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.

The Ruins of Our Time, 2007

Photography, 12 x (70 x 100 cm).

©image: M HKA

Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp / Collection Flemish Community (Inv. no. BK007728).

Armenian artist Vahram Aghasyan focuses on cultural and historical processes taking place in his homeland. With photos, videos and installations, he predominantly examines architectural structures stemming from the former Soviet Union, which are now relieved of their functionality, in their present socio-political context. The artist’s interest in abandoned suburban landscapes is no accident, since here one can see examples of modernist architecture, which elicits pity, sadness and also sympathy, for the incompletion and absurdity of these non-functional structures bring them closer to art, and thus endow them with functionality.

The photo series Ruins of our time depicts deserted bus stops built in the 1960s and 70s. With their experimental concrete casting they today appear as rudiments of traffic planning in a no-man's land. Unused, never completed and with no infrastructural purpose, they do possess relevance in regard to the politics of remembrance as monuments of a history not yet overcome. The brief moment of photographic exposure stands in contrast to the monumentality of the stones falling to ruins.

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> Vahram Aghasyan.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: The collection XXVII – East of 4°24'. M HKA, Antwerp, 03 March 2011 - 21 August 2011.

> Exhibition: LATT: EEN GROTER EUROPA # 2 Yelena Vorobyeva & Viktor Vorobyev (Kazakhstan), Vahram Aghasyan (Armenia). M HKA, Antwerpen, 19 November 2009 - 10 January 2010.

> Ensemble: EUROPE AT LARGE.

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> Ensemble: M HKA_DEFAULT_WORKS.

> Ensemble: NUCLEUS.

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> Ensemble: Caucasian Debris.