For the Homo Faber event, Jan Fabre is returning to his native city of Antwerp, where he is showing his art in no fewer than five locations at the same time. The most important of these exhibitions are those in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, KMSKA) and the Antwerp Museum of Contemporary Art (Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, MuHKA).

At the KMSKA, Fabre engages in a dialogue with the museum's collection. The core of his exhibition is made up of new sculptures, installations and drawings. With these materials, Fabre has marked out a route through the 20 rooms of the museum, on which he pays homage to his predecessors, comments on them and confronts them. Fabre has never been shy of such encounters. His oeuvre is full of references to other great men and women in the history of art.

Homo Faber shows Jan Fabre as 'man the maker/doer', a man who makes his actions into art because he feels compelled to do so. All art is made, all making is doing. Works of art, therefore, are also actions. The exhibition shows Fabre's work as part of a creative process that has been unfolding itself for more than thirty years now. To illustrate this, the MuHKA has started from the relatively unknown young Fabre, with several reconstructed installations, 8-mm performance films, documentary tapes of legendary performances, texts, songs, and a large number of photographs. Together, they present a surprising and innovative picture of a versatile artist.

This 'making/doing' aspect is also the subject of the three smaller exhibitions of Homo Faber. The municipal library of Antwerp is hosting an exhibition of theatrical texts and manuscripts, many of which are abundantly annotated and illustrated by Fabre himself. The Rode Zeven art gallery presents a few editions of artworks by Fabre, many of them explorations or studies for larger works. The exhibition in the Rossaert gallery is dedicated to the 'Money Performances' of the late seventies and early eighties.

Starting from May 12th 2006

Koninklijk Museum Voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (KMSKA)
Leopold De Waelplaats, 2000 Antwerp. Until 15 August 2006

Museum Van Hedendaagsse Kunst Antwerpen (MuHKA)
Leuvenstraat 32, 2000 Antwerp. Until 3 September 2006

Stadsbibliotheek (Nottebohmzaal)
Hendrik Conscienceplein 4, 2000 Antwerp. Until 15 August 2006

Rode Zeven,
Sint-Jansplein 7, 2060 Antwerp

Rossaert
Nosestraat 7, 2000 Antwerp