Exhibitions

Showing Off is an annual art project in which the children and young people of the Hospital School are introduced to modern art and create their own artworks. Each year, the project concludes with an exhibition at Muhka – this year marks the tenth edition, in collaboration with De Leerexpert Ziekenhuisschool.

Janina Fritz creates sculptures and spatial installations that explore the tensions between the body, architecture, and controlled environments, breaking boundaries with poetic and explosive forms.

In 'Carnival of Souls', Fia Cielen immersed you in a world of shadows, spirits, and rituals. An enchanting installation filled with drawings and sculptures, on the edge of carnival and cosmic chaos.

In the solo exhibition het hek is van den dam , Manon De Bruyn showcased her oeuvre, which includes etchings, drawings, and tattoos. Her style incorporates elements of fun, playfulness, boredom, and happiness.

Hantrax Dolls showcased Hantrax’s daily ritual of doll-making: intuitive creations shaped by fantasy, freedom, and collaboration. A growing community of unique figures, featuring contributions from artists, designers, and friends.

Bie Jambé developed this video installation for her Master of Fine Arts/Costume Design at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. In *Repeat ON Reverse ON Repeat OFF Reverse OFF*, Bie Jambé explored her memories of the compulsive acts she performed as a child.

This INBOX exhibition presented the results of workshops with pupils from De Ziekenhuisschool. Guided by professional artists, they explored contemporary art inspired by The Lives of Animals, the book by Nobel Prize-winning author and animal rights advocate J.M. Coetzee.

Koen van den Broek took a bold turn in his practice. No longer translating photographs, he painted directly with tar, asphalt and road paint. A new direction, yet still unmistakably Van den Broek.

In this exhibition, the artist presented a new series of two-dimensional works in which he distances himself from the current trend in visual poetry. With his concept of meta-concretism, he returns to the essence of concrete poetry: the material presence of letters and words, in dialogue with image.

In the INBOX space, Cindy Wright presented nine recent works centered on her fascination with decay and the abject. Through her hyperrealistic paintings and drawings, she explores the limits of perception and painting itself, using a visual language that is both confronting and aesthetically refined.

For the first time in his new home city of Antwerp, Muhka presented a broad selection of collages and works on paper by Nikolay Karabinovych. With a visual language that is sharp, poetic, and often satirical, his work offers a personal and critical reflection on war, history, and current events—attuned to both the absurd and the intimate.

In High Capacity, artist Kasper Andreasen brought together two hundred collages made from printed matter collected between 1998 and 2003. The exhibition highlighted both the material and poetic qualities of the medium, while exploring the tension between abundance and ephemerality in the world of print.