Marcel Broodthaers ~ Soleil Politique

• MuKHA, 04.10.2019-19.01.2020

• The exhibition Soleil Politique, organised by the M HKA, was the first retrospective of the Belgian key artist Marcel Broodthaers in his own country for a decade. 

• In recent years, Broodthaers' work has been on display in top museums as part of a travelling exhibition, organised by the MoMA and the Museo Reina Sofía. 

• The M HKA however, consciously choose to present this body of work as a project in its own right, just as it did before with artists Joseph Beuys and James Lee Byars. 

• Soleil Politique focusses on Marcel Broodthaers from an Antwerp perspective, linked to Wide White Space Gallery. The exhibition aimed to provide a comprehensive overview of the breadth of themes, media and presentation strategies Broodthaers engaged with. 

• It presented, for the first time ever in our country, his final and grandiose work Decor: A conquest by Marcel Broodthaers (1975), a more than generous loan from the V – A – C Foundation in Moscow. 

• At the same time, the exhibition presented rarely exhibited works and documents that were discovered during the preliminary research.