From November 28th, 2024  until January 9th 2025
In the Royal Museum of  Koninklijk Museum voor Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA)

WHAT’S THE STORY? II

What’s the Story? is all about the dialogue between the collection and contemporary artists. In a free, associative way, curator Nico Van Hout and co-curator Erno Vroonen place the works in thematic ensembles, challenging the audience to discover for themselves connections between today’s artists and their soulmates from the past. 

This second edition of What’s the Story? features three new themes: Life and Death, Seduction, and Storytelling.

Featuring work by
Evelyne Axell, Maen Florin, Kati Heck, Jozef Legrand,
Rinus Van de Velde, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven and Liliane Vertessen.

More info on  the KMSKA website

06.09.2024 – 20.10.2024
Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art
Gyeonggi (Korea)

With Kim Simonson (FI), Tip Toland (USA), Anja Seiler (ZW)

TOGETHER Montaigne’s Cat

Together with the world: Balancing the Eath

Evolved Mutations

The artworks by Maen Florin, reminiscent of boneless creatures, depict hybrid marine organisms blending human and sea life forms. These vibrant creatures inhabit a future paradise where plants, animals, and humans coexist equally. In the midst of pandemics, natural destruction, and social upheaval, Maen Florin draws out primitive interests deeply rooted within, creating mutations that evolve into forms more advanced than the present, forging new connections with nature. Coral with four hands, shell-shaped faces, and octopus-human hybrids appear unfamiliar to us who live in the present.

Additionele, abstract and simple forms coupled with bright, vivid colors evoke a fairytale atmosphere. Breaking away from familiar species and ways of life centered around humans, the artist focuses on a world where nature takes center stage, heralding a new way of life. Florin presents a “strange yet ideal paradis” where hybrid creatures live, proposing a new a

ark for all refugees of the Anthropocene.