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

Hugo Roelandt

(c)Estate Hugo Roelandt
Wit Zwart / White Black , 1980
Video , 00:10:00
U-Matic

Digitised video, 10'23''

The film White Black challenges conventions of photography, graphic art, film and performance, marking Hugo Roelandt’s turn to more radical experiments with different media. The music is composed by Paul Geladi, who was part of the performance group Dr. Buttock’s Players Pool, alongside Roelandt and artists like Ria Pacquée and Luc Steels. Of Roelandt’s early collaborators, Geladi was one of the few with whom he reconnected later in life, working together on what Roelandt would call his ‘post performance’ works.