Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen | |
Established | 20 September 1985 |
---|---|
Location | Leuvenstraat 32 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium |
Coordinates | 51°12′40″N 4°23′23″E / 51.211111°N 4.389722°E |
Type | Art museum |
Collections | Contemporary Art |
Collection size | 2.039 (2012) |
Visitors | 147 000 (2017) |
Director | Bart de Baere |
Website | http://www.muhka.be/ |
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp (Dutch: Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, commonly abbreviated as M HKA, previously MuHKA) is the contemporary art museum of the city of Antwerp, Belgium. Its current director is Bart de Baere.[1]
The museum holds a permanent collection of contemporary art from Belgian and international artists, an arthouse cinema and an extensive library of books on contemporary art.
The Museum of Contemporary Art was founded in 1982 by the Flemish Community. M HKA's first director was Flor Bex until 1992. In 2002, Bart de Baere took position. The architect responsible for the creation of the museum from an old grain storage space (1987) was Michel Grandsard who also designed the extension of the museum (1997). Current exhibition curators are Nav Haq, Liliane Dewachter, Anne-Claire Schmitz and Joanna Zielińska.[2] From 2003 until 2011 Dieter Roelstraete was a curator at the Antwerp Museum of Contemporary Art (MuHKA).[3]
Media related to Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen at Wikimedia Commons