Kendell Geers

BIOGRAPHY

Born in May 1968 in Johannesburg, South Africa

Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium

Selected SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022

The Plague is me, Eric Mouchet Gallery, Paris, France

Ornament und Verbrechen, Mario Mauroner Gallery, Salsburg, Germany

Spookrider, Uitstalling, Genk, Belgium

Flesh of the Spirit, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France

2021

Capital C, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2020

OrnAmenTum’EtKriMen, M77 Gallery, MIlan, Italy

Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France

Love, By Any Means Necessary, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK

Institut Supérieur Des Beaux Arts, Besançon, France

2019

In Gozi We Trust, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

The Second Coming (Do What Thou Wilt), Rua Red, Dublin, Ireland

#iPROtesttHEReforeIam, ADN Galeria, Barcelona, Spain

2018

VoetStoots, Ron Mandos Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Lost in Translation, Bank Gallery, Shanghai, China

EsemPlastiK, ACB Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2017

AfroPunk, exhbition diptych, rodolphe janssen, Galerie Didier Claes Brussels, Belgium

2016

ProPaganDaDa, ADN Galeria, Barcelona, Spain

SeaSonSinHell, ACB Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2014

AniMystikAktivist, Goodman Gallery Cape Town, Woodstock, South Africa

The Intoxication of Being Kendell Geers, UnTubo, Sienna, Italy

Crossing the Line, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK

Solve et Coagula, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France

Insert 2014, a collection with Raqs Media Collective as Artistic Directors and Presented by Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation, New Delhi, India

2013

AlphaBête, rodolphe janssen, Brussels, Belgium

Heart of Darkness, Athens & Epidaurus Festival 2013, Athens, Greece

Endgame, Galleria Continua Le Moulin, Boissy-le-Châtel, France

Stealing Fire From Heaven, Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey

Kendell Geers, 1988-2012, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (catalogue)

2012

Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Chateaux Blandy-les-Tours, Blandy, France (catalogue)

2011

Hellraiser, ADN Galeria, Barcelona, Spain

No Gouvernement, No Cry, CIAP, Hasselt, Belgium

Fin de Partie, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China (catalogue)

2010

Lady/God/Gift, Kendell Geers participation in the project: Domino Canibal, Contemporary Art Project Murcia, Spain

National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

Third World Disorder, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

Handgrenades from my Heart, rodolphe janssen, Brussels, Belgium

2009

A GUEST + A HOST = A GHOST, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK

Irrespektiv, MART, Trento, Italy (catalogue)

The Wasteland, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France

2008

Oficina Para de Arte A.C., Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

Irrespektiv, MOCA, Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, France (catalogue)

Irrespektiv, DA2 Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain (catalogue)

PostPunkPaganPop, de Pury & Luxembourg Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland (catalogue)

2007

Kannibale, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France

Irrespektiv, BALTIC, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK (catalogue)

Irrespektiv, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Gent, Belgium (catalogus)

Auto da fé, BPS22, Charleroi, Belgium (catalogue)

2006

The word made flesh, Galerie Stephen Friedman, London, UK

2005

Satyr:Ikon, Galleria Continua, San Gimigano, Italy

The Fall, Sorry we’re closed, Brussels, Belgium

Hung, Drawn and Quartered, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO USA (catalogue)

2004

Hung, Drawn and Quartered, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinatti, OH USA (catalogue)

Sexus, Cimaise et Portique, Albi, France (catalogue)

The forest of suicides, MACRO Museum, Roma, Italy (monography)

In the flesh, Salon 94, New York, NY USA

2003

NOITU(LOVE)R, Castello di Ama per l’arte contemporanea Lecchi in Chianti, Italy

Inferno, CCA Kitakyushu Project Gallery, Japan (artists book)

Terrorealismus, Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland

The Prodigal son, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

Rogue States, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK

2002

Grenzgänger, Galerie Luis Campana, Cologne, Germany

Mondo Kane, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy

A Spy in the House of Love, Camouflage, Brussels, Belgium

Sympathy for the Devil, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (catalogue)

2001

Where Angels Fear to Tread, Delfina Project Space, London, UK

Televisionaries, Würtembergischer Kunstverein and Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany

2000

Timbuktu, MAK, Vienna, Austria

¡Ya Basta!, Le Consortium, Dijon, France

Ex Africa Semper Aliquid Novi, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France

