Exhibitions

For more than five decades, Antwerp art collector and art dealer Ronny Van de Velde has been organising pioneering and remarkable exhibition projects, which have made him one of Belgium's most important connoisseurs and defenders of a variety of artistic vanguards.

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

Multi-Art was a publishing house, gallery and art bookstore that became an increasingly influential avant-garde workshop.

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.

Under the moniker of Tenant of Culture, Hendrickje Schimmel works with fashion as a trained fashion and textile practitioner, but does so from the perspective of the field of contemporary art.

The lemniscate: a hanging rope representing infinity. An object taken out of its everyday context and sublimated into a lofty symbol.

In ancient Greece, “Pharmakos” was a chosen individual, who was selected through common consensus by its community. The person was either sacrificed as a means of purification for the city, or it was ostracized away from the region.

As the Flemish fine arts collection finally regains its place in the extensively renovated KMSKA (Royal Museum of Fine Arts), the Flemish Community is also getting ready for the next infrastructural leap further raising the Flemish museum landscape to an international level.

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

Tarik Kiswanson is a visual artist and a poet. His various bodies of work engage with subjects related to rootlessness, memory, learning, heritage and ultimately identity development. Always operating at the intersection of different cultural contexts, traditions and languages, his work poses fundamental questions such as: What is heritage? What is the body? How does memory operate? How are these notions affected by displacement and time?

In recent weeks, the space on the top floor of the museum has been transformed in line with the Superhost project Where Should We Begin?  created by Falke Pisano.

Mash Up is the first major survey exhibition of works by Anthea Hamilton, and is therefore the first opportunity to share an in-depth reading and articulation of the artist’s practice, whilst also opening up new perspectives and interpretations.