CV PIERRE MERTENS
° Antwerp, 19 january 1953
Exhibitions
Solo
2020 Loving Care, Blikfabriek, Antwerp (B)
2019 Mertens meets Mertens at pub Het Goudblommeke in Papier, Brussels (B)
2018 Crying Stones for Sleeping Angels, Mwanza, (TZ)
2016 Undercover: Uncovered, Q46, Antwerp (B)
2015 Covers, Q46, Antwerp (B)
Olympia, Notary House Antwerp (B)
2014 T4 and Holocaust, Library Royal Palace, Naples (I); Guislain Museum, Ghent (B)
2013 La Grande Parade recycled, GGZ Andante, Merksem (B)
2011 Sporen van het vuur, art integration project at retirement home ‘Seniorplaza’, Willebroek with Willo Gonnissen (B)
2010 En Famille, private home, Douai (F)
Art integration project, retirement home ‘Wedbos’, Geel (B)
2007 Asylum seekers in Red Cross asylum centre, St Niklaas (B)
2003 De Tokke, art integration project, retirement home ‘De Tokke’, Waregem (B)
For Sale!, Ram Gallery, Rotterdam (NL)
Look at me, Frame Gallery, Brussels (B)
Tingatinga, Dar Es Salaam (TZ)
Ruins for the Future (Peru)
2002 Moringa, project with unemployed immigrant women, Route, Genk (B)
Neterotopia, NICC, Antwerp (B); Le Palais de Tokyo, Paris (F)
2001 Olympia, art integration project at Plantijn Hogeschool Antwerp (B)
2000 La justice au risque de l’art, Court House, Cambrai (F) in collaboration with xxx
1999 Waar is de Kunst?, Niggendijcker, Groningen (NL)
1998 Alice in Wonderland Art meets the social reality of young people, EU project at the Movie Museum Amsterdam (NL)
1996 Portraits of Children, Cultural Centre and Academy of Willebroek (B)
1995 Solo at Jacob Jordaens House, Antwerp (B)
1993 Charabang Antwerpen ’93, Antwerp (B)
The Image of Reality, Plovdiv (BG)
1992 Solo at 121 Art-Gallery, Antwerp (B)
Galerie M, Berlin (D)
1991 Kallement, Wommelgem (B)
Westrand, Dilbeek (B)
1990 Melkfabriek, Den Bosch (NL)
Galéria – Theatr Stu, Krakow (P)
1989 Open Galerij Vooruit, Ghent (B)
Te gast bij Ilse Frei, Brasschaat (B)
Town hall Zoersel (B)
1988 Magazijn, Hasselt (B)
Magenta, Kalmthout (B)
1985 Castle Schijndael, Schoten (B)
1980 Jacob Jordaenshuis, Antwerp (B)
Group shows:
2023 Loving Care, Watou Art Festival, Watou (B)
2022 Bolero at Lviv (UA) and Kassel (DE)
2019 Uit beleeftijd, M HKA, Antwerp (B)
2017 Flash Back, C-Mine Genk (B)
2015 Festival Er hangt iets in de lucht, Den Bosch (NL)
2014 Oorlog en Trauma, Guislain Museum, Ghent (B)
2013 LXXV – A Tribute to Wout Vercammen, at arteVentuno archives, Hasselt (B)
2012 Bones, Labo Hasselt (B)
Summer exhibition, Il Ventuno, Hasselt (B)
2009 East African Biennial Tanzania (TZ)
Since 2010 Bolero, Ethiopia, Tazanina, Vietnam, South-Africa, India, China, Germany and Belgium, see http://www.artbolero.be/
2007 East African Biennial Tanzania (TZ)
2002 Email Art, a contemporary art exhibition, Centre of Attention, London (GB)
Bordelo, Antwerp (B)
Neterotopia, NICC, Antwerp (B)
1998 Gallery, Cadier en Keer (NL)
Kunst voor blinden, CC Brugge (B)
1997 Kunst in Huis, Warande Turnhout (B)
Reunion, Brunssum (NL)
Fast Forwards, Provincial Museum Hasselt (B)
1996 Gallery Griffioen (B)
In de zee woont de maan, Rasa (several cultural centers, B)
Musée du Petit Format, MUHKA, Antwerp (B)
1995 Der Panther, art interventions on several locations in the city of Berlin (D)
1994 Lelijke Eendje, Elzenveld, Antwerp (B)
Kunst in Huis and eroticism, Brussels (B)
Tribute to, CC Knokke (B and Italy)
Der Panther, art interventions on several locations in the city of Maastricht (NL)
Terra, Gallo Roman Museum, Tongeren (B)
Temporary Art Fair Antwerp (B)
Akim (ISR)
Musée du Petit Format, several cultural centres (B)
1993 De Brakke Hond, ICC Antwerp (B)
Building plans & schemes, CC Heusden (B)
Het Lelijke Eendje, Monnikenheide Zoersel (B)
1992 De Brakke Hond in the Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (NL)
Zuiderterras, Antwerp (B)
Gallery M, Le Cadavre Repris, Berlin (D)
Polish Pavilion, World Expo Sevilla (S)
Post en Salome, Lineart, Ghent (B)
Multiples, Zuiderterras, Antwerp (B)
1991 CC Scharpoort, Knokke (B)
V.U.B., Brussels (B)
Voor Vorst en Staat, Il Ventuno, Hasselt (B)
Galerie von der Milwe, Aachen (D)
Tuintaferelen, Kapellen (B)
Kunst op de Leien, CC De Werf and Heusden Zolder (B)
All-Licht, CC De Werf (labo), Brugge (B)
De Witte Beer, Brugge (B)
Tandems Van Alzheimer, Antwerp (B)
CC Heusden-Zolder (B)
Il Ventuno expo Tienen (B) and Krakow (P)
1990 Brakke Hond, Brussels (B)
All Licht, VUB, Brussels (labo) (B)
Art for Youth, Belfast (IRL)
Monumental on Water, Oud Heverlee (B)
Beelden in Vrijbroeck, Mechelen (B)
Hof ter Saksen, Beveren (B)
ICC, Antwerp (B)
Tandems van Alzheimer, retirement home St. Jozef Wommelgem (B)
Het geloof in de Kunst (Il Ventuno) CC Berchem, Antwerp (B)
Waranda, Turnhout (B)
Tulips in November, Westrand, Dilbeek(B)
1989 Kunstrumenta, Kunstgang Hasselt (B)
Erotic exhibition Christ Delaet, Antwerp (B)
Mail art projects, Genk (B) and Vienna (AU)
Art on the street – Nicaragua in painting, Ghent (B)
Poster happening, Museum for Contemporary Art, Ghent (B)
Belgische Beeldhouwkunst, Cadier en Keer (NL)
Het geloof in de kunst, Il Ventuno, Hasselt (B)
Without Title, Stadsschouwburg, Antwerp (B)
Grand Maitre d’ Art, Il Ventuno, Hasselt (B)
1988 Rond Hedendaagse Figuratie, CC Lommel (B)
Le Cadavre repris, VERIO, Maastricht (NL)
Art intervention VERIO, Maastricht (NL)
Cultureel Centrum, Hasselt (B)
21 and 21 at Il Ventuno, Hasselt (B)
Tuintaferelen, Kapellen and Kalmthout (B)
Fabrik 88, Antwerp (B)
Beelden in Brunssum (NL)
All-Licht, Labo, Hasselt (B)
4th annual Art Exhibition, Belfast (N.IRL)
Lineart at home, Il Ventuno, Hasselt (B)
Beelden in Strijboshof, Kalmthout (B)
Paniek, Magenta, Kalmthout (B)
Le Cadavre Repris, BWA Krakow (P)
1987 Rode Draad, Vooruit, Ghent (B)
Holder de Polder, Assenede (B)
21 at Il Ventuno, Hasselt (B)
Hembeccaselectie, Brussels (B)
Link in Huis, Il Ventuno, Hasselt (B)
Lineart – Il Ventuno, Ghent (B)
Hasseltse Happening (action painting), Hasselt (B)
1986 Art expo architect Vanbeeveren, Berlare (B)
Anti Chambres, Ghent (B)
Campo, Antwerpen (B)
1984 Kasteel Schijndael, Schoten (B)
Author:
(2009) Papa, wat is een handicap? (Daddy, what is a disability?) Antwerp: Uitgeverij Vrijdag. Book on society and disability, translated and published in Slovakia and Poland
(2003) The Gap – Recent projects 1999-2003. Stichting Target Foundation.
(1993-97) Het Brievenkabinet, Letters about philosophy and art with xxx.
(1994) The ugly duck – art and mental disability. Publisher: Art&Society.
(1991) Tulpen in November – een kunstenaar, een demente vrouw en haar man (Tulips in November – an artist, a woman with Alzheimer disease, and her husband). Publisher: Dedalus. Translated and published in Slovakia and Poland.
(2001) Liesje. Antwerp/Vianen: The House of Books. Translated in Norwegian, French, Slovak (2007), Italian (2007), English (2008) and Turkish (2013).
Curator:
Since 2010 Art exhibitions Andante with focus on social projects with minority groups (B)
2007-2008 Chambres d’ Artistes, series of art integrations in the rooms of residents of a
retirement home in Wommelgem.
1995 Le cadavre repris with Flor Bex, Antwerp (B)
1994 The ugly duck – art and mental disability. With Jan Hoet en Bert Danckaert – Monikkenheide Zoersel & Elzenveld Antwerpen
1994 Image of reality, Plovdiv (BG) with Bert Danckaert
1991-92 Tandems of Alzheimer, curator and participant, art project with persons
affected by Alzheimer, Het Kallement Wommelgem (B)