Antwerp Contemporary Art Map: Galleries, Museums, and Art Spaces

Antwerp's contemporary art scene concentrates along the southern bank of the Scheldt, where the Zuid district functions as its institutional core. M HKA anchors the area as the city's museum of contemporary art, with the photography-focused FOMU a few streets away and the open-air Middelheim Museum holding the sculpture collection further out. The galleries in Antwerp have long shaped the scene's reputation, particularly Zeno X, whose figurative program (Michaël Borremans, Luc Tuymans, Dirk Braeckman) runs from a converted industrial building in Borgerhout. In recent years much of the commercial weight has shifted to Nieuw Zuid, where Tim Van Laere Gallery occupies a stark concrete building on the edge of the river and Gallery Sofie Van de Velde sits barely a hundred metres away; Keteleer, Base-Alpha, and PLUS-ONE Projects round out the map.

The identity here is unusually painting-driven and market-confident, yet tempered by experimental venues such as Kunsthal Extra City, set in a former Dominican church, and a wide field of artist-run and project spaces. Antwerp Art Weekend each spring opens more than seventy of these art spaces in Antwerp to the public, while Art Antwerp gives the city its own December fair. The way galleries here colonize repurposed port and industrial fabric finds a clear echo in Rotterdam, while the tightly clustered, walkable density of the dealer geography rhymes with Brussels.

To explore further, see the sections dedicated to galleries and art institutions in Antwerp.

Explore Antwerp

A local guide to Antwerp, with links to its galleries, institutions, and wider Belgian art context.

Featured Exhibitions and Art Events in Antwerp in June 2026

Current and upcoming events connected to key venues in Antwerp.

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Jean Katambayi Mukendi

Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA)

June 6, 2026 - September 27, 2026

A selection of current exhibitions and events. Explore the map to see everything happening now.

This Antwerp guide is part of the 1 Cubic Meter global contemporary art mapping project, which documents galleries, institutions, foundations, and independent art spaces through curated city-specific research.

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