Michael Van den Abeele
Born 1974, Belgium
Lives and works in Brussels
Personal exhibitions
- Bonus malus (with Arnaud Hendrickx), Netwerk, Aalst, B, 2009
- It’s Character Forming, EAC les Halles, Porrentruy, Jura, CH, 2008
- Meat Me, Second Room, Brussels, B, 2007
- Le Bonheur, Brussels, B, 2006
- Viva Romantica, NICC Free Space - KMSK (museum of fine arts), Antwerp, B, 2003
- Le vent à double tranchant, Archetype, Kanal 11, Brussels, B, 2002
- Etablissement d’en face, Brussels, B, 2000
Group exhibitions
2009
- Después del Arte, Lugar, Centro de arte contemporàneo, Havana, Cuba
- Opus –1, LLS 387, Antwerp, B
- Rencontres Internationaux, experimental video-festival, Madrid
- Isomosis, performance-festival, Etablissement d’en face, Brussels, B
2008
- Rencontres Internationaux, experimental video-festival, Centre Pompidou, Paris, F
- Curiosität, group exhibition, gallerie Micheline Szwajcer, B
- Art is my playground, Kucuk Ciftlik Amusement Park, Istanbul, TR
- Rencontres Internationaux, Berlin, D
- With Brussels from Love, VanAbbe Museum, Eindhoven, NL
- It’s not fait, le monde est arbitraire, Huis Van Winckel, Dendermonde, B
- CAC, Museo de Arte Moderno Toluca, Mexico
- Europa Vostra, gallery Trafu, Budapest, Hungary
- Losing Control, de Garage, Mechelen, B
2007
- Project pour un Temple, Huy, B
- Rencontres Internationaux, Centre Pompidou, Paris, F
- 18, l’Observatoire, Maison Gregoire, Brussels, B
- "Vanaf nu!..", LLS 387 (organised by Ulrike Lindmayer, Willem Oorebeek and Ricardo Brey), Antwerp, B
- Breughel's View (part of Commitment), BKSM Mechelen, B
- GHB, Van Abbe museum, Eindhoven, NL
2006
- Choose Choice (with Jos deGruyter & Harald Thys), de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, NL
2005
-Emergency Biennal, Matrix Art Projects, Brussels -Madrid - Grozny
-Ambassador, Public> Paris, F
2004
- Shoner Wohnen, New center for contemporay art Waregem, curated by Moritz Kung, B
- 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, B
2003
- Participant of the PS1 contemporary art center, studio program, NY-USA
-‘split pick up’, a group-project with A. Hendrickx, G. Lester, B. Rebetez & K. Dedecker, STUK, Leuven, B
2002
- Permanent installation at the ‘house of Flemisch representation in Paris’, F
-‘Haunted house of Arts’ Gallery Outline, Amsterdam, NL
- Paysage, Botanique, Brussels, B
-‘Circus Maximus’ Stichting Lazy Marie,Utrecht, NL
- Paramount Basics (extended), Muhka, curated by Richard Venlet and Moritz Kung, Antwerp, B
- Actes, Gallery BBL, Brussels, B
2001
- Flat Space, architecture & virtual space, de Witte Zaal, Ghent, B
- Parcours d’incidents, de Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL
- ABC (Art Basics for Children), de Muntschouwburg, Brussels, B
- Prix du Jeune peinture Belge, Palais des Beaux Arts (BOZAR), Brussels, B
2000
- Orbis Terrarum, Plantyn-Moretus museum, curated by Moritz Kung, Antwerp, B
-“Bubbles” in Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art, Brussels, B
- 3-ness, in Museum Dhont-Daenens (MDD), curated by Edith Dove, Deurle, B
- SubRosa, Ateliers Iternationaux d’Alsace et de Lorraine, curated by Eva Gonzales Sancho, Phalsbourg, F
- Diasporical thoughts, Tack-tower, Kortrijk, B
1999
- JARS 1, curated by Guilaume Bijl, Kunstcentrum-Sittard, Netherlands, NL
- Young @ all.ages, Deweer Art gallery, Otegem, B
- Small Stuff (organised by Hans Theys), Klagsbrun gallery, NY, USA
- Small Stuff (organised by Hans Theys), Herman Teirlinckhuis, Beersel, B