CV
1964 Born in ’s-Hertogenbosch
Lives and works in Tamil Nadu, India and ’s-Hertogenbosch the Netherlands
Education
1995 Graduated Ateliers Arnhem, College of Higher Education
of the Arts, Arnhem
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Idaho I do Love!, Ming Studios, Boise, Idaho, USA
2018 The Course of Events, Collectie De Groen, Arnhem, Netherlands
2017 20 Horsemen, P339 Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2016 20 Horsemen, Pulse 6, Studio Omstand, Arnhem, NL
2015 20 Horsemen, Bakery, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Club Solo, Breda, NL
2011 Zand/Sand, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, NL
2010 Art Amsterdam, Annet Gelink Gallery, NL
2006 56 Beaver Street, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2003 Journal #2, van Abbemuseum Eindhoven NL
2002 Forest Time, The Bakery, Annet Gelink Gallery
Amsterdam NL
She Did It Again, Le Studio, Yvon Lambert Galerie, Paris, FR
2001 Team Gallery, New York USA
Irvine Fine Arts Centre, Irvine, CA
2000 Project Space, Museum het Valkhof, Nijmegen NL
1999 Cokkie Snoei Galerie, Rotterdam NL
1998 Love, De Fabriek, Eindhoven NL
Blind Date, W139, Amsterdam NL (With Slater Bradley)
1997 Hole in One, W139 Amsterdam, NL
Hole in One (second attempt), Galerie Nei Liicht, Dudelange, LU
Duo Exhibitions
2001 Apexart, New York USA (with Clifford Lecuyer, under the auspices of the SKOR foundation, Netherlands)
1998 W139, Amsterdam NL (with Slater Bradley)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015 Back to the Future, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2015 Portrait selected, DWDD pop-up @ Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam, NL
2013 In Delta Flux RURU Gallery Jakarta, Indonesia
2012 In Search of, Academie Minerva, Groningen, NL
2011 Zo Hollands, De Hallen, Haarlem, NL
Bormida Progetto, Locali ex Filanda, Monesiglio, IT
2010 The house of my friends, Cidav Centro de Arte, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
On Demand, Tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, NL
2008 Gravity Art, TELIC Arts Exchange, Los Angeles, U.S.A
Beyond Kiosk, ICA Philadelphia, Bonner kunstverein, Centre d’art Contemporain Genève (curated by Christoph
Keller)
33T & 45T Vinyl and Sleeves by Artists, Shashin Books, Amsterdam, NL
2007 Time Out, W139, Amsterdam, NL
2005 The Gravity in art, Stichting de Appel, Amsterdam, NL
Nederland Niet Nederland, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven NL
2004 Art Hypermarkets, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena IT
2003 Defying Gravity, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh USA
Galerie ron Mandos, Rotterdam NL
Public Spaces, Keukenhof, Lisse NL (under the auspices of the SKOR Foundation, Netherlands)
Zucht, De Paraplufabriek, Nijmegen NL
2002 Superlounge, Gale Gates, Brooklyn NY (curated by Andrea Salerno and Mari Spirito)
Videodrome II, New Museum of Contemporary Art,/Zentih Media Lounge New York USA (curated by Anne Ellegood)
Entre Amis/Among Friends, Platform, Dunkerque F
Art Forum Berlin, (under the auspices of Annet Gelink Gallery Amsterdam)
Boring Boring Boring, Galerie Ron Mandos, Rotterdam NL
2001 The People’s Art, Witte deWith, Centre of Contemporary Art Rotterdam NL (curated by Bartomeu Mari)
The People’s Art, Public Spaces Porto
The Armory, New York USA (with Madeleine Berhemer, under the auspices of Cokkie Snoei Gallery rotterdam)
2000 Parel, Amsterdam
Missing, Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich CH
Dutch Vieuws, ARCO, Madrid (under the auspices of Cokkie Snoei Gallery Rotterdam)
Zien is Geloven, Public Spaces, Gouda NL
1999 Ideated Sensation, Galerie Singel 74, Amsterdam NL
Extra et Ordinaire, LePrintemps de Cahors, Cahors F
From A to B and Back, Arti et Emicitae, Amsterdam NL
Field@ Glassbox, Glassbox Paris F
Liste 99, Basel (under the ausspices Cokkie Snoei Gallery Rotterdam)
From B to A and Further, Art Max, Braunschweig D
Long Cold winter in an Endless Nameless, Studio 870, Los Angeles USA
1998 What Ever Happens, Archipel, Apeldoorn NL
Metis Galerie, Amsterdam
Slipstream, De Paraplufabriek Nijmegen NL
Gramercy Art Fair, Cokkie Snoei/Torch New York
Time Fiction, Biennale Gelderland, Van Reekum Museum Apeldoorn NL
De Tres Courtes Espaces de Temps, Centre National de la Photgraphie, Paris F
1997 Booster up Dutch Courage, Post, Los Angeles
Forever Young, Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam NL
Fast Forward, Fonds BKVB,, Amsterdam NL
Voor Mijn Moeder, Public Spacec, Leiden NL
1996 Coop, Casco, Utrecht NL
1995 Installment, Hooghuis, Arnhem NL
Performances
1996 Overwinteren op Elba, Elba, Nijmegen NL
Performing on the Edge, Tejatro Popular, Rotterdam NL
Everyone is a Winner, De Fabriek, Eindhoven NL
