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WESLEY MEURIS
1977, Lier (BE). Lives and works in Antwerp (BE)
EDUCATION & RESIDENCY
-PhD ‘Exhibiting Knowledge’, University Antwerp & Sint Lucas Antwerp (2010-2017)
-Coordination of production studio Master after Master. Sint Lucas School of Arts, Antwerp. (2009-…)
-Haus der Architektur, Graz, Austria 01.03.2006 – 31.06.2006
-HISK, Antwerp (Higher institute for Fine Arts) 2004-2006
-Studio in Düsseldorf, Germany 01.02.2001 – 31.08.2001
-Sint-Lukas, University College, Brussels, Belgium Discipline: Sculpture department, Master in Fine Arts from 1995 till 1999
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
SMAK (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst), Ghent (BE)
MUDAM Luxembourg (LU)
MuZee (Kunstmuseum aan Zee), Ostende(BE)
Art collection University Antwerp (Kunst op de Campus)
ING Collection, Brussels (BE)
Dexia Collection, Brussels (BE)
Collection Flanders Community, Brussels (BE)
Collection Provincie Antwerp (BE)
Collection Communidad de MADRID (ES)
FRAC Haute-Normandie (FR)
FRAC Poitou-Charentes (FR)
FCAC (Fonds Cantonal d’art Contemporain), Geneva (CH)
MAC's Grand Hornu (BE)
FNAC - CNAP - Fonds National d'art Contemporain, Paris (FR)
Fondation Salomon, Annecy, (FR)
PUBLICATIONS
- Wesley Meuris – Zoological Classification – 2006
published by Wesley Meuris & Annie Gentils Gallery
- Wesley Meuris – Artificially Deconstructed – 2007
published by Wesley Meuris & Annie Gentils Gallery
- Wesley Meuris – C.C.C.A.I. - 2010
published by Galerie Art & Essai & Annie Gentils Gallery
- Wesley Meuris – Foundation for Exhibiting Art and Knowledge – 2012
Stad Brugge & Casino Luxembourg forum d’art Contemporain
- Wesley Meuris – Exhibition Types - 2017
Published by Wesley Meuris & Stockmans
- Wesley Meuris – The public Art Center – 2018
Published by Societies
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 - 2021 Verticality, Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp
2020 A l’Enseigne, Galerie Poggi, Paris (Fr)
2018 UrbanModeL_index, Recyclart, Brussels (BE)
2018 The Public Art Center – Wesley Meuris, Centre Pompidou, Paris (Fr)
2017 kunstINgang #9, CC Merksem (BE)
2017 fragments, Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2017 Modèles d’exposition, Mac’s, Grand-Hornu (BE)
2017 Scenes of Engagements, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Amilly (FR)
2016 The Agency, Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris (FR)
2016 Museum of the Futures, Comfort Moderne, Poitiers (FR)
2016 Side, Mu.ZEE, Ostend (BE)
2015 Attached, Salon Blanc, Ostend (BE)
2015 Fiac Officielle, Annie Gentils Gallery, Paris (Fr)
2015 The Office, Jeudi, Geneva (CH)
2015 notes, Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2014 Wesley Meuris, Club Solo, Breda (NL)
2014 Sightseeing, Art Brussels (BE)
2014 Expansion, LaBF15, Lyon (FR)
2013 Sightseeing, Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris (FR)
2012 Collection Rooms – Constants and Variables, Annie Gentils Gallery
2012 R-05.Q-IP.0001, Casino Luxembourg forum d’art Contemporain, Luxembourg (L)
2012 Disclosure, Mediaruimte, Brussels (BE)
2010 Research Building, CC Knokke-Heist (BE)
2009 C.C.C.A.I., Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2009 Sculptural intervention, Lannoo 100, BOZAR, Brussels (BE)
2009 The World’s most Important Artists, Galerie Art & Essai, University Rennes (FR)
2008 We believe in our idea that an exhibition could be fun for everyone, Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2007 Artificially Deconstructed, De Bond, Brugge (BE)
2006 Cage for Pelodiscus sinensis, Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2006 Cage for Australian night animals, Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (NL)
2005 Cage for Dendrolagus dorianus, Kunstnu, SMAK, Ghent (BE)
2005 17 1-person cabins, Kulak, University Campus Kortrijk (BE)
2005 ARCO’05/project Rooms, Annie Gentils Gallery, Madrid, (ES)
2003 Wesley Meuris, Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2002 Wesley Meuris, Night cages, STUK, kunstencentrum, Leuven (BE)
2002 Free Space 02, NICC, Antwerp (BE)
2001 Merkwürdige Dinge geschehen, Atelier am Eck, Düsseldorf,(DE)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 The Beginning of the 21st century, Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2019-2020 noWHere, From the Collectio, SMAK, Gent (BE)
2018 Triennial Liquid City, Bruges (BE)
2018 Mystic Properties, HISK, Art Brussels (BE)
2018 Résonance, Frac Normandie Rouen (FR)
2018 Museé pour Cible, Cabinet d’amateurs#13, Mac’s, Grand-Hornu (BE)
2018 Drawing by number, Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris (Fr)
2017 Ecce Homo, Marion de Cannière Antwerp (BE)
2017 Little Hisk, LLS387, Antwerp (BE)
2017 The Absent Museum, WIELS, Brussels (BE)
2016 Reflector, Plus One Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2016 Investigations into the Uncanny, Willem II Fabriek, Den Bosch (NL)
2016 The Animal Mirror, ISCP, Brooklyn, New York (USA)
2016 Les Explorateurs, Frac Normandie Rouen, Parc de Clères (FR)
2016 Around the Corner, CC Heist op den Berg (BE)
2016 Connected, De Centrale, Brussels (BE)
2016 The Promise of Total Automation, Kunsthalle, Wien (A)
2015 (On)voltooid Verleden Tijd, Library University Leuven (BE)
2015 Vormidable, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Den Haag (NL)
2015 Museum of Unconditional Surrender, TENT, Rotterdam (NL)
2015 The Written City – Politics and the production of space, City Halles Bruges (BE)
2015 No Walls, Fenixloods, Rotterdam (NL)
2015 Futurs Composés, Fondation Hippocrène, Paris (FR)
2014 Another Dream -Another Sense – Another Mind, University Leuven (BE)
2014 Histerical Materialism, Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris (FR)
2014 Van de Sokkel, CC Ekeren (BE)
2014 Museum to Scale, Kunsthal Rotterdam (NL)
2014 Fieldworks – Animal Habits in Contemporary Art, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork (IRE)
2014 Museum to Scale, Baker Museum, Naples Florida (USA)
2013 Grenzen/Loos, Emergent, Veurne (BE)
2013 Museum to Scale, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Brussels (BE)
2013 La Tyrannie des Objets, Galerie des Galeries, Paris (FR)
2013 What Matters, Psychiatric Hospital, Duffel (BE)
2013 The Mind of the Artist, Galerie Ronny Van de Velde, Knokke (BE)
2013 Les Nouvelles Folies Françaises, Domain Saint-Germain-en-Lay, Paris
2013 Route N16 – Public Shelters for Private Experience, Mechelen, (BE)
2013 Rêves d’architecture, L’espace de l’art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux, (FR)
2013 Dreaming of the South, Gallery Marion de Cannière, Antwerp (BE)
2013 How High the Moon, Gallery Jérôme Poggi, Paris (FR)
2012 Unexpressive, De Ketelfactory, Schiedam (NL)
2012 Façades, Be-part, Waregem (BE)
2012 Between Memory and representation, De Bond, Brugge (BE)
2011 Tender Buttons, University Ghent (BE)
2010 Crossover, Royal Academy, Brussels (BE)
2010 The power of drawing, Geukens & Devil Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2010 Horizon / Exhibition Models, De Bond, Brugge (BE)
