zandpoortvest 10
be 2800 mechelen
t +32 15 336 336
m (b) +32 478 811 441
m (d) +32 475 477 478
Born 4 December 1970 in Oudenaarde, Belgium
2004-2006 Fine Arts - Mixed Media
Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent - Belgium
1995-1996 Fine Arts - Painting
Board of Examiners of the Flemish Community
1989-1993 Applied Arts - Monumental Art
Higher Institute of Fine Arts ‘St-Lucas’ Ghent - Belgium
- Ideologie AUB! Een denkmodel, Netwerk centrum for Contemporary Art, 29-3- 13-6-2015, Aalst (Belgium)
- 'Waterschei: theater 1:1', Casino Moderne FLACC, 25-01 2014, Genk (Belgium)
- A Small History of Modernity, Expoplu, 31-5 – 23-06 2013, Nijmegen ( Netherlands)
- 'Without Expectation', Bag Factory, 12-09 – 21-09 2012, Johannesburg (South Africa)
- 'Two Stories', Transit Gallery, 05-05 – 02-07 2012 , Mechelen (Belgium)
- Traveling, STUK Leuven, 2-12 2010 – 23-01 2011, Leuven (Belgium)
- 'Was Heißt Freiheit Hans?', Transit Gallery, 7-03 – 18-04 2010, Mechelen (Belgium)
- 'Inside/Outside', Second Room, 28 11 2009, Brussel (Belgium)
- 'a Project', Galery Transit, 2 11 – 14 12 2008, Mechelen (Belgium)
- 'Without Title', Lokaal 01, 13 - 15 12 2007, Antwerpen (Belgium)
- 'Without Title', Croxhapox, 01-23 09 2007, Ghent (Belgium)
- 'New York New York', in colaboration with Thomas Huyghe, Kunst-Zicht, 20 01 - 17 02 2006, Ghent (Belgium)
- Performative presentation booklet, posture edition 15, 'A Bookcase' Charleroi, Aalst, 19-9-2015, Former Boxclub Rabot, Ghent (Belgium)
- Six Stories, A Thinking Model, Lecture Performance, Kunst-Werke Berlin, 27-11 2014, Berlin (Germany)
- Hotel Charleroi 'Winterschool', 14-16 11 2014, Ville Basse Charleroi (Belgium)
- Traffic, Temporary City, Central Station Antwerp, 11-04- 11-05 2014, Antwerp (Belgium)
- Lecture – Performance, with Kelly Schacht and Antoine Van Impe, Brainbox, Croxhapox, 19-10 2013, Ghent (Belgium)
- Hotel Charleroi 2013, Capital Social, The Magritte Project, 31-08 – 08-09, Marchienne-Au-Pont (Belgium)
- Group Exhibition and Performance, with Kelly Schacht and Audrey Cottin, 'Characters Make Stories', N.I.C.C., 01-09- 25-09 2011, Antwerpen (Belgium)
- Lecture - Performance, 51.59415, 4.77629 , Lokaal 01, 08-04 2011, Breda (the Netherlands)
- Short Cut Leuven, STUK Start Festival, 2-10, Leuven (Belgium)
- '8 kunstwerken en een Tielts volkstoneel', Cuesta '10, CC.Gildhof, 25-06 2010, Tielt (Belgium)
- 'When Guests becomes host', curated by Danielle Van Zuylen, 6-25 10 2009, Haarlem (Netherlands)
- 'Renault Clio', Versus V, Biennial of contemporary Art Oudenaarde, 19 11 2009, Oudenaarde (Belgium)
- 'nodogs', Nieuwpoorttheater, curated by Ben Benaouisse, 2009, Ghent (Belgium)
- 'Performance', galerij croxhapox, 4-5 11 2005, Ghent (Belgium)
Long Term projects:
- Pilootproject Vlaamse Bouwmeester, Rabotwijk/ Tondelier site Ghent, Long term project in public space under the name: Pilootproject Tondelier , in collaboration with Kelly Schacht, Filip Van Dingenen, Petra Stavast, Lotte Geven en Danielle Van Zuylen, 2015-2018, Ghent (Belgium)
- State of the City, 10 12 2016, (in collaboration with AIR Frankfurt, NAC Rotterdam, AIR Antwerp), Frankfurt am Mein (Germany)
- Enter Festival, 18-26 04 2015, Antwerpen (Belgium)
- Positie Kiezen, Emergent Veurne, 19-2- 19-4-2015, Veurne (Belgium)
- Regions A – G, Johannesburg Central Library Project, 16-11 2013, Johannesburg (South Africa)
- Hotel Charleroi 2013, Capital Social, 31-08 – 08-09, Marchienne-Au-Pont (Belgium)
- The Final Show, Once More, Unto the Breach, Dear Friends, Once More, Lokaal 01, 20-04 – 23-06 2013, Breda (the Netherlands)
- 'Mind the System, Find the Gap', 02-06 – 30-09 2012, Z33, Hasselt (Belgium)
- Arte Laguna Prize ,15-03 – 01-04 2012, Arsenale Venice (Italy)
