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Borremans, Michaël
1963 Ghent, lives in Ghent (Belgium).

venue: Koldo Mitxelena

Michaël Borremans’ contribution to Manifesta 5 brings together a selection of older and more recent paintings in order to offer an in-depth look into his practice. These complex works portray strange mannequins caught in empty and frozen gestures, careful and obsessive repetitions of obscure rituals, and strange architectonic renderings. While carefully avoiding an immediate, illustrative reading, Borremans’ works evoke spaces of tension that are cryptically dense. He guides viewers in a tour across his own private microcosm with all its humble spectacles and intimate enigmas.

curriculum:

Selected individual exhibitions
Museum for Gegenwartskunst, Basel (Switzerland), 2004.

Kunsthalle, Bremerhaven (Germany), 2004.

Zeno X Storage. Borgerhout, Antwerp (Belgium), 2004.

Trickland. David Zwirner Gallery,
New York (USA), 2003.

Young and Innocent. Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (Belgium), 2002.

Vereniging Van Het. SMAK, Ghent (Belgium), 2000.

The Fetish Paintings. Croxhapoxruimte, Ghent (Belgium), 1999.

The Mind and Its Limits. In den Bouw, Kalken (Belgium), 1998.

Huize St.-Jacobus. Ghent (Belgium), 1997.

Cerebral Office, Voorkamer, Lier (Belgium), 1997.

Croxhapoxruimte. Ghent (Belgium), 1996.

Selected group exhibitions
Voorkamer, Lier (Belgium), 2004.

Apparitions. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tourcoing (France), 2003.

Gelijk het leven is. 50 Jaar Belgische en Internationale Kunst Uit de Collectie.

SMAK, Ghent (Belgium), 2003.

Neue Werke im Kupferstichkabinett. Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel (Switzerland), 2003.

The House of Fiction. Sammlung Hauser & Wirth, St. Gallen (Switzerland), 2002.

Pertaining to Painting. Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (USA), 2002.

Pertaining to Painting. Austin Museum of Art, Austin (USA), 2002.

Works on Paper. Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (Belgium), 2001.

Was Rubens Een Dribbelaar? Culturel Centrum Berchem (Belgium), 2000.

(With) Drawings into 2000. Van Laere Contemporary Art, Antwerp (Belgium), 1999.

Kunstsalon van Gent, Sint-Pietersabdij, Ghent (Belgium), 1998.

Schilderkunst-Hedendaags-Belgisch. Croxhapox, Ghent (Belgium), 1997.

Alom & Hiernevens. Zwartzustersklooster (Project Van Voorkamer VZW).

Zwartzustersklooster, Lier (Belgium), 1997.

 
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