
In her previous position as the managing director of the Museum aan de Stroom (MAS) in Antwerp, Marieke van Bommel turned MAS into an open venue with close ties to the city and its communities through intensive participation processes. The innovative youth programme ‘MAS in Young Hands’ culminated in Instinct: the first exhibition created entirely for and by young people. MAS’s latest temporary exhibition, 100XCongo, received the British Museum & Heritage Awards for ‘Best International Exhibition of the Year’.