Activities

Celebrate the start of a new season at Muhka. Discover six new exhibitions, enjoy free admission and insights from our guides, and experience the iconic rap duo Niko G & Kali. Drinks and an afterparty with DJs await in M HKAFE. An evening filled with art and encounter.

FRONT ROW provides some of today’s most thought-provoking artists with the opportunity to reflect on art, culture, and society together with the audience.

Iman Issa explores how exhibitions convey meaning and how form and context shape our interpretation of history and identity. Her work invites critical reflection on established narratives.

Join us in celebrating the opening of a new summer season of exhibitions. Free public access to all exhibitions. Our guides will be present in the galleries throughout the evening to provide explanations. We’ll also be offering you a complimentary drink at the M HKAFE.

Meet Cécile B. Evans. She is an American-Belgian artist living and working in Saint-Denis. Evans’ work examines the value of emotion and its rebellion as it comes into contact with ideological, physical, and technological structures. 

Guy Woueté is a multidisciplinary artist whose work critiques Western influence on Africa. In his talk, he explores how the Western worldview continues to shape artistic identity and practice.

Do you want to find out more about the archives that M HKA manages? Or are you an artist with questions about compiling your own archive? At the end of April, we will be opening our doors for a few days to dive into the archives with our in-house expert(s).

Panel discussion and book launch with Bambi Ceuppens, Liesbeth Minnaard, Irit Rogoff and Bruno Zhu

In 2025, we celebrate the Belgian visionary artist and dream engineer Panamarenko (1940–2019), who uniquely merged art and science. Panamarenko85, an initiative of the Panamarenko Foundation, honors this pioneer, innovator, and inspirer with a series of exhibitions, activities, and a new publication.

Action in Antwerp! The passionate M HKA art historian and Academy lecturer Piet Van Hecke invites you for a free crash course in the history of happenings and performances in Antwerp.

Meet Bruno Zhu. Bruno Zhu lives and works between Portugal and the Netherlands. Through an artistic practice that combines fashion design, writing and publishing, and scenography, Zhu challenges the normative constraints that narrow our thinking and reinforce the dynamics of social reproduction.

Join us on Saturday 15 March for the public launch of the first comprehensive monograph, Elen Braga, published by MER. Books, celebrating 15 years of work by Belgian-Brazilian artist Elen Braga.