Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven

Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven (born dec 5, 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 Antwerpen and lives in Antwerpen and Berlin.

In 1981 she founded the noise band Club Moral with Danny Devos.

Since 1982 she is represented by Zeno X Gallery in Antwerpen, Belgium. And since 1999 also by Galerie Barbara Thumm in Berlin.

In 2003 she was awarded the Flanders' Prize for Visual Arts cite news
url=http://www.cultuurnet.be/front/webpagina.jsp?id=21970
publisher=Cultuurnet Vlaanderen
title=Prijs van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap voor Beeldende Kunst 2003
date=March 23, 2004]

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. Patrick Van Rossem (Ed.) 2005 "The HeadNurse-files". objectif_exhibitions, Antwerpen (B), the NeuerAachenerKunstverein (D) and the Kunsthalle Bern (CH). ISBN 90-808493-3-2]

In 2006 she was awarded a DAAD stipendium to spend one year in Berlin ( [http://www.daad-berlin.de/english/kp/index.html 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.

olo exhibitions (selection)

* Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven ( [http://www.zeno-x.com/artists/anne-mie_van_kerckhoven.htm Zeno X Gallery] ) Antwerpen 1995
* Morele Herbewapening / Moral Rearmament ( [http://www.kunsthallelophem.be/php/exhibitions/solo/en/van.php Kunsthalle Lophem] ) 1996
* HeadNurse ( [http://www.zeno-x.com/artists/anne-mie_van_kerckhoven.htm Zeno X Gallery] ) Antwerpen 1998
* Nursing care, in melancholy stupor ( [http://www.muhka.be/toont_beeldende_kunst_detail.php?la=nl&id=145&subbase=archief&jaartal=1999 MuHKA] ) Antwerpen 1999
* Prober5 ( [http://www.bthumm.de/ Galerie Barbara Thumm] ) Berlin 2000
* In Dreams ( [http://www.bthumm.de/ Galerie Barbara Thumm] ) 2003
* Deeper ( [http://www.kunsthallelophem.be/php/exhibitions/solo/en/van.php Kunsthalle Lophem] ) 2003
* AntiSade ( [http://www.zeno-x.com/artists/anne-mie_van_kerckhoven.htm Zeno X Gallery] ) Antwerpen 2003
* How reliable is the brain? (Neuer Aachener Kunstverein) 2004
* AMVK - EZFK: Europaisches Zentrum für Futuristische Kunst (Kunsthalle Bern) 2005. cite news
url=http://www.e-flux.com/displayshow.php?file=message_1106691452.txt
publisher=e-flux
title=AMVK-EZFK Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven - Europaisches Zentrum fur Futuristische Kunst
date=Jan 25, 2005]

* Veerkracht thuis! ( [http://www.objectif-exhibitions.org/ Objectif_exhibitions] ) Antwerpen 2006
* Oh, the Sick Lady / Ah, the Sick Lady (Explodes from Within) ( [http://www.bthumm.de/ Galerie Barbara Thumm] ) Berlin 2007
* Über das ICH (Willkür und Transzendenz) "and a lot of fun" (daadgalerie Berlin) 2007
* Nothing More Natural ( [http://www.kunstmuseumluzern.ch/ausstellungen/kerckhoven/index_en.php Museum of Art] ) Lucerne 2008
* Nothing More Natural ( [http://www.wiels.org/site2/event.php?event_id=61& Wiels Center for Contemporary Art] ) Brussels 2008

Group exhibitions (selection)

* Woord en Beeld ( [http://www.muhka.be/toont_beeldende_kunst_detail.php?la=nl&id=335&subbase=archief&jaartal=1992 MuHKA] ) Antwerpen 1992
* Trouble spot.painting (MuHKA/NICC) Antwerpen 1999
* Die Verletzte Diva ( [http://www.galerieimtaxispalais.at/ausstellungen/diva/index_diva.htm Galerie im Taxispalais] ) Berlin 2000
* Dream Extensions ( [http://www.smak.be/tentoon_stelling.php?id=277&subbase=archief&decenium=2000 SMAK] ) Gent 2004
* Dear ICC ( [http://www.muhka.be/toont_beeldende_kunst_detail.php?la=nl&id=98&subbase=archief&jaartal=2004 MuHKA] ) Antwerpen 2004
* Collectiepresentatie XI ( [http://www.muhka.be/toont_beeldende_kunst_detail.php?la=nl&id=265 MuHKA] ) Antwerpen
* Extremities. Flemish art in Vladivostok ( [http://artetage.fentu.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5&Itemid=12 Museum Artetage] ) Vladivostok 2006
* Collectiepresentatie XVI: Attributen en Substantie ( [http://www.muhka.be/toont_beeldende_kunst_detail.php?la=nl&id=1549&subbase=actueel&jaartal= MuHKA] ) Antwerpen 2006
* I Walk the Lines ( [http://www.bthumm.de/ Galerie Barbara Thumm] ) Berlin 2006
* Manifesta 7 / "THE SOUL (or, Much Trouble in the Transportation of Souls)" ( [http://www.manifesta7.it/locations/show/ Manifesta 7] ) Trento 2006

References

*cite book
last = Van Kerckhoven
first = Anne-Mie
title = Paradogma
publisher = Maldoror, 's Gravenhage
date = 1993
nugi = 911/300/612
id = ISBN 90-5168-051-1

*cite book
last = Van de Sompel (ed)
first = Ronald
coauthors = Koen Raes, Filip Luyckx
title = Beauty, therapeutic use of
publisher = [http://www.muhka.be M_HKA] , Antwerpen
date = 1999
D/1999/4828/5

External links

* [http://www.clubmoral.com/amvk/ AMVK]
* [http://www.zeno-x.com/artists/anne-mie_van_kerckhoven.htm Zeno X Gallery - Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven]
* [http://www.bthumm.de/ Galerie Barbara Thumm]
* [http://www.jahsonic.com/AnneMieVanKerckhoven.html Jahsonic]
* [http://www.muhka.be/verzamelt_depot_artist.php?person_id=130&letter=K&la=nl MuHKA]
* [http://www.kunstaspekte.de/index.php?action=webpages&k=3184 Kunstaspekte]
* [http://chapterofopeningthemouthoftime.blogspot.com/ Chapter of Opening the Mouth of Time - a daily AMVK blog]