MARIE-JO LAFONTAINE Biography 1950 Born in Antwerp, Belgium


MARIE-JO LAFONTAINE
Biography
1950
Born in Antwerp, Belgium
1975
Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Architecture et des Arts Visuelles,
Brussels, Belgium
1978
Prix de la Jeune Peinture Belge, Brussels, Belgium
1979
Bronze medal, Prix Europe de Peinture, Ostend, Belgium
1987
Documenta Kassel, Germany
1992
Media Award of the European Union
1998
European Photography Award, Great Britain
1998
Cultural Ambassador of Flanders
1998
Professor at the Hochschule für Kunst und Medien, ZKM, Karlsruhe,
Germany
2002
BMW Project in Munich, Germany
2005
Opening of the World Cup Football, Frankfurt
Exhibitions
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Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany (solo)
Come to me!, André Simoens Gallery, Knokke, Belgium (solo)
Art Cologne, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie
Art Cologne, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie
I love the world, video installation, Skyarena, Opening event for the
World Football Cup, Frankfurt
Foto Text Text Foto, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main
Art Cologne, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie (solo)
Marie Jo Lafontaine, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld
Art for the Pier, Airport, Stockholm (solo)
Monochrome Trivision, Justizzentrum Bonn, Bonn (solo)
Babies – Lost Paradise, Galerie Bernhard Knaus, Mannheim (solo)
We can all be hero’s – just for one day, Polaroid Installation,
Stadtmuseum Rakevere, Estonia (solo)
Lost Paradise, Galerie Thomas von Lintel, New York (solo)
Brussels by Night, KBC Bank, Brussels (solo)
Chill out Room, Deutsche Bank, Luxembourg (solo)
The Swing, Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken (solo)
Liquid Crystals, Mathildenhohe Darmstadt (solo)
Ivre d’éternité j’oublie la futilité de ce monde, Musée du Jeu de Paume,
Paris (solo)
Ausstellungsinstitut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany
Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris
The Blind Angels, Orchard Gallery Derry, Northern Ireland
Paper Art 7 - Paper Electric, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum Düren, Germany
Foto Text Text Foto, Frankfurter Kunstverein Frankfurt/Main
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The 90s: A Family of Man, Casino Luxembourg Forum d'art
contemporain, Luxembourg
Fertile Ground, Centrum 'tElzenveld Antwerpen, Belgium
Au loin s'en vont les nuages, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer Düsseldorf
Blumenstücke, Kunsthalle Bielefeld Germany
Les Roses, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (solo)
Victoria, Smith College Museum of Art Northampton, MA
Savoir retenir et fixer ce qui est sublime, University Art Museum
California State Long Beach, CA
Als das Kind noch Kind war, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf
Jeder Engel is schrecklich, Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv, Fondation Helena
Rubenstein (solo)
Multimédiale 3, HFG Karlsruhe, Germany
Mediale. Feuer, Wasser, Licht, Erde, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Deutschsein, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
Argusauge, Glyptothek, Munich (solo)
Jeder Engel ist schrecklich, Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg,
Danmark
Passio, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Savoir, retenir et fixer ce qui est sublime, Musée des Beaux Arts,
Tourcoing (solo)
Threshold, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
40 ans de la jeune Peinture Belge
The readymade Boomerang, 8th Biennale of Sydney (cat.)
Savoir, retenir et fixer ce qui est sublime, Whitechapel Art Gallery,
London (solo)
Rappel à l’ordre, Jack Shainmann Gallery, New York (solo)
Les Larmes d’acier, Museum of Contemporary Art, LACMA, Los
Angeles and Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (solo)
L’interdit désiré, Koninklijk Muziekconservatorium, Gent (solo)
A las Cinco de la tarde, Tate Gallery, London (solo)
The Luminous Image, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Festival International de ciné e video, San Sebastian
10ieme Biennale Internationale de la Tapisserie, Musée Cantonal de
Lausanne
Round around the Ring, Musée d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges
Pompidou, Paris (solo)
11ième Biennale de Paris