bio

The work of Michael Van den Abeele, his drawings, videos, installations, sculptures and photographs are the result of his reinvention of the frames and references that define our existence. Notions such as space, territories and imaginary geographies are at the core of this work. His Belgian grey flag 'Birth of a Nation' deals with Belgian nationality as a ghost-appearance, a phantom that covers the true separation developments inside the country from the outside.

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Solo and Group Exhibitions (selection)

2008

'It's Character Forming', solo-exhibition, EAC les Halles, Porrentruy, Jura (Switzerland)
'Rencontres Internationaux', experimental video-festival, Centre Pompidou, Paris (France)
'Curiosität', group exhibition, galerie Micheline Szwajcer (Belgium)
'Art is my playground', Kucuk Ciftlik Amusement Park, Istanbul (Turkey)
'Rencontres Internationaux', Berlin (Germany)
'With Brussels from Love', Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven (The Netherlands)
'It's not fait, le monde est arbitraire', Huis Van Winckel, Dendermonde (Belgium)
CAC, Museo de Arte Moderno Toluca (Mexico)
'Europa Vostra', gallery Trafu, Budapest (Hungary)
'Losing Control', de Garage, Mechelen (Belgium)

2007

'Project pour un Temple', Huy (Belgium)
'Rencontres Internationaux', Centre Pompidou, Paris (France)
'18', l'Observatoire, Maison Gregoire, Brussels (Belgium)
'Vanaf nu!..', LLS 387 (organised by Ulrike Lindmayer, Willem Oorebeek and Ricardo Brey), Antwerp (Belgium)
'Breughel's View (part of Commitment)', bkSM Mechelen (Belgium)
'GHB', Van Abbe museum, Eindhoven (The Netherlands)
'Meat Me', Second Room, Brussels (Belgium)

2006

'Choose Choice' (with Jos deGruyter & Harald Thys), de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
'Le Bonheur', Brussels (Belgium)

2005

'Emergency Biennal', Matrix Art Projects, Brussels -Madrid - Grozny
'Ambassador', Public> Paris (France)

2004

'Shoner Wohnen', New center for contemporay art Waregem, curated by Moritz Kung (Belgium)
'Visa for 13', PS1, contemporary art center, curated by Jimena Blasqez, NY (USA)
'Working ethics', Krinzinger Projecte, curated by Philip Pirotte, Vienna (Austria)
'bRussells tribunal', international colloqium on US-imperialisme, Beurschouwburg, Brussels (Belgium)

2003

'Viva Romantica', NICC Free Space - KMSK (museum of fine arts), Antwerp (Belgium)
'split  pick up', a group-project with A. Hendrickx, G. Lester, B. Rebetez & K. Dedecker, STUK, Leuven (Belgium)

2002

'Le vent à double tranchant', Archetype, Kanal 11, Brussels (Belgium)
Permanent installation at the 'house of Flemisch representation in Paris' (France)
'Haunted house of Arts' Gallery Outline, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
'Paysage', Botanique, Brussels (Belgium)
'Circus Maximus', Stichting Lazy Marie,Utrecht (The Netherlands)
'Paramount Basics' (extended), MuHKA, curated by Richard Venlet and Moritz Kung, Antwerp (Belgium)
'Actes', Gallery BBL, Brussels (Belgium)

2001

'Flat Space', architecture & virtual space, de Witte Zaal, Ghent (Belgium)
'Parcours d'incidents', de Ateliers, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
ABC (Art Basics for Children), de Muntschouwburg, Brussels (Belgium)
'Prix du Jeune peinture Belge', Palais des Beaux Arts (BOZAR), Brussels (Belgium)

2000

Etablissement d'en face, Brussels (Belgium)
'Orbis Terrarum', Plantyn-Moretus museum, curated by Moritz Kung, Antwerp (Belgium)
'Bubbles', Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art, Brussels (Belgium)
'3-ness', Museum Dhont-Daenens (MDD), curated by Edith Dove, Deurle (Belgium)
'SubRosa', Ateliers Iternationaux d'Alsace et de  Lorraine, curated by Eva Gonzales Sancho, Phalsbourg (France)
'Diasporical thoughts', Tack-tower, Kortrijk (Belgium)

1999

'JARS 1', curated by Guilaume Bijl, Kunstcentrum-Sittard, Netherlands (The Netherlands)
'Young @ all.ages', Deweer Art gallery, Otegem (Belgium)
'Small Stuff' (organised by Hans Theys), Klagsbrun gallery, NY (USA)
'Small Stuff' (organised by Hans Theys), Herman Teirlinckhuis, Beersel (Belgium)

Bibliography

CAC, emerging forms of computer art; edited by Khaldoun Zreik and Everanrdo Reyes Garcia, Toluca & Mexico city, 2007
Losing Control, De Garage, Mechelen; exhibition catalogue, 2007
Pilot:3, Pilot London, Colin Guillemet, Dorianne Laithier, Rory Macbeth, www.pilotlondon.org, 2007
Commitment, bkSM CC Strombeek- de Garage Mechelen; exhb. catalogue for Geert De Mot: Breughel's View, 2007
Yang N°4 'Maximale vervangbaarheid' over het Interessante; portfolio of twelve drawings, 2006
Lucky Space, 15 ans de la collection I.D.E.A., Mons, Henri Bunameaux; catalogue of the collection, 2006
Bart de Baere & Henry Bounameaux; Contemporary art in Belgium 2005, 2005
Moritz Kung; Schoner Wohnen, exhb. cat. Be-Part,Waregem, 2004
Philippe Pirotte, Krinzinger Projecte, 'Working Ethics - from a certain Flanders', 2004
l'Art meme N°27, Cecilia Bezzan, Ambassador à Public (Paris), article, 2004
Flash Art N° 235, Belgian Focus, 2004
Michael Van den Abeele, Viva Romantica, exhb. cat. NICC Free space -KMSKA, Antwerp, 2003
Eva Gonzalez Sancho, Sub Rosa, exhb. cat. Niederbronn-les-bains, Phalsbourg, France, 2000
Edith Doove, 3ness, exhb. cat. Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, 2000
B-sites, over de plaats van een kunst- en onderzoekscentrum in Brussel, 2000
Moritz Kung, Orbis Terrarum, exhb.. cat. Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp, 2000
Young@all.ages, exhb. cat. DeWeer Art galery, Otegem, 2000

 

Michaël Van den Abeele

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