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Don't You Know Who I Am? – Art After Identity Politics
13 June 2014 - 12 October 2014

M HKA, Antwerpen

Don’t You Know Who I Am? – Art after identity politics brought together emerging talent from around the world. In recent decades, various social groups have defined themselves according to political, economic or social categories, such as race, ethnicity, gender or sexuality to increase their visibility and counter marginalisation.

The exhibition, presented on two floors in the museum and on several off-site locations, was designed as a large-scale study of the modes and means by which identity and identification can be considered. New generations of artists investigated the formation of identity/identities in the world by means of strategies, such as performativity, abstraction, reification, logic and aesthetics of anything digital, activism, the analysis of the self from cultural and scientific perspectives, or the study of the role of the spectator.

Some thirty artists were invited to show both existing works and newly produced works: Anthea HamiltonAugustas SerapinasDonna KukamaEloise HawserErmias KifleyesusGuan XiaoHaegue YangHedwig HoubenIman IssaImran QureshiJuha LaakkonenKatja NovitskovaLawrence Abu HamdanLiesbeth DomsMaria SafronovaMaria TaniguchiMassimo GrimaldiNadezhda GrishinaNastio MosquitoOleg UstinovOnkar Kular & Noam ToranOscar MurilloPatrizio Di MassimoPedro BarateiroPennacchio ArgentatoShilpa Gupta and Wu Tsang

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About M HKA / Mission Statement

The M HKA is a museum for contemporary art, film and visual culture in its widest sense. It is an open place of encounter for art, artists and the public. The M HKA aspires to play a leading role in Flanders and to extend its international profile by building upon Antwerp's avant-garde tradition. The M HKA bridges the relationship between artistic questions and wider societal issues, between the international and the regional, artists and public, tradition and innovation, reflection and presentation. Central here is the museum's collection with its ongoing acquisitions, as well as related areas of management and research.

About M HKA Ensembles

The M HKA Ensembles represent our first steps towards initiating the public to today's art-related digital landscape. With the help of these new media, our aim is to offer our artworks a better and fuller array of support for their presentation and public understanding.