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.

>Jan Fabre

9 Insectenobjecten, 1977-1979

Installation, 90 x 130 x 65 cm.

©image: Syb'l S. Pictures

Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. BK6948_M173D).

Insects have been ubiquitous in Jan Fabre’s work right from the start. At the age of twenty, at the end of the seventies, he made drawings of insects and transformed them into surreal objects or hybrid beings. The bodies and movements of these strange creatures continue to inspire his later work. Spiders, beetles and cocoons act as a metaphor for miraculous transformations and endless cycles of birth, death and rebirth. Fabre uses insects as in-between creatures and messengers to convey his unique world-view to his audience.

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> Jan Fabre.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: The collection XXX – The Museum of Forgotten History, with intervention by Maarten Vanden Eynde. M HKA, Antwerpen, 29 June 2012 - 16 September 2012.

> Exhibition: ENCLOSED. Teseum, Tongeren, 21 May 2021 - 03 October 2021.

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