De Sokkel

Since 2011, Antwerp’s Central Park

The Klein Antwerpen community association and the Middelheim Museum have added a cultural touch to Antwerp’s central park with this project since 2011.

Antwerp’s Central Park is a green artery in the city, which is very popular with the city’s residents. There is an empty plinth in the park. Twice a year, the Klein Antwerpen community association and the Middelheim Museum invite a(n inter)national artist to create an installation for this plinth.

These interventions have fuelled discussions about the role of art in public spaces. At the same time, they also draw positive attention to this historically valuable city park from the (neighbourhood) residents.

Location

Antwerp’s Central Park: on the side of Quinten Matsyslei, near the play area and skate park.

Exhibition

De Sokkel #10: Yan Tomaszewski

10 October 2015 until 10 April 2016

Creating an ephemeral monument with local specialties, such as fashion or chocolate, Yan Tomaszewski turns the Stadspark’s plinth in Antwerp into a sacrificial altar.

Exhibition

DE SOKKEL #9: Guillaume Bijl

17 May until 13 September 2015

Guillaume Bijl corrupts reality for this edition of De Sokkel

Exhibition

DE SOKKEL #8: Nicholas J. Hoffman

5 October 2014 until 17 April 2015

Nicholas J. Hoffman was selected during an international open call, which was launched by the Middelheim Museum and AIR Antwerp. He created a new work for De Sokkel during a four-month residency.

Exhibition

DE SOKKEL #7: Jef Geys

1 May until 21 September 2014

Jef Geys, one of the Belgium’s most prominent and prolific artists, has created an interactive installation in Antwerp’s Central Park for this edition of De Sokkel. The plinth is transformed into an advertising column.

Exhibition

DE SOKKEL #6: Folkert de Jong

6 October 2013 until 20 April 2014

Folkert de Jong also created a work for De Sokkel in Antwerp’s City Park – in the margin of his exhibition.

Exhibition

DE SOKKEL #5: Ilaria Lupo - Private colloquies on a public sculpture

12 May until 22 September 2013

As of 12 May, the Italian artist Ilaria Lupo will exhibit a new sculpture on the nineteenth-century plinth in Antwerp’s Central park.

Exhibition

DE SOKKEL #4: André Romão - Notes on the history of violence

7 October 2012 until 21 April 2013

The Klein Antwerpen community association and the Middelheim Museum join forces twice a year for an experimental project outside the museum.

Exhibition

DE SOKKEL #3: Study for different perspective

2012

The Klein Antwerp community association and the Middelheim Museum join forces to add a cultural dimension to an empty plinth in the park.

Exhibition

DE SOKKEL #2: Art intervention in an Antwerp park

2 October 2011 t/m 29 April 2012

As of this year, the Klein Antwerpen community association and MIDDELHEIMPRODUCTIE will join forces to add a cultural dimension to an empty plinth in the park.

Exhibition

DE SOKKEL #1

8 May until 11 September 2011

The Klein Antwerp community association and Middelheimproductie have joined forces to add a cultural dimension to the city park.

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