The Mechelen Art Map lists the great art, ideas, culture and creativity made by Mechelen for Mechelen, programmed by the city’s art galleries, museums, artist-led projects, visual art initiatives and independent curators.  

The Art Map only lists some of the exhibitions and events in Mechelen. For full programme details visit individual websites.

All exhibitions and events listed are FREE unless stated otherwise.

Stay on top happenings, final days and other events.
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You can grab a printed version of the map in venues across the city or
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Our dear friends are:
Aanbeeld

Academie Mechelen

Atelier Obed Vleugels

AZ Sint-Maarten
Begijnhofkerk
Contour Series - Nona

Erfgoedcel Mechelen
GM18
Galerie Duende
Galerie In Beeld

Grambacht

Het Paradijs

Hotel Elisabeth
Hof Van Busleyden

Instituut voor Kunst en Ambacht

Isidore Home
Kunsthal Mechelen

Kunstvestdagen

MalinesArtgallery by Bjornoart
M.E.R.G.E.D Galerie 

Galerie Transit
SJARABANG
Studio binnekyk

STUDIO BORGERSTEIN
Under The Light Dome

Vrijbroekpark

Hoping to soon become buddies with every Mechelen based art initiative.

We didn't pay you a visit yet? We're probably on our way, but DM us if you're too curious to wait.

W | wheelchair accessible

U | UITpas met kansentarief

M | museumPASSmusées

|6| GM18

Grote Markt 18
Instagram

The Mothers of MAM temporarily repurpose a former VB headquarter for work, meetups and showing art.

WE STILL EXIST:
For the Children in Gaza
Palestinian artists from Belgium and Gaza. Organized by Mechelen for Palestine & The Tamer Institute for Community Education.

Mar 2 > Mar 7 2025
Mon-Tue-Thu-Fri-Sat 15:00-18:00
Wed & Sun 12:00-18:00

Opening with Palestinian music, performances and food:
Sat Mar 1 2025
17:00-22:00

Art Workshops:
Wed Mar 5 2025
12:00-18:00

Pay what you can (100% of proceeds go to Palestinian children in Gaza)

Something About Power
Byebyebn, Peter Geysels, Dessassossego
Realising the London Tube station Bank doesn’t refer to the banks of the river Thames, but instead brings one to the middle of the largest financial district on the European continent, a wanderer  strays away for weeks to the edges of the epicentre in search of meaning.
Byebyebn are artist duo Aglaia De Mulder and Frédéric Leemans. 

Their work encompasses objects, photography, film, drawings, spatial installations and editions.
A project with images and sound recordings by Frédéric Leemans, original score by Peter Geysels and live sound performance by Desassossego.

Mar 21 > Mar 23 2025

Opening times vary, see byebyebn.com for details and programme.

Free contribution

Look for mechelenartmap on instagram to follow up on our events!
Feel free to contact us for a visit!

|11| MalinesArtGallery by Bjornoart
Geitestraat 8
Website | Instagram

M.A.G. brings multidisciplinary art that inspires, stimulates and communicates trough visual art. Where different thinking can and may happen!!!

M.A.G.
De Buck Bjorn, Janssens Kristof
MalinesArtGallery by Bjornoart, under the wings of artist Bjornoart. He brings the beauty and mystique of ordinary art to M.A.G.. This gallery offers a platform to +- 20 artist. You can come for breakfast on Sunday once a month ONLY BY RESERVATION via : bjornoart.be/kunstontbijt-op-zondag 

Wed-Sat 11:00-18:00
shopping Sunday 's 13:00-18:00

See malinesartgallery on instagram, for more details visit bjornoart.be 

|14| kunstencentrum nona

Begijnenstraat 19&27
Website | Instagram | Facebook

Kunstencentrum nona is all about storytelling and has a weakness for artists who create from a sense of urgency, with a unique view on the world. Our story is being written while you are reading it. With artists who hold the pen and are committed to craft, authorship and authenticity.

Contour Series, Abattoir Fermé, JazzLab, Nova Express, STAMPPOT, openluchthappening BROEK, jazzfestival BRAND!, huisartieste Maja Westerveld, and much more nona.

Visit nona.be for more information.

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|16| Instituut voor Kunst en Ambacht

Veemarkt 39
website | Facebook

IKA, founded in 1959, is part of the GO! group. The academy offers arts education for adults. A team of master teachers provides practical, theoretical and artistic training in various disciplines.

Visit ikamechelen.be or our social media for more information and opening hours.

|5| STUDIO BORGERSTEIN 

Ijzerenveld 147
2860 Sint-Katelijne-Waver
Website | Instagram | Facebook

The studio offers artists with a mental disability a platform to create their own work. In this way, the artists get the appreciation they deserve.

OPEN STUDIO DAYS

The studio is only open to visitors once a year: take your chance and visit our new location. Get to know this special group of artists and their unique works and come browse among the bargains. You won't regret it!
Only 3km from Mechelen city centre. More info on www.studioborgerstein.be

Sun May 18 2025 11:00-17:00

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|8| AZ Sint-Maarten

Liersesteenweg 435
Website l Facebook

AZ Sint-Maarten provides highly specialized medicine. Art can contribute to the well-being of patients and visitors, to the healing environment that the hospital aims to achieve.

Koen van den Broek

Nicole Bruynseels
Katrien Nijs

In addition to the facade artwork Sampled by Koen van den Broek, there are other collections (1st floor). Nicole Bruynseels (until March) transforms the ordinary world into colorful images, abstract and realistic. Katrien Nijs (April-June) mixes magazine clippings with images of historical costumes.

