NUCLEUS
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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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Zonder titel (Souvenir) [...
Walter Swennen, Zonder titel (Souvenir) [Untitled (Souvenir)], 1982. Leaflet, oil paint, paper, canvas, 231 x 150 cm.
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Mar Rosso - Sedie Love Di...
Michelangelo Pistoletto, Mar Rosso - Sedie Love Difference [Red Sea – Love Difference Chairs], 2005. Installation, 4 x (78 x 46 cm).
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A City Dragged
Lawrence Weiner, A City Dragged, 1970. Installation, adhesive letters, 20.8 x 140.3 cm.
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On the Nature of the Beast
Goshka Macuga, On the Nature of the Beast , 2009. Textile, jacquard, 290 x 560 cm.
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Vered Ben-Kiki
Vered Ben-Kiki Fishman: Everything is a kind of pretend Visual artist Vered Ben-Kiki Fishman has lived in Belgium since the early 1980s, s
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Andrea Fraser
Since the 1980s, Andrea Fraser has achieved renown for performances that interrogate social and cultural structures with humour and pathos, a
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Tiong Ang & Roy Villevoye
Tiong Ang was born in Surabaya, Indonesia in 1961; Roy Villevoye in Maastricht in 1960. Both artists studied painting in Amsterdam, where the
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Enrico David
"I see the potential of the creative process as a representation of a new language to be simultaneously constructed and discovered, on the ba
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JAMES LEE BYARS ENSEMBLE
The international renowned American artist James Lee Byars has a remarkable relationship with the M HKA. From the seventies onward he worked
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SANTHAL FAMILY
M HKA acquired the SANTHAL FAMILY ensemble on the occasion of the exhibition Santhal Family: Positions Around an Indian Sculpture in 2008. W
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Vrielynck Collectie
The Robert Vrielynck Collection is one of the few large collections in Belgium that give a picture of the (pre-)history of film. The collecti
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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