CHANTAL AKERMAN : TOO FAR, TOO CLOSE
CHANTAL AKERMAN / DIETER ROELSTRAETE / MUSEUM VAN HEDENDAAGSE KUNST ANTWERPEN.
The M HKA is holding the very first large-scale retrospective of the Belgian film-maker and artist
Chantal Akerman, who has now lived in Paris for many years. It is also the first time her work
has been shown in Belgium since her exhibition at the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels in 1995.
Akerman is one of the most influential film-makers of her generation and has long been a feminist
icon. She was able to establish this reputation with her early masterpiece Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai
du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. Since the mid-nineties, however, she has also been increasingly
active as an artist, and her film and video installations have been shown at the Venice Biennale,
Documenta 11 and elsewhere. The exhibition at the M HKA will focus mainly on this latter aspect
of her work and will be accompanied by an ambitious monograph
