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Home page M HKA ONLINE CATALOGUE - Here you can access online the M HKA's art, library, and archive collection(s). Welcome. The M HKA holds some 7,500 works of art in its collection. The majority of these works are own acquisitions and works that were acquired by the Flemish Community. The collection spans the period from the postwar avant-garde in Antwerp and Flanders to the present-day, using the past as a starting point to understand today’s and tomorrow’s multipolar world. The art library holds around 40,000 books and catalogues, 1,000 periodicals with 25 ongoing subscriptions, and hundreds of folders with documentation on artists and artist collectives. The library is constantly adding to its collection, looking beyond the standardised image of artworks. There is a strong focus on artist books, artist catalogues, artist inserts, artist magazines and artist novels; books as image carriers. The Book Lovers methodically explore the phenomenon of artist novels. To date, a collection of 600 volumes has been compiled. The film library (which is also located in the M HKA) serves as a hub for knowledge building and reflection on film, video and new media. It manages a collection of 10,000 books and catalogues, documentation folders with press cuttings, and 800 periodicals (from 50 different countries) with 41 ongoing subscriptions. M HKA's archive collection holds archives of some 30 artists, art critics, organisations and other actors. The collection consists of around 500 linear metres of archives, whose content is as diverse as their creators. They include correspondence, texts, files, printed matter, posters, photographs, audiovisual records and objects. These archives corroborate the museum's collection story and seek to provide a representative image of the Flemish art world, starting with the post-war avant-garde. You can access the entire Axiell database through this platform. Questions, remarks, or suggestions about this/these online collection(s)? Contact us at info@muhka.be or call +32 3 260 99 98. By opening up its collections, M HKA is giving the public the opportunity to use information from the Axiell database for their own non-commercial purposes provided sources are acknowledged. Not all reproductions are available online due to copyright.

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M HKA ONLINE CATALOGUE - Here you can access online the M HKA's art, library, and archive collection(s). Welcome.

The M HKA holds some 7,500 works of art in its collection. The majority of these works are own acquisitions and works that were acquired by the Flemish Community. The collection spans the period from the postwar avant-garde in Antwerp and Flanders to the present-day, using the past as a starting point to understand today’s and tomorrow’s multipolar world.

The art library holds around 40,000 books and catalogues, 1,000 periodicals with 25 ongoing subscriptions, and hundreds of folders with documentation on artists and artist collectives. The library is constantly adding to its collection, looking beyond the standardised image of artworks.

There is a strong focus on artist books, artist catalogues, artist inserts, artist magazines and artist novels; books as image carriers. The Book Lovers methodically explore the phenomenon of artist novels. To date, a collection of 600 volumes has been compiled.

The film library (which is also located in the M HKA) serves as a hub for knowledge building and reflection on film, video and new media. It manages a collection of 10,000 books and catalogues, documentation folders with press cuttings, and 800 periodicals (from 50 different countries) with 41 ongoing subscriptions.

M HKA's archive collection holds archives of some 30 artists, art critics, organisations and other actors. The collection consists of around 500 linear metres of archives, whose content is as diverse as their creators. They include correspondence, texts, files, printed matter, posters, photographs, audiovisual records and objects. These archives corroborate the museum's collection story and seek to provide a representative image of the Flemish art world, starting with the post-war avant-garde.

You can access the entire Axiell database through this platform.

Questions, remarks, or suggestions about this/these online collection(s)? Contact us at info@muhka.be or call +32 3 260 99 98.

By opening up its collections, M HKA is giving the public the opportunity to use information from the Axiell database for their own non-commercial purposes provided sources are acknowledged.

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