M HKA gaat digitaal

Met M HKA Ensembles zetten we onze eerste échte stappen in het digitale landschap. Ons doel is met behulp van nieuwe media de kunstwerken nog beter te kaderen dan we tot nu toe hebben kunnen doen.

We geven momenteel prioriteit aan smartphones en tablets, m.a.w. de in-museum-ervaring. Maar we zijn evenzeer hard aan het werk aan een veelzijdige desktop-versie. Tot het zover is vind je hier deze tussenversie.

M HKA goes digital

Embracing the possibilities of new media, M HKA is making a particular effort to share its knowledge and give art the framework it deserves.

We are currently focusing on the experience in the museum with this application for smartphones and tablets. In the future this will also lead to a versatile desktop version, which is now still in its construction phase.

Hana Miletić

° 1982

Works in Zagreb (HR), works in Brussels (BE), born in Zagreb (HR).

Croatian artist Hana Miletić (1982, Zagreb) lives in Brussels and works in part in Zagreb. She successively studied Art History at the VUB and Photography at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. In her studio Hana Miletić creates a constant interplay between photography and weaving, connecting the two media from both a technical and conceptual point of view. Miletić captures elements of the degraded environment we live in, caring for their ecology, stories and resilience. In this way she confirms an equal interest in representation, reproduction and production. Her empathetic approach to reality is both documentary and activating.

Hana Miletić models her hand-woven textiles after her own photographs, which in turn refer to social interactions and fault lines in public space. She uses the weaving process, which requires a great deal of time and dedication, as a counterweight to socio-economic trends such as acceleration and standardisation. She sees the careful weaving and reconstruction of an image as a gesture of care and restoration to reflect on social issues. Her 'repairs' in the urban space – restoring street photographs from a broken window or a damaged car mirror – emphasise her social commitment. In that sense the result of her weaving process is not only artistic and material but above all metaphorical. She therefore makes her hand-woven and hand-knitted textiles with recycled knitting that she collects and recovers here and there.

Simultaneously she also examines the history of myriad fabrics, silks and weaving processes because over many centuries - and via migration - they have determined the lives of generations of workers and seamstresses in countless workshops all over the world. By reconstructing old images with various textiles she attempts to reconstruct a piece of lost history, resulting in patchwork quilts with recurring patterns and colours. In this way she tries to make the material used tactile again with her installations. It is work to look at, it is abstract but the artist's goal is that you can also 'feel' it with your eyes because it brings history to life.

In line with this she created a weaving studio in Brussels with community weaving workshops. This allows her to connect even more broadly with a craft rooted in female genealogy while its social implications lead to greater insight and affinity. By focusing on concepts such as scarcity, damage and obstacles she seeks alternative social ways to counter harmful customs and ideologies.

Works

>Hana Miletić, Materials - Konzum Supermarket, Zagreb, 2018-2021.Installation, 420 x 1050 cm.

>Hana Miletić, Materials, 2021.Assemblage, textielkunst, handgeweven textiel (gebleekt rood organisch cottoline, rode organische ruwe wol, rode organische cottoline, raffia van rode zijde en witte organische cottoline), 54 x 37 x 1,5 cm.

>Hana Miletić, Materials, 2021.Assemblage, textielkunst, handgebreid en handgeweven textiel (zwarte melkwol, zwart gerecycleerd nylon, beige melkvezel, bruin-grijze organische ruwe wol, diervriendelijke zijde en blauw-zilver metaalgaren), 30 x 6 x 3 cm.

>Hana Miletić, Materials, 2022.Assemblage, textielkunst, handgeweven en gevilt textiel (lichtgrijs eucalyptus garen, bleke gele ruwe wol, zilvergrijs gemerceriseerd katoen, zilver metaalgaren, zilver diervriendelijk zijde en veelkleurige ruwe wol), 78 × 58 × 2 cm.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: Museum in Motion. 16 September 2022 - 08 January 2023.

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> Exhibition: Museum in Motion - Hana Miletic. 16 September 2023 - 08 January 2023.

> Exhibition: The City Collection: IN/SIGHT. 16 May 2024 - 06 January 2025.

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> Ensemble: 2022.

> Ensemble: The City Collection / De Stadscollectie / La collection municipale.