News

• A Line Crossed: A Sector United Against the Dismantling of Culture and Heritage
  Mission - 25 November 2025 - 12:30 pm
  On Tuesday, November 25, an intersectoral protest took place at Kon. Astridplein in Antwerp, where artists, workers, and cultural professionals stood together in resistance. During this rally, a powerful speech was delivered on behalf of M HKA and Museum at Risk, sharply criticizing the dismantling of M HKA and the undermining of the cultural sector.
• Open Letter in Defense of M HKA Antwerp
  Statement of Support - 20 November 2025 - 3:19 pm
  We, members of the Ukrainian artistic community - artists, curators, writers and cultural workers, write to express our profound concern regarding the decision to dismantle M HKA as an independent institution and relocate its collection.
• OPEN CALL: Hands Against the Wall
  Appeal - 18 November 2025 - 9:32 pm
  On Sunday 23.11 at 1.30pm we come together to place our 'Hands Against the Wall' - an action based on the performance of Ben Benaouisse.
• Members sought for the Board of Trustees - Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp
  Announcement - 12 November 2025 - 9:00 pm
  Three of the four independent directors have resigned. The governing body is therefore launching an open call for candidates who wish to serve as independent directors on the governing body of M HKA vzw. The interim directors will be appointed for the remainder of the current term of office, which expires on 31 October 2026. Their term of office is renewable.
• 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.