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.
Items
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Will the weather be fine ...
Liang Yue, Will the weather be fine tomorrow...., 2002. Installation, betacam sp, dvd, 00:22:00.
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Fighters without Rules / ...
Sergey Bratkov / Сергій Братков, Fighters without Rules / Бійці без правил, 2000. Photography, photo on aluminium, 6 x (90 x 60 cm).
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Handstand
Marijke van Warmerdam, Handstand, 1992. Film, 16mm film, projection table, loop system, projection wall, 210 x 280 x 9.3 cm.
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For a new City 1987
Maria Nordman, For a new City 1987, 1986. Drawing, acryl, pencil, ink, paper, 745 x 110 cm.
Actors
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Philippe Van Snick
Philippe Van Snick (1946 - 2019) makes work that is characterised by an extremely simple visual language, akin to minimalism, and the repeate
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Anatoly Osmolovsky
Anatoly Osmolovsky is not only an artist, yet also theoretician, curator, publisher and performance activist. Another aspect of Osmolovsk
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Job Koelewijn
Job Koelewijn discovered his passion for art only in his early twenties, when he started to paint and draw while recovering from a serious ro
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Rustam Khalfin
Rustam Khalfin (1949 - 2008) is considered a pioneer of Kazakhstan’s contemporary art scene. After graduating from the Moscow Architecture In
Ensembles
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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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EUROPE AT LARGE
During the past decades M HKA has paid enduring attention to that part of Europe that was excluded from the reconstruction of Europe after 19
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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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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