MICHAËL BORREMANS

° 1963, Geraardsbergen (Belgium)
Lives and works in Gent (Belgium)

   
   
  solo exhibitions
   
2008 Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo (JP), (October 30 - January, 2009)
  'Painted Fruit', Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE), (April 26 - May 31, 2008)
  'Veldwerk', Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra (PT), (January 21 - April 20)
2007 "Veldwerk", De Appel, Amsterdam (NL), (September 7 - October 14)
2006 La Maison Rouge - Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris (FR), (June 8 - September 24)
  "Horse Hunting", David Zwirner Gallery, New York (US), (March 7 - April 1)
2005 "The Performance", The Royal Hibernian Academy, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin (IR), (July 14 - September 4), (cat)
  "Hallucination and Reality", The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland (US), (May 22 - September 4), (cat)
  "The Performance ", Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London (UK), (May 3 - June 30), (cat)
  "An Unintended Performance", S.M.A.K., Gent (BE), (February 5 - April 10), (cat)
2004 "Zeichnungen", Museum Für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (CH), (October 16 - January 9 2005), (cat)
  "Four Fairies", Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven (DE), (June 26 - August 15)
  "Fisherman's Luck", Zeno X Storage - Borgerhout, Antwerp (BE), (March 27 - May 1)
2003 "Trickland", David Zwirner Gallery, New York (US), (February 13 - March 8)
2002 "Young and Innocent", Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE), (January 24 - March 2)
2000 Vereniging van het SMAK, Ghent (BE), (March 17 - April 23)
1999 "The Fetish Paintings", Croxhapoxruimte, Ghent (BE)
1998 "The Mind and it's Limit's", In den Bouw, Kalken (BE)
1997 Huize St.-Jacobus, Ghent (BE), (23 February - 16 March)
  "Cerebral Office", Voorkamer, Lier (BE), (December 21 - February 1)
1996 Croxhapoxruimte, Ghent (BE)
   
   
  group exhibitions
   
2008 'The Eternal Flame', Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel (CH), (August 10 - October 5)
  'Memories of Tomorrow: Works from the UBS Art Collection', Shanghai Art Museum, Shangai (CN), (June 6 - July 20, 2008)
  'Eclipse - Art in a Dark Age', Moderna Museet, Stockholm (SE), (May 31 - August 24, 2008)
  'PopEye: The art of music / The music of art', Oude Gevangenis, Hasselt (BE), (May 7 - June 15, 2008)
  'Locked-in', Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg (LU), (April 19 - June 29, 2008)
  'Women portraits', Overbeck Gesellschaft, Lübeck (DE), (March 30 - May 11, 2008)
  'The Hands of Art', Martha Herford Museum, Herford (DE), (March 26 - June 1, 2008 )
  'Size Matters: XS - Recent Small-Scale Paintings', Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN (US), (March 28 - August 24, 2008)
  'Collecting Collections: Highlights from the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles', MOCA, Los Angeles (US), (February 9 - May 19, 2008)
  'The Hands of Art', S.M.A.K., Gent (BE), (January 28 - March 16)
2007 "Gashoven 07: zonevreemd", CC Het Gasthuis, Aarschot (BE), (September 7 - 30)
  "As I Am You Will Be: The Skeleton in Modern Art", Cheim & Read, New York, NY (US), (September 20 - November 10)
  "Size Matters: XS - Recent Small-Scale Paintings", Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY (US), (June 9 - November 10)
  "Artempo: Where time becomes art", Palazzo Fortuny, Venice (IT), (June 8 - November 5)
  "Old School", Hauser and Wirth, London (GB), (May 11 - June 5)
  "Hammer Contemporary Collection - Part II", Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (US), (April 19 - August 5)
  "Comfort/Discomfort", Stedelijk Museum, 's Hertogenbosch (NL), (April 7 - June 17)
  "Works on paper", Zeno X Gallery & Zeno X Storage, Antwerp (BE), (January 17 - February 17)
2006 "Brainbox - Unit 4", Croxhapox, Gent (BE), (October 26 - November 5)
  "25 years Zeno X Gallery", Zeno X Gallery & Zeno X Storage, Antwerp (BE), (October 17 - December 2)
  "MUTE", Hofstraat 2, Antwerp (BE), (September 24 - October 8)
  "Leeftijdgenoten", Roger Roveelmuseum, Machelen-aan-de-Leie (BE), (September 3 - November 19)
  "A Brighter Day", James Cohan Gallery, New York (US), (June 2 - July 20)
  "Back to the Figure/Zurück zur Figur", Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich (DE), (June 2 - August 13) (cat.)
  "reverence', The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, New York, NY (US), (May 20 - April 2007)
  "Michaël Borremans, Fernando Bryce, Dan Perjovschi. Drawings", Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (DE), (March 31 - June 5)
  "Of Mice and Men - Berlin Biennale", Berlin (DE), (March 25 - May 28)
  "New Acquisitions", SF MOMA, San Francisco (US), (February - 2007)
  "Collectiepresentatie - nieuwe aanwinsten", S.M.A.K., Gent (BE), (January 27 - April 2)
  ARS 06 exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki (FI), (January 20 - August 27)
2005 "Pijn", Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent (BE), (October 8 - April 30, 2006)
  "Drawings from the Modern, 1975-2005", MOMA, New York, NY (US), (September 14 - January 6, 2006) (cat)
  "Slow Art: Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Flandern und den Niederlandent", Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf (DE), (July 16 - November 6)
  "(...) the duck was still alive", Abbaye Saint-André, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Meymac (FR), (July 9 - October 30 2005)
  "STRATA. Difference and Repitition", Fondazione Davide Halevim, Milan (IT), (May 26 - July 2)
  "Visionair België, c'est arrivé près de chez nous", Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussel (BE), (February 18 - May 15)
2004 "Drafting Deceit", Apexart, New York (US), (Nov. 17 - Dec. 22)
  Manifesta 5, European Biennale of Contemporary Art, San Sebastian (ES), (11 June - 30 September), (cat)
  "Zie Tekening", Project Voorkamer, Stedelijk Museum Wuyts-Van Campen & Baron Caroly, Lier (BE), (February 20 - May 2)
2003 "Comme des Garçons", seven exhibitions on various locations (Moscow, Zürich, Belin, Milan, Madrid, London, New York), (September - February 2004), (cat)
  "Neue werke im Kupferstichkabinett", Offentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, Basel (CH), (July 5 - August 17)
  "Gelijk het leven is", 50 jaar Belgische en Internationale kunst uit de collectie, S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE), (June 28 - September 14)
  Art 34 Basel, presented by Zeno X Gallery, Basel (CH), (June 18 - June 23)
  "Apparitions", Musée des beaux-arts de Tourcoing, Tourcoing (FR), (March 19 - April 19)
2002 "Pertaining to Painting", Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas (US), (November 23 - February 2 2003), (cat)
  "Pertaining to Painting", Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas (US), (June 28 - September 29), (cat)
  Art 33 Basel, presented by Zeno X Gallery, Basel (CH), (June 12 - June 17)
  "The House of Fiction", Sammlung Hauser & Wirth, St. Gallen (CH), (May 5 - October 13), (cat)
  The Armory Show 2002, pres. by Zeno X Gallery, New York (US), (February 22 - February 25)
2001 "Works on paper", Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp (BE), (December 8 - January 22 2002)
  Art 32 Basel, presented by Zeno X Gallery, Basel (CH), (June 13 - June 18)
  The Armory Show 2001, presented by Zeno X Gallery, New York (US), (February 23 - February 26)
2000 "Was Rubens een dribbelaar?", Cultureel Centrum, Berchem (BE), (May 15 - June 24)
1999 "(With) Drawings into 2000", Van Laere Contemporary Art, Antwerp (BE)
1998 Kunstsalon van Gent, Sint-Pietersabdij, Ghent (BE)
1997 "Alom & Hiernevens", Zwartzustersklooster (Project van Voorkamer VZW), Lier (BE)
  "Schilderkunst-Hedendaags-Belgisch", Croxhapox, Ghent (BE), (Nov. 8 - Dec. 21)
   
   
  publications
   
2008

Weight
De Appel, Amsterdam (NL) - Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra (PT)

