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- Letter to Minister of Culture Caroline GennezMission - 29 October 2025 - 5:15 pmOn October 27, 2025, we sent a letter as Save the Museum | Museum at Risk to Caroline Gennez, Flemish Minister of Culture, in which we emphasized our core principles and requested an urgent suspension of point 5.2.4 from the concept note. Today, we are publishing the letter publicly.
- Support M HKA: What's the relation between a collection and a museum?Statement of Support - 29 October 2025CIMAM is launching 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.
- Co-curators of Laboratorium (Antwerp, 1999) react with shock to Bruno Verbergt (Mu.ZEE) supporting M HKA’s dismantlingOpen letter - 27 October 2025We publish an open letter from Hans Ulrich Obrist (Artistic Director, Serpentine Galleries, London) and Barbara Vanderlinden to Bruno Verbergt (Director of Mu.ZEE, Permekemuseum, and Pierremuzee), with a copy to Minister Caroline Gennez.
- Artist Emilia Kabakov Opposes Dismantling of M HKAOpen letter - 26 October 2025 - 7:20 amWe publish an open letter from renowned artist Emilia Kabakov, addressed to Caroline Gennez, Flemish Minister of Culture. In the letter, Kabakov objects to the plans to strip M HKA of its museum status and transfer its collection to SMAK in Ghent.
- Artists speak outPress release - 24 October 2025Artists and cultural workers oppose the cancellation of the museum function of the M HKA.
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