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Jan Fabre

(Belgian, born 1958)

Jan Fabre

Piss-Tongues as a Bath Stopper, 2023

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The Blood is Our Drug, 2023

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The Blood of Love, 2023

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The Bubble Blower of Belief, 2023

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Jan Fabre

I Love My Powerlessness, 2023

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Jan Fabre

A Sleeping Spider in a Balloon, 2021

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Flying Dog's Sales Party, 2021

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Carnival Procession in Veurne, 2021

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Jan Fabre

Carnival Procession in Malmedy, 2021

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Biography

Timeline

1958: Born in Antwerp, Belgium
1976 - 1982: Held numerous performances
1997: Created the film The Meeting / Vstrecha
2001: Returned to doing performances
2004: Put on a performance with Marina Abramovic for the Palais de Tokyo
: Studied art at the Municipal Fine Arts Institute of Decorative Arts and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium
: Lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium

Exhibitions

2013: Fragile - Murano. Chefs-d´oeuvre de verre de la renaissance au XXI siecle, Musée Maillol, Paris, France
: Jan Fabre. Chalcosoma. Small bronzes 2006-2012, Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Wuppertal, Germany (solo)
: Jan Fabre. Insektenzeichnungen & Insektenskulpturen 1975-1979, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany (solo)
: Jan Fabre. Skulls & mosaics, Guy Pieters Gallery, Saint Paul de Vence, France (solo)
: The Years of the Hour Blue. Drawings and Sculptures 1977-1992, Jan Fabre, Busan Museum of Art, Korea (solo)
: Si l’art de la parure m’était conté, Chateau du Rivau, Léméré, France
: Framed - by Ted Noten, Stedelijk Museum ´s Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
: Wunderkammer Venezia 2013, Palazzo Widmann, Venice, Italy
: GISANTS (Tribute to E. C. Crosby & K. Z. Lorenz), Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France (solo)
: Glasstress 2013. White light / White heat, Palazzo Cavalli - Franchetti, Venice, Italy
: Baza(a)r Belg(i)e, CENTRALE for contemporary art, Brussles, Belgium
: «Les aventures de la vérité» - Painting and philosophy, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul de Vence, France
: The mind of the artist, Gallery Ronny van de Velda, Knokke, Belgium
: St. Moritz Art Masters, Engadiner Museum, Switzerland
: Scope Miami Beach 2013, Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria
: Babel, Le Botanique, Centre Culturel de la Communauté Française, Brussels, Belgium
: Ballpoint Pen Drawing Since 1950, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA
: Les nouvelles folies françaises, Musée d´Archéologie nationale et Domaine national de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
: Tribute to Hieronymus Bosch in Congo 2011-2012: One man’s death is another man’s chocolate, Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany (solo)
2012 - 2013: 9 Chapters, Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany (solo)
: R/Evolution on paper. Five centuries of drawings from the Klüser collection, Alte Pinakothek, München, Germany
: Struggle(s), Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium
: Son et Lumière-Material, Transition, Time, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
: Rollercoaster-Het beeld in de21ste eeuw, Museum of the Image, Breda, The Netherlands
: Forte Piano: Le forme del suono, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, Italy
: De doodleeft,Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
: Babel,Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille, Lille, France
: Bêtes de sculpture! De Pompon à Giacometti,Musée des Années Trente, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
: Longing for perfection - 21 years of collecting by the Kröller-Müller Museum, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands
: Theatre of the World,MONA, AustraliaRe-Opening,DEWEER Gallery, Otegem, The Netherlands
: Hysterical Fantasy, Magazzino, Rome Collection1, works from the Octobersalon collection,The Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
: Ensemblematic, S.M.A.K., GhentVidéodanse,Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
