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Untitled
2008
42 x 36 cm
oil on canvas
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Sleeper
2008
40 x 50 cm
oil on canvas
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Red Hand, Green Hand
2010
40 x 60 cm
oil on canvas
BIO & STEPS
Born:
In 1963, in Geraardsbergen, Belgium.
Studies:
In 1996, he
received his M.F.A. from Hogeschool voor Wetenschap en Kunst, Campus St. Lucas,
in Ghent.
- Teaching experience:
Until his break-through, he was a teacher at the Stedelijk
Secundair Kunstinstituut Gent (Secondary Municipal Art Institute of Ghent)
Nowadays:
Lives and works in Ghent, Belgium.
Themes and style:
In his figurative drawings, paintings and
films he presents an evocative combination
of solemn-looking characters, unusual close-ups, and unsettling still lifes.
There is a theatrical dimension to his works, which are highly staged and
ambiguous, just as his complex and open-ended scenes lend themselves to
conflicting moods—at once nostalgic, darkly comical, disturbing, and grotesque.
His paintings display a concentrated dialogue with previous art historical
epochs, yet their unconventional compositions and curious narratives defy
expectations and lend them an indefinable yet universal character.
Techniques:
Oil and acrylic on canvas from photo
and film, video filming.
Solo
Exhibitions
2015
Black Mould, David Zwirner, London [catalogue]
Fixture,
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Spain [catalogue]
2014
The Advantage, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo [catalogue]
As
sweet as it gets, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels [itinerary: Tel Aviv Museum
of Art; Dallas
Museum
of Art] [catalogue and publication]
Girl
with Hands, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
Michaël
Borremans, Ryosokuin Temple, Kyoto
2013
The people from the future are not to be trusted, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp
2012
Magnetics, BAWAG Contemporary, Vienna [catalogue]
2011
The Devil’s Dress, David Zwirner, New York
Eating
the Beard, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart [itinerary: Műcsarnok
Kunsthalle,
Budapest;
Kunsthalle Helsinki] [catalogue]
2010
Looking for the Face I had Before the World Was Made, Museum of Contemporary
Art Denver,
Colorado
Michaël
Borremans, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
Eating
the Beard, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp
Commission
at Royal Palace, Brussels
2009
Automat, kestnergesellschaft, Hanover [catalogue]
Taking
Turns, David Zwirner, New York
2008
Earthlight Room, Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
Michaël
Borremans, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck, Germany
Painted
Fruit, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp
2007
Weight/Veldwerk, de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam [itinerary: Centro de Artes
Visuais, Coimbra,
Portugal]
[catalogue published in 2008]
2006
Horse Hunting, David Zwirner, New York [catalogue]
The
Good Ingredients, La maison rouge - fondation antoine de galbert, Paris
2005
Hallucination and Reality, Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
The
Performance, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent [itinerary:
Parasol
unit
foundation for contemporary art, London; The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin]
[catalogue]
2004
Fisherman’s Luck, Zeno X Storage, Borgerhout, Belgium
Michaël
Borremans, Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany
Michaël
Borremans - Zeichnungen, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel [catalogue]
2003
Trickland, David Zwirner, New York
2002
Young and Innocent, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp
2000
Vereniging van het Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent
1999
The Fetish Paintings, Croxhapoxruimte, Ghent
1998
The Mind and its Limits, In den Bouw, Kalken, Belgium
1997
Cerebral Office, Voorkamer, Lier, Belgium
Huize
St.-Jacobus, Ghent
1996
Croxhapoxruimte, Ghent
Selected
Group Exhibitions
2015 75
Gifts for 75 Years, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Belgique,
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
The Bottom
Line, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent [forthcoming]
Don’t
Shoot the Painter. Paintings from the UBS Art Collection, GAM - Galleria d’Arte
Moderna
di
Milano, Milan [catalogue forthcoming]
Drawing
Now, Albertina, Vienna [catalogue]
The
Importance of Being…, Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana [itinerary: Museo de
Arte
Contemporáneo
de Buenos Aires (MACBA); Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro;
Museu
de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo] [two catalogues
published
in bilingual editions forthcoming]
The
Problem of God, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf [forthcoming]
Proportio,
Palazzo Fortuny, Venice [organized by Axel & May Vervoordt Foundation and
the
Fondazione
Musei Civici di Venezia, Venice]
When I
Give, I Give Myself, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
2014 De
Vierkantigste Rechthoek, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, The Netherlands
Panopticum,
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Propaganda
für die Wirklichkeit, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany [catalogue]
RE:
Painted | ‘Painting’ from the collection, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst
(S.M.A.K.),
Ghent
The
Sea/De Zee: salut d’honneur Jan Hoet, Kunstmuseum aan zee (Mu.ZEE), Ostend,
Belgium
Secret
Passions: Private Flemish Collections, lille3000, Lille, France [catalogue]
Somos
Libres II: Works from the Mario Testino Collection, Pinacoteca Giovanni e
Marella
Agnelli,
Turin [catalogue]
Word
Bites Picture, Design Matters, Los Angeles
2013
Facture and Fidelity: Painting Between Abstraction and Figuration, 1945-
2010,
Wexner Center
for the
Arts, Columbus, Ohio
Opening
New Space, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp
The
Prélude Pathétique, Universiteitsbibliotheek, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,
Belgium
The
Roving Eye: Aura and the Contemporary Portrait, Oakland University Art Gallery,
Rochester,
Michigan [catalogue]
Visionen.
