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

Jan Fabre

(c)photo: Angelos bvba
You have to take everything seriously but not tragically, 1976
Performance , 00:10:00

1976

Antwerp, Cultural Centre

In reaction to the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts the eighteen-year-old student Jan Fabre curates an exhibition of his own. At the opening he targets classic paintings, done by himself, as a poetic action against the academicism.