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Artistic CV


2010

- Book presentation, 'B-SIDES AND RARITIES', (book, Lokaal 01, Breda), project-space Extra City Antwerp, 19 June - 11 July, Antwerp (Belgium)

- Happening, 'RULES MAKE GAMES', concentra, with Robbrecht Desmet, Paul Hendrikse, Wobbe Micha, Stijn Van Dorpe (initiated by Robbrecht Desmet and Stijn Van Dorpe), 5 June, Antwerp (Belgium)

- Book presentation, 'Temporary City Berlin, one space one structure a set of regulations', Lokaal 01, 22 May, Antwerp (Belgium)

- Group exhibition, 'POP ART', scheld'apen in NICC, 14 May - 30 June, Antwerp (Belgium)

- Group exhibition, 'CHARACTERS MAKE STORIES', croxhapox with Assaf Gruber - Fiona Mackay - Robbrecht Desmet - Wobbe Micha - Stijn Van Dorpe and performance by Audrey Cottin (initiated by Stijn Van Dorpe), 01 - 30 may, Ghent (Belgium)

- Film screening: 'cinemapril cinémavril', moordnoces, 29 April, Brussels (Belgium)

- Group exhibition, Art Brussels, represented by Transit Gallery, 23 - 26 April, Brussels (Belgium)

- SOLO, 'Was heißt Freiheit Hans?', Transit Gallery, 7 March - 18 April, Mechelen (Belgium)

- Group exhibition, 'TRY TO DECEMBER', Transit Gallery with Sergey Bratkov, Johan Creten, David Hancock, Mehdi-Georges Lahlou, Jorg Madlener, Wobbe Micha, Thomas Raat, Sergey Shekhovtsov [Porolon], Stijn Van Dorpe, 01 January - 22February, Mechelen (Belgium)

2009

- SOLO, 'x%inside x%outside', second room, 28 november 2009, Brussel (Belgium)

- 'The Great Public Sales of Brilliant But Unrealised Ideas', playground festival, STUK, a performance by Sarah Vanhee, with idees of Rimini Protokoll, Mette Edvardsen, Myriam van Imschoot, Bas Schevers, Stijn van Dorpe, Tim Etchells, Ief Spincemaille, Lea Martini, Ugo Dehaes, Dora Garcia, Michikazu Matsune, Lars Siltberg, Jimmy Robert en Benjamin Verdonck, 13 november, Leuven (Belgium)

- Festival, 'please pay attention please', Amperdans 4 (annex amperdans), 14 - 24 oktober, curated by Kristof Van Gestel and Marc Vanrunxt, with Koenraad Dedobbeleer, Sophie Nys, Heike Langsdorf, Francis Denys, Stijn Van Dorpe, Kristof Van Gestel & Paul Verrept, Lars Kwakkenbos, Antwerp (Belgium)

- Site specific project + lecture, 'When Guests becomes host', curated by Daniëlle Van Zuylen, 9 - 25 Oktober, Haarlem (the Netherlands)

- Group exhibition, Versus V, Biennial of contemporary Art, 19 September - 4 October, with Herman Asselberghs, Manon De Boer, Bart Lodewijks, Thomas Huyge, Vincent Meessen, Simona Denicolai & Ivo Provoost, Wobbe Micha, Joris Vande Moortel, Kelly Schacht..., Oudenaarde (+catalogue) (Belgium)

- Group exhibition, 'art is only a feeling', curated by Bas Schevers and Hedwig Houben, with: Audrey Cottin, Stijn Van Dorpe, Vincent Geyskens, Hedwig Houben, Emi Kodama, Falke Pisano, Bas Schevers, Pierre Bismuth 4 - 27 September 2009, Eindhoven (the Netherlands)

- Group exhibition, ERROR # 13, error one at cultuurcentrum Brugge, 1 - 11 juli 2009, with: Fia Cielen, Lode Geens, Kate Mayne, Tinka Pittoors, Anne Schiffer, Robin Vanbesien, Stijn Van Dorpe, Louis Vanhaverbeke, Ester Vannuten, Philippe Van Wolputte, Katleen Vinck, Hallen Belfort Markt Brugge (Belgium)