> Jun 2025

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|9| STUDIO BORGERSTEIN - De Zondvloed
Boekhandel De Zondvloed

Onze-Lieve-Vrouwestraat 70
Website | Instagram | Facebook

The studio offers artists with a mental disability a platform to create their own work. In this way, the artists get the appreciation they deserve.

Houses in Ink by
Jan Wuyts
Jan Wuyts focuses exclusively on the theme of houses, playing with a limited color palette to create surprisingly detailed and often emotionally charged works. As if he uses these everyday structures to tell stories about identity, coming home, and the feeling of security.

> Mar 15 2025

Spring Is In The Air
Hibernation is over, wake up, come out of your shell and let's meet up! Thanks to April's whims, the flowers will flourish in May. 

Mar 15 > Jun 15 2025

Shop window - available for viewing at all time

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|12| Studio binnekyk

Korenmarkt 41
Website | Instagram | Facebook

Studio binnekyk is an interior design agency and inspiration lab. Central is the creation of unique interiors in which artists integrate their work.

Infinite Horizons
Pola De Lauwer

The expo will allow you to immerse into the artists magical world. Pola's artworks mark their uniqueness with abstract form, where she captures the power of nature. Her poetry reveals her sensitivity to the surrounding world. You can expect to be transported to different countries as you wander around.

 
> Feb 21 2025
Finissage Feb 21 2025

Fragments of a Journey
Karine De Dycker
Plastic travels around the world and ends up in Karine's works. Layered and colorful, with a visual language that everyone can interpret in their own way. Material she collects on the beach and of the streets, she sorts and processes into collages. Each fragment tells a story and invites you to guess where it's from. Once waste, now a new life, both aesthetic and meaningful.

> May 22 2025
Opening Mar 22 2025 14:00-20:00

Finissage 22 May 2025 17:00-21:00

Keep an eye on our website & social media. If you wish to visit, except during open house day's, this is preferably by appointment only.

|4| Hof van Busleyden

Frederik de Merodestraat  65
Website | Instagram | Facebook

A 15th and 16th-century city palace houses Museum Hof van Busleyden, reflecting Mechelen's prosperous period as Burgundian Netherlands capital.

Eternal Spring. Gardens and Tapestries in the Renaissance
Curated by Carlotta Striolo

Museum Hof van Busleyden tempers the wait for spring with a lavish expo that pays homage to the rebirth of nature. Eternal Spring. Gardens and Tapestries in the Renaissance brings the splendour and magnificence of lush Renaissance gardens to life with imposing tapestries and other art treasures.

> Mar 16 2025

Wed-Sun 10:00-17:00

€4-15

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|7| Galerie Duende

Sint-Katelijnestraat 3
website

Gallery Duende is a social-artistic project and encourages vulnerable artists to come forward with strong art and to participate in the regular art circuit.

FACES
Tin Van den Eynde

Tin transforms herself into a living canvas by painting the self-portraits of her students onto her own face. She then captures the striking results in photographs.

Mar > Apr 2025
Sat 13:00-17:00

Bart Henri A. Leus / Haviks Nest

Bart paints, draws and composes. His visual work is based on a fascination with color and geometry. He creates what he feels from an illusionary world.

Apr > May 2025
Sat 13:00-17:00

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|10| Vrijbroekpark

Visitor Centre
Ridder Dessainlaan 65
Website | Instagram | Facebook

Vrijbroekpark is a green lung on the outskirts of Mechelen. It is the ideal place to relax, admire plantcollections, play sports, enjoy a terrace or visit mini-exhibitions of local artists in the visitor centre.

Olga de Otter
WWF - Provincie Antwerpen
Would you like to know more about otters? Then visit the exhibition "Olga the Otter" and find out why they pinch their nose under water and why they don't swim under bridges. The exhibition is complemented by pieces from Eduard Muysoms' private collection and pen drawings by Achille Cools.  

Mar 3 > Apr 30 2025

Mon-Fri 8:30-16:30

We are running out of time
Noor De Coster
Noor De Coster lives in Sint-Katelijne-Waver. She graduated in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Mechelen as a ceramist. The fading of corals worldwide, gave her inspiration for her final work. She exhibits now part of her final work. Time is running out for the coral reef!

May 2 > Jun 30 2025
Mon-Fri 8:30-16:30

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|13| Hotel ElisabetH
Goswin De Stassartstraat 26/28
Website | Instagram

Hotel Elisabeth is housed in a former hospital from the interbellum period. It is a stylish and contemporary designed hotel that hosts long term exhibitions. 

Anne Mariën: het onschilderbare
Curated by Jan Van Woensel

The paintings of Anne Mariën are never based on one single image of nature, but rather on a collection of impressions that she receives on her journeys, that grab her attention, that she internalizes, almost spiritually, and that she naturally recalls in the process of painting. 

Mar 1 > May 31 2025
Mon-Sun 12:00-18:00

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|15| Aanbeeld -Autimistisch Atelier
Winketkaai 27 kdok
Website | Facebook

aanbeeld vzw is an autistic studio that focuses on the development of non-verbal expression by autistic people and the demonstration of it.

Beeldende expressie door mensen met autisme
Tom Flamant, Wendy Lampen, Liesbet Bonnarens

Weekly workshop for autistic people who want to become acquainted with Visual Expression or would like to delve deeper into it.

We (learn to) see how you perceive the world around you. We  support you in how and with what you want to (try to)  put into shape. 

More details on: aanbeeld.be

Mon, Wed & Fri
14:00-17:00