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)Angelos bvba, photo: Marc Gubbels
My body, my blood, my landscape, 1978
Performance , several days

Antwerp, Julius De Geyterstraat 205

After attending an exhibition in the Groeninge Museum in Bruges on Stigmata in the work of Flemish masters Jan Fabre becomes greatly attracted to the body as a subject. The physical shock of seeing for example Gerard David’s Judgement of Cambyses, urges him to penetrate his own body.