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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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Guy de Cointet
Guy de Cointet is one of the artists that best synthesizes the new relationship between theatre and contemporary art, from the end of the 196
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Craigie Horsfield
With social projects and with work in different media including video, photography, sound, drawings, performance and installation, Craigie Ho
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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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Alasdair Gray
Alasdair Gray describes himself as a ‘self-employed verbal and pictorial artist’. He was born in Riddrie, Glasgow, and trained as a painter a
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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
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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



