Museum of Modern Art, Antwerp

The Museum van Hedendaagse Art Antwerp ( M HKA abbreviation or MuHKA ) is a Belgian museum of modern and contemporary art in Antwerp. The museum, founded in 1985 is housed in a former granary in the port of Antwerp.

History

Basis of the collection of the museum is the collection of the Foundation Gordon Matta -Clark, which consists of about 150 works by artists from Belgium and other countries. The Museum van Hedendaagse Arts Antwerp was founded in 1985 and opened in a converted grain silo and the adjacent warehouse on 20 June 1987. The museum has an exhibition area of ​​4,000 square meters and is operated by the Flemish Community. The first director of the museum was Flor Bex, who had previously led, founded 1970 International Cultural Centre (ICC ) in the Paleis op de Meir. The first exhibition showed works by Gordon Matta- Clark.

Since 2002, the Museum of Bart De Baere is headed. Since then, the ground floor, large temporary exhibitions, while the upper floors changing works from the collection are shown. In the collection exhibition there is this room for smaller " interventions" by current artists. The focus of the exhibitions is now less on a national perspective, but on international developments, is embedded in the Belgian art.