Kris Martin

Biography

Born 1972 in Kortrijk, Belgium
Lives and works in Belgium

Born 1972 in Kortrijk, Belgium
Lives and works in Belgium

Solo Exhibitions

2020

'Exit', Smak, Ghent, BE

2018

'For 'Whom II', SMAK, Ghent, BE

2017

'Prometheus', VNH Gallery, Paris, FR
Hof van Cleve, Kruishoutem, BE

2016

'Auguri', Santa Sabina, Roma, IT
'T.Y.F.F.S.H.,' MOSTYN, Wales, UK
KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin, DE
'MOVEABLE', VNH Gallery, Paris, FR

2015

'FLOREAT', Fürstenberg Zeitgenössisch, Donaueschingen, DE

2014

'Index', Kunstraum Innsbruck, Schloss Ambras, Innsbruck, AUT
'Noumenon, with Alicja Kwade', Sammlung Philara e.V., Düsseldorf, DE
White Cube London, UK

2013

'Somebody', Sies + Höke Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE
'Künstlerraum', K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, DE

2012

'DO NOT CROSS THE RED LINE', Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne, DE
'Festum II', Theseustempel, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, AUT
'MANDI', Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, DE
'EVERY DAY OF THE WEAK', Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, DE
Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aargau, CH
Kunstmuseum Bonn, DE

2011

Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, DE
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, USA
'The Magnificient Seven: Hammarby!', Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA

2010

'Festum', White Cube, London, UK
'T.Y.F.F.S.H.', K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, DE
Galerie Almine Rech, Brussels, BE
'#', Galerie Almine Rech, Brussels, BE

2009

Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, USA
Sies + Höke Galerie, Düsselsdorf, DE
KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin, DE

2008

Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA
'Eldorado. Kris Martin. Inter pares', Galleria d`Arte Moderna e Contemporanea GAMeC, Bergamo, IT
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, USA
'What's the time?', White Cube, London, UK

2007

Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, USA
P.S.1 MoMA, Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
Sies + Höke Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE
'My Private #5', Piazza San Marco, Venezia, IT

2006

'Deus ex machina', KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin, DE

2005

Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, DE
Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, DE

Group Exhibition

2020

'L'heure bleue', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde & PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp, BE

2018

'Glaube, Liebe, Hoffnung', Kunsthaus Graz, AUT
'Gegen die Strömung', Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, DE
'RITUAL', Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA

2017

'Peace Love and Light', Kunstraum Dreireich, Dreireich, DE
'The Time. The Place. Contemporary Art from the Collection', The Henry, Seattle, USA
'The Middle', Johannnes Vogt Gallery, New York, USA
'Ecce Homo', Geukens & De Vil, Antwerp, BE
'The Artist/Knight', Kastel van Gaasbeek, Lennik, BE
'Meet me in Heaven', Sammlung Heiner Wemhöner, Schloss Tüssling, Tüssling, DE
'HOW BEAUTIFUL IT IS AND HOW EASILY IT CAN BE BROKEN', S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium
'DOUBLES, DOBROS, PLIEGUES, PARES, TWINS, MITADES', The Warehouse, Dallas, Texas, USA
'Dying well – False death', Museum für neue Kunst, Freiburg, DE

2016

'Höhenrausch 2016 - Andere Engel', OÖ Kulturquartier, Linz, AUT
'The Others', curated by Elmgreen & Dragset, KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin, DE
'My Phantasies', Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, K21 Ständehaus, Düsseldorf, DE
'Unter Waffen Fire & Forget 2', Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt/ Main, DE
'EchtZEIT. Die Langsamkeit der Kunst', Kunstmuseum Bonn, DE
'Gediegenes und Kurioses. Los Carpinteros, Ouyang Chun und Lieblingsstücke aus der Sammlung Olbricht', Museum Folkwang, Essen, DE
'From The Collection', New - S.M.A.K., Gent, BE
'Auf den Schultern von Giganten', Kunsthalle Mainz, DE
'Use/User/Used/', Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK

2015

'The Importance of Being…', Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, BR
'Dark Ages', AEROPLASTICS contemporary, Brussels, BE
'THE PROBLEM OF GOD', K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, DE
'Une brève histoire de l'avenir', Musée du Louvre, Paris, FR
'@your service', Egmont Palace, Brussels, Germany
'GOLD', Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, USA
'Eppur si muove - art and technique', Mudam, LUX in collaboration with the Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris, FR
'The Importance of Being…', Museu de Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires, AR
'Sculpture in the City', London, UK
'Harmonie und Umbruch. Spiegelungen chinesischer Landschaften', Marta Herford, Herford, DE
'Fire and Forget: On Violence', KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE
'S, M, L, XL, MCA', Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, USA
'MATERIAL', KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin, DE
'PANORAMA', High Line Art, New York, USA
'Repetition and Difference', The Jewish Museum, New York, USA
'The Importance of Being…', Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, CU
'So far, so good', White Cube, São Paulo, BR
'A man walks into a bar…', me Collectors Room Berlin, Berlin, DE
'How to construct a Time Machine', MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK

2014

'De Zee - salut d'honneur Jan Hoet', MuZee Oostende, Oostende, BE
'Somebody, Everybody, Nobody', Scrap Metal, Toronto, CA
'Gold', Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, USA
'Infinite Jest', Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt a. M., DE
'Unter der Erde – Von Kafka bis Kippenberger', K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, DE
'DIRGE: Reflections on [Life and] Death', MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, USA
'Alicja Kwade and Kris Martin', Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf, DE
'No Such Thing As History: Four Collections and One Artist', Espace Louis Vuitton, Munich, DE

2013

'Young Collectors', Maison Particulière, Brussels, BE
'Glasstress: White Light/White Heat at the 55th Venice Biennale,' Palazzo Cavalli, Venice, IT
'FOR MY EYES ONLY', VJP Collection of Contemporary Art and Design, UGM MARIBOR ART GALLERY, Maribor, SI
'Back to Earth, Die Wiederentdeckung der Keramik in der Kunst', Herbert Gehrisch Stiftung, Neumünster, DE
'Defining Space', Bastei, Köln/Cologne, DE
'Dinard, Atomic Love', Ville de Dinard, FR

2012

'WONDERFUL – Humboldt, Crocodile & Polke', The Olbricht Collection, me Collectors Room Berlin, DE
'A House of Leaves – First Movement', David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK
'Goldrausch', Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg, DE
'PUNKT-SYSTEME. Vom Pointillismus zum Pixel', Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, DE
'Im Schein des Unendlichen – Romantik und Gegenwart', Altana Kulturstiftung im Sinclairhaus, Bad Homburg, DE
'Cartographies', Fundación La Caixa, Madrid, ES
'An Incomplete History of Incomplete Works of Art', Francesca Minini, Milan, IT
'Particles', Messen De Clercq, Brussels, BE
'Tomorrow', Bastei, Cologne, DE
'THE END', Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Ghent, BE
'When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes', CCA Wattis Institute For Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA

2011

'Mémoires du Futur', la collection Olbricht, La Maison Rouge, Paris, FR
'The Silver Show – 25 Years of NAK', Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, DE
'Die Kunst der Entschleunigung', Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, DE
'Wunder', Desichtorhallen, Hamburg, DE
'29th Biennial of Graphic Arts', Ljubljana, SI
'Untitled, 12th International Istanbul Biennial', Istanbul, TU
'arkhaiologia. Archäologie in der zeitgenössischen Kunst', Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt, Biel, CH
'Commercial Break', 54th Venice Biennale, Venedig/Venice, IT
'Nod Nod Wink Wink: Conceptual Art in New Mexico and Its Influence', The Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico, USA
'The Silver Show – 25 Years of NAK', Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, DE
'Life, a user’s manual', Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, BE
Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, SI
'arkhaiologia. Archäologie in der zeitgenössischen Kunst', Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt, Biel/Bienne, CH
'Die Kunst der Entschleunigung', Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, DE
'Sleeping Beauties', Castle of Gaasbeek, Gaasbeek, BE
'Über die Dinge', Kunsthaus Mürz, Mürzzuschlag, AUT
'Commercial Break, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, IT
'The Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture Part I', Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
'La Part Manquante', Galerie Michel Journiac, Paris, FR
'The Flemish Masters: That’s life', curated by Filiep Libeert, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA

2010

'When will they finally see the power of drawing', Geukens & De Vil, BE
'Lets dance', Musée DArt Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, FR
'Exhibition, Exhibition', Castello di Rivoli, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rivoli, Turin, IT
'Before and after', Balice Hertling, Paris, FR
'Touched', 6th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
'You can`t get there from here but you can get here from there', Apexart, New York, USA
'Lebenslust und Totentanz – Lust for Life and Dance of Death', Olbricht Collection, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, AUT
'Unsichtbare Schatten – Bilder der Verunsicherung', MARTa Herford, Herford, DE
'Under Destruction', Museum Tinguely, Basel, CH
'Yesterday Will Be Better', Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aargau, CH
'Intensif-Station', Künstlerräume, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, DE
'Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action', White Cube, London, UK
'Signs of Life', Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, USA
'Christmas in July', Yvon Lambert, New York, USA
'Human Condition', Kunsthaus Graz, AUT
'20th Century Fox', Vanmoerkerke Collection, Oostende, BE
'Contemplating the Void', Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
'Larger than Life – Stranger than Fiction', 11th Small Sculpture Triennale, Fellbach, DE
'Silent Revolution', K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, DE
'Berlin – Paris', KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin, DE; Galerie Philippe Jousse, Paris, FR
'Neugierig? Kunst des 21. Jahrhunderts aus privaten Sammlungen', Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, DE
'WAR', MOSTYN, Wales, UK
'Berlin- Paris', Johann König Galerie, Berlin, DE; Galerie Philippe Jousse, Paris, FR
'Curious?', Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Berlin, DE