2010 ABC, Art Belge Contemporain, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing (FR)
2010 Ceusta 010, In-Situ, Tielt (BE)
2010 Coup de Ville, City Project, Sint Niklaas (BE)
2010 Silent Passage, Psychiatric Hospital, Duffel (BE)
2010 Sun Light, City project, Nieuwpoort (BE)
2010 New Monuments, Middelheim Sculpture Park, Antwerp (BE)
2010 Methamorphosis III’, San Gimignano (IT)
2010 Out of control, MAMAC, Liege (BE)
2010 Animism, M HKA, Antwerp (BE)
2009 Fiac, Annie Gentils Gallery - Cour Carré du Louvre, Paris (FR)
2008 Een Repliek…, University Ghent (BE)
2008 Rodenbach Award, HISK, Ghent (BE)
2008 Amuzes-vous, Gallery Koal, Berlin (DE.)
2008 Art-itectuur, Maagdendalekapel, Oudenaarde (BE)
2008 Scope Artfair, Special projects, Annie Gentils Gallery, Basel (CH)
2008 ARTchitectuur, Monumental, Bornem (BE)
2007 Metamorfose, Museum Abello, Mollet del Vallès (ES)
2007 Status Questionis, Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2007 Strong Art-Research, Existentie, Ghent (BE)
2007 House Trip, Art-Forum, Annie Gentils Gallery, Berlin (DE)
2007 Metamorfose, L.A.C., Sigean (FR)
2007 European Forum for emerging creation, Casino Luxembourg (LU)
2007 Kunst & Wunderkammern, CC Knokke-Heist (BE)
2007 Silent Revolutions, Kruidtuin Leuven (BE)
2007 Art Cologne, New Talents, Annie Gentils Gallery,Köln (DE)
2007 Home is where the heart is, Voorkamer, Lier (BE)
2007 Hedendaags kunstproject, Actionfield, Nederoverheembeek (BE)
2007 Artefact-festival, STUK, Leuven (BE)
2006 Provinciale Prijs Beeldende Kunst, Antwerp (BE)
2006 Ar tCologne, Open Space, Annie Gentils Gallery, Köln (DE)
2006 Traurig sicher, im Training, Graz, (AT)
2006 Freestate, Oostende (BE)
2006 Art Brussels, Annie Gentils Gallery (BE)
2005 The collection, S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE)
2005 “And Lucy liked it...”, HISK, Antwerp (BE)
2005 Lineart, Annie Gentils Gallery - Cage for Pelodiscus sinensis”, Lineart, Young Ones Award, Ghent (BE)
2005 ArtCologne, Annie Gentils Gallery, Köln, (DE)
2005 Fiësta, Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2005 Dan Graham and Sculptures, ING-Bank, Brussels (BE).
2005 Open studio’s, HISK Antwerp (BE)
2004 Ename actueel, 9minuten 74 seconden, cur.Vanbellingen, Ename (BE)
2004 Damn’art`04, Hedendaagse kunst in Damme (BE)
2004 Eclips, curator: Stef Vanbellingen, Willebroek (BE)
2004 De vierkantswortel van het geheugen, cur.Filip Luyckx, Belgica, Dendermonde (BE)
2004 Prix Mediatine 2004, Médiatine, Woluwe, Brussels (BE)
2003 Verboden op het werk te komen,Brakke Grond/W139, Amsterdam (NL)
2003 Sugar & Spice, Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2001 Belgian Brand, Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
2000 Fagus,i,f, Vlaamse Gemeenschap, Bos en groen, Brussels (BE)
2000 Expo, L’Usine, Ukkel-Brussels (BE)
M’as-tu vu?, CC Belgica, Dendermonde (BE)
1999 Nieuwe meesters”, C.R.A.K., Antwerp (BE)
1999 Laureaten ’99, St-Lucasgalerij, Brussels (BE)