1995 A Night at the Show, Field, Zurich CH
Bazaar 139, W139, Amsterdam NL
Film Screenings
2013 Dutch Absurdism, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, USA
2012 Ned 2 VPRO, clip Düffels Möll and Backward in de film C.K van Barbara Visser 1 mart 2012
2010 VIDEOEX, International Experimentalfilm & Videofestival Zurich, CH
2006 Re:visie – Pick up the pieces, Centraal Museum Utrecht, NL
2004 33rd International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL
2003 Lux, Nijmegen, NL
Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, NL
Fluxus and After, Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven (curated by Nelly Voorhuis), NL
2002 Haags Filmhuis, Den Haag, NL
DE Balie, Amsterdam, NL
2000 Haags Filmhuis, Den Haag, NL
Collective Unconcious, New York USA
Schiller Theater, Utrecht, NL
Kunstkanaal, Amsterdam, NL
Korzo Theater, Den Haag, NL
Theater de Kolk, Assen, NL
1999 Ziegler, Groningen, NL
Faktor 44, Antwerpen BE
Exit, Chisenhalle Gallery, London UK
De Unie, Rotterdam, NL
KunstKanaal, Amsterdam, NL
1998 De Melkfabriek, ’s-Hertogenbosch, NL
Montevideo, Amsterdam, NL
Scala, Utrecht, NL
’t Hoogt, Utrecht, NL
Kapel van het Paard, Den Haag, NL
Field, Zurich, CH
1997 Paradiso, Amsterdam, NL
De Unie, Rotterdam, NL
Kapel van het Paard, Den Haag, NL
Theater Kikker, Utrecht, NL
NPS, NED3, Hilversum, NL
Theater de Kolk, Assen, NL
Haags Filmhuis, Den Haag, NL
Filmography
2014 20 Horsemen, Super 16 1:23 loop, sound colour, Lesotho
2012 Kolam, Super , mute B/W 16'28, India
2011 Zand, 2x 16mm, mute colour 3’46 en 4’40 2x Super 16mm, mute colour
5’05 en 3’57, Netherlands, Dubai, India and South Korea
2006 Battery Park City, 2x 16mm, sound colour 4’16 en 2’10, USA
Los Cojones del Diablo, super 8 transfer to 16mm, mute b/w 3’35’, Spain
2001 She did it again, 16mm, mute colour 1mn loop, USA
2000 Olie, 16mm, sound colour 20 mn, NL
1998 Isostar, 16mm, mute colour 3’30’, NL
Love, 16mm, mute colour 5 mn, NL
Burning Up, 16mm, mute colour 5 mn, NL
1997 Düffels Möll, 16mm, mute colour 5 mn, NL
Luxembourg, 16mm, sound colour 4 mn, Luxembourg
Backward, 16mm, sound colour 5 mn, NL
Artists Publications / Monographs
2006 56 Beaver St, artist book by Jonmarc Edwards and Erik Wesselo, Episode
Publishers, Rotterdam, NL
2002 Forest Time, artist’s book by Will Oldham and Erik Wesselo, Artimo
Publishers, Amsterdam, NL
Selected bibliography
2003 Huston Pascal, Defying Gravity, Contemporary Art and Flight
Lucette ter Borg, Kunstenaars heroveren het landschap, Vrij Nederland
Angelique Spaninks, Aardse Dromen, Tube Light#29
Philip van den Bossche, interview in journal#2 Van Abbemuseum
2002 Dazed&Confused #87, If you go down the woods today, Eyespy,
Gerrit van den Hoven, Foto’s en muziek vinden elkaar, Brabants Dagblad
Anne van Driel, Melancholie kleurt Oostzee-eiland, de Volkskrant
2001 Ned Higgins, Man in a box, Artnet Magazine
Kim Levin, Voice Choice,
Christopher Bollen, Review, Time Out New York
Ken Johnson, Review, the New York Times
Salerno Spirit Constructions, Smock magazine issue #3
Derek Eller, Duffels Mol, Brochure Apexart
Carel Blotkamp/Bartomeu Mari, The People’s Art
2000 Theo Tegelaers, Olie een film van Erik Wesselo, Museumnieuws Het Valkhof
Cokkie Snoei, Erik Wesselo, Burning up, 1998, 16mm film, Basta jaarboek van hedendaagse kunst in Nederland.
1999 Anne van Driel, David Lynch in Parijs, de Volkskrant
Sacha Bronwasser, Heilig vuur in brandend haar, de Volkskrant
Adriaan van der Have&Rafael von Uslar, Evil Camouflage Chapter II; The Body,
Zingmagazine
Francois Piron, Extra et Ordinaire, Le Printemps de Cahors’99/Actes Sud (catalogue)
1998 Yann Beauvais, De tres courtsespaces de temp, Biennale de L’image Paris’98/Actes Sud (catalogue)
Sacha Bronwasser, Kunst is als een passerend schip, de Volkskrant
Sandra Smallenburg, Biënnale Gelderland in het tijdperk van globalisering, NRC Handelsblad
Erik Hagoort, Wat een blind-date niet leuk maakt, de Volkskrant
Ineke Schwartz, Vergeefs wachten op een pak verse melk, De Volkskrant
Inge Pollet, Erik Wesselo, de man in het ijsberenpak, De kunsten uitgave van Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Arnhem
Ineke Schwartz, Op gabberhouse swingend skelet, de Volkskrant
1997 Coop, Heather Allen, Stefano Pasquini, Erik Wesselo, In Casco Projects
Bianca Stigter, Nederlands Film Festival, NRC Handelsblad
Michael Darling, Art: Conceptual Country: Booster up Dutch Courage, LA Weekly
Willem Sanders, Antonin Artaud: “I am he that for sheer existence sake, must lash out against his own naturalness,
Erik Wesselo in Booster up Dutch Courage
Miklos Beyer, The easy way in...and the easy way out..., W.006 Hole in One
Lucette ter Borg, W139 vastgeklonken aan molenwiek, de Volkskrant
Cathelijne de Muijnck, Lonesome cowboy Erik Wesselo, Metropolis M #1