Ensemble: NUCLEUS
De kerncollectie of nucleus gaat van de periode van de happenings in het midden van de jaren 1960 tot heden. De uit de ICC-tijd daterende Stichting Gordon Matta-Clark vormt de basis. Daarnaast zijn de belangrijkste deelcollecties de eigen aankopen en de werken in permanente bruikleen van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap. Verder zijn er de vaak belangrijke schenkingen, zoals deze van Panamarenko die zijn pand in de Biekorfstraat met inboedel en al aan het museum schonk, of de polaroids van Luc Tuymans. In de voorbije jaren verzamelden we ook kunst uit regio’s met een nog onbekende kunstscene zoals Centraal-Azië en Rusland, de Maghreb, China en India.
Thema's & Categorieën
EUROPE AT LARGE

USEFUL LIFE

Vrielynck Collectie

GUILLAUME BIJL ENSEMBLE

JAN VERCRUYSSE ENSEMBLE

JIMMIE DURHAM ENSEMBLE

JAMES LEE BYARS ENSEMBLE

SANTHAL FAMILY
Kunstenaars

Marina Abramović & Ulay

Vito Acconci

Vahram Aghasyan

Chantal Akerman

Vyacheslav Akhunov

Victor Alimpiev & Marian Zhunin

Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin

Maria Thereza Alves

Francis Alÿs
Andrei Monastyrski

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK

Evgeny Antufiev

Alain Arias-Misson

Martin Arnold

Carla Arocha

Richard Artschwager

Aslan Goisum

Said Atabekov

Kutluğ Ataman

AUGUSTAS SERAPINAS

Sven Augustijnen

Babi Badalov
Richard Baquié

Ben
Ben Vautier: C’est le coura

Charif Benhelima

Hicham Benohoud

Fred Bervoets

Guillaume Bijl
Birdhead

Marinus Boezem

Christian Boltanski

Kasper Bosmans

Dirk Braeckman

Daniel Buren

Teresa Burga
The oeuvre of Peruvian-born artist Maria Teresa Burga Ruiz has ever since the 1960s occupied an important place within Latin-American art. H

James Lee Byars

Jacques Charlier

Olga Chernysheva

David Claerbout

Hans Clavin

Vaast Colson

Leo Copers

Tony Cragg

Alice Creischer

François Curlet

Hassan Darsi

Enrico David

Manon de Boer

Berlinde De Bruyckere

Thierry De Cordier

Raoul De Keyser

Jan De Lauré

Luc Deleu

Wim Delvoye

Denmark

Danny Devos

Paul De Vree

Daniël Dewaele

Els Dietvorst

Mark Dion

Eugenio Dittborn

Nico Dockx

Donna Kukama

Monica Droste

Michael Druks

Lili Dujourie

Marlene Dumas

Jimmie Durham

Izmail Efimov

Hans Eijkelboom

Róza El-Hassan

Pieter Engels

Jan Fabre

Fabrice Hyber

Hans-Peter Feldmann

Robert Filliou

Dan Flavin

Maen Florin

Michel François

Andrea Fraser

Bernard Frize

Anna Bella Geiger

Jochen Gerz

Jef Geys
Douglas Gordon

Sheela Gowda

Evgeny Granilshchikov
Gu Dexin
Gulnara Kasmalieva & Muratbek Djumaliev

Fabrice Gygi

Khaled Hafez

Boran Hansda

Keith Haring

N S Harsha

Mona Hatoum

Kati Heck

Jan Henderikse

René Heyvaert

Hiwa K

Honoré δ'O

Craigie Horsfield

Hamlet Hovsepian

Ilya & Emilia Kabakov

Alfredo Jaar

Cameron Jamie

Ann Veronica Janssens

Jos De Gruyter & Harald Thys

Johanna Kandl

Anish Kapoor

Jean Katambayi Mukendi
Aside from being an artist, Jean Katambayi Mukendi is also impassioned by technology, mechanics, geometry and electricity. In his work he combines influences

Amal Kenawy
Kerala Radicals
Anita Dube, C.K. Rajan, K.R. Karunakaran, Alex Mathew, Reghunadhan K., Jyothi Basu, K.P. Krishnakumar

