Museum in Motion

+++ This exhibition ran from 16 September 2022 to 8 January 2023. +++

For the exhibition Museum in Motion, the artistic and collection teams of Muhka jointly selected two dozen artists who could contribute to the museum’s future frameworks. Some are already key figures in the collection, others are artists the museum hopes to include. Many names closely connected to Muhka are not part of this presentation, precisely because they already define the current framework. The exhibition thus brought together 24 potential pieces of a future puzzle: 24 international key artists who might play a role in the new museum and reflect its long-term ambitions.

Museum in Motion marked a symbolic starting point for a new chapter. The presentation takes its title from the book of the same name, which explores the role of museums of contemporary art — a challenge that Muhka now actively embraces. As the construction process for a new building begins, the museum is simultaneously exploring its own historiography. Spread across two floors, this exhibition offered a first indicative gesture: an exercise in reflection that will evolve alongside the architecture and the future of the collection.

With: Etel Adnan, Marcel Broodthaers, Lili Dujourie, Marlene Dumas, Jimmie Durham, Andrea Fraser, Yang Fudong, Shilpa Gupta, Dorothy Iannone, Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, Nikita Kadan, Yayoi Kusama, Taus Makhacheva, Gordon Matta-Clark, Hana Miletić, Laure Prouvost, Walter Swennen, Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Otobong Nkanga, Nicola L, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Allan Sekula, Nicolás Uriburu, Haegue Yang.