Felix Kindermann

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025
Fuhrwerkswaage, Cologne (forthcoming)

2024
Dear Tim, Gallery Jahn & Jahn (Project Space), Lisbon (forthcoming)

2023 
Mine and Yours: Forms of Distinction, Goethe-Institut New York, New York (curated by Zachary B. Feldman)
De-Fence
, P.A.D. Project Art Distribution, New York
Choir Piece, Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton (Performance)
Passage, Deutsches Haus at NYU, New York (Performance with Anna Schimkat)

2022
Individuality As Social Form
, Whitebox Art Center, New York (curated by Juan Puntes and Yohanna M Roa)

2021
Gleichzeitigkeiten
, SimultanProjekte 2021, Simultanhalle & Museum Ludwig, Cologne (curated by Lisa Oord, Hannah Semsarha, Nina Benning, Leon Jankowiak)
Interplays
, Kunsthal Gent, Ghent

2020
Crooked Positions, Deborah Bowmann, Brussels (with Charlotte vander Borght)
I, You, We, KIT - Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf (Performance)

2019
ECHO OMOH, Fondation CAB, Brussels (curated by Evelyn Simons)
Choir Piece, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle (Performance)

2018
(R)ear (S)tones, 76.4, Brussels
How Do You Think It Feels, Deborah Bowmann, Brussels

2017
The Night of The Cross
, Les Ateliers Claus, Brussels

2016
Vertical Concert, Rue de Flandre 38, Brussels (Performance in collaboration with Les Ateliers Claus)
Brussels Cleaning Masters, Lokaal 01, Antwerp (Performance)
Brussels Cleaning Masters, ZSenne Art Lab, Brussels (Performance)
Objects in Mirror Are Moving (Part II), These Things Take Time, Ghent
Objects in Mirror Are Moving (Part I), Club Solo (Hotel Solo), Breda
Turn A Blind Eye, Gallery Nadine Feront, Brussels (with Merzedes Sturm-Lie)

2015
Separated, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (45cbm), Baden-Baden (curated by Ana Siler)
Separated (Janácek, String Quartet No.1), Les Ateliers Claus, Brussels
Separated (Dirty Beaches), De Kreun, Kortrijk

2014
Rat or Not, Hectoliter, Brussels, BE

2013
Image Image, Gallery Beatrice Brunner, Bern, CH (curated by Gabriel Flückiger)

2012
Everything Is In Order, Atelier Mariemontkaai, Brussels (with Nick Defour)

2011
On The Road, Recyclart, Brussels (with Mathieu Hendrickx)

2010
Demonstratie, Recyclart, Brussels (with Edward Newton)


GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2024
Fête de l'éléphant, Brussels, (curated by Tanja Boon)

2023
This Is Us, Z33, Hasselt (curated by Fabian Flückiger)
Looking Forward
, The Grand Chelsea, New York
Paperwork, Cabanon, Paris

2022
Afterglow, The Grand Chelsea, New York
Very Naughty Super Trashy
, Tutu Gallery, New York
With The Lights Out
, Broei, Ghent
A Tongue Becomes Yours
, CC Ter Dilft, Bornem (curated by Fabian Flückiger)

2021
Envision this is part XXXVII of an ensemble that is no longer necessarily ceremonial, Gallery Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague
It is part XXI of an ensemble, and this ensemble is no longer necessary, Backer & Rub hal, Breda
The Spectacle of Our Lives, Antwerp Art Weekend, Antwerp (curated by Deborah Bowman)

2020
It Never Ends, KANAL – Centre Pompidou, Brussels (Performance)
Scripted Truth
, The Agprognostic Temple, Brussels
The Covid 19 Diaries
, Lovaas Projects, Munich

2019
The Collection (1): Highlights for a Future, S.M.A.K., Ghent (Performance)
Inspections From Above
, Lesage, Brussels
Radio London, Art Verona, Verona (curated by Andrea Abbatangelo)

2018
Crib, Gallery Duflon/Racz, Brussels
CTG(R) Zimbabwe, Gallery Catinca Tabacaru, Harare
B-Sides, SALOON, Brussels

2016
How to Hide in a White Space, Transformers, Brussels

2015
Popcore, 019, Ghent
Shut Up, Gallery Nadine Feront, Brussels

2014
Cosmic Cesspit, Höngg, Zurich
Everything Must Go!, Gallery Nadine Feront, Brussels
10 balles et un Mars, Rosa Brux, Brussels
HUHHHH, Grand Palais, Bern

2013
I Curate You, Recyclart, Brussels

2012
White Night, Cinema Eden, Tel Aviv

2011
52.5293°N, 13.396°E, Substitut, Berlin
Project Ford Mustang, Recyclart, Brussels (curated by Urs Küenzi)
Human Kind, powerHouse Arena, New York

2010
C‘est la vie, New York Photo Festival, New York


COLLECTIONS

Fondation CAB, Brussels
Kunsthal Gent, Ghent


AWARDS, GRANTS, RESIDENCIES

2022
Residency, ISCP (International Studio & Curatorial Program), New York
Residency, Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee
Grant, Flemish Government

2021
Residency, Villa Empain - Boghossian Foundation, Brussels 

2018
Residency, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Harare

2020
Grant, Kunststiftung NRW
Grant, Flemish Government

2016
Residency at Gallery Nadine Feront, Brussels
Residency at ZSenne Art Lab, Brussels
Grant, City of Ghent

2011
Residency at Recyclart, Brussels

2009
Nominee (Student Editorial), New York Photo Award, New York


BIBLOGRAPHY, PRESS

2024
This Is Us, Contemporary Art Daily (online)
Through a Bent Glass, Darkly, Hyperallergic (online)

2023
Mine and Yours: Forms of Distinction, Contemporary Art Library (online)
Mine and Yours: Forms of Distinction, Kuba Paris (online)
Mine and Yours: Forms of Distinction, Art Daily (online)

2022
A Tongue Becomes Yours, Contemporary Art Library (online)
Ik zie Choir Piece als verzet tegen het negative in de wereld, als een lichtpunt, De Standaard, August 12

2021
Felix Kindermann at Simultanhalle and Museum Ludwig, Art Viewer (online)
Felix Kindermann at Simultanhalle and Museum Ludwig, ARTFEED (online)
Die Schritte des Zwillings, Kölner Rundschau, 3. September Felix Kindermann 'Gleichzeitigkeiten', Kuba Paris (online) Museum Ludwig and Simultanhalle present 'Gleichzeitigkeiten, 2021' by Felix Kindermann, Art Daily, 25. August (online)
Chor singt im Treppenhaus, von Joachim Neubauer, Kölner Stadtanzeiger, 12. August
Chor singt im Treppenhaus
, von Joachim Neubauer, Kölnische Rundschau, 12. August
Felix Kindermann at Kunsthal Gent, Tique, publication on contemporary art
Felix Kindermann at Kunsthal Gent, ARTFEED (online)
Felix Kindermann at Kunsthal Gent, Art Viewer (online)
Felix Kindermann at Kunsthal Gent
, von Sue Spaid, HART Magazine

2020
Over chaos, harmonie en wegzinkende dromen. Een gesprek met Felix Kindermann, by Tamara Beheydt, HART Magazine, No.20
Architektur und eine lebendige Skulptur im KIT-Kunstraum, Rheinische Post, by Holger Lodahl, January 30

2019
Inspections From Above, HART Magazine, No.197
La sculpture qui chante à ton oreille, by Aurore Vaucelle, La Libre Belgique, March 19

2016
Studioraum 45cbm der Staatlichen Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Exhibition catalogue 2014/2015
Sabotage and Complicity – S&D#024 / APE#069, with an Essay by Tom Van Imschoot, Art Paper Editions
Felix Kindermann in TTTT, HART Magazine, No.155