Arte all’Arte V edizione, Volterra, Italy

Inova, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI USA

Art Unlimited, Basel ArtFair, Basel, Switzerland

1999

States of Emergency, Vienna Secession, Vienna, Austria (catalogue)

Heart of Darkness, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Project Rooms, Arco, Madrid, Spain

1998

Guilty, Fort Klapperkop, Pretoria, South Africa

98.3, ArtPace, San Antonio, TX USA (brochure)

Heart of Darkness, Gallery in the Round, Grahamstown, South Africa (brochure)

1997

Memento Mori, de Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands

1996

Black on the Inside (with Neil Goedhals), Galerie Metroplex, Johannesburg, South Africa

16 June 1976 (with Willie Bester), Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

1995

Work on Paper, Chalkham Hill Press Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa W.C., Villa Arson, Nice, France

1994

Air de Paris, Everard Read Contemporary & ICA & Market Theatre Galleries, Johannesburg, South Africa

We are Johannesburg Artists and Nothing More, Michaelis Art Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

1993

The New Patron, Everard Read Contemporary, Johannesburg, South Africa

Threshold: The Exhibition, Everard Read Contemporary, Johannesburg, South Africa

Objects, Natal Technikon Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa

1991

Mediations, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

1988

Box Theatre, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

SELECTED PERFORMANCES

2020

Video Forever #45 Performance (1st Part) , Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris FRANCE

2017

Performa 17, New York, NY USA

2015

OFF-Biennale Budapest, Hungary

2014

Ritual/Resist, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France

Ritual/Resist, Johannesburg Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa

2013

Red Snyper, Transformator, Festival van Metamorfose, Zwevegem, Belgium (with Patrick Codenys)

Red Snyper, Schlagstrom Festival, Berlin, Germany (with Patrick Codenys)

2012

Ritual/Resist, La Maison Particulière, Bruxelles, Belgium

’A Memorable Fancy’ , The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Chateau Blandy-les-Tours, France (with Ilse Ghekiere)

2011

’Red Sniper’, Body Farm, Magasin 4, Brussels, Belgium

2009

”CODEX GIGAS”, Starr Space, Brooklyn, NY USA

A House is Not a Home, La Calmeleterie, Amboise, France

2008

Oficina Para de Arte A.C., Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

PostPunkPaganPop, MOCA, Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, France

LostLustLast, Perfrormance and Installation, Royal Monceau Hotel, Paris, France (Destruction Party)

PostPunkPaganPop, Gallery de Pury & Luxembourg, Zürich, Switzerland

2007

November CIMATIC/07AV/FestivalBrussels International Festival for Live Audiovisual Art&VJing, Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium

50 Jaar Vrienden V/H Smak, Ghent, Belgium

Festival 10 days off, the fucKINGFUCKS, Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium

Biennale Charleroi danse Performance Kendell Geers and the fucKINGFUCKS, BPS22, Charleroi, Belgium

2005

Cultuurcentrum Evergem, Belgium

Les Grands Spectacles - 120 Jahre Kunst und Massenkultur, Museum der Moderne Salzburg Mönchsberg, Austria

Elektra Festival, Montréal, Canada

Strange, Familiar and Unforgotten, Galerie Erna Hécey, Bruxelles

Dans le Collimateur, Dieppe Scene Nationale, Dieppe, France

2004

Criminal Brides, Buda, Kortijk, Belgium

Videozone, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

Playlist, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

Opera Video, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy

2003

Rhythm and Chaos,Transart 03, Bolzano, Italy

Rhythm and Chaos, Beaulieu Art Gallery, Oudenaarde, Belgium (group show)

Guests, curated by Luk van Acker, Handelsbeursgebouw, Ghent, Belgium

Guided by Heroes, curated by Raf Simons, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium

Prototype, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022

Avant que j’oublie..., Exposition Ephémère, Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium

Glassstress, Venetian Glass today, Milesgarden Museum, Sweden

Glassstress. “State of Mind”, Fondazione Berengo Art Space Murano, Italy

Setouchi Triennale 2022, Takamijima, Japan

Power, Light !, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany

Planet B : Climate change and the new sublime, Palazzo Bollani, 59e Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

