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.

>Stephen Willats

Concrete Window, 1991

Photography, 121 x 74.5 cm.

©Stephen Willats - image: M HKA

Collection: Stad Antwerpen, in langdurige bruikleen in M HKA (Inv. no. SCA0038).

Stephen Willats has produced artworks that engage with social relations and the potential of art as a means to document and interact with people’s lives, often with reference to city architecture. An essential part of his practice has always been the role of drawing and graphic representation to describe complex systems and concepts surrounding the reality of modern life. For Concrete Window, Willats invited three women to participate in the making of this work centred on the environment of their living space – a large housing block at Ernest Claesstraat 12 in Linkeroever (Left Bank of Antwerp), photographically documenting objects they identified as significant. A discussion on these objects and the personal meaning attached to them provided the context for representing their ‘symbolic world’, that we see in the work. Willats made Concrete Window for an exhibition at Annie Gentils gallery in Antwerp in 1991.

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> Stephen Willats.

Stephen Willats wrote already in 1964 that he is ‘concerned with the problem of society and the personality of the individual, particul

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: AMBERES – Roberto Bolaño’s Antwerp. M HKA , Antwerp, 07 June 2019 - 15 September 2019.

> Exhibition: The City Collection: IN/SIGHT. M HKA, Antwerp, 16 May 2024 - 06 January 2025.

> Ensemble: The City Collection / De Stadscollectie / La collection municipale.

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> Ensemble: 2021.

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