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Melanie Bonajo
Melanie Bonajo, born 1978 in Heerlen, the Netherlands. She lives and works
in New York..
Her work has been exhibited and performed in international art institutions,
such as De Appel Arts Center / Amsterdam, Institute Neérlandais/Paris,
Modern Art Museum / Ljubljana, Kohun National Museum of Contemporary
Art/ Seoul, Stedelijk museum Amsterdam, PPOW Gallery/ New York, SMBA/
Amsterdam, Programm, Berlin, Museum of Modern Art / Arnhem and Foam /
Amsterdam. She made 7 publications I have a Room with Everything / 2009,
Furniture Bondage / 2009, Modern Life of the Soul / 2008, Voelkerschau and
Bush Compulsion /2009, 1 question 9 possible answers 3 rooms /2012,
Spheres / 2012. With her music project ZaZaZoZo she released the album
INUA with tsunami‐addiction in 2013. In 2008 she studied religious science;
Mysticism and Western Esotericism at the UVA. She worked as creative
editor for Capricious magazine and Mister Motley, taught workshops and
lectured on l'Ecal, Rietveld Academie, Aperture, Parsons school of Art,
Mediamatic a.o. In 2012 she initiated the collective GENITAL INTERNATIONAL
which focuses on subjects around participation, equality, our environment
and politics beyond polarity.
2014/15 Melanie Bonajo is in an artist in residence at PS1/MOMA New York.
After life against the world,
2012, registration of the performance,
hahnemuhle paper, 80 x 53 cm
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Melanie Bonajo investigates the paradoxes inherent in our future‐based
ideas of comfort. Through her photographs, performances, videos and
installations Bonajo examines subjects related to progress that remove from
the individual a sense of belonging and looks at how technological advances
and commodity‐based pleasures increase feelings of alienation within the
individual. Captivated by concepts of the divine, she explores the spiritual
emptiness of her generation, examines peoples’ shifting relationship with
nature and tries to understand existential questions by looking at our
domestic situation, idea’s around classification, concepts of home, gender
and attitudes towards value.
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'Matrix Botanica / Biosphere above Nations' touches upon the
issue that all people are indigenous from somewhere and
belonging, alongside all other life forms, to the Earth. In the video
the Voice of Nature reflects upon us humans. She explains how
she sees us and the many mis‐understandings and interpretations
which are caused by Western philosophical framework, especially
the absurd construction of placing human identity ‘outside’
nature. Nature as the protagonist, becomes a character with
personhood, one who the viewer can identify with. Through music
the listener can feed in to the image and identity of Nature. The
narrative of the video is completely based on an experience on
the psychedelic medicine called Ayahuasca.
"Matrix Botanica/Biosphere above Nations" re‐shapes
contemporary human / plant / animal rituals in a desacralized
global society. Trying to remake relations with nature on the basis
of recognising them not as things but as creative, self‐directed,
originative others. To care for things such as trees, rivers, forests,
grasses and mountains as friends is a commitment everybody will
grow from. While disbanding human identity as only minimally
and accidentally connected to the earth, a ritual is created in
which “re‐earthing” is used for Modern individuals to intuitively
gain a stronger eco‐centric perspective in a more connected uni‐
verse.
Matrix Botanica has been conceived as performance and video
work.
Matrix Botanica on Vimeo (Password: matrix)
Interview with Melanie Bonajo for Volta10
Matrix Botanica, 2013, one‐channel video projection,
22:25 minutes
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Matrix Botanica, 2012, one‐channel video projection, 22:25 min
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Matrix Botanica, 2012, one ‐channel video projection, 22:25 min
Dream Station Space on Vimeo
Dream Station Space, 2013, installation and performance
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The geodesic Dream Station Space is born
from Melanie Bonajo’s great interest in
alternative ways of living and how our
society is organized around ideas of
comfort, technology and the well‐being of
nature. In Dream Space Station you will be
transported into a performative healing,
based on the concepts of Relaxation
Revolution.
Dream Station space includes a trampoli‐
ne. It is Melanie Bonajo’s concept of
“revolution through relaxation"
“When I woke up this morning after watching Avatar for the
first time yesterday, the world seemed … gray. It was like my
whole life, everything I’ve done and worked for, lost its
meaning. It just seems so … meaningless. I still don’t really see
any reason to keep … doing things at all. I live in a dying
world.”
These are the words of one moviegoer posted on an Avatar
forum. A recent article on CNN reveals that some people who
saw the movie “Avatar” feel depressed and even suicidal over
the idea that the utopian, beautiful world of Pandora does not
exist on Earth. The movies “ecopsychological” undertones
appeal to our desire for a better connection to our world, for a
more sustainable relationship with the Earth that would allow
the possibility of the kind of beauty and prosperity that’s
depicted in the movie. One can see the protagonist in 'Man
Animal' as one of the males from the forum. Yearning for a
deeper connection to life he goes out and tries to equalize with
other living on this planet. Human beings need a connection to
the natural world in order to feel mentally healthy and whole.
Whether that connection is a pet, a garden, a tree or a nearby
park—it doesn’t matter. Manimal speaks about this urge for
reconnection with the others and the natural. It challenges
business managers to focus on the connections of life and
enquire the inner‐life when thinking about profit.
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Manimal
Video/Photography
2012
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Manimal, 2012, HD video, 4:28 min.
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Manimal, 2012, HD video, 4:28 min.
Ongoing series of protests in natural surroundings pointing towards
environmental conditions, human’s attitude to nature and ideas
about transformative power stuctures. Revolution as a concept is
brought forward not exclusively as an outward condition, but most
of all an inner conidition.
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Progress
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The piece consists of an open call to
participate in an event for equality. In this
happening the participators were asked to
sacrifice their shame. The objective of the
gathering was to re‐think our approach
towards equality in an active way. Its
intention was to eliminate the passive gaze
with which we approach art into a
participatory act in need for a physical
entrance. Because, changing perception is not
merely a question of turning the tables or
changing the language. The piece, is a
re‐enactment of VALIE EXPORT’s Genital
Panik 1968. Instead of the gun, I used color to
paint the genitals. By doing so I aim to free
the genitals from their socially and sexually
loaded meaning as an object back into a
symbol. The color stands for a playful
redefinition of innocence and the freedom of
prejudgment. I used the idea of the
action‐pants as a metaphor for focus. Where
does our gaze rest?
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Genital Panik, 2012
An Event for Equality
Participation / 2012
The fear of the women is a fear of the impulses they arouse and
the forces they stand for. In the history of art (and culture) the
female figure is not seen as actual, limited beings in the world
with their own wishes and problems, but as fantasy figures,
angels or witches, beauty icons and sexual fantasies, elementals
with all the spiritual power of whatever emotions they
represent. A woman is an internal part of a man’s life.
(Rousseau). How can that part assume independence and start
to act on its own? In this particular project the female
figure breaks free from her representation and reclaims her
image as her own. External power is important here only in so far
as it shapes institutions which work to pretext the fantasies of
the dominant group. Had women been that group, they would
no doubt have expressed their own fantasies institutionally in
the same way. Research concludes that the ideals of body
language and body forms have never been so different between
the sexes as they are today. In order to open a discussion beyond
gender identification and to complete a more spiritual approach
towards male female archetypical qualities the figures try to fuse
in to a hybrid shape representing both or none.
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Herstories of the (Social) Naked Body
Video / photography
2012
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Installation
Apple Art Centre,
2012
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Herstories of the (Social) Naked Body, 2012 (2),
one‐channel, 4:08 min
These photographs focus on how our domestic life
creates our identity and shapes our future, the
relationships that human beings have with the
environment, both private and public, and the
desire to create harmony within this. The images in
this series combine seemingly opposing elements,
nude figures with disposable objects, but when
combined these figures become a fusion of the
individual and the material, becoming a hybrid that
expresses our modern age.
Furniture Bondage on Vimeo
Annemarie, (Furniture Bondages),
2007, c‐print, 152 x 110 cm
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Furniture Bondage
Published by Kodoij Press
2009
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Katja, (Furniture Bondages), 2008, c‐print, 130 x 104 cm
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Furniture Bondage: Ozlem 2008, c‐print, 145 x 177 cm
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Furniture Bondage: Lily, 2008, c‐print, 145 x 177 cm
This project combines different elements that document
the existence of a community in a primeval forest on the
eastern border of Poland. This new movement turned
their back to modern civilization. They oppose Darwinian
theory.The cult members believe that people derive from
plants and are trying to reverse evolution by living like
them. They create ‘a new future’ based on the concept of
future regress.
After the Afterlife,
2008, C‐print, framed, 91x66 cm
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Modern Life of the Soul
(in collaboration with Kinga Kielczynska)
Publication
410 mm by 290 mm / 40 pp
self‐published
2008
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Vision Quest,
2008, C‐print, framed, 91x66 cm
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Fatal Flower Garden,
2007, C‐print, framed, 57.5x84.5 cm
Spheres explores the relationship of the individual to its
surroundings in a commodified, globalized culture uncovering
how our ideas of identity, nature and value formed by
conventions are ever shifting to feelings of uncertainty and
instability.
In this publication these issues are approached by
trying to newly create, to turn around overpowering views and
conditions that are today so influenced by our consumer society
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Spheres
Publication
270 mm by 210 mm / 16 pp
Published by Philippe Karrer
2012
1 Question, 3 Rooms, 9 possible Answers explores the way
irrationality and spirituality become a manual for survival for the
alienated human. Searching for a balance between opposites it looks
for ingredients which can make spirituality believable. The publication
exams the intrinsic value of domestic mysticism where cliches seem
to give face to the disenchanted world of the modern human.
Including works by: Shana Moulton, Özlem Atin, Simone Gilges, Bianca
Casady, Alexandr Leykauf, Sabina Maria van der Linden, Kinga
Kielczynska, Joseph Marzolla, Emmeline de Mooij.
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1 Question, 3 Rooms, 9 possible Answers
Publication
380 mm by 272 mm / 40 pp
Published by Kunstlerhaus Bethanien
2011
Völkerschau reflects on the way people treat animals by drawing
parallels between idea’s of early colonialism, humanzoo’s and
contemporary attitudes towards animals, It warns of a future in which
animals no longer exist, and have pemanently moved their existence
into the sphere of symbols.
Due to the loss, people will sanctify animals. Ghosts of the past will
fuse with the ghosts of the future, creating a cultural negative in
which the mirror with a memory reflects not the past, but presents a
desperate need for it; and mankind will keep merging himself more
and more with the machine.
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Völkerschau
Catalog / b/w manipulated barite prints
photographed in zoo (2008‐ongoing)
278 mm by 235 mm / 16 pp
Published by Capricious
2009
The images in this series combine seemingly opposing elements, nude
figures with disposable objects, but when combined these figures
become a fusion of the individual and the material, becoming a hybrid
that expresses our modern age.
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Furniture Bondage
Publication
282 mm by 218 mm / 54 pp
Published by Kodoij Press
2009
These photographs focus on how our domestic life creates our
identity and shapes our future, the relationships that human beings
have with the environment, both private and public, and the desire to
create harmony within this.
This project brings together various aspects concerning the part of
human nature suppressed in our daily existence and tries to proof
that the foundation of human nature is instinct, because human is
essentially a part of nature. The participants enter into a state of the
‘Bush‐Soul’ by following a strict set of rules. This ‘bush’ tendency is
already inherent in our nature, but via the ritual, it becomes much
more dominant.
In this way, the participants regain consciousness of the violent,
instinctual, animalistic drives erupting from deep within. The parodic
actions, tasks and exercises performed lead eventually to
identification and inhabitation in which the line between fact and
fiction vaporizes. The participants experience the possibility to
reconnect to the foundation of human nature, and are able to
integrate the outcome of this experience in a more complete
understanding of existence.
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Bush Complusion,
A primitive Breakthrough in the Modern Mind
(in collaboration with Emmeline de Mooij)
Publication
180 mm by 119 mm / 115
Published by Museum Paper
2009
This project combines different elements that document the
existence of a community in a primeval forest on the eastern border
of Poland. This new movement turned their back to modern
civilization. They oppose Darwinian theory. The cult members believe
that people derive from plants and are trying to reverse evolution by
living like them. They create ‘a new future’ based on the concept of
future regress.
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Modern Life of the Soul
(in collaboration with Kinga Kielczynska)
Publication
410 mm by 290 mm / 40 pp
self‐published
2008
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I have a Room with Everything
Monograph
270 mm by 210 mm / 115 pp
Published by Capricious publishing
2008
INTERVIEWS
“One Question, Three Rooms, 44 Possible Answers” at PPOW Gallery
Foam Magazine “Construct”
MK ‐ Award Winner
Dazed Digital
BAND
www.zazazozo.com
EDUCATION
Gerrit Rietveld Academy 1998‐2002
School of Visual Arts, New York City, 2000
Master course in Religious Science. Hermetica; Mysticism and Western Esotericism. University of Amsterdam, 2006‐2007
Gallery Representation:
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RESIDENCIES
2014 ISCP, NYC, USA
2009‐2010 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten / Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Amsterdam
2011
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE
2011
New Zero Art Space, Yangon, Myanmar
2009
FKK Resort, Ada Bojana, ME
2007
The Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), Warszawa, PL, Amsterdam, NL
AWARDS / STIPENDS
2013
Winner MK ‐ Award
Long‐listed for Vermeulen Brauckman Kunstprijs
2011
Nominated for C.o.C.a.
2009
Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Peter Paul Peterich Fonds
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Melanie Bonajo
Born in 1978, Heerlen NL
SOLO SHOWS
upcoming 2015
Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem
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Matrix Botanica; Biosphere above Nations, Museum de Pavijoens, Almere
So, Does this Hippie Crap really Work ? PPOW Gallery, NYC
****** 86 details of Paradise, Outline, Amsterdam
Physical Landscapes, RIjksakademieOpen, Amsterdam
Captive Lives Western Spectacle, Capricious Gallery, NYC
As Thrown Down From Heaven, PPOW Gallery, NYC
The Grand Exploring Soul and the Point where History failed, RijksakdemieOpen, Amsterdam
Mediummatic, Mediamatic, Amstserdam ( with k.k. )
The Power of Negative Thinking, Mediamatic, Amsterdam( with K.K. )
Modern LIfe Of The Soul, Fette‐gallery, Los Angeles
The Culture That Doesn’t Excist, Playstation, Fons Welters, Amsterdam
Are All Clichés True ?, Modern Art Museum, Lublijanja, Slovenia
The Colour Of The North, Explosions of Colours 01, Amsterdam
Double Solo Show, Amsterdam's Centrum voor Fotografie,
Readymades Not Ready, Artspace, Amsterdam
Everything Versus Nothing, Compressie‐ruimte, Amsterdam
GROUP SHOWS
2014
When Elephants Come Marching In, The Appels Art Centre, Amsterdam, NL
2014
The Rockshow, Genk, B
2014
The Personal is Political, State Abed, Split
2013
Dissident Desires, District, Berlin
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2010
Festival Internationale de la Mode et Photographie, Hyères, FR,
Nomination
2007
Veenman Publishers/HUP Gallery, 'PUP Award 2007', for 'Modern Life of the Soul'
2006
Berlinale Talent Campus, Berlin, DE
2003
Aemstelle, NL, 'Encouraging Young Artist Award'
2002
NL, 'Shell Young Artist Award', nomination
Women Commentators, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Van God Los, Museum voor Psychiatrie, Haarlem
Dutch Protest Museum, International Festival of Activist Art, Moscow
Female Power, Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem
The Oracle Show, The Wand, Berlin
HEISSE STEINE, NASSE ZONEN, SCHNELLE MELONEN, VBKÖ, Vienna
Driving Fast Nowhere, Polanski Gallery, Prague
Quicktime, Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum, Saint Petersburg
Shared Basement, Kunstenaars initiatief Beyonce, Amsterdam
Dream Station Space, Intothegreatwideopen, Vlieland
Kaap, Stichting Storm, Utrecht
Erogonous zone, ffffff, Berlin
Vermeulen Brauckman Kunstprijs,Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht
Who told you so, Onomatopee, Eindhoven
The Future that was (and Is) smart project space, Amsterdam
'20111111111'LEAP Berlin
Miami Basel with PPow gallery
"Present Forever", Amsterdam
"Bethanien Open Studio" Berlin
'The Island Show', Fat Form, Amsterdam
" Now I lay me Down to Eat, Kunstvereniging Diepenheim
" Topsy Turvy" De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam
Whats Next, Skor, Tot Zover, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam
Open studio, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien
Still/ Life FOAM, Amsterdam
The Second Act, de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam
Romantic Contruct, Prague Biennial, Prague
Paradise Lost Paradise, Kortrijk
Diversion, Moving‐Image Artfair, NYC
Chain Letter, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angelos
QUICKSCAN NL – New Photography from the Netherlands, Dutch Cultural Centre, Shanghai
End Note, Tanya Leighton and Archive Kabinett, Berlin
Cinematic Bodies, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago
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Let The Nouns Fool Around, Peter Fingesten Gallery
Private Confessions, The Cello Factory, London
Humananimal, Porthsmouth Museum of Art, Porthsmouth
Object‐Orientation: Bodies and/as Things, Cerittos College Art Gallery,LA
Diversion, ArtLA Contemporary, Los Angelos
Do We Need More Art ? Zazazozo Gallery, Berlin
Soft & Hard: Celebrating the Humorous in Contemporary Video Art by Women, Youngprojectsgallery, Los Angelos
Seven, Miami Artfair, Miami
Rijksakademie Open studio's, Amsterdam
The Pseudonym show, Brooklyn, NYC
Het Onweerstaanbare Verlangen, Nouvelles Images, Den Haag
The Woods that see and hear, Dertien Hectare, Den Bosch.
Too Much of Everything,Y3K, Melbourne
Rijksakademie Open studio's, Amsterdam
Calvin Me, CBK Dordrecht
Thank You for Hurting Me, I really Needed it, Gemeentelijke Aankopen, Stedelijk Museum,Amsterdam
Bush Compulsion, A Primitive Breakthrough in the Mind, Hyeres festival Villa
Noilles, Hyeres
Rebelle, Art and Feminism 1969‐2009, Museum voor moderne kunst Arhnem, Arnhem
Tenderloveandcare, Galleri Box, Gothenborg
Pulse Contemporary Artshow, NYC
Performance Death and Self‐representation on the Internet, Mediamatic.net
Kinder Zoo, Programm, Berlin
Ik Rip, Mediamatic, Amsterdam
Kinder Zoo, Mad Vick Tea Gallery, Paris
Disguised, Rotwandt galerie, zurich www.rotwandt.ch
Raus, Gallery Bongout, Berlin
Folk Fusion, Sequence of performances, If I can't dance,I don't want to be part of your revolution, www.ificantdance.org.
Polaroid, Bongout showroom, Belin
"Exoten" Beelden op de Berg, Arboretum 2008, Wageningen ( with k.k.)
Barcelona Art fair, in courtesy of Fette gallery NYC
Chicago Artfair, chicago in courtesy of Ppow gallery NYC
"Facelift", Bipolart,Capla Kesting Fine Art, New York City, www.Bipolart.cc
Nobody is Famous in New York, Capricious / Famous expo, New York City
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"Spacing Out", Cinders gallery,Williamsburg, Brooklyn, www.cindersgallery.com
Art Fair Brussls, Rotwand Gallery
Disguised, Rotwandt galerie, Zurich www.rotwandt.ch
(Untitled) u = ____ [a photographic group show], Fette‐gallery, Los Angelos www.fette‐gallery.com
Miami Art Fair, Fette gallery, Miami, 2007
Are All Cliche's True, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
"Joie de Construction",Peepingtomgallery, Korean Institute for the Arts, Paris
Are All Clichés True?, Krullermuller, De Hoge Veluwe, www.kmrm.nl
Capricious, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, www.smba.nl
Hollands licht, Noorderlicht Fotofestival, Naarden www.noordelicht.nl
Peeping Tom, Paris,www.peepingtomgalerie.com
Reiz und Risico, Haus fur Kunst Uri, Altdorf, Switserland, www.museen‐uri.ch
"I know you, but you don’t know me", Fette gallery, Los Angeles, www.fette‐gallery.com
Photo‐festival Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria
12 photographers, A l’espace Bellevaux, Laussanne, Switserland, www.bellevaux.org
Moments of Honesty, Staubkohler, Zurich, www.staubgfz.com
Speed, Staubkohler, Zurich, www.staubgfz.com
Gonzoo, De Fabriek, Zaandam, NL
Budget 10.000 euro, W139, Amsterdam, www.w139.nl
Portaal naar de hemel, Frans Hals museum, Haarlem, www.franshalsmuseum.nl
Everyday Is Not Like Everyday, Foam, Amsterdam, www. FOAM.nl
Anonymous Auction, Foam, Amsterdam, www.foam.nl
Art Fair Basel, Basel, www.art.ch
FAM.,Museum Moderne Kunsten Arnhem
‘Cadres Revisités’, Institut‐Neerlandais, Paris, www.instituteneerlandais.com
Soiree‐Shot, Zurich, www.soiree‐shot.com
Kum Ho Museum Modern Art, Seoul, Korea
Municipal Museum of Modern Art, Daejon, Korea
’ Vieuw of Masters’,Kennedy van de Laan, Amsterdam
Art Forum Berlin, Berlin, www.art‐forum‐berlin.de
Slideshow 2000‐2004, in collaboration with Anne de Vries, Dutch Fashion Biennale, Arnhem, www.arnhemmodebiennale.com
Vice, Vice gallery, London, www.vice.com
Histoire(s) Parallèle(s), Confrontation, France / Pays‐Bas, FOAM, Amsterdam, www.foam.nl
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Art‐Rotterdam, Rotterdam,www.artrotterdam.com
Kunst‐Rai, Amsterdam, www.kunstrai.nl
A4, Public Space With A Roof, Amsterdam, www.pswar.org
Happy Chaos, Felix Meritus, Amsterdam, www.happychaos.nl
I love my parents, Museum of Modern Art Arnhem, Arnhem, www.mmkarhnhem.nl
Massproduction versus Unique, Top‐Shop, Berlin, www.topshop‐berlin.de
Vice, Vice gallery, NYC, www.vice.com
9 lekkere wijven in een glazen huis, Glasshouse, Amsterdam,www.glazenhuis.nl
Histoire(s) Parallèle(s), Confrontation, France / Pays‐Bas,Institute Neerlandaise, Paris www.institutneerlandais.com
Openings Exhibition, W139, Amsterdam, www.139.nl
Identified, Vanzoetendaal collections, Amsterdam, www.vanzoetendaal.nl
Stel dat, Kaaphelder, Den Helder, www.kaaphelder.nl
Art‐Space, Amsterdam, www.artspace.nl
Encouraging Prize Fine Arts, Aemstelle, Amstelveen
Sildeshow 01, Final Examshow, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
F.O.A.M.Vondelpark, Amsterdam, www.foam.nl
Shell Research and Technology Centre, Amsterdam
Presence, Photofestival Naarden, Naarden www.fotofestival.com
Summercountdown, Fanclub, Amsterdam
Crossroads, Design Insitute, Amsterdam
Complete, S.V.A., Gallery , NYC
Drawings and Ties, 2B, Zaandam
‘t Ganse Huis Klopt Polsslag, Daar, Antwerp
Women with Hair, Pavelioen, Amsterdam
PUBLICATIONS
Upcoming
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Volkerschau Book ( Capricious publishing )
Indigenous Suburbian ( Genital International )
Our Future as Apes
Pee on Presidents (spheres‐publications)
SPHERES
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One Room, Nine Possible Answers, Three Rooms
Volkerschau zine( Capricious publishing)
Furniture Bondage ( Kodoijpress )
Bush Compulsion, A Primitive Breakthrough in the Mind ( Museumpaper )
I Have A Room With Everything ( Capricious publishing )
Modern Life Of The Soul ( Artist Book )
MUSIC ALBUM
2013
Inua ‐ ZaZaZoZo ( Tsunami Addiction )
PERFORMANCE
upcoming
2014
2014
ZaZaZoZo, QQC, Paradiso, Amsterdam
PS1/Moma, NYC
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Conversations with a Potted Plant, District,Berlin
Banquet of Wondering Ghosts, Tent, Rotterdam
Fun and Feminism, ffffffff, Berlin
What is your Jazzzzz, Stedelijk Museum
Is the hole only visible, because of its edges ? Museum Moderne Kunsten Arnhem
Into the great wide open, Vlieland
Fying for Beginners, Kaap, Utrecht
INUA, Le Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris
INUA, ClubParis Paris, Paris
ZaZaZoZo, Club Transmediale forspiele, Berlin
ZaZaZoZo, Artfair, Miami
GENITAL INTERNATIONAL, press conference, De Appel Arts Center, Amsterdam
Paradiso, Amsterdam ( with Joseph Marzolla )
Mediamatic, Amsterdam ( with Joseph Marzolla )
Demons, Devils, Monsters and Other Intermediate Beings, Stedelijk Museum BA, Amsterdam ( with Joseph Marzolla )
American Cosmos, Ppow Gallery, NYC ( with Joseph Marzolla )
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Activation and Liberation of Energies, Mediamatic, Amsterdam ( with Matthew Lutz‐Kinoy )
Removing Influence of Places and Objects, Worm, Rotterdam (with Kinga Kielczynska )
Heilig Vuur, Removing Influences of Places and Objects, Stedelijk Museum ( with Kinga Kielczynska )
MAGAZINE / REVIEWED
Selection
Famous#8 , Livraison#1, Capricious#1, Glumagazine#1, Nuke#2, Yang (yangtijdschrift.be), Janus,Vice, Kutt, Zoo, Bonn, SVA‐magazine, Verenigd Sandbergen,
frame Forecast Magazine , Free‐Eye, Eye‐magazine, Volkskrant , NRC Handelsblad, Limburgsdagblad, Foam magazine, Delete, Items ,NO‐Friends, ping‐
magazine, Queensday book, Presence, Amsterdam Weekly, Neue Zurich Zeitung, Mollusk, Art&Auction,Art & Culture, Curo, Artpress, Blend,Cederteg
n#1,GLU #3,livraison 3#, Famous NYC, Gupmagazine, Dazed en Confused, Vorn magazine, That Damm The Duo Issue, Tubelight, NRC next, Les Beaux Arts
magazine, Liberation, Art Lovers NYC, WAD magazine, Connaissances des Arts, French Vogue, Artforum Online, Liberation, Ful, '100', Future Images, Foam
magazine, White Wall, Theme, Livraison#3, Future Images, Kunstbeeld, Rebelle, Frieze magazine Issue #135, 100 New Artists, by Francesca Gavin
2011,Openlab magazine, A4 magazine, G.A.G, Missy Magazine.
SCREENINGS
2014
2013
2013
2013
2013
2013
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2009
2009
2008
2008
2008
Projections, Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam (Matrix Botanica)
Heart of No, Nederlands Film Festival, Utrecht
Private life of Animals, Nederlands Film Festival, Utrecht
Pee on Presidents, IDFA, Amsterdam
Matrix Botanica, Biosphere Above Nations, Witte de Wit, Rotterdam
Matrix Botanica, Biosphere Above Nations, Impact Festival, Rotterdam
Matrix Botanica, Biosphere Above Nations, RURU Gallery, Jakarta
White Cosmos, Marakesh Biennial
Diversion, Moving Image, NYC
Diversion, ArtLA, Contemporary, Los Angelas
Hunting and Gathering, Pulse art fair, NYC
Hunting and Gathering, Ethnic Fantastic, Berlin
Hunting and Gathering, Bipolar art, NYC
Hunting and Gathering, GLU, Amsterdam
Hunting and Gathering, Worm, Rotterdam
Hunting and Gathering, Stedelijk in de stad, Amsterdam
AKINCI
2009
2008
2008
Furniture Bondage, Loops, ParkTV, www.parktv.nl
Unrooted,( with Kinga Kielczynska ), Parktv PLEIN, www.parktv.nl
Explosions of Colours 02 , Arnhem Mode Biennale Video Programme
Mr and Mrs Mulder, Berlinale Filmfestival, Berlin www.berlinale.de
Taking photographs of Things you want to Forget, Lost&Found, Amsterdam, www.lost.nl
Compilation of Short Video’s, TartTV
China, A Journey with my Mother, Videodairy, Channel A1
Meneer en Mevrouw Mulder, moving‐ photography Park4DTV, www.park.nl
Hardcore Hardcore, Dynamo Open Air, Video Documentary. Channel A1
LECTURES
2013 Just Another Day, Hoge school voor de Kunsten, Arnhem
2013 Anarchy,(project by Nicoline van Harskamp) Smart Project Space, Amsterdam
2011 University of Honolulu, USA
2011 (Off)hrs Honolulu, USA
2011 Beamclub Amsterdam, NL
2011 L"Ecall, Lausanne, Switserland
2011 School of visual Arts S'Hertogenbosch,NL
2010 School of Visual Arts The Hague, NL
2008 Aperture Foundation, NYC, USA
2008 Parsons school of design, NYC, USA
2007 Gerrit Rietveld Akademie, Amsterdam, NL
curatorial + editorial
capricious, mister motley
Beyonce, Paradiso
writing
Foam magazine, Metropolis M, Mister Motley, Aperture magazine, ARTFORUM
AKINCI
2008
2008
2007
2006
2005
2001
1999
1999
1998