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.

>Koen Theys

Personal Odradek, 1997

Sculpture, variable dimensions .

©image: M HKA

Collection: Collectie M HKA, Antwerp.

Odradek is a tiny fictitious creature from Franz Kafka’s short story, Die Sorge des Hausvaters. Resembling a bobbin, it lives in the basements of the neighbourhood's residents. The Odradek does nothing, is barely alive and has absolutely no purpose in life. Nevertheless, the narrator laments, while the Odradek appears to be inferior to humankind, he will outlast them. Koen Theys has applied this principle to both his work and life. There is a structure, a tangle of iron wire from which images of all his works between 1987 and 1997 hang. The work is displayed supine. The shape of the structure is altered each time it is moved, yet the coherence of the piece remains intact. It is a fluid work of art that is a hat tip to itself.

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> Koen Theys.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: The Collection. M HKA, Antwerpen, 28 April 2017 - 31 December 2021.

> Ensemble: NUCLEUS.

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> Ensemble: M HKA_DEFAULT_WORKS.

> Ensemble: Aanwinsten 2017 [Acquisitions 2017].

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