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.
Friday 31 January 2025 until Sunday 31 August 2025 from 10:00 to 17:00
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 ...
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.
Wednesday 6 August 2025 until Sunday 10 August 2025 from 10:00 to 17:00
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.
Wednesday 6 August 2025 until Sunday 10 August 2025 from 10:00 to 17:00
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.
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.
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.
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 (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.
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.
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.
Friday 24 October 2025 until Sunday 4 January 2026 from 10:00 to 17:00
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.
Saturday 4 April 2026 until Sunday 8 November 2026 from 10:00 to 17:00