COLLECTION

THE DUNGS

Messieurs Delmotte
One by one Messieurs Delmotte crushes rabbit droppings that are scattered all over the road. This work is part of the series What's Done, Evil's Done / Ce Qui est Fait, le Mal est Fait...

MORT DE RIRE

Charley Case
Someone in a skeleton suit is dancing on a dark stage, a tracking light pointed at him. The skeleton-figure starts laughing cruelly. The boundary between life and death is blown away in a roar of laughter....

CIRCUS

Stefka Benisheva
CIRCUS is a film aware of itself being a film. It follows peripheral thoughts and reflects on all these days around....

WER IMMER HOFFT STIRBT SINGEND

Alexander Kluge
Hope forms part of the genetic makeup of humanity. Hope is also part of evolution: it is part of the essence that bolsters the growth, progression, and development of plants, animals, and minerals. Scientists describe this process as ‘primeval trust’...

WAR IS OVER

Roy Villevoye - Jan Dietvorst
In making contact with this major historical event, the sight of someone who has experienced battle has to be the ultimate outcome. Likewise a film about a cemetery can’t therefore do without the sight of someone dead. The search for unknown soldiers in the battlefield often is undertaken with opposing motivations...

THE MIME AND THE APE

Erik Bünger
In the film Silent Movie (1976) a film director places a phone call to Marcel Marceau to ask him to star in a silent film. The world famous mime picks up the phone and shouts “No!”. Thirty-five years later the exact same stunt is repeated by Cesar, the chimpanzee protagonist in Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)...

Nachrichten aus der ideologischen Antike. Marx/ Eisenstein/ Das Kapital, 2008, Alexander Kluge © the artist & producers

NACHRICHTEN AUS DER IDEOLOGISCHEN ANTIKE. MARX/ EISENSTEIN/ DAS KAPITAL

Alexander Kluge
Eighty years after Sergei Eisenstein’s plans to make Karl Marx’s ’Das Kapital’ into a film, the German film-maker Alexander Kluge (1932) breathed new life into the project. The starting point was Eisenstein’s intention to turn Marx’s seminal work into a movie and add a montage inspired by James Joyce (who Eisenstein met in 1929)...

Shit Stirrer, Peter Finnemore, 2004. Courtesy the Artist

SHIT STIRRER

Peter Finnemore
A shit stirrer is trouble-maker, or someone who spreads rumours and manipulates people for no apparent reason at all: Finnemore takes it literately and drives a tractor in the country side in order to dispense an organic and harmless fertilizer....

METAMORFOSE VAN HET OBJECT (1910-1970 PSK BRUSSEL)

Jef Cornelis
In 1971 the Palace of Fine Arts in Brussels presented an overview of modern and contemporary art at a large retrospective with sixty years of visual arts. The subtitle of the exhibition was Art and Anti-Art. It featured work by famous Belgian and international artists, including René Magritte, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp and many others...

PAU BRASIL : JE VINDT NIET, WAT JE ZOEKT

Jef Cornelis
’You don’t find what you’re looking for’ is a phrase that can be found on a work of art by Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles. In their work, Meireles and several other contemporary Brazilian artists, continually give expression to the formal and social tension in which Brazilian culture finds itself...