In Support of M HKA: Statements, Articles, and Petitions

• What's the relation between a collection and a museum?

  

  29 October 2025. CIMAM is running a global advocacy campaign in support of the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA), addressing the critical political decisions that threaten to remove its collection and downgrade the institution to a Kunsthalle.

• M HKA caught in the crosshairs, what is the museum’s future?

  

  9 October 2025. Statement in Support of M HKA. The CIMAM Museum Watch is profoundly concerned by the recent news that M HKA, an internationally respected contemporary art museum, is being regressed into a kunsthalle, and equally that it is being separated from its site-specific collection.

• There Was Good News

  

  11 October 2025. Opinion piece by Bart De Baere, Director of M HKA, following the recent decision by the Flemish Government to cancel the museum’s new building and to revoke M HKA’s museum status.

• Statement in support of M HKA. L’Internationale

  

  9 October 2025. L’Internationale is appalled by the Flemish government's recent announcement regarding M HKA. Following the decision to cancel the museum’s new building, on Monday, the culture minister further outlined the intention to enact a radical restructuring of the Flemish museum landscape, dissolving M HKA’s status as a national museum and handing its collection and function to S.M.A.K in Ghent.

• Reverse the decision to abolish M HKA's status as a national museum

  

  Sign this petition to ask the Flemish government to reverse its decision to regress the Antwerp contemporary art museum M HKA into an art centre. This would be a devastating blow to both Antwerp, the Flemish and the international contemporary art ecology.