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Als een boetiek in de Negen Straatjes
Het Parool - Edo Dijksterhuis
In museum collection:
Van Abbemuseum
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Tate Modern, London
Centre Pompidou, Paris
S.M.A.K. Gent
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JOE SCANLAN
Born 1961, Stoutsville, Ohio
Lives and works in New York City
Education
1984 BFA, The Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio
1985 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2001- 2009 Professor of Sculpture at Yale University School of Art
2009 Director and Professor of Visual Arts in the Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University
Solo exhibitions (a selection)
2019 Artisanal Complex, andriesse eyck galerie, Amsterdam
2018 Joe Scanlan: New Tricks, New Schemes, galerie Martin Janda, Vienna
2016 Véritablement (with Donelle Woolford), ARCO Madrid, 35th Anniversary Section, Madrid
Indoor Outposts, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Brüssel
2015 Le Classisme, Villa du Parc, Annemasse
2013 Galerie de Expeditie, The Netherlands
2011 Three works, Wallspace Gallery, New York, USA.
2009 Change of Season, Galerie de Expeditie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Diversification, chez Valentin Gallery, Paris, France.
RED FLAGS, Castillo/Coralles, Paris, France.
Passing through, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium.
2008 Joe Scanlan: Creative Destruction Traveling Salesman Circular Economy", Martin Janda Gallery, Vienna, Austria.
2007 SoLongSolSoLong, IAC-New Museum, Villeurbanne, France.
Passing Through, K21 Kunstammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany.
2005 Massachusetts Wedding Bed, Galerie de Expeditie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Things That Fall, Chez Valentin Gallery, Paris, France
2003 Joe Scanlan - journal #4. Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven The Netherlands
Mieses to pieces, Galerie Martin Janda, Raum Aktueller Kunst, Vienna Austria
Dirty, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp Belgium
Pay Dirt, IKON Gallery, Birmingham (UK)
2002 Do It Yourself - Dead On Arrival - Pay For Your Pleasure, Institut d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne France
2001 Store A. D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY
Frank, Joe & Co, (with Frank Gehry), Kunstmuseum Herford, Germany
2000 Gallery Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp Belgium
Raum Aktueller Kunst Martin Janda, Vienna Austria
1999 Invention, d'Amelio Terras, New York, NY
Product no. 2, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
1998 Les Moules. FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier (France)
Pay For Your Pleasure (reprise), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1997 D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY
Gallery Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp (Belgium)
1996 Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld (Germany)
1995 Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris (France)
Yard Sale, Chicago, IL
1994 Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp (Belgium)
1993 Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne (Germany)
1991 Fairly Recent Work, Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago, IL
Group exhibitions (a selection)
2018 Klassenverhältnisse - Phantoms of Perception, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg
Décor / Avant-poste, curated by Joe Scanlan, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou
Avant-poste, Hab Galerie, Nantes
2016 Three Paths to the Lake, Galerie Martin Janda, Wien
2015 Les Mondes Inversés, BPS22 Musée d'art de la Province du Hainaut, Charleroi
Collection | Sol Lewitt – Cabinet 5, S.M.A.K. Gent
2014 Postscript. Writing After Conceptual Art, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, MI
The SEA – salut d'honneur Jan Hoet, Mu.Zee, Kunstmuseum an Zee, Oostende
I Am Another World, Akademie der Bildende Kunste, Wien
Petals on the Wind, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Brussels
Thingsthatfall, New York Art Book Fair, MoM P.S. 1 Museum, New York
2013 Rock Paper Scissors work on paper, Galerie De Expeditie, Amsterdam
Cold Sun / Soleil froid, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2012 A Battle for Narrative, BonnefantenHedgeHouse, Maastricht
Fremde überall / Foreigners Everywhere, Works from the Pomeranz Collection, Jüdisches Museum Wien
Ändere dich, Situation, Stadtgalerie Schwaz
Parallelwelt Zirkus, Kunsthalle Wien
2011 The Avantgarde: Specters of the Nineties, Marres Maastricht, Centre for Contemporary Culture
TOTEM AND TABOO, quartier21 Wien
The Way it wasn't, Culturgest Porto – Galeria, Porto
Noli Me Tangere, Collection Vanmoerkerke, Oostende
Forever, ProjecteSD, Barcelona
Totem and Taboo, quartier21, Museumsquartier Wien
The Sound of Downloading Makes Me Want to Upload, Galerie Sommer & Kohl, Berlin
Bob & Breakfast, Galerie Nelson, Paris
In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art, De Vleeshal, Middelburg
2010 COLLECTION 10, IAC – Institut d´art contemporain – Frac Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne
Premier Étage – Second Degré, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburg
Mudam Collection, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc-Jean, Luxemburg
The Unreadymade, FormContent, London
The Way It Wasn’t: Celebrating Ten Years of castillo/corrales, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis
2009 GAGARIN, The Artists in their Own Words – The first Decade, S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
About We, Tate Modern, London
Return to Function, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin
Paper Exhibition, Artists Space, New York
Sculptural collection, S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
The Malady of Writing: A project on text and speculative imagination, MACBA, Barcelona
2008 Archaeology of Longing, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris
Double Agent, ICA, London
2007 Who remembers where they are from?, Galerie Martin Janda, Wien
Forma následuje... risk, Futura, Prague
Instantané, Le Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble
Still Life, The 8th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah
Sound Art Limo, AC Institute Projects, New York
Mood Swings, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerpen
Intocable: El ideal de la transparencia, Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid
2003 Convertible. CCC-Université Rabelais de Tours, Tours (France)
2002 No Ghost Just a Shell. Kunsthalle Zürich (Switzerland); Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (The Netherlands); The Institute of Visual Culture, Cambridge (UK); Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Octopus in Situ, Bruges 2002, Bruges (Belgium)
2001 Making the Making. Apex Art, New York, NY
Présence de L'Objet. Grand-Hornu Images, Hornu (Belgium)
The (Ideal) Home. Gimpel & Son, London (UK)
Promises. Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (Canada)
Fiktional und Funktional. Kunsthalle, Kiel (Germany)
2000 Déjà vu. Miami Art 2000, Miami, FL
Worthless (Invaluable). Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Against Design. Institute of Comtemporay Art, Philadelphia, PA; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Wider Bild Gegen Wart. Raum Aktueller Kunst Martin Janda, Vienna (Austria)
C2C. New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Art On Paper 2000. Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro (NC)
Objecthood 00. Hellenic American Union, Athens (Greece)
Dust and Dirt. Witte Zaal, Ghent (Belgium)
1999 Boites. Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (France)
Waste Management. Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario (Canada)
Comfort Zone. Paine Webber Gallery, New York, NY
Stuff. Contemporary Arts Council, TBA Exhibition Space, Chicago, IL
1998 12th Biennial of Sydney, Sydney (Australia)
Poussiere (Dust Memories). Fonds Regionale d'Art Contemporain, Bourgogne (France)
Humble County. d'Amelio Terras, New York, NY
Reality Bites, approaches to Representation in American Sculpture. The Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
1997 Perceptions Nomades / Espaces Urbains. Ateliers d'Artistes, Marseille (France)
Niemansland. Museum Haus Esters and Lange, Krefeld (Germany)
Spaces Between. d'Amelio Terras, New York, NY
1996 Art in Chicago: 1945-1995. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp (Belgium)
1995 Aperto. Le Nouveau Musée, Institute d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne (France)
Head to Toe. Musée des Beaux-Arts André Malraux, Le Havre (France)
Cosmos. Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble (France)
1994 Guys Who Sew. University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
The State of Things. Kölner Kunstverein, Cologne (Germany)
Gaylen Gerber and Joe Scanlan. Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
Keith Cottingham and Joe Scanlan. Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
The Ecstasy of Limitations. Gallery 400, The University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
1993 Oppositions and Sister Squares. Wiener Scession, Vienna (Austria)
Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing? Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris (France)
From the Hand to the Head, The Theoretical Object. Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Locminé (France)
Under Contract. Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
1992 Documenta IX, Kassel (Germany)
I, Myself and Others. Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble (Germany)
Dead Cat Bounce. Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago, IL
Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne (Germany)
1991 The Anonymous Museum, Chicago, IL
Casual Ceremony. White Columns, New York, NY
Comfort. Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Körper und Körper. Grazer Kunstverein, Graz (Austria)
Improvements on the Ordinary? Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
1990 Stuttering. Stux Gallery, New York, NY
Get well soon. Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago, IL
1989 Plus. Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago, IL
1988 The Size of Chicago. Ricky Renier Gallery, Chicago, IL
Detail in the Cottage. Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
1987 Urgent Messages. Chicago Public Library and Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
1986 An Exhibition of Devices. Superior Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
Born 1961, Stoutsville, Ohio
Lives and works in New York City
Education
1984 BFA, The Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio
1985 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2001- 2009 Professor of Sculpture at Yale University School of Art
2009 Director and Professor of Visual Arts in the Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University
Solo exhibitions (a selection)
