Starting Saturday 28 June 2025, Antwerp‘s photography museum FOMU presents three new exhibitions. ‘These Branching Moments‘, ‘.tiff 2025‘ and ‘‘OM/MOTHER‘.

‘These Branching Moments’ brings together six artists active in the visual arts and electronic music. Step into a universe where art and music cross-pollinate, and where the night becomes a breeding ground for resistance and renewal.

.tiff 2025 offers a fresh perspective on contemporary photography. With .tiff, FOMU annually supports ten promising artists and photographers with a connection to Belgium.

The participatory project ”OM/Mother’ brings together photographs taken by women and girls from the Tel Rumeida neighbourhood in Hebron in Palestine.

Barbara Debeuckelaere collected the photos in a book. A selection will be on view at FOMU this summer.

‘These Branching Moments’, 28 June 2025 to 28 September 2025

The group exhibition These Branching Moments brings together six artists active in visual arts and electronic music: Amari, Tosh Basco, Juliana Huxtable, Jim C. Nedd, Rebecca Salvadori and Kajol Singh. 

In their photo and video work, they explore the feeling of togetherness and pose urgent questions about our society: Where do we find safety and connection? Where and how can we express ourselves without boundaries?

The artists move between art and music, between day and night, to imagine temporary worlds that suspend the micro- and macro-aggressions of daily life.

The exhibition views the night as a space for experimentation, freedom, and imagination. The artists resist a world that increasingly restricts personal freedom. They find refuge in fluid, elusive moments and contexts in which complexity and mystery are allowed to exist. With contributions from diverse communities — from experimental electronic musicians and queer strippers of colour to performance artists and Caribbean youth at mass gatherings — the exhibition shows how kinship, freedom, and solidarity can be found in the twilight zones of normative society.

Together with curator Evelyn Simons and inspired by the participating artists, the designers of Espace Aygo are developing a sensory and immersive scenography for the exhibition. Atelier Brenda is responsible for the graphic design of this temporary world. Step into a universe where art and music cross-pollinate, and where the night is a breeding ground for resistance and renewal.

Opening night at FOMU and afterparty at TRAUM Club

“On Friday 27 June, we open the exhibition with a festive evening at FOMU, which seamlessly transitions into an afterparty at TRAUM club. Amari and his Unlimited Strip Club collective — featuring performances and DJ sets by SydFalls, AMARISKINGDOM, and Blood Drinker (Michelle Tshibola) — will transform the club into a stage for boundary-pushing expression. Alongside Yung Singh and DC Noises, art, music, and resistance will merge into a unique night”, the press release says.

‘.TIFF 2025, emerging Belgian photography’, 28 June 2025 to  28 September 2025

FOMU presents the thirteenth edition of .tiff, a new selection of promising artists.

‘.tiff 2025’ selection: Mohamed Almamoun, Veronika Breuer, Tim Theo Deceuninck, Alice Dooreman, Natalia Majchrzak, Camille Poitevin, Anna Safiatou Touré, Adel Setta, Jaka Teršek, Bo Vloors.

Through .tiff, FOMU annually supports ten artists and photographers with a connection to Belgium. .tiff offers a fresh look at contemporary photography and reflects the diversity and artistic dynamism of Belgium’s photography scene. It is a flexible programme tailored to the needs of emerging artists. Alongside the portfolio magazine and exhibition, it also includes networking opportunities with international professionals and coaching sessions.

FOMU works with an external jury to select the artists. This year’s jury:

• Laure Cottin Stefanelli, artist and .tiff 2019 alumna;
• Koi Persyn, artistic director at Jester;
• Bindi Vora, senior curator at Autograph (London) and artist.

They are supported in the selection process by the FOMU team. After the summer, the exhibition will travel to Flanders’s cultural foothold De Brakke Grond in Amsterdam. .tiff is part of FUTURES, a collaboration between FOMU and a growing network of 21 European partners. Futures organises annual events focused on emerging talent. tiff magazine is available for €7 in the FOMU shop.

”OM/MOTHER’ – 28 June 2025 to 28 September 2025 

‘OM/MOTHER’ features work from ‘Om Abdul, Abeer, Ahed, ‘Om Ahmad, Aroub, Aseel, Awatif, Ayla, Aysha, Barbara, Dallal, ‘Om Emad, Eman, Eylul, Fatima, Gina, Hayam, ‘Om Hazem, Jana, Janat, Jory, Julia, Kawthar, Kawthar, Lamar, Layan, Lojain, Maram, ‘Om Muntasser, Nidaa, Ola, Qais, Qamar, Rahaf, Sarah, Shahd, Sham, Shirihan, Siline, Soundos, Sundus, ‘Om Tamer, ‘Om Wisam, ‘Om Yusuf, Zaina, Zainab.

The participatory project ‘‘OM/MOTHER’ brings together photographs taken by Palestinian women and girls from the Tel Rumeida neighbourhood in Hebron, Palestine. They captured these images in September 2023, just before the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023 and the subsequent Israeli bombardments on Gaza and the West Bank, which resulted in tens of thousands of casualties.

Nearly fifty women from eight families created a visual archive of over 1,000 colourful photos depicting daily life in their occupied city. 

Using analogue cameras, they documented family life at home, showing how remaining in Hebron is a quiet act of resistance. Their images reveal what often remains hidden. With tenderness, they show how people try to maintain everyday life in an occupied village, and how community still exists there. 

Photography acts as a glue among the women, who through this project have formed a close-knit community. The photos were collected in a book by Barbara Debeuckelaere, with proceeds going back to the women of Tel Rumeida.

Tel Rumeida is a village in H2, a section of Hebron under Israeli military control. Hebron is the only place in the West Bank where an Israeli settlement is located in the heart of a Palestinian city. Even before October 2023, Palestinians faced severe restrictions, including road closures, numerous checkpoints, limited healthcare, and minimal public services. Since October 2023, the situation has escalated. Today, one third of the homes in Tel Rumeida are empty, as many Palestinians have been killed or have fled.

Art and museums in Antwerp

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• ANTWERP | Museum Night 2025 on Saturday 2 August.
• ANTWERP | Middelheim Museum celebrates 75 years with a summer full of new ways to experience the art park.
• M HKA 2025 |​ Bruno Zhu – Panamarenko – ‘The Situation is Fluid’ – Today’s Place – Hugo Roelandt.
• FOMU 2025 | Chrystel Mukeba – Katja Mater – Lee Miller – Mashid Mohadjerin.
• ANTWERP | ‘Panamarenko. Infinite Imagination’ exhibition until 4 May 2025 at KMSKA.
• ANTWERP | ‘Compassion’ in the MAS: the many faces of compassion.
• 2025 at the museums of Antwerp.
• 2025 at Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Antwerp (KMSKA): René Magritte, Marthe Donas, Panamarenko, Hans Op de Beeck.
• ANTWERP | Graphics Museum De Reede ft. Francisco Goya, Edvard Munch, Félicien Rops and Albrecht Dürer.
• ANTWERP | Rubens Experience and Rubens Garden at Rubenshuis.
• Antwerp will have a new Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp M HKA.
• ANTWERP | Innovations in the Middelheim Museum provide a completely new visitor experience.
• A visit of the Flemish Tram and Bus Museum – Vlaams Tram- en Autobusmuseum (VlaTAM) in Antwerp.
• ANTWERP | Discovering queer(ed) art with the Queer Tour at the KMSKA fine arts museum.
• REVIEW | Illusion Antwerpen, an active and photogenic museum.
• Antwerp museums and sports facilities team up with European Disability Card for accessible leisure activities.
• Museum Mayer van den Bergh.
• ANTWERP | Inside Rubens House.
• Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp.
• ANTWERP | Museum Vleeshuis up for restoration.
• BOOK | ‘Antwerp. An Archaeological View on the Origin of the City’ by Tim Bellens.
• Red Star Line Museum.
• Paleis op de Meir. 
• DIVA, Antwerp Home of Diamonds.
• ANTWERP | Red Star Line Museum of (e)migration.