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bio

Herman Asselberghs challenges the borders between sound and image, world and media, poetry and politics. His work touches upon the hostages in Iraq, September 11th (Black Box), globalisation, les sans-papiers (Capsular), Palestine (a.m./p.m.), Fort Europa, life and death.
Herman Asselberghs teaches at the film department of Sint-Lukas Brussels University College of Art and Design. He is a founding member of the Brussels production platform Auguste Orts. His video works have been shown at a.o. M HKA, Antwerp, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin. He was the winner of the Transmediale Award in 2007.

Solo Exhibitions (selection)

2006

KVS, Brussels (Belgium)

2005

Netwerk Galerij, Aalst (Belgium)
Kunsthall Bergen, Bergen (Norway)
Witte de With, Rotterdam (The Netherlands)

2001

Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (Germany)

2000

Centro Galego de Arte Contempor�nea, Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
Provinciaal Centrum voor Beeldende Kunsten - Begijnhof, Hasselt (Belgium)
bruxelles/brussel 2000, Brussels (Belgium)

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Group Exhibitions (selection)

2008

'Picture This!', deBuren, Brussel (België)

2007
Artefact, STUK, Leuven (Belgium)
'Unfinish', Transmediale 07, Berlin (Germany)
2006
'Academy. Learning from Art', MuHKA, Antwerp (Belgium)
'Bruegel Revisited', Meise, Brussels (Belgium)
'EXCESS - images and bodies in times of excess', Z33, Hasselt (Belgium)
2005
12th International Dance Festival Klapstuk 'Video Space', STUK, Leuven (Belgium)
Super! Triënnale, Hasselt (Belgium)
Belgrade in the Past and Present, Prodajna galerija, Belgrade (Servië)
European Media Art Festival 2005, Osnabrueck (Germany)
'Journal #8', Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (The Netherlands)
2004
'Once upon a Time... A look at art in Belgium in the Nineties', MuHKA, Antwerp (Belgium)
2003
EXPERIENCE, Foto Biënnale Rotterdam (The Netherlands)
2001
hARTware projekte · 'Still/Life', Dortmund (Germany)

Screenings

2008

(K-RAA-K)³ festival, Brussel (Belgium)

2007

'International Filmfestival Rotterdam' (The Netherlands)
'Platforma', Athene (Greece)
Buda, Kortrijk (Belgium)
'Open Archive, argos, Brussel (Belgium)
'Artefact', Leuven (Belgium)
'Mood Salon', Athene (Greece)
'Evacuation', MuHKA_media, Antwerpen (Belgium)
Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival (Germany)
Les Ecrans Documentaires (France)
Architecture Film Festival, Rotterdam (The Netherlands)
Courtisane Festival, Gent (Belgium)

2006
Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin, Paris (France)
Zinebi Film Festival, Guggenheim, Bilbao (Spain)
International Film Festival Rotterdam (The Netherlands)
25th VIPER International Festival for Film Video and New Media, Kunsthalle Basel (Switzerland)
Transmediale 06: International Media Art Festival Berlin (Germany)
2005
'Belgian Focus', Argos Festival, Brussels (Belgium)
7. Medien und Architectur Biennale Graz (Austria)
Ecrans Parallèles: 'Penser à vue' - 16th Marseilles International Documentary Film Festival, Marseilles (France)
Courtisane, Short Film, Video & New Media Festival, Vooruit, Ghent (Belgium)
Internationales Forum des Jungen Films, 55 Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Germany)
International Film Festival Rotterdam (The Netherlands)
2004
'Belgian Focus', Argos Festival, Brussels ((Belgium)

biblio

Time Suspended, (with Els Opsomer & Pieter Van Bogaert), 255 pag., an edition by Square, 2004
Wrapped (with Els Opsomer & Rony Vissers), an edition by Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea in Santiago de Compostela, 2000
Omar Barghouti, 'Waiting as Etnic Cleansing', in: AS, Nr 175, Autumn 2005
Edwin Carels, 'De subjectiviteit van het objectief. De camera als denkmachine', in: Sint-Lukas Galerie Brussel, Nr 1, January, 2007
Manon De Boer, in: Time Suspended, Netwerk Annual 04/05
Pascal Gielen, 'Re-assemblage. Over het artistieke werk(en)', in: Sint-Lukas Galerie Brussel, Nr 1, January, 2007
Cyril Neyrat, 'De afstand om te denken', in: Sint-Lukas Galerie Brussel, Nr 2, March 2006
Cyril Neyrat, 'The Crevices of Thought' in: AS, Nr 175, Autumn 2005
Pieter Van Bogaert, 'Te vroeg, te laat' in: Breughel Revisited catalogus, June 2006
Hilde Van Gelder, 'Breughel Revisited' in: Breughel Revisited catalogus, June 2006