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

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK

(c)image: AMVK
Indépendance, 1981
Painting , 200 x 147.5 x 5 cm
house paint, acrylic and polyester on Plexiglas

"After the decolonisation of Belgian Congo in 1960, many Congolese men thought that the word indépendence meant ‘a beautiful blonde woman’. That was what they had fought for. What is knowledge? In this work, I started using figurative elements, whereas before, there were only texts, signs and symbols in my paintings."

− AMVK