Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven
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Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven (born 5 December 1951) is a Belgian artist whose work involves painting
, drawing
, computer art
and video art
.
.
In 1981 she founded the noise
band Club Moral
with Danny Devos
.
Since 1982 she is represented by Zeno X Gallery in Antwerpen, Belgium
. And since 1999 also by Galerie Barbara Thumm in Berlin
.
In 2003 she was awarded the Flanders
' Prize for Visual Arts
In 2005 the HeadNurse-files was published. By means of installation shots, film stills and artistic images, this book present an overview of the projects' development from 1995 to 2004 and possibly beyond.
In 2006 she was awarded a DAAD stipendium to spend one year in Berlin
(DAAD Berlin).
of images of women, of interiors
, of the kinetic
powers of any kind of language
. She investigates supra-moral
connections in contemporary society s.a. between sex
and technology
. Her work connects different knowledge
systems, explores the areas of the unconscious
, and looks at moral aberrations or the obscene from a female point of view.
Since 2005 she is working on a conceptual and pictorial trialogue between the mystic Marguerite Porete
, the hermetic Giordano Bruno
and the philosopher Herbert Marcuse
.
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
, drawing
Drawing
Drawing is a form of visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, markers, styluses, and various metals .An artist who...
, computer art
Computer art
Computer art is any art in which computers play a role in production or display of the artwork. Such art can be an image, sound, animation, video, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, videogame, web site, algorithm, performance or gallery installation...
and video art
Video art
Video art is a type of art which relies on moving pictures and comprises video and/or audio data. . Video art came into existence during the 1960s and 1970s, is still widely practiced and has given rise to the widespread use of video installations...
.
Biography
Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven (also known as AMVK) was born in Antwerpen and lives in Antwerpen and BerlinBerlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
.
In 1981 she founded the noise
Noise music
Noise music is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization. Noise music can feature distortion, various types of acoustically or electronically...
band Club Moral
Club Moral
Club Moral is a Belgian noise band formed in 1981 by Danny Devos and Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven based in Antwerp, Belgium . They are known for their controversial performances and imagery. In 2001 "Dylan" briefly joined the band...
with Danny Devos
Danny Devos
Danny Devos also known as DDV is a Belgian artist whose work involves body art and performance art and a fascination with true crime....
.
Since 1982 she is represented by Zeno X Gallery in Antwerpen, Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
. And since 1999 also by Galerie Barbara Thumm in Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
.
In 2003 she was awarded the Flanders
Flanders
Flanders is the community of the Flemings but also one of the institutions in Belgium, and a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. "Flanders" can also refer to the northern part of Belgium that contains Brussels, Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp...
' Prize for Visual Arts
In 2005 the HeadNurse-files was published. By means of installation shots, film stills and artistic images, this book present an overview of the projects' development from 1995 to 2004 and possibly beyond.
In 2006 she was awarded a DAAD stipendium to spend one year in Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
(DAAD Berlin).
Life and work
Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven has been fascinated for a long time with the representation in the mass mediaMass media
Mass media refers collectively to all media technologies which are intended to reach a large audience via mass communication. Broadcast media transmit their information electronically and comprise of television, film and radio, movies, CDs, DVDs and some other gadgets like cameras or video consoles...
of images of women, of interiors
Interiors
Interiors is a 1978 drama film written and directed by Woody Allen. Featured performers are Kristin Griffith, Mary Beth Hurt, Richard Jordan, Diane Keaton, E. G. Marshall, Geraldine Page, Maureen Stapleton and Sam Waterston....
, of the kinetic
Kinetic energy
The kinetic energy of an object is the energy which it possesses due to its motion.It is defined as the work needed to accelerate a body of a given mass from rest to its stated velocity. Having gained this energy during its acceleration, the body maintains this kinetic energy unless its speed changes...
powers of any kind of language
Language
Language may refer either to the specifically human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, or to a specific instance of such a system of complex communication...
. She investigates supra-moral
Moral
A moral is a message conveyed or a lesson to be learned from a story or event. The moral may be left to the hearer, reader or viewer to determine for themselves, or may be explicitly encapsulated in a maxim...
connections in contemporary society s.a. between sex
Sex
In biology, sex is a process of combining and mixing genetic traits, often resulting in the specialization of organisms into a male or female variety . Sexual reproduction involves combining specialized cells to form offspring that inherit traits from both parents...
and technology
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
. Her work connects different knowledge
Knowledge
Knowledge is a familiarity with someone or something unknown, which can include information, facts, descriptions, or skills acquired through experience or education. It can refer to the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject...
systems, explores the areas of the unconscious
Unconscious mind
The unconscious mind is a term coined by the 18th century German romantic philosopher Friedrich Schelling and later introduced into English by the poet and essayist Samuel Taylor Coleridge...
