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Memories of Montevideo: the Antwerp avant-garde scene in the early 鈥�80s
M HKA reserves its fifth floor for surprising interventions and intimate pop-up presentations. INBOX is a place that inspires and surprises, one that offers us a glimpse into the world of passionate thinkers and doers. With INBOX, M HKA literally creates a physical space in which the museum addresses often-recurring questions.
In the periods between the various events, we present a selection of our collection works, with particular attention to video art.
Memories of Montevideo 鈥� Part 1
16.06 鈥� 10.07.2016
鈥楢 meeting point for the national and international avant-garde鈥� 鈥� this is how Annie Gentils describes the non-profit contemporary art exhibition space she founded in Antwerp in 1981, along with Hugo Roelandt and soon thereafter Constant Peers.
Between 1981 and 1984, Gentils and Peers transformed Antwerp鈥檚 vast and unheated Montevideo dry dock into a hub for ambitious exhibitions and performances. These included some of the most prominent artists of the time, such as Guillaume Bijl, Kate Blacker, Luc Deleu, Shirazeh Houshiary, Ivo Van Hove, Ann Veronica Janssens, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Mario Merz, Ria Pacqu茅e, Guy Rombouts and Luc Steels.
Benefitting from privileged access to Montevideo鈥檚 archives, a group of University of Antwerp Master students from the Film Studies and Visual Culture programme have put together a two-part exhibition for INBOX at M HKA retracing Montevideo鈥檚 radical yet underappreciated history. Through archival material, artworks, films and newly-produced video interviews, the exhibition seeks not only to draw attention to a remarkable episode of Antwerp鈥檚 artistic heritage, but also to raise the ever-pressing question of how best to nurture a cultural ecology that allows alternative spaces such as Montevideo to thrive.
Memories of Montevideo: Part 1 features artworks by Luc Deleu and Guy Rombouts, a special display of photographs by Elizabeth Lemahieu, as well as new video interviews with Win Van den Abbeele, Guillaume Bijl, Luc Deleu, Annie Gentils, Marc Holthof, Annie-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Ludo Mich, Ria Pacqu茅e, Johan Pas, Constant Peers and Guy Rombouts.
Memories of Montevideo 鈥� Part 2
14.07 鈥� 07.08.2016
With artworks by Kate Blacker, Danny Devos and Walter Swennen.
Curated by Tirsa van der Kleij, Shana Peulinckx, Emma Priem, Jasper van Quekelberghe, Marko Truyen and Bram Vroonland, with Antony Hudek. Video production by Chlo茅 Dierckx.
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M HKA reserves its fifth floor for surprising interventions and intimate pop-up presentations. INBOX is a place that inspires and surprises, one that offers us a glimpse into the world of passionate thinkers and doers. With INBOX, M HKA literally creates a physical space in which the museum addresses often-recurring questions.
In the periods between the various events, we present a selection of our collection works, with particular attention to video art.
Memories of Montevideo 鈥� Part 1
16.06 鈥� 10.07.2016
鈥楢 meeting point for the national and international avant-garde鈥� 鈥� this is how Annie Gentils describes the non-profit contemporary art exhibition space she founded in Antwerp in 1981, along with Hugo Roelandt and soon thereafter Constant Peers.
Between 1981 and 1984, Gentils and Peers transformed Antwerp鈥檚 vast and unheated Montevideo dry dock into a hub for ambitious exhibitions and performances. These included some of the most prominent artists of the time, such as Guillaume Bijl, Kate Blacker, Luc Deleu, Shirazeh Houshiary, Ivo Van Hove, Ann Veronica Janssens, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Mario Merz, Ria Pacqu茅e, Guy Rombouts and Luc Steels.
Benefitting from privileged access to Montevideo鈥檚 archives, a group of University of Antwerp Master students from the Film Studies and Visual Culture programme have put together a two-part exhibition for INBOX at M HKA retracing Montevideo鈥檚 radical yet underappreciated history. Through archival material, artworks, films and newly-produced video interviews, the exhibition seeks not only to draw attention to a remarkable episode of Antwerp鈥檚 artistic heritage, but also to raise the ever-pressing question of how best to nurture a cultural ecology that allows alternative spaces such as Montevideo to thrive.
Memories of Montevideo: Part 1 features artworks by Luc Deleu and Guy Rombouts, a special display of photographs by Elizabeth Lemahieu, as well as new video interviews with Win Van den Abbeele, Guillaume Bijl, Luc Deleu, Annie Gentils, Marc Holthof, Annie-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Ludo Mich, Ria Pacqu茅e, Johan Pas, Constant Peers and Guy Rombouts.
Memories of Montevideo 鈥� Part 2
14.07 鈥� 07.08.2016
With artworks by Kate Blacker, Danny Devos and Walter Swennen.
Curated by Tirsa van der Kleij, Shana Peulinckx, Emma Priem, Jasper van Quekelberghe, Marko Truyen and Bram Vroonland, with Antony Hudek. Video production by Chlo茅 Dierckx.
