Children’s Art Day 2025

Connection & Loss

Come to M HKA with your children and enjoy a day full of discovery, wonder, and creativity. During Children’s Art Day, everything revolves around looking, listening, moving, and sharing stories — together.

M HKA’s activities invite you to actively take part: children and adults explore how art can create connection, preserve memories, and spark small moments of wonder.

In short, it’s a day to play, explore, and enjoy!

Free admission for everyone. The Toddler Tour is free, but reservation is required.

During Children’s Art Day, we delve into the themes of connection and loss — and together, we look for or find our own way through them.

Programme

Toddler Tour (ages 2–4)

11:15–12:15 & 14:15–15:15

With their curious hands, hungry mouths, and wide-eyed wonder, toddlers don’t always have it easy in a museum. That’s why M HKA developed a guided tour tailored especially to them. Together with a guide, you and your toddler explore the artworks — touching, listening, smelling, and moving along with the art! Each Toddler Tour connects to the ongoing exhibitions and offers a sensory introduction to contemporary art.

For toddlers aged 2 to 4, each accompanied by an adult.
Free, but reservation required.

Family Tour – Pauline Curnier Jardin (ages 4+)

11:30–12:15 & 14:30–15:15

In this special family tour, we dive into the colourful, magical world of artist Pauline Curnier Jardin. Wonder and imagination take centre stage as we look, move, act, and think together. Expect family yoga, small philosophical moments, and surprising stories.

A playful experience where art, body, and imagination intertwine — for curious minds of all ages.

Family Workshop in The Salon (ages 4+)

11:00–18:00

In The Salon on the first floor, creative games, imaginative assignments, and adventurous workshops await young explorers and curious families.

Screen Printing Workshop (ages 6+)

12:00–16:00
Based on a design by Vaast Colson

What happens when something changes, or someone isn’t close by? It can feel strange, but even then, traces remain — memories, stories, images. In this workshop, we print a backpack filled with memories and small stories. You can use an M HKA bag or bring your own from home. Each print is unique, just like every story.

Discover PinchukArtCentre (Kyiv, Ukraine) (ages 4+)

Experience contemporary art from around the world — together as a family! In collaboration with the PinchukArtCentre in Kyiv, we playfully build bridges between far away and close to home. Together, we look, listen, reflect, and maybe even create something ourselves. A unique opportunity to discover how faraway places can feel near — and how art connects us all.

Rising Voices (ages 4+) – “Let Your Voice Rise”

Wash your hands and mix the ingredients. Together, you knead, shape, and move the dough — feeling, trying, imitating, and co-creating.
You can mark the bread with a text or drawing. The bread rises on the board, ready to be baked.

Rising Voices – “Talking & Tasting” (ages 4+)

What happens when voices and stories rise and fade again? In this philosophical workshop, you’ll explore how thoughts and secrets come together and can be shared. It’s a space to speak and to listen.

At a long table, you can write a sentence — a thought, a small story, or a secret — and reflect while sharing flavours and stories.
Writing, thinking, tasting — feel free to join, leave, and take the experience with you.

Digging in the Earth (ages 6+)

Inspired by a work by Alevtina Kakhidze

During the winter months, nothing seems to grow in the garden — or does it? Together, we discover the nourishment for our creations! There’s room for conversation about connection, loss, and hope — themes central to Kakhidze’s work. We reflect on our relationship with nature and the world around us, listening and dreaming of a future that continues to grow.

Ukrainian artist Alevtina Kakhidze uses the marigold — a simple yet strong plant — as a symbol of resilience and new life, even in times of war.

Practical information

• Sunday, 16 November 2025, from 11:00 to 18:00
• Free entry for everyone under 18
• €8 for adults

Free admission for everyone. Toddler Tour free with reservation.

Let yourself be guided by the four exhibitions that run like a thread throughout the day:

• In Pauline Curnier Jardin – The Associations we explore how stories, rituals, and people come together in a festive whole.

• Kyiv Biennial 2025 – Homelands and Hinterlands teaches us about communities, memories, and how stories connect us across borders.

• There Is Nothing Solid About Solidarity (INBOX) shows how solidarity can bring us together in unexpected ways during challenging times.

• And in Vaast Colson – You Used to Be Part of Something we see how sharing and belonging become a tangible reality.