Erik Wesselo CONTACT INFORMATION 125 North 10 th Street Apt N3A Brooklyn, NY, 11249, USA Phone: +1 347 279 8441 erikwess@xs4all.nl erikwesselo.com BIOGRAPHY 1964 Born in s-hertogenbosch, Netherlands 1993-1995 Post-Graduate Degree Ateliers Arnhem, College of Higher Education of the Arts, Arnhem SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2015 20 Horsemen, Bakery, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL Solo, Club Solo, Breda, NL 2011 Zand, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, NL 2010 Indian Garden, Art Amsterdam. Annet Gelink Galley, Amsterdam, NL 2006 56 Beaver St, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL 2003 Journal #2, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL 2002 Forest Time, The Bakery, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL She Did It Again, Le Studio, Yvon Lambert Galerie, Paris, F 2001 Team Gallery, New York, USA Irvine Fine Arts Centre, Irvine, USA 2000 Project Space, Museum het Valkhof, Nijmegen, NL 1999 Cokkie Snoei Galerie, Rotterdam, NL 1998 Love, De Fabriek, Eindhoven, NL 1997 Hole in One, W139 Amsterdam, NL Hole in One (second attempt) Galerie Nei Liicht, Dudelange, Luxembourg TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2001 Apexart, New York, USA (with Clifford Lecuyer, under the auspices of Derek Eller Gallery, New York) 1
1998 Blind Date, W 139, Amsterdam, NL (with Slater Bradley) SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2015 Back to the Future, Annet Gellink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL DWDD pop-up Museum, Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam,NL 2013 In Delta Flux RURU Gallery Jakarta, Indonesia 2012 In Search of, Academie Minerva, Groningen, NL 2011 Zo Hollands, De Hallen, Haarlem, NL Bormida Progetto, Locali ex Filanda, Monesiglio, IT 2010 The house of my friends, Cidav Centro de Arte, Santo Domingo, Domincan Republic On Demand, Tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, NL 2008 Gravity Art, TELIC Arts Exchange, Los Angeles, U.S.A Beyond Kiosk, ICA Philadelphia, Bonner kunstverein, Centre d art Contemporain Genève (curated by Christoph Keller) 33T & 45T Vinyl and Sleeves by Artists, Shashin Books, Amsterdam, NL 2007 Time out, W139, Amsterdam, NL 2006 Lambretto, Milan, IT 2005 Nederland Niet Nederland, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL The Gravity in Art, De Appel, Centre of Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, NL Het leven levend maken/making life come to life Ben d Armagnac, Museum Het Domein, Sittard, NL 2004 Art Hypermarkets, Contesting Consumerism, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, IT Art Rotterdam, NL (under the auspices of Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam) Art 35 Basel, CH (under the auspices of Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam) Videodrome ll Batescollege, Lewiston, USA Videodrome ll The Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, USA 2003 Defying Gravity, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, USA Galerie Ron Mandos, Rotterdam, NL 2
Public Spaces, Keukenhof, Lisse, NL (under the auspices of the SKOR Foundation, Netherlands) Zucht, De Paraplufabriek, Nijmegen, NL 2002 Superlounge, Gale Gates, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Andrea Salerno and Mari Spirito) Videodrome II, New Museum of Contemporary Art,/Zentih Media Lounge New York, USA (curated by Anne Ellegood) Entre Amis/Among Friends, Platform, Dunkerque F Art Forum Berlin, Germany (under the auspices of Annet Gelink Gallery Amsterdam) 2001 The People s Art, Witte de With, Centre of Contemporary Art Rotterdam, NL (curated by Bartomeu Mari) The People s Art, Public Spaces Porto, P The Armory, New York, USA (with Madeleine Berhemer, under the auspices of Cokkie Snoei Gallery Rotterdam) 2000 Parel, Amsterdam, NL Missing, Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich, CH Dutch Views, ARCO, Madrid, SP (under the auspices of Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Rotterdam) Zien is Geloven, Public Spaces, Gouda, NL 1999 Ideated Sensation, Galerie Singel 74, Amsterdam, NL Extra et Ordinaire, Le Printemps de Cahors, Cahors, F ArtConcept, Paris, F, "City Project" From A to B and Back, Arti et Amicitae, Amsterdam, NL From B to A and Further, Art Max, Braunschweig, D Field@ Glassbox, Glassbox, Paris, F Liste 99, Basel, CH (under the auspices Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Rotterdam) Long Cold winter in an Endless Nameless, Studio 870, Los Angeles, USA 1998 What Ever Happens, Archipel, Apeldoorn, NL Metis Galerie, Amsterdam, NL Slipstream, De Paraplufabriek Nijmegen, NL Gramercy Art Fair, Cokkie Snoei/Torch New York, USA Time Fiction, Biennale Gelderland, Van Reekummuseum Apeldoorn, NL 3
De Très Courts Espaces de Temps, Centre National de la Photographie/Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris,F 1997 Booster up Dutch Courage, Post, Los Angeles, USA Forever Young, Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam, NL Fast Forward, Fonds BKVB,, Amsterdam, NL Voor Mijn Moeder, Public Space, Leiden, NL 1996 Coop, Casco, Utrecht, NL 1995 Installment, Hooghuis, Arnhem, NL PERFORMANCES 1996 Overwinteren op Elba, Elba, Nijmegen, NL Performing on the Edge, Tejatro Popular, Rotterdam, NL Everyone is a Winner, De Fabriek, Eindhoven, NL 1995 A Night at the Show, Field, Zürich, CH Bazaar 139, W139, Amsterdam, NL FILM SCREENINGS 2015 Ming Studios, Boise, Idaho, USA Vertiges, Light Cone, Paris, F 2013 Dutch Absurdism, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, USA 2012 Ned 2 VPRO, clip Düffels Möll and Backward in de film C.K van Barbara Visser 1 mrt 2012 2008 Ground 3, Stichting Ruimtevaart, Den Haag, NL 2006 Cineboards 2006 Eindhoven, Den Haag en Rotterdam Re:visie Pick up the Pieces" Nederlands Film Festival Centraalmuseum, Utrecht, NL 2004 33rd International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL Holland in zicht, Rijksuniversiteit, Groningen, NL Blacklight, Tallinn, Estland Koninklijk Belgisch filmarchief, Brussel, B 2003 Lux, Nijmegen, NL Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, NL Fluxus and After, Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, NL(curated by Nelly Voorhuis) 2002 Haags Filmhuis, Den Haag / De Balie, Amsterdam, NL 2000 Haags Filmhuis, Den Haag, NL 4
Collective Unconscious, NY, USA Schiller Theater, Utrecht, NL Kunstkanaal, Amsterdam, NL Korzo Theater, Den Haag, NL Theater de Kolk, Assen, NL 1999 Ziegler, Groningen, NL Faktor 44, Antwerpen, B Exit, Chisenhalle Gallery, London, UK (curated by Martijn van Nieuwenhuyzen) De Unie, Rotterdam, NL KunstKanaal, Amsterdam, NL 1998 De Melkfabriek, s-hertogenbosch, NL Montevideo, Amsterdam, NL Scala, Utrecht, NL t Hoogt, Utrecht, NL Kapel van het Paard, Den Haag, NL Field, Zurich, CH 1997 Paradiso, Amsterdam, NL De Unie, Rotterdam, NL Kapel van het Paard, Den Haag, NL Theater Kikker, Utrecht, NL NPS, NED3, Hilversum, NL Theater de Kolk, Assen / Haags Filmhuis, NL ARTIST BOOKS 56 Beaver St, artist book by Jonmarc Edwards and Erik Wesselo, Episode Publishers, Rotterdam, 2006 Forest Time, artist s book by Will Oldham and Erik Wesselo, Artimo Publishers, Amsterdam, 2002 PUBLICATIONS Domeniek Ruyters, Erik Wesselo Leven in een Loop, Metroplis M, 15 March 2015 Lucette ter Borg, Twintig ruiters overdonderen de kijker op de steppe van Lesotho, NRC, 26 Feb,2015 Edine Wijnands, Club Solo toont wereld Erik Wesselo, BN de Stem, 20 Feb 2015 5
Judith Vrancken, Club Solo Catelogue, Erik Wesselo, The event of time/tijd als evenement, Breda, 2015 Frits Gierstberg, Beeldproject/Imageproject, Maasvlakte 2, Dutch Photography Museum, Rotterdam, 2014 Jan Bosteels, De Kilk, interview in Focus number 1, jan 2012 Rob Perrée, Zand, Erik Wesselo, Kunstbeeld number 12/1, 2011-2012 Manuela Arami, Tele, Filmati, Scatole Larte nell ex filanda, La Stampa 29 jun 2011 Sacha Bronwasser, Helemaal verdwijnen in het zand Volkskrant, 8 dec 2011 Diewertje Mertens, Alexander Ramselaar koopt met zijn hart, Het Parool, 29 may 2010 Michiel Hogenboom, We Like Art, Indian Garden, Erik Wesselo, 4 june 2010 Lynne van Rhijn, Een andere Tijdsschaal, interview in Tube Light # 70, 7sept 2010 W139, Time Out Warmoesstraat 139 2004-2007 (Catalogue 2007) Arend Evenhuis, Vallen, dalen, verzinken of doedelzakkend stijgen,trouw, 3 jan, 2006 Sandra Smallenburg, Een doedelzak als straalmotor, NRC Handelsblad, 9 dec, 2005 The Gravity in Art, Martijn Calmthout, Theo Tegelaers, Rene Daalder De Appel, 2005 (Leaflet) Art Hypermarkets, Contesting Consumerism, Palazzo delle Papesse,(Catalogue) It, 2004 Huston Pascal, Defying Gravity, Contemporary Art and Flight/ Prestelpublishing, (Cataloque) NY 2003 Lucette ter Borg, Kunstenaars herroveren het landschap, Vrij Nederland, 18 oct. 2003 Angelique Spaninks, Aardse Dromen, Tube Light #29, november 2003 Philip van den Bossche, interview in journal #2, Van Abbemuseum 13-9/9-11 2003 Dazed&Confused #87, If you go down the woods today, Eyespy: news march 2002 Gerrit van den Hoven, Foto s en muziek vinden elkaar, Brabants Dagblad 14 feb. 2002 6
Anne van Driel, Melancholie kleurt Oostzee-eiland, De Volkskrant, 16 february 2002 Metro, Mysterieuze landschap s foto s van Erik Wesselo, Metro 15 february 2002 Ned Higgins, Man in a box, Artnet Magazine, august 2001 Kim Levin, Voice Choice, 18 august 2001 Christopher Bollen, Review, Time Out New York, 23-30 august 2001 Ken Johnson, Review, The New York Times, 10 august 2001 Salerno Spirit Constructions, Steamy thoughts: In a minimal interior, a hot hunk keeps his cool under the heat (Burning Up) Smock magazine issue #3, spring/summer 01 Derek Eller, Düffels Möll, Brochure Apexart, 2001 Carel Blotkamp/Bartomeu Mari, The People s Art/Arte do Povo, 2001 Theo Tegelaers, Olie een film van Erik Wesselo, Museumnieuws Het Valkhof, 2000 Cokkie Snoei, Basta jaarboek van hedendaagse kunst in Nederland, Erik Wesselo, Burning up, 1998, 16mm film, 2000. Anne van Driel, David Lynch in Parijs, De Volkskrant, 20 october 1999 Sacha Bronwasser Heilig vuur in brandend haar, De Volkskrant, 8 september 1999 Adriaan van der Have & Rafael von Uslar, Evil Camouflage Chapter II; The Body, Zingmagazine, spring/summer 1999 François Piron, Extra et Ordinaire, Le Printemps de Cahors 99/Actes Sud (Catalogue), 1999 Yann Beauvais, De très courts espaces de temps, Biennale de L image Paris 98/Actes Sud (Catalogue) 1998 Sacha Bronwasser, Kunst is als een passerend schip, De Volkskrant, 17 nov. 1998 Sandra Smallenburg, Biennale Gelderland in het tijdperk van globalisering, NRC Handelsblad, 10 november 1998 Erik Hagoort, Wat een blind-date niet leuk maakt, De Volkskrant, 23 september 1998 Ineke Schwartz, Vergeefs wachten op een pak verse melk, De Volkskrant, 9 june 1998 Inge Pollet, Erik Wesselo, De man in het ijsberenpak, De kunsten uitgave van Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Arnhem jaargang 7 #1, april 1998 7
Ineke Schwartz, Op gabberhouse swingend skelet, De Volkskrant, 7 january 1998 Coop, Heather Allen, Stefano Pasquini, Erik Wesselo, In Casco Projects 1996 Bianca Stigter, Nederlands Film Festival, NRC Handelsblad, 30 september 1997 Michael Darling, Art: Conceptual Country: Booster up Dutch Courage, LA Weekly august 1997 Willem Sanders, Antonin Artaud: I am he that for sheer existence sake, must lash out against his own naturalness", Erik Wesselo in Booster up Dutch Courage, 1997 Miklos Beyer, The easy way in...and the easy way out..., W.006 Hole in One, 1997 Lucette ter Borg, W139 vastgeklonken aan molenwiek, De Volkskrant, 16 april 1997 Cathelijne de Muijnck, Lonesome cowboy Erik Wesselo, Metropolis M #1, 1997 FILMOGRAPHY 20 Horsemen, Super 16 1:23 loop, sound colour, Lesotho 2014 Kolam, Super, mute B/W 16'28, India, 2012 Zand, 2x 16mm, mute colour 3 46 en 4 40 2x Super 16mm, mute colour 5 05 en 3 57, Netherlands, Dubai, India and South Korea 2011 Battery Park City, 2x 16mm, sound colour 4 16 en 2 10, USA 2006 Los Cojones del Diablo, super 8 transfer to 16mm, mute b/w 3 35, Spain 2006 She did it again, 16mm, mute colour 1mn loop, USA 2001 Olie, 16mm, sound colour 20 mn, NL 2000 Isostar, 16mm, mute colour 3 30, NL 1998 Love, 16mm, mute colour 5 mn, NL 1998 Burning Up, 16mm, mute colour 5 mn, NL 1998 Düffels Möll, 16mm, mute colour 5 mn, NL 1997 Luxembourg, 16mm, sound colour 4 mn, Luxembourg 1997 Backward, 16mm, sound colour 5 mn, NL 1996 8