Festive Exhibition Opening – Summer 2025

12 Jun 2025, 19:00 - 01:00

Join us in celebrating the opening of a new summer season of exhibitions.

Free public access to all exhibitions. Our guides will be present in the galleries throughout the evening to provide explanations. We’ll also be offering you a complimentary drink at the M HKAFE.

Featuring the exhibition The Geopolitics of Infrastructure. Contemporary Perspectives.

But also…
collection presentations The Situation is Fluid and Panamarenko — A Journey to the Stars,
archive presentation The King Kong: Between Cinephilia and Activism,
and the INBOX presentation Sean Peleman — Are You Still Watching?

Public Opening
20:00 – 01:00

Afterparty with DJs at M HKAFE
starting from 20:30

Extra
That evening, you will receive a 10% discount in our bookshop.

Then On View

Archive

The King Kong: Between Cinephilia and Activism

24 May – 7 Sep 2025

From 1974 to 1982, cultural centre King Kong was a vibrant space in Antwerp where film, debate, and activism came together. In addition to offering a broad spectrum of film classics and contemporary auteur cinema, King Kong also served as a platform for socially critical documentaries, feminist films, queer cinema, and revolutionary Third Cinema.

In Situ

Özgür Kar — MALAISE

24 May – 7 Sep 2025

The first institutional solo exhibition of Özgür Kar in Belgium, MALAISE, features a new site-specific installation. The presentation includes theatrical sound and video installation that explores themes of collective unease, stagnation, and endurance.

Exhibition

The Geopolitics of Infrastructure. Contemporary Perspectives

13 Jun – 21 Sep 2025

The Geopolitics of Infrastructure brings together artists who consider the enchantment and power relations of infrastructure. It also considers the possibilities of artistic imagination in conceptualising new and alternative infrastructural models.

Assem Hendawi, Everything Under Heaven (still), 2021. Single-channel video, 18 min. Courtesy the artist