Atmosphären der Veränderung, MARTa Herford, Germany [catalogue]
2012
Bending the Mirror, Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, Ohio
Contemporary
Painting, 1960 to the Present: Selections from the SFMOMA Collection, San
Francisco
Museum of Modern Art
Contour
On Tour, De Loketten, Flemish Parliament, Brussels
Flatland
Redux, Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimaraes, Portugal
Paintings
from the Rubell Family Collection, Fundación Banco Santander, Boadilla, Spain
Track
2012, Ghent
2011
All Cannibals!, La maison rouge - fondation antoine de galbert, Paris
[itinerary: me Collectors
Room,
Berlin]
Collection
XXVII: East from 4˚24’, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp
Märklin
World, Kunsthal KAde, Amersfoort, The Netherlands
Painting
Between the Lines, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
[itinerary:
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts] [catalogue]
A Paper
Trail, Cultuurcentrum de Werft, Geel, Belgium [catalogue]
Sleeping
Beauties, Kasteel van Gaasbeek, Gaasbeek, Belgium
Tra -
Edge of Becoming, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice [catalogue]
When
the Circus Leaves Town, Vooruit, Ghent [part of the film festival Berlinaire]
Yokohama
Triennale 2011, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan
2010
14th Vilnius Painting Triennial: False Recognition, Contemporary Art Centre,
Vilnius, Lithuania
Coup de
Ville, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium [catalogue]
Ordinary
Madness: Contemporary Works from the Collection, Carnegie Museum of Art,
Pittsburgh
[exhibition publication]
Unsichtbare
Schatten. Bilder der Verunsicherung/Invisible Shadows. Images of Uncertainty,
MARTa
Herford, Germany [catalogue]
UnSpooling
- Artists & Cinema, Cornerhouse, Manchester [catalogue]
Until
Now: Collecting the New (1960-2010), Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
(when
will they finally see) The Power of Drawing, Galerie Geukens & De Vil,
Antwerp
2009
Automatic Cities: The Architectural Imaginary in Contemporary Art, Museum of
Contemporary
Art San
Diego, California [catalogue]
Benches
& Binoculars, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Compass
in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation of Contemporary
Drawings,
The
Museum of Modern Art, New York [itinerary: Institut Valencià d’Art Modern,
Valencia,
Spain] [catalogue]
Contour
2009: 4th Biennial of Moving Image, Mechelen, Belgium
The End
of the Line: Attitudes in Drawing, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art,
Middlesbrough,
England [itinerary: Bluecoat, Liverpool; City Museum and Art Gallery,
Bristol,
England; The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh] [catalogue]
Fading,
Museum van Elsene, Brussels [catalogue]
In-Finitum,
Palazzo Fortuny, Venice [catalogue]
Jeugdzonde.
Over opus één en opus min één, LLS 387, Antwerp
Mapping
the Studio: Artists from the François Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi and
Punta della
Dogana,
Venice [catalogue]
Paint
Made Flesh, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee [itinerary:
The Phillips
Collection,
Washington, D.C.; Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York] [catalogue]
Private
Universes, Dallas Museum of Art
Slow
Paintings, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany [catalogue]
2008 Ad
Absurdum: Energies of the Absurd from Modernity to Contemporary Art, MARTa
Herford,
Germany
[catalogue]
Collecting
Collections: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of
Contemporary
Art, Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles [catalogue]
Die
Hände der Kunst, MARTa Herford, Germany
Eclipse
- Art in a Dark Age, Moderna Museet, Stockholm [catalogue]
The
Eternal Flame, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel
The
Gallery, David Zwirner, New York
Locked-In:
The Image of Humanity in the Age of Intrusion, Casino Luxembourg [catalogue]
Memories
for Tomorrow: Works from The UBS Art Collection, Shanghai Art Museum
Plan
and Elevation: Contemporary Artists Explore the Metaphors of Architecture, St.
