Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst

SMAK

The Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (official abbreviation SMAK ) is a Belgian museum for contemporary art in Ghent . Opened in 1999, the museum is housed in a casino in Citadelpark that was rebuilt in 1949 and converted into a museum. The artistic director is Philippe van Cauteren.

history

The origin of the museum lies in the Ghent art association, Vereniging voor het Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, founded by Karel Geirlandt in 1957 . The founding purpose of the association was to support the Ghent art museum Museum voor Schone Kunsten in the sense of a circle of friends in order to be able to show contemporary art through acquisitions and direct support in the Museum voor Schone Kunsten. In 1975 this finally led to the establishment of the Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Gent , which, however, had no rooms of its own. The Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst showed works from the Vereniging collection and smaller temporary exhibitions in the rooms of the Museum voor Schone Kunsten . Jan Hoet was the founding director of the Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst and managed the museum until it was transferred to the SMAK, which opened in 1999

In 1999 the SMAK got its own building in Citadelpark , directly opposite the Museum voor Schone Kunsten . Jan Hoet managed the house until 2003 and was then replaced by the American Peter Doroshenko, who only held this position for one year.

Museum and Collection

Exhibition by Jürgen Partenheimer at SMAK (2002)

The museum's collection focuses on art after 1945 and has its origins in the collection of the Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Gent . The directions Pop Art , Minimalism , Conceptual Art and Arte Povera are particularly represented, including works by international artists such as Art & Language ( Picasso's Guernica in the style of Jackson Pollock ), Joseph Beuys ( Economic Values ), David Hammons (main work Aeromodeller ), Thomas Schütte , Juan Muñoz and members of the CoBrA group . Naturally, there is a special focus on works by Belgian artists such as Panamarenko , Marcel Broodthaers ( Miroir d'epoque regency ), Thierry De Cordier and Luc Tuymans .

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2015: Larry Sultan . Catalog published jointly with the Kunstmuseum Bonn by Kerber Verlag.

Web links

Commons : Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst on kunstaspekte.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SMAK - History ( Memento of the original dated August 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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. on the museum website. (Retrieved August 6, 2010.) 
2. ↑ Jennifer Allen: Tuymans, other protest SMAK Director's departure ( Memento of the original from November 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) 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. . In: Artforum , No. 50/2004.
3. ↑ Jürgen Partenheimer: La Robe des Choses ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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. . SMAK from June 22nd to September 8th, 2002. 
4. ↑ ART TRIBUTE: The Collection (I) -Highlights for a Future, Part II - Art & Language, Picasso's Guernica in the style of Jackson Pollock. Retrieved February 11, 2020 (American English). 
5. ↑ SMAK - Collection ( Memento of the original from July 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the museum website. (Retrieved August 6, 2010.) 

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 18 ″  N , 3 ° 43 ′ 22 ″  E