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, Collection M HKA, photo: Lieven Herreman
Burried (Hommage to Pieter Engels), 1979
Performance , 00:30:00

19.10.1979
​Antwerp, Gallery Workshop 77

The invitation to the exhibition states that the guests have to bring an object of personal importance. During the opening the artist collects these objects in preserving jars. At the evening’s end he buries the jars in front of the gallery.