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RESEARCH
Because the M HKA considers thinking to be one of its quintessential functions, it has allotted a separate place to internal structure. It considers reflection to be the expression of a consciousness of what is not part of an activity. Hence, reflection is not limited to text.

The M HKA intends to continually calibrate its practice on this reflexive ambition. The interventions of artists in the collection deal with research about presentation: the presentations of the collection are aimed at gradually giving shape to the latter by ever changing presentations from divergent angles of view and in different constellations. In the main exhibitions we are searching for –amongst other things- artistic modalities of presentation on the level of content from geographically localised contexts.

The M HKA does not have artists as its sole allies. It also collaborates with other institutions of research, in the first place the University of Antwerp (Masters in Film Studies and Visual Culture).

For many of its projects, the M HKA collaborates with external partners who also have an input in the form of research expertise. For example, for the project around Cittadellarte and Michelangelo Pistoletto, this was with the Centre for the Sociology of Culture of the University of Louvain, for the exhibition we plan about Vancouver, it will be the Belkin Art Gallery of the University of British Columbia.
Additionally, the M HKA engages ‘ad hoc’ in art historical research, in 2003, this was the case with a research commission about the work of Paul De Vree and in 2004 about the oeuvre of Toon Tersas.