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: Lieven Herreman
Action: Bic Art Propaganda, 1979
Performance , several months

Antwerp, Julius de Geyterstraat 205

The Bic Art Propaganda is mail art avant-la-lettre. The envelopes of these mailed postcards carry a pun on the artist’s financial straits. In Belgium one has to collect a stamp every day to receive unemployment benefits.