: From Head to Toe. Human Images in the Focus ofthe Würth Collection, Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
: Belgian art. A modern century. Collection Caroline & Maurice Verbaet,Museum of Elsene, Brussels, Belgium
: Venice international performance art week, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy
: Sint-Jan, Sint Baafskathedraal, Ghent Mindmap,Odapark, Venray, The Netherlands
: Hunters and Hunted – Insects in Contemporary Art, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden, Germany
: JAN FABRE – THEATRE OF THE WORLD, MONA and TMAG, Tasmania, Australia
: Glasstress 2012, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA
2012: Church Warden, De Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
: JAN FABRE – SINT-JAN, Saint Bavo’s Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium (solo)
: Gold, Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
: PIETAS, Parkloods, Antwerpen, Belgium (solo)
: THE YEARS OF THE HOUR BLUE. DRAWINGS AND SCULPTURES 1977 – 1992, Musée d’Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, France (solo)
: Chapters I-XVIII: Waxes & Bronzes, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
: The Power of Theatrical Madness, Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art Vienna, Austria
: 9 Chapters, Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany
: JAN FABRE – THEATRE OF THE WORLD, MONA and TMAG, Tasmania, Australia (solo)
: Offering to the God of Insomnia, Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art Salzburg, Austria
: JAN FABRE – ART KEPT ME OUT OF JAIL, PERFORMANCE, INSTALLATIONS 2001 – 2004 – 2008, Maribor Art Gallery, Slovenia
: Church Warden, De Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
: JAN FABRE – SINT-JAN, Saint Bavo’s Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium
: The Years of the Hour Blue, Musée d´Art Moderne, Saint-Étienne Métropole, France
: Lightness?,Maison Particuliére, Brussels, Belgium
: Tribute to Hieronymus Bosch in Congo, Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art Salzburg, Austria
: Le Louvre revisité, Lab - Labanque, Béthune Glasstress Stockholm, Millesgården Museum Stockholm, Sweden
: Mémoires du futur, la collection Olbricht, la maison rouge, Paris, France
: Cycle L’Éternel Détour, MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland
: Curated by...,Espace Beaumont, France
: De dood leeft,Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
: THE YEARS OF THE HOUR BLUE, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien, Austria (solo)
: Wunderkammer. Hedendaags curiositeitenkabinet, Botanique, Brussels, Belgium
: Danser sa vie, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
: PIETAS, La Biennale di Venezia, Italy (solo)
: HORTUS / CORPUS, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands (solo)
: The 52nd OCTOBER SALON. It´s time we got to know each other, The Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade, Serbia
: Grandville. Un autre monde, un autre temps, Musée du Temps, Besançon, France
: Glasstress 2011,Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, Venice, Italy
: Battle, Power and Faith, the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations (Hitite Museum), Ulus / Ankara, Turkey
: Within/Beyond Borders, Byzantine & Christian Museum, Athens, Greece
2011: Tribute to Hieronymus Bosch in Congo, Magazzino d´Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy (solo)
: Art kept me out of jail, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland (solo)
: The Years of the Hour Blue, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria (solo)
: Hortus / Corpus, Kröller-Müller Museum, Oterloo, The Netherlands (solo)
: Monanism, Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania,Hobart Tasmania, Australia
: Jan Fabre - The jewels of death - Bic Blue Drawings, MAM – Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria (solo)
: ARKHAIOLOGIA,CentrePasquArt Kunsthaus, Biel, Switzerland
: Fantômes & Cauchemars, l‘Historial de la Grande Guerre,Peronne & l‘Espace culturel François Mitterand de Beauvais, Beauvais, France
: ARTZUID. Internationale Sculptuurroute Amsterdam 2011, Apollolaan-Minervalaan-Zuidas, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
: Un autre monde,J.J. Grandville,Musée provincial Félicien Rops, Namur, France
: Sleeping Beauties, Kasteel van Gaasbeek, Gaasbeek, The Netherlands
: Art of the Loom, DEWEER Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
: Dreams, group exhibition, Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art Vienna, Salzburg, Austria
: BRAVE NEW WORLD - From the perspective of Mudam Collection Musée d´Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburg
: Sexuality and transcendence, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ucraine
: Islands Never Found Macedonian Museum of ContemporaryArt, Thessaloniki, Greece
: Islands Never Found State Museum of Contemporary Art - Thessaloniki, Greece
: Aichi Triennale 2010 "Arts and Cities" Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan
: De geleende tijd, Museo Carlo Bilotti Aranciera di Villa Borghese, Italy (solo)
: Art kept me out of jail. Performance installations 2001-2004-2008, M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium (solo)
: Jan Fabre. Hoofdstukken I-XVIII. Was & Brons, Guy Pieters Gallery, Paris, France (solo)
: Umbraculum para Medellin, un lugar en la sombra para reflexionar y trabajar, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellin, Colombia (solo)
: Jan Fabre Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
2010: Photo Based, Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany
: Aspects of Collecting, ESSL Museum, Klosterneuburg, Austria
: Goldfish Suddenly Dead, Project Room Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium
: Project Mesrine, Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany (solo)
: Is the brain the most sexy part of the body?, Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany (solo)
: Works on Paper, Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany
: Glass stress, Instituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, Venice, Italy
: Jeugdzonde. Over opus één en opus min één, LLS 387 Ruimte voor Actuele Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium
: Indian Caps. De keuze van Jan Fabre, Indian Caps vzw, Antwerp, Belgium
: Is the brain the most sexy part of the body?, Galerie Klüser 2, Germany (solo)
: Konferenz der Tiere, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Germany
: The State Of Things. Brussels/Beijing Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
: Essencial ExperiencesPalazzo Belmonte Riso, Palermo, Italy
: Jan Fabre. From the Feet to the Brain, Arsenale Novissimo, 53. Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (solo)
2009: Project Mesrine, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Germany (solo)
: Something Else!!!, MAN_Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Italy
2008 - 2009: JAN FABRE FROM THE CELLAR TO THE ATTIC. FROM THE FEET TO THE BRAIN, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria (solo)
: Jan Fabre op Wereldexpo in Zaragoza / Belgian Pavillion, Zaragoza, Spain
: Update, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
: Voyage sentimental, Mediations Biennale, Poznan, Poland
: Résonances médiévales, Couvent des Cordeliers, Saint-Nizier-sous-Charlieu, France
: Otras Floras, Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil
: Reflections on light, Galerie Bernd Klüser – Galerie Klüser 2, Munich, Germany
: Jan Fabre. From the Cellar to the Attic—From the Feet to the Brain, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria (solo)
: Jan Fabre. Is the Brain the Most Sexy Part of the Body?, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium (solo)
: La route de la terre vers les étoiles n’est pas lisse, Halle Verrière, Meisenthal, France (solo)
: Jan Fabre. Premio Pino Pascali XII ediz. 2008, Palazzo Pino Pascali, Polignano a Mare, Italy (solo)
: Umbraculum para Santiago de Chile, MAC – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Parque Forestal, Santiago de Chile, Chile (solo)
: Il Ragazzo con la luna e le stelle sulla testa, Piazza Plebiscito, Naples, Italy (solo)
: NéoFutur – Vers de nouveaux imaginaires, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
: Jan Fabre au Louvre. L’ange de la métamorphose, Musée du Louvre, Aile Richelieu, Salles Écoles du Nord, Paris, France (solo)
: Anatomie des Vanités, Musée de la Maison d’Erasme, Anderlecht, Belgium
: De geleende tijd / Le temps emprunté, BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
: Dit is onze aarde! (It’s our Earth!), Tour & Taxis, Brussels, Belgium
2008: Reflexion On Light – 30 Years Galerie Bernd Klüser, Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany
: JAN FABRE in the Louvre (solo), curator Marie-Laure Bernadac (Louvre, Fr.)
: Jan Fabre - The Angel of Metamorphosis, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
: ARCO 08 Madrid, Deweer Art Gallery
: Corpus Delicti, Justitiepaleis, Brussels, Belgium
: I have nothing to say and I am saying it, Platform Seoul, Korea
: Jan Fabre - De geleende tijd, Bozar, Brussels, Belgium
: Futurotextiel 08, Hall NMBS, Kortrijk, Belgium
: Collectiepresentatie, S.M.A.K. – Stedelijk Museum voor Actuelle Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
: Struggle for life. Evolution and Extinction in the Anthropocene, ERES-Stiftung, Munich, Germany
: Now Jump!, Nam June Paik Festival, Seoul, Korea
: Collectie XXIII, MuHKA – Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
: Het spel van de waanzin. Over gekte in film en theater, Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent, Belgium
: Der eigene Weg. Doing it my way. Perspektiven Belgischer Kunst. Perspectives on Belgian Art, MKM – Museum Küppersmühle für moderne Kunst, Duisburg, Germany
: Die Schöne und das Ungeheuer. Geschichten ungewöhnlicher Liebespaare, Museum Residenzgalerie, Salzburg, Austria
: Venice Biennale, Palazzo Benzon, curator Giacinto Pietrantonio (GAMeC, Bergamo It.) (solo)
: Skin of / in Contemporary Art, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
: Artempo, Where Time Becomes Art, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
: Bloedmooi. Onze dubieuze relatie met het dier, Historisch Museum Rotterdam / Schielandshuis, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
: Collective one, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, Switzerland
: De gustibus… Manger dans l’art contemporain, Broelmuseum, Broelkaai & ING, Kortrijk, Belgium
: Cadeau d’amis/ Een homage aan Jan Hoet, ICCA (International Centre for Contemporary Art), Diepenbeek, Belgium
: The Brains of My Mother and My Father / The Most Sexy Part of the Body (Brain Drawings and Models), Shugoarts, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
: Jan Fabre. Antropologie d’une planète, GAMeC – Galleria d’Arte moderna e contemporanea, Bergamo / Palazzo Benzon, 52. Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (solo)
: Les messagers de la mort décapités, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France (solo)
: Who Shall Speak My Thoughts (of My Body), Gallery Alpha Delta, Athens, Greece (solo)
: Jan Fabre. Boîtes à images et modèles de pensée, MAM – Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Salzburg, Austria (solo)
: Jan Fabre. Projet Tivoli pour Salzburg, MAM – Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Salzburg, Austria (solo)
: Die verliehene Zeit. Dessins pour l’oeuvre scènique de Jan Fabre, Museum der Moderne Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria (solo)
2007: Je crache sur ma tombe (modèle de pensée), MAM – Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria (solo)
: I Am As You Will Be / The Skeleton in Art, Cheim & Read, New York, USA
: Antwerp, Stadsbibliotheek Antwerp, Galerij Rode Zeven and Galerij Rossaert, Antwerp, Belgium (solo)
: Jan Fabre. Lancelot, Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy (solo)
: Jan Fabre. Kijkdozen en Denkmodellen, Galerie Seghers, Ostend, Belgium (solo)
: L’home que escriu sobre l’aigua, Sala d’Exposicions de la Rambla, Girona, Spain (solo)
: Jan Fabre. Turtles, Carpets, Landscapes, Galerie Artist, Istanbul, Turkey (solo)
: Jan Fabre: Landscapes and Turtles, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium (solo)
: An umbraculum for Dubrovnik, Galerija Umjetnicka, Dubrovnik, Croatia (solo)
: Le Temps emprunté. Drawings for the Stage Works by Jan Fabre, Galerie beaumontpublic, Luxembourg (solo)
: Je me vide de moi-même, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
: The Sublime is Now! (Das Erhabene in der zeitgenössischen Kunst), Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Bern, Switzerland
: SCHILDPADDEN EN LANDSCHAPPEN Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem (Belgium) (solo)
: Intramoenia-Extrart, Castelli di Puglia (Castelli della Daunia), Monte Sant’Angelo, Italy
: Absolumental, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
: Kunst und Fotografie; Fotografie und Kunst, Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany
: Beaufort. Triënnale voor hedendaagse kunst aan zee, Diverse locaties aan de Belgische kust
: Turtles, Carpets, Landscapes, Istanbul, Galeri Artist, (Turkey) (solo)
: Lancelot. Roma, Magazzino d'Arte Moderna (solo)
: Homo Faber, Antwerp Museum of Contemporary Art, The Royal Museum of Arts, The City Library of Antwerp, Rode Zeven, Antwerp, Rossaert (solo)
: Kijkdozen en Denkmodellen 1977-2004. Brussels, Vlaams Parlement, Lokettenzaal (solo)