Rustam Khalfin

Suchan Kinoshita

Job Koelewijn

Aglaia Konrad

John Körmeling

Ivan Kožarić

K.P. Krishnakumar

Barbara Kruger

Marie-Jo Lafontaine

Wolfgang Laib

David Lamelas

Mark Lewis

Liang Yue

Tom Liekens
Tom Liekens (°1977) maakt monumentale schilderijen, houtsneden en collages. Hij is gefascineerd door de weinig realistische wijze waarop fauna en flora w

George Lilanga di Nyama

Jacques Lizène

Bernd Lohaus

Léa Lublin

Mark Luyten

Goshka Macuga

Mark Manders

Kerry James Marshall

Maryam Najd

Sergey Maslov
Sergey Maslov is known as “the mythmaker” of contemporary art in Kazakhstan. He began his work in the late 1980s as an artist an

Gordon Matta-Clark

Danny Matthys

Allan McCollum

Jonathan Meese
Jonathan Meese, born in Japan, is a German painter, sculptor, and exuberant performer whose installations could be described as gesamtkunstwerk. Among

Guy Mees

Erbossyn Meldibekov

Almagul Menlibayeva

Jacqueline Mesmaeker
Ludo Mich
Artist Ludovicus Michielsen was fourteen when he met Yves Klein at the Hessenhuis. Klein’s iconic leap into the void served

Aernout Mik

Marlow Moss

Juan Muñoz

Antoni Muntadas

Maurizio Nannucci

Bruce Nauman

Nadia Naveau
Nadia Naveau studies sculpture at the Koninklijke Academie and trains at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts,

Moshe Ninio

Otobong Nkanga

Cady Noland

Maria Nordman
Hans Op de Beeck

Luciano Ori
ORLAN

Anatoly Osmolovsky

Tony Oursler

Ria Pacquée

Panamarenko
Pa

Pedro Barateiro

Peng Yu

Michelangelo Pistoletto

Tinka Pittoors

Hermann Pitz

Dmitri Aleksandrovich Prigov

Laure Prouvost

Kerim Ragimov

C K Rajan

Ayman Ramadan
The works of Ayman Ramadan are site-specific and testify to a deep involvement in social issues. Using different media, often combined in an

Koka Ramishvili

Pipilotti Rist
Gert Robijns

Guy Rombouts

Rong Rong

Dieter Roth

Thomas Ruff

Sarenco

Azat Sargsyan

Wilhelm Sasnal

Eran Schaerf

Buky Schwartz
Timothy Segers
The objects Timothy Segers makes stem from light, unmediated, improvisational gestures, realized in the moment. He devises them without knowing their ultimat

Allan Sekula

Steven Shearer

Cindy Sherman

Sveta Shuvaeva

Nedko Solakov

Ettore Spalletti

Daniel Spoerri
Daniel Spoerri: Eat Art

Imogen Stidworthy

Bart Stolle

Elly Strik

Walter Swennen
"Vital is the beauty of the leap towards emptiness", Walter Swennen.
Brussels-based artist Walter Swennen

Ana Maria Tavares

Christophe Terlinden

Frank Theys

Koen Theys

Tiong Ang & Roy Villevoye

Sven 't Jolle

Toon Tersas

Narcisse Tordoir

Ana Torfs

Joëlle Tuerlinckx

James Turrell

Luc Tuymans

Dennis Tyfus

Nicolás Uriburu

Vadim Fishkin & Yuri Leiderman

Patrick Van Caeckenbergh

Maarten Vanden Abeele

Koen van den Broek

Lidwien van de Ven

Paul Van Hoeydonck

Vanessa Van Obberghen

Philippe Van Snick

Marijke van Warmerdam

Richard Venlet
Jan Vercruysse

Angel Vergara

Gert Verhoeven

Liliane Vertessen

Henk Visch

Vladislav (Vlad) Mamyshev-Monroe

Peter Wächtler

Lawrence Weiner

Marthe Wéry

Franz West

Bill Woodrow

Xu Zhen

Yang Fudong

Yang Zhenzhong

Yelena Vorobyeva & Viktor Vorobyev

Konstantin Zvezdochotov

Alevtina Kakhidze / Алевтина Кахідзе

Nikita Kadan / Нікіта Кадан
Nikita Kadan is a Ukrainian visual artist who is confronted with how he as an artist must form his own socio

Sergey Bratkov / Сергій Братков