Joachim Naudts

General & Artistic coordinator
Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium

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Selected Curated Exhibitions

 

2022

Rabih Mroué - Images Mon Amour

First solo-exhibition in Belgium of the Lebanese multidisciplinary artist Rabih Mrouй.

Location and organization: Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium

ARTISTS: Rabih Mroué (LBN)

 

2021

Radically Naive / Naively Radical

Opening exhibition of Kunsthal Extra City at its new location, functioning as a search for institutional meaning, for the (im)material character of art, for cultural uniqueness and artistic autonomy.

Location and organization: Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium

ARTISTS: Thomas Bellinck, Ben Benaouisse, Seyni Awa Camara, Saddie Choua, Helga Davis & Anouk De Clercq, Vesna Faassen & Lukas Verdijk, Iman Issa, Léonard Pongo, Egon Van Herreweghe, Gert Verhoeven, Katarina Zdjelar

 

2020

Lynne Cohen - Depth on the Surface

First posthumous archive-based retrospective of this Canadian photographer (1944-2014)

Curated with Bert Danckaert (BE) / Research & concept Bert Danckaert & Karin Hanssen / Location and organization: FOMU, Antwerp, Belgium / Collaboration with the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp

ARTISTS: Lynne Cohen (CA), Richard Artschwager (US), Eugиne Atget (FR), Guillaume Bijl (BE), Thomas Demand (DE), Marcel Duchamp (FR), Jacques Tati (FR).

 

2019

MAAN/MOON

Photographing the Moon, 1840 - NOW

Curated with Maarten Dings (NL) / Location and organization: FOMU, Antwerp, Belgium / Publication co-published by Hannibal

ARTISTS: 50+ artists, such as Lisa Oppenheim (US), Paul Van Hoeydonck (BE), Léon Gimpel (FR), Tom Callemin (BE), John Adams Whipple (US), Warren de la Rue (UK), Cristina de Middel (ES), Sjoerd Knibbeler (NL), Vincent Fournier (FR), Agnes Meyer-Brandis (DE), Annemie Augustijns (BE), Cortis & Sonderegger (CH), Joan Fontcuberta (ES), Joel Meyerowitz (US), Harry Gruyaert (BE), Michael Light (US), Katie Paterson (UK), Penelope Umbrico (US) and others.

 

Restricted Images - Made with the Warlpiri of Central Australia - Patrick Waterhouse

With appropriated photographs and historical documents, providing a new reading of Australia's colonial and indigenous history.

Location and organization: FOMU, Antwerp, Belgium (with the Warlukurlangu Art Centre, Northern Territory, Australia) / Publication published by SPBH

ARTISTS: Patrick Waterhouse (UK), Otto Jungarrayi Sims, Adrianna Nangala Egan, Alma Nungarrayi Granites, Angelina Nampijinpa Tasman, Athena Nangala Granites, Cecily Napanangka Marshall, Chantelle Nampijinpa Robertson, Daniel Jupurrurla Gordon, Delena Napaljarri Turner, Hilda Nakamarra Rogers, Jeanie Napangardi Lewis and others (40+ Warlpiri artists).

 

2018

Bieke Depoorter - 2015-2018

First solo exhibition at FOMU, focusing on 2015-2018 as a turning point in her career.

Location and organization: FOMU, Antwerp, Belgium (travelled to NRW Forum Dьsseldorf & Fotomuseum Winterthur)

ARTISTS: Bieke Depoorter (BE)

 

Claude Samuel Zanele

Three positions on the self-portrait.

Curated with Renée Mussai (UK) and Rein Deslé (BE) / Location and organization: FOMU, Antwerp, Belgium

ARTISTS: Claude Cahun (FR), Samuel Fosso (NG/CM), Zanele Muholi (ZA)

 

It is difficult / to get the news from poems / yet men die miserably every day / for lack / of what is found there.

Exhibition on the influence of media on society.

