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
FORTE BELVEDERE/ PALAZZO VECCHIO/ PIAZZA DELLA SIGNORIA, FIRENZE, ITALYFrom 05/14/2016 to 10/02/2016
One of the most complex and multifaceted exhibitions that Belgian artist and author Jan Fabre has ever produced in any public space in Italy, Spiritual Guards will gather roughly 100 of Jan Fabre’s works dating from 1978 to 2016, pan out between the Forte Belvedere, Palazzo Vecchio and Piazza della Signoria in Firenze. For the very first time a living artist will be exhibiting his art in these three venues of outstanding historical and artistic importance.
MUSEE D'ART MODERNE ET CONTEMPORAIN, ST ETIENNE, FRANCEFrom 03/05/2016 to 06/05/2016
In the spring of 2016, the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporaine de Saint-Étienne Métropole is opening “Intriguing Uncertainties”, an exhibition which has been orchestrated by the Museum’s Director Lóránd Hegyi. Both intimate and universal this exhibition invites the visitor to explore the world of contemporary drawing. Bringing together well-known artists from Europe, Africa and North & South America this exhibition delves into the cultural heritage of our societies, from the Middle Ages to symbolism, from Mannerism to Romanticism, Baroque to Surrealism. The visitor will discover drawings and artwork by Günter Brus, Dennis Oppenheim, Jan Fabre and Jim Dine, great figures in the world of contemporary art rubbing shoulders with the youngest artists on the horizon like Pierre Seinturier, Lee Bul, Sandra Vasquez de la Horra and Jana Gunstheimer. Featured artists: Ruth Barabash, Matt Bollinger, Günter Brus, Guglielmo Castelli, Gianni Dessi, Nicolas Dieterlé, Erik Dietman, Jim Dine, Matías Duville, Per Dybvig, Barbara Eichhorn, Jan Fabre, Andrea Fogli, Adrian Ghenie, Ugo Giletta, Erich Gruber, Jana Gunstheimer, Allison Hawkins, Veronika Holcová, Oda Jaune, Marine Joatton, Nina Kovacheva, Juul Kraijer, Lee Bul, Iris Levasseur, Felice Levini, Christian Lhopital, Maude Maris, Peter Martensen, Andreï Molodkin, Alois Mosbacher, Muntean / Rosenblum, Hermann Nitsch, Dennis Oppenheim, László László Révész, Pierre Seinturier, Kiki Smith, Barthélémy Toguo, Didier Trenet, Elmar Trenkwalder, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, Fabien Verschaere. Curator: Lorand Hegyi, Director of the Museum.
ESPACE CULTUREL LOUIS VUITTON, TOKYO, JAPANFrom 07/08/2015 to 09/23/2015
The Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton in Tokyo is showing for the first time in Tokyo a set of mosaics from the serie: Hommage à Jérôme Bosch au Congo, fruits of an artistic process that ran from 2011 to 2013. Using his materials of predilection, beetle wing sheathes – or elytra – Fabre decided to turn his focus to his country’s colonial past. He also summons his predecessor Hieronymus Bosch — Fabre is fascinated by his superlative creativity and the power of his images. He draws inspiration from scenes depicted in the Garden of Earthly Delights, reinterpreting them as allegories of injustice, cruelty and indifference.
WORLD PREMIERE BERLINER FESTSPIELE, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, BERLIN
Mount Olympus. To glorify the cult of tragedy, a 24-hour performance is one huge slab of history dipped in a sea of time. It is humanity’s time, time of the birth of tragedy.
Simultaneously distant and nearby, we recognize outlines of stories and characters taken from Greek tragedy. These characters have their faults torn open by Fabre, are left intatters, beaten by violence and Homeric laughter and fervent ecstasy.
Mount Olympus is shaping up to be a unique experience. Come climb that mountain, dive into that ocean. This will be unforgettable.
The creative process of this major project is also worth sharing. Follow the rehearsals online on the website with testimonials, snapshots, videos, quotes and much more.
NAMUR, BELGIUM
The Belgian town of Namur, partner of Mons 2015, has invited Jan Fabre for a posthumous encounter with Félicien Rops: an unprecedented tour along museums and sites in the openair to discover the daring and inspiring worlds of these two Belgian artists. The imaginary dialogue between Rops and Fabre will unveil, question and challenge time. Exhibitions and events will take place in different locations : Musée Félicien Rops, Maison de la Culture, Théâtre de Namur, Eglise Saint-Loup, the Citadelle and the city streets.
LA MAISON ROUGE, FONDATION ANTOINE DE GALBERT, PARIS, FRANCE
From June 14th to September 21st 2014
À l’occasion de son 10e anniversaire, la maison rouge présente du 14 juin au 21 septembre 2014,
Le mur – oeuvres de la collection Antoine de Galbert, onzième volet de la série d’expositions consacrées aux collections privées.
Après dix expositions proposant des univers de collectionneurs variés, cette date anniversaire est l’occasion de montrer enfin largement la collection du fondateur et président de la maison rouge, Antoine de Galbert, une part d’intimité qui lui est chère et qu’il n’a jusqu’à présent que peu dévoilée. Mais à l’inverse des précédents projets autour de collections particulières, réalisés avec des commissaires qui ont fait des choix représentatifs dans de larges corpus d’œuvres, l’accrochage imaginé par Antoine de Galbert comporte cette fois-ci une spécificité remarquable :
« L’idée de cette exposition est née de l’observation quotidienne de ma bibliothèque, où le classement alphabétique des monographies crée d’invraisemblables voisinages. Jean Dubuffet cohabite avec Marcel Duchamp sur le même rayonnage. Cette “arche de Noé” me donne la sensation que tous les artistes naviguent sur le même fleuve pour les mêmes raisons, comme le remarque Christian Boltanski : « Que ce soit Aloïse, moi ou un artiste du 16e siècle, ce sont les mêmes questions qui sont posées : la mort, la recherche de la beauté, la nature, le sexe… Les sujets en art sont très limités. Seuls les mots et les vocabulaires diffèrent (…)». La bibliothèque est tout à la fois archive de la collection, souvenirs visuels d’un long voyage et musée imaginaire du collectionneur. […] Délaissant l’idée déjà explorée par certains commissaires d’expositions, d’un accrochage par ordre alphabétique, j’ai choisi de présenter l’essentiel des œuvres de ma collection, s’accrochant au mur, à l’aide d’un logiciel renseigné seulement par leurs formats (encadrées) et leurs numéros d’inventaires. (…)
image : © Marc Domage
PINCHUKARTCENTRE, KIEV, UKRAINE
From February 8th to April 27th 2014
In 1979 Jan Fabre started his artistic practice by erecting a tent-laboratory, called de Neus (the Nose), in the garden of his parents. Mesmerized by the insects’ capacity for metamorphosis, he subjected them to intensive artistic research and experiments. Insects continued to (re-)appear in Fabre’s early drawings, performances and sculptures. Especially beetles, with their unique sense of survival, remained a source of inspiration for the artist, and in his oeuvre they have come to represent a way of dealing with mortality, beauty and suffering – three essential themes, which define Fabre’s complex practice as an artist, theatre maker and writer. (…)
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, France
From November 8th 2013 to February 10th 2014 En partenariat avec l’Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA), le Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille présente une centaine des plus remarquables manuscrits et feuillets enluminés conservés dans les musées et sociétés savantes du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais, de Picardie et de Champagne-Ardenne. Simultanément, le musée des Augustins de Toulouse et le musée des Beaux-Arts d’Angers présentent les collections d’enluminures conservées dans le Centre et le Sud de la France. Ces livres et feuillets enluminés sont accompagnés d’objets d’art du Moyen-Age et de la Renaissance issus des collections du Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, où se mêlent imagerie médiévale et enchantement allégorique, ainsi que de sculptures en bronze de l’artiste contemporain Jan Fabre. (…)