M HKA gaat digitaal

Met M HKA Ensembles zetten we onze eerste échte stappen in het digitale landschap. Ons doel is met behulp van nieuwe media de kunstwerken nog beter te kaderen dan we tot nu toe hebben kunnen doen.

We geven momenteel prioriteit aan smartphones en tablets, m.a.w. de in-museum-ervaring. Maar we zijn evenzeer hard aan het werk aan een veelzijdige desktop-versie. Tot het zover is vind je hier deze tussenversie.

M HKA goes digital

Embracing the possibilities of new media, M HKA is making a particular effort to share its knowledge and give art the framework it deserves.

We are currently focusing on the experience in the museum with this application for smartphones and tablets. In the future this will also lead to a versatile desktop version, which is now still in its construction phase.

>Joseph Beuys

Rose für Direkte Demokratie, 1973

Multiple, 33.5 x ø 5 cm.

©SABAM België, 2017 - Courtesy private collection, photo: M HKA, 2017

Collection: Private Collection.

In 1972 Beuys established a ‘political bureau’ for the Organisation for Direct Democracy Through Free Collective Referendum at documenta 5 in Kassel, Germany. Over the course of the exhibition Beuys engaged with the exhibition visitors, sharing ideas for reshaping society through creative activity, with the emphasis on a peaceful evolution to societal development. The rose and cylinder refer to the rose that stood on Beuys’s desk throughout the exhibition and the slender vase in which it was held. ‘Bud and bloom are in fact green leaves transformed. So in relation to the leaves and the stem the bloom is a revolution, although it grows through organic transformation and evolution.’1

1 Beuys in Caroline Tisdall, Joseph Beuys (London: Thames & Hudson, 1979), 275.

Edition: unlimited: numbers 1-440 signed and numbered on certifiate, with handwritten addition "rose", stamped

Edition Staeck, Heidelberg

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> Joseph Beuys.

Joseph Beuys was one of the most significant and influential artist of the twentieth century, who expanded the scope of art into t

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: Joseph Beuys – Greetings from the Eurasian. M HKA, Antwerpen, 13 October 2017 - 21 January 2018.

> Ensemble: Natuur / Nature / Nature / Natur.

> Ensemble: Politiek / Politics / Politique / Politik.

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