Louis Art
Museum,
Missouri
PopEye:
The art of music, or the music of art, Oude Gevangenis, Hasselt, Belgium
Frauen
Porträts/Portraits of Women, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck, Germany
2007
Artempo: Where Time Becomes Art, Musei Civici Veneziani, Venice [catalogue]
Comfort/Discomfort,
Stedelijk Museum, ’s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
Hammer
Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
I Am As
You Will Be: The Skeleton in Art, Cheim & Read, New York [catalogue]
Old
School, Hauser & Wirth, London [itinerary: Zwirner & Wirth, New York]
Size
Matters: XS, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York
[itinerary:
Knoxville
Museum of Art, Tennessee]
Works
on paper, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp and Zeno X Storage, Borgerhout
Ziek.
Tussen Lichaam & Gaest, Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent [catalogue]
2006
4th Berlin Biennial: Von Mäusen und Menschen/Of Mice and Men, Berlin
[catalogue]
Years Zeno X Gallery, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp
and Zeno X Storage, Borgerhout
ARS 06,
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki [catalogue]
Back to
the Figure/Zurück zur Figur, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich
Brainbox
- Unit 4, Croxhapox, Ghent
A
Brighter Day, James Cohan Gallery, New York [catalogue]
Collectiepresentatie
- Nieuwe Aanwinsten, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.),
Ghent
Leeftijdgenoten,
Roger Raveelmuseum, Machelen-Zulte, Belgium [catalogue]
Michaël
Borremans, Fernando Bryce, Dan Perjovschi. Zeichnungen Drawings,
Württembergischer
Kunstverein Stuttgart [catalogue]
New
Acquisitions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Reverence,
Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York
2005
Drawing from the Modern: 1975-2005, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
[catalogue]
(…) the
duck was still alive, Abbaye Saint-André, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Meymac,
France
Pijn/La
douleur/Pain, Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent [catalogue]
Prague
Biennale 2, Karlin Hall, Prague
Slow
Art: Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Flandern und den Niederlanden/Dutch and Flemish
Contemporary
Art, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf] [catalogue]
STRATA:
Difference and Repetition, Fondazione Davide Halevim, Milan
Visionair
België/La Belgique visionnaire. C’est arrivé près de chez nous, Palais des
Beaux-Arts,
Brussels
[catalogue]
2004
Drafting Deceit, apexart, New York
Manifesta
5 - With All Due Intent: European Biennale of Contemporary Art, San Sebastian, Spain
[catalogue]
Zie
Tekening, Stedelijk Museum Wuyts-Van Campen & Baron Caroly, Lier, Belgium
2003
Apparitions, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tourcoing, France
Gelijk
het leven is; 50 jaar Belgische en Internationale kunst uit de collectie,
Stedelijk Museum
voor
Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent
Neue
werke im Kupferstichkabinett, Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel
2002
The House of Fiction, Sammlung Hauser und Wirth in der Lokremise, St. Gallen,
Switzerland[catalogue]
Pertaining
to Painting, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas [itinerary: Austin Museum
of Art,
Texas] [catalogue]
2001
Works on paper, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp
2000
Was Rubens een dribbelaar?, Cultureel Centrum, Berchem, Belgium
1999
(With) Drawings into 2000, Van Laere Contemporary Art, Antwerp
1998
Kunstsalon van Ghent, Sint-Pietersabdij, Ghent
1997
Alom & Hiernevens, Zwartzustersklooster, Lier, Belgium
Schilderkunst-Hedendaags-Belgisch,
Croxhapoxruimte, Ghent
Selected
Public Collections
The Art
Institute of Chicago
Carnegie
Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Museum of Art, Ohio
Dallas
Museum of Art
Hammer
Museum, Los Angeles
Hara
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
High
Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Hudson
Valley for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York
The
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Kunstmuseum
Basel
Los
Angeles County Museum of Art
Musée
d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Museum
of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston
The
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National
Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
National
Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Rubell
Family Collection, Miami
San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Stedelijk
Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent
Wadsworth
Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut
Walker
Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
In his own words:
“ I started to
paint only when I was 33. That was again a decision, which I took in one day; I
remember very well where it was. I just moved to Ghent, I was living in a small
rented house and had a small room where I used to work. In that room, on a
beautiful sunny day, I told myself: today I’m going to paint, I may still draw
a bit, but I’m going to focus entirely on painting. I knew that a painting
could have a very different impact than a drawing. I suddenly realized what
paintings could do for me. I want to make beautiful paintings. Or something
that seems beautiful.”
Representative
Galleries:
David Zwirner
Gallery
Zeno X Gallery
For
more Information:
http://www.davidzwirner.com/artists/michael-borremans
http://www.martagnyp.com/interviews/michael-borremans
En
Español:
www.elcultural.com/revista/arte/La-pintura...Michael-Borremans/34465
