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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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Luc Tuymans
Luc Tuymans was born in 1958 in Mortsel, Belgium. He lives and works in Antwerp. After completing his art training in Brussels, he studied ar
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Glen Rubsamen
Glen Rubsamen is a painter who was born in Los Angeles, California and studied at U.C.L.A. where he received his MFA. He lives and works in D
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Peter Wächtler
Peter Wächtler is a storyteller. His works are characterised by dramaturgic components such as melancholy, pathos, ironic or satiric humor, r
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Eduardo Arroyo
Eduardo Arroyo is born in 1937 in Madrid where he studies at the French high school, at the Instituto de Nuestra Senora de la Almudena, then
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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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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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The Artist's Novel
The Book Lovers is a research project on the phenomenon of the artist's novel curated by David Maroto and Joanna Zielińska. The central quest
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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



