Exhibitions

De Stadscollectie Antwerpen / The City Collection Antwerp is a lively tribute to the artists who give colour to the city of Antwerp. From emerging talent to established names, this collection highlights local creativity but also the global influence of Antwerp’s art scene.

Edith Dekyndt’s artworks consider the vitality of matter and the volatility of natural phenomena.

For more than 50 years now, Belgian artist Willy De Sauter (Dudzele, 1938) has been driven by a search for the foundations of the art experience. This results in an impressive oeuvre that excels in stylistic unity and formal simplicity.

Shen Xin is an artist working at the intersection of moving image, installation, and performance. Their practice explores various relations between individuals and the land they inhabit that exist outside the concept of nation.

This presentation brings together several 'transport objects', including Prova Car (1967), a masterpiece from the Flemish Community Collection.

Belonging to the generation of artists formed at the juncture of Soviet times and Kazakhstani independence, Askhat Akhmedyarov has been active since the 1990s.

Born in the rebellious spirit of May 68, the loose collective Mass Moving hoped – like the students on the barricades – to take control of the imagination.

The oeuvre of Antwerp-based artist Denmark has for more than 50 years been a search for simplicity and essence.

The project Friendship of Nations: Polish Shi'ite Showbiz (2011) by the artist collective Slavs and Tatars reveals the connection between Polish and Iranian heritage, more specifically that between the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the Polish trade union movement Solidarność of the 1980s. Both events encapsulate a major geopolitical narrative of the recent past: Islamic modernism and communism.

Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–1978) described his activities as 'anarchitecture' – a synthesis of the concepts of anarchy and architecture.