Bienvenue dans le désert du réel, la Collection Lambert, Avignon, France

VIOLENCE & COMPASSION, Saint-Martins Church, Kortrijk, Belgium

The Circus We Are, Delta Museum, Namur, Belgium

Statements, group show curated by Stefano Raimondi, Bergamo

2021

Luttes et utopies 1971-2021 50 ans d’Art engagé, Musée de Millau et FUCK YOU !, Kunsthuis Harelbeke, Belgium

Garden of Senses, Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art Salzburgdes Grands Causses, France

Bronze Bronze Bronze, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Southampton NY USA

Lasting Influences group show, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

Glasstress, The State Hermitage Museum in partnership with Fondazione Berengo, Saint Petersburg

Bye Bye His-Story, Chapter 5050, Le Centre de la Gravure et de I˙Image imprimée, La Louvière, Belgium

Paradise, The Triennial of Kortrijk, Kortrijk, Belgium

Salon Globalisto, Curated by Mo Laudi, Bonne espérance Gallery, Paris, France

Retour, à la rencontre de l’Afrique contemporaine, Nantes, France

De poreuze stad, TraumA, Bruges Triennial 2021, Bruges, Belgium

HÖHENRAUSCH 2020 – Like in Paradise, OÖ Kulturquartier, Linz, Austria

2020

KIP – Kunst In Puurs, Puurs, Belgium

The Clown Spirit, De Rossaert, Antwerp, Belgium

2019

Dysfunctional, Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca’d’Oro, Venice, Italy

Liquid Existences, Giudecca Art District, Venice, Italy

Dark Fantasy, Carpenters Workshop Gallery,Los Angeles, CA USA

JRSLM — PARADISE LOST AGAIN, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Habiter l’intime, Works on Paper, Foundation Thalie, Brussels, Belgium

Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisboa, Portugal

IncarNations : African Art as Philosophy, curated by Kendell Geers and Sindika Dokolo BOZAR/Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium

Glasstress 2019, Fondazione Berengo Art Space, Venice, Italy

2018

The Street. Where the World Is Made, curated by Hou Hanru, MAXXI, Rome, Italy

Hacer noche, Convent of Santo Domingo, Oaxaca, Mexico

Us or Chaos, Collection of A/Political curated by Becky Haghpanah-Shirwan, BPS 22, Charleroi, Belgium

Believe, MOCA Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Vienna Line, MAM, Mario Mauroner gallery, Vienna, Austria

Talisman In The Age Of Difference, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK

Black Mirror, Mario Mauronier Gallery, Salzburg, Austria

Bric à Brac, curated by Gerardo Mosquera, Galleria nazionale d’arte moderna e contemporanea, Rome, Italy

The Road To Justice, MAXXI Museum, Rome, Italy

Talisman in the Age of Difference, curated by Yinka Shonibare, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK

Narrative Means, curated by Anthea Buys, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

P(ART)cours / Par(KUNST), La Médiatine, Brussels, Belgium

2017

Ecce Homo, Geukens & De Vil, Antwerp, Belgium

Fear, Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent, Belgium

HOW TO SAY IT THE WAY IT IS!, Selected works from the a/political collection curated by Franko B, Rua Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

SUPERDEMOCRATIE, The Belgian Senate, Brussels, Belgium

All Things Being Equal…, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa

documenta 14, Kassel, Germany

2016

Bric-à- Brac, The Jumble of Grow, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China

The 11th edition of the Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China

BXL Universel, La Centrale Electrique, Brussels, Belgium

LA TRAVERSEE DES INQUIETUDES, Une trilogie librement inspirée de la pensée de Georges Bataille, curated by Lea Bismuth, Le Lab-Labanque de Béthune, France

Football : à la limite du hors-jeu, Musée d’Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France

Kromus + Zink, Berlin, Germany

Foot Foraine, Gare Saint-Sauveur, Lille, France

New Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Show of Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

PUNK. Its traces in contemporary art, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain

something old, something new, rodolphe janssen, Brussels, Belgium

TRIBAL, Carpenters Workshop Gallery in collaboration with Bernard Du lon, Paris, France

Les Possédés, La friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France

GlassFever, Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht, The Netherlands

