PMMK

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The Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst is located in a former department store built by Gaston Eysselinck.

PMMK ( Dutch Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst ) is a museum for modern art in the Belgian seaside resort of Ostend on the North Sea . It offers a comprehensive insight into Belgian art since the beginning of the 20th century, especially the Flemish Expressionists . One focus is the works of the painters James Ensor (1860–1949) and Leon Spilliaert (1881–1946), who were born in Ostend and have close ties to their hometown and the region.

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The museum in the center of Ostend near Leopoldpark was built in 1947 as a department store by the Belgian architect and designer Gaston Eysselinck (1907–1953). After the department store was abandoned, it was converted into a museum in the 1980s. At the end of 1986 it was opened as a museum for contemporary art. It has 14,000 square meters of exhibition space on five levels. There is also a museum café and a museum shop that sells exhibition catalogs, postcards, posters and original graphics.

Exhibitions

In 1986 the PMMK opened with a retrospective of the work of the Belgian expressionist Constant Permeke (* 1886 in Antwerp, † 1952 in Ostend). In the 20th year of its existence, the museum showed the exhibition "James Ensor en de avant-garde aan zee" (James Ensor and the avant-gardists by the sea) in 2006/2007. Like the opening exhibition, it was curated by Willy Van den Bussche (* 1942 in Bruges ), chief curator of the PMMK in Ostend and the PMCP (Provinciaal Museum Constant Permeke) in Jabbeke .

Works by the painter Emile Salkin (1900–1977) have been on permanent display since 2003. The Jeanne Matossian collection with 450 paintings, graphics and sculptures gives an overview of French art from 1960 to 1970 and from the 80s.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 33 "  N , 2 ° 54 ′ 53"  E