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The M HKA’s contemporary art collection has grown thanks to a combination of acquisitions, donations and long-term loans from various public collections. The historical basis for the collection goes back to the ICC activities (International Cultural Centre) in Antwerp in the 1970s. The M HKA collection continues to grow in the areas of the post-war avant-garde tradition in Antwerp and the wider region in north-western Europe, today's multipolar world, the importance of the 'performative' aspect and social commitment, but also with regard to the nature and role of images today. Here, we present a selection of works from a broad spectrum of different sensitivities, regions, research areas and stories from our collection.
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R.P.- B.X. - 00
Dirk Braeckman, R.P.- B.X. - 00, 2000. Photography, silver gelatine print, aluminium, 120 x 180 cm.
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Untitled [from the series...
Hicham Benohoud, Untitled [from the series 'La salle de classe n°2'], 2000-2002. Photography, silver gelatine print, 60 x 80 cm.
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Solitaires
Michel François, Solitaires, 1991-1992. Sculpture.
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Buildings
Paul De Vree, Buildings, 1968. Photography, photo emulsion, canvas, 75 x 80 cm.
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Guy Mees
Guy Mees (1935-2003) emerges as a painter in Antwerp in the late fifties, when post-war avant-garde art from the US was just beginning to fin
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Andrei Monastyrski
Andrei Monastyrski is one of the most distinguished and influential representatives of Moscow Conceptualism. For most of the seventies, eight
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Jacqueline Mesmaeker
Belgian visual artist Jacqueline Mesmaeker (°1929) begins her artistic career in the sixties as a fashion designer. She receives her degree f
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Vyacheslav Akhunov
The oeuvre of artist, writer and philosopher Vyacheslav Akhunov comprises abstract paintings, installation, performance and video art, as wel
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SANTHAL FAMILY
M HKA acquired the SANTHAL FAMILY ensemble on the occasion of the exhibition Santhal Family: Positions Around an Indian Sculpture in 2008. W
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JAN VERCRUYSSE ENSEMBLE
The work of Jan Vercruysse is characterized by his razor-sharp vision and very focused approach to its central themes. Vercruysse mostly work
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EUROPE AT LARGE
During the past decades M HKA has paid enduring attention to that part of Europe that was excluded from the reconstruction of Europe after 19
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Vrielynck Collectie
The Robert Vrielynck Collection is one of the few large collections in Belgium that give a picture of the (pre-)history of film. The collecti