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The M HKA holds works on permanent loan that were acquired with the budget of the Vlaamse Commissie voor Beeldende Kunst (Flemish Visual Art Committee) (1982-2002). This was initially a broad, socially-oriented and supportive policy which later took on a more specific museum orientation that focused on filling in gaps and making deliberate choices. In 2003 this policy area was absorbed into the ‘Topstukken- en Sleutelwerkenbeleid’ (Policy on Major and Key Works), and a small sum derived from this also temporarily reinforced purchasing policy at the M HKA.
Part of the present collection consists of items on permanent loan that were purchased by the Flemish Community. This purchasing tradition, guided by advisory committees, arose out of the government’s intention to support artists and to introduce art into government buildings and spaces.
A number of these artworks are part of the M HKA collection.
Of particular importance are several ensembles acquired in the latter days of this purchasing policy, when purchases were increasingly made with an eye to a museum function, and when curator Dirk Snauwaert was finally allowed to make purchases himself. This enabled several gaps to be filled that had been formed by the M HKA’s ever-decreasing ability to buy: works by David Claerbout and Harald Thys & Jos de Gruyter, ensembles by Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven and Francis Alÿs. The ‘Topstukken- en Sleutelwerkendecreet’ once again made it possible to fill a major gap; the M HKA had no proper museum piece by Panamarenko, but now the Prova Car (1967) was bought at Christie’s and several years later Zwitserse Fiets (1967) too. In 2015, the M HKA acquired Allan Sekula’s key work Ship of Fools.
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The Kiss
Lili Dujourie, The Kiss, 1986. Sculpture, wood, textiles, glass, silver, fluid, 432 x 102.5 x 244 cm.
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Tonight Moon
Yang Fudong, Tonight Moon, 2000. Installation, projector, monitors, 00:10:00.
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Wieliczka. May 1994 (The ...
Craigie Horsfield, Wieliczka. May 1994 (The artist before his patron X 11/8), 1994. Photography, ink, paper, 71 x 88 cm.
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Untitled
Elly Strik, Untitled, 1997. Painting, oil, lacquer, paper, 300 x 205 cm.
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Lidwien van de Ven
The Rotterdam-based artist Lidwien van de Ven investigates and plays on our habitual ways of perception and interpretation. Her installations
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Cady Noland
Cady Noland was born in 1956 in Washington, DC, and is based in New York. Noland was an important representative of the American Gothic Reviv
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Richard Artschwager
Richard Artschwager is among the artists from the golden age of Pop Art in the 1960s, when he actively blurred the boundaries between sculptu
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Ilya & Emilia Kabakov
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov are ex-Soviet, American-based artists who collaborated on environments which fuse elements of the everyday with those
