S.M.A.K. holds an exhibition of its collection from June 28 to September 14 2003. The presentation consists out of two parts. In the museum itself Jan Hoet comp... » 

S.M.A.K. holds an exhibition of its collection from June 28 to September 14 2003. The presentation consists out of two parts. In the museum itself Jan Hoet compiles a retrospective exhibition on postwar Belgian art. At the same time at several locations in Ghent attention is focused on the work of foreign artists in the collection. In the S.M.A.K. 50 years of Belgian art During the summer the entire museum will be cleared for an exhibition of Belgian works from the collection. Work will be shown of a total of 100 artists who together form a sample of artistic visions and a substantial part of Belgian art history. The museum offers a reflection of itself with an overview of the Belgian art it has acquired over the years up to the present day. Consequently this exhibition not only presents us with a picture of Belgian art over the last 50 years but also of the museum and its collection of the vision and choices of its director Jan Hoet and of the members of the Vereniging Friends of the Museum who paved the way for the start of the Museum of Contemporary Art in 1975. Belgians in the Museum foreigners in the city There is no past without a present «