Portrait de l’Artiste en Alter, Frac Haute-Nor­man­die, France

Hacking Habitat, Art of Control, Internationale Kunstmanifestatie, Utrecht, The Netherlands

A History. Contemporary Art from the Centre Pompidou, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

Everybody is crazy, but me, Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium

The Importance of Being: A Panorama on Belgian Contemporary Art, Museo de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; Museu de Arte Contempopânea da Universidade de Säo Paulo, Brasil

Geometrix: Line, Form, Subversion, Curator’s Office, Washington, WA USA

2015

Les Mondes Inversés, BPS22, Charleroi, Belgium

Follia Continua! Les 25 ans de la Galleria Continua, CentQuatre, Paris, France

Edge Of Silence, Goddman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

The Importance of Being: A Panorama on Belgian Contemporary Art, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina

THEOREM. You Simply Destroy the Image I Always Had of Myself, curated by Octavio Zaya, MANA Contemporary, New Jersey, NJ USA

”Give me a mask and he will tell you the truth” Oscar Wilde, rodolphe janssen, Brussels, Belgium

Punk.Its Traces in Contemporary Art, CA2M, Madrid, Spain

Guild International Design Fair, Cape Town, South Africa

The Poetry In Between: South-South / 2015, Goodman Galley, Cape Town, South Africa

The Importance of Being: A Panorama on Belgian Contemporary Art, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba

Ground Floor up (RED), BANK, MABSociety, Shanghai, China

2014

”As I Run and Run, Happiness Comes Closer”, Hôtel Beaubrun, Paris, France

Ruffneck Constructivists, ICA, Philadelphia, PA USA

Divine Comedy, curated by Simon Njami, Frankfurt MMK (travels to Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington - Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid - Correo Venezia - Hayward Gallery, London)

What Marcel Duchamp Taught me, The fine Art Society Contemporary, London, UK

Odd Volums, Book Art from the Allan Chasanoff Collection, Yale Unversity Art Gallery, New Haven, CT USA

2013

Beyond Liaisons, World Jewellery Museum, Seoul, Korea

The Progress of Love, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX USA ; Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria ; and the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, MO USA

Transformator, festival van de metamorfose, Transfo, Zwevegem, Belgium

Artificial Amsterdam, a group show curated by Gerard Mosquera, de Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

My Joburg, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France

Monkey Business, Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, Paris, France

Picasso to Koons: The Artist as Jeweler, the BAAS museum, Miami, FL USA

Blago Bung 8, Performance Action Sound Poetry Video, Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, NY USA

Le Moulin, Galeria Continua, Boissy-le-Châtel (Seine-et-Marne), France

2012

Dark Garnaal, rodolphe janssen, Summer Project, Villa Knokke, Knokke Heist, Belgium

Newtopia (curated by Katerina Gregos), Kazerne Dossin Memorial, Mechelen, Belgium

The Rainbow Nation. Hedendaagse beeldhouwkunst uit Zuid-Afrika | Contemporary South African sculpture, Sculptuurinstituut | Museum Beelden aan Zee, El Den Haag- Scheveningen, The Netherlands

Sex, Argent et Pouvoir, La maison Particuliere, Brussels, Belgium

Picasso to Koons: The Artist as Jeweler, IVAM, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia, Spain

The Progress of Love,The Menil Collection, Houston, TX USA (catalogue)

Manifesta 9, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Genk, Limburg, Belgium (catalogue)

Struggle(s), 4 Private collections, Maison Particuliere, Brussels, Belgium

Néon, Who’s afraid of red, yellow and blue? La Maison Rouge, Paris, France (catalogue)

2011

NUNC, ET IN HORA MORTIS NOSTRAE, rodolphe janssen, Brussel, Belgium

Mémoires du futur, la collection Olbricht, La maison Rouge, Paris, France (catalogue)

Spheres 4, Galleria Continua Le Moulin, Paris, France

It Won’t Happen Again, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China

Super-Organism, CAF Art Museum Biennale, Beijing, China

Terrible Beauty—Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of Non-Compliance, Dublin Contemporary 2011, Ireland

Sopra/naturale. La Forma riflette, Pietrasanta, Italy

ArtUnlimited, Art Basel, Basel (catalogue)

How to Philosophize with a Hammer, White Box, New York, NY, USA

Big Brother, L’artiste face aux Tyrans, The Palais des Arts et du Festival, Dinard, France (catalogue)

