Chambres d'amis - Jan Hoet 1986

Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, but hosted in 58 private houses in Ghent .

“Approximately fifty inhabitants of Ghent have put their homes, entirely or partly, at the disposal of the same number of artists. The artists’ self-imposed task is to transform these spaces –-within the limits imposed by the owners or occupiers-– into something which can be identified as ‘art’. (...)"

Artists : Carla Accardi, Christian Boltanski, Raf Buedts, Daniel Buren, Gilberto Zorio, Michael Buthe, Jacques Charlier, Nicola de Maria, Luciano Fabro, Günther Förg, Jef Geys, Dan Graham, Milan Grygar, François Hers, Kazuo Katase, Niek Kemps, Joseph Kosuth, Jannis Kounellis, Bertrand Lavier, Sol Lewitt, Danny Matthys, Gerhard Merz, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Helmut Middendorf, Juan Muñoz, Hidetoshi Nagasawa, Bruce Nauman, Maria Nordman, Oswald Oberhuber, Heike Pallanca, Panamarenko etc... 

NL ENG FR IT GER - 367 pp -