, and looks at moral aberrations or the obscene from a female point of view.
Since 2005 she is working on a conceptual and pictorial trialogue between the mystic Marguerite Porete
Marguerite Porete
Marguerite Porete was a French mystic and the author of The Mirror of Simple Souls, a work of Christian spirituality dealing with the workings of Divine Love. She was burnt at the stake for heresy in Paris in 1310 after a lengthy trial, after refusing to remove her book from circulation or recant...
, the hermetic Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno , born Filippo Bruno, was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician and astronomer. His cosmological theories went beyond the Copernican model in proposing that the Sun was essentially a star, and moreover, that the universe contained an infinite number of inhabited...
and the philosopher Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse
Herbert Marcuse was a German Jewish philosopher, sociologist and political theorist, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory...
.
Solo exhibitions (selection)
- Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven (Zeno X Gallery) Antwerpen 1995
- Morele Herbewapening / Moral Rearmament (Kunsthalle Lophem) 1996
- HeadNurse (Zeno X Gallery) Antwerpen 1998
- Nursing care, in melancholy stupor (MuHKA) Antwerpen 1999
- Prober5 (Galerie Barbara Thumm) BerlinBerlinBerlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
2000 - In Dreams (Galerie Barbara Thumm) 2003
- Deeper (Kunsthalle Lophem) 2003
- AntiSade (Zeno X Gallery) Antwerpen 2003
- How reliable is the brain? (Neuer Aachener Kunstverein) 2004
- AMVK - EZFK: Europaisches Zentrum für Futuristische Kunst (Kunsthalle Bern) 2005.
- Veerkracht thuis! (Objectif_exhibitions) Antwerpen 2006
- Oh, the Sick Lady / Ah, the Sick Lady (Explodes from Within) (Galerie Barbara Thumm) BerlinBerlinBerlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
2007 - Über das ICH (Willkür und Transzendenz) and a lot of fun (daadgalerie Berlin) 2007
- Nothing More Natural (Museum of Art) LucerneLucerneLucerne is a city in north-central Switzerland, in the German-speaking portion of that country. Lucerne is the capital of the Canton of Lucerne and the capital of the district of the same name. With a population of about 76,200 people, Lucerne is the most populous city in Central Switzerland, and...
2008 - Nothing More Natural (Wiels Center for Contemporary Art) BrusselsBrusselsBrussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...
2008 - Nothing More Natural (Kunsthalle Nürnberg) NurembergNurembergNuremberg[p] is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, it is located about north of Munich and is Franconia's largest city. The population is 505,664...
2009 - On Mars the Rising Sun is Blue (Zeno X Gallery) Antwerpen 2009
Group exhibitions (selection)
- Woord en Beeld (MuHKA) Antwerp 1992
- Trouble spot.painting (MuHKA/NICC) Antwerp 1999
- Die Verletzte Diva (Galerie im Taxispalais) BerlinBerlinBerlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
2000 - Dream Extensions (SMAK) GhentGhentGhent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region of Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys and in the Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of...
2004 - Dear ICC (MuHKA) Antwerp 2004
- Collectiepresentatie XI (MuHKA) Antwerp
- Extremities. Flemish art in Vladivostok (Museum Artetage) VladivostokVladivostokThe city is located in the southern extremity of Muravyov-Amursky Peninsula, which is about 30 km long and approximately 12 km wide.The highest point is Mount Kholodilnik, the height of which is 257 m...
2006 - Collectiepresentatie XVI: Attributen en Substantie (MuHKA) Antwerp 2006
- I Walk the Lines (Galerie Barbara Thumm) BerlinBerlinBerlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
2006 - Manifesta 7 / "THE SOUL (or, Much Trouble in the Transportation of Souls)" (Manifesta 7) TrentoTrentoTrento is an Italian city located in the Adige River valley in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. It is the capital of Trentino...
2006 - A story of the image: Old and New Masters from Antwerp (National Museum of Singapore) 2009