BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)

40th year  -  N° 340                 Saturday, 6 December 2025         Antwerpen		
Home is Where the Heart is
M_hka

Leuvenstraat 32, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Related events:

  1. Saturday 26th of June 1999 . The Eyes Had it: Visitors at the opening of 'Nursing Care, in Melancholy Stupor' by Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven aka AMVK.

  2. Friday 25th of June 1999 . The Eyes Had it: AMVK at the opening of her Nursing Care, in Melancholy Stupor exhibition.

  3. Saturday 20th of December 2003 (x) Performance artist Danny Devos performs 'Trop = Teveel' outside the entrance.
    ‘Once Upon a Time..., a look at art in Belgium in the Nineties’, was an exhibition of the collection of contemporary Belgian art which the Cera Foundation was able to put together during 5 years of patronage. - I pulled a bag over my head and tied up my feet and hands. I fell forward and lay on the ground. - Cera Holding is a financial group. The contemporary art collection was predominantly bought by Paul Tanghe, Luk Lambrecht and Bart De Baere, current director of the M_hka. - After half an hour I was untied by Mauro Pawlowski.

  4. Sunday 27th of February 2005 . The Eyes Had it: Dorothea Olkowski's impressive high heels during her lecture at AMVK's 'HeadNurse' booklaunch.

  5. Thursday 10th of April 2008 (x) Performance artist Danny Devos performs 'Aktion im ReforMuhka'.
    I spread out a sheet on the floor and threw pamphlets at the audience. On a small tv-monitor played an excerpt of a documentary on Holger Meins. I placed objects and books onto the canvas and the canvas turned into a prison cell. Then I took out several ingredients for baking: butter, sugar, eggs, flour, and also some earth from my Hole. I mixed everything into dough and baked 2 classic sand-cookies. I undressed to my underwear and force-fed myself violently to eat the cookies.

  6. Thursday 20th of January 2011 (x) Performance artist Danny Devos performs 'Dort oder Hier / Hommage aan Bernd Lohaus'.
    During a memorial event for artist Bernd Lohaus I reconstructed one of his works. I blocked the doorway between the cafetaria, where the event took place, and the museum with strips of tape. Nobody could pass through without destroying the work. On the floor I wrote: "Dort (das Museum) | Hier (die Kunstler) Warum? Bernd, der Kampf geht weiter."

  7. Sunday 23rd of November 2025 (x) Performance artist Danny Devos performs 'Ignore the Artist'.
    During a series of lectures protesting the closing of the Antwerp Museum of Contemporary Art by the Flemish Minister of Culture, I lay outside in front of the door with a note that read 'Ignore the Artist'. Artists have not been consulted for decades in decisions regarding museums of contemporary art. In an ideal world fellow artists and art lovers would have dragged me inside to emphasise that artists do indeed belong in a Museum for Contemporary Art and not outside it, but nobody did so.