Selected Solo Exhibitions
Jonan Grimonprez Special, Cineteka, Madrid, Spain Johan Grimonprez, VOID gallery, Ireland
Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, Novà Perla National Gallery, Perla, Czech Republic
| blue orchids | Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, US
It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards, SVA Gallery, New York, US
The Shadow World, Art Unlimited Basel, Switzerland
Kobarweng or Where is Your Helicopter? Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France
Double Take, Ierimonti Gallery, Milano, IT; ICA, Boston, US HE MISTOOK THE GROUNDLIGHTS FOR STARS AND ASKED WHY THE AIRPLANE WAS FLYING UPSIDEDOWN, ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, US It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards, The Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, Texas, US Johan Grimonprez, paraSITE Gallery, Graz, Austria
Double Take, DocForthnight, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US Johan Grimonprez, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK Looking for Alfred, Cinémathèque Québecoise, Montréal, Canada Sometimes a Cigar is just a Cigar, Voges Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
Johan Grimonprez, Magazin 3, Stockholm, Sweden Johan Grimonprez: DOUBLE TAKE, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, US Shot by Both Sides: Johan Grimonprez and Pieter Geenen, bkSM #8, Strombeek/ De Garage Mechelen, Belgium
dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California DOUBLE TAKE, Art Unlimited Basel, Switzerland
J’ai oublié mon parapluie, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris, France Johan Grimonprez, Retrospektive, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany Le ciel est peut être vert et nous daltoniens, Le Plateau / Frac Ile-de-France, Paris, France
But The Cups Never Grew To Be Kettles, Erna Hécey Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Johan Grimonprez, Looking for Alfred, Iermonti Gallery, New York, US
But The Cups Never Grew To Be Kettles, Erna Hécey Gallery, Brussels, BE Johan Grimonprez, Looking for Alfred, Iermonti Gallery, New York, US
Johan Grimonprez, Looking for Alfred, Moderna Museet, Sweden Johan Grimonprez, Looking for Alfred, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium Johan Grimonprez, Looking for Alfred, Mead Centre, Warwick, UK
Johan Grimonprez: Looking for Alfred, Photographers Gallery, London, UK Revolution/Restoration Part II, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium We never tell everything, we always keep something for the next anthropologist, Johan Grimonprez, Yvon Lambert, New York, US HOLLYWOOD: Flag Raising Ceremony, Hollywood Hills House, California, US
dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, The Essor Gallery, London, UK During Commercial Break..., web project introduced by Johan Grimonprez, Argos, Brussels, Belgium Kojimacchi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
How do we know the sky isn’t really green and we're just colorblind? Video library at the Santa Monica Museum of Art (SMMOA), Santa Monica, California, US
Atomium, Brussels, Belgium Centro Galego Arte Contemporanea (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain Deitch Projects, New York Erna-Hécey Gallery, Luxemburg House of Contemporary Arts, Trafó, Budapest, Hungary INSERT COMMERCIAL HERE, videolounge at The Kitchen, New York, US Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark Magnetoscopio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Maybe the sky is green and we’re just colorblind, videolounge, Stedelijk Museum voor Aktuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent, Belgium Museum für Neue Kunst/ Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany Your Words Have Reached My Ears, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, UK
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia Casino d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg Oakville Gallery, Oakville, Canada Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Bild Museet, Umea, Sweden Centro Cultural do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Chapter Art Center, Cardiff, United Kingdom dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, United Kingdom Gallery 227, Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, The Netherlands Gallery for Contemporary Art, Cambridge, United Kingdom Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain Ludwig-Suermondt Museum, Aachen, Germany Last updated: 20 January 2018 Münchener Kunstverein, München, Germany Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany We must be over the rainbow..., Centro Galego Arte Contemporanea (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Deitch Projects, New York Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norway Kiasma Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki, Finland Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (MUHKA), Brussels, Belgium Museu da Republica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Palais des Beaux Arts/ Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels, Belgium Prends Garde! A Jouer au fantôme, on le devient, De Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium Prends Garde! A Jouer au fantôme, on le devient, MNAM, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Beware! In playing the phantom you become one, Vereniging van het Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
It wil be all right if you come again, only next time don't bring any gear except a tea kettle, Antichambres, Les Expositions du Palais des Beaux-Arts/Tentoonstellingen van het Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels, Belgium
YYZ Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Selected Group Exhibitions
Poetry Passage, National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
How to Live Together, Kunstalle Wein, Vienna, Austria On Desire, B3 Biennale, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Picture Industry, The Gund Gallery Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, US The illegal we do immediately, the unconstitutional takes a little longer: I N T E R M I S S I O N, ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, California, US Transmediale, HDKW, Berlin, Germany
Punk. Its traces in contemporary art, Museu D’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Art Unlimited / Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland. Grasso, Grimonprez, Koh: Three Installations, Sean Kelly, New York
15th Japan Media Arts Festival, The National Arts Center Tokyo, Japan; Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, California, US Contour on Tour, Videokunst in het Vlaams Parlement, De Loketten, Brussels, Belgium El mañana ya estuvo aquí, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico FIGHTCLUB EVERYDAY, Gallery on the Move, Berlin, Germany Found Footage: Cinema Exposed, EYE Film Institute Netherlands, Amsterdam, The Netherlands More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico La voce della imagini / Voice of Images, Palazzao Grassi, Venice, Italy Neon: Who’s afraid of black, yellow, red, blue and yellow, BELGIE, Lviv, Ukraine Recontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Haus de Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany Speak to Me, Experimenta Biennial, Melbourne, Australia Synchrony: Contemporary Video, Hunter Museum, Chattanooga, Tennessee, US The Big Sleep, 26th Memorial of Nadežda Petrović, Art Gallery Nadežda Petrović Summer Nights, Festival presented by SAW Gallery & AXENÉO7, Ottowa & Gatineau, Canada The Future that Was, SMART Project Space Museum Night, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
A Darkness More than Night, Quad Gallery, Derby, UK Alias, Krakow, Poland ANGRY – Young and Radical, Nederlands Fotomuseum, The Netherlands Are you ready for television? CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain Commercial Break, Light Festival, Green Point, Brooklyn, New York, US dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, Videoex Festival 2011, Zurich, Switzerland FOKUS, Nikolaj Kunsthal / Nikolaj Copenhagen Cont. Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark I may have lost my forever my umbrella, ALIAS: Photomonth Festival L’Europe des esprits ou la fascination de l’occulte, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France Maybe the Sky Really is Green, Impakt Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands Sleeping beauties, Kasteel van Gaasbeek, Gaasbeek, Belgium The Uncanny Familiar: Images of Terror, C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany The World Belongs to You, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
ABC Art Belge Contemporain, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing Cedex, France All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Social at the Berardo Collection, Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal Are you Ready for TV? Mueu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Art Unlimited 41, Basel, Switzerland At the Movies, Winkleman Gallery, New York, US Déjà vu, Galerie Michel Journiac, Paris, France Expanding Documentary, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ikonoklash, Centro Cultural de Lagos, Algarve, Portugal Manif d'art 5, Québec City Biennial, Quebec, Canada The Esopus Foundation, New York, US Québec City Biennal, Québec, Canada Selected Works from the Centre Pompidou New Media Collection, Herzliya Museum, Israel The State of Things, NAMOC, Beijing, China
Johan Grimonprez Dial History, 1997, film still
Johan Grimonprez The Shadow World, 2014, film still
Johan Grimonprez Double Take, 2009, film still