Artist's arttributes:
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Video, Film, Video |
Most exhibitions in:
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| Germany | 26 |
| USA | 22 |
| Belgium | 14 |
| France | 12 |
| Spain | 11 |
Most exhibitions held at:
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CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Spain |
5 |
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ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Germany |
3 |
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Sean Kelly Gallery, USA |
3 |
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Galerie Erna Hécey, Belgium |
3 |
Biography: 
1962 Born in Roeselare, VWV (BE)
External links:
| | Public exhibitions (Selection) 157 
until 9.6.
Solo shows 30
2011
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| Johan Grimonprez | It's a Poor Sort of Memory that Only Works Backwards: On Zapping, Close encounters and the Commercia - SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent |
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| He Mistook The Groundlights For Stars And Asked Why The Airplane Was Flying Upside Down - ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, CA |
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| It’s a Poor Sort of Memory that Only Works Backwards - Blaffer Gallery - The Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, TX |
2010
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| Sometimes a Cigar is just a Cigar - Voges + Partner Gallery, Frankfurt/Main |
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| Johan Grimonprez - Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland) |
2009
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| Johan Grimonprez - Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm |
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| Johan Grimonprez, DOUBLE TAKE - Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, NY |
2008
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| Johan Grimonprez - Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y - IMA Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD |
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| Johan Grimonprez - Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y - Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
2007
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| JOHAN GRIMONPREZ - J’AI OUBLIÉ MON PARAPLUIE - Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris |
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| Looking for Alfred - Neue Pinakothek, Munich |
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| Johan Grimonprez - Looking for Alfred - Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich |
2004
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| Johan Grimonprez: Looking for Alfred - The Photographers' Gallery, London (England) |
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| Revolution/Restoration part 2 - BOZAR - Palais des Beaux-Arts / Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels |
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| We never tell everything, we always keep something for the next anthropologist - - Yvon Lambert - New York, New York City, NY (closed, 2011) |
2003
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| Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y - Optica - centre for contemporary art, Montreal, QC |
2002
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| Johan Grimonprez - Inflight Lounge - Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA |
2001
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| Johan Grimonprez - Maybe the sky is green and we're just colourblind - Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen |
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| Johan Grimonprez - Inflight - MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA |
2000
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| Johan Grimonprez - - Deitch Projects - 76 Grand Street, New York City, NY (closed, 2010) |
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| Johan Grimonprez - Inflight - SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent |
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| Johan Grimonprez - Inflight Lounge - CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela |
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| Your Words Have Reached My Ears - - Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London (England) (closed, 2001) |
1999
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| dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y - Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON |
1998
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| Johan Grimonprez - CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela |
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| Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y - Artspace, Auckland |
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| Johan Grimonprez - Magazin4 - Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz |
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| Johan Grimonprez - Bildmuseet, Umeĺ |
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| Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y - - Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London (England) (closed, 2001) |
1997
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| Johan Grimonprez, Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y - - Deitch Projects - 76 Grand Street, New York City, NY (closed, 2010) |
Group shows 126
2013
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| Collages van een haperende mens - Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam |
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| Ffwd / rew - Centre Culturel Les Chiroux, Ličge |
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| What We See - NMAO National Museum of Art Osaka, Osaka |
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| Three Installations - Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, NY |
2012
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| Speak to Me - RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, VIC |
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| La voce delle immagini - Palazzo Grassi - Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice |
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| Tomorrow was already here - Museo Tamayo, Mexico City |
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| More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness - Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM |
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| Synchrony Contemporary Video Work - Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN |
2011
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| A Darkness More Than Night - QUAD Gallery, Derby (England) |
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| Pearls of the North - Palais d'Iena, Paris |
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| Fokus Video Art Festival - Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen |
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| Angry - Young and Radical - Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam |
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| Myth - Reality - Constructing Cult-u're - The Guild Art Gallery, Mumbai |
2010
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| żEstáis listos para la televisión? - Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona |
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| ABC - Contemporary Art from Belgium - Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing |
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| Biennale de Belleville 2010 - Biennale de Belleville, Paris |
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| fast forward 2. The Power of Motion - Media Art Sammlung Goetz - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
