Museum (without) shelter: Lectures on art, democracy, and ecology ( 23 November )

As a way to open up a discussion about the role of a museum in society, we invite five experts from the academic and artistic field to give a lecture in the reading room of M HKA. Very welcome to come and listen!
23.11, 11am - 6pm

Program – Sunday 23-11-2025 – Location: M HKA

11:00 – 12:00
Piet Van Hecke
"The Happenings and Actions of VAGA in the 1960s"
Language: Dutch

12:30 – 13:30
Laurence Petrone and guests
Reading from the book Wide White Space (ed. Yves Aupetitallot)
Language: Dutch / French

14:00 – 15:00
Johan Pas
"Office Baroque, Gordon Matta-Clark, and the ICC: The Founding of the M HKA Collection under Flor Bex"
Language: Dutch / English

15:15 – 16:15
Ligia Popławska
"Whispers of the Primeval Forest – Art & Ecology"
Language: English

16:30 – 17:30
Pascal Gielen
"Culture and Democracy in Repressive Liberal Times"
Language: Dutch / English

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