Michael Van den Abeele


Born 1974, Belgium
Lives and works in Brussels

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS

- Perennial (with Arnaud Hendrickx and Richard Venlet), WIELS, Brussels, B, 2011
- Fimbulvetr (with Harald Thys), Etablissement d’en face, Brussels, B, 2010
- 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

2011
- Will and Objecthood, Galerie D.O.R, Brussels, Belgium
- A Clock That Runs on Mud, Galeria Stereo, Poznan, PL
- Melanchotopia, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL
- Bikini, Komplot, Brussels, B
- COLLECTOR….qu’est-ce que c’est? (Kurt Ryslavy), Museum Admont, Admont, AT

2010
- Public Private Paintings, MuZee, Oostende, B
- Art Basel/Liste, Gallerie Elisa Platteau, CH
- Sovereign Art Prize, Barbican Centre, London, GB
- Summer show, Galerie Elisa Platteau, Brussels, B
- Art Brussels, B
- Eva Berendes / Michael Van den Abeele, Galerie Elisa Platteau, Brussels, B
- Chipka, Kunstcentrum Netwerk, Aalst, B

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

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
- Paramount Basics (extended), Muhka, curated by Richard Venlet and Moritz Kung, Antwerp, B

2001
- Flat Space, architecture & virtual space, de Witte Zaal, Ghent, B
- Parcours d’incidents, de Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL
- 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

RESIDENCIES

-Platform Garanti, Istanbul, Turkey, 2008
-PS1, contemporary art center, studio program, NY-USA, 2003
-Artist residence in France “Ateliers Iternationaux d’Alsace et de Lorraine”, France, 2000

PUBLICATIONS

- Year, Komplot, Brussels, 2011
- Chipka, Kunstcentrum Netwerk, Paul Lagrin, 2009
- Losing Control, De Garage, ruimte voor actuele kunst Mechelen, Koen Leemans, 2008
- Pilot:3, Pilot London, Colin Guillemet, Dorianne Laithier, Rory Macbeth, www.pilotlondon.org, 2007
- Bart de Baere & Henry Bounameaux; Contemporary art in Belgium, 2005
- Morutz Kung; Schoner Wohnen, exhb. cat. Be-Part,Waregem, 2004
- Philippe Pirotte, Krinzinger Projecte, ‘Working Ethics - from a certain Flanders’
exhb. cat Krinzinger projecte, Vienna, 2004
- Michael Van den Abeele, Viva Romantica, exhb. cat. NICC Free space -KMSKA, Antwerp, 2003
-Prijs van de Jonge Belgische Schilderkunst 2001, exhb cat. Paleis voor Schone Kunsten (BOZAR), Brussels, 2001
-B-sites, over de plaats van een kunst- en onderzoekscentrum in Brussel,
kunstenaarspagina in samenwerking met Arnaud Hendrickx, 2000
-Moritz Kung, Orbis Terrarum, exhb.. cat. Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp, 2000

AS AUTHOR

- Invocatie van de Mimoïde, 2011
- Niet alles wat Duister is, is ook Diep, A Prior #20, 2011
- Boris Rebetez: Anticipation, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Fink Verlag, CH, 2010
- Commitments (on Geert De Mot), Bksm mechelen, 2009
- State of Things Brussels/Beijing (on Jos Degruyter & Harald Thys), BOZARBooks & Lannoo, 2009
- Jos Degruyter & Harald Thys, Culturgest, Lissabon, 2009
- Critical texts on a.o. Abel Auer, Aline Bouvy & John Gillis, Jurgen Ots, Richard Venlet en Leen Voet
can be found on the site of Etablissement d’en face: www.etablissementdenfaceprojects.com