Published with an eponymous exhibition in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, this catalogue provides an overview of works created there by immigrant Iraqi artist Sadik Kwaish Alfraji between 2016 and 2021, together with the oeuvre he produced in Iraq in the 1980s. Central to this cartography is a reflection on Baghdad, the artist’s own family history of migration, and his experiences in Iraq during the turbulent years he spent working there. His characteristic black linework and melancholic under...

Elke Andreas Boon's art explores a duality of unruly fragility and reflection, tackling existential themes like religion, gender, and power structures. Her work, rooted in art tradition, undergoes subtle transformations, creating new contexts and combining brutal questioning with surreal humor. Boon’s oeuvre, spanning over twenty-five years, is noted for its relevance and aesthetic richness, addressing universal issues like identity and loneliness. S.M.A.K director Philippe Van Cauteren pra...

In 2019 bestaat S.M.A.K. 20 jaar, en tegelijkertijd is het 20 jaar geleden dat er een collectiecatalogus van het S.M.A.K. verscheen. Met S.M.A.K. Highlights for a future verschijnt een boek dat een genereus beeld geeft van de collectie van het museum. De selectie in dit boek is een representatieve doorsnede uit een collectie van meer dan 3500 werken. Het boek neemt u mee in het labyrinth van de hedendaagse kunst, van iconische werken en klassiekers, over verborgen parels en recente aanwinsten...

Splendid Isolation is a group exhibition that seeks to explore the particular conditions of life in solitude, and more precisely the creative impulses it can nourish. Bringing together an intergenerational and international group of artists, it centres on the artistic output that is induced by life under self-imposed or forced restrictions and foregrounds herein a number of positions. They include working conditions in which artists have been brutally cut off from their environment, have opte...