James Lee Byars
Events (19)
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A Halo around the ICC
26 September 1976.
Action by James Lee byars in front of the I.C.C. on the Meir, Antwerps' busiest shopping street. The proportional analogy between the width o -
Dear ICC — Aspects of Con...
18 December 2004 - 27 February 2005.
During the seventies and the early eighties, the ICC was an intermediary between a progressive art praxis and the ill-at-ease public, as well -
Extra Muros: Herita-project
31 January 2014.
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EXTRA MUROS: Museum of Af...
26 November 2011 - 29 January 2012.
L'Internationale is a European joint venture between five museums and artists’ archives - Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, M HKA, Van Abbe Museum, -
EXTRA MUROS: Spirits of I...
21 January 2012 - 29 April 2012.
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EXTRA MUROS: Tracés, Simi...
01 March 2012 - 31 March 2012.
TRACÉS. Similarities and dissonants was the upshot of a recycling project that started in 2010 in the recycling centre of Merksem. The centr -
EXTRA MUROS: Visite Borne...
03 May 2014 - 25 May 2014.
Under the umbrella term Visite, the M HKA – in collaboration with LOCUS, the hub for libraries, cultural and community centres and local cult -
James Lee Byars / Extra T...
15 May 1976 - 13 June 1976.
Extra Terrestrial is the first exhibition where an official institute displays such a large number of documents, objects and performances by -
James Lee Byars: The Perf...
05 October 2018 - 20 January 2019.
The nomadic performance and installation artist James Lee Byars (Detroit 1932 - Cairo 1997) challenged the post-war art world with a poetic a -
Joseph Beuys – Greetings...
13 October 2017 - 21 January 2018.
The exhibition Joseph Beuys – Greetings from the Eurasian will seek simultaneously to consider Beuys’ activities in Antwerp during the 1960s -
Museumnacht 2025
02 August 2025 19:00 - 03 August 2025 01:00.
On Saturday 2 August, M HKA opens its doors from 7 PM to 1 AM for Museum Night – an evening full of art, music, and cosmic wonder. This year, -
The Collection
28 April 2017 - 31 December 2021.
For the first time, the M HKA will be able to present a permanent collection exhibition with iconic masterpieces from Flemish and internation -
The Collection II and a C...
30 June 1990 - 04 November 1990.
'De Verzameling II' showed a selection of the M HKA collection. Artists: Ulay & Marina Abramovic, Guillaume Bijl, Jean Marie Bijtebier, -
The collection XXIX — Spi...
20 January 2012 - 29 April 2012.
Curated by Bart De Baere, Jan De Vree, Anders Kreuger (M HKA) en Charles Esche and Steven ten Thije (Van Abbe Museum) Spirits of Intern -
The Collection XXXIII – T...
07 June 2013 - 22 September 2013.
The character of a collection reflected the current priorities of the M HKA collection: the evaluation of Antwerp’s avant-garde tradition; th -
The collection XXX – The ...
29 June 2012 - 16 September 2012.
Maarten Vanden Eynde’s project Museum of Forgotten History housed the remains of a possible future past. The exhibition took the form of fict -
The extra-terrestrial man...
14 May 1976.
The extra-terrestrial man (The Black Giant of Antwerp) is a performance by James Lee byars, where a figure, made out of black tule, measuring -
The Perfect Place ( is on...
27 May 1976.
Performance by James Lee Byars during the Extra Terrestrial exhibition in the I.C.C. The Perfect Place ( is on Top of Your Head) is a short a -
Urgent Conversations Athe...
31 October 2016 - 05 February 2017.
Urgent Conversations: Athens – Antwerp is the first temporary exhibition in the long overdue public unfolding of the Greek National Museum of