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"Vleeshal is a unique center for contemporary art, not only because of its atypical exhibition space and exciting programming, but also because it has a collection. In the 1990s, under the impetus of then director Lex ter Braak, an ambitious collection of contemporary visual art was begun. This collection was intended for a newly envisioned museum in Middelburg, with the working title Museum IX/13.
The collection concerns two blocks, on the one hand national and local art from the BKR scheme (the abbreviation BKR refers to the Dutch Artist Subsidy Scheme, unique in the world, which from 1949 until 1987 provided artists with a (temporary) income in exchange for artworks or other artistic compensations). On the other hand a start to a radically international collection of contemporary art, with a few large ensembles by a limited number of artists (including Jimmie Durham, Nedko Solakov, Suchan Kinoshita, Cameron Jamie, Pippilotti Rist and Job Koelewijn), but too few to be able to have a real impact without further collection development. The city of Middelburg decided not to build this museum and not to continue the collection. The impetus of developing a collection had thus lost its possible context and visibility and encumbered Vleeshal, for whom the collection had become a storage cost and management issue.
Given the close historical ties between Middelburg and Antwerp, M HKA's collection profile and the fact that Bart De Baere was a member of the advisory committee in the composition of the Vleeshal collection, it was given to M HKA on long-term loan. M HKA gave this collection a public existence by valorizing the artworks in its collection exhibition policy.
There has been no active acquisition policy for years. The collection is expanded here and there with sporadic purchases and donations from artists who are part of the Vleeshal program.
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patches
Katie Schwab
2021
Near Focus #3
Pipilotti Rist
8 August – 6 September 2020
Near Focus #2
Lili Dujourie
4 July – 2 August 2020
Near Focus #1
Jimmie Durham
3 – 28 June 2020
Voor de Vleeshal, Middelburg
Kasper Bosmans
2020
Rooms of Now #1
Maurice van Es
Sunday 24 February 2019, 2 – 4 pm
Sunday 31 March 2019, 12 – 2 pmRooms of Now
Maurice van Es
2019
Untitled
Andrea Éva Győri
2018
Leaning Is the New Sitting
Nora Turato
2018
Amsterdam Art Weekend 2017
Freddie Mercado, Astrit Ismaili
Friday 24 November 2017, 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Resistencia en fractura... | Freddilicia (Desnuda) | Freddilicia (en fractura)
Freddie Mercado
2017
Zeeuws Tijdschrift 66.3
2016
Untitled Vestments (HAVE NOT)
Amanda Ross-Ho
2016
Material Evidence (Wall Cropping I and II)
Melissa Gordon
2016
On False Tears and Outsourcing – Financiers are trained to produce tears
Cally Spooner
2015
The Gardens of Sardinia, Cyprus and Jerusalem
Paolo Chiasera
15 November – 14 December 2014
The Unmade
Marc Nagtzaam
2014
The Center of the World
Jimmie Durham
7 July – 15 September 2013
The Art of Choice
1 July – 14 October 2012
A Quiz (again)
Nedko Solakov
14 July – 5 September 2012
L'isola
Rossella Biscotti
25 May – 8 July 2012
Grossmut begatte Mich
Pipilotti Rist
17 September – 2 October 2011
Collection 02
Maartje Korstanje, Nina Beier & Marie Lund, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Martin Kippenberger, Wilhelm Sasnal, Vahram Aghasyan, Jimmie Durham
21 February – 5 January 2010
Eigen Collectie
Mike Kelley, Marinus Boezem, Mona Hatoum, Piet Dieleman
17 June – 19 August 2001
Eigen Collectie
31 October – 10 December 2000
Grossmut begatte mich
Pipilotti Rist
25 January – 12 March 2000
Vue petite mort quotidienne, 17.17 julliet, serre di Rapolona | Vue petite mort quotidienne, 4 julliet, Luxembourg | Vue petite mort quotidienne, 7 aout
Alicia Framis
1998
The Center of the World
Jimmie Durham
1995
Grossmut begatte mich
Pipilotti Rist
1995
Duwen
Liza May Post
1994
Gilgamesh
Jimmie Durham
1993
Inner landscape early day
Henny Schrijver
1986
De Gentse Collectie
21 July – 16 September 1984
Op zoek naar het paradijs 3
Ben Sleeuwenhoek
1984
Op zoek naar het paradijs 2
Ben Sleeuwenhoek
1984
Het ideale kunstwerk
Nico van den Boezem
1981
Hout Meranti nr. 4
Nico van den Boezem
1981
Bl. Hardsteen gewicht 1565 gram
Nico van den Boezem
1981
Ten Tigers
Ben Sleeuwenhoek
1980
Venice 1980 (nr. 1)
C.J. van Gilst
1980
American Imperialism
Lili Dujourie
1972
Around the table
Marcel Duchamp
1917