Glasstress, Eventi collaterali di La Biennale di Venizia, Venice, Italy (catalogue)

Sympathy for the Devil, VanhaerentsArtCollection, Brussels, Belgium (catalogue)

The Luminous Interval, The Daskalopoulos Collection, The Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain (catalogue)

Celluloid Brushes, Film Posters by artists, Etablissement d’en Face, Brussels, Belgium

Picasso to Koons: The Artist as Jeweler, MAD, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY, USA

CON AMORE- Leif Djurhuus Samling, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark (catalogue)

Anonymously Yours, Maison Gregoire, Brussel, Belgium (catalogue)

2010

Mexico Expected/Unexpected, MOLAA, Museum of Latin American Art, CA, USA

Je crois aux Miracles, Collection Yvon Lambert, Avignon, France

Idoles, Le Moulin, Galleria Continua, Boissy-le Chatel, Paris, France

The Right to Protest, Museum on the Seam, Socio-Political Contemporary Art Museum, Israel

Bare Life, Museum on the Seam, Socio-Political Contemporary Art Museum, Israel

Wish List of a Young Collector, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France

Lust and Vice: The Seven Deadly Sins from Dürer to Nauman, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland (catalogue)

México - esperado/inesperado, B.P.S.22 - Espace de création contemporaine, Belgium

Spazio, Dalle collezioni di arte e architettura del MAXXI, MAXXI, Roma, Italy

Bern Biennale, The Museum of Fine Art in Bern, Switzerland

The 29th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil (catalogue)

Nieuwe Monumenten, Middelheimmuseum, Antwerp (catalogus)

Strengths and Convictions, Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, Sweden (catalogue)

UltraMegaLore-Fashion Icon, Het Modemuseum Hasselt, Belgium (catalogue)

One Shot ! Football and contemporary art, BPS22 espace de création contemporaine, Charleroi, Belgium (catalogue)

Dada South? Iziko Museums Of Cape Town, South Africa (catalogue)

Contemplating the Void, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY USA (catalogue)

Winter Show, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2009

SCRATCH!, ADN Galeria, Barcelona, Spain

Visions of paradise: utopias | dystopias | heterotopias, Berezdivin Collection, Espacio 1414, Puerto Rico

Art Foundation Mallorca, CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain

Fonction Critique, quelques apparitions diversement manifestees, sur une proposition de M.Fadat, Aperto, Montpellier, France (Catalogue)

Spheres 2009, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, Paris, France

Locus Solus, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France

Re:Print, n.a.v. een grafisch werktraject in het Frans Masereel Centrum in Kasterlee, Cultuurcentrum Mechelen, Mechelen, Belgium (catalogue)

Hellwach Gegenwartig, Ausblicke auf die Sammlung Marta, Marta Herford, Germany

Dark Summer, rodolphe janssen, Brussels, belgium

Une collezione trasversale, Da Duchamp a Nino Calos, da Cattelan a Entang Wiharso, ALT Arte Contemporanea, Spazio Fausto Radici, Alzano Lombardo, Italy

A House is Not a Home, La Calmeleterie, Amboise, France

SONS Shoes Or not Shoes?, Kruishoutem, Belgium

Time of the Signs, de Pury & Luxembourg Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland

Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War, Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo, Ireland

2008

Artist-Citizen / Contextual artistic practices, Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Serbia

Chambre à part II, La Réserve, Paris, France

7+1Project Rooms, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporànea de Vigo, Spain

‘My Favorite Object’, Artists and Architects present their favourite object in the MAK, The Vienna artweek, MAK, Vienna

WALL ROCKETS, New Flag Art Foundation Show, Contemporary Artist and Ed Ruscha, curated by Lisa Dennison, New York, NY USA (catalogue)

Collection Agustin et Isabel Coppel, Mexico Expected/Unexpected, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France

Betwixt – Sofia Hultén curated by Richard Julin, Magasin 3, Stockholm Konsthall, Sweden

NEON, curated by Tania Doropoulos, Gallery Anna Schwartz, Sydney, Australia

Bare Life, Jerusalem’s Museum on the Seam, Israel

Neon Bible, Collection Yvon Lambert, Avignon, France

Neighbourhood Secrets, Kvadrat, Stavanger 2008 European Capital of Culture, Norway

Person of the Crowd: The contemporary Art of Flânerie, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, NY USA

Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War, Blackwood Gallery, Curated by Séamus Kealy, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Canada

2007

J’embrasse Pas, Collection Yvon Lambert, Avignon, France

Passage du Temps, Collection François Pinault Foundation, Lille, France

My Sweet Sixteen Party, rodolphe janssen, Brussels, Belgium

Werchter Rock Festival, Amuseevous project, Werchter, Belgium

Hidden Cities, Third International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

African Pavilion, 52nd Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (catalogue)

Global Cities, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, UK

L’emprise du lieu, curated by Daniel Buren , Domaine Pommery, Reims, France (catalogue)

One Colour, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China

The Freak Show, Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, France (catalogue)

Stock Zero, Or The Icy Water Of Egoistical Calculation, Nicolas Bourriaud, 2 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia (catalogue)

1 Biennal of the Canaries islands, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain (catalogue)

Emerging Wor(l)ds, The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague, Czech Republic

Il faut rendre à Cézanne…, Collection Yvon Lambert, Avignon, France (catalogue)

2006

Only the Paranoid Survive, HVCCA - Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY USA

Being, In Brussels, Argos, Brussels, Belgium (catalogue)

SD Observatory, IVAM, Valencia, Spain (catalogue)

HUMAN GAME, curated by Francesco Bonami, Fondazione Pitti Immagine, Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy (catalogue)

A Fiction of Authenticity-Contemporary Africa Abroad, Blaffer Gallery-The Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA

One Star Stop, Galerie Erna Hècey, Brussels, Belgium

Take a Walk on the Wild Side, de Pury & Luxembourg, Zürich, Switzerland (catalogue)

Images Publiques, 1ère Triennale d’art public, Liège, Belgium

Ballkünstler, Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig, Germany (catalogue)

The Flip Book Show, Fotomuseum, Antwerp, Belgium

Taste. In Viaggio Con Le Diversità Del Gusto, Stazione Leopolda, Firenze, Italy

Metropolitanscape, Il paesaggio urbano nell’arte contemporanea, Palazzo Cavour, Turin, Italy (catalogue)

DON JUAN alias Don Giovanni or “Two plus two equals four” or “Lust is the only swindle I wish permanence”, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria (catalogue)

Exces, Nr.12 Beelden en lichamen in buitensporige tijden, Z33, Zuivelmarkt, Hasselt, Belgium (catalogus)

Looking both ways, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA USA (catalogue)

George Condo, Wim Delvoye, Kendell Geers, Mrzyk & Moriceau, Thomas Palme, Gert & Uwe Tobias, rodolphe janssen, Brussels, Belgium

2005

Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht, ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany (catalogue)

War is over 1945-2005 la libertà dell’arte da Picasso a Warhol a Cattelan, GAMeC – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy (catalogue)

ADAM, International exhibition of contemporary art, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam (catalogue)

Expérience de la durée, Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon 2005, Lyon, France (catalogue)

Leaps of Faith, Nicosia, Cyprus (catalogue)

Daumenkino, The Flip Book Show, KunstHalle Dusseldorf, Germany (catalogue)

CCA Kitakyushu Artist’s Books, Galerie Christophe Daviet-Thery, Paris, France

Brussels South Airport, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria (catalogue)

Manmano, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China

10th year Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK

Dionysiac, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (catalogue)

Looking both ways, curated by L.A.Farell, Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal (touring show) (catalogue)

Looking both ways, curated by L.A.Farell, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, UK (touring show) (catalogue)

2004

Wall Drawings, MMSU,16th International Drawings Exhibition curated by Branko Franceschi, Rijeka, Croatia (catalogue)

Terminal 5, curated by Rachel K.Ward, John F.Kennedy International Airport, New York City, NY USA (catalogue)

Stock Zero-Opera, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, MNAC, Bucharest, Romania (catalogue)

Art in the Age of Terrorism, Millais Gallery, Southampton, UK

Channel Zero, Curated by Katerina Gregos, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Democracy is fun, White box, New York, NY USA

Transcultures, The cultural Olympiad and the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece (catalogue)

