EUROPE AT LARGE

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Ensemble

During the past decade the M HKA has paid enduring attention to that part of Europe that was excluded from the reconstruction of Europe after 1989; the former Soviet Union. This attention was recently spread up to its bounderies, with a focus on the artistic key positions from Central Asia and the Caucasus, now 'somewhere behind Russia'.

For this ensemble the museum collaborated with the Russian-Italian curator and theoretician Viktor Misiano.

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Army girls

Sergey Bratkov, Army girls, 2000. Photography, 10 x (90 x 60 cm).

Constellation of Chingizk...

Said Atabekov, Constellation of Chingizkhan, 2009. Photography, c-print on di-bond, 21 x (50 x 50 cm).

Kazakhstan. Blue Period

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Elena Vorobyeva & Viktor Vorobyev, Kazakhstan. Blue Period, 2002. Installation, 105 x (40 x 60 cm).

My Grandfather's Shed

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Ilya & Emilia Kabakov , My Grandfather's Shed, 1998. Installation, wood, 210 x 240 x 325 cm.

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Babi Badalov

Koka Ramishvili

Ilya & Emilia Kabakov

Vahram Aghasyan

About M HKA / Mission Statement

The M HKA is a museum for contemporary art, film and visual culture in its widest sense. It is an open place of encounter for art, artists and the public. The M HKA aspires to play a leading role in Flanders and to extend its international profile by building upon Antwerp's avant-garde tradition. The M HKA bridges the relationship between artistic questions and wider societal issues, between the international and the regional, artists and public, tradition and innovation, reflection and presentation. Central here is the museum's collection with its ongoing acquisitions, as well as related areas of management and research.

About M HKA Ensembles

The M HKA Ensembles represent our first steps towards initiating the public to today's art-related digital landscape. With the help of these new media, our aim is to offer our artworks a better and fuller array of support for their presentation and public understanding.

The application has been fully developed in-house at the M HKA, and is easily accessible via a wide range of devices: smartphones, tablets and desktop computers.

This public version is no island unto itself; it is enframed within a larger digital whole. The content comes directly from the ‘ensemble bank’, a broadly-supported working platform that encourages diverse layers of meaning around the artworks. Production unit, curators, procurement policy (external as well): each has its role to play. In this way, visitors are just 1 click away from this informative database as they amble through the exhibition rooms. M HKA is determined to extend this exercise in the years to come, and so even further enhance the visitor’s experience.

Disclaimer

The information found on this platform is copyright-free unless otherwise indicated, and so is free as well for exclusively private (re)use, as long as citation is duly provided. Further use and the reproduction of multimedia-information (image, sound and other applications) always required prior permission. Unless otherwise indicated, all used reproductions are provenance of the M HKA. Despite our best efforts concerning copyright holders, if information appears incorrect or incomplete, please contact us via ensembles@muhka.be.

Credits

M HKA Ensembles is the result of a large-scale interest and effort in digital display of content regarding contemporary art.

Design / Bart De Baere, Kristof Michiels

Development / Kristof Michiels, 10to1

Coordination / Evi Bert

Texts / M HKA

Editors / Evi Bert, Marte Sommen, Kaat Vannieuwenhuyse, Piet Van Hecke, Lot Wens

Translations / PORTAAL (EN-NL, NL-DE, NL-FR, NL-EN), Steven Tallon (EN-NL), Isabelle Grynberg (EN-FR), Marijke Vermeulen (EN, NL-DE)

Support / M HKA Library