2006: Le Temps Emprunte. Drawings for the stage, works by Jan Fabre, Luxemburg, Galerie BeaumontPublic (solo)
: Zoo, La Centrale Electrique / European Centre for Contemporary Art, Brussels, Belgium
: Mis gotas de sangre, mis huellas de sangre, Madrid, Espacio Minimo (solo)
: Visionary Belgium, Brussel - Bruxelles, Paleis voor Schone Kunsten - Palais des Beaux-Arts
: Small Drawings / Large Drawings, Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany
: The Giving Person. Il dono dell’artista, Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Naples, Italy
: Jan Fabre. Il rifugio (per la tomba del computer sconosciuto), Casa La Marrana in Montemarcello, Ameglia, Italy
: Principato di Monaco: Idea per un museo, Palazzo Ruspoli, Fondazione Memmo, Rome, Italy
: Mémoire et transmission, MAMAC – Musée d’Art moderne et d’Art contemporain, Liège, Belgium
: Barrocos i neobarracos / El infierno de lo bello, Domus Artium, Salamanca, Spain
: When Humour Becomes Painful, Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
: Slow Art. Neue Akzente aus Flandern und den Niederlanden, museum kunst palast, Düsseldorf, Germany
: Intersezioni, Parco Archeologico della Roccelletta, Catanzaro, Italy
2005: Galleria in Galleria, Metropolitana, Milan, Italy
: War is over / 1945–2005. La Libertà dell’Arte da Picasso a Warhol a Cattelan, GAMEC – 2005 Galleria d’Arte moderna e contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy
: Gaude succurrere vitae (Rallegratevi di soccorrere la vita). Bergamo, GAMEC - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (solo)
: Normal Life, Milano, Artandgallery
: A la recherche d'Utopia. Sculptures/installations 1977-2003. Nice, Musée d'Art moderne et d'Art contemporain (solo)
: L'homme qui donne du feu. Un choix dans l'oeuvre sculpturale de Jan Fabre 1977-2003. Alex, Fondation Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon (solo)
: Gaude succurrere vitae (Alegrate de socorrer la vida). Barcelona, Fundacio Joan Miro (solo)
: Robe/Rêve: Rêves de Robe, Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle, Calais, France
: Sanguis/Mantis Paris, Galerie Daniel Templon (solo)
: Sanguis/Mantis. Wien, Galerie Mario Mauroner (solo)
: The problem. Athens, Alpha Delta Gallery (solo)
: Gaude succurrere vitae (Réjouissez-vous de venir au secours de la vie). Lyon, Musée d'Art Contemporain (solo)
: Messengers of the death. Salzburg, Galerie Mario Mauroner (solo)
: Drawing, Photography, Drawing 1978-2004, Luxembourg, Galerie Beaumont Public (solo)
2004: Umbraculum. Dortmund, DASA, Galerie der Deutschen Arbeitsschutz Ausstellung (solo)
: 2003 Umbraculum. Oslo, Kunstnernes Hus (solo)
2003: Outlook, Div.Locations, Athens, Greece
: 2003 Beaufort, Triënnale voor hedendaagse kunst aan zee, Diverse locaties aan de Belgische kust
: SEARCHING FOR UTOPIA. SCULPTURES / INSTALLATIONS 1977-2003, Musée d’Art moderne et d’Art contemporain, Nizza, France (solo)
: Umbraculum, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway (solo)
: Sanguis/Mantis, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France (solo)
: Gaude succurrere vitae, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy (solo)
: Gaude succurrere vitae, Fundacio Juan Miro, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
: A la recherche d’Utopia, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Nizza, France (solo)
: Gaude succurrere vitae (Verheug u ter hulp te komen aan het leven), Gent, SMAK - Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (solo)
: Heaven of delight, permanent work, Royal Palace, Bruxelles, Belgium (solo)
: Eeuwige terugkeer/Eternel retour, Mac, Anvers, Belgium (solo)
: The great confinement, Galerie Academia, Salzburg, Austria (solo)
2002: Umbraculum, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium; Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen, Netherlands (solo)
: Bed, bath and gravetomb, Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
: Progetto Roma 2001, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea & Academia Belgica, Rome, Italy (solo)
: The tomb in the basement, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneve, Switzerland (solo)
: Swords, skulls and crosses, Espacio Minimo, Madrid, Spain (solo)
: Sanguis/Mantis, performance, Polysonneries festival, Lyon, France (solo)
: Memento Mori, Galerie Beaumont-Public, Luxembourg, Luxembourg (solo)
: Angels and Warriors, MIMOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Marugame, Japan (solo)
