Jan Fabre

The artist

Jan Fabre was born in 1958 in Antwerp where he lives and works. He has worked in the theatre and is an internationally renowned choreographer. Over the last twenty years he has also developed a body of art work based on a variety of materials, including blood, ball-point pen ink, beetle wings, bones, stuffed animals and marble. Jan Fabre is an inveterate draughtsman, creating sculptures and installations that explore topics such as metamorphosis, the dialogue between art and science, humankind’s relationship to nature and the artist as a warrior of beauty.

Exhibitions

Biography

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Birth Born in 1958 in Antwerp, Belgium
Residency Lives and work in Antwerp, Belgium

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2020 Jan Fabre. L’Heure Sauvage, Galerie Templon, Brussels, Belgium
2019 Jan Fabre - L’uomo che misura le nuvole, Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina (MADRE), Naples, Italy
Jan Fabre. Oro Rosso, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy
The man who measures the clouds, Biennale di Venezia, Garden of palazzo Balbi Valier, Venice, Italy
2018 Jan Fabre - Stigmata. Actions & Performances 1976 – 2017, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Sevilla, Spain
Ma Nation: l’imagination, Fondation Maeght, Saint Paul de Vence, France
My Queens, Musée Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
The appearance and disappearance of Bacchus, Antwerp, Christ (2016). Special creations for The State Hermitage Museum, Belgium
Folklore Sexuel Belge (2017-2018) Mer du Nord Sexuelle Belge (2018), Galerie Templon, Paris, France
Jan Fabre. Loyalty and Vanity, Gallery 604, Busan, South Korea
Jan Fabre. The Castles in the Hous Blue, Basilica of Sant’Eustorgio, Milan, Italy
Saint Augustin Church of Antwerp (AMUZ), permanent alterpieces, Antwerp, Belgium
2017 Jan Fabre: Tributo al Bosco en Congo, Galeria Javier Lopez & Fer Frances, Madrid, Spain
Jan Fabre, Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany
Jan Fabre – Maskers, MAGAZZINO, Rome, Italy
Jan Fabre - Kijkdozen, Denkmodellen en Tekeningen 1977 – 2008, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
Folklore Sexuel Belge, Édité et Offert par Jan Fabre, Le Bon Artiste Belge, MAM Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria
Jan Fabre – Stigmata, Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria
Jan Fabre - Gold And Blood Wilde, Carouge, Switzerland
Fabre, Glass and Bone sculptures 1977-2017, Biennale di Venezia, Abbaye de San Gregorio, Venice, Italy
2016 Jan Fabre: Knight of Despair / Warrior of Beauty, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Jan Fabre. Stigmata - Actions & Performances 1976-2016, Musée d'Art Contemporain Lyon, Lyon, France
Jan Fabre - Vanitas Vabitatum, Omnia Vanitas, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
Knight of the Night, Ronchini Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Jan Fabre - The Hour Blue & Thinking Models, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
Spiritual Guards, Forte Belvedere / Palazzo Vecchio / Piazza della Signoria, Florence, Italy
2015 Jan Fabre - Sacrum Cerebrum, Wilde, Geneva, Switzerland
Jan Fabre - 30 Years/ 7 Rooms, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
Reife Früchte - junges Gemüse, Kurpfälzisches Museum der Stadt Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Jan Fabre - The Years of the Hour Blue, Magazzino, Rome, Italy
Jan Fabre - Knight of the Night, Galleria Il Ponte, Florence, Italy
Tribute to Hieronymus Bosch in Congo (2011–2013), Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Jan Fabre - Stigmata, Actions & Performances 1976-2013, Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (MuHKA), Antwerp, Belgium
Jan Fabre - Tribute to Hieronymus Bosch in Congo, Wetterling Gallery, Gothenburg ; Stockholm, Sweden
Jan Fabre - New Mosaic Works, Galerie Daniel Templon – Paris, Paris, France
Jan Fabre - Do We Feel With Our Brain And Think With Our Heart?, Gallery 604, Busan, South Korea
2013 Gisants, (Hommage à E.C Crosby et K.Z Lorenz), Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Chalcosoma, Small Bronzes 2006-2012, Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Wuppertal, Germany
Insektenzeichnungen & Insektenskulpturen 1975-1979, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen, Germany
Skulls & Mosaics, Guy Pieters Gallery, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
Chalcosoma. Small ¬Bronzes 2006-2012, St. Moritz Art Masters, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Stigmata, Actions & Performances 1976-2013, MAXXI, Rome, Italy
Hommage à Jérôme Bosch au Congo, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France
Illuminations, Trésors d’enluminures des musées de France. Jan Fabre. Chalcosoma, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France
Jan Fabre, The Years of the Hour Blue 1977– 1992, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea

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2012 Pietas, Parlood, Park Spoor Noord, Antwerp, Belgium
Les années de l’Heure Bleue, dessins et sculptures 1977-1992, Musée d’Art Moderne, Saint Etienne, France
Art is a medusa, Giuseppe De Nittis Museum Gallery - Palazzo della Marra, Barletta, Italy
Jan Fabre. Insektenzeichnungen & Insektenskulpturen 1975-1979, ikob, Eupen, Germany
One man's death is another man's chocolate & 9 Chapters, Galerie Klüser 1 & 2, Munich, Germany
Jan Fabre. Chalcosoma. Small Bronzes 2006-2012, Guy Pieters Gallery, Knokke Heist, Belgium
Jan Fabre. Chapters I- XVIII. Waxes & bronzes, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
2011 Hortus/Corpus, Musée Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, The Netherlands
Pietas, Nuova scuola Grande di Santa Maria della Misericordia, 54th Venice Biennale, Italy
Jan Fabre, The Years of The Hour Blue, Kunsthistorisches, Museum, Vienna, Austria
2010 Art kept me out of jail. Performance installations by Jan Fabre 2001-2004-2008, M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium
Dead or alive, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA
Chapitre I - XVIII - Cires et Bronzes, Guy Pieters Gallery, Paris, France
2009 Thinking models, Galerie Beaumont Public, Luxembourg
Jan Fabre, From the feet to the brain, Arsenale, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2008 From the cellar to the Attic. From the feet to the Brain, Kunsthaus, Bregenz, Austria
Heaven of Delight, Palais Royal, Brussels, Belgium
Jan Fabre au Louvre – L’Ange de la métamorphose, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
2007 Les messagers de la mort décapités, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Who shall speak my thoughts (of my body), Gallery Alpha Delta, Athens, Greece
Die verliehene Zeit, Museum der Moderne Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria
Jan Fabre. Anthropology of the planets, Palazzo Benzon, Venice, Italy
The brains of my mother and my father, Shugoarts, Tokyo, Japan
2006 Kijkdozen en denkmodellen 1977-2004, Vlaams Parlement, Brussels, Belgium
Lancelot, Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
Homo Faber, MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium

2005
Mis gotas de sangre, mis huellas de sangre, Espacio minimo, Madrid, Spain
Sanguis/mantis Landscape, Musée de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France
For intérieur, Maison Jean Vilar, Avignon, France

2004
Drawing-Photography-Drawing 1978-2004, Galerie Beaumont Public, Luxembourg
Virgin/Warrior, Warrior/Virgin (with Marina Abramovic), Perfomance installation, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

2003
Umbraculum, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
Sanguis/Mantis, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Gaude succurrere vitae, GAMeC – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy
Gaude succurrere vitae, Fondation Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain
L’homme qui donne du feu. Un choix dans l’œuvre sculpturale de Jan Fabre, 1977-2003, Fondation Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon, Alex, France
A la recherche d’Utopia, sculptures/installations 1977-2003, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Nice, France
Umbraculum, DASA, Galerie der deutschen Arbeitsschutz Ausstellung, Dortmund, Germany

2002
Gaude succurrere vitae (verheug u ter hulp te komen aan het leven), SMAK, Ghent, Belgium
Heaven of delight, Royal Palace, Brussels, Belgium
The great confinement, Galeria Academia & Galerie Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Salzburg, Austria

2001
Swords, skulls and crosses, Espace Minimo, Madrid, Spain
UmbraculumEen plaats in de schaduw waar gedacht en gewerkt wordt, ver van het gangbare leven, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
Tekeningen Ilad of the Bic-Art 1980, Galerie Elisabeth Kaufmann, Zürich, Switzerland
Angel and Warrior, Strategy and Tactics, MIMOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Marugame, Japan
Memento Mori, Galerie Beaumont-Public, Luxembourg
Umbraculum. Un lieu ombragé hors du monde pour réfléchir et travailler, Chapelle Saint-Charles, Avignon, France
Neue Arbeiten, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany
Underground Exhibition, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, Switzerland
Progetto Roma 2001, Umbraculum. Un posto ombreggiato dove pensare e lavatore lontano dalla vita quotidiana, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
L’uomo che misura le novele – l’uomo dalle gambe di carne, Academia Belgica, Rome, Italy

2000
Storage Room of a Warrior, Alpha Delta Gallery, Athens, Greece
A consilience, Natural History Museum, London, UK
Jan Fabre & Ilya Kabakov. Sustret.Een ontmoeting/ Vstrecha, Muzzej Suvremene Umjetnosti, Zagreb, Croatia
Annonce au monde extérieur, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France

