KRIS MARTIN BIOGRAPHY Born 1972 in Kortrijk Lives and works in Ghent, Belgium SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selection) 2012 Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover 2011 Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco 2010 T.F.F.S.H., K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf FESTUM, White Cube, London Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels 2009 Kris Martin, Johann König, Berlin Kris Martin, Sies + Höke, Cologne Kris Martin, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado 2008 The Quick and the Death (The exhibition former known as Passenger), Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco Kris Martin, Museum Dhondt-Daenens, Deurle What’s The Time, White Cube, London Eldorado. Kris Martin. Inter pares, GAMeC, Bergamo, curated by Alessandro Rabottini Kris Martin, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles 2007 Kris Martin, P.S.1 / Museum of Modern Art, New York My Private 5 – Kris Martin, Casino Di Commercio, Piazza San Marco, Venice Kris Martin, Sies+Höke, Düsseldorf Kris Martin, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles 2006 Deus Ex Machina, Johann König, Berlin 2005 Kris Martin, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen Kris Martin, Sies + Höke Galerie, Düsseldorf 2004 Beaulieu Gallery, Wortegem-Petegem 2000 Wahnsinn, Garden of Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection) 2010 When will they finally see the power of drawing, Geukens & De Vil, Belgium Let`s dance, Musée D`Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine Exhibition, Exhibition, Castello di Rivoli, Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin Before and after, Balice Hertling, Paris Touched, 6th Liverpool Biennial You can`t get there from here but you can get here from there, Apexart, NY Lebenslust und Totentanz, Olbricht Collection, Kunsthalle Krems Unsichtbare Schatten - Bilder der Verunsicherung, MARTa Herford Under Destruction, Museum Tinguely, Basel Yesterday will be better, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aargau Intensif-Station, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf Kupferstichkabinett, White Cube, London Signs of Life, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles Christmas in July, Yvonne Lambert, New York Human Condition, Kunsthaus Graz 20th Century Fox, Vanmoerkerke Collection, Oostende Contemplating the Void, Guggenheim Museum, New York Silent Revolution, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf Berlin – Paris, Johann König, Berlin; Galerie Philippe Jousse, Paris Neugierig? Kunst des 21. Jahrhunderts aus privaten Sammlungen, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn 2009 Act I: Beautiful from Every Point of View, Witte de With, Rotterdam Beg Borrow and Steal, Rubell Family Collection, Miami La vie barée, en travers, IAC - Institute d`art contemporain, Villeurbanne The magnificent Seven, CCA Wattis Institute forContemporary Arts, San Francisco Ars in Cathedrali, Septiformis, Brussels Moby Dick, CCA Wattis Institute forContemporary Arts, San Francisco Heaven, Athens Biennale, Athens The Site of Silence, Ausstellungshalle zeitgenössischer Kunst, Münster Beginnings, Middles, And Ends, Galerie Georg Kargl, Wien The Quick and the Dead, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Magritte et la Lumière, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels On second readings, Galeria Estrany-de la Mota, Barcelona Born in the morning, dead by night, Leo König, New York 2008 Political Minimal, KW-Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin Heavy Metal, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel Speicher fast voll – Sammeln und Ordnen in der Gegenwartskunst, Kunstmuseum Solothurn Forgotten Bar Project, Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Berlin; Project Space 176, London On The Beach, Bloomberg Space, London This is not a void, Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, curated by Jens Hoffmann The Eternal Flame, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz/Basel When a clock is seen from the side it no longer tells the time, Johann König, Berlin Traces du sacré, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Countdown sequence, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York, curated by Vincenzo De Bellis God is Design, Galpão Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo 2007 A leak in the silence: noise, Poeziezomers, Watou Absent without Leave, Victoria Miró Gallery, London Gehen Bleiben, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn Learn To Read, Level 2 Gallery, Tate Modern, London Some Time Waiting, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, curated by Adam Carr 2006 My Private escaped from Italy, Centre international d’art et du paysage, Ile de Vassivière Protections. Das ist keine Ausstellung, Kunsthaus, Graz Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz Faster! Bigger! Better!, Signetwerke der Sammlungen, ZKM, Museum für neue Kunst, Karlsruhe Nichts weiter als ein Rendezvous, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen Designing Truth, Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg Of Mice and Men, 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Berlin, curated by Ali Subotnick, Massimiliano Gioni and Maurizio Cattelan 2005 SEE history 2005 - der private Blick, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel Post Notes, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN 2003 Gelijk het leven is, S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent The distance between Me and You, Lisson Gallery, London 2001 Sonsbeek 9: Locus/Focus, Arnheim, curated by Jan Hoet