Work Stolen in Heist at 2026 Tomorrowland Competition

Tomorrowland’s workforce continues to be looking for a stolen portray after a pair returned a companion piece they took from the identical exhibit.

The organizers of Belgium’s Tomorrowland are interesting for the return of an work stolen in the course of the occasion’s first weekend after a companion piece, taken in the identical theft, was quietly introduced again by festivalgoers.

Titled Love and Want, the 2 artworks had been a part of a commissioned assortment of six items on show within the onsite Tomorrowland Restaurant. Every canvas was meant to embody certainly one of six common feelings tied to the competition’s formidable 2026 theme, ‘Consciencia.’

Tomorrowland on Tuesday made a public enchantment for the lacking work’ return, noting the heist occurred regardless of safety measures within the surrounding space. Shortly afterward, Love turned up.

A pair returned the piece to the Lab of Tomorrow, a workshop house in Increase related to the competition, in response to a report within the Belgian newspaper Nieuwsblad. Nonetheless, Want has not been recovered.

“It’s a praise that the artworks are appreciated, however it will be good if the ‘Conscienca’ work might shine a bit of longer for the festival-goers in the course of the second weekend,” Tomorrowland spokesperson Debby Wilmsen stated in a press release translated from Dutch.

The opposite 4 works within the collection, Surprise, Anger, Pleasure and Unhappiness, stay on show. Tomorrowland returns for it second and last weekend July 24-26, 2026.