CV
Education:
1994-1996: Master Degree in Arts (ceramics and glass): Royal College of Art, London, UK; AIR Kyoto City University of Arts, Japan
1991-1994: Master in visual arts (ceramics): Luca school of arts Ghent, B
1982-1986: Graphic design; Luca school of arts Ghent, B
Most recent Artist residences:
2023: TAZ , Oostende Vissers van de Horizon
2023: Al Ma’Mal Foundation , Old City Jerusalem
2022: Al Ma’Mal Foundation , Old City Jerusalem – Patchwork Watou 2022-2023
2021: Birzeit University, Birzeit, Ramallah (online due to Covid)
2017: June/July and September: Cittadellarte -Fondazione Pistoletto and UNIDEE, Biella, IT
2015: January: ‘Met zicht op zee’, Braye-Dunes, FR i.c.w Emergent, B
Artist’s books
2022 Under the Tower / Onder de Kerktoren , with TopoCopy (Ghent) and Sophia Attigui (Cassablanca)
2018 The Map is not the Territory (Montedellarte), Publishing Viaindustriae, Foligno, IT
2015 Straight line attempt icw Posture Editions nr 16
2013 Mind the gap icw Dolores Bouckaert, edition for Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in 2013, B
Most recent Grants
2022 Research grant (Flemish government) for Trillingen (Vibrations) in collaboration with Cesar Janssens(Jr.c.E.sA.r, KVS)
2021 project Grant (Flemish government) for Under the Tower / Onder de Kerktoren
2019 Research grant (Flemish government) for Straight Line Attempt (Middle East)
2017 project Grant (Flemish government) for The Map is not the Territory (Montedellarte)
Exhibitions
2024 Screening art video De Koe en de Geit (The Cow and the Goat) at KVS Brussels - Remain/Remember, Westfront, Nieuwpoort (B), A PRO POT III, MUDEL, Deinze (B) curator Trees Demits – Het Analytische landschap, Emergent - Solo show at Gallery Sofie Van den Bussche, Brussels – Fuga’s en Pimpelmesen, group show at Museumhuis Lucien de Gheus, Poperinge (curator Els Vermeersch)
2023 Watou Art Festival 2023 – Vissers van de Horizon, TAZ, Oostende for Trillingen (Vibrations) in collaboration with Cesar Janssens(Jr.c.E.sA.r, KVS) - Art on Paper Amsterdam, Gallery Sofie Van den Bussche, Brussels - The artist’s book Under the Tower selected for the DESIGN A BOOK at Wittockiana, Brussels- Duo show at Shoobil Gallery, Antwerp – artist residency at KVS Brussels for Trillingen (Vibrations) in collaboration with Cesar Janssens(Jr.c.E.sA.r, KVS)
2022 Launch artist’s book Under the Tower / Onder de Kerktoren: 01-10-22, 6pm: Dar Jacir, Bethlehem - Patchwork art residency, Watou (B) Summer Art Festival 2023 - TRAAG (Slow) artistic intervention in the landscape on GR route Flemish Ardennes, part of GVR - ‘Ten times two’, Gallery Sofie Van Den Bussche, Brussels - Launch artist’s book Under the Tower / Onder de Kerktoren: WARP, Sint-Niklaas– Groupshow 15 years Verbeke Foundation – Groupshow with 3J, Knokke Heist – Ongoing Trillingen (Vibrations) collaboration with Cesar Janssens (Jr.c.E.sA.r, KVS)
2021 Group show: One way or Another , 10 years Posture Editions, S.M.A.K. Gent - Trillingen collaboration with Cesar Janssens(Jr.c.E.sA.r, KVS) launch video 17 online (until 01/07/2021) platform KVSi.c.w.KVS and De Warande Turnhout - Group show: Een boom is meer dan er staat, De Egelantier, Otegem Onder de Kerktoren / Under the Tower : ongoing, artist’s book, Art Video Glossolalia, Khalil Sakakini CC, Ramallah - Online artist residency at Birzeit University supported by A.M. Qattan Foundation and through the VAFF project, funded by Sweden
2020 (01) Onder de kerktoren / Under the Church Tower, Emergent, Veurne with Essa Grayeb; Selected for artist residency at Al Ma’mal Foundation, Old city Jerusalem (postponed due to Covid); selected for artist residency at Birzeit University (postponed and partly online in 2021), Contrei Live i.c.w. Intercommunale Leiedal, selected for artistic intervention in the landscape Gaverbeekse Meersen(B); Clay Front Homecoming; Shortlisted for ENTWINED: Rural, Land, Lives, Art (VARC, visual arts in rural communities, Northumberland, UK)
2019 Solo show Clay Front, Kruitmagazijn, Ypres, i.c.w In Flanders Fields Museum and city of Ypres ; Solo show The Map is not the Territory (Montedellarte), Italian Cultural Institute in Brussels i.c.w. Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto and UNIDEE, IT and Publishing Viaindustriae, IT. Introduction by Paolo Naldini, Director Cittadellarte
2018 05-10 > 12-10: selected for working visit to Amman, Ramallah, Jerusalem and Haifa i.c.w. Flanders Art Institute and Samah Hijawi; Solo show The Map is not the Territory (Montedellarte), Museo del Presente at Arte al Centro 2018, Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto and UNIDEE, IT i.c.w. Publishing Viaindustriae, Puglia, IT; Mirroirs 2 /Tous est paysage (curator Christophe Veys) – Biënnale d'Enghien 2018, Brussels ; Time can tell video festival (curator Rolf Quaghebeur): 3 shortfilms: The map is not the territory ( Montedellarte), with Katrien Vermeire and Meggy Rustamova
2017 Residence and art happening Montedellarte, Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto, IT i.c.w. Erasmus University College, B and CAI (Club Alpino Italiano), Solo show: Hoger Lager, curator Roxane Baeyens, Emergent Galery, B; Straight Line Attempt (from the heart), art happening in private house in the context of Wander Meander (Sarah&Charles)
2016 Group show, Arture #5, Ressegem, B; Edition for 2016, Emergent Galery, Veurne, B
2015 Solo show: 30 Wind Socks revisited, curator Patrick Ronse, CC Knokke Heist, B; Publication Straight line attempt icw Posture Editions nr 16; Group show Take Position, curator Frank Maes, Emergent Galery, B; group show Art traces at the Western Front, Flanders Fields, B; Art Festival Watou, B
2014 Solo show What a lovely mountain!, Galery Bruthaus, Waregem, B; Group show The Daylight Show, Landgoed Zonnestraal, Hilversum, NL
2013 Group show Badly Natured, , curator Eelco van der Lingen, Nest, Den Haag, NL; Publication en performance: Mind the gap icw Dolores Bouckaert, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, B
2012 The map is not the territory, Art happening Ressegem icw ARPIA 2012
2010 - 2013 AIR art@school, art project icw Jan De Cock, ministery of education and University of Ghent -
2010 Group show MEER, Voorkamer, Lier, B; Group show Summer show, Verbeke Foundation, Stekene, B; Solo show: My gated communities, Galerie Marion Decannière, Antwerp, B
2009 - 2013 Mind the Gap: icw Dolores Bouckaert: Soloshow: Netwerk (Aalst) B - Performance Working Title Festival, Pianofabriek, Brussels, B - Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, NL - Galerie Marion Decannière, Antwerp, B - Soloshow Galery Jan Dhaese, Ghent, B
2009 Group show: Artificial Nature, Verbeke Foundation, Stekene, B
2008 Brainbox, Croxhapox Ghent, B
2007 Solo show: Picture This, curator Joost Declercq, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, B
2002 Art in public space: Kasterlinden, Brussels icw King Boudewijn Foundation
1998-2000 Secret Gardens, Greenwich Festival, curator Therese Bergne, London, UK; Art in public space: 30 windsocks, curator Joost Declercq, sea front, Knokke-Heist, B ; Group show, Beelden Buiten, Tielt, B; Solo show: B-space Galery, Kobe, Japan; Group show Osaka, Japan; Solo show: Galery Galery, Kyoto, Japan; Group show: Para-site, curator Kurt Vanbelleghem, Brussels, B; Group show: Intersection, curator Kurt Vanbelleghem, Gallery Open Hand and Margret Harvey Gallery, London, UK