1999
Jan Fabre, Museum of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
Battlefields & Beekeepers, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
Body Liquids &…Sleep, sleep and sleep little animals… Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany
Passage, Cantieri culturali allo Zisa, Palermo, Italy
Engel und Krieger, Strategien und Taktiken, Kunsthalle, Kiel, Germany
Me dreaming, Château d’Oiron, Oiron, France

1998
Een ontmoeting/ Vsttrecha’. Ilya Kabakov & Jan Fabre, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
Passage, Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, USA
A cidade e as estralas. Parte 3. Atlas of battles, strategies and tactics, Galeria Luis Serpa, Lisbon, Portugal
Jan Fabre, Satani Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Annonce au monde extérieur, Galerie Beaumont, Luxembourg

1997
Passage/Prolaz, Muzej Suvremene, Zagreb, Croatia
The Joker, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy
The Lime Twig Man, Arnolfi Museum, Bristol, UK
Passage, MuHKA – Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
Inneres/aüsseres Skelett.Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany
Jan Fabre, Rob Scholte, Edward Lipski. New works, Galerie Ronny van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium

1996
Skeleton + Skin Satany Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Passage, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary

1995
Dÿe den nest weet Dÿe weeten. Dÿen roft Dy¨heeten.Vier nieuwe sculpturen, de Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands
Der Leimrutenmann, Städtische Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany

1994
The grave of the unknown computer, Galerie Beaumont Public, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Questa pazzia è fantastica, Museo Pecci, Prato, Florence, Italy
Mauer der aufder aufsteigenden Engel. Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany
Silenzio nella tempesta, Galleria massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy

1993
Tekeningen, sculpturen, tekeningen, Galerie Ronny van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium

1992
Zeichnungen-ObjekteZeichnungen, Kunstverein, Hanover, Germany

1991
Zwei Objekten, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany

1990
Das Geraüsch, Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland
Som., Centro de Arte Moderna, Lisbon, Portugal
Antichambres/Affinités sélectives VI. Jan Fabre/Christian Boltanski, Paleis voor Schone Kunsten-Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium

1989
Insecten en Ruimte, Museum Overholland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Een skulptuur/viif tekeningen, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
Tekeningen, Modellen & objecten, Provincial Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Ostend, Belgium
Jan Fabre, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, USA
Tivoli, Galerie Ronny van de Velde, Mechelen, Castel Rivoli, Antwerp, Belgium

1988
Der Blaue Raum, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Hé wat een plezierige zottigheid !, Galerie Ronny van de Velde, Belgium
Modellen 77-85, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium

1987
Het uur blauw, De Selby, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1985
Tekeningen, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gand, Belgium
New Math Gallery, New York, USA
1984
Vrienden, Hasselt, Provinciaal Museum, Belgium
41° Venice Biennal (Belgian Pavillon), Venice, Italy

1982
Money and Art, Art and Money, Gallery School of Visual Arts, New York, USA

1980
Mond-Oog-Oog Arts, Galerie Workshop 77, Antwerp, Belgium
American Works and Window Performance, Galerie Blanco, Antwerp, Belgium

1979
Westkamer, Galerie Workshop 77, Antwerp, Belgium

1978
Buy by Jan Fabre, Galerie Van Eck, Antwerp, Belgium

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2021 L’Homme gris, Casino du Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2020 7de Biënnale van de Schilderkunst - Binnenskamers, Roger Raveel Museum, Machelen, Belgium
De Nacht, Cultuurhuis de Warande, Turnhout, Belgium
2019 Glasstress, Fondazione Berengo, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
One way ticket to mars, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, The Netherlands
United Artists for Europe, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac- London, London, United Kingdom
NATUR IN ARTE, Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków (MOCAK), Krakow, Poland
The Collection (1) | Highlights for a Future, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent, Belgium
2018 La collection Bic, Centquatre-Paris, Paris, France
Beyond Borders, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
As Far as the Eye Can See. New Insight Into The Würth Collection, Würth Collection, Ersten, France
Belgium calling - Part II, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
Charivari, Pamelekerk, Oudenaarde, Belgium
Belgium calling - Part I, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
2017 Documenta 14, Athens, Greece
Hair and Feathers, Musée de Flandre, Cassel, Switzerland
The Artist/Knight, Château de Gaasbeek, Gaasbeek, Belgium
Daniel Templon - Portrait of a Gallery, Institut culturel Bernard Magrez, Bordeaux, France
The Beauty of the Beast, D’Ursel Castle, Hingene, Belgium
XY – 10 Years Glazenhuis, Glazenhuis, Lommel, Belgium
Ecce Homo, Geukens & De Vil, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
Considérer le monde, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne (MAMC), Saint-Etienne, France
Collector´s Room #17: Deweer´s Artists in the Spotlight, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
The Raft, Art is (not) Lonely, Mu.ZEE, Oostende, Belgium
Transition@Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art Salzburg, MAM Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Fantastic Art in Belgium, Bunkamura, Tokyo, Japan
ANTIDORON: Arbeiten der EMST Sammlung in der documenta 14, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Fantastic Art in Belgium, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan

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Belgian Dance and Performance on Camera 1970-2000, Argos, Brussels, Belgium
artapes #1. Walking around the clock, MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy
Sentieri Contemporanei - In-Giro / A-round, Ex Mercato del centro storico di Alghero, Alghero, SS, Italy
The Collection, Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (MuHKA), Antwerp, Belgium
From the Cavern to the Moon - A Journey Through the Collection of the Pecci Centre, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, PO, Italy
Collector´s Room # 14: Black / White, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
Von Kopf bis Fuß, Musée Würth France, Erstein, France
Step Up! - Chapter 2 Belgian Dance And Performance On Camera 1970-2000, Argos, Brussels, Belgium
2016 Divine décadence, Château de Gaasbeek, Gaasbeek, Belgium
GLASS, Villa Vescovi, Padova, Italy
Vanités, Maison des consuls, Matelles, France
When will I be little again?, Cricoteka Centre for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor, Krakow, Poland
The Eighties – A decade of extremes, M HKA, Anvers, Belgium
Renaissance, Fondation Etrillard, Paris, France
Another world. Laboratory of illusion and fantasy, Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent, Belgium
Under the Spell of Bosch, Het Noordbrabants Museum, Bois-le-Duc, The Netherlands
Urgent Conversations: Athens-Antwerp, National Museum of Contemporary Art – EMST, Athens, Greece
Prints – Grafiken Von 1970 Bis 2015, Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany
Ich Ist Eine Ego-Maschine, ERES Stiftung, Munich, Germany
Collector´s Room # 12, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
Decoding Scripture & Picture, MAM Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Sünde Und Erkenntnis - Die Frucht In Der Kunst, ALTANA Kulturstiftung im Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg, Germany
Lettre F + lancement Fanzine de Nicolas Boulard, Galerie Eva Meyer, Paris, France
the green line, Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (MuHKA), Antwerp, Belgium
Glassfever – Contemporary Art in Glass, Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
The importance of Being, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
Tous belges !, Abbaye St André - Centre d'art contemporain Meymac, Meymac, France
Intrigantes incertitudes, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne (MAMC), Saint-Etienne, France
Longing For Happier Times, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands
Uchronies, BPS22 - Musée d'art de la Province de Hainaut, Charleroi, Belgium
2015 Construire une collection, Villa Paloma, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco
Belgique, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Tapisseries / Les espaces échangés, MUba Eugène Leroy, Tourcoing, France
Là où commence le jour, LaM, Lille, France
The Importance of Being, MACBA, Buenos Aires, Argentine ; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana, Havana, Cuba ; Museu de Arte Moderna Rio de Janeiro (MAM), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Post Mortem, Rommelaere Institute, Ghent, Belgium
Skelet, Museum Beelden Aan Zee, La Haye, The Netherlands
Onufri XXI - SiO2 . The reason of Fragility, National Gallery of Arts – Tirana, Tirana, Albania
EuroScope, Cercle Cité, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Belgique, Galerie Daniel Templon – Paris, Paris, France
Là où commence le jour, - Dans le cadre de lille3000 – Renaissance, LaM - Lille Métropole musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporain et d'art brut, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
Paradis perdu, FRAC - Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France
Port tonic art center, G Exhibition Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
In De Luwte Van De Tussentijd, Kunstenfestival Watou, Schore, Belgium
A l'Ombre d'Eros, une histoire d'amour et de mort, Musée de Brou, Bourg-en-Bresse, France
… nel Blu dipinto di Blu… da Yves Klein, la magia di un colore nell’arte contemporanea, MACA - Museo Arte Contemporanea Acri, Acri, Italy
I Love Art 13 - 100 artists from the Watari-Um Collection, Watari-Um - Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Fernelmont Contemporary Art Festival 2015, Fernelmont Contemporary Art, Fernelmont, Belgium
When I Give, I Give Myself, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
I Belgi. Barbari E Poeti, MACRO Museo d´Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy
An Jan - Eine Hommage, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany
Rops/fabre. Facing Time, Maison de la Culture Namur, Namur, Belgium
A Belgian Politician, Galerie Marion De Cannière, Antwerp, Belgium
Collector's Room #8, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
Metamorphosen, Rijksmuseum Twenthe - Museum voor oude en moderne kunst, Enschede, Netherlands
Obsession, Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium
In Search of Meaning, Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, Netherlands
2014 Signes de croix, Maison de la Culture, Namur, Belgium
Michelangelo e il Novecento, Palazzina dei Giardini, Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena, Italy
Like a Virgin, Maria als Wonder Woman, Odapark, Venray, The Netherlands
Vie della scultura, Villa Bertelli, Forte dei Marmi, Italy
Fabrica Vitae, Zakynthos, Greece
2013 Babel, Le Botanique, Brussels, Belgium
Ballpoint pen drawing since 1950, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut, USA
Fragile - Murano. Chefs-d’œuvre de verre de la renaissance au XXIème siecle, Musée Maillol, Paris, France
Framed – by Ted Noten, Stedelijk Museum, ’s-Hertogenbosch, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Wunderkammer – Cabinet de curiosités contemporain, Palazzo Widmann, Venice, Italy
Glasstress, Instituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Venezia & Berengo Centre for contemporary Art and glass, Murano, Italy
Baza(a)r Belg(i)e, de Centrale for contemporary art, Brussels, Belgium
Les aventures de la vérité. Peinture et philosophie, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
The Mind of the Artist, Galerie Ronny Van de Velde, Knokke, Belgium
Museum to scale 1/7, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
Happy birthday dear Academie, MAS, Antwerp, Belgium
Middle Gate Geel ’13, St. Dimpnachurch, Geel, Belgium
Vanitas revisited, Galerie Ronny Van de Velde, Knokke, Belgium
Wunderkammer, Academia Belgica, Rome, Italy
2012 Venice International Performance Art Week, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy
Cross-examinations #3 These and Other Works. Explaining Belgian Art to a Foreigner, Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp, Belgium
Digitalife 2012. Roma europa Festival 2012, Macro Testaccio, Rome, Italy
R/evolution on paper. Drawings from five centuries- The Klüser collection, Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Belgian art. A Modern century, Collection Caroline & Maurice Verbaet, Museum of Elsene, Brussels, Belgium
From Head to Toe Human Images in the Focus of the Würth Collection, Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
Ensemblematic, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium
Theatre of the World, MONA, Tasmania, Australia
Babel, Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille, Lille, France
Bookshowbookshop, Be - Part, Waregem, Belgium
Sint Jan, Cathédrale Saint Bavon, Ghent, Belgium
Danser sa vie, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
2011 Death Matters, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2010 Alternative humanities: Jan Fabre & Katsura Funakoshi, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
C'est la vie, Musée Maillol, Paris, France

