Kris Martin
Kris Martin (* 1972 in Kortrijk , Belgium ) is a Belgian conceptual artist . He lives in Ghent .
Kris Martin deliberately does not act creatively, does not focus on the development of a personal gesture, an individual craft, his art is one of appropriation and showing. The inventory of the world is sufficient for him; he freely accesses forms, symbols, systems, technology, anatomy, religion, art and literary history. Even the drawing, which is generally regarded as the organ of artistic subjectivity and world discovery, he uses as a medium to convey something else. (Volker Adolphs, Kunstmuseum Bonn)
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2013
- Somebody , Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf
- White Cube, London
- Artist room, K21 art collection North Rhine-Westphalia , Düsseldorf
2012
- Every Day of the Weak , Kestnergesellschaft , Hanover, November 23, 2012 to February 3, 2013
- Everyday of the Weak , Kunstmuseum Bonn
- Everyday of the Weak , Aargauer Kunsthaus , Aarau
- Mandi VIII , Lehmbruck Museum , Duisburg
- DO NOT CROSS THE RED LINE , Kunst-Station Sankt Peter , Cologne
- Festum II , Theseus Temple, Kunsthistorisches Museum , Vienna
2011
- Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf
- Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
- The Magnificient Seven: Hammarby! , Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
2010
- FESTUM , White Cube, London
- TYFFSH , K20 Art Collection North Rhine-Westphalia , Düsseldorf
- Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels / Brussels
2009
- Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
- Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf
- Johann König, Berlin
2007
- PS 1 / Moma, New York
- My Private 5 , Piazza San Marco, Venice
- Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf
- Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
2006
- Deus ex machina , Johann König, Berlin
2005
2004
- Beaulieu Gallery, Wortegem-Petegem
2000
- Madness , Garden of Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle
Group exhibitions (selection)
2014
- Une brève histoire de l'avenir , Louvre, Paris
2013
- Pataphysics , Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
- What Matters - War het op aan komt Psychiatrisch Ziekenhuis Duffel, Belgium
- Young Collectors , Maison Particulière, Brussels / Brussels, Belgium
- GLASSSTRESS: White Light / White Heat , Collateral Event of the 55th Venice Biennial, Venice / Venice, Italy
- Back to Earth. The rediscovery of ceramite in art , Herbert Gehrisch Foundation, Neumünster
- Defining Space , Bastei, Köln / Cologne
- Inner Journeys , Maison Particulière, Brussels / Brussels
- Dinard, Atomic Love , Ville de Dinard, France / France
2012
- WONDERFUL - Humboldt, Crocodile & Polke, The Olbricht Collection , me Collectors Room Berlin
- Private Art Collection Münster - Director's Choice , Kunsthalle Münster
- A House of Leaves - First Movement , David Roberts Art Foundation, London
- Gold rush: gold in contemporary art , Kunsthalle Nürnberg
- Sint-Jan , St. Bavo's Cathedral, Gent / Ghent
- POINT SYSTEMS. From pointillism to pixels , Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen
- Cartographies , Fundación la Caixa, Madrid
- An Incomplete History of Incomplete Works of Art , Galleria Francesca Minini, Milan / Milano
- Particles , Messen De Clercq, Brussels / Brussels
2011
- Mémoires du Futur, la collection Olbricht , La Maison Rouge, Paris
- The Silver Show - 25 Years of NAK , Neuer Aachener Kunstverein
- The art of slowing down , Wolfsburg Art Museum
- Miracle , Deichtorhallen , Hamburg
- 29th Biennial of Graphic Arts , Ljubljana
- Untitled , 12th Istanbul Biennial
- Commercial Break , 54th Venice Biennial, Venice / Venice
- The Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture Part I , Saatchi Gallery, London
2010
- Let's Dance , Musée D'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine
- Exhibition, Exhibition , Castello di Rivoli, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rivoli, Turin
- Touched , 6th Liverpool Biennial
- Invisible shadows - images of uncertainty , MARTa Herford
- Under Destruction , Museum Tinguely, Basel
- Yesterday will be better Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau
- Intensif station artist spaces, K21 art collection North Rhine-Westphalia , Düsseldorf
- Kupferstichkabinett , White Cube, London
- Signs of Life Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
- Christmas in July , Yvonne Lambert, New York
- Human Condition , Kunsthaus Graz
- 20th Century Fox , Vanmoerkerke Collection, Oostende / Ostend
- Contemplating the Void , Guggenheim Museum, New York
- Silent Revolution , K21 Art Collection North Rhine-Westphalia , Düsseldorf
- Curious? Art of the 21st century from private collections , Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany , Bonn
2009
- Beg Borrow and Steal , Rubell Family Collection, Miami
- A L'épreuve , Institut D'Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne
- Earth: Art of a changing world , Royal Academy of Arts, London
- Silent , Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
- Moby Dick , Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
- The Site of Silence - The Place of Silence , contemporary art exhibition hall, Münster
- Heaven 2nd Athens Biennial
- Magritte et la Lumière , Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels / Brussels
- The Quick and the Dead , Walker Art Center , Minneapolis
2008
- Heavy Metal , Kunsthalle zu Kiel
- Political / Minimal , KW Institute for Contemporary Art , Berlin
- This is not a void , Luisa Strina Gallery, São Paulo
- FADE IN / FADE OUT , Bloomberg Space, London
- L'Argent , Frac, Ile-de-France, Paris
- Storage almost full - collecting and organizing in contemporary art, Solothurn Art Museum
- Boros Collection, Berlin
- Past-Forward , Zabludovicz Collection, London
- Traces du Sacré , Center Georges Pompidou , Paris
- Section des Miroirs , Art Institute of Chicago
- The own way / perspectives of Belgian art , Museum Küppermühle for Modern Art, Duisburg
- Countdown Center For Curatorial Studies, New York
2007
- Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
- Go Stay , Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, curated by Volker Adolphs
- For Sale , Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, curated by Jens Hoffmann
- Learn to Read , Tate Modern, London, curated by Contemporary Art, Tate Modern
- Some Time Waiting , Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, curated by Adam Carr
- Trobleyn / Laboratory, Jan Fabre, Antwerp
2006
- My private escaped from Italy , International Center of Art and Landscape on the island of Vassivière, Beaumont du Lac
- Protections. This is not an exhibition , Kunsthaus Graz, Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
- Faster! Bigger! Better! Signet works from the collections, ZKM, Museum for New Art, Karlsruhe
- Designing Truth , Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Foundation, Duisburg
- Of Mice and Men , 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, curated by Ali Subotnick, Massimiliano Gioni and Maurizio Cattelan, Berlin
2005
- SEE history 2005 - the private view , Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel
- Post Notes , Midway Contemporary Art, Minnesota
2003
- Gelijk het leven is , SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent
source
- Biography Kris Martin (English)
Web links
Commons : Kris Martin - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Kris Martin: The artist as an idiot on eiskellerberg.tv (2012)
- Kris Martin at artfacts.net
- Kris Martin at Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ NN : exclusive press and photo appointment / structure of the work »for whom« by kris martin , press release of November 6, 2012.
- ↑ kris martin | every day of the weak. ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at: kestnergesellschaft.de , last accessed on November 6, 2012
- ↑ Kafka's Beetle doesn't meet idiots. In: FAZ . February 1, 2012, p. 29.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Martin, Kris |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian draftsman and object artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kortrijk , Belgium |