Birth | Born in 1958 in Antwerp, Belgium |
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Residency | Lives and work in Antwerp, Belgium |
2020 | Jan Fabre. L’Heure Sauvage, Galerie Templon, Brussels, Belgium |
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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 |
2021 | L’Homme gris, Casino du Luxembourg, Luxembourg |
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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 |
2018 | The Generosity of Dorcas, Théâtre de la Bastille, Paris, France |
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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 |
2018 | JAN FABRE. STIGMATA. Actions & Performances 1976, CAAC Sevilla (Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla, Spain |
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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 |
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 |
Jan Fabre
A Bruxelles, les galeries font leur "off" pendant la BRAFA
Bernard Marcelis
Amore e follia: il corallo rosso di Jan Fabre al Pio Monte di Napoli
Adriana Dragoni
Jan Fabre, artiste cérébral à a Fondation Maeght
Alexandre Crochet
Jan Fabre explores Belgian identity and rails against far-right nationalists
Les facettes multiples et les recettes de Jan Fabre
Roger Pierre Turine
Jan Fabre l'apprenti sorcier
Dans l'univers de Jan Fabre
Jan Fabre et les mirages de la colonisation
Chez Jan Fabre, l'atelier d'un géant
Jan Fabre, scarabée alchimiste
Breinbespiegelingen
jan Fabre, entre le coeur et le cerveau
Fabre et les neurones miroirs
MAISON GUERLAIN, PARIS, FRANCE From 19/10/2018 to 09/11/2018
For the 12th consecutive year, Guerlain is once again taking part in FIAC’s Parcours Privé and marking the occasion by presenting the group exhibition Past Futures, which can be discovered at the Maison Guerlain, 68 avenue des Champs-Élysées. Past Futures offers a journey on three levels through multiple worlds – installations, videos, photos, drawings, paintings, interactive objects, etc. – bringing together young creative figures and established artists, such as Jean-Michel Alberola, Jan Fabre, Christian Boltanski, Arotin & Serghei, Charlotte Charbonnel, Fabrice Hyber, Mehdi Meddaci, Albertine Meunier and Claire Morgan. Curator: Caroline Messensee
MESDAG COLLECTION, THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS From 14/09/2018 to 06/01/2019
From 14 September 2018 to 6 January 2019 The Sensation of the Sea: In Honour of Bas Jan Ader is presented at The Mesdag Collection in The Hague. For this exhibition, guest curator Joanna De Vos has invited several international artists to engage in a dialogue with The Mesdag Collection. These contemporary artists are captivated by the grandeur and tempestuousness of the ocean. The attraction of the sea is an inexhaustible source of inspiration for them, a ‘battery for the imagination’. Odes to the performance In Search of the Miraculous by the Dutch artist Bas Jan Ader (1942-1975) form the exhibition’s connecting thread. Ader disappeared in 1975 as he attempted to sail across the Atlantic. His soul became one with the untameable power of the sea. The tributes to Ader’s artistic practice highlight the enticement and mystery of the ocean. Visitors are encouraged to discover how the contemporary artworks integrate into the nineteenth-century museum and to prepare themselves for a series of surprising and special ‘encounters’.
CATTEDRALE DI MONREALE, PALERMO, ITALYFrom 06/07/2018 to 04/11/2018
For the first time in Europe Jan Fabre presents Ecstasy and Oracles for the occasion of Manifesta12 organised by Mondo Mostre, Palermo Capitale della Cultura 2018, Regione Siciliana. The scarab, ancient symbol of metamorphosis and an early alter-ego of artist Jan Fabre – the holy dung beetle of Antwerp – is central to the exhibition in Monreale. Small bronzes refer to the vital quest of the artist while the life-size bronze sculpture, The man who bears the cross, balances the limits of faith. A cycle of large mosaics made with jewel beetle wing-cases explores the eternal cycle of life and death, reoccurring in Vanitas vanitatum, omnia vanitas. Curated by Joanna De Vos and Melania Rossi. Monday to Saturday, 9.00 – 19.00, Holidays, 9.00 – 13.30
SAINT AUGUSTIN CHURCH OF ANTWERP (AMUZ), ANTWERP, BELGIUM From 02/07/2018
In 1628, the Antwerp trinity of Rubens, Jordaens and Van Dyck received the assignment from the Augustinian monks to make altarpieces for their cloister church in the Kammenstraat. This year, Jan Fabre is receiving the same honour upon the occasion of Antwerp Baroque 2018. He translates – or rather ‘re-tells’ – the altarpieces of Jordaens, Van Dyck and Rubens in the language of 2018 and frames them in their contemporary context.
