Aernout Mik
Aernout Mik (born September 21, 1962 in Groningen ) is a Dutch artist.
Life
Mik studied in his hometown from 1983 to 1988 at the Academie Minerva (part of the Hanzehogeschool Groningen ). In 1987/88 he was a member of De Ateliers '63 in Haarlem . Since 2011 he has held a professorship for sculpture at the Art Academy in Münster . Mik lives in Amsterdam .
Mik is an installation artist , he constructs "environments", accessible room installations, and combines them with video films.
In 1997 and 2007 Mik was represented in the Dutch pavilion at the Venice Biennale . In 2011, an overview of his work was shown in the Museum Folkwang in Essen under the programmatic title “Communitas”. This went to the Musée du Jeu de Paume in Paris and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 2012 .
Writings / exhibitions
- Aernout Mik: Shifting shifting , Hannover: Kunstverein, 2007
- Citizens and subjects: the Netherlands, for example: a critical reader , 2007 (en)
- Aernout Mik: refraction , 2005 (en)
- Dispersionen = Dispersions , Cologne: DuMont-Literatur-und-Kunst-Verl., 2004, July 2 to September 12, 2004, Haus der Kunst Munich
- 3 crowds , 2000
- Aernout Mik - how the rooms have to be filled , Hannover: Kunstverein, 1995
Awards
- 2008: Art Prize Aachen
literature
- Laurence Kardish (Ed.): Aernout Mik. Essays by Laurence Kardish , Kelly Sidley, and Michael Taussig , Moma, NY 2009 ISBN 9780870707421
Web links
- Literature by and about Aernout Mik in the catalog of the German National Library
- Curriculum vitae and works on the website of his gallery carlier | builder
- Aernout Mik "Communitas" in the Museum Folkwang 2012 , accessed on April 24, 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mik, Aernout |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 21, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Groningen |