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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 and Philosophy, University of Bonn

SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES

2021
Interplays, Kunsthal Gent, Ghent (upcoming)
Simultanhalle, Cologne (upcoming)
Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton (upcoming)

2020
Choir Piece in Never Ends by John M Armleder, KANAL – Centre Pompidou, Brussels
Crooked Positions, Deborah Bowmann, with Charlotte vander Borght, Brussels
I, You, We, KIT, Düsseldorf

2019
Choir Piece in The Collection (1): Highlights for a Future, S.M.A.K., Ghent
ECHO OMOH, Fondation CAB, Brussels, curated by Evelyn Simons
Choir Piece, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle

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
Brussels Cleaning Masters, Lokaal 01, Antwerp
Brussels Cleaning Masters, ZSenne Art Lab, Brussels
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, with Merzedes Sturm-Lie, Gallery Nadine Feront, Brussels

2015
Separated, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (45cbm), 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, with Nick Defour, Atelier Mariemontkaai, Brussels

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

2010
Demonstratie, with Edward Newton, Recyclart, Brussels

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2021
Antwerp Gallery Weekend, curated by Deborah Bowmann, Antwerp (upcoming)

2020
Scripted Truth, The Agprognostic Temple, Brussels
The Covid 19 Diaries, Lovaas Projects, Munich

2019
Inspections From Above, Lesage, Brussels
Radio London, Art Verona, curated by Andrea Abbatangelo

2018
Crib, Gallery Duflon/Racz, Brussels
CTG(R) Zimbabwe, Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, 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

2011
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

PRICES, GRANTS

2020
Grant, Kunststiftung NRW
Grant, Flemish Government

2016
Grant, City of Ghent

2011
New York Photo Festival, Selected artist, New York

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

RESIDENCIES

2021
Villa Empain - Boghossian Foundation Residency, Brussels (upcoming)

2018
Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Artist in Residence, Harare

2016
Gallery Nadine Feront, Artist in Residence, Brussels
ZSenne Art Lab, Artist in Residence, Brussels

2011
Recyclart, Artist in Residence, Brussels

BIBLOGRAPHY, PRESS, WEB, CATALOGUES

2021
Phenomenology of Pop, by Volkmar Mühleis (upcoming)

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

2019
Inspections From Above, HArt, No.197
Inspections From Above at Lesage / Brussels, Daily Lazy
La sculpture qui chante à ton oreille, La Libre Belgique, March 19

2018
B-Sides at SALOON, Art Viewer
B-Sides at SALOON, hosted by Komplot Brussels, Daily Lazy
B-Sides in Saloon, by Kurt Snoekx, BRUZZ, July 11
Felix Kindermann, Studiovisit, MILK

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, No.155
Vertical Concert, Focus levif
Vertical Concert, bx1

2015
Sonic City Festival, De Standaard online, 21 November
Ein verwirrend gutes Wechselspiel, by Petra Kirsch, Badische Neueste Nachrichten, Nr.209
Trennen, was zusammengehört, by 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 for exhibition catalogue, June
Rat or Not, by Sue Spaid, exhibition text
Bananenkunst Verzameld Door Lezers Van Mothley, Mister Mothley Magazine, December
On regimes of labour in art, by Hadelin Feront, exhibition catalogue (zine)

2013
Organisiertes Chaos, artensuite, Schweizer Kunstmagazin #15, Bern, März
Image Image, Interview with Gabriel Flückiger for exhibition text

TEACHING

2018-ongoing
Visiting professor Mixed Media, Sint-Lucas Ghent, LUCA School of Arts

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

2017
Jury member 3rd Bachelor Mixed Media, Sint-Lucas Ghent,, LUCA School of Arts

2016
Land of Noise and Flashlight, Mixed Media Workshop on sound and sculpture, Sint-Lucas Ghent, LUCA School of Arts

LECTURES, PANELS

2020
Lecture, Composition Colloquium series, Music Department, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

2019
Off, the Grid, Cas-Co, Leuven

2018
Methods of Dance, symposium on methods in artistic practice, Sint-Lucas Ghent, LUCA School of Arts

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

2013
Artist talk with Gabriel Flückiger for the exhibition ‘image image’, 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, Rosa Brux, Ba Blae Blaes, Archipel, Brussels