Galleries
Museums Listed here are museums with a (regular) contemporary art program. Please note: the museums keep to their regular opening hours and entry fees. Visit their websites or www.antwerpart.be for details. 41 Cinema Zuid Various artists – An afternoon with Hans Theys Cinema Zuid will show in loop videos made by Hans Theys on his encounters with artists such as Raoul De Keyser, Kati Heck, Luc Tuymans, Panamarenko, Vaast Colson, Dennis Tyfus, Tamara Van San, Rein Dufait and Dries Van Laethem. In collaboration with the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) and M HKA. Extra: Part of The Moving Image Waalsekaai 47 2000 Antwerp Tel +32 3 242 93 57 info@cinemazuid.be www.cinemazuid.be 22. May 14.00
42 FOMU – Photomuseum Boris Mikhailov – Ukraine
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Mariken Wessels – Taking Off. Henry my Neighbor Various Artists – Photography Inc. From Luxury Product to Mass Medium With ‘Ukraine’, FOMU brings a comprehensive retrospective of the work of Boris Mikhailov (UKR, °1938) to Belgium. The exhibition assembles over 300 works focused on Mikhailov’s homeland of Ukraine. His depictions, descriptions and distortions of his country date from the 1960s up to the recent Euromaidan revolution in Kiev. ‘Taking Off’ is the story of a failed marriage. Replete with the sexual frustrations and voyeurism that characterised the relationship, the exhibition introduces us to Henry’s obsessions with photography. His wife has lived under his yoke for years, posing for his extravagant nude studies. Mariken Wessels (NL, °1963) acquired the complete collection and reconstructs Henry’s marriage, work and life. Photography Inc. tells the story of photography and the photographic industry from the early years through to the present day. Photography Inc. examines turning points in the technological history of photography and their impact on the user. They’re all here: from the first photographs – daguerreotypes – to today’s selfies. Moreover, all the items on show come from the FOMU collection. Extra: Part of Contemporary Photography Waalsekaai 47 2000 Antwerpen Tel +32 3 24 29 300 info@fomu.be www.fotomuseum.be Taking Off. Henry my Neighbor 04. March – 05. June Photography Inc. From Luxury Product to Mass Medium. 21. Nov – 09. Oct
43 M HKA Museum of contemporary art Antwerp Vaast Colson and Kati Heck – Show me yours and I’ll show you mine Francis Alÿs, Carla Arocha and Stéphane Schraenen, Gaston Bertrand, Amédée Cortier, Raoul De Keyser, Walter Leblanc, Bernd Lohaus, Guy Mees, Gert Robijns, Timothy Segers, Boy and Erik Stappaerts, Philippe Van Snick, Jef Verheyen en Pieter Vermeersch – The Gap. Abstract art in Belgium. A Selection. Curator: Luc Tuymans. Aslan Gaisumov – IN SITU ‘Show me yours and I’ll show you mine’ includes two solo exhibitions, packaged as a great snapshot of two local artists on the verge of an international breakthrough: Vaast Colson with ‘Still some cream on the screen’ and Kati Heck with ‘Holy Hauruck’. The exhibition is accompanied with a publication that will be presented during the Antwerp Art Weekend. Focusing on the notion of abstraction in twentieth-century and contemporary Belgian art and the varying sources of inf luence and inspiration among the artists of two generations, renowned Belgian painter Luc Tuymans has selected fifteen artists whose work either articulates a relationship to abstraction or takes as its cue the definition of abstraction. In situ is for medium-scale monographic exhibitions by some of the most significant early-and mid-career artists from around the world working today. Aslan Gaisumov is developing an oeuvre that feeds on, but also transforms and transcends, personal and collective memory. Gaisumov is loyal to the culture he was born into, but also willing and able to formulate his own stance towards it. Extra: 22. May, 15.00 presentation publication Kati Heck and Vaast Colson Part of Antwerp Artists and of Books Leuvenstraat 32 2000 Antwerp Tel +32 3 260 99 99 info@muhka.be www.muhka.be Show me yours and I’ll show you mine. 19. Feb – 29. May The Gap. Abstract art in Belgium. A Selection. 30. Jan – 29. May In situ. 20. May – 28. Aug
44 Middelheimmuseum Peter Rogiers – CLUSTER
47 MAS Luc Tuymans – Glasses
Peter Rogiers is no stranger to the Middelheim Museum. The Belgian artist has been a guest artist there before, and his work is part of the permanent collection. This summer he is displaying new work and key work from previous periods. The exhibition title CLUSTER refers to the combination of specific works and to the mutually reinforcing effect created if the right elements are brought together. Extra: opening event Peter Rogiers. Cluster. Sat 21. May from 12.00 on, speechesat 14.30 Extra: artist talk Peter Rogiers. Sat 21. May, 13.00 at AVL Franchise Unit by Atelier Van Lieshout Middelheimlaan 61 2020 Antwerp Tel +32 3 288 33 60 middelheimmuseum@ stad.antwerpen.be www.middelheimmuseum.be 21. May – 18. Sept
For the Glasses exhibition, Luc Tuymans looks back at his oeuvre thematically for the first time. It includes portraits, both of ‘nameless people’ and of historical figures. These works have never been presented together before! “I have always liked painting glasses. They cause a kind of distortion of the face, which we cannot see directly through glasses. They’re a strange instrument but also an almost universal reality. The banality of glasses takes on a different significance when you paint them.” Luc Tuymans, 2015 Hanzestedenplaats 1 2000 Antwerp Tel +32 3 338 44 00 MAS@stad.antwerpen.be www.mas.be 13. May –18. Sept
45 MOMU Cristóbal Balenciaga – Game Changers / Reinventing the 20th century silhouette The exhibition ‘Game Changers-Reinventing the 20th century silhouette’ looks at the groundbreaking work of fashion designer Cristóbal Balenciaga whose innovations in the middle of the 20th century created a radically new silhouettte, in which the body got freedom of movement and architectural volumes created a space around the body Nationalestraat 28 2000 Antwerpen Tel +32 347 02 770 info@momu.be www.momu.be 18. March – 14. Aug
46 KMSKA The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) is closed for renovation until 2019. Selected highlights can be admired at various host venues in and around Antwerp, like the Koningin Fabiolazaal, Museum Rockoxhuis, Stedelijk Museum Lier. Please check www.kmska.be for details.
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48 Red Star Line Museum Sadik Kwaish Alfraji – Ali’s Boat The Red Star Line Museum hosts ‘Ali’s Boat‘ by the Iraqi-Dutch artist Sadik Kwaish Alfraji in 2016. This installation focuses on people’s universal dream to travel, go elsewhere and escape their daily reality. The artist drew inspiration from a letter from Baghdad that contained a drawing made by his 11-year– old nephew Ali. “It doesn’t matter where you live or what you have, you always try to f lee from some conditions of your existence. So the boat of Ali is my boat, your boat, any one of us has this boat. It is a crystal ball that takes us to another place. It is one of our human conditions to escape but we never get it because deeply we want to escape our existence. However, outside of that there is nothing.” Sadik Kwaish Alfraji Montevideostraat 3 2000 Antwerp +32 32 982 770 redstarline@stad.antwerpen.be www.redstarline.be 28. April – 28. Aug