FONDATION MARGUERITE ET AIME MAEGHT, SAINT-PAUL, FRANCE From 30/06/2018 to 11/11/2018
From June 30 to November 11, 2018, the Maeght Foundation will welcome Belgian artist Jan Fabre. This “customized” exhibition, designed for the Fondation, will be devoted to his sculptures and drawings – many of them brand new – dealing with the mind, the body, our dreams and especially our imagination, in conversation with scientific discoveries and art history. Fabre wanted this exhibition to be spiritual in every sense of the word, at once dreamlike and serious but with the irony of games and a humor in the style of James Ensor. The mind and the brain become a source, a land, a character whose adventures we can experience through the show. Sometimes considered provocative and iconoclastic, the “contemporary mystic” Jan Fabre keeps in mind the memory of the Flemish Primitives and the old masters of Flemish Baroque and builds on the tradition to daringly plunge into the unknown: “The brain represents, to me, a metaphor for the terra incognita. Dealing with art and beauty is to always walk along the path of this terra incognita“. Like science which relies on knowledge to initiate discovery, the notion of experience, through the study and observation of things, makes up one of the foundations of Fabre’s work and his approach. Cerveau de Janus (Yeux verts) 2012. Silicon, paint and glass, synthetic lashes, wooden base. Photo Pat Verbruggen © Angelos bvba
MUSEES ROYAUX DES BEAUX-ARTS, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM From 20/04/2018 to 19/08/2018
With “My Queens”, Fabre honours the important women in his life while simultaneously creating a dialogue with the Flemish artistic tradition within the historic setting of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. Amongst the works of baroque master Jacques Jordaens, Fabre presents eight monumental marble bas-reliefs of women close to him. Their regal profile contrasts with their paper party hats. These pieces represent the noble character of the artist’s friendships and the festive atmosphere connected with it. In the centre of the room, the work “My Future Queen” can be found: a white marble sculpture of Her Royal Highness Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant, also wearing a party hat. The statue of the Crown Princess is at the centre of different artistic dialogues in the space and stands right between the present and the past, looking towards the future.
CENTQUATRE-PARIS, PARIS, FRANCE From 14/04/2018 to 13/05/2018
BIC, a family company and world leader in the areas of stationery, lighters and razors, unveils for its first time its contemporary art collection. It was started in 1998 on the occasion of an exhibition in Italy that had associated artists to the celebration of the magnificent adventure of Marcel Bich, creator of the company. Objects accessible to all, the BIC® products, like the BIC® Cristal pen, lighters or razors, are fixed in our collective memory and have become icons. They have inspired many artists throughout the world and BIC wished to develop a collection where each of its iconic products has become a medium for artistic creation. Public opening Saturday, April 14th from 2PM.
CAAC SEVILLA (CENTRO ANDALUZ DE ARTE CONTEMPORANEO), SEVILLA, SPAIN From 23/03/2018 to 02/09/2018
‘Stigmata’ focuses on Jan Fabre’s actions and performances since 1976. A journey around the memory of Jan Fabre, involving 40 years of creation, it has the merit of interrogating, not the action or the performance, but the way to exhibit it, the way to present it. The mise en scene by Jan Fabre and Germano Celant, an overview of all performances and actions, gathers glass trays, objects, drawings, photographs, artefacts, costumes, models which he calls “thought models”, films, works in blue ballpoint pen, and more.