Antwerp Pride 2026

Event

7-9 Aug 2026

During Antwerp Pride 2026, Muhka organises a multi-day programme together with Antwerp Queer Arts Festival (AQAF), including a sound installation, workshop, public intervention and Pride offer at MuhkaFE.

The programme runs from Friday 7 to Sunday 9 August 2026.

The programme is part of the broader collaboration between Muhka and AQAF, in which queer artists are given a place within the museum context through activities and open calls. Read more about the partnership.

Friday 7 August | Saturday 8 August | Sunday 9 August | Practical information

Programme by day

Click on a programme item for more information about the activity, access and location.

Friday 7 August 2026

11:00–18:00 — Installation / walk-in — Wishing Well
Muhka, floor +3, Auditorium
11:00–18:00 — Café offer / rooftop garden — MuhkaFE & Volle Grond @Antwerp Pride
Muhka, floor +4, MuhkaFE

Saturday 8 August 2026

11:00–13:00 — Workshop / registration required — Shared Incantations
Muhka, floor +3, Auditorium
13:00–18:00 — Jam session / participatory — Jam Session Wishing Well
Muhka, floor +3, Auditorium
14:00–15:00 — Public intervention — La Bamba — Kiss in
Round pond in Zuidpark
11:00–18:00 — Café offer / rooftop garden — MuhkaFE & Volle Grond @Antwerp Pride
Muhka, floor +4, MuhkaFE

Sunday 9 August 2026

11:00–18:00 — Installation / walk-in — Wishing Well
Muhka, floor +3, Auditorium
11:00–18:00 — Café offer / rooftop garden — MuhkaFE & Volle Grond @Antwerp Pride
Muhka, floor +4, MuhkaFE
Date to be confirmed — Guided tour / rooftop garden — Zuiderdakentours Volle Grond

Programme

Ongoing: Wishing Well

Date: Friday 7, Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 August 2026
Time: 11:00–18:00
Location: Muhka, floor +3, Auditorium
Access: walk-in, free visitor area

Wishing Well offers a sanctuary for queer voices in a sculpture where you are invited to make a wish and let your voice be heard. Your voice is recorded and combined with the voices of others, woven into an evolving soundscape that moves through the space.

Wishing Well is an ongoing archive of queer voices. A composition of wishes and contributions from everyone who has ever passed through it: scattered voices becoming one.

More about Wishing Well

Workshop Shared Incantations

Date: Saturday 8 August 2026
Time: 11:00–13:00
Location: Muhka, floor +3, Auditorium
With: Sasa Ghanem-Chaney
Participants: maximum 14 participants
Access: by registration

During this intimate session, the artist Sasa Ghanem-Chaney invites a group of people who identify as queer and are interested in exploring their voice together. Each participant’s voice is used as a somatic exercise to ground the body and create a collective sense of connection.

Through structured improvisation, a number of exercises are guided as a warm-up. Each person’s sound is gently explored to bring the group into a playful state and, together through improvisation, create an evolving soundscape.

No experience is needed, only curiosity to explore sound and polyphony as a collective healing practice. This session never puts one individual in the spotlight and always works from the group dynamic. It is completely fine to step out of the session at any time or move into a more passive listening state.

This workshop takes place as part of long-term research into the voice as a place of memory, and collective singing as a practice of remembrance for people who identify as queer. During this research, the artist collects sound fragments of queer voices that are brought together in an archive. This archive will be organised, and a musical work will be composed on that basis. The voices shared during these sessions will be recorded and later used in the context of this research.

Reserve your place for the workshop

Jam Session Wishing Well

Date: Saturday 8 August 2026
Time: 13:00–18:00
Location: Muhka, floor +3, Auditorium
With: Sasa Ghanem-Chaney
Access: walk-in, free visitor area

The Wishing Well is open: come in, give your voice and become part of the queer soundscape. Creating collective sound brings us together in an unexpected intimacy, without physical contact, and yet full of contact. Freeing your voice as a form of resistance. A different form, but no less powerful.

The artist will be present to welcome you and guide you through the installation.

No experience is needed and no preparation is required. The more voices, the richer the whole: come whenever you like and stay as long as you wish.

La Bamba — Kiss in

Date: Saturday 8 August 2026
Time: 14:00–15:00
Location: round pond in Zuidpark
With: a group of around ten AQAF members
Access: passers-by are welcome to join freely

With this public intervention, AQAF sets off from Muhka towards Zuidpark to settle there lightly around music and pleasure. Inspired by actions from the 1960s and 1970s, this Kiss in aims to raise awareness of prevailing heteronormative expectations. In a nostalgic way, the public is invited to take part in a queer kissing dance during Antwerp Pride Week.

MuhkaFE & Volle Grond @Antwerp Pride

Date: Friday 7, Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 August 2026
Time: 11:00–18:00
Location: Muhka, floor +4, MuhkaFE

Especially for this edition of Antwerp Pride Week, Volle Grond is planting extra rainbow chard on Muhka’s rooftop garden this summer. During your visit to MuhkaFE, you can taste this vegetable.

Zuiderdakentours Volle Grond: date to be confirmed. This tour of the urban farmers of Antwerp South will take a playful approach to Antwerp Pride Week.

About Sasa Ghanem-Chaney

Sasa Ghanem-Chaney (French-Algerian, °1993) is an artist, performer, director and facilitator who lives and works in Amsterdam (NL). Their work always asks the same question: whose stories are preserved, and whose stories disappear?

Through speculative storytelling, immersive installations and community projects, including Queer Choir Amsterdam and House of Hopelezz, Sasa creates spaces where marginalised voices are not only heard, but also centred. In doing so, they present history as a political choice and the archive as resistance.

Website | Instagram

Practical information

Date: Friday 7, Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 August 2026
Time: different times, see programme by day
Locations: Muhka (+3 Auditorium and +4 MuhkaFE) and Zuidpark

Walk-in: Wishing Well, Jam Session Wishing Well, La Bamba — Kiss in and MuhkaFE & Volle Grond.
Registration required: workshop Shared Incantations, maximum 14 participants. Reserve your place.
To be confirmed: date of the Zuiderdakentours by Volle Grond.

Partners

Muhka and AQAF (Antwerp Queer Arts Festival) are building a sustainable partnership around contemporary art, social engagement and artistic innovation. Through open calls, shared curatorship and the exchange of knowledge and networks, they give queer artists space within a museum context focused on dialogue, visibility, community and a more inclusive art practice.