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1954-1959 Art Academy Arnhem
1959 Founding member of the NADA group (Rik van Bentum, Ted Feelen and Klaas Gubbels)
1960 Scholarship Maison Descartes
Settles in Paris for eight months where he makes his Clôtures and Soft Machines, followed by the series Strange Fruits
First contact with the Nouveaux Réalistes around writer and art critic Pierre Restany, such as Raymond Hains, Daniel Spoerri and Jean Tinguely
1965 Invitation from the Harkness Foundation, New York
Settles in New York at Chelsea Hotel, studio in Grandstreet
Starts with the series Natural Wood, Floor Pieces and the Occupations de l'espace
Gets in touch with the artists of Fluxus, such as Nam June Paik and John Cage
1966 Travels three months through the USA and Mexico on Greyhound
1967 Returns to Paris
1968 Solo exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam: Natural Wood Group and Occupation de l'Espace
1969 Represents France at the Paris Biennale with Occupation de l'Espace, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
1970-1971 Settles in Berlin with a DAAD scholarship
Street Actions, building Berliner Object, collaboration with John Cage
1971 Travels to Poland and New York
1972 Returns to Paris and settles in La Ruche studio complex
1975 Participates in projects for the Molino Stucci, under the auspices of the Venice Biennale
Solo exhibition at Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
1977 Environment for John Cage's composition 62 Mesotics for Merce Cunningham, Berlin
1980 Participation International Sculpture Conferences in Washington D.C.
1983 Invitation of Chozo Yoshii to work in Japanese kiyoharu, ceramics and collage
1986 Artist in residence at Djerazzi Foundation, Woodside-California
1987 Works in South Korea for six months
Participates in the first Olympic open-air sculpture symposium in Seoul
Makes his first bronze sculptures
1988 Returns to Korea and creates a second series of bronze sculptures which he calls Stone Story
1989 Works for four months in the Japanese ceramics city of Tokoname for his exhibition The Fish in Question
1990 Interior design of Poetry International in Rotterdam together with Klaas Gubbels
1991 Four-month work period in Seoul (Bronze Sculptures with Stones): About Base
1993 Realization I Meet You, meeting point in Terminal West at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam
1994 Artist in residence in Kakunodate, Japan, sculpture for the autumn festival in commemoration of Naotake Odano: The Heart of Odano
1996 Creates a series of glass sculptures in Murano-Venice
1997 A monumental sculpture in Clermont-Ferrand: Dans la mémoire des crapauds
1998 Monumental work in the Parc Municipal in Quito, Ecuador
2002 Solo exhibition in Istanbul
Creates for the Andorra symposium the sculpture Endless
Represents the Biennale of Buenos Aires
2003 Invited to the Grand Hommage a Gauguin, in Tahiti
Participates in the sculpture symposium in Taiwan, with the sculpture About Base
2004 Participates in the sculpture symposium in Puerto Rico with the sculpture All this and much more
2005 Participation in the sculpture symposium in Naples with Listening with the eyes
2006 Inauguration of L'Esprit du Berceau, a privately owned monumental work in Arnhem, the Netherlands
Premiere of Visite de l’atelier de Mark Brusse, a film by Jorge Amat
2008 45 years after the birth of the work, exhibition of the installation La Chambre d'Amour II in the Lara Vincy gallery, Paris
Installation of 4 monumental sculptures, Nassa Mesa in Carrazeda, Portugal
Installation of 2 monumental sculptures in Marrakech
Two-month residency at the Emily Harvey Foundation in Venice
2009 Participates in two exhibitions in Slovakia: in Bratislava and in Zilina
2010 Exhibition in Lieu d'Art et Action Contemporary (LAAC), Dunkirk
2012 Participation in a sculpture symposium in Zilina, where he made 4 Wheels 4 Directions
2013 Stay with the Chhaap Foundation in Baroda, Gujarat, India
2015 To Berlin for the photo installation project Ich habe einen suitcase in Berlin
2016 Participates in the traveling exhibition An imaginary museum: what if art disappears? presented in the Tate in Liverpool, the MMK in Frankfurt am Main and at the Center Pompidou in Metz
2017 Stay in Cotonou, Benin. At the invitation of Le Center de Lobozounkpa, he works closely with local craftsmen
2018 Publication of a book with interviews with Kristell Loquet Un peu de sel sur la queue d’un oiseau
2019 Retrospective Sometimes I Wonder in Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen
2020 Exhibitions in Venice, Berlin and Maastricht
Mark continues to work in his studio in Brittany, new collaboration with foundry Le Floch in Nantes for sculpture The little ladder, to be presented in Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague
2021 Centre Georges Pompidou buys a historical work from 1962. In consultation with director Bernard Blistène Brusse decides to donate 23 works to the Parisian museum
The Shape of Silence, retrospective of the artist's sculptural oeuvre in Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague
2022 After his last exhibition in 2003 at Galerie Espace, he is back in Amsterdam at Galerie Borzo