Curated in dialogue with Max Pinckers (BE) / Location and organization: Gallery Sofie Van De Velde, Antwerp, Belgium

ARTISTS: Max Pinckers (BE), Johan Grimonprez (BE), Emmanuel van der Auwera (BE), Boris Mikhailov (UKR), Matthias Bruggmann (CH), David Birkin (UK) and Alfredo Jaar (CHL).

 

2017

Ebifananyi - Andrea Stultiens

Exhibition based on 8 photo-collections from Uganda, giving a multi-vocal approach with material activated by contemporary artists and researchers. Connected to History in Progress Uganda, a platform, founded by Andrea Stultiens and R. Canon Griffin.

Curated with Andrea Stultiens (NL) and Bas Vroege (NL) / Location and organization: FOMU, Antwerp, Belgium

ARTISTS: Andrea Stultiens (NL), R. Canon Griffin (UG) and others.

 

The Still Point of the Turning World - Between Film and Photography

Curated with David Campany (UK) / Location and organization: FOMU, Antwerp, Belgium / Publication co-published by Kehrer

ARTISTS: Morten Barker (DK), Dirk Braeckman (BE), David Claerbout (BE), Manon de Boer (NL), Jason Dee (UK), Nir Evron (IL), Mekhitar Garabedian (BE/SY), Geert Goiris (BE), Paul Graham (UK), Guido Guidi (IT), Mark Lewis (CA), Louis Lumiиre (FR), Mark Neville (UK), Lisa Oppenheim (US), Raqs Media Collective (IN), John Smith (UK), John Stezaker (UK), Hiroshi Sugimoto (JP), Ana Torfs (BE), Jeff Wall (CA), Michiel van Bakel (NL); from the FOMU-collection: Henri Cartier-Bresson (FR), Eadweard Muybridge (UK) and Duane Michals (US).

 

2016

Braakland

Open exhibition-project/festival that prioritises the dialogue between artists and the public with an extensive museum takeover

Curated with Rein Deslé; (BE), Ingrid Leonard (BE), and guest curators Aaron Schuman (UK), Christina Seyfried (DE), Nicolбs Combarro (ES), Fannie Escoulen (FR), Brad Feuerhelm (US), Jean Wainwright (UK) and Tom Nys (BE) / Location and organization: FOMU, Antwerp, Belgium

ARTISTS: Gregory Halpern, Sam Contis, Bayeté Ross Smith, Abdilmalik Abdel Ali, Abdulmatin Samadi, Amanullah, Babylone Rodriguez, Ehsan Ahmadi, Fatima Farahmand, Fatouma Mouhoumed Ahmed, Hama Omed Ibrahim, Majid Zare, Roya Nazari, Rasoli Said Moqadas, Samer Al Dellaimi, Wafai Noorulhaq, Coralie Vogelaar, Philippe Michiels, Ruben Castro, Kurt Deruyter, Katrin Kamrau, Marge Monko, Juliбn Barуn, Ricardo Cases, Jon Cazenave, David Hornillos, Jesъs Monterde, Уscar Monzуn, Antonio Xoubanova, Sofia Borges, Brad Feuerhelm, Melinda Gibson, Petra Kubisova, Thomas Sauvin, Ruth van Beek, Thomas Vandenberghe, Daisuke Yokota, Dries Depoorter, Max Pinckers, Jeroen Bocken, Jim Campers, Nick Geboers, Floris Vanhoof, David Birkin, Harun Farocki, Forensic Architecture, Steffi Klenz, Nadine Hattom, Ana Janeiro, Maha Maamoun, Valentina Stellino and Malika Sqalli

 

2016

Boris Mikhailov - Ukraine

A comprehensive retrospective of the work of Boris Mikhailov, assembling over 300 works focused on his homeland of Ukraine.

