Calendar

COMPASSION

The many faces of compassion

Individual visitors

Feeling or showing compassion is typically human and has many sides. The expo shows how we portray this in different times, cultures and worldviews. And also, what its abrasive sides are.

Stargazing on the roof

On Thursday evening during school holidays, you can come and gaze at the stars for free on the roof of the MAS. Observatory Urania will provide a telescope. Weather permitting ... 

Nonbinary

Interactive presentation

Nonbinary is an audiovisual interactive exhibition that shows gender as a fluid spectrum, intertwined with culture and history. Through research, interviews and interactive maps, the expo reveals various often invisible nonbinary experiences worldwide, and challenges new understanding.

Compassion Can Save Queer Lives

(Interactive) Mural

Berlin based Alex Ottenwaelter creates a vibrant mural that shows queer power, joy and solidarity. The flexible design invites participation and dialogue, with workshops to celebrate visibility and connection in public spaces together.

Our Exquisite Corpse

Interactive artwork – open participation

Waiting for transgender care sometimes takes years in the Netherlands and Belgium. OUR EXQUISITE CORPSE translates this endless wait into a participatory art project: a metre-long quilt in which everyone contributes minutes, together accounting for 1,314,900 minutes of waiting. Join the wait, give your time.

queerPassion

Open rehearsal and panel discussion

At the end of August, the Antwerp Queer Choir will perform queerPassion at the Antwerp opera house. Curious for a preview? Come and listen to their open rehearsal at the MAS.

Who Cares

Performance

Access to care remains a pain point for queers, especially trans people. Bert Roman approaches the issue from his experience as a queer nurse in the UK. He performs an abridged version of his performance Who Cares. 

Queer Care

Panel discussion

What does it feel like to wait endlessly for care you urgently need? MAS curator Marion Wasserbauer talks with artists The Pink Cube and Bert Roman about the impact of waiting times in transgender healthcare.

Interview with a Notorious Wild Cat

Video + Performance

Interview with a Notorious Wild Cat (2021) is a video installation about a hybrid being — part human, part lynx. It explores the experience of living in a changing body: feminine, seductive, strange. A source of both pride and shame — something that cannot be fully understood or defined.

Breaking the Binary

Panel discussion

MAS curator Selm Merel Wenselaers engages in conversation with artists masharu and Tristan Elísabet Birta. Together, they explore how gender equality can be more than a superficial debate, delving into the societal, cultural and personal dimensions at play.

Universal Tongue

Individual visitors

Anouk Kruithof shows that dance is a universal language in different (sub)cultures. Walk through a rousing video installation featuring some 1,000 dance styles from around the world. Immerse yourself in a language we all know in this four-hour film. 

Martial Arts

Individual visitors

A new expo that immerses you in the rich world of martial arts. Antwerp has a very rich history of martial arts that still evolves with the city today. Together with Sporting A, ErfgoedLab delved into the Antwerp world of martial arts and collected many personal stories and objects.