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.

Vliegeniersuniform [Spacesuit]

Object

©image: Wim Van Eesbeek

Collection: Workstation Biekorfstraat - Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. PAN-1103).

This aviator’s suit dates from the mid-1950s and is of American manufacture. The idea was to inflate the suit, to counteract the effect of low air pressure at high altitude. Panamarenko probably bought it at an American army surplus
store, and appeared with it for the first time at the “KYRPWWAWAX” happening in Ostend on 6 August 1965. Already presenting himself at this point as a ‘multimillionaire’, he then lent the suit to Hugo Heyrman for later happenings, as it fitted better with Heyrman’s utopian ‘happy space maker’ image. This is why the aviator’s suit became inextricably linked in the happening context with space flight, and would go down in history as the ‘spacesuit’.

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Artist

> Panamarenko.

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Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: Panamarenko — Journey to the Stars. M HKA, Antwerp, 25 January 2025 - 07 September 2025.

> Ensemble: Workstation Biekorfstraat.

Related Items

>Dr. Hugo Heyrman, Wout Vercammen, Panamarenko, Yoshio Nakajima, KYRPWWAWAX - Happening in een heerlijke nieuwe stad IV, 1965.Happening.