The Bonnefantenmuseum, founded in Maastricht in 1884 as an archaeological museum, has existed as a museum for visual arts since 1967. The museum collection consists of medieval sculptures, Southern Dutch and Italian paintings from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, and modern and contemporary art including works by Marcel Broodthaers, Thomas Hirschhorn, René Daniëls, Grayson Perry, Laura Lima, Navid Nuur, David Lynch, Kahlil Joseph, Duan Jianyu, Helen Verhoeven, Melanie Bonajo and Maha Maamoun. The museum is led by director Stijn Huijts.

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The museum organises eight to ten exhibitions featuring old, modern and contemporary art each year. In recent years, the museum has regularly programmed new and underexposed artists as the first in the Netherlands. Recent examples include the exhibitions of Berlinde De Bruyckere, Laure Prouvost, David Lynch, Kahlil Joseph and Melanie Bonajo.

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In 2000, the museum founded the Bonnefanten Award for Contemporary Art (BACA). This is an international award for artists from geo-cultural regions other than the Netherlands that focuses on underexposed art practices. The award consists of a grant and a solo exhibition at the Bonnefantenmuseum. Since its creation, the BACA has been awarded eleven times, including to Neo Rauch (2002), John Baldessari (2008), Francis Alÿs (2010) and Melati Suryodarmo (2022).

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Projects supported by Ammodo

Mounira Al Solh: A land as big as her skin (2026)

Małgorzata Mirga-Tas: This is not the end of the road (2024-2025)