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Biography
Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven (born 5 December 1951) is a Belgian artist whose work involves painting, drawing, computer art and video art.
Biography
Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven (also known as AMVK) was born in Antwerp and lives in Antwerp and Berlin.
In 1981 she founded the noise band Club Moral with Danny Devos.
Since 1982 she is represented by Zeno X Gallery in Antwerp, 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).
Life and work
Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven has been fascinated for a long time with the representation in the mass media 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.
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) Berlin 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) Berlin 2007
- Über das ICH (Willkür und Transzendenz) and a lot of fun (daadgalerie Berlin) 2007
- Nothing More Natural (Museum of Art) Lucerne 2008
- Nothing More Natural (Wiels Center for Contemporary Art) Brussels 2008
- Nothing More Natural (Kunsthalle Nürnberg) Nuremberg 2009
- On Mars the Rising Sun is Blue (Zeno X Gallery) Antwerpen 2009
- In a Saturnian World (Renaissance Society) Chicago 2011
- Mistress of the Horizon (Mu.ZEE) Ostend 2012
- 3 Carrels (Degenerate Customized Solutions) (Zeno X Gallery) Antwerpen 2014
- Serving Compressed Energy with Vacuum (Kunstverein München) München 2015
- "AMVK-EZFK Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven – Europaisches Zentrum fur Futuristische Kunst". e-flux. 25 January 2005. Archived from the original on 19 October 2006.
Group exhibitions (selection)
- Woord en Beeld (MuHKA) Antwerp 1992
- Trouble spot.painting (MuHKA/NICC) Antwerp 1999
- Die Verletzte Diva (Galerie im Taxispalais) Berlin 2000
- Dream Extensions (SMAK) Ghent 2004
- Dear ICC (MuHKA) Antwerp 2004
- Collectiepresentatie XI (MuHKA) Antwerp
- Extremities. Flemish art in Vladivostok (Museum Artetage) Vladivostok 2006
- Collectiepresentatie XVI: Attributen en Substantie (MuHKA) Antwerp 2006
- I Walk the Lines (Galerie Barbara Thumm) Berlin 2006
- Manifesta 7 / "THE SOUL (or, Much Trouble in the Transportation of Souls)" (Manifesta 7) Trento 2006
- A story of the image: Old and New Masters from Antwerp (National Museum of Singapore) 2009