The Herbert Collection centres on international avant-garde art created between 1968 and 1989. These two dates anchor the framework in which the Collection situates itself ideologically and represent two historical turning points : the 1968 student-led revolts with their accompanying belief in a makeable, utopian world, and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the disillusionment with such ideas.

After previous exhibitions in Eindhoven (1984), Luxemburg (2000), Barcelona and Graz (both in 2006), the Collection will be on display at the Herbert Foundation in Ghent from June 20 to October 26, 2013.

Titled As if it Could, ouverture, this first exhibition can be seen as the fourth act in the development of the Collection. The title points to the public role the Collection has taken up with the establishment of the Foundation after four decades of private collecting.

Curated by Annick and Anton Herbert, the exhibition features a selection of some 50 works and 250 documents by Art & Language, John Baldessari, Marcel Broodthaers, Stanley Brouwn, Günter Brus, Daniel Buren, Hanne Darboven, Jan Dibbets, Luciano Fabro, Gilbert & George, Donald Judd, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Bruce Nauman, A.R. Penck, Richard Prince, Gerhard Richter, Thomas Schütte, Jan Vercruysse, Didier Vermeiren and Franz West.

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