Collection Pavilion

In this building, you’ll find various masterpieces, depot sculptures and the museum library.

The building

Stéphane Beel’s closed depot building was converted into a public space that strengthens the relationship between art, architecture and nature.

The depot collections

Middelheim Museum has collected many works that are not suited to or are less suitable for presentation in the park and therefore remain largely hidden.

Work of art in focus

Twice a year, Middelheim Museum focuses on a different work from the collection pavilion, illuminating it more fully and exploring it from all sides.

Audio walk

#congoville

Listen to Bitshilualua Kabeya’s interview with Sandrine Colard, the curator of Congoville, while you walk through the exhibition. Kabeya, a student at an Antwerp university college, starts from her own perspective to discuss the exhibition’s concept, the invited artists and the relevance of ‘Congoville’ during this interview.

Maurice Mbikayi

Maurice Mbikayi was born in 1974 in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, and currently lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa.

Pascale Marthine Tayou

Pascale Marthine Tayou was born in Cameroon in 1966 and lives and works in Ghent, Belgium, and Yaounde, Cameroon.

KinAct Collective

Founded in 2015 in Kinshasa by Eddy Ekete and Aude Bertrand, KinAct is an international festival and artist collective that collaborates with varying performers.

Congoville Talks

#congoville

In the run-up to the exhibition, we talked to some interesting guests. They all tell about the colonial traces, which are often hidden in plain sight and still affect our society today.

Ângela Ferreira

Ângela Ferreira was born in Maputo (Mozambique) in 1958, settled in Cape Town (South Africa) in 1975, moved to Lisbon (Portugal) in the early 1990s and now commutes between Cape Town and Lisbon.