- Group exhibition (project), 'Temporary City Berlin', 15 May - 6 June, in cooperation with a.o. Christophe Van Gerrewey, Paul Hendrikse, Tamara Van San, Ilke De Vries, Nele Tas, Anton Cotteleer, Nicolas Leus, Andreas Müller, Anouk Kruithof, Nada Sebestyén, Iris Van Dongen, Ada Van Hoorebeke, Sarah Westphal, Katrin Plavcak (with support of the Flemish community, Flachland, lokaal 01 and Croxhapox), Berlin (+catalogue) (Germany)

- filmscreening Kaaitheater, presentation AAG, a new magazine by Ben Benaouisse, Brussels (Belgium)

- performance Nieuwpoorttheater, 'nodogs' curated by Ben Benaouisse, Ghent (Belgium)

- Group exhibition, KUNSTMANUFAKTUR # 1, Berlin (Germany)

- Group exhibition, 'Pencil towers, stone fish, rising suns, ghosts, aura's and other deliciously emerging entities (things that appaer are generally friendly, but they tend to escape us)', assembled by Frank Maes and Hans Theys, Rossicontemporary, Brussels (Belgium)

2008

- Organisation of debate ‘Art and Commitment’ in cooperation with Existentie, Liedts-Meesen Foundation en Amarant, with Jeroen Laureyns, Lars Kwakkenbos, Piet Van Robaeys and Pieter Vermeulen, Ghent (Belgium), (+publication in <H>ART #35: “Debat: Kunst en maatschappelijk engagement”)

- Group exhibition, Robbrecht Desmet, Vladimir Tanghe, Stijn Van Dorpe, Stephan Vanfleteren, Koppenberg Melden (Belgium)

- Group exhibition, ‘Young Artists’ (selected by Kathrin Ginsberg), Botanical Garden University Ghent, (+catalogue) (Belgium)

- Affiche project, Croxhapox Gallery, Ghent (Belgium)

- Group exhibition, 'Brainbox 2', in cooperation with Marina Yee and Christophe Lezaire, Croxhapox Gallery, Ghent (Belgium)

- Group exhibition, ‘Honorons Honoré’, ‘De Garage’ Cultural Centre, Mechelen (Belgium)

- SOLO, 'project', Transit Gallery, Mechelen (Belgium)

- performance - lecture 'construction - deconstruction', Academy of Fine Arts, Oudenaarde (Belgium)

2007

- Group exhibition, 'Temporary City', Lokeren (Belgium), (+catalogue)

- SOLO, untitled, Croxhapox Gallery, Ghent (Belgium)

- Group exhibition, 'Small Stuff III (meeting Bernd Lohaus)', curated by Hans Theys, Herman Teirlinckhuis,
Beersel (Belgium)

- Group exhibition, 'Made in Ghent', selected by Jan Van Imschoot and Philipe Van Cauteren, Sint-Pietersplein, Ghent (Belgium)

- 3 lectures, 'Contemporary art and the approach to reality', Academy of Fine Arts,
Oudenaarde (Belgium)

- International Streaming Film Festival, http://www.streamingfestival.com/

- 'Artist in Residence' Lokaal 01 Gallery, Antwerp (Belgium)

- Public conversation with Eva Wittocx (curator)

- SOLO, untitled, Lokaal 01 Gallery

2006

- SOLO, 'New York New York', in cooperation with Thomas Huyghe, Kunst-Zicht Gallery, curated by Guy Bovijn, Ghent (Belgium)

- Group exhibition, 'Basics 2', Croxhapox Gallery in Maagdendale Abbey, Oudenaarde
(Belgium)

- SOLO, untitled, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Ghent (Belgium)

- Research project (VLIR), 'The painters of Gondar', in cooperation with Katrien De Graeve,
Gondar (Ethiopia)

- Group exhibition, 'Brainbox', Croxhapox Gallery, in cooperation with Anton Cotteleer and Nicolas Leus, Ghent (Belgium)

- Group exhibition, 'Er groeit zand in mijn schoenen', Box 38 Gallery, Ostend (Belgium)

- Group exhibition and project, 'Labo 3', Existentie, Ghent (Belgium), (+catalogue)

2005

- Group exhibition, 'Basics 2', Croxhapox Gallery, Ghent (Belgium)

- Group exhibition, 'Mixed Media 2', Art Track Gallery, Ghent (Belgium)

- SOLO, 'Performance and Projections', Croxhapox Gallery, Ghent (Belgium)


Two works acquired by the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art Ghent (S.M.A.K.)
represented by Transit Mechelen