2009

'Beg, Borrow and Steal', Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
'A Lépreuve', Institute DArt Contemporain, Villeurbanne, FR
'Earth: Art of a changing world', GSK Contemporary, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
'Silent', Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, VT
'Ename Actueel', Hoofdstuk IV, Proviniciaal Archeologisch Museum, Ename, BE
'Morality', Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, NL
'Das Gespinst', Die Sammlung Schürmann zu Gast im Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, DE
The Importance of the Zebra Fish', Pilar Parra & Romero, Madrid, ES
'Moby Dick', Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, curated by Jens Hoffmann, USA
'Cargo Manifest', Bayrische Staatsoper, München, DE
'The Site of Silence – Der Ort der Stille', Ausstellungshalle zeitgenössische Kunst Münster, DE
'Heaven', 2nd Athens Biennale, Athen, GR
'Beginnings, Middles, And Ends', Galerie Georg Kargl, Vienna, AUT
'Magritte et la Lumière', Almine Rech Galerie, Brussels, BE
'The Quick and the Dead', Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
'On second readings', Galeria Estrany-de la Mota, Barcelona, ES
'Born in the morning, dead by night', Leo König, New York, USA

2008

'Heavy Metal', Kunsthalle zu Kiel, DE
'Political / Minimal', Kunstwerke – Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
'Ars in Cathedrali', Cathédrale Saints-Michel-et-Gudule, Brussels, BE
'Library', UOVO Open Office Berlin, curated by Adam Carr, Berlin, DE
'The Krautcho Club / In and Out of Place', Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin, DE and Project Space 176, London, UK
'This is not a void', Galerie Luisa Strina, curated by Jens Hoffmann, São Paulo, BR
'When a clock is seen from the side it no longer tells the time', KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin, DE
'FADE IN / FADE OUT', Bloomberg Space, London, UK
'L’Argent', Frac Ile-de-France, Paris, FR
'Speicher fast voll – Sammeln und Ordnen in der Gegenwartskunst', Kunstmuseum Solothurn, CH
'The Eternal Flame', Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, CH
'Boros Collection #1', Berlin, DE
'Past – Forward', Zabludowicz Collection 176, curated by Vincent Honoré, London, UK
'Traces du sacré', Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR
'You Dig the Tunnel – I`ll Hide the Soil', White Cube, London, UK
'God is design...', Galerie Fortes Vilça, curated by Neville Wakefield, São Paulo, BR
'Section des Miroirs', School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
'Der eigene Weg / Perspektiven belgischer Kunst', Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg, DE
'Countdown', Center For Curatorial Studies, New York, curated by Vincenzo de Bellis, New York, USA
'All-Inclusive', Die Welt des Tourismus, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt a. M., DE

2007

'Gehen Bleiben', Kunstmuseum Bonn, curated by Volker Adolphs, Bonn, DE
'Passengers', Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA
'Some Time Waiting', Kadist Art Foundation, curated by Adam Carr, Paris, FR
'The Office', Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA
'The Long Goodbye', Vanmoerkerke collection, Oostende, curated by Patrick De Brock, BE
'The skeleton in art', Cheim & Read, New York, USA
'For Sale', Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, curated by Jens Hoffmann, Lisbon, PT
'Learn to Read', Tate Modern, London, curated by Vincent Honoré, London, UK
'Invisible', Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK
'Absent Without Leave', Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
'Some Time Waiting', Kadist Art Foundation, curated by Adam Carr, Paris, FR
'Ci vediamo a casa', Perarolo di Cadore, Belluno, IT
'Troubleyn/Laboratorium', Jan Fabre, Antwerp, BE
'My private escape from Italy', Centre international d’art et du paysage de l’île de Vassivière, Beaumont-du-Lac, FR
'Protections. Das ist keine Ausstellung', Kunsthaus Graz, Landesmuseum Joanneum, curated by Adam Budak, Christine Peters, Graz, AUT
'Faster! Bigger! Better!', Signetwerke der Sammlungen, ZKM, Museum für neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, DE
'Nichts weiter als ein Rendezvous', Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen, DE
'Of Mice and Men', 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, curated by Ali Subotnick, Massimiliano Gioni and Maurizio Cattelan, Berlin, DE
'Message personnel', Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR

Artworks

Kris Martin
Danse Macabre, 04, 2020
Ink on paper
Framed
57 x 75 cm

Kris Martin
Summit, 2020
Rock, paper cross
ø 35 cm

Kris Martin
Life after death, 2006-ongoing

Kris Martin
Roma non fu fatta in un giorno, 2016
bronze, marble, ⌀ 83 x 9,4