The exhibitions Urgent Conversations: Athens–Antwerp and Urgent Conversations: Antwerp – Athens are a collaboration between EMST and M HKA, a theoretical and visual dialogue, based on works from the collections of both museums, which includes more than 70 works structured in 22 topics.   

28.04.2017 - 07.01.2018        

M HKA, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen - Leuvenstraat 32, 2000 Antwerpen

EMST, National Museum of Contemporary Art - Kallirrois Avenue & Amvr. Frantzi Str., Athens 11743

Alevtina Kakhidze / Алевтина Кахідзе

(c)Alevtina Kakhidze - photo: Sergey Illin

Plants are fundamentally different organisms: the leaf of a plant isn’t the same as a human’s arm. In general, plants have a different way to pass information to each other, as well as recover and defend in front of a danger. Kakhidze has been researching plants for many years, her optic on the plant world during war became even more sharp, as well as giving a hope for the future for human civilisation. In march of this year when Russian tanks were close to her studio in Muzychi she wrote on her studio’s door: “Follow the example of plants, they are pacifist, as much as possible on our planet.”