Exhibition: The collection XXXIII – The Collection as a Character
M HKA, Antwerpen
07 June 2013 - 22 September 2013
©image: M HKA
The character of a collection reflected the current priorities of the M HKA collection: the evaluation of Antwerp’s avant-garde tradition; the exploration of the new world order with multiple hubs; the discussion about the former types of images; the articulation of the importance of the performative character and socially engaged dimension of contemporary art.
The character of the collection was an attempt to revisit our collection after 25 years of spontaneous creativity: views expressed by powerful personalities, opportunities that presented themselves, restrictions that spawned innovative solutions.
The key to the character sketch of our collection was the ensemble: a coherent group of works, both in terms of quantity and quality, was interesting enough to be seen as more than a number or series of works.
This exhibition and the accompanying book presented some 20 ensembles that helped us to understand the collection of the M HKA. Some of the ensembles consisted of work by prominent Flemish artists such as Vaast Colson, Luc Deleu, Jan Fabre, Show Tersas, Luc Tuymans and Panamarenko. M HKA has major ensembles of artists from other parts of the world, including James Lee Byars, Jimmie Durham, C.K. Rajan and a number of artists from the former Soviet Union, India, China and North Africa. Alse there are other types of ensembles, such as the Vrielynck Collection, with items from the history of cinema, as well as the archives from the 1970s of Antwerp’s International Cultural Centre (ICC).
Media
>Luc Tuymans, 'Polaroids', 1977 - 2007 (detail)
>A glimpse behind the scenes: M HKA in preparation for "The Collection as a Character', 2013 Guillaume Bijl, My Chalet, 1987
>A glimpse behind the scenes: M HKA in preparation for "The Collection as a Character', 2013 Mark Manders, 'Fragment from self-portrait as a building', 1993
ArtistsShow works
> Ilya & Emilia Kabakov .
> Andrei Monastyrski .
> Guillaume Bijl.
> Ivan Kožarić.
> Paul De Vree.
> Lili Dujourie.
> Jef Geys.
> Jacques Lizène.
> Guy Mees.
> Barbara Kruger.
> Robert Filliou.
> Panamarenko.
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> Sergey Maslov.
Sergey Maslov is known as “the mythmaker” of contemporary art in Kazakhstan. He began his work in the late 1980s as an artist an
> Sergey Bratkov / Сергій Братков.
> Gulnara Kasmalieva & Muratbek Djumaliev .
> Koka Ramishvili.
> Hamlet Hovsepian.
> Vyacheslav Akhunov.
> Toon Tersas.
> Vito Acconci.
> James Lee Byars.
> Thierry De Cordier.
> Luc Deleu.
> Jan Fabre.
> Maurizio Nannucci.
> Antoni Muntadas.
> Bruce Nauman.
> Maria Nordman.
> Thomas Ruff.
> Luc Tuymans.
> Jan Vercruysse.
> Lawrence Weiner.
> Gordon Matta-Clark.
> Charif Benhelima.
> Ria Pacquée.
> Guy Rombouts.
> Yang Fudong.
> Koen van den Broek.
> Jimmie Durham.
> Nicolás Uriburu.
> David Claerbout.
> Vaast Colson.
> Manon de Boer.
> Berlinde De Bruyckere.
> Honoré δ'O.
> Marlene Dumas.
> Hans Op de Beeck.
> Narcisse Tordoir.
> Ana Torfs.
> Anna Bella Geiger.
> Maria Thereza Alves.
> Goshka Macuga.
> Sheela Gowda.
> Donald Judd.
> Allan Sekula.
> Alain Arias-Misson.
> Bernard Frize.
> Cady Noland.
> Hermann Pitz.
> Hugo Duchateau.
> Franz West.
> Rebecca Horn.
> Douglas Gordon.
> Wilhelm Sasnal.
> Cameron Jamie.
> Craigie Horsfield.
> Cindy Sherman.
> Andrea Fraser.
> Mark Dion.
> Alfredo Jaar.
> Patrick Van Caeckenbergh.
> Mark Manders.
> Allan McCollum.
> Róza El-Hassan.
> Rita McBride.
> K.P. Krishnakumar.
> Jan Van Imschoot.
> Kati Heck.
> ORLAN.
> Imogen Stidworthy.
> Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK.
> Steven Shearer.
