Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerp
The Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerp (abbreviation M HKA or MuHKA ) is a Belgian museum for modern and contemporary art in Antwerp . The museum, founded in 1985, is housed in a former granary in the port of Antwerp .
history
The basis is the collection of the Gordon Matta-Clark Foundation , which consists of around 150 works by artists from Belgium and other countries. The Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerp was founded in 1985 and opened on June 20, 1987 in a converted grain silo and the adjacent warehouse. The museum has an exhibition area of 4,000 m² and is run by the Flemish Community . The museum's first director was Flor Bex , who had previously headed the International Cultural Center (ICC) founded in 1970 in the Paleis op de Meir . The first exhibition showed works by Gordon Matta-Clark .
Bart De Baere has directed the museum since 2002 . Since then, large changing exhibitions have taken place on the ground floor, while changing works from the collection are shown on the upper floors. In the collection exhibition there is space for smaller “interventions” by current artists. The focus of the temporary exhibitions is now less on a national perspective and more on international developments in which Belgian art is embedded.
Web links
- Official website
- Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerp on kunstaspekte.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b History. (No longer available online.) Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerp, archived from the original on December 4, 2015 ; Retrieved June 18, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 41 ″ N , 4 ° 23 ′ 23 ″ E