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The new collection presentation of the M HKA offers the viewer a 'first'. The M HKA has been given the collection of the 'Stichting Beeldende Kunst Middelburg/De Vleeshal' (The Middelburg Visual Arts Foundation / The Meat Hall) on long-term loan. From June 4, works from the two collections will be exhibited together for the first time. For many works from the Middelburg collection it is even the first time since their acquisition that they can be viewed by the public.

In the early 1990s, the plan for a museum for modern and contemporary art developed in the town of Middelburg. From 1994, the Stichting Beeldende Kunst Middelburg / De Vleeshal started building a collection for that new museum. The acquisition policy was carried out in alternation with the presentations in the Vleeshal, so that the collection also constitutes a kind of memory of the exhibition programme. So far, around two hundred works have been acquired, but the plans for a museum have meanwhile been put on hold. 
Therefore, in Middelburg there was a collection without space to exhibit it. In Antwerp there was a related collection to which much space is devoted, but with a limited acquisition budget. This inspired the two partners to bring together the two collections temporarily in the M HKA. In this way, the Middelburg collection is opened up to the public and the M HKA collection is reinforced. Because of the combination, various works by certain artists can now be exhibited together, so that the viewer gains more insight into their oeuvre. In addition, all this is enriched with new artists, whose work the M HKA had wanted to buy but could never afford. The cooperation shows the public a more powerful and simultaneously more subtle image of contemporary art. 

In cooperation with: Stichting Beeldende Kunst Middelburg / De Vleeshal

a selection
De Vleeshal & De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal June 25 - September 11, 2005

This summer De Vleeshal will exhibit a selection of works from the collection of the M HKA. The centrepiece of the exhibition will be Uffizi Porte (2003) by Michelangelo Pistoletto, Cittadellartte en c a l c, on display in De Vleeshal itself.
Apart from Uffizi Porte, works by (amonst others) Marlene Dumas, Gordon Matta-Clark, Bruce Nauman and Luc Tuymans will be on show in De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal.

more: www.vleeshal.nl