Exhibitions

Ignace Cami is an artist that gives obsolete things renewal. Playing with the notion of ‘heritage’, he questions its place as being part of the natural law of society, whilst creating the conditions for its contemporary purpose and application.

Can anything still be original, in a state of reality where apps can be used to create works of art, and where everything can be looked up and accessed with a few swipes on our smartphone?

Sounds are situated, they have histories. If we listen carefully, we can hear them echoing with other times and places. How would the walls of the M HKA sound like if we listened to them?

How can we consciously take care of our attention in an increasingly loud and oversaturated world? Such is the question raised during ANTENA, a year-long programme dedicated to listening.

The exhibition She Has Many Names by Spanish artist Dora García surveys some of the most important performances, drawings, installations, printed matter and films created throughout a career spanning three decades.

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.