belgium.
Whether you are on the other side of the world or in Belgium, we plan to find a way to connect and come together.
For those in Belgium (or willing to come for a visit), we hope to gather at our members’ homes (so we can, at the same time, have the opportunity to enjoy each other’s colour book collections), while allowing anyone who is not in Belgium, to join online.
We look forward to reading together and letting colour spark new conversations.
Let us know what colour related books you would like to read and discuss. We will try to invite the authors to join, when possible.
The first Colour Circle Book Club Meeting will take place on 3 May 2026, with hybrid attendance.
The exact time and place will be communicated at a later point.
Our first book will be Color for Architects by Juan Serra Lluch.
Find out more about the Colour Circle Book Club:.
To celebrate the start of our Colour Book Club, we are partnering with Routledge, offering you 20% Off all Routledge Classics Books until the end of March 2026, with the code AFFQ12026.
20% Off all Routledge Classics Books with Free Standard Shipping.
Code: AFFQ12026
Offer ends: March 31st 2026
*Transparency Disclosure: ICA-Belgium is an affiliate of Routledge. We may earn a small commission from qualifying purchases made through our links, at no cost to you, which helps support our mission.
ICA-Belgium 2025 Activity Report
Thank you to everyone who contributed! You can download the report as a PDF here.
Interaction of Colour in Space
Workshop at the Josef Albers Museum Quadrat in Bottrop, Germany, 27-28 June 2026
In collaboration with DEUTSCHES FARBENZENTRUM, ICA-Belgium invites architects, designers, artists and all colour lovers to an exceptional two-day workshop at the renowned Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop - a unique setting to explore colour where art, theory, and architecture meet.
Colour Exhibitions on our radar
Colour and Momentum - Guided tour by curator Kinga Popovics
Liszt Institute Brussels, Thursday, February 12 from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
The exhibition Colour & Momentum at the Liszt Institute Brussels brings together five Hungarian artists from two generations, united by abstraction and a shared sensitivity to perception.
Through deliberate juxtapositions, the works begin to speak - not loudly, but with clarity - inviting viewers into a quiet yet active dialogue. Glass and Lego, presence and absence, organic form and constructed systems unfold side by side, revealing how art resists formulas and fixed interpretations.
Exhibiting artists: Zsófi Barabás, István Felsmann, Bernát Haupt, Márton Nemes & Bella Pál
Guided by the curator Kinga Popovics, discover how movement, material, and perception shape our experience - and why seeing is never passive.
More information about the exhibition: https://culture.hu/en/brussels/events/colur-and-momentum
Let us know if you will be attending the guided tour, we could meet for coffee afterwards. Several ICA-Belgium members are already planning to attend.
ICA-Belgium members and yearly subscribers - send us your colour related news! We are happy to share about your colour-related work in the newsletter and our website.
ICA-Belgium is a community of colour lovers that share a common interest in colour, spanning the fields of art, design, architecture, science, industry, education, linguistics, philosophy, history…
Join us and get to know other colour professionals and enthusiasts from all around the world (yes, we have international membership!), share about your work, develop opportunities for collaboration, build connections and contribute to a dynamic colour platform.
As a nonprofit organisation, run entirely by volunteers and on a very limited budget, we are counting on you to help us continue offering free online Colour Talks, colour related information and accessible colour related events and education. Consider to either become an ICA-Belgium member, or a paid newsletter subscriber. You can also buy ICA a coffee.
