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

Schlitten, 1969

Object, 36 x 91 x 34 cm.

©SABAM België, 2017 - Courtesy Hall Art Foundation, NY, USA

Collection: Hall Collection, NY, USA.

The sled makes a frequent appearance in the oeuvre of Beuys. Fascinated by this early form of transportation, Beuys explained that ‘[t]he most direct kind of movement over the earth is the sliding of the iron runners of the sleds….’1

The sled also plays an important part in Beuys’s account of being rescued by Crimean Tatars following a plane crash in the Second World War. After his crash Tatars moved him on a sled, while he recovered from his injuries.

Sled contains a flashlight, a lump of fat and a blanket – objects used for orientation, sustenance and warmth in extreme conditions. 

1 Caroline Tisdall, Joseph Beuys (London: Thames and Hudson, 1979), 190.

Edition: 50 + 5 exhibition copies, numbered, not signed

Galerie Réne Block, Berlin

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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: Materiaal / Matériel / Material / Material.

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