Biografie von Bodys Isek KINGELEZ (1948-2015)
Personal data
Birth : 1948 - Kimbembele-Ihunga, Congo (Democratic Republic)
Sex : M
Nationality/Affiliation : Congo (Democratic Republic)
Address
Kinshasa, Congo (Democratic Republic)Representatives
Galerie Peter Herrmann – Brunnenstr.154 – Berlin, Germany
Professional data
Work and Life
His artistic career began in the 1980s, at the National
Museum in Kinshasa, where he worked as a restorer of masks in
the museum¿s collection.
Work
Categorie and medium
Sculpture-Volume : Assemblage - Installation Subject
architecturemonument
Works
| Ville Fantôme | |
| Date of creation : 1996 Medium : Installation Materials : plastic-cardboard-paper Process : assemblage | |
| Hommage à Jean Nouvel | |
| Date of creation : 1995 Medium : Installation | |
Solo Exhibitions (Selected)
Solo exhibitions
1996
D’autres ajouts d’été
MAMCO Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain – Geneva GE, Switzerland
1996
1995
Bodys Isek Kingelez
Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain – Paris, France
1995
1992
Bodys Isek Kingelez
Haus der Kulturen der Welt – Berlin-Tiergarten, Germany
1992
Group Exhibitions (Selected)
Art shows / fairs
2003
ArtBrussels – 21st Contemporary Art Fair
Brussels Expo – Brussels, Belgium
04/04/2003 – 04/08/2003
Represented by : Damasquine Art Gallery – 62 Dageraadstraat – Brussels, Belgium
1999
ARTissima – Arte Contemporaneo a Torino, n° 6
Turin TO, Italy
10/07/1999 – 10/10/1999
Represented by : Bilinelli Lucien – 179 Avenue Brugmann – Brussels, Belgium
Group exhibitions
2008
Power to the people
Aeroplastics Contemporary – Brussels, Belgium
11/21/2008 – 01/17/2009
2004
Les Afriques
Lille, France
03/31/2004 – 08/08/2004
2003
The American Effects
Whitney Museum of American Art – New York NY, United States
07/03/2003 – 10/12/2003
Transferts
Palais des Beaux-Arts / Paleis voor Schone Kunsten – Brussels, Belgium
06/21/2003 – 09/14/2003
Le Ventre de l’Architecture
Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image Imprimée – La Louvière, Belgium
06/21/2003 – 08/17/2003
2002
Thomas Bayrle, Bodys Isek Kingelez, Isa Genzken, Wolfgang Tillmans
Museum Ludwig – Cologne, Germany
2002 – 04/28/2002
Documenta XI
Kunsthalle Fridericianum – Kassel, Germany
06/08/2002 – 09/15/2002
Artists imagine Architecture
ICA The Institute of Contemporary Art – Boston MA, United States
05/22/2002 – 09/02/2002
2001
The Short Century : Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994
MCA Museum of Contemporary Art – Chicago IL, United States
09/08/2001 – 12/30/2001
2000
Bodys Isek Kingelez – Jakob Kolding – Internat
Kunstverein – Hamburg, Germany
10/07/2000 – 11/12/2000
Zeitwenden
Künstlerhaus – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, 20er Haus – Vienna, Austria
07/05/2000 – 10/01/2000
Biennale of Sydney , n° 12
Sydney NSW, Australia
05/26/2000 – 07/30/2000
1999
Art Worlds in Dialogue
Museum Ludwig – Cologne, Germany
1999
Carnegie International 1999/2000, n°53
Carnegie Museum of Art – Pittsburgh PA, United States
11/06/1999 – 03/26/2000
1998
Unfinished History
Walker Art Center – Minneapolis MN, United States
10/18/1998 – 01/10/1999
Africa Africa
Tobu Museum of Art – Tokyo, Japan
09/11/1998 – 11/24/1998
Album – Una selecció dels fons de la Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain
Fundació Joan Miró – Barcelona, Spain
03/06/1998 – 04/26/1998
1997
Kwangju Biennale, n° 2
Kwangju, South Korea (Republic of Korea)
1997
1995
Objects of Defiance, Spaces of Contemplation – Africus ’95 – 1st Johannesburg Biennale
Museum Africa – Johannesburg, South Africa
02/28/1995 – 04/30/1995
1989
Les Magiciens de la Terre
MNAM Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou – Paris, France
1989
Bibliography (Selected)
On the artist
Books
2002
Art Now
Publisher: Taschen – Hohenzollernring 53 – Cologne, Germany
Author: Grosenick Uta – Cologne, Germany
Author: Riemschneider Burkhard
2002
ISBN : 382281444X
Exhibition catalogues
2000
Biennale of Sydney 2000
Sydney NSW, Australia
2000
ISBN : 0959661999
Periodicals
2002
MÜLLER Silke – Documenta 11
in: Art das Kunstmagazin p. 14
Hamburg, Germany
06/2002
1989
GIRARD C. – Les extrèmes architectures de Bodys Kingelez
in: Art Press n° 136 p. 47
Paris, France
05/1989
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