News
- Re-listen to the Museum at Risk Marathon BroadcastAnnouncement - 31 October 2025 - 11:49 pmThe marathon broadcast on the Museum At Risk: Artists Speak Out action—running across both Radio Centraal and We Are Various—is now available in full on Spotify.
- Letter to Minister of Culture Caroline GennezOpen letter - 29 October 2025 - 5:15 pmOn October 27, 2025, we sent a letter as Save the Museum | Museum at Risk to Caroline Gennez, Flemish Minister of Culture, in which we emphasized our core principles and requested an urgent suspension of point 5.2.4 from the concept note. Today, we are publishing the letter publicly.
- Support M HKA: What's the relation between a collection and a museum?Appeal - 29 October 2025CIMAM is launching a global advocacy campaign in support of the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA), addressing the critical political decisions that threaten to remove its collection and downgrade the institution to a Kunsthalle.
- Co-curators of Laboratorium (Antwerp, 1999) react with shock to Bruno Verbergt (Mu.ZEE) supporting M HKA’s dismantlingOpen letter - 27 October 2025We publish an open letter from Hans Ulrich Obrist (Artistic Director, Serpentine Galleries, London) and Barbara Vanderlinden to Bruno Verbergt (Director of Mu.ZEE, Permekemuseum, and Pierremuzee), with a copy to Minister Caroline Gennez.
- Artist Emilia Kabakov Opposes Dismantling of M HKAOpen letter - 26 October 2025 - 7:20 amWe publish an open letter from renowned artist Emilia Kabakov, addressed to Caroline Gennez, Flemish Minister of Culture. In the letter, Kabakov objects to the plans to strip M HKA of its museum status and transfer its collection to SMAK in Ghent.
- Artists speak outPress release - 24 October 2025Artists and cultural workers oppose the cancellation of the museum function of the M HKA.
- ACIA International: Reverse the decision to abolish M HKA's status as a national museumOpen letter - 21 October 2025AICA International expresses its opposition to the proposed restructuring of M HKA (Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp) in a letter addressed to Matjaz Gruden (Director for Democracy at the Council of Europe), Glenn Micallef (Commissioner for Intergenerational Fairness, Youth, Culture and Sport at the European Commission), Ms. Gennez (Ministry of Culture in Belgium), and the Permanent Representation of Belgium to UNESCO. Additionally, AICA supports the call by the Belgian and international art community to reverse this arbitrary decision.
- vzw Team Zuid calls on the Antwerp City Council to defend the preservation of the M HKA as a full-fledged Museum of Contemporary Art.Open letter - 20 October 2025In a letter to the Antwerp City Council, vzw Team Zuid warns of the far-reaching consequences of Minister Gennez’s plan to downgrade the M HKA (Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp) to an art center and potentially relocate its collection to Ghent.
- Group of international museum organizations send an Open Letter to Caroline Gennez, Flemish Minister of CultureOpen letter - 16 October 2025A group of leading international museum directors and cultural figures have expressed deep concern over reports that the Flemish Government intends to close the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA). In the following open letter, they call upon Minister Caroline Gennez to reconsider this decision and to ensure the continued support of one of Europe’s most respected institutions for contemporary art.
- ICOM Belgium: M HKA and its community of originStatement of Support - 15 October 2025ICOM Belgium expresses concern over the redrawing of the Flemish museum landscape. They call on the Flemish government to take into account the fundamental principles as set out in the ICOM definition and Code of Ethics for Museums.
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