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| Ikonoklash - Centro Cultural de Lagos, Lagos |
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| E-Flux Video Rental - Fondazione Giuliani, Rome |
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| Catastrophe? Quelle Catastrophe! Manif d’art 5 – The Québec City Biennial - Manif d’art – The Québec City Biennial, Quebec City |
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| The State of Things, Brussels/Beijing - National Art Museum of China - NAMOC, Beijing |
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| Decalogue : Films You Can Count on Two Hands - Winkleman Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Morality Act III: And the moral of the story is... - Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam |
2009
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| All Creatures Great and Small - Zacheta - National Gallery of Art, Warsaw |
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| Shot by both Sides - Cultuurcentrum Mechelen, Mechelen |
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| The State of Things - BOZAR - Palais des Beaux-Arts / Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels |
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| 1989. Ende der Geschichte oder Beginn der Zukunft? - Kunsthalle Wien (Museumsquartier), Vienna |
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| Catbag, an afternoon of Cadavre Exquis - Objectif exhibitions, Antwerp |
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| The social critique 1993-2005 - Kalmar konstmuseum, Kalmar |
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| 10 springs in the fall - Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris |
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| notes from the empire/aufzeichnungen aus dem empire - Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden |
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| Drawings - Galerie Erna Hécey, Brussels |
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| Un Certain Etat du Monde ? A Certain State of the World ? - Garage Center for Contemporary Culture - GCCC, Moscow |
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| argos open lounge - Argos, Brussels |
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| Argos - Open Lounge - Villa Merkel - Galerien der Stadt Esslingen, Esslingen |
2008
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| Speed of light - The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon |
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| Videozone 4 - Videozone - International Video-Art Biennial, Tel Aviv |
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| Comme au Cinema - Fotogalleriet, Oslo |
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| La vidéo, un art, une histoire 1965 - 2007 - Musée Fabre, Montpellier |
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| SIGNALS IN THE DARK: Art in the Shadow of War - Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal, QC |
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| Collection I - 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art - Kanazawa, Kanazawa |
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| The Morning After - Videoarbeiten der Sammlung Goetz - Weserburg | Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen |
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| Ornithology - Contemporary Art Galleies - UConn School of Fine Arts, Storrs, CT |
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| Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War - Justina M Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON |
2007
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| Toeten - zeitraum_exit Büro für Kunst e.V., Mannheim |
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| The Wrong Artist: Hitchcock en Videkunst - MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp |
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| Maschine-RAUM - Vejle Kunstmuseum – Vejle Museum of Art, Vejle |
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| Résidents - Espace Fondation EDF, Paris |
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| Centre Pompidou Novos Media 1965-2003 - MNAC - Museu do Chiado, Lisbon |
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| Art Summer University - Tate Modern, London (England) |
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| Under Hitchcock - Solar - Galeria de Arte Cinemática, Vila do Conde |
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| Role Exchange - Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Manipulations. On Economies of Deceit - Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw |
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| Is this Fiction? - Istanbul Modern, Istanbul |
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| Lights, Camera, Action: Artists´ Films for the Cinema - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| Stéphane PICHARD - Johan GRIMONPREZ - Roy VILLEVOYE & Jan DIETVORST - Galerie Martine et Thibault de La Châtre, Paris |
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| Carnegie Art Award 2006 - Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen |
2006
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| Contos Dixitais - CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela |
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| Centre Pompidou Video Art - 1965-2005 - Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney - MCA, Sydney, NSW |
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| Manipulacje.O Ekonomii kłamstwa - LAZNIA - Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk |
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| Johan Grimonprez, Martin Karlsson, - Signal, Malmö |
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| Video: An Art, A History 1965 - 2005 - Miami Art Central, Miami, FL |
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| POSTER - Artericambi, Verona |
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| ZOO logical garden - Family park Harry Malter, Gent |
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| POSTER - Hydra School Project, Hydra |
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| Photo-Trafic - - Centre pour l'image contemporaine Saint-Gervais Genčve, Geneva (closed, 2008) |
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| On the move - verkehrskultur II - Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster |
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| Accidents - Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris |
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| Die Kultur der Angst - The Culture of Fear - Halle 14, Leipzig |
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| NEW MEDIA 1965-2005 Selected works from Centre - Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei |
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| Sip my Ocean - International video in the - Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebćk |
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| SNAFU - Medien, Mythen, Mind Control - Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg |
2005
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| Johan Grimonprez - Galerie Erna Hécey, Brussels |
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| Variety - De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea (England) |
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| videoDictionary - Arts Santa Mňnica, Barcelona |
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| 11čme Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement - Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement, Geneva |
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| mental images - Medienkunstpreis 2005 - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
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| Tiempos de Vídeo 1965-2005 - Colección Nouveaux Médias del Centre Pompidou - CaixaForum Barcelona, Barcelona |