Tijdelijk verblijf/ Séjour Ephemère/temporary residence, Stedelijk Musea Kortrijk, Kortrijk, Belgium

Ipeg bild.ton.maschine, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (Liquid Architecture)

Cremers haufen.alltag,Prozesse, handlungen: kunst der 60er jahre und heute, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für kunst und kulturgeschichte, Münster, Germany (catalogue)

The Ten Commandments; Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden, Germany

OK, America ! APEX Art, New York, NY USA

Le Opere e i Giorni, Certosa di San Lorenzo, Padula, Italy (catalogue)

Not Done, Muhka, Antwerp, Belgium (catalogue)

Art Unlimited, Galeria Continua, Basel art fair, Switzerland (catalogue)

Visions of Paradise, João Ferreira Fine Art, Cape Town, South Africa (catalogue)

Looking both ways, curated by L.A.Farell, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI USA (touring show) (catalogue)

Looking both ways, curated by L.A.Farell, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem (touring show) (catalogue)

Les Afriques, Tri Postal, Lille, France

2003

Synopsis III -Testimonies: between fiction and reality, EMET, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece (catalogue)

Looking both ways, curated by L.A.Farell, Museum for African Art, New York, NY USA (catalogue)

Poetic Justice, 8th International Istanbul Biennal, Haghia Sophia Museum, Turkey (catalogue)

Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, New Museum, New York, NY USA (catalogue)

A Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary Africa Abroad, Contemporary Art Museum St Louis, MO USA (catalogue)

Opening Gallery Beaulieu, Oudenaarde, Belgium

Poëzie Zomer, Opzij van het kijken, Watou, Belgium

African Exile Museum, Migros Museum, Zürich, Switzerland

A Prove d’Ascolto, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy (catalogue)

Time, art and architecture, Biennal of Valencia, Spain (catalogue)

Coollustre, curated by Eric Troncy, Collection Lambert en Avignon, France (catalogue)

Göteborgs Internationella Konstbiennal, Göteborg, Sweden (catalogue)

Next Flag, Hans Bogatzke Collection, B.P.S.22, Charleroi, Belgium

Thatcher, The Blue Gallery, London, UK

HardCore, Vers un Nouvel Activisme, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (catalogue)

M_ARS – Art and War, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria (catalogue)

Salon des Refusées, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy (Catalogue)

Sted//Place Galerie Asbæk & Kastrupgardsamlingen, Copenhagen, Denmark (Catalogue)

Observatorio #5 Camouflage, Brussels, Belgium

Next Flag, B.P.S.22, Charleroi, Belgium (Catalogue)

Video-Zone@LX, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal

2002

Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany (catalogue)

Trauma, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK (catalogue)

The Short Century, PS1, New York, NY USA (catalogue)

Editionen Part One / 2002, Galerie & Edition Artelier, Graz, Austria

Tutto Casino, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy (Catalogue)

To Actuality, Bolzano, Italy

Video-Zone, 1st International Video-Art Biennial, Tel Aviv, Israel (Catalogue)

Refuge Tilflukt, Henie Onstad, Oslo, Norway (Catalogue)

Handlungsanweisungen - Instructions for Actions, (with Anri Sala) Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria (Catalogue)

…privat, Charim Galerie, Vienna, Austria

zeichen > <sprache, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria

Enactments of the Self, Steirischiser Herbst, Graz, Austria

Surviving Apartheid, Maison Europenne de la Photographie, Paris, France

2001

ARS 01, Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland (catalogue)

Marking the Territory, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

Recasting the Past: Beneath the Hollywood Tinsel, Main Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, CA USA

The Short Century, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany, and touring (catalogue)

Locus Focus, Sonsbeek, Arnheim, The Netherlands (catalogue)

Skulptur – Biennale im Münsterland, Kloster Gravenhorst, Hörstel, Germany (catalogue)

Casino 2001, 1st Quadronnial of Contemporary Art, S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium (catalogue)

Trauma, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK and Konverzacija, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Belgrade, Serbia (catalogue)

In cold blood, State University of New York and New Palz, NY USA

Short Stories, Fabbrica del Vaporeo, Milan, Italy (catalogue)

Berlin Biennale, Jannowitzbrücke, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)

2000

Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival 2000, Pusan, Korea; curated by Hou Hanru (catalogue)

