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Visuele collage over identiteit en gemeenschap met MAS Darling in het midden

MAS Darling

From 6 to 10 August, the MAS is hosting the third edition of MAS Darling — a multi-day festival featuring talks, workshops, performances and video that highlights and celebrates the history and diversity of the LGBTQI+ community.

Ongoing from 6 to 10 August

Bezoeker bekijkt een video over non-binariteit

Nonbinary

Interactive presentation
    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.

Persoon werkt aan kleurrijke muurschildering over queer verbondenheid

Compassion Can Save Queer Lives

(Interactive) Mural
    Wednesday 6 August 2025 until Sunday 10 August 2025 from 10:00 to 17:00

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

Detail van een geborduurd werkje binnen een collectief kunstproject

Our Exquisite Corpse

Interactive artwork – open participation
    Wednesday 6 August 2025 from 18:00 to 22:00
    More dates
    Thursday 7 August 2025 from 14:00 to 19:00

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.

Close up van het Antwerp Queer Choir

queerPassion

Open rehearsal and panel discussion
    Wednesday 6 August 2025 from 19:00 to 21:00

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.

Thursday 7 August

Herhaalde afbeelding van zorgverlener met protestbord

Who Cares

Performance
    Thursday 7 August 2025 from 17:00 to 17:30
    More dates
    Thursday 7 August 2025 from 19:00 to 19:30

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. 

Detail van een geborduurd werkje binnen een collectief kunstproject

Our Exquisite Corpse

Interactive artwork – open participation
    Wednesday 6 August 2025 from 18:00 to 22:00
    More dates
    Thursday 7 August 2025 from 14:00 to 19:00

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.

Bezoekers volgen panelgesprek in MASbox

Queer Care

Panel discussion
    Thursday 7 August 2025 from 19:30 to 21:00

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.

Friday 8 August

Persoon in dierlijke houding weerspiegeld in een spiegel

Interview with a Notorious Wild Cat

Video + Performance
    Friday 8 August 2025 from 14:00 to 18:45
    More dates
    Friday 8 August 2025 from 19:15 to 19:30

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.

Bezoeker volgen panelgesprek in MASbox

Breaking the Binary

Panel discussion
    Friday 8 August 2025 from 19:30 to 20:45

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.

MAS Darling ❤ AQAF

This programme was created in collaboration with Antwerp Queer Arts Festival. 

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