NUCLEUS
Ensemble
The M HKA’s contemporary art collection has grown thanks to a combination of acquisitions, donations and long-term loans from various public collections. The historical basis for the collection goes back to the ICC activities (International Cultural Centre) in Antwerp in the 1970s. The M HKA collection continues to grow in the areas of the post-war avant-garde tradition in Antwerp and the wider region in north-western Europe, today's multipolar world, the importance of the 'performative' aspect and social commitment, but also with regard to the nature and role of images today. Here, we present a selection of works from a broad spectrum of different sensitivities, regions, research areas and stories from our collection.
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Night Fever
Frank Theys, Night Fever, 2011. Video.
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The Most Commercial Proje...
Alevtina Kakhidze / Алевтина Кахідзе, The Most Commercial Project / Найкомерційніший проєкт, 2010. Installation, video and drawings and photocopies, variable.
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Places (II.8)
Jan Vercruysse, Places (II.8), 2006. Sculpture, cor-ten steel, 300 x 285 x 2 cm.
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Exposition intuitive
Robert Filliou, Exposition intuitive, 1966. Installation, 10 photographic enlargements of telegrams, on wooden stretchers, 65 × 92 cm.
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Patrick Van Caeckenbergh
Patrick Van Caeckenberghs oeuvre primarily consists of sculptures and collages that show us a quirky representation of the world, full of ref
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Goshka Macuga
Goshka Macuga works as a curator and makes installations that function as 'total artworks'. Using material loaned from both artists and archi
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Dieter Roth
Dieter Roth was a Swiss poet, sculptor, graphic designer and interdisciplinary contrarian who initially started in the tradition of the Roman
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Cameron Jamie
"All of my projects, whether documentary, fiction, or whatever, are all somehow linked and connected like little planets to one another. Some
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The City Collection / De ...
The city of Antwerp started in 2021 with the development of a city collection of contemporary art. The artworks will be given on long-term lo
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USEFUL LIFE
M HKA has acquired the complete *USEFUL LIFE* for its collection in 2009, a key exhibition in the development of contemporary art in Shanghai
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JIMMIE DURHAM ENSEMBLE
This ensemble and digital application is an outcome of M HKA’s extensive long-term research in the oeuvre of Jimmie Durham and starts with an
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JAN VERCRUYSSE ENSEMBLE
The work of Jan Vercruysse is characterized by his razor-sharp vision and very focused approach to its central themes. Vercruysse mostly work