The M HKA Case: Statements, Articles, and Petitions

• The M HKA Case

  

  Following the Flemish Government’s October 2025 decision to remove the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA) from its museum status and transfer its collection, CIMAM, alongside numerous international actors, mobilised in response.

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

  

  29 October 2025. CIMAM ran 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.

• Museum At Risk

  

  Save the Museum | Museum at Risk is a recently formed collective of artists, curators, and cultural sector professionals responding to critical policy proposals by the Flemish government that threaten to remove the museum’s collection and downgrade the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp to a Kunsthalle

• 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.