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| 50 Jahre - Years documenta 1955 – 2005 - Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel |
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| videoDictionary - La Casa Encendida, Madrid |
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| Zur Vorstellung des Terrors: - Die RAF - Ausstellung - Neue Galerie Graz - Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz |
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| IBCA Biennale 2005 - IBCA - International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Prague |
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| Strange, Familiar and Unforgotten - Galerie Erna Hécey, Brussels |
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| Fair Use - Appropriation in Recent Film and Video - Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Just do it! - Die Subversion der Zeichen von Marcel Duchamp bis Prada Meinhof - Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz |
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| Zur Vorstellung des Terrors: Die RAF-Ausstellung - Kunst-Werke Berlin - KW Institute for Contemporary Art , Berlin |
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| Screen Tests - Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam |
2004
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| IDFA: ParaDocs - Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam |
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| Encounters in the 21st Century: Polyphony - Emerging Resonances - 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art - Kanazawa, Kanazawa |
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| 101 Ways : Beginning Here - Visual Arts Museum - School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York City, NY |
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| A arańeira. 100 artistas da colección CGAC - CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela |
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| Works and Days - Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebćk |
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| monument to now - Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens |
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| Multiplex - Smack Mellon, New York City, NY |
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| Der Videoessay - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
2003
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| Esperando unha chamada - CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela |
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| Once upon a time... - MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp |
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| Wings of Art - Motiv Flugzeug - Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen |
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| Synopsis 3-Testimonies: Between Fiction and Reality - National Museum of Contemporary Art - EMST, Athens |
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| 24/7: Wilno - Nueva York (visa para) - Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius |
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| Europe Exists - MMCA Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki |
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| Hardcore - vers un nouvel activisme / towards a new activism - Palais de Tokyo, Paris |
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| M_ARS - Art and War - Neue Galerie Graz - Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz |
2002
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| Sonic Process - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| The Starting Line - Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich |
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| Johan Grimonprez / Dagmar Keller / Martin Widmer / Florian Zeyfang - Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg |
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| Sonic Process - Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona |
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| Total Überzogen - Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg |
2001
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| Discontinuities in Time - Part One: Terorism - Koroska Gallery of Fine Arts, Slovenj Gradec |
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| 4FREE - art - politics - science & esthetic survival strategies - Büro Friedrich, Berlin |
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| Trauma - Visual Research Centre, Dundee (Scotland) |
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| I Bienal de Valencia - The Body of Art - Bienal de Valencia, Valencia |
2000
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| Eine Munition unter anderen - Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main |
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| Voilŕ - Le monde dans la tęte - Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris - MAM/ARC, Paris |
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| Anywhere But Here - Artists Space, New York City, NY |
1999
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| Fireworks - de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam |
1998
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| 3. Werkleitz Biennale - sub fiction - Werkleitz Biennale, Halle (Saale) |
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| Reservate der Sehnsucht - HMKV - Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund |
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| mächtig gewaltig - ACC Galerie Weimar, Weimar |
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| Freie Sicht aufs Mittelmeer - Junge Schweizer Kunst - Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich |
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| Global Vision: new art from the 90's (Part I,II,III) - Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens |
1997
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| documenta X - Documenta, Kassel |
1996
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| Under Capricorn - The World Over - Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam |
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| The World Over: Art in the Age of Globalisation - Wellington City Gallery, Wellington |
Dealer Directory 5 |
Belgium
| | Galerie Erna Hécey, Brussels
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France
| | Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris
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Germany
| | Voges + Partner Gallery, Frankfurt/Main
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Netherlands
| | Flatland Gallery, Utrecht
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USA
| | Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, NY
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Collections 10

Belgium
| | SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
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Denmark
| | Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebćk
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France
| | Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
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Germany
| | Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
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| | Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
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Japan
| | 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art - Kanazawa, Kanazawa
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Luxembourg
| | MUDAM - Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
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Netherlands
| | Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam
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Spain
| | CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela
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Catalogs
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