2009
Cinema d’artista : Jan Fabre / Renato Meneghetti, Fronte del Porto Filmclub, Padova, Italy

2008
Résonances médiévales, Couvent des Cordeliers, Saint-Nizier-sous-Charlieu, France, France
Voyage Sentimental, Poznan, Poland
WorldExpo Zaragoza, Belgian Pavillon, Zaragoza, Spain

2007
Die Schöne und das Ungeheuer, Museum Residenzgalerie, Salzburg, Germany
I am as You will be/The sekeleton in Art, Cheim & Read, New York, USA
Collective One, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, Switzerland

2006
Beaufort, Triennale voor hedendaagse kunst aan zee. Kunst brengt Kunst, PMMK, Ostend, Belgium
The sublime is now, Museum Franz Gertsch, Bern, Switzerland

2005
Visionnary Belgium, Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Palais des beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Galleria in Galleria, Metropolitana, Milan, Italy
Mé-tissages, Museum voor Industiriele Archeologie en Textiel, Ghent, Belgium
The Giving Person (Il dono dell’ Artista) Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Naples, Italy
My (private) Heroes, MARTa, Herford, Germany
Intersezioni, Parco Archeologico della Roccelletta, Cantanzaro, Italy
Domicile : privé/public, Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France
Biennale Art Contemporain et Patrimoine Artour, Musée Royal, Mariemont, France
Jan Fabre/ Otonella Mocellin & Nicola Pellegrini, La Marrana Arteambientale, Montemarcello, Italy
Les 36èmes rencontres internationales de la photographie, Chapelle Saint-Martin, Arles, France
Soul, Corpus Brugge 05, Bruges, Belgium
Slow Art/ Neue Akzenten aus Flandern und den Niederlanden, Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf, Germany
When humour becomes painful, Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
Mémoire et transmission, MAMAC, Liege, Belgium
Barroccos I Neobarroccos/ Et Infierno, de lo Bello, Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain
Accumulazioni, Palazzo Lantieri, Gorizia, Italy
War is over 1945-2005/ La liberta dell’ arte da picasso a Warhol a Cattelan, GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy
La peau est ce qu’il y a de plus profond, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Valenciennes, France
Principato di monaco/ idea per un Museo, Palazzo Rispoli, Rome, Italy

2004
Normal Life, Artandgallery, Milan, Italy
Horizont(e). Vinte anos Galeria Luis Serpa, projects 1984-2004, Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon, Portugal
Vidas Imaginarias, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal

2003
Beaufort. Triennale voor hedendaagse kunst aans zee, some places on the Belgian coast
5ème Biennale de Venise, Utopia Station, Arsenal, Venice, Italy
Outlook, different places, Athens, Greece

2000
5th Biennal of contemporary art, Partage d’exotisme, Hall Tony Granier, Lyon, France
La Beauté : Nature à l’œuvre, Clos de Trams & Espace Jeanne-Laurent & Palais des Papes, Avignon, France
7 hügel- Bilder und Zeichen des 21. Jahrhunderts, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
Lost Paradise Lost, Kunst und sakraler Raum, World Expo 2000, Different churches, Hanover, Germany
Sonsbeek 9: Locus Focus, Arnhem, different places, Germany
Sous les ponts, le long de la rivière,… Fort Tünghen, Luxembourg
1ère Biennale de Valence The Body and Sin, Convento del Carmen, Valencia, Spain
Collections d’artistes, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
7th International Istanbul Biennal, Egofugal/Egokaç, different places, Istanbul, Turkey

1998
Skin, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

1997
La pittura fiamminga e olandese, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
Art/Fashion, (Biennale di Firenze’ 96), Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York, USA

1996
Marks. Artists work through Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

1995
Watou’95,Dichters rond de beeldende kunstenaar, Jan Fabre, 3 x 7 Kramer, 3 x 7 Gedichten, Watou, different places, Belgium
Ripple Across the Water’95, Watari-Um, Tokyo, Japan

1994
Bug-eyed, Art, Culture, Insects, Turtle Bay Exploration Park, Turtle Bay Museum Redding, USA
Vies Imaginaires, Calouste Gulbekian, Foundation, Centro de Ate Moderna, Lisbon, Portugal
Animaux/ of Animals and Humans, Seedamm Kulturzentrum Pfäffikon, Pfâffikon, Switzerland
Il grandi Magazzini dell’Arte, Complesso Museale Santa Maria della Scala/ Palazzo delle Papesse & Palazzo Publico, Siena, Italy

1993
Azur, Fondation Cartier, Jouy-en-Josas, France
Dallas in Art, Haggarty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, USA
Kunst in België, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Brussels, Belgium

1992
Mito Annual’ 93. Another World., ART TOWER MITO, Contemporary Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Documenta IX, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
TRANSFORM. BildObjecktSkulptur in 20. Jahrhundert, Kunstmuseum und Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland
Der gefrorene Leopard, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany
Third International Istanbul Biennal, The Greater Istanbul Municipality Nejat F.Eczacibasi Art Museum, Istanbul, Turkey

1991
Wanderlieder, Stedlijke Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Metropolis, International Art Exhibition Berlin 1991, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
Irony by Vision, Watari-Um Gallery, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
21eme Biennale Internationale de Sao Paulo, different locations, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Facts and Rumours, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Fotografija, Museum for Modern Art, Museum for Moden Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia

1990
Artisti (della Fiandra), Biennale de Venise, Palazzo Sagredo, Venice, Italy
Hommage aan Vincent van Gogh, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands

1989
Open Mind (Gesloten circuits), Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium

1988
Signaturen, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium

1987
Uit het oude Europa/ from the Europe of Old, Stedlijke Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1986
Chosen with Care, Zuiderpershiuis, Antwerp, Belgium

1985
Aanwinsten, Museum Boijmans-Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Dialogo, Exhibition-Dialogue on Contemporary Art in Europe, Centro de Arte Modena, Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal

1979
Arte Fiamminga Contemporanea, Palazzo Ruccellia, Florence, Italy

THEATRE (SELECTION)

2018 The Generosity of Dorcas, Théâtre de la Bastille, Paris, France
2017 Belgian Rules/Belgium Rules, Kaaitheater, Brussels, Belgium
2015 Mount Olympus. To Glorify The Cult Of Tragedy, A 24 Hour Performance, Théâtre de la Villette, Paris, France
2013 The Tragedy of a Friendship, Théâtre de la Ville, Paris, France
2012 Jan Fabre: 4 solos : Drugs keep me alive, l’Empereur de la perte, Étant donnés, Préparatio Mortis, T2G, Gennevilliers, France
2010 Another Sleepy Delta Day, (choreographer and director), Théâtre des Abbesses, Paris, France

HAPPENINGS (SELECTION)