- 'Tender Buttons – Becoming Gertrude Stein', Resto Overpoort, 1–6 12 2011, Ghent (Belgium)
- Interface, in colaboration with Robbrecht Desmet, 27 08 – 02 10 2011, Hastings (U.K)
- See*point, 30 06 – 31 08 2011, Koksijde (Belgium)
- A Group Show, Secondroom Gent, 10-06 2011, Gent (Belgium)
- Art Fair, Art Brussels, Gallery Transit, 28 04 – 01 05 2010, Brussels (Belgium)
- The Spring Exhibition 2011, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, 03-03 – 25-04 2011, Copenhagen (Denmark)
- Exhibition, Cuesta '10 Actuele Kunst in Tielt, 17-09 – 17-10 2010, Tielt (Belgium)
- 'Spirits and Landscapes', curated by Ada Van Hoorebeeke, 9 11 – 20 11 2010 Grimmuseum, Berlin (Germany)
- Book Presentation, 'B-SIDES AND RARITIES', (Lokaal 01, Breda), Project-Space Extra City, 19-06 – 11-07 2010, Antwerp (Belgium)
- 'RULES MAKE GAMES', Concentra, 5-06 2010, Antwerp (Belgium)
- 'POP ART', Scheld'apen in NICC, 14 May - 30 June, Antwerp (Belgium)
- 'CHARACTERS MAKE STORIES', Croxhapox, 01-05 – 30-05 2010, Ghent (Belgium)
- Film Screening: 'Cinemapril Cinémavril', Moordnoces, 29-04 2010, Brussels (Belgium)
- Art Fair, Art Brussels, Gallery Transit, 23-04 – 26-04 2010, Brussels (Belgium)
- 'TRY TO DECEMBER', Transit Gallery, 01-01 – 22-02 2010, Mechelen (Belgium)
- 'The Great Public Sales of Brilliant But Unrealised Ideas', (founded by Sarah Vanhee), Playground Festival, STUK, 3 11 2009, Leuven (Belgium)
- 'Please Pay Attention Please', Festival Amperdans 4 (annex amperdans), Monty, 14 24 -11 2009, Antwerpen (Belgium)
- Versus V, Biennial of contemporary Art Oudenaarde, 19 11 - 4 10 2009, Oudenaarde (Belgium)
- 'art is only a feeling', curated by Bas Schevers en Hedwig Houben, 4 - 27 11 2009, Eindhoven (Nederland)
- ERROR # 13, error one, Hallen Belfort, 1 11 - 07 2009, Brugge (Belgium)
- 'Temporary City Berlin',15 05 - 6 06 2009, Berlin (Germany)
- Art Brussels, galery Transit, 24 - 27 04 2009, Brussel (Belgium)
- filmscreening Kaaitheater, presentation AAG, a magazine by Ben Benaouisse, 2009, Brussel (Belgium)
- KUNSTMANUFAKTUR # 1, 2009, Berlin (Germany)
- 'Pencil towers, stone fish, rising suns, ghosts, aura's and other deliciously emerging entities (things that appaer are generally friendly, but they tend to escape us)', curated by Frank Maes and Hans Theys, Rossi Contemporary, 5 02 - 14 03 2009, Brussels (Belgium)
- 'Brainbox 2' (unit 2), in colaboration with Marina Yee en Christophe Lezaire, galery croxhapox, 23 10 - 9 11 2008, Ghent
- 'Honorons Honoré', 'De Garage' Cultureel Centrum, 27 09 - 23 11 2008, Mechelen (Belgium)
- 'Young Artists' (selected by Kathrin Ginsberg), Botanical university Garden, 13 05 08 06, Ghent (Belgium)
- Affiche project, gallery croxhapox, 2008,Gent
- Robbrecht Desmet, Vladimir Tanghe, Stijn Van Dorpe, Stephan Vanfleteren, 6-7 04 2008, (Koppenberg) Melden (Belgium)
- 'Made in Ghent', 20-23 09 2007, Sint-Pietersplein, Ghent (Belgium)
- 'Small Stuff III (meeting Bernd Lohaus)', curated by Hans Theys, Herman Teirlinckhuis, 9 11 - 31 12 2007, Beersel (Belgium)
- 'Temporary City', 19 05 - 10 06 2007, Lokeren (Belgium)
- International Streaming Film Festival, http://www.streamingfestival.com/, 1 - 18 12, internet
- 'Labo 3', Existentie, 15-21 12 2006, Ghent (Belgium)
- 'Brainbox', galerij croxhapox, in collaboration with Anton Cotteleer en Nicolas Leus, september 2006, Ghent (Belgium)
- 'Er groeit zand in mijn schoenen', gallery Box 38, 2006, Oostende (Belgium)
- 'Basics 2 sequel', gallery croxhapox, 04-05 2006, in Maagdendale abdij Oudenaarde (Belgium)
- 'Mixed Media 2', gallery Art Track, 2005, Ghent (Belgium)
- Basics 2', galerij croxhapox, 06 - 07 2005, Ghent (Belgium)
- Residentie … aan het water, State of the City, 01 03 2016, Rotterdam (Netherlands)
