Exhibitions

Edith Dekyndt’s work explores the vitality of matter and transience. Chronology of Tears combined video, projection, and a treated blanket, inviting a fresh perspective on our connection to the material world.

This INBOX exhibition presented the results of workshops with pupils from De Ziekenhuisschool. Guided by professional artists, they explored contemporary art inspired by The Lives of Animals, the book by Nobel Prize-winning author and animal rights advocate J.M. Coetzee.

The exhibition 'Opting for art' revisited three influential contemporary art shows from the Visual Arts programme of Antwerp '93, Cultural Capital of Europe. Through archival material, it reflected on their role and relevance in Belgian art history more than thirty years on.

In 'Beyond the Depths', Viktor Brim brought together video installations addressing resource extraction, geological time, and political power structures. His monumental images of mining landscapes confronted visitors with the often invisible impact of ideology and industry on our environment.

Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–1978) was known for his radical cuts into architecture. His “anarchitecture” challenged ideas of space, ownership and access. This exhibition focused on his influential work and the iconic Office Baroque project, which laid the groundwork for what would become Muhka.

Koen van den Broek took a bold turn in his practice. No longer translating photographs, he painted directly with tar, asphalt and road paint. A new direction, yet still unmistakably Van den Broek.

In this exhibition, the artist presented a new series of two-dimensional works in which he distances himself from the current trend in visual poetry. With his concept of meta-concretism, he returns to the essence of concrete poetry: the material presence of letters and words, in dialogue with image.

‘This Is Us’ united works from the collections of the four leading contemporary art museums in Flanders for the very first time. Framed around the idea of the ‘artistic learning environment’, the exhibition reflected on what these collections say about art, society, and learning today. A unique collaboration between Muhka, S.M.A.K., Mu.ZEE, M Leuven and Z33.

How can we consciously take care of our attention in an increasingly loud and oversaturated world? Such was the question raised during ANTENA, a year-long programme dedicated to listening.

With one of her most comprehensive retrospectives, Muhka paid tribute to the work of Dorothy Iannone. Her bold and vibrant practice explored love, sexuality and female emancipation through a unique interplay of image, text and sound.

In the INBOX space, Cindy Wright presented nine recent works centered on her fascination with decay and the abject. Through her hyperrealistic paintings and drawings, she explores the limits of perception and painting itself, using a visual language that is both confronting and aesthetically refined.

In this poetic video and sound installation, Shen Xin explored the intertwining of ethnicity, ecology, and history. 'Brine Lake (A New Body)' offered a reflective space on statelessness, connection, and the invisible traces of shared memory.