What’s the story: past and present engage at KMSKA
The exhibition “What’s the story” at Antwerp’s Museum for Fine Arts (KMSKA) creates a dialogue between old and new art.
We love a good story here at Focus on Belgium, whether it’s telling one or experiencing one. With the exhibition What’s the Story, the curators at KMSKA want the viewers to find the story, to find the connection between the pieces of art from different generations.
Art aficionados will be familiar with big names like the symbolist Léon Spilliaert, or Brabant fauvist Rik Wouters. In this exhibition, they shine among contemporary artists like Raoul De Keyser and Mark Manders. The works of Chantal Akerman and David Claerbout also make an appearance.
Themes addressed in the exhibition are space, time and power, as well as life and death, temptation and storytelling.
The exhibition will take place in spaces that are usually reserved for the works of James Ensor, the celebrated Belgian artist who passed away 75 years ago. His paintings have been taken off the walls in preparation for another exhibition elsewhere in the museum.
Stay tuned for that exhibition as well, and check out more information about What’s the story on the website of KMSKA.
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