: 7th International Istanbul Biennial, Egofugal/Egokac, Istanbul, Turkey
: 1st Biennial of Valencia. The Body and Sin, Convento del Carmen, Valencia, Spain
: New Works, Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany (solo)
: Sonsbeek 9: LocusFocus, Arnhem, Diverse locaties
2001: Umbraculum. Un lieu ombragé hors du monde pour penser et travailler. Avignon, Chapelle Saint-Charles (solo)
: Working drawings of theatre performances, Infinito Ltd., Turin, Italy (solo)
: Lost Paradise Lost. Kunst und sakraler Raum, World Expo 2000, Hannover, Germany
: 5eme Biennale d'Art contemporain de Lyon, Partage d'exotismes, Lyon, Halle Tony Garnier
: A Consilience, London, Natural History Museum (solo)
: La Beauté: Nature à l’oeuvre, Clos de Trams & Espace Jeanne-Laurent & Palais des Papes, Avignon, France
: 7 Hügel – Bilder und Zeichen des 21. Jahrhunderts, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
: Annonce au monde extérieur, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France (solo)
: Jan Fabre & Ilja Kabakov. Sustret. Een ontomoeting/Bctpe4a, Zagreb, Muzej Suvremene Umjetnosti, Croatia (solo)
: Storage Room of a Warrior, AlphaDelta Gallery, Athens, Greece (solo)
2000: Hortus conclusus, Carré Sainte Anne & jardin de la DRAC, Montpellier, France (solo)
: Ilad of the Bic-Art, Galerie Elisabeth Kaufmann, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
1999: Warszawa, Museum of Contemporary Art (solo)
: ENGEL UND KRIEGER, STRATEGIEN UND TAKTIKEN, Kunsthalle Kiel, Germany (solo)
: BODY LIQUIDS & ....SLEEP, SLEEP AND SLEEP LITTLE ANIMIAL, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany (solo)
1998: Selected Works – Jubiläum, Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany
: Een ontmoeting/Vstrecha, Ilya Kabakov & Jan Fabre. Otegem, Deweer Art Gallery (solo)
: Skin, Jeruzalem, The Israel Museum
1997: La pittura fiamminga e olandese, Venezia, Palazzo Grassi
: Passage/Prolaz, Zagreb, Muzej Suvremene Umjetnosti (solo)
: Inneres / Äusseres Skelett, Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany (solo)
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerpen, Belgium (solo)
1996: PASSAGE, Ludwig Muzeum, Budapest, Hungary (solo)
1995: JAN FABRE – DER LEIMRUTENMANN, Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany (solo)
: Dichters rond de beeldende kunstenaar Jan Fabre, 3 x 7 Kamers, 3 x 7 Gedichten, Watou, Diverse localities
1994: DE LIJMSTOKMAN, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
: Wand der aufsteigenden Engel, Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany (solo)
1993: Azur, Jouy-en-Josas, Fondation Cartier
1992: Der gefrorene Leopard II, Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany
: JAN FABRE. ZEICHNUNGEN – OBJEKTE – ZEICHNUNGEN, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany (solo)
1991: ZWEI OBJEKTE, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (solo)
1990: JAN FABRE / CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brüssel, Belgium (solo)
: SOM, Centro de Arte Moderna, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
: DAS GERÄUSCH, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (solo)
1989: INSECTEN EN RIUMTE, Museum Overholland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
1988: DER BLAUE RAUM, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (solo)
1985: TEKENINGEN, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium (solo)

Public Collections

: MUDAM - Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
: MNCARS - Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
: PMMK - Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Ostende, Belgium
: Kunstmuseum Basel – Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
: MuHKA – Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpen, Belgium
: Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne Métropole, Saint-Etienne, France
: Staatsgemäldesammlung München, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
: SMAK - Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium
: Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
: Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey
: FRAC – Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France
: KIASMA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finnland
: MSU – Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia

Jan Fabre

(Belgian, born 1958)

Jan Fabre

Jan Fabre

Jan Fabre

Jan Fabre

Jan Fabre

Jan Fabre

Jan Fabre

Jan Fabre

Jan Fabre

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