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File:Filip Gilissen, Say No To Normal, 2015 Digital print on paper and brass gold frame 110 x 80 cm (framed).jpg
Filip Gilissen, Say No To Normal, 2015

Filip Gilissen, (born in Brussels, Belgium, 1980) is a Belgian artist. He lives and works in Brussels.[1]

Biography and works

Using the language of commerce, marketing and media representation, Gilissen gives a comment on the more cynical aspects of globalization and consumer driven politics. He explores through events, performances, and installations, the one-liners of the spectacle industry. As rances Loeffler puts it in an earlier article about Gilissen's work, it is in his work 'The notion of being on the 'up' and pushing it far and hard enough until it starts to collapse and ring hollow'.

The work of Gillissen stands in an under-researched tradition of art that sarcastically celebrates the uncelebratable: a tradition that may be said to have begun with the famous case of the in-house string quartet stoically, even cheerfully playing on while the Titanic was busy sinking to the bottom of the ocean; a tradition that has thrived especially well in the ultra-cynical ‘post-political’ era of globalization."

Exhibitions

Solo and duo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

  • 2016 :
    • Extend & Pretend, Entreprise Projects, Athens (Greece)
    • Tous Belges, CAC Abbaye Saint-Andre, Meymac (France)
  • 2015 :
    • Il nuovo II, Etablissement d'en face, Brussels (Belgium)
    • Anger Management, Komplot, Brussels (Belgium)
    • Blickachsen 10, Bad Homburg and Frankfurt RheinMain (Germany)
    • From This Moment to the Next, Photo LA, Los Angeles (USA)
    • A.N.T.H.R.O.P.O.C.E.N.E, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)
    • Beastly/Tierisch, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (Switzerland)
  • 2014 :
    • Apprehension. Understanding Through Fear of Understanding, Bucharest Biennale 6, Bucharest (Romania)
    • Il Nuovo, Etablissement d'en face, Brussels (Belgium)
    • Out of Character, CAB Art Center, Brussels (Belgium)
    • Homo Ludens, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)
    • Parking Everywhere, 18th Street, Los Angeles (USA)
  • 2013 :
    • Shadows of A Doubt, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn (Estonia)
    • Year 13, Komplot, Brussels (Belgium)
    • Midpoint, Brussels (Belgium)[3]
    • Celebrations, Centre Wallonie Bruxelles, Paris (France)
    • Goldrausch, Villa Merkel, Esslingen am Neckar (Germany)[4]
  • 2012 :
    • Asche und Gold, Museum Marta Herford, Herford (Germany)
    • Asche und Gold, Museum Schloss Moyland, Moyland (Germany)
    • Particles, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)
    • Goldrausch, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg (Germany)
    • Performance Projekt, Liste 17, Basel (Switzerland)[5]
  • 2011 :
    • Melanchotopia, Witte de With, Rotterdam (Germany)[6]
    • Uncommonplaces, Kunsthalle Extra City, Antwerpen (Belgium)
    • Rubens, Van Dyck en Jordaans, Hermitage, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
    • Ai WeiWei Is in China, Fichtebunker, Berlin (Germany)
    • Freestate, Ostend (Belgium)
  • 2010 :
    • Into The Light, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerpen (Belgium)
    • Love letters to a Surrogate, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles (USA)
    • Arts' Birthday, M HKA, Antwerpen (Belgium)
    • Past Projects, The Woodmill, London (UK)
  • 2009 :
    • The Apartment Project, Broadway Market 232, London (UK)
    • Small interventions and mental moves, AKT 2, Nue Burg, Wien (Austria)
    • The Best Is Yet To Come, Lot 10, Paris (France)
    • Over opus 1 en opus −1. HEDAH, Maastricht (The Netherlands)
  • 2008 :
    • Powerhouse, Mobius, Boston (USA)
    • El papel del artista. Domestico 08, Madrid (Spain)
    • A Certain Mess, Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
    • A bridge too far, NICC, Antwerp (Belgium)
  • 2007 :

References

  1. ^ Lorent, Claude (21 January 2010). "Cinq Jeunes Artistes". La Libre Belgique.
  2. ^ H Smith, Trevor (11 February 2015). "In Search of the Post-Internet at Art Rotterdam". hyperallergic.
  3. ^ Garcia del Castillo, Alberto (11 January 2016). "Midpoint". Theophiles Papers.
  4. ^ Weiss, Hermann (18 January 2013). "Goldene Zeiten". Die Welt.
  5. ^ Glaedell, Colin (11 July 2012). "The Future Is Orange". The Telegraph.
  6. ^ Schafhausen, Nicolaus (20 January 2012). "20+ Years Witte de With". Witte de With.

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