Michaël Borremans
Michaël Borremans (* 1963 in Geraardsbergen , East Flanders , Belgium ) is a Belgian artist and filmmaker who lives and works in Ghent .
Life
Borremans studied at the Flemish, Catholic Hoogeschool voor Kunst en Wetenschappen Sint-Lucas in Ghent . Although trained as a photographer , he turned to drawing and painting in the mid-1990s . Among other things, he uses old photographs of people and landscapes in order to alienate them according to his ideas.
Until his artistic breakthrough, Borremans was a teacher at the City of Ghent City Higher Art Institute . One of his earliest collectors was the painter Jan Van Imschoot , who bought his drawings and paintings that could be seen in a pub in Kalken . Van Imschoot also introduced Borremans to Jan Hoet , the founder of SMAK , of the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst in Ghent.
Prizes and awards
- 2008: Overbeck Prize for Fine Arts
- 2011–2012: Vlaamse Cultuurprijs voor Beeldende Kunst
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2004: Participation in Manifesta 5 , European Biennale for Contemporary Art in San Sebastian , Basque Country, Spain.
- Solo exhibitions
- 2004: Museum of Contemporary Art (Basel) , Basel. Later at SMAK and the Cleveland Museum of Art , Cleveland , Ohio, USA.
- 2005: The Performance , at The Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art , London, then in Dublin at the Royal Hibernian Academy , Gallagher Gallery .
- 2005: Paintings and Drawings , Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (SMAK), Gent , Belgium.
- 2006: in New York at David Zwirner Gallery and La Maison Rouge, Paris.
- 2007: De Appel (De Appel Center for Contemporary Art), Amsterdam.
- 2009: Kestnergesellschaft , Hanover.
- 2011: Eating the Beard , Württembergischer Kunstverein , Stuttgart.
- 2014: As sweet as it gets , BOZAR , Brussels, then Tel Aviv Museum of Art and Dallas Museum of Art . Catalog.
- 2015: Black Mold , David Zwirner Gallery, London.
Works owned by collections
- Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York City, New York.
Works in public space
- 2014: De maagd , fresco 60 × 70 cm on the bell tower / campanile in Ghent.
literature
- Jeffrey D. Grove: Michaël Borremans: As Sweet as it Gets , Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2014, ISBN 978-3-77573769-2 .
- Hans D. Christ: Michaël Borremans: Eating the Beard . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7757-2835-5 .
- Bawag Contemporary [Ed.]: Michaël Borremans: Magnetics . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2012, ISBN 978-3-7757-3501-8 .
- Jeffrey D. Grove: Michael Borremans - Paintings . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7757-2423-4 .
- Michael Borremans: The Performance . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2005, ISBN 3-7757-1589-4 .
- Anita Haldemann, Peter Doroshenko, Jeffrey D. Grove: Michaël Borremans, drawings, Tekeningen, Drawings. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2005, ISBN 978-3-88375-832-9 .
Web links
- Württemberg Art Association 2006
- Kestner Society 2009
- Michaël Borremans on kunstaspekte.de
- Michaël Borremans: A Knife in the Eye Documentation by VRT Cultuur (Flemish with English subtitles)
Individual evidence
- ^ Announcement on the exhibition , in English, accessed on July 28, 2014.
- ↑ Pogo in Bunraku in FAZ from August 1, 2015, page 13
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Borremans, Michael |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Borremans, Michaël |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian artist and filmmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Geraardsbergen , East Flanders , Belgium |