News

• Statement from Anders Kreuger, director of Kunsthalle Kohta, author, senior curator M_HKA from 2011-2019
  Statement of Support - 11 November 2025 - 8:05 pm
  To remain a museum, M HKA needs to become better and stay better at all the five functions listed in ICOM’s new museum definition: research, collection, conservation, interpretation, exhibitions.
• Reflections by Johannes Muselaers, PhD researcher
  Statement of Support - 7 November 2025 - 3:42 pm
  By email: Returning to our conversation about the museum today. I am not a specialist—and must admit that I have followed the museum from a distance in recent years—but when I visited the institution and received its communications, I experienced a divided museum.
• Letter to the editor: Vandenbroucke does what Gennez does not dare to do
  Open letter - 7 November 2025 - 1:25 pm
  On 27 October, Save the Museum | Museum at Risk, a collective of more than 40 artists and art workers, contacted Flemish Minister of Culture Caroline Gennez (Vooruit) to request urgent consultations on the crisis that has been raging in the art world since she proposed redrawing the museum landscape. However, the minister could take a leaf out of the book of her party colleagues and predecessors.
• Artists at Risk Supports Action Against Dissolution of M HKA
  Statement of Support - 5 November 2025 - 1:48 pm
  Artists at Risk (AR) joins the international protest against the planned dissolution of M HKA by the Flemish government. AR emphasizes that democracy and artistic freedom are under threat and calls for united resistance.
• Letter to Mayor of Antwerp and Prime Minister of Belgium Bart De Wever
  Open letter - 4 November 2025 - 10:17 am
  On 2 November 2025, Save the Museum | Museum at Risk sent a letter to Bart De Wever, Mayor of Antwerp and Prime Minister of Belgium. Today, we are publishing the letter publicly.
• Anish Kapoor Threatens to Withdraw Works from M HKA and S.M.A.K.
  Open letter - 3 November 2025 - 7:42 pm
  Internationally renowned artist Anish Kapoor has expressed deep concern in an urgent letter to Flemish Minister of Culture Caroline Gennez regarding the planned institutional restructuring at the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA) and S.M.A.K. (Ghent). Kapoor fears that his fragile and complex artworks are at risk due to the reorganization and emphasizes that his works must not be endangered as part of these plans.
• Christian Boltanski’s Partner Demands Guarantees for Preservation of His Fragile Installations
  Open letter - 3 November 2025 - 6:48 pm
  On November 2, 2025, Annette Messager, partner of the late, world-renowned French artist Christian Boltanski, sent an urgent letter to Minister Caroline Gennez. The letter addresses the planned institutional restructuring of M HKA and S.M.A.K., which has cast uncertainty over the future of Boltanski’s irreplaceable, fragile installations.
• Re-listen to the Museum at Risk Marathon Broadcast
  Announcement - 31 October 2025 - 11:49 pm
  The 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 Gennez
  Open letter - 29 October 2025 - 5:15 pm
  On 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 2025
  CIMAM 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.