- Kunstwerke Berlin, 20-09 20-12 2014, Berlin (Germany)
- Hotel Charleroi 2013, 01-07 – 10-09 2013, Marchienne-Au-Pont (Belgium)
- FLACC, 2013, Genk (Belgium)
- Bag Factory, 04-07 – 30-09 2012, Johannesburg (South Africa)
- Temporary City, Atelierhof Kreuzberg, 05 2009, Berlin (Germany)
- Lokaal 01, 10-12 2007, Antwerp (Belgium)
- Artist Talk, Het Wilde Weten, 5 2 2016, Rotterdam (Netherlands)
- Symposium Pilootprojecten Kunst,11 12 2015, KVS, Brussel (Belgium)
- "…The Freespace: On Art and the Shared Space…", In colaboration with Filip Van Dingenen, 9 7 2015, *FREEquently Asked Questions (concerning Freedom)*, These Things Take Time, Ghent (Belgium)
- Lecture and Masterclass, Vrije Academie Den Bosch, 06-02 2014, St-Hertogenbosch (Netherlands)
- Stijn Van Dorpe, Robbrecht Desmet, Nico Docxks, Femke Snelting and Achim Lengerer, 08-12 2013, FLACC, Genk (Belgium)
- Artist Talk: Hans den Hartog Jager talks with Stijn Van Dorpe and Edwin Stolk, 17-10 2013, Nijmegen (Netherlands)
- Salon, University Nijmegen, Academy Den Bosch and Arhnem, 27-05 2013, Besiendershuis, Nijmegen (Netherlands)
- Wits University, 05-09 2013, Johannesburg (South Africa)
- KASK Ghent, 08 12 2010, Ghent, (Belgium)
- 'When Guests becomes host', 25 10 2009, Haarlem (Netherlands)
- public talk with Eva Wittocx, 29 11 2006, Lokaal 01 Antwerpen (Belgium)
- Abrahamstraat 22, Kunst en Maatschappij. 'Wo stehst du mit deiner Kunst, Kollege?', in colaboration with Danielle Van Zuylen, 13, 21,27-03 2014, Ghent (Belgium)
- Curatorial project, Tijd, 'de kracht van een manier van denken heeft bovenal te maken met haar vermogen zich te verplaatsen', Expoplu 16-05 -01-06 2014, Nijmegen (Netherlands)
- Curatorial project, Subject, 'de kracht van een manier van denken heeft bovenal te maken met haar vermogen zich te verplaatsen', Expoplu 13-06 -29-06 2014, Nijmegen (Netherlands)
- Curatorial project, Ruimte, 'de kracht van een manier van denken heeft bovenal te maken met haar vermogen zich te verplaatsen', Expoplu, 16-5- 1-6 2014, Nijmegen (Netherlands)
- Curatorial project, 'Characters Make Stories', Croxhapox, 05 2010 Ghent (Belgium)
– Debate 'kunst en maatschappelijke engagement', Existentie in collaboration with the Liedts-Meesen foundation en Amarant, 2008, Ghent (Belgium)
- 'A Bookcase', Posture Edition, 2015
- 'Without Growht', Florence Scialom, Netwerk Aalst, 2015
- A Thinking Model, Berlin, 2015
- 'Without Growht', Filka Sekulova, Hotel Charleroi, 2014
- 'if you don't answer, you're driving', in collaboration with Robbrecht Desmet, printed in an edition of 3 copies by cassochrome, 2011
- 'never look back', production STUK and Transit, 2011
- The Artwork as a Document of Pedagogical Processes (NL/ENG), Sarah Késenne, posture edition, 2015
- 'Conversation between Stijn Van Dorpe and Stafaan Vervoort on creativity, knowledge and aesthetic residue' (NL/ENG), Stefaan Vervoort (Flacc 2013), 2013
- 'niets in de handen, niets in de mouwen'& Leuven, 2/10/2010 (NL), Christine Vueghen, traveling (STUK), 2011
- no title, Christophe Van Gerrewey (NL/ENG), 2010
- Wat Hansje niet leert… , (NL) Francis Smets, 2010
- Stijn Van Dorpe, Infiltraties in de werkelijkheid, Eva Wittocxs, (Lokaal 01)(NL,ENG), 2008
-'Een anti-ontologische blik en een vertrouwdheid met de leegte. Kunst als radicale atheïstische praxis, een inleiding tot het werk van Stijn Van Dorpe', (NL) Piet Van Robaeys, 2006
- Long term scholarship Vlaamse Gemeenschap, (2016-2018)
- Short term scholarship Vlaamse Gemeenschap, (2015)
- Residence Grant Kunstwerke Berlijn, Vlaamse Gemeenschap (2014)
- Short term scholarship Vlaamse Gemeenschap, (2013)
- Short term scholarship Vlaamse Gemeenschap, (2010)
- Short term scholarship Vlaamse Gemeenschap, (2009)