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Marie-Jo Lafontaine
(
Belgian
,
born
1950
)
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1950
Born in Antwerp, Belgium
1975
Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Architecture et des Arts Visuelles, Brussels, Belgium
1978
Prix de la Jeune Peinture Belge, Brussels, Belgium
1979
Bronze medal, Prix Europe de Peinture, Ostend, Belgium
1987
Documenta Kassel, Germany
1992
Media Award of the European Union
1998
European Photography Award, Great Britain
1998
Cultural Ambassador of Flanders
1998
Professor at the Hochschule für Kunst und Medien, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2002
BMW Project in Munich, Germany
2005
Opening of the World Cup Football, Frankfurt
Exhibitions
2012
Changing Perspectives-15 years of ECB\'s art collection, ECB, Frankfurt, Germany
2012
Asche und Gold. Eine Weltreise, MARTa Herford, Germany
2011–2012
Selected Works, Huize Minne - Sint Martens Latem, Belgium
2011–2012
Enfant en Danger - Enfant Dangereux, Gevaarlijk jong, Museum Dr. Guislain, Gent, Belgium
2010–2011
Ein Hauch von Eden, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany
2009
Neue Arbeiten, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany (solo)
2008
Come to me!, André Simoens Gallery, Knokke, Belgium (solo)
2008
nature: attitude, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany
2007
Art Cologne, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie
2006
Art Cologne, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie
2006
Zeitschnitt, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany
2006
I love the world, video installation, Skyarena, Opening event for the World Football Cup, Frankfurt
2006
Foto Text Text Foto, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main
2005
Art Cologne, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie (solo)
2005
Marie Jo Lafontaine, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld
2002
Art for the Pier, Airport, Stockholm (solo)
2002
Monochrome Trivision, Justizzentrum Bonn, Bonn (solo)
2002
Babies – Lost Paradise, Galerie Bernhard Knaus, Mannheim (solo)
2001
We can all be hero’s – just for one day, Polaroid Installation, Stadtmuseum Rakevere, Estonia (solo)
2001
Lost Paradise, Galerie Thomas von Lintel, New York (solo)
2001
Brussels by Night, KBC Bank, Brussels (solo)
2000
Chill out Room, Deutsche Bank, Luxembourg (solo)
2000
The Swing, Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken (solo)
1999
Liquid Crystals, Mathildenhohe Darmstadt (solo)
1999
Ivre d’éternité j’oublie la futilité de ce monde, Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris (solo)
1999
Ausstellungsinstitut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany
1999
Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris
1998
The Blind Angels, Orchard Gallery Derry, Northern Ireland
1998
Paper Art 7 - Paper Electric, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum Düren, Germany
1997
Foto Text Text Foto, Frankfurter Kunstverein Frankfurt/Main
1997
The 90s: A Family of Man, Casino Luxembourg Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg
1996
Fertile Ground, Centrum 'tElzenveld Antwerpen, Belgium
1996
Au loin s'en vont les nuages, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer Düsseldorf
1995
Blumenstücke, Kunsthalle Bielefeld Germany
1995
Les Roses, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (solo)
1994
Victoria, Smith College Museum of Art Northampton, MA
1994
Savoir retenir et fixer ce qui est sublime, University Art Museum California State Long Beach, CA
1993
Als das Kind noch Kind war, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf
1993
Jeder Engel is schrecklich, Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv, Fondation Helena Rubenstein (solo)
1993
Multimédiale 3, HFG Karlsruhe, Germany
1993
Mediale. Feuer, Wasser, Licht, Erde, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
1993
Deutschsein, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
1992
Argusauge, Glyptothek, Munich (solo)
1992
Jeder Engel ist schrecklich, Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Danmark
1990
Passio, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
1990
Savoir, retenir et fixer ce qui est sublime, Musée des Beaux Arts, Tourcoing (solo)
1990
Threshold, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
1990
40 ans de la jeune Peinture Belge
1990
The readymade Boomerang, 8th Biennale of Sydney (cat.)
1989
Savoir, retenir et fixer ce qui est sublime, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (solo)
1989
Rappel à l’ordre, Jack Shainmann Gallery, New York (solo)
1988
Les Larmes d’acier, Museum of Contemporary Art, LACMA, Los Angeles and Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (solo)
1987
L’interdit désiré, Koninklijk Muziekconservatorium, Gent (solo)
1985
A las Cinco de la tarde, Tate Gallery, London (solo)
1984
The Luminous Image, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1982
Festival International de ciné e video, San Sebastian
1981
10ieme Biennale Internationale de la Tapisserie, Musée Cantonal de Lausanne
1981
Round around the Ring, Musée d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (solo)
1980
11ième Biennale de Paris
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