Exhibitions

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.

As part of europalia georgia, Muhka brought together artist Elene Chantladze and the designers of Rooms Studio in a poetic dialogue between image and object. The exhibition explored how interior and interiority can serve as sources of resistance, freedom, and imagination.

This presentation at Muhka showcased a selection of Panamarenko’s iconic transport objects — from zeppelins to backpack helicopters, mountain bikes to cosmic crafts. His poetic machines reflected boundless imagination and an insatiable drive for adventure.

On the occasion of the Kyiv Biennial 2023, Muhka presented Dispatches, a postcard project in collaboration with the Visual Culture Research Center in Kyiv. Twelve artists were invited to design a postcard that circulated as an artistic message of solidarity, both within and beyond the biennial. In a time of conflict, Dispatches offered a tangible and poetic form of connection.

For the first time in his new home city of Antwerp, Muhka presented a broad selection of collages and works on paper by Nikolay Karabinovych. With a visual language that is sharp, poetic, and often satirical, his work offers a personal and critical reflection on war, history, and current events—attuned to both the absurd and the intimate.