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bio

In a world that has reverted to a 'superficial realism' in a bid to survive, Jan Lauwers uses words and images to mark out a singular territory in which hysteria, the absurd, the inexpressible, freedom and disarray can coexist and even become one. Jan Lauwers deploys his well-rounded personality to create risky openings to spheres rendered invisible by our modern world.
(Jérôme Sans)

Solo Exhibitions (selection)

2011

'Jan Lauwers. The Entertainer's Private Room', Charim Galerie Wien, Vienna (Austria)

2010

'The Archives of Saul J. Waner by Jan Lauwers', Charim Ungar, Berlin (Germany)

2007

'RESTLESSNESS', Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels (Belgium)

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Works (selection)

2010

The Archives of Saul J. Waner

2009

'OH', ceramic work
Last Guitar Monster

2007

'Deconstruction' (installation)

2006

'The Draughtsman's Room'
'Untitled Construction including The Moustache of Duchamp' (video work 1997) (video installation 2006)

2005

'A12-cyclus', den Boomsesteenweg (-2006)

2003

'C-Song' (Video)

2002

'The Paradise of Camel Leon' (-2006)
'No Beauty for me there, where human life is rare' (Installation)

1997

'Hong Kong Room' (-2002)

1993

'The House of the Fisherman' (-1997)

Group Exhibitions (selection)

2009

'The Tragedy of the Applause', La condition Publique, Roubaix (France)
'From Europe to Asia and back, again. Living in a suitcase', Vienna 09, Vienna (Austria)
'Down to Earth', Strombeek cultural centre, Grimbergen (Belgium)

2006

'DARK', Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (The Netherlands)

2004

'Grasduinen 2004', SMAK-aan-zee, Bredene (Belgium)

2002

Grimbergen (Belgium)

Performances (selection)

2007

'Needcompany DECONSTRUCTION', PSK, Brussels (Belgium)

2006

'O.H.N.O.P.O.P.I.C.O.N.O.', Temps d'Images, Paris (France)

1997

'Caligula, No Beauty for me there where human life is rare, part one', Documenta X, Kassel (Germany)

biblio

RESTLESSNESS, Jan Lauwers, Brussel, Mercatorfonds, Bozar Books & Needcompany, 2007, 176p., English (ISBN 978 90 6153 730 4), French (ISBN 978 90 6153 768 7)
Vanden Abeele, Maarten, The Lucidity of the Obscene, Needcompany in cooperation with IT & FB publishing company, Brussels/Amsterdam, 1998.
Stalpaert, Christel, Bousset, Sigrid, Le Roy, Frederik, (eds.), No beauty for me there, where human life is rare. On Jan Lauwers' theatre work with Needcompany, Academia Press (Ghent, Belgium), IT & FB (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), 2007