The Sky is the Limit Taipei Biennial, Taipei, Taiwan (catalogue)

3 Räume – 3 Flüsse, Hann.Münden, Kassel, Germany (catalogue)

The Invisible Touch, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria

Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Japan (catalogue)

VideoBrasil International Electronic Art Festival, Sao Paulo, Brasil (catalogue)

Acts of Resistance, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastian, Spain (catalogue)

Untitled (Sculpture), Luhring Augustine, New York, NY USA

Inverse Perspectives, Edsvik konst kultur, Sollentuna, Sweden

Positions Attitudes Actions, Foto Biennale Rotterdam, The Netherlands (catalogue)

Atmosfere Metropolitane, Openspace, Milano, Italy

Memórias íntimas Marcas, MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium (catalogue)

Continental Shift/ For R.EAL, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands (catalogue)

Home, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

Micropolitiques, Le Magasin, Grenoble, France (catalogue)

South Meets West, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland (catalogue)

HB First View, Camouflage, Johannesburg, South Africa

1999

Zeitwenden, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany (catalogue)

Bodies of Resistance, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT USA

South Meets West, National Museum, Accra, Ghana (catalogue)

Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (catalogue)

Five Continents and One City, Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City (catalogue)

Patentia, NIFCA Stockholm, Sweden

A3HB, Camouflage, Brussels, Belgium

Extra and Ordinaire, Printemps de Cahors, Cahors, France (catalogue)

Following and to be Followed, Le Consortium, Dijon, France

High Red Centre, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, UK

Power, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany (catalogue)

Traffique, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium (catalogue)

Global Conceptualism: points of Origin 1950s-1980s, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA (catalogue)

Entrée Libre (http://www.culture.fr/entreelibre/)

1998

Memórias Íntimas Marcas, Instituto de Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, Portugal

Europa Afrika, 7 Triennale der Kleinen Plastik’ Südwest LB, Stuttgart, Germany (catalogue)

Dark Continent, Klein Karoo Arts Festival, Outshoorn, South Afrika

Odradek, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Annadale on Hudson, New York

City Canibal, Paço Das Artes, São Paulo Bienal, São Paulo, Brasil (catalogue)

Cross/ing, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica; University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, FL USA (catalogue)

Medialization, Edsvik konst kultur, Sollentuna, Sweden (catalogue)

1997

Alternating Currents, Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa (catalogue)

Cross/ing, University of South Florida Art Gallery, Tampa, Florida, USA (catalogue)

Unplugged II, Rembrandt van Rijn Art Gallery, Market Theatre, Johannesburg, South Africa

October, Norwich School of Art and Design Art Gallery, Norwich, UK

Purple and Green, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa

1996

Inclusion Exclusion, Kunstlerhaus, Graz, Austria (catalogue)

Simunye (We Are One), Adelson Galleries, New York, NY USA

Colours, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany

Egoists at Work, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria

Crapshoot, de Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (catalogue)

Unplugged, Rembrandt van Rijn Gallery, Market Theatre, Johannesburg, South Africa

The Young and the Restless, Sandton Art Gallery, Sandton, South Africa

1995

On the Road, Delfina Studios, Africa95, London, UK (catalogue)

Mayibuye iAfrika, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK

Outside/Inside, Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa (catalogue)

Vita Art Now, Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa

1994

Vita Art Now, Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa

Quinta Bienal de la Habana, Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba (catalogue)

Un Art Contemporain d’Afrique du Sud, curated by Jean-Yves Jounnais, Galerie de l’Esplanade, La Defence, Paris, France (catalogue)

VI Biennale d’Arte Sacra, San Gabriele, Teramo, Italy

Identita e Rappresentazioni Cartografiche, curated by Teresa Macri and Lucilla Meloni, Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico Luigi Pigorini, Rome, Italy

The Netherlands Against Apartheid, Amsterdam’s Historisch Museum, Holland (catalogue)

Zuiderkruis, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland (catalogue)

Collections

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, United States

Zeitz MOCA, South Africa

BPS22, Charleroi, Belgium

Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

Chicago Art Institute, IL USA

Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa

Marta Herford Museum, Germany

Magasin 3 Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden

SMAK Ghent, Belgium

South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

UNISA Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa

Wits University Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa