Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven (born 5 December, 1951 in Antwerp) is a Belgian artist whose work involves painting, drawing, computer art and video art.

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
Born	(1951-12-05) 5 December 1951 (age 73) Antwerp
Nationality	Belgian
Known for	Painting, drawing, computer art, video art
Spouse	Danny Devos

Biography

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven (also known as AMVK) was born in Antwerp and lives in Antwerp and Berlin. In 1981 she founded the noise band Club Moral with Danny Devos. Since 1982 she has been represented by Zeno X Gallery in Antwerp, Belgium, and since 1999 by Galerie Barbara Thumm in Berlin. In 2003 she was awarded the Flanders' Prize for Visual Arts.^[1]

In 2005 the HeadNurse-files was published. By means of installation shots, film stills and artistic images, this book presents an overview of the projects' development from 1995 to 2004 and possibly beyond.^[2] In 2006 she was awarded a DAAD stipendium to spend one year in Berlin.^[3] In 2022 she will receive an honorary doctor degree from the University of Antwerp.^[4]

Life and work

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven has been fascinated for a long time with the representation in the mass media of images of women, of interiors, of the kinetic powers of any kind of language. She investigates supra-moral connections in contemporary society between sex and technology. Her work connects different knowledge systems, explores the areas of the unconscious, and looks at moral aberrations or the obscene from a female point of view.

Since 2005 she has been working on a conceptual and pictorial trialogue between the mystic Marguerite Porete, the hermetic Giordano Bruno and the philosopher Herbert Marcuse.

Selected exhibitions

Solo

• Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Zeno X Gallery^[5] Antwerp, 1995
• Morele Herbewapening / Moral Rearmament, Kunsthalle Lophem^[6] 1996
• HeadNurse, Zeno X Gallery^[5] Antwerp, 1998
• Nursing care, in melancholy stupor, MuHKA^[7] Antwerp, 1999
• Prober5, Galerie Barbara Thumm^[8] Berlin, 2000
• In Dreams, Galerie Barbara Thumm^[8] 2003
• Deeper, Kunsthalle Lophem^[6] 2003
• AntiSade, Zeno X Gallery^[5] Antwerpen, 2003
• How reliable is the brain?, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein [de], Aachen, 2004
• AMVK – EZFK: Europaisches Zentrum für Futuristische Kunst (Kunsthalle Bern) 2005.^[9]
• Veerkracht thuis!, Objectif exhibitions^[10] Antwerp, 2006
• Oh, the Sick Lady / Ah, the Sick Lady (Explodes from Within), Galerie Barbara Thumm^[8] Berlin, 2007
• Über das ICH (Willkür und Transzendenz) and a lot of fun (daadgalerie Berlin) 2007
• Nothing More Natural, Kunstmuseum Luzern^[11] Lucerne, 2008
• Nothing More Natural, Wiels Center for Contemporary Art,^[12] Brussels, 2008
• Nothing More Natural, Kunsthalle Nürnberg^[13] Nuremberg 2009
• On Mars the Rising Sun is Blue, Zeno X Gallery^[5] Antwerp, 2009
• In a Saturnian World, Renaissance Society^[14] Chicago 2011
• Mistress of the Horizon, Mu.ZEE^[15] Ostend, 2012
• 3 Carrels (Degenerate Customized Solutions), Zeno X Gallery^[5] Antwerp, 2014
• Serving Compressed Energy with Vacuum, Kunstverein München^[16] München, 2015
• AMVK, MuHKA, Antwerp 2018
• AMVK, Museum Fridericianum [de],^[17] Kassel, 2018

Group

• Woord en Beeld, MuHKA^[18] Antwerp, 1992
• Trouble spot.painting (MuHKA/NICC) Antwerp 1999
• Die Verletzte Diva, Galerie im Taxispalais^[19] Berlin, 2000
• Dream Extensions Ghent 2004
• Dear ICC, MuHKA^[20] Antwerp, 2004
• Collectiepresentatie XI, MuHKA^[21] Antwerp
• Extremities. Flemish art in Vladivostok, Museum Artetage,^[22] Vladivostok, 2006
• Collectiepresentatie XVI: Attributen en Substantie, MuHKA^[23] Antwerp, 2006
• I Walk the Lines, Galerie Barbara Thumm^[8] Berlin, 2006
• Manifesta 7 / "THE SOUL (or, Much Trouble in the Transportation of Souls)", Manifesta 7^[24] Trento, 2006

Notes

1. "Prijs van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap voor Beeldende Kunst 2003". Cultuurnet Vlaanderen. 23 March 2004. Archived from the original on 29 September 2007.
2. Patrick Van Rossem (Ed.) 2005 The HeadNurse-files – objectif_exhibitions, Antwerpen (B), the NeuerAachenerKunstverein (D) and the Kunsthalle Bern (CH). ISBN 90-808493-3-2
3. "Welcome". 2 September 2006. Archived from the original on 2 September 2006.
4. "Paul Van Hoeydonck en Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven krijgen eredoctoraat". 24 September 2021.
5. "ANNE-MIE VAN KERCKHOVEN". 21 April 2007. Archived from the original on 21 April 2007.
6. "KUNSTHALLE LOPHEM - CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART". 3 November 2004. Archived from the original on 3 November 2004. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
7. "Muhka". 29 May 2006. Archived from the original on 29 May 2006. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
8. "Galerie Barbara Thumm". Galerie Barbara Thumm.
9. "AMVK-EZFK Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven – Europaisches Zentrum fur Futuristische Kunst". e-flux. 25 January 2005. Archived from the original on 19 October 2006.
10. "NameBright - Coming Soon". www.objectif-exhibitions.org.
11. "Museum of Art Lucerne". 29 October 2008. Archived from the original on 29 October 2008.
12. "WIELS - Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven : Nothing More Natural". 19 August 2008. Archived from the original on 19 August 2008.
13. "Kunsthalle Nürnberg: Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven. Nothing More Natural". 14 December 2009. Archived from the original on 14 December 2009.
14. "The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago Contemporary Art Museum: Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, In A Saturnian World". 28 December 2011. Archived from the original on 28 December 2011.
15. "Mu.ZEE | Oostende - Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven - Mistress of the Horizon". 20 June 2017. Archived from the original on 20 June 2017. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
16. "km". www.kunstverein-muenchen.de.
17. "AMVK - AMVK". 3 November 2018. Archived from the original on 3 November 2018. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
18. "M HKA". 5 January 2011. Archived from the original on 5 January 2011. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
19. "Galerie im Taxispalais - Die verletzte Diva". 17 October 2006. Archived from the original on 17 October 2006.
20. "Muhka". 30 May 2006. Archived from the original on 30 May 2006. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
21. "Muhka". 12 May 2005. Archived from the original on 12 May 2005. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
22. "ARTETAGE - The Museum of Modern Art FENTU - Концепция". 7 March 2007. Archived from the original on 7 March 2007.
23. "Muhka". 27 September 2007. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
24. "manifesta7". www.manifesta7.it.

References

• Van Kerckhoven, Anne-Mie (1993). Paradogma. Maldoror, 's Gravenhage. ISBN 90-5168-051-1.

• Koen Raes; Filip Luyckx (1999). Ronald Van de Sompel (ed.). Beauty, therapeutic use of. muhka.be M HKA, Antwerpen.

External links

• Media related to Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven at Wikimedia Commons
• Official website
• MuHKA Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
• Kunstaspekte
• Chapter of Opening the Mouth of Time - a daily AMVK blog