News

• ARTnews Ranks Closure of M HKA Among Top 25 "Defining Art Events of 2025"
  Statement of Support - 3 December 2025 - 9:59 pm
  A notable acknowledgment of the international impact of local cultural policy
• Solidarity Without Borders: 'Hands Against The Wall' Connects Brazil and Antwerp in Protest for M HKA
  Statement of Support - 26 November 2025 - 10:00 am
  On November 23, Antwerp and Brazil united in a powerful performance: "Hands Against The Wall." A symbolic protest against the dismantling of M HKA, with a message of international solidarity.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Statement HISK - The museum as muse, driving force and magnet
  Statement of Support - 16 October 2025 - 10:25 am
  Antwerp, which profiles itself locally and internationally as artistic and avant-garde, cannot do without a museum of contemporary art. Such a museum functions as a muse and driving force for the local artistic biotope. It also is a magnet for international artists, art students, art workers and art lovers. Removing this museum would have the effect of a lobotomy. The link between the past, present, and future would be severed.
• ICOM Belgium: M HKA and its community of origin
  Statement of Support - 15 October 2025
  ICOM Belgium expresses concern over the redrawing of the Flemish museum landscape. They call on the Flemish government to take into account the fundamental principles as set out in the ICOM definition and Code of Ethics for Museums.
• L'Internationale: Statement in support of M HKA
  Statement of Support - 9 October 2025
  L’Internationale is appalled by the Flemish government's recent announcement regarding M HKA, a founding member of the confederation.
• FOMU expresses its support for the colleagues at M HKA
  Statement of Support - 8 October 2025
  The Antwerp Photo Museum (FOMU) expresses its support for the colleagues at M HKA and shares our concerns about the plans for the collection
• CIMAM Museum Watch: Reverse the decision to abolish M HKA's status as a national museum
  Statement of Support - 8 October 2025
  CIMAM starts a petition to ask the Flemish government to reverse its decision to regress the Antwerp contemporary art museum M HKA into an art centre.
• The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp expresses its support for M HKA
  Statement of Support - 8 October 2025
  The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp shares the concerns of our peers in the arts sector and calls for signing the petition to keep the museum collection in Antwerp.
• Sint Lucas Antwerp stands with M HKA
  Statement of Support - 8 October 2025
  Contemporary art belongs to every city, to every community, and preserving this museum with its collection is crucial to ensure a strong and sustainable future for Antwerp’s art scene.
• Antwerp Art stands with M HKA
  Statement of Support - 7 October 2025
  Contemporary art belongs to every city, to every community, and preserving this museum with its collection is crucial to ensure a strong and sustainable future for Antwerp’s art scene.