Exhibition: Hommage à Bernd Lohaus
M HKA, Antwerp
20 January 2011
In order to commemorate Bernd Lohaus, who died November 5 2010, the M HKA brought an homage. Interventions of befriended artists and small performances were centered around a special kitchen, designed by Pohlschröder and owned by Bernd Lohaus. Participating artists: Toni Geirlandt, Ann Veronica Janssens, Emilio Lopez Menchero, Ria Pacquée, Guy Rombouts, Marc Rossignol, Francis Schmetz, Timothy Segers, Chris Straetling, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Philippe Van Snick, Marc Van tile, Angel Vergara, Lucia Bru and others.
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>Interventions of befriended artists and small performances were centered around a special kitchen, designed by Pohlschröder and owned by Bernd Lohaus - detail of the ornamented back of the kitchen cabinet.
>Interventions of befriended artists and small performances were centered around a special kitchen, designed by Pohlschröder and owned by Bernd Lohaus - detail of the ornamented back of the kitchen cabinet.
>Interventions of befriended artists and small performances were centered around a special kitchen, designed by Pohlschröder and owned by Bernd Lohaus - detail of the ornamented kitchen cabinet.
>"Ehrung unserer Sprache", performance by Michael Laird, Carlos Montalvo, Marc Rossignol and Chris Straeteling ("Hommage à Bernd Lohaus",M HKA, Antwerp, 20/01/2011)
>"Untitled": a performance where a black sand drawing (granite / volcanic) was made - once there was enough sand on the floor in front of the wall Guy Rombouts wrote with his finger "tussen" ( "between"/"zwischen" ) in the Azart-alphabet.(Hommage à Bernd Lohaus, M HKA, Antwerp, 20/01/2011)
>"Letters": performed by Kate Mayne. Kate is reading letters and singing. (Hommage à Bernd Lohaus, M HKA, Antwerp, 20/01/2011)
>"Dialogist-Kantor": a performance by Toni Geirlandt and Carlos Montalvo ...; a performance with tape (based on 2 short texts: one about Eric Satie and the other about the ingenious way of how Bernd Lohaus shifted beams) and two casette-players... the texts were read simultaneously and asynchronously while the Dialogist-Duo depicted...
>"Pessoa and Mandelstam": Timothy Segers made an three-legged stool to sit on and overwrote and signed a copy of his own comic - drawings inspired by Pessoa. (Hommage à Bernd Lohaus, M HKA, Antwerp, 20/01/2011)
>Introduction by Chris Straetling. (Hommage à Bernd Lohaus, M HKA, Antwerp, 20/01/2011)
>Introduction to the Hommage à Bernd Lohaus by Bart De Baere (Hommage à Bernd Lohaus, 20/01/2011, M HKA)
ArtistsShow works
> Bernd Lohaus.
> Ria Pacquée.
> Philippe Van Snick.
> Emilio López-Menchero.
> Andrew Webb.
> Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK.