EXTRA MUROS: Geel – Middle Gate II – The Story of Dymphna
15 September 2018 - 04 November 2018
Stad Geel, Geel
Exhibition project Middle Gate II – The Story of Dymphna is a cooperation between M HKA, the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, and cultural centre de Werft in Geel. Middle Gate II is the sequel to the exhibition Middle Gate made by Jan Hoet in Geel in 2013. The concept of the exhibition is intricately interwoven with the legend of Saint Dymphna, patroness of the possessed and mentally ill and patron saint against epilepsy and insanity. The legend of Dymphna is also closely linked to the identity of Geel, town of mercy.
Middle Gate II is structured around the four symbols of Saint Dymphna – crown, book, devil and sword – each representing a theme linked to Dymphna’s legend. The crown is connected to migration, the devil represents insanity, the book stands for spirituality and the sword is linked to (sexual) violence. These four symbols/themes are shown on four different locations, resulting in a group exhibition along a course across Geel: the Municipal Academy for visual arts (crown/migration), the Hospital Museum (devil/insanity), the Saint Dymphna Church (book/spirituality) and ‘De Halle’ (sword/(sexual) violence). All exhibited works enter into a dialogue with their specific location and the ‘permanent’ works (of art) and objects. Middle Gate II engages, often with works from the M HKA collection that have never been shown before, with four urgent social themes that were already addressed in the legend of Saint Dymphna.
Four female artists actively cooperated in setting up the exhibition. They each made a campaign image for the theme they helped to work out: Tinka Pittoors (crown/migration), Liliane Vertessen (devil/insanity), Nel Aerts (book/spirituality) and Els Dietvorst (sword/(sexual) violence).
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Practical information
Middle Gate II – The Story of Dymphna
15.09-04.11.2018
Saturday – Sunday 11:00-18:00
Groups after prior appointment
Municipal Academy for Visual Arts, Kollegestraat 11
Hospital Museum, Gasthuisstraat 1
Saint Dymphna Church, Sint-Dimpnaplein
De Halle, Markt 1
Items
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Evaporation of the Consti...
Where Dogs Run, Evaporation of the Constitution, 2017. Installation, mixed media (irons, water, electronic components, plastic, metal, glass, acrylic glass, silicone sealants, wood, microcontrollers, temperature sensors, computer, power supplies, control drivers, software, projection).
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MM Lola
Liliane Vertessen, MM Lola, 1983. Mixed Media, photo, neon, 200 x 280 cm.
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Untitled
Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Untitled, 1999. Print, ink, paper, 50 x 35 cm.
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Blind Joy
Marlene Dumas, Blind Joy, 1996. Drawing, aquarel on paper, 125 x 70 cm.
Media
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Actors
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Vadim Fishkin
Russian artist Vadim Fishkin (°1965), who is trained as an architect, works with technological aspects: projections, shadow, sound, growth an
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Douglas Gordon
Douglas Gordon (°1966) is a video artist and photographer, who also does performances, actions and makes installations. Gordon creates art wi
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Tinka Pittoors
As a visual artist, Tinka Pittoors (°1977) views her surroundings – nature, the world around her, and by extension all of humanity –as her ar
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N S Harsha
N S Harsha (°1969) is born in 1969 in Mysore in the state of Karnataka, India, where he still lives. Harsha trains as a painter in his home c
Ensembles
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Benedenverdieping | Groun...
The works for the theme Migration that can be found on the ground floor.
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GEWELD | VIOLENCE
It seems clear that in the case of Dymphna, the sting – t.i., the violence – is in the tail of her story, in the beheadings and the flickerin
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M HKA DEFAULT 2024
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Eerste verdieping | First...
The video works for the theme Migration can be found on the first floor.