M HKA gaat digitaal

Met M HKA Ensembles zetten we onze eerste échte stappen in het digitale landschap. Ons doel is met behulp van nieuwe media de kunstwerken nog beter te kaderen dan we tot nu toe hebben kunnen doen.

We geven momenteel prioriteit aan smartphones en tablets, m.a.w. de in-museum-ervaring. Maar we zijn evenzeer hard aan het werk aan een veelzijdige desktop-versie. Tot het zover is vind je hier deze tussenversie.

M HKA goes digital

Embracing the possibilities of new media, M HKA is making a particular effort to share its knowledge and give art the framework it deserves.

We are currently focusing on the experience in the museum with this application for smartphones and tablets. In the future this will also lead to a versatile desktop version, which is now still in its construction phase.

Gefängnis. Das graue Haus. Das Haus im Schatten, 2015

Book, 19.5 x 12.5 cm, 576 p., language : German, publisher : Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen, ISBN : 978-3-8353-1834-2.

Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. B 2028/885).

Literary synopsis

This volume compiles three prison novels by the famous Dada artist Emmy Hennings. In 1916 she opened the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich with Hugo Ball. Here, the Dada group rebelled not only against the war, but against art itself. Hennings’ novel Gefängnis (Prison), published in 1919, caused a great sensation. Based on her personal experience (she spent several stints in prison, at least once for forging passports), using powerful, expressive language, she dissects the experience of imprisonment down to its last linguistic detail. With existential urgency, the reader is shown exactly what it means to be in prison. For many years, Hennings was concerned with the relationship between delinquency and the penal system, crime and punishment. The other two prison texts, Das graue Haus (The Grey House) and Das Haus im Schatten (The House in the Shade) bear witness to this.

Novel's website

Authorship: Artist Author.

Creative Strategy: No Link to Artworks.

Genre: Autobiography.

Publishing: Publishing House.

Theme: Crime, Prison.

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> Emmy Hennings.

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> Ensemble: The Artist's Novel.