2015
Ein verwirrend gutes Wechselspiel, by Petra Kirsch, Badische Presse, Nr.209
Trennen, was zusammengehört, by Cornelia Hecker-Stock, Badisches Tagesblatt, Nr.210
Shut up, by Hadelin Feront, exhibition catalogue (zine)

2014
Wunderkammer #84, by Kurt Snoekx, Agenda Magazine, January
Katalog #21, on HUHHHH, by Chri Frautschi, exhibition catalogue (zine), June
Bananenkunst Verzameld Door Lezers Van Mothley, Mister Mothley Magazine, December (online)
On regimes of labour in art, by Hadelin Feront, exhibition catalogue (zine)

2013
Organisiertes Chaos, artensuite, Schweizer Kunstmagazin #15, Bern, März

TEACHING

2023-ongoing
Visiting Professor, Sculpture Department, LUCA School of Arts, Campus Ghent

2018-ongoing
Visiting Professor, Mixed Media Department, LUCA School of Arts, Campus Ghent

2018
Sing Along, Walk Apart, Workshop on musical sculptures, Dzimbanhete Arts Interactions Trust, Harare

2016
Land of Noise and Flashlight, Workshop on sound and sculpture, LUCA School of Arts, Campus Ghent


LECTURES, PANELS

2023
Mine and Yours: Forms of Distinction, panel discussion with TK Smith and Zachary B. Feldman, Goethe-Institut New York, New York

2022
On Sonic Politics, roundtable discussion with Clae Lu, Anna Schimkat, and Taavi Suisalu moderated by Fabian Flückiger, ISCP (International Studio & Curatorial Program), New York
Lecture, Composition Colloquium series, Music Department, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

2019
Off, the Grid, panel discussion, Cas-Co, Leuven

2018
Methods of Dance, panel discussion, LUCA School of Arts, Campus Ghent

2015
Popcore, panel discussion with Hana Miletic and Valentijn Goethals moderated by Volkmar Mühleis, part of MINIMA DOCTA (LUCA School of Arts, Campus Ghent), 019, Ghent

2013
image image, artist talk with Gabriel Flückiger, Gallery Beatrice Brunner, Bern


CURATORIAL WORK

2018
B-Sides, SALOON, Brussels
Heinz Butz, Das reine Sein als Anfang, SALOON, Brussels
Benedikte Bjerre, Yomp, SALOON, Brussels

2017
Bas Jan Ader, Abel Auer, Cecylia Malik Sebastian Stumpf, Wolfgang Tillmans, People in Trees, SALOON, Brussels
Thomas Rentmeister, Sterne und Streifen, SALOON, Brussels
Remco Torenbosch, Integration, SALOON, Brussels
Peppi Bottrop, La Progression et la perte/Vooruitgang en verlies, SALOON, Brussels

2016
Lina Viste Grønli, Euro, SALOON, Brussels
Co-Founder of SALOON artspace, Brussels

2014
Aesthetic Nostalgia? The Last Wednesday Critics #5, debate with Jasper Rigole and Volkmar Mühleis, Monk, Brussels
Mystic Execises? The Last Wednesday Critics #3, debate with Elena Filipovic, Wiels Contemporary Art Center, Brussels
Art Or Pornography? The Last Wednesday Critics #2, debate with Petra van Brabandt, Monk, Brussels
Mediating Mystification? The Last Wednesday Critics #1, debate with Hedwig Houben and Danny Devos, Monk, Brussels


WRITING

2006
Gestaltende Schatten, published at ArchivSystemKunst & Wissenschaft ask23, Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, by Prof. Michael Lingner


MUSIC

2013
The Posters, Cafe Lava, Brussels
The Posters, Rosa Brux, Brussels
The Posters, Bla Blae Blaes, Brussels
The Posters, Archipel, Brussels


EDUCATION

2009-10 Master of Fine Arts, Sint-Lukas, Brussels
2000-06 Diploma Industrial Design, HfbK, Hamburg
2003-05 History of Art, (guest student), University of Hamburg
1998-99 History of Art, Philosophy, University of Bonn