2007

MoMA Highlights since 1980
MoMA, New York, NY (US)

 

Ziek - Tussen lichaam en geest
Museum Dr. Guislain, Gent (BE)

 

50 jaar Vrienden van het S.M.A.K.
Vrienden van het S.M.A.K., Gent (BE)

2006

Horse Hunting
David Zwirner, New York (US)

 

Von Mausen und Menschen - Of Mice and Men - 4 berlin biennale für zeitgenössische kunst
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (DE) - curated by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick

 

ARS 06 - Toden tuntu Sense of the Real
Museum of contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki (FI)

 

Cultuurprijzen Vlaanderen 2005
Flagey, Brussels (BE)

2005

Vitamin D - New Perspectives in Drawing
Edited by Phaidon Press

  Michaël Borremans: The Performance
texts by Patrick Murphy, Ziba de Weck and Hans Rudolf Reust, Hatje Cantz Publishers
 

La Belgique Visionaire België: C'est arrivé près de chez nous
Edited by Bozar Books, Brussels, Het Paleis voro Schone Kunsten, Brussels (BE)

 

Slow Art: Zeigenössische Kunst aus Flandern und den Niederlanden
Museum Kuns Palast, Düsseldorf (DE)

 

Drawing from the Modern 1975-2005
The Museum of Modern Art MOMA, New York (US)

 

Pijn/ La douleur/ Pain
Museum Dr. Guislain, Gent (BE)

 

Contemporary Art in Belgium 2006
Edited by Best Of Publishing, Brussels (BE)

2004 Michaël Borremans: Zeichnungen / Tekeningen / Drawings
Kunstmuseum Basel - Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König Koln, 2004
  Stripped Bare - Der entblösste Körper in der zeitgenössischen Kunst und Fotografie
Herausgegeben von Marianne Karabelnik, mit Werken aus der Sammlung Thomas Koerfer, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2004, p. 71
  With All Due Intent
Manifesta 5 San Sebastian catalogue, 2004, pp. 228-231
 

Not Afraid: Rubell Family Collection
Phaidon Press, London and New York, 2004, pp. 224-225

  MOCA 25th Anniversary Art Auction
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, California (US)
2003

Comme des Garçons
Edited by Comme des Garçons, 2003

2002 Open Days
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo (NL), Edited by ROMA Publications
  Pertaining to Painting
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (US)
  The House of Fiction
Samlung Hauser & Wirth in der Lokremise, St.Gallen (CH), text by Michaela Unterdörfer / Umberto Eco
  Art 33 Basel
Messe Basel, Basel (CH)
  Michaël Borremans
Edited by Vereniging van het SMAK, (text by Ann Demeester)
 

The Armory Show
Pier 88 & 90, New York (US)

   
   
  public collections
   
  Art Institute of Chicago (US)
  Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (US)
  County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (US)
  Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (US)
  High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA (US)
  Hudson Valley for Contemporary Art, New York (US)
  Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris (FR)
  Museum of Contemporary Art LA, Los Angeles (US)
  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (US)
  Museum of Modern Art MOMA, New York (US)
  Museum of Modern Art of San Francisco (US)
  National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (CN)
  Offentliche Kunstsammlung Basel (CH)
  Rubell Family Collection, Miami (US)
  Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst S.M.A.K, Ghent (BE)
  San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA (US)
  The American Friends of the Isreal Museum, New York, NY (US)
  UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (US)
  Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota (US)

 

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