The Lives of Animals
“It is true that animals are usually not able to participate in their liberation, but they behave differently when they are liberated and have better living conditions.”
— Speaking Beyond Language: Lin May Saeed Interviewed
COLOPHON
This website serves as an extension of the exhibition The Lives of Animals (08 June – 22 September 2024) at M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp.
The platform is realized with ensembles.org
COLOPHON
Artists
Noor Abuarafeh, Antonia Baehr (together with Dodo Heidenreich, Nanna Heidenreich, Mirjam Junker, Itamar Lerner, Catriona Shaw, Ida Wilde, Steffi Weismann), Yevgenia Belorusets, Pierre Bismuth, melanie bonajo, Elen Braga, Sue Coe, Simone Forti, Nicolás García Uriburu, Piero Gilardi, Golden Snail Opera Collective (Isabelle Carbonell, Joelle Chevrier, Yen-Ling Tsai, Anna Tsing), Rebecca Horn, Katarzyna Krakowiak, K.P. Krishnakumar, Luís Lázaro Matos, Laura Lima, Anne Marie Maes, Dafna Maimon, Britta Marakatt- Labba, Ad Minoliti, Jean Painlevé, Charlemagne Palestine, Panamarenko, Rosana Paulino, Janis Rafa, Lin May Saeed, Tomás Saraceno, Carolee Schneemann, Filip Van Dingenen, Aleksandra Waliszewska
Sonic Room with audioworks by:
Izabela Dłużyk, Nathan Gray, Jonáš Gruska, Kathy High (avec Michelle Temple, Matt Wellins), Jean-Claude Roché, Lisa Schonberg and others
Curator
Joanna Zielińska
Exhibition Design Consultant
Tom Postma Design
Research
Krzysztof Gutfrański
Production
Lode Geens,Kaylee Davern (intern)
Technical coordination
Jurgen Addiers, Hughe Lanoote
Technical team
Jurgen Addiers, Leen Bosch, Sergej Culumarevic, Tom Knaepkens, Hughe Lanoote, Julius Luijkx, Bart Prinsen, Peter Simpson, Jochem Vanden Ecker,
Barbora Zilinskaite
Sound Design
Ludo Engels
Conservation
Frederika Huys, An Jacquemain
Facility Management
Fadil Ayoujil, Vasiliki Dimitriou, Fatuma Muhimpundu
Hospitality
Olcay Bakir, Katrien Batens, Martine Delzenne, Maia Elena Daley, Dirk Dumoulin, Mohammed Hameed, Eric Hellemans, Danny Kortleven, Olivier Lauwers, Riyadh Shakir, Milan Van Oosten and all M HKA hosts and guides
Mediation
Sofie Gregoor
Texts
Lotte Bode, Sofie Gregoor, Ekaterina Vorontsova, Joanna Zielińska
ensembles.org
Ekaterina Vorontsova
Communication
Bert De Vlegelaer, Madiken Verboven, Karen Werkhoven
Graphic Design
Pauline Scharmann
Press
Serenai
Copyediting
Helen White
M HKA would like to thank all lenders.
Special thanks to
Jacky Strenz
With the generous support of
Polish Institute Brussels
This exhibition is dedicated in memory of Lin May Saeed, we thank the artist for sharing her boundless love for animals with us. The project will be presented at our partner institution Salt in Istanbul in 2025.
The Lives of Animals (2024) is part of the Museum of the Commons (2023–2026), a project by the museum federation L’Internationale, of which M HKA is a member. The Museum of the Commons weaves together three thematic strands: 1) Climate; 2) Situated Organisations; and 3) Past in the Present. All three align with the major challenges contemporary societies face. The ‘climate’ theme revolves around the current planetary climate crisis, the sustainability of institutional, artistic, and cultural practices and processes, and the urgency to transform our political processes, societies, cultures, and lifestyles more ecologically.
L’Internationale brings together seven major European art institutions: MSU (Zagreb); Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid); MACBA (Barcelona); M HKA (Antwerp); MSN (Warsaw), Salt (Istanbul), Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven), with Institute of Radical Imagination (Venice), tranzit.ro (Bucharest; Cluj; Iasi), HKW (Berlin), and VCRC (Kyiv). L’Internationale works with complementary partners such as HDK-Valand (Gothenburg), NCAD (Dublin) and ZRC SAZU (Ljubljana) along with associate organisations from the academic and artistic fields, IMMA (Dublin) and WIELS (Brussel).
Copyright
The copyrights to the images used on the main page of this website belong to “Estate Lin May Saeed”, Jacky Strenz, Frankfurt/Main.
We have endeavoured to apply the legal applications regarding copyright. Whoever is nevertheless incorrectly or not mentioned, or who thinks he can still assert rights, is requested to contact the publisher.
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© 2024, M HKA, the authors and photographers