2018 JAN FABRE. STIGMATA. Actions & Performances 1976, CAAC Sevilla (Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla, Spain
2017 STIGMATA. Actions & Performances 1976-2017, Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon (mac LYON), Lyon, France
STIGMATA. Actions & Performances 1976-2017, Leopold museum, Vienna, Austria
2004 Virgini/ Warrior, Warrior/Virgin (avec Marina Abramovic), Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2001 Sanguis/Mantis, Festival Polysonneries, Lyon, France
1982 It’s Kill or Cure, Franklin Furnace, New York, USA
1981 Ilad of the Bic-Art, the Bic-Art Room, Salon Odessa, Leiden, Germany
Homo Fabere (This ain’t work, this is evolution), Cultureel Centrum, Antwerp, Belgium
Art as a Gamble, Gamble as an Art, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA
T.Art, Washington University, Saint-Louis, USA
Perfomance X, Art as a cultivated boredom, Cairn, Paris, France
The Interim-Art Works of Jan Fabre, Peperstraat 3è, Groningen, Germany
1980 The Rea(dy) make of the Performance Money, Ankkerrui Theater, Antwerp, Belgium
Ilad of the Bic-Art, Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Money (Art) in Culture, Universiteit Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
After-Art, Helfaer Theater, Milwaukee, USA
Sea-Salt-of-the-Fields, Marquette University, Milwaukee, USA
Creative Hitler Act, Saint-Louis University, Milwaukee, USA
Will docteur Fabre cure you ?, Galerie Workshop’77, Antwerp, Belgium
Window Performance, Galerie Blanco, Antwerp, Belgium

Voir plus

1979 Money Performance, Ankerrui theater, Antwerp, Belgium
Creativity, School HH, Turnhout, Belgium
Westpotten, fossilien, Ommeganckstraat, Antwerp, Belgium
Bill us later (avec Patrick Sellitto), Mott Street, New York, USA
Wets-World Project, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Middelheimpark, Anvers; Stedlijke Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1978 My Body, My Blood, My Landscape, Lange Beeldekensstraat 240, Antwerp, Belgium
Vincent van Gogh-jan fabrehuis, Lange Beeldekensstraat 240, Antwerp, Belgium
1977 Lange Beeldekens-jan Fabrestraat, Lange Beeldekenstraat, Antwerp, Belgium
Window Performance, Offerandestraat, Antwerp, Belgium
1976 Avondmaal, harbour, Antwerp, Belgium
Ik neem alles serieus maar niet tragisch, Cultureel Centrum, Antwerp, Belgium
Hier leeft mijn…Offerandestraat, Antwerp, Belgium
Red Lines Performance, Berlin, Germany, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Antwerp, Belgium

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, France
Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
Frac Grand Large – Hauts de France, France
Musée d’art contemporain, Marseille, France
FRAC Alsace, France
FRAC Lorraine, France
Institut d’art contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhône-alpes, France

Voir plus

MAMAC, Nice, France
Musée d’art moderne et contemporain Saint-Etienne Métropole, France
Musée d’art contemporain d’Anvers, France
Frac Lorraine, France
BElfius Art Collection, France
Musée de Flandre, Cassel, France
MUDAM, Luxembourg
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Belgium
Frac Midi-Pyrenées, France
MUba Eugene Leroy, France
MHKA / Collection Flemish Community, Antwerp, Belgium

Press

L'Oeil - février 2020

Jan Fabre

The Art Newspaper Daily - janvier 2020

A Bruxelles, les galeries font leur "off" pendant la BRAFA

Bernard Marcelis

L'Echo - janvier 2020

La sauvagerie de l'Heure bleue

Johan-Frédérik Hel Guedj

Exibart.com - décembre 2019

Amore e follia: il corallo rosso di Jan Fabre al Pio Monte di Napoli

Adriana Dragoni

Le Figaro - 8 septembre 2018

Dans le cerveau de Jan Fabre

Valérie Duponchelle

The Art Newspaper Daily - juillet 2018

Jan Fabre, artiste cérébral à a Fondation Maeght

Alexandre Crochet

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News

Jan Fabre
PERMANENT COLLECTION – CAPPELLA DI SAN GENNARO

Capella di San Gennaro, Napoli

Jan Fabre is entering four coral sculptures to the Cappella di San Gennaro’s permanent collection in Napoli.

Jan Fabre
“L’HOMME GRIS” – GROUP SHOW

Casino Luxembourg, 41 Rue Notre Dame, 2240 Luxembourg
Until June 6, 2021

The exhibition L’homme gris explores non-archetypal representations of the Devil in contemporary art. Far from disappearing, his image has simply mutated, showing again his fascinating ability to adapt which has allowed him to pass through art history – and mankind – unabated. While the way in which he slips away, transforms, infiltrates allows him to claim an all-the-more dangerous, powerful, or liberating position, it offers artists two possible paths to explore. Their choice sways between the empty shell, the costume to don, the pure image, and an elusive and constant metamorphosis. This exciting alternative evokes, or perhaps, invokes, reflective illusions or the use of anonymity as strategic weapons; reveals the evil internalisation in man, and his unbearable banality; questions the boundaries between the visible and the invisible, disguise and mass; and aspires to rekindle a dark flamboyance. Creation leans, therefore, to span philosophical, economic, political, aesthetic, and moral fields. 

Abdelkader Benchamma
Jim Dine
Jan Fabre
INAUGURATION DE LA FONDATION HELENIS GGL – GROUP SHOW

FONDATION HELENIS GGL, MONTPELLIER, FRANCE
Inauguration -  November 2020

For its inauguration, the Helenis GGL Foundation in Montpellier is hosting four personalities from the contemporary art world: Abdelkader Benchamma, Jim Dine, Jan Fabre and Marlène Mocquet. Each of the four artists will present an artwork for the event – which will open the season in what aims to become one of the city’s major cultural centres.

Jan Fabre
REAL UTOPIAS – GROUP SHOW

From September 25 to November 30, 2020
Maison R&C - 224 rue Paradis, 13006 Marseille, France

The European Nomadic Biennal, Manifesta is presenting a new Fall exhibition:  Real Utopias.  Conceived around works that all focus on the imagination of a place that has not been constructed yet, utopia – is a place that does not exist, where other worlds are imagined. All these imaginary constructions participate in transforming the reality. Paintings, video, drawings, multimedia works and sculptures will reveal the common aspirations and experimental approach of different generations of artists who imagine new ways of occupying space, be it physical, imaginary or corporeal.

Jan Fabre
INSTALLATION OF JAN FABRE’S SCULPTURES – OPENING

CHAPEL OF PIO MONTE DELLA MISERICORDIA, NAPLES, ITALY On December 21, 2019

On December 21, 2019, occurred the inauguration of the four new red coral sculptures that Jan Fabre created for the chapel of the Pio Monte della Misericordia in Naples, Italy. They will be permanently installed in the church.
The sculptures have as a central element a heart, symbol at the same time physical and spiritual, of compassion and universal love, feeling and thought. Curated by Melania Rossi in collaboration with Studio Trisorio.

Prune Nourry
Jan Fabre
Sudarshan Shetty
GLASSTRESS – GROUP SHOW

FONDAZIONE BERENGO, VENICE, ITALYFrom 9/05/2019 to 24/11/2019

On the occasion of the 58th Biennale di Venezia, Jan Fabre, Prune Nourry, Sundarshan Shetty is participating in Glasstress 2019, show curated by Vik Muniz and Koen Vanmechelen. The sixth edition of Glasstress brings together a new lineup of leading contemporary artists from Europe, the United States, Latin America, India, and China in an ambitious exhibition exploring the endless creative possibilities of glass. Glasstress is a project by Adriano Berengo dedicated to supporting his mission of marrying contemporary art and glass. Since its debut in 2009 as a collateral event of the Venice Biennale, Glasstress has revived the traditional craft of Murano glassblowing by forging new alliances with internationally renowned artists and designers and has since become an unparalleled platform showcasing ground-breaking new works in glass.    

Jan Fabre
THE MAN WHO MEASURES THE CLOUDS – BIENNALE DI VENEZIA

GARDEN OF PALAZZO BALBI VALIER, VENICE, ITALYFrom 6/05/2019 to 24/11/2019

On the occasion of the 58th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Jan Fabre returns to the Lagoon with the presentation of a special public art project. Installed inside the Garden of Palazzo Balbi Valier and visible from the Grand Canal, the monumenal sculpture in gold leaf “The Man who Measures the Clouds (Monument to the Measure of the Immeasurable)”, stands nine meters high . Designed specifically for Venice, it recalls a deep bond with this city, established over the past decades. Leaning over the arch leading to the Garden of Palazzo Balbi Valier from the Grand Canal, this imposing man of gold reflects not only the drift of the artist and humanity, but also the meaning and historical values of this mythical floating city.  

Jan Fabre
ORO ROSSO. SCULTURE D’ORO E CORALLO, DISEGNI DI SANGUE – SOLO SHOW

MUSEO E REAL BOSCO DI CAPODIMONTE, NAPLES, ITALYFrom 30/03/2019 to 15/09/2019

The famous Belgian artist Jan Fabre returns to Naples with a new project involving four venues of great prestige: the museum and the Real Bosco di Capodimonte, the church of Pio Monte della Misericordia, the Madre museum and the Studio Trisorio gallery.
At the Museum and Real Bosco di Capodimonte, the artist exhibits a group of works in dialogue with a special selection from the permanent collection of the museum and other Neapolitan museum institutions.
The exhibition features gold sculptures and blood drawings created by the artist from the 70s to the present day, as well as a new and surprising series of red coral sculptures, made especially for Capodimonte.

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Folklore Sexuel Belge (2017-2018) Mer du Nord Sexuelle Belge (2018)
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Hommage à Jérôme Bosch au Congo (2011-2013)Hommage au Congo Belge (2010-2013) 
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