M HKA, Antwerp

Exhibition handout

This exhibition forms part of Art’s Birthday 2026, which takes place on January 17 and celebrated every year at M HKA as a homage to Robert Filliou. It establishes a dialogue among three Belgium-based Spanish artists— Alex Reynolds, Laura Palau and Andrea Zavala (the last one in collaboration with Adriano Wilfert)—and an artwork from the M HKA collection by Margaret Salmon. The exhibition comprises three video works and one book that belong to a shared present time, and form a kind of family. 

The exhibition reflects themes of birth, inheritance, community and fragility. Through images, gestures of care and intergenerational knowledge, the project explores how bodies, relationships, and shared practices carry histories forward—sometimes stretching, sometimes breaking, always transforming. Bringing together domestic rituals, and collective experiences, the works offer a tender view on how we imagine the idea of rebirth through touch, memory, and the everyday acts that bind us to one another. 

This year’s edition of Art’s Birthday at M HKA is organised together with EUROPALIA ESPAÑA.