Activities

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.

Marc Holthof, formerly Hugo Roelandt’s assistant, and Joanna Zielińska, curator and performance expert at M HKA, discuss the challenges of archiving ephemeral art.

In the 1970s and 80s, Hugo Roelandt created iconic performances such as the occupation of Groendalstraat (1981) in Antwerp and the Aeromatic Art Project (1983) with hovering model helicopters. Along with experts and students, we will investigate how we can reinterpret these performances.

Meet Cécile B. Evans. She is an American-Belgian artist living and working in Saint-Denis. Evans’ work examines the value of emotion and its rebellion as it comes into contact with ideological, physical, and technological structures. 

View Hugo Roelandt’s artistic practice through a different pair of eyes: Roger D’Hondt, the founder of the art space New Reform in Aalst and a per formance art curator, shares his experience of working with Hugo Roelandt for many years, the Performance Art Festival in Brussels and his participation with Roelandt in Documenta 6 in Kassel.

Guy Woueté is a multidisciplinary artist whose work critiques Western influence on Africa. In his talk, he explores how the Western worldview continues to shape artistic identity and practice.

Do you want to find out more about the archives that M HKA manages? Or are you an artist with questions about compiling your own archive? At the end of April, we will be opening our doors for a few days to dive into the archives with our in-house expert(s).

Panel discussion and book launch with Bambi Ceuppens, Liesbeth Minnaard, Irit Rogoff and Bruno Zhu

In 2025, we celebrate the Belgian visionary artist and dream engineer Panamarenko (1940–2019), who uniquely merged art and science. Panamarenko85, an initiative of the Panamarenko Foundation, honors this pioneer, innovator, and inspirer with a series of exhibitions, activities, and a new publication.

Action in Antwerp! The passionate M HKA art historian and Academy lecturer Piet Van Hecke invites you for a free crash course in the history of happenings and performances in Antwerp.

Meet Bruno Zhu. Bruno Zhu lives and works between Portugal and the Netherlands. Through an artistic practice that combines fashion design, writing and publishing, and scenography, Zhu challenges the normative constraints that narrow our thinking and reinforce the dynamics of social reproduction.

Join us on Saturday 15 March for the public launch of the first comprehensive monograph, Elen Braga, published by MER. Books, celebrating 15 years of work by Belgian-Brazilian artist Elen Braga.