Summer Program 2026 MINO is excited to announce the open call for FOR THE CULTURE: an interdisciplinary summer program taking place from 7 August until 4 September 2026 in Antwerp. For the culture comes from Afro-American cultural movements and hip-hop communities. It meant showing up for something bigger than yourself, building collective identity, visibility and […]
FOR THE CULTURE! 🪑Pull up a chair. There’s a place for you here.This summer, MINO Antwerp brings together art, music, food, drinks, and good people for an opening night rooted in creativity, connection, and community.Programme19:00 — Doors Open + Live Painting facilitated by @arty.party2620:15 — PHLOWx Live Set21:30 — PHLOWx DJ SetLive PerformanceDrinks all night […]
Led by Gladys Nganare, this walk-in workshop invites participants to repair and transform textiles through visible mending. Reflecting on care, sustainability and inherited knowledge, the workshop recognises repair as both a creative and cultural practice, showing how stories, skills and traditions continue to be shared and carried forward across generations. Free entrance - no registration […]
MINO and Mori present Frames of Us, an exhibition by Black Lens Archive. Black Lens Archive (BLA) is a platform founded by Charis Way-Way and Shelsia Da Costa. Through photography and film, BLA collects and shares stories from Black and diaspora communities in Belgium. Frames of Us brings together work by Ange Kayumba, David Bayo, […]
Working across collage, photography, found imagery, text and graphic elements, Rahim Aharar reflects on identity, memory and the experience of living between Moroccan and Belgian cultures. Through an installation at HABIBIS COFFEE CLUB and interventions on advertising columns throughout Antwerp, he reflects on memory, identity and his connection to his Moroccan roots. Within FOR THE […]
The Art Walk extends FOR THE CULTURE beyond MINO through a series of exhibitions, installations and public interventions across Antwerp. Connecting artists, neighbourhoods and cultural spaces, the route reflects the exhibition's belief that culture is created, shared and carried forward beyond the walls of cultural institutions. This Art Walk is part of SUMMER OF […]
The Sounds We Carry is a listening experience built around one question: how does sound carry a story, a culture and a memory? This is not a film screening. There is no lecture. The Sundiata Film is the starting point, but you do not need to have seen it to be part of this afternoon. […]
This conversation with Black Lens Archive reflects on photography, film and self-representation as tools for preserving lived experiences. Bringing together participating artists, the talk creates space to discuss collective memory, archiving and the importance of shaping cultural narratives from within communities. Location: Mori Antwerp, Nationalestraat 55 Free entrance - no registration needed This event is […]
Panel talk moderated by Fradida How can sport become a language for reflecting on history and contemporary society? Using football as a point of departure, this conversation explores the relationship between sport, politics and contemporary art, addressing colonialism, migration, identity, collective memory and social justice. Moderated by Fradida, whose own practice draws on football to […]
Culture lives in the ways we gather, move and care for one another. Home to Body, Home to Rooh is an invitation to experience culture as a living practice. Across generations and geographies, communities have gathered through movement, music and shared meals to reconnect with themselves, with one another and with their surroundings. As part […]
Led by Gladys Nganare, this walk-in workshop invites participants to repair and transform textiles through visible mending. Reflecting on care, sustainability and inherited knowledge, the workshop recognises repair as both a creative and cultural practice, showing how stories, skills and traditions continue to be shared and carried forward across generations. Working primarily with Japanese paper, […]
Fake Restaurant is a participatory performance and food project taking the form of a fictional restaurant. Rather than simply attending a meal, guests become part of the work by sharing a table, eating together and engaging with the space and with one another. The meal becomes a setting for conversation, exchange and shared experience. Cian-Ti […]
Through interconnected performances in public space, Bumba and Kasparas Brazovskis examine visibility, belonging and access. Engaging directly with passers-by, the performances question who gets to occupy public space, who decides the rules that shape it, and how power becomes visible through everyday encounters. Within FOR THE CULTURE, the city itself becomes a site for reflecting […]
Through interconnected performances in public space, Bumba and Kasparas Brazovskis examine visibility, belonging and access. Engaging directly with passers-by, the performances question who gets to occupy public space, who decides the rules that shape it, and how power becomes visible through everyday encounters. Within FOR THE CULTURE, the city itself becomes a site for reflecting […]
In this series of four workshops, Joseph explores together with participants how 'taste' shifts across the senses: how the love for our favourite songs can spill over onto the canvas. Participants will not only learn painting techniques, but also encounter perspectives and references that are less often addressed within mainstream art education.Joseph Thabang Palframan (b. […]
Join us for the closing weekend of SUMMER OF MINO: FOR THE CULTURE with Culture in Motion. Culture in Motion is a collective bringing people together through games, food, music and culture. "We create spaces where different people and generations can meet, play, laugh, share stories and experience something together. The games are the starting […]