2019 Artisanal Complex, andriesse eyck galerie, Amsterdam
2018 Joe Scanlan: New Tricks, New Schemes, galerie Martin Janda, Vienna
2016 Véritablement (with Donelle Woolford), ARCO Madrid, 35th Anniversary Section, Madrid
Indoor Outposts, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Brüssel
2015 Le Classisme, Villa du Parc, Annemasse
2013 Galerie de Expeditie, The Netherlands
2011 Three works, Wallspace Gallery, New York, USA.
2009 Change of Season, Galerie de Expeditie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Diversification, chez Valentin Gallery, Paris, France.
RED FLAGS, Castillo/Coralles, Paris, France.
Passing through, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium.
2008 Joe Scanlan: Creative Destruction Traveling Salesman Circular Economy", Martin Janda Gallery, Vienna, Austria.
2007 SoLongSolSoLong, IAC-New Museum, Villeurbanne, France.
Passing Through, K21 Kunstammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany.
2005 Massachusetts Wedding Bed, Galerie de Expeditie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Things That Fall, Chez Valentin Gallery, Paris, France
2003 Joe Scanlan - journal #4. Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven The Netherlands
Mieses to pieces, Galerie Martin Janda, Raum Aktueller Kunst, Vienna Austria
Dirty, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp Belgium
Pay Dirt, IKON Gallery, Birmingham (UK)
2002 Do It Yourself - Dead On Arrival - Pay For Your Pleasure, Institut d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne France
2001 Store A. D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY
Frank, Joe & Co, (with Frank Gehry), Kunstmuseum Herford, Germany
2000 Gallery Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp Belgium
Raum Aktueller Kunst Martin Janda, Vienna Austria
1999 Invention, d'Amelio Terras, New York, NY
Product no. 2, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
1998 Les Moules. FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier (France)
Pay For Your Pleasure (reprise), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1997 D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY
Gallery Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp (Belgium)
1996 Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld (Germany)
1995 Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris (France)
Yard Sale, Chicago, IL
1994 Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp (Belgium)
1993 Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne (Germany)
1991 Fairly Recent Work, Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago, IL
Group exhibitions (a selection)
2018 Klassenverhältnisse - Phantoms of Perception, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg
Décor / Avant-poste, curated by Joe Scanlan, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou
Avant-poste, Hab Galerie, Nantes
2016 Three Paths to the Lake, Galerie Martin Janda, Wien
2015 Les Mondes Inversés, BPS22 Musée d'art de la Province du Hainaut, Charleroi
Collection | Sol Lewitt – Cabinet 5, S.M.A.K. Gent
2014 Postscript. Writing After Conceptual Art, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, MI
The SEA – salut d'honneur Jan Hoet, Mu.Zee, Kunstmuseum an Zee, Oostende
I Am Another World, Akademie der Bildende Kunste, Wien
Petals on the Wind, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Brussels
Thingsthatfall, New York Art Book Fair, MoM P.S. 1 Museum, New York
2013 Rock Paper Scissors work on paper, Galerie De Expeditie, Amsterdam
Cold Sun / Soleil froid, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2012 A Battle for Narrative, BonnefantenHedgeHouse, Maastricht
Fremde überall / Foreigners Everywhere, Works from the Pomeranz Collection, Jüdisches Museum Wien
Ändere dich, Situation, Stadtgalerie Schwaz
Parallelwelt Zirkus, Kunsthalle Wien
2011 The Avantgarde: Specters of the Nineties, Marres Maastricht, Centre for Contemporary Culture
TOTEM AND TABOO, quartier21 Wien
The Way it wasn't, Culturgest Porto – Galeria, Porto
Noli Me Tangere, Collection Vanmoerkerke, Oostende
Forever, ProjecteSD, Barcelona
Totem and Taboo, quartier21, Museumsquartier Wien
The Sound of Downloading Makes Me Want to Upload, Galerie Sommer & Kohl, Berlin
Bob & Breakfast, Galerie Nelson, Paris
In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art, De Vleeshal, Middelburg
2010 COLLECTION 10, IAC – Institut d´art contemporain – Frac Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne
Premier Étage – Second Degré, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburg
Mudam Collection, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc-Jean, Luxemburg
The Unreadymade, FormContent, London
The Way It Wasn’t: Celebrating Ten Years of castillo/corrales, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis
2009 GAGARIN, The Artists in their Own Words – The first Decade, S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
About We, Tate Modern, London
Return to Function, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin
Paper Exhibition, Artists Space, New York
Sculptural collection, S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
The Malady of Writing: A project on text and speculative imagination, MACBA, Barcelona
2008 Archaeology of Longing, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris
Double Agent, ICA, London
2007 Who remembers where they are from?, Galerie Martin Janda, Wien
Forma následuje... risk, Futura, Prague
Instantané, Le Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble
Still Life, The 8th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah
Sound Art Limo, AC Institute Projects, New York
Mood Swings, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerpen
Intocable: El ideal de la transparencia, Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid
2003 Convertible. CCC-Université Rabelais de Tours, Tours (France)
2002 No Ghost Just a Shell. Kunsthalle Zürich (Switzerland); Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (The Netherlands); The Institute of Visual Culture, Cambridge (UK); Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Octopus in Situ, Bruges 2002, Bruges (Belgium)
2001 Making the Making. Apex Art, New York, NY
Présence de L'Objet. Grand-Hornu Images, Hornu (Belgium)
The (Ideal) Home. Gimpel & Son, London (UK)
Promises. Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (Canada)
Fiktional und Funktional. Kunsthalle, Kiel (Germany)
2000 Déjà vu. Miami Art 2000, Miami, FL
Worthless (Invaluable). Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Against Design. Institute of Comtemporay Art, Philadelphia, PA; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Wider Bild Gegen Wart. Raum Aktueller Kunst Martin Janda, Vienna (Austria)
C2C. New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Art On Paper 2000. Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro (NC)
Objecthood 00. Hellenic American Union, Athens (Greece)
Dust and Dirt. Witte Zaal, Ghent (Belgium)
1999 Boites. Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (France)
Waste Management. Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario (Canada)
Comfort Zone. Paine Webber Gallery, New York, NY
Stuff. Contemporary Arts Council, TBA Exhibition Space, Chicago, IL
1998 12th Biennial of Sydney, Sydney (Australia)
Poussiere (Dust Memories). Fonds Regionale d'Art Contemporain, Bourgogne (France)
Humble County. d'Amelio Terras, New York, NY
Reality Bites, approaches to Representation in American Sculpture. The Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
1997 Perceptions Nomades / Espaces Urbains. Ateliers d'Artistes, Marseille (France)
Niemansland. Museum Haus Esters and Lange, Krefeld (Germany)
Spaces Between. d'Amelio Terras, New York, NY
1996 Art in Chicago: 1945-1995. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp (Belgium)
1995 Aperto. Le Nouveau Musée, Institute d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne (France)
Head to Toe. Musée des Beaux-Arts André Malraux, Le Havre (France)
Cosmos. Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble (France)
1994 Guys Who Sew. University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
The State of Things. Kölner Kunstverein, Cologne (Germany)
Gaylen Gerber and Joe Scanlan. Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
Keith Cottingham and Joe Scanlan. Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
The Ecstasy of Limitations. Gallery 400, The University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
1993 Oppositions and Sister Squares. Wiener Scession, Vienna (Austria)
Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing? Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris (France)
From the Hand to the Head, The Theoretical Object. Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Locminé (France)
Under Contract. Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
1992 Documenta IX, Kassel (Germany)
I, Myself and Others. Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble (Germany)
Dead Cat Bounce. Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago, IL
Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne (Germany)
1991 The Anonymous Museum, Chicago, IL
Casual Ceremony. White Columns, New York, NY
Comfort. Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Körper und Körper. Grazer Kunstverein, Graz (Austria)
Improvements on the Ordinary? Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
1990 Stuttering. Stux Gallery, New York, NY
Get well soon. Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago, IL
1989 Plus. Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago, IL
1988 The Size of Chicago. Ricky Renier Gallery, Chicago, IL
Detail in the Cottage. Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
1987 Urgent Messages. Chicago Public Library and Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
1986 An Exhibition of Devices. Superior Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
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