Johan Grimonprez

Page 1 | Biography

Born: 1962, Roeselare, Belgium
Lives: and works in Brussels, Belgium and New York, USA

Solo Exhibitions
2010
DOUBLE TAKE, A Theatrical Screening, Voges Gallery, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2009
Magazin 3, Stockholm, Sweden
DOUBLE TAKE, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA

2008
DOUBLE TAKE, Art Unlimited/Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA

2007
Looking for Alfred, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany

2005
Looking for Alfred, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Looking for Alfred, Mead Gallery, University of Warwick Arts Centre, UK

2004
Revolution/Restoration Part II, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Looking for Alfred, Photographers Gallery, London, UK
We never tell everything, we always keep something for the next anthropologist, Yvon Lambert, New York, USA
HOLLYWOOO: Flag Raising Ceremony, Hollywood Hills House, Los Angeles, USA

2003
Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, The Essor Gallery, London, UK
Remo, Osaka, Japan
Kojimacchi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
During Commercial Break... , web project introduced by Johan Grimonprez, Argos Brussels, Belgium

2002
How do we know the sky isn�t really green and we're just colorblind?, videolibrary at the Santa Monica Museum of Art (SMMOA), Los Angeles, USA

2001
Maybe the sky is green and we�re just colorblind, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
I�m a bit like you, I�m a bit in the clouds, Impakt/ Flatland Gallery, Utrecht, The Netherlands

2000
Erna-H�cey Gallery, Luxemburg, Luxemburg
Deitch Projects, New York, USA
House of Contemporary Arts, Traf�, Budapest, Hungary
Maybe the sky is green and we�re just colorblind, videolounge, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Atomium, Brussels, Belgium
Centro Galego Arte Contemporanea (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Museum f�r Neue Kunst/ Zentrum f�r Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
Your Words Have Reached My Ears, Anthony d�Offay Gallery, London, UK
INSERT COMMERCIAL HERE, videolounge at The Kitchen, New York, USA

1999
Oakville Gallery, Oakville, Toronto, Canada
Casino d�Art Contemporain, Luxemburg, Luxemburg
Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia

1998
Gallery 227, Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, The Netherlands
We must be over the rainbow�, Centro Galego Arte Contemporanea (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Gallery for Contemporary Art, Cambridge, UK
Chapter Art Center, Cardiff, UK
La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
Centro Cultural do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Mus�e du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
Bild Museet, Umea, Sweden
Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK
Munchener Kunstverein, Munich, Germany
Ludwig-Suermondt Museum, Aachen, Germany

1997
Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norway
Kiasma Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki, Finland
Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (MUHKA), Antwerpen, Belgium
Palais des Beaux Arts/ Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels, Belgium
Prends Garde! A Jouer au fant�me, on le devient, De Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium
Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Museu da Republica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Deitch Projects, New York, USA
Prends Garde! A Jouer au fant�me, on le devient, MNAM, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

1995
Beware! In playing the phantom you become one, Vereniging van het Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium

Group Exhibitions
2009
A Certain State of the World? A Selection for Works From the Francois Pinault Foundation,
Center For Contemporary Culture, Garage, Moscow, Russia
Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War, Goethe-Institut, Ireland
Artists Rooms, The collection of Anthony d�Offay, UK (travelling exhibition)
Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, Inverness; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh;
Tramway, Glasgow; Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney; Aberdeen Art Gallery; Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool,
Tate Modern and Tate St. Ives; Wolverhampton Art Gallery; Ulster Museum; National Museums Northern
Ireland, Belfast; National Museum Cardiff; Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney; Aberdeen Art Gallery; De La
Warr Pavilion, Bexhill; New Art Gallery, Walsall; Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art; Graves Gallery,
Museums Sheffield; The Lightbox, Woking and Firstsite, Colchester

2008
Ornithology: Looking at Birds, Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Contemporary Art Galleries, Connecticut, USA
Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War, Blackwood Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2007
L�Evenement (The Event), Jeu De Paume, Paris, France
Lights, Camera, Action: Artists Films for the Cinema, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Role Exchange, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA

2006
Video: An Art, A History 1965-2005, New Media Collection Centre Pompidou,
Miami Art Central, Miami, USA
Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist�s Eye, MART, Rovereto, Italy

2005
Artfilmbiennale Cologne, Germany
Encosta, Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Carcavelos, Lisbon, Portugal
Unheimlich, De warande, Turnhout, Belgium
Museum Night Lausanne, Palais De Rumine, Switzerland
50 Jahre/Years Documenta 1955 -2005, Kunsthalle Fridericianum Kassel, Germany
Farsites: Urban Crisis and Domestic Symptoms in Recent Contemporary Art, part of IN SITE_05,
Centro Cultural Tijuana, San Diego, Mexico
Art Unlimited/Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland, represented by ERNA HECEY GALLERY
Inauguration show, De la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, USA
Voices of Site, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, USA
Manipulation. On economies of deceit, International Biennale of Contemporary Art 2005 (IBCA 200 5),
National Gallery Prague, Czech Republic
Laocoon Devoured, Artium, Basque Center-Museum of Contemporary Art, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Moderna by Night, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Strange, Familiar and Unforgotten, Erna H�cey Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Art Brussels 2005, Brussels Expo, Belgium
videoDictionary of TheVideoArtFoundation , the Island Art Film & Video Festival, London, UK
Fair Use: Appropriation in Recent Film and Video, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Just do it! The subversion of signs from Marcel Duchamp to Prada Meinhof, Lentos Art Museum, Linz, Austria
Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist�s Eye, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Detox � By Any Media Necessary, Kunstnerneshus, Oslo, Norway
Zur Vorstellung des Terrors: Die RAF-Ausstellung (Regarding Terror: the RAF-Exhibition), Kunst Werke, Berlin, Germany
Zur Vorstellung des Terrors: Die RAF-Ausstellung (Regarding Terror: the RAF-Exhibition), Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
Screen Tests, Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam, Internationaal Film Festival Rotterdam

2004
PROOF � The Act of Seeing With Ones Own Eyes, Screen Gallery of the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia
ParaDocs, Stedelijk Museum CS Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Gutentak Gesamtausstellung 2004, Annual Show of the Stuttgart Art Academy, Stuttgart, Germany
FLIGHT, LIFT Contemporary & LIFT Caffe, Cherokee, USA
Voice of Site: Tokyo - Chicago - New York, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Japan
A Complete Guide to Rewriting Your History, Sparwasser HQ, Offensive for Contemporary Art and
Communication, Berlin, Germany
Beginning Here: 101 Ways, Visual Arts Gallery, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA
Bozar Cinema, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
20th anniversary show, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Slice & Dice, School of Visual Arts Museum, New York, USA
De Loense Strategie�n van het (Kunst)Boek, Een selectie uit de Antwerpse Kunsten Bewaarbibiliotheken, Rubenianum, Antwerp, Belgium
Tour-isms. The defeat of dissent, Fundaci� Antoni T�pies, Barcelona, Spain
Whitestable Biennal, Deal, Kent, UK
A ara�eira. A colecci�n (The Cobweb. The Collection), Centro Galego de Arte Contempor�nea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Works and Days, Acquisitions for the Louisiana Collection 2000-2004, The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
Monument to Now, The Dakis Joannou Collection , DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Dartington College of Arts, Totnes, UK
Laocoon Devoured, Artium, Basque Center-Museum of Contemporary Art, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
How to learn to love the bomb and stop worrying about it, Central de Arte, Guadalajara, Mexico
This Much Is Certain, Royal College of Art Galleries, UK
MULTIPLEX, revisioning the movie house in a new 3 story cineplex at Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Tate Liverpool, UK
Centre pour l�Image Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland
Videoessay, Medienmuseum / Mediathek, Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany