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FABRE JAN

FABRE JAN
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Born 1958, Antwerp BE.
Lives and works in Antwerp.

 

Education
Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Anwerp BE
Municipal Institute of Decorative Arts, Antwerp BE

Awards/ Distinctions
2015
Premio Michelangelo for Sculpture, Florence IT
2009
International Art Award, The Cristobal Gabarron Foundation, Valladolid ES
Prix du Jury, Syndicat de la critique Théâtre, Musique et Danse, Paris FR
2004
Grand Officer in the Order of the Crown of Belgium
1992
Prijs van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap voor Beeldende Kunst

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2017
Jan Fabre: Glass and Bone Sculptures 1977-2017, collateral event of the 57th Venice Biennale, cur. G. di Pietrantonio (GAMeC, Bergamo), K. Koskina (EMST, Athens), D. Ozerkov (Hermitage, St. Petersburgh), Abbazia di San Gregorio, Venice IT
2016
Jan Fabre: Knight of Despair / Warrior of Beauty, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petesburg RU
2015
Facing time: Rops/Fabre, double solo show with Félicien Rops, cur. Joanna De Vos, various venues at Namur BE
Hommage à Jérôme Bosch au Congo (2011-2013) - Hommage au Congo Belge (2010-2013), Galerie Daniel Templon, Paric FR
2014
The Spiritual Sceptic, At the Gallery, Antwerp BE
Jan Fabre. Tribute to Hieronymus Bosch in Congo (2011-2013)-Jan Fabre. Tribute to Belgian Congo (2010-2013), Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv UA
Jan Fabre. Insect drawings and insect sculptures 1975-1979, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede NLD
2013
Stigmata: Actions & Performances 1976-2013, curated by Germano Celant, MAXXI - Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome IT
GISANTS (TRIBUTE TO E. C. CROSBY AND K. Z. LORENZ), Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris FR
2012
PIETAS: JAN FABRE, Parkloods, Park Spoor Noord, Antwerp BE
The Year of the Hour Blue. Drawings and Sculptures,1977-1992, Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne Métropole, FR 
2011
Jan Fabre: Hortus/ Corpus, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo NL
Jan Fabre. The Carnival of the Dead Streetdogs and the Catacombs of the Dead Streetdogs – Installation, Galerija Vžigalica, Ljubljana SI
Jan Fabre. Borrowed Time – Photographs and Drawings, Mestna Galerija – MGML/ City Art Museum, Ljubljana SI
Jan Fabre, Umbraculum – Installation, Tobacna 001 Cultural Centre, Galerija 001, Ljubljana SI
Jan Fabre: Die Jahre der blauen Strunde, Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna DE
2010    
Umbraculum para Medellin, u n lungar en la sombra para reflexionar y trabajar, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellin, Medellin CO
Le temps emprunté, Museo Carlo Bilotti Aranciera di Villa Borghese, Rome IT
Jan Fabre: Chapitres I-XVIII: Cires et Bronzes, Galerie Guy Pieters, Paris FR
Jan Fabre: Brain Drawing and Models, Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf DE
De geleende tijd, Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle NL
Art Kept Me Out of Jail: Performance Installations by Jan Fabre 2001-2004-2008, M HKA, Antwerp BE
Jan Fabre: As Time Goes By…, Galerij Rode Zeven, Antwerp BE
Umbraculum para Sāo Paulo, um lugar na sombra para pensar e trabajar, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Sāo Paulo BR
Jan Fabre: Is the Brain the Most Sexy Part of the Body?, Istanbul 2010 Proje, Topkapi Palace, Istanbul TR                      
2009
Umbraculum para La Paz Boliva, un lugar para pensar y escribir, Museo Municipal Tambo Quirquincho, La Paz BO
The Borrowed Time, Museum of Modern Art, Dubrovnik HR
Jan Fabre: From the Feet to the Brain, 53rd Venice Biennale, Arsenale Novissimo, Venice IT
Is the brain the most sexy part of the body?, Galerie Klüser 2, Munich DE
La metamorfosi dell’artista (Omaggio a Jacques Mesrine), Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Rome IT  
Thinking Models, Galerie beaumontpublic, Luxembourg LU
2008
De geleende tijd/ Le temps emprunté, BOZAR, Brussels BE                          
Jan Fabre: From the Cellar to the Attic, From the Feet to the Brain
, Kunstahaus, Bregenz AT
The Angel of Metamorphosis, curator Marie-Laure Bernadac , Musee du Louvre, Paris FR
Is the Brain the Most Sexy Part of the Body?, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem BE
La route de la terre vers les étoiles n’est pas une lisse, Halle Verrière, Meisenthal FR
Jan Fabre: Premio Pino Pascali XII ediz. 2008, Palazzo Pino Pascali, Polignano a Mare IT
Umbraculum para Santiago de Chile, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Parque Forestal, Santiago de Chile CL
Il ragazzo con la luna e le stelle sulla testa, Piazza den Plebiscrito, Napels IT
2007
Je crache sur ma tombe (modèle de pensée), Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Vienna DE
Die verliehene Zeit: Dessins pour l’oeuvre scènique de Jan Fabre, Museum der Moderne Rupertinum, Salzburg AT
Projet Tivoli pour Salzburg, Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Salzburg AT
Boîtes à images et modèles de pensée, Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Salzburg AT
Who Shall Speak My Thoughts (of my body), AD Gallery, Athens GR
The Brains of My Mother and my Father/ The Most Sexy Part of the Body (Brain Drawings and Models), Shugoarts, Tokyo JP
Les messagers de la mort décapités, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris FR
Jan Fabre: Antropologie d’une planète, Galleria d’arte moderna e contemporanea, Bergamo/ Palazzo Benzon, 52nd Biennale di Venezia, Venice IT
2006
Le Temps emprunté: Drawings for the Stage Works by Jan Fabre, Galerie beaumontpublic, Luxembourg LU
Jan Fabre in the Flemish Parliament. Viewing Boxes/ Concept models 1977-2004, Lounge de Loketten, Flemish Parliament, Brussels BE
Jan Fabre. Homo Faber, Antwerp Museum of Contemporary Art / The Royal Museum of Arts / The City Library of Antwerp / Rode Zeven / Rossaert, Antwerp, BE
Lancelot, Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Rome IT
Jan Fabre: Kijkdozen en Denkmodellen, Galerie Seghers, Ostend BE
L’home que escriu sobre l’aigua, Sala d’Exposicions de la Rambla, Girona ES
Je me vide de moi-même, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva CH
Landscapes and Turtles, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem BE
An umbraculum for Dubrovnik, Gelerija Umjetnička, Dubrovnik SI
Turtles, Carpets, Landscapes, Galerie Artist, Istanbul TR
2005
For Interieur, Maison Jean Vilar, Avignon FR
deSingel, Antwerp BE
Galeri Artist, Berlin DE
Mis gotas de sangre, mis huellas de sangre, Galeria Espacio Minimo, Madrid ES
2004
Umbraculum, Galerie der Deutschen Arbeitsschutz Ausstellung, Dortmund DE
Sanguis/ Mantis, Galerie Mario Mauroner, Vienna AT
Drawing - Photography - Drawing, 1978-2004, Galerie beaumontpublic, Luxembourg LU
Messengers of the death, Galerie Mario Mauroner, Salzburg AT
Gaude succurrere vitae (Rejouissez-vous de venir au secours de la vie), Musee d' Art Contemporain, Lyon FR
The problem, AD Gallery, Athens GR
2003
Umbraculum, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo NO
Sanguis/ Mantis, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris FR
Gaude succurrere vitae (Rallegratevi di soccorrere la vita), Galleria d' Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo IT & Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona ES
L' homme qui donne du feu, Un choix dans l' oeuvre sculpturale de Jan Fabre 1977-2003, Fondation Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon, Alex FR
A la recherche d' Utopia, Sculptures/ installations 1977-2003, Musee d' Art moderne et d' Art contemporain, Nice FR
2002
Gaude succurrere vitae (Verheug u ter hulp te komen aan het leven), Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent BE
The great confinement, Galerie Academia & Galerie Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Salzburg AT
2001
Swords, skulls and crosses, Espacio Minimo, Madrid ES
Umbraculum, Een plaats in de schaduw waar gedacht en gewerkt wordt, ver van het gangbare leven, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem BE
Tekeningen Ilad of the Bic-Art 1980, Galerie Elisabeth Kaufmann, Zurich, CH
Angel and Warrior, Strategy and Tactics, MIMOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Marugame JP
Memento Mori, Galerie beaumontpublic, Luxembourg LU
Umbraculum, Un lieu ombrage hors du monde pour penser et travailler, Chapelle Saint-Charles, Avignon FR
Neue Arbeiten, Galerie Bernd Kluser, Munich DE
Progetto Roma 2001, Rome IT
Umbraculum, Un posto ombreggiato dove pensare e lavorare lontano dalla vita quotidiana, Galleria Comunale d' Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome IT
L' uomo che misura le nuvole - l' uomo dalle gambe di carne, Academia Belgica, Rome IT
2000
Storage Room of a Warrior, AD Gallery, Athens GR
A Consilience, Natural History Museum, London UK
Jan Fabre & Ilja Kabakov, Sustret, Een ontmoeting/ Bctpe4a, Muzej Suvremene Umjetnosti, Zagreb HR
Annonce au monde exterieur, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris FR
1999
Passage, Cantieri culturali allo Zisa, Palermo IT
Museum of Contemporary Art, Warsaw PL
Battlefields & Beekeepers, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem BE
Body Liquids & ... Sleep, sleep and sleep little animals..., Sprengel Museum, Hannover DE
Engel und Krieger, Strategien und Taktiken. Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel DE
Me Dreaming, Chateau d' Oiron, Oiron FR
1998
Passage, Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee WI, US
Een ontmoeting/ Vstrecha, Ilya Kabakov & Jan Fabre, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem BE
A cidade e as estralas, Parte 3, Jan Fabre, Atlas of battles, strategies and tactics, Galeria Luis Serpa, Lisbon PT
Satani Gallery, Tokyo JP
Annonce au monde exterieur, Galerie beaumontpublic, Luxembourg LU
1997
Passage, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp BE & Muzej Suvremene Umjetnosti, Zagreb HR
The Joker, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia IT
The Lime Twig Man, Arnolfini, Bristol UK
Inneres/ausseres Skelett, Skulpturen und Zeichnunge, Galerie Bernd Kluser, Munich DE
Jan Fabre, Rob Scholte, Edward Lipsk, New works (3 solos), Ronny Van De Velde, Antwerp BE
1996
Skeleton + Skin, Satani Gallery, Tokyo JP
Passage, Ludwig Muzeum, Budapest HU
1995
Dye den nest weet Dye weeten, Dyen roft dy heeten, Vier nieuwe sculpture, De Vleeshal, Middelburg NL
De Lijmstokma, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam NL
Der Leimrutenmann, Stadtische Galerie, Stuttgart DE
1994
The grave of the unknown computer, Galerie beaumontpublic Luxembourg LU
Questa pazzia e fantastica, Centro per l' Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato IT
Mauer der aufsteigenden Engel, Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, Galerie Bernd Kluser, Munich DE
Silenzio nella tempesta..., Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia IT
1993
Tekeningen, sculpturen, tekeningen, Galerie Ronny van de Velde, Antwerp BE
1992
Zeichnungen - Objekte - Zeichnungen, Kunstverein, Hannover DE
Een portret, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem BE
1991
Zwei Objekten, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main DE
1990
Tivoli, Ronny Van de Velde Mechelen, Kasteel Tivoli, Antwerp BE
Das Gerausch, Kunsthalle, Basel CH
Som, Centro de Arte Moderna, Lisbon PT
Antichambres/ Affinites Selectives VI, Jan Fabre/ Christian Boltanski, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles BE
1989
Insecten en Ruimte, Museum Overholland, Amsterdam NL
Een skulptuur/ vijf tekeningen, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem BE
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, US
1988
Der Blaue Raum, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin DE
He wat een plezierige zottigheid!, Ronny Van de Velde, Antwerp BE
Modellen 1977-1985, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem BE
1985
Tekeningen, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent BE
The Forgery of the Secret Feast, New Math Gallery, New York, US
1984
Vrienden…, Provinciaal Museum, Hasselt BE
41st Venice Biennale, Giardini di Biennale, Belgian Pavilion, Venice IT
1981
Bic-Art Room, Salon Odessa, Leiden NL
1980
Mond-Oog-Oor Arts, Galerij Workshop, Antwerp BE
1979
Wetskamer, Galerij Workshop, Antwerp BE
Bic-Dweilen en Wetspotten, Jordaenshuis, Antwerp BE

Selected Group Exhibitions
2016

Urgent Conversations: Athens-Antwerp, coproduced by the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) and the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA), National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Athens GR
2014
The Disappearance of the fireflies, organised by Collection Lambert en Avignon, Sainte-Anne Prison, Avignon FR
2012
7th song (for Maldoror), cur. Alexios Papazacharias, Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, Athens GR
2011
L’art au tapis, Galerie Aline Vidal, Paris FR
Mooi, over de kwetsbare schoonheid, various locations in Belgium
Monanism, Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania AU
Art of the Loom, DEWEER Gallery, Otegem BE
Kustenaarsateliers, De Mijpaal, Heusden-Zolder BE
2010
The State of Things: Brussels/Beijing, BOZAR, Brussels BE
Aspects of Collecting, ESSL Museum, Vienna DE
Medicine and Art: Imagininga a Future for Life and Love, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo JP
Collectie XXIV, M HKA, Antwerp BE
30 Jaar DEWEER gallery: Mark Deweer trakteert: 30% voor iedereen, DEWEER gallery, Otegem BE
Ibrido, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan IT
La collezione del Museo Pino Pascali, Museo Pino Pascali, Polignano a Mare IT
Essential Experiences, Palazzo Riso, Palermo IT
Brave New World: From the Perspective of the Mudam Collection, Mudam Luxembourg LU
State of Things: Exhibition for the Contemporary Art Exchange between China and Belgium, NAMOC, Beijing CN
Islands Never Found, Palazzo Ducale, Geneva CH
Ontmoeting: Een keuze uit de collectie van het M HKA in Rabat, Galerie Bab Rouah/ Musée des Oudayas, Rabat MA
C’est la vie, Musée Maillol, Paris FR
eroi eroine: iconologia e simulacro, Castello di Rivalta, Turin IT
Dreams, Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Salzburg AT
La Follia dell’Arte, Villa Rufolo, Ravello IT
Alternative humanities: Jan Fabre & Katsura Funakoshi, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa JP
Sexuality and Trascendence, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev UA
Dead or Alive, Museum of Arts and Design, New York US
Islands Never Found, State Museum of Contemporary Art/ Thessaloniki Center of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki GR
Dreamtime 2: Fantasmagoria: Le monde mythique, Grotte du Mas-d’Azil
Hybrides et Chimères, Centre d’art contemporain, Le Parvis FR
Van Dürer tot Jan Fabre: Meesterwerken, Museum of Elsene, Brussels BE
Mooi, over de kwetsbare schoonheid, travelling exhibition for children BE
Multiple Visions, NICC, Antwerp BE
Just Love Me: Blik op een private collectie, Mudam Luxembourg LU
ABC: Art Belge Contemporain, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing FR
Bee Natural!, Parcours Privé de la FIAC, Maison Guerlain, Paris FR
Sphères 2010, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin FR
Transformation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo JP
Cosa fa la mia animamentre sto lavorando? Opere d’arte contemporanea dalla collezione Consolandi, Museo Arte Gallarate IT
Just love me: Regard sur une collection privée, Mudam Luxembourg LU
(when will they finally see) THE POWER OF DRAWING, Geukens & De Vil Contemporary Art, Antwerp BE
2009
Indian Caps: De keuze van Jan Fabre, Indian Caps vzw, Antewrp BE
Collectie XXIII, M HKA, Antwerp BE
Het spel van de waazin: Over gekte in film en theater, Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent BE
Something Else!!!, Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Nuoro IT
Dit is onze aarde!, Tour & Taxis, Brussels BE
Goldfish Suddenly Dead, Project Room Extra City, Antwerp BE
Jan Fabre in het S.M.A.K., S.M.A.K.-Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent BE
Jeugdzonde: Over opus één en opus min één, LLS 387 Ruitme voor Actuele Kunst, Antwerp BE
Kunst uit huis V: Collectie Ron Klein Breteler, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam NL
Dissolving Views, Cheongju Arts Centre Main Exhibition II Pavillion, Republic of Korea
La métamorphose de l’artiste (hommage à Jacques Mesrine), Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva CH  
Extra Muros: Después del’Arte, Centro Wilfredo Lam, Havana CU
Droomburchten & lucktkastelen, Castle of Gaasbeek, Lennik BE
Glasstress, Instituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti - Scuola Grande di San Teodoro San Marco, Venice IT
T_Tris, B.P.S.22, Charleroi BE
Camere #9: Fagana: Jan Fabre, Alberto Garutti, Hidetoshi Nagasawa, RAM - radioartemobile, Rome IT
Aspects of Collecting, Museum of Contemporary Art – MSU, Zagreb HR                         
2008
Der eigene Weg: Perspektiven Belgischer Kunst/ Perspectives on Belgian Art: Doing it my way, Museum Küppersmühle für modern Kunst, Duisburg DE
Anatomie des Vanités, Musée de la Maison d’Erasme, Anderlecht BE
NéoFutur: Vers de nouveaux imaginaires, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse FR
Jan Fabre op Wereldexpo in Zaragoza, Belgian pavilion, Saragossa ES
Update, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem BE
Struggle for life. Evolution and extinction in the anthropocene, ERES-Stiftung, Munich DE
I have nothing to say and I am saying it, Platform Seoul 2008, Seoul KR
Otras Floras, Galeria Nara Roesler, Sāo Paulo BR
Reflections on light, Galeria Bernd Klüser/ Galerie Klüser 2, Munich DE
Corpus Delicti, Palace of Justice, Brussels BE
Futurotextiel 08, Hall NMBS, Kortrijk BE
Collectiepresentatie, S.M.A.K.-Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent BE
Résonances médiévales, Couvent des Cordeliers, Saint-Nizier-sous-Charlieu FR
Voyage Sentimental, Mediations Biennale, Poznan PL
Now Jump!, Nam June Paik Festival, Seoul KR 
2007
Force Inconnue, Transfo, Zwevegem BE
Cadeaux d’amis/ Een hommage aan Jan Hoet, International Centre for Contemporary Art, Diepenbeek BE
Ongekende kracht, Transfo, Zwevegem BE
De gustibus...Manger dans l’art contemporain, Broelmuseum/ Broelkaai/ ING, Kortrijk BE
Collective one, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva CH
Artempo: Where Time Becomes Art, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice IT
Skin of/in Contemporary Art, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, JP
Bloedmooi - Onze dubieuze relatie met het dier, Historisch Museum Rotterdam, Schielandshuis, Rotterdam NL
Venice Biennale , Palazzo Benzon, curator Giacinto Pietrantonio, GAMeC, Bergamo IT
I Am As You Will Be / The Skeleton in Art Cheim & Read, New York, USA
Die Schone Und Das Ungeheuer. Unusual Lovers in Baroque Painting and Graphic Art ,curated by Gabriele Groschner, Museum Residenzgalerie, Salzburg, AT
2006
Beaufort, Triennial of Contemporary Art, Ostend, BE
Absolumental, Les Abattoirs, Ostend, BE
Zoo, La Centrale Electrique/ European Centre for Contemporary Art, Brussels BE
The Sublime is Now! (Das Erhabene in der zeitgenössisen Kunst), Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf CH
2005
Intersezioni, Parco Archeologico della Roccelletta, Catanzaro IT
Slow Art: Neue Akzente aus Flandern und den Niederlanden, museum kunst palest, Düsseldorf DE
When Humour Becomes Painful, Migros Museum, Zurich CH
Mémoire et transmission, Musée d’Art moderne et d’Art contemporain, Liège BE
Barrocos i neobarrocos/ El infierno de lo bello, Domus Atrium, Salamanca ES
War is over/ 1945 - 2005: La Libertà dell’Arte da Picasso a Warhol a Cattelan, Galleria d’Arte moderna e contemporanea, Bergamo IT
La peau est ce qu’il y a de plus profound, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes, Valenciennes FR
Sanguis/ Mantis Landscape (Battlefield), Musée d’Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne FR
Principato di Monaco: Idea per un museo, Palazzo Ruspoli, Fondazione Memmo, Rome IT  
Jan Fabre: Il rifugio (per la tomba del computer sconosciuto), Casa La Marrana in Montemarcello, Ameglia IT
The Giving Person: Il dono dell’artista, Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Napels IT
Fotoarbeiten aus der Sammlung der WGZ-Bank, Beck & Eggeling, Dusseldorf DE
Rencontres de la photographie Arles 2005, Arles FR
Visionary Belgium, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles BE
Galleria in Galleria, Metropolitana, Milan IT
Art Athina 05, AD Gallery, Athens GR
Fotografia de los anos 80 y 90 en la collection del MNCARS, Museo de Arte Abstracto Espanol, Cuenca ES
Virgin-Warrior/ Warrior-Virgin, Palais de Tokyo, Paris FR
2004
Art hypermarkets. Contesting consumerism, Palazzo delle papesse, Siena IT
Printemps de Septembre, Festival of Contemporary Images, Toulouse FR
Normal Life, Artandgallery, Milan IT
Eclips, 25 jaar Deweer Art Gallery, Transfo, Zwevegem BE
Not Don! Het KUNSTenaarsboek, MUHKA Museum van Hedenaagse Kunst, Antwerp BE
Horizont(e), Vinte Anos Galeria Luis Serpa, Projects 1984-2004, Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon PT
Vidas imaginaries, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon PT
2003
Beaufort, Triennale voor hedendaagse kunst aan zee, various locations, Belgium
The Ambiguity of the Image, Belgian Art Now, Art Athina 03, Athens GR
Outlook - International Art Exhibition, various locations, Athens GR
Le Opere e i  giorni 2003, Certosa di San Lorenzo, Padula IT
2001
Sous les ponts, le long de la riviere..., Les vallees de la Petrusse et de l' Alzette/ Fort Thungen, Luxembourg LU
1st Biennial of Valencia, The Body and Sin, Convento del Carmen, Valencia ES
Collections d' artistes, Collection Lambert, Avignon FR
7th Istanbul Biennial, Egofugal/ Egokac, various locations, Istanbul TR
2000
5th Contemporary Art Biennial of Lyon, Partage d' exotismes, Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon FR
La Beaute: Nature a l'oeuvre, Clos de Trams & Espace Jeanne-Laurent & Palais des Papes, Avignon FR
Art Athina 00, AD Gallery, Athens GR
7 hugel - Bilder und Zeichen des 21, Jahrhunderts, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin DE
Lost Paradise Lost, Kunst und sakraler Raum, World Expo 2000, various locations, Hannover DE
LocusFocus, Sonsbeek 9, Arnhem NL
1998
Skin, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem IR
1997
La pittura fiamminga e olandese, Palazzo Grassi, Venice IT
Art/ Fashion, Biennale di Firenze ’96, Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York, US
1995
Watou '95, Dichters rond de beeldende kunstenaar Jan Fabre, 3x7 Kamers, 3x7 Gedichten, various locations, Watou BE
Ripple Across the Water '95, Watari-Um/ Tadashi Kawamata Museum, Tokyo JP
Permanentie: Het fografische beeld in de kunst, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem BE
1993
Azur, Jouy-en-Josas, Fondation Cartier, Paris FR
1992
Mito Annual '93, Another World, Art Tower Mito Contemporary Art Gallery, Tokyo JP
Documenta IX, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel DE
TRANSFORM, BildObjektSkulptur im 20, Jahrhundert, Kunstmuseum & Kunsthalle, Basel CH
Der gefrorene Leopard, Galerie Bernd Kluser, Munich DE
3rd Istanbul Biennial, Greater Istanbul Municipality, Nejat F. Eczacibasi Art Museum, Istanbul TR
1991
Wanderlieder, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam NL
Metropolis - International Art Exhibition, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin DE
Irony by Vision, Watari-Um Gallery, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo JP
21st Sao Paolo Biennial, various locations, Sāo Paulo  BR
1990
44th Venice Biennale, Artisti (della Fiandra), Palazzo Sagredo, Venice IT
1989
Open mind (Gesloten circuits), Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent BE
1988
Signaturen, Rond honderd tekeningen van Beuys en Wols, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent BE
1987
Uit het oude Europa/ From the Europe of Old, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam NL
Microscopia, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem BE 
1985
Aanwinsten, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam NL
Dialogo, Exhibition-Dialogue on Contemporary Art in Europe, Centro de Arte Moderna, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon PT
Ouverture, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem BE
1984
41st Biennale di Venezia, Belgian pavilion, Giardini della Biennale, Venice IT
1979
Arte Fiamminga Contemporanea, Palazzo Rucellia, Firenze IT