Location and organization: FOMU, Antwerp, Belgium, co-production with CAMERA, Turin, Italy

ARTIST: Boris Mikhailov (NL, 1963)

 

2015

Mijn vlakke land (My Flat Land)

On photography and landscape

Curated with Maarten Dings (NL) / Location and organization: FOMU, Antwerp, Belgium

ARTISTS: 60+ artists, such as Dirk Braeckman (BE), Anna Collette (US), Thomas Demand (DE), Chloe Dewe Mathews (UK), Constant Dullaart (NL), Joan Fontcuberta (ES), Anne Geene (NL), Geert Goiris (BE), Gustave Le Gray (FR), Jochen Lempert (DE), Michèle Matyn (BE), Thomas Ruff (DE), Hiroshi Sugimoto (JP), Awoiska van der Molen (NL), Ester Vonplon (CH), Masao Yamamoto (JP) etc.

 

2014

Ponte City - Mikhael Subotzky & Patrick Waterhouse

On the fifty-four-storey Ponte City building that dominates Johannesburg's skyline

Location and organization: FOMU, Antwerp, Belgium; co-production with LE BAL, Paris, France

ARTISTS: Mikhael Subotzky (ZA, 1980) and Patrick Waterhouse (GB, 1981)

 

2014

Broomberg & Chanarin - Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt

The first comprehensive survey show of their artistic practice spanning 17 years and dozens of projects

Location and organization: FOMU, Antwerp, Belgium

ARTISTS: Adam Broomberg (ZA, 1970) and Oliver Chanarin (UK, 1971)

 

2013

Editing the News

On the role of the photo editor in our understanding of the world through the news.

Location and organization: FOMU, Antwerp, Belgium
ARTISTS/CONTRIBUTORS: Hans Aarsman (NL), Alfredo Jaar (CL), Martijn Kleppe (NL), Paul Qaysi (IQ) and Frank Schallmaier (NL)
COLLABORATION with: Belga News Agency, De Tijd, AFP and Myriade NV

 

2013

Power! Photos! Freedom!

On the power of the image in the Arab World

Location and organization: FOMU, Antwerp, Belgium (traveled to CNA Luxemburg)
ARTISTS/CONTRIBUTORS: Human Rights Watch & Susan Glen, Hela Ammar (TN), Sophia Baraket (TN), Joachim Ben Yakoub (BE), Marco Bohr (DE), Florian Gцttke (DE), Nermine Hammam (EG), Nicolas Righetti (CH), Hrair Sarkissian (SY), Issa Touma (SY), civil journalism collective Mosireen (EG) and Facebook group 'Uprising of Women in the Arab World'.

 

2010

A Group Show

On photography as an object; and as an object in space

Curated with Maarten Dings (NL) and Egon van Herreweghe (BE) / Location: Croxhapox, Ghent, Belgium / Organization: Punctum

ARTISTS: Alexandra Leykauf (D), Anouk Kruithof (NL), Claudia Weber (D), Dominique Somers (B), Edward Clydesdale Thomson (VK), Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky (CH), Jimmy Robert (Guadeloupe, FR) Katleen Vinck (B), Michиle Matyn (B), Sara Deraedt (B), Saskia-Noor van Imhoff (NL), Tania Theodorou (GR), Valérie Mannaerts (B) and W.Wolkman (B)

 

2008

Een foto zegt meer dan 1000 woorden / A picture is worth a thousand words

On the found image and the story of the finder

Curated with Maarten Dings and Egon van Herreweghe / Location: De Zaal, Ghent, Belgium / Organization: self-produced

ARTISTS/CONTRIBUTORS: Hans Aarsman (NL), Annemie Augustijns, Damien De Lepeleire, Annelies de Mey, Johan De Vos, Paul Demets, Hans Desnoeck, Robert Devriendt, Maarten Dings (NL), Erik Eelbode, Lode Geens, Roger Kockaerts, Rudy Kousbroek, Hans Op de Beeck, Christoph Ruys, Don Sars (NL), Dominique Somers, Andrea Stultiens (NL), Johan Swinnen, Nadine Tasseel, Rein Jelle Terpstra (NL), Hans Theys, Martien Van Beeck, Régine Van den Broucke, Egon Van Herreweghe, Valérie Vandecasteele, Joris Vermassen and Willy Vynck.