Permanent Collection Presentation

From 25.01.2025

he M HKA collection consists of around 7,500 works, with acquisitions by the museum and works acquired by the Flemish Community making up the majority, in addition to donations and a number of other public funds that the M HKA makes accessible. The Situation is Fluid brings together works from the 1960s to the present from the museum’s collection. A period in which the world seems to be morphing increasingly rapidly into a complex space that has no centre, in a transformation that is spurred by decolonisation, Cold War and neoliberalism and fuelled by inequality and climate change. A period also in which the role of artists, the relationship of culture and society, and the boundaries of art are constantly questioned and redefined. This compact collection presentation starts from the international post-war avant-garde in Antwerp and uses the past as a platform to explore the multipolar order of the present and future.

The permanent collection presentation features work by Marina Abramović, Chantal Akerman, Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin, Marcel Broodthaers, David Claerbout, Lili Dujourie, Marlene Dumas, Jimmie Durham, Andrea Fraser, Anna-Bella Geiger, Craigie Horsfield, Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, Nikita Kadan, Barbara Kruger, Nicola L., Taus Makhacheva, Gordon Matta-Clark, Cady Noland, Otobong Nkanga, Panamarenko, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Laure Prouvost, Ayman Ramadam, Chris Reinecke, Oksana Shachko, Nancy Spero, Walter Swennen, Luc Tuymans and Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven.

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