WILLEM OOREBEEK

1953 born in Pernis, NL, lives and works in Brussels

2009 teaching at Intern. Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst Salzburg/Austria
since 2008 director of artist residency program at WIELS CfCA, Brussel/Belgium
2003-2004 teaching at Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg/Germany
1995-2002 teaching in De Ateliers, Amsterdam/ Netherlands
1989-1996 teaching at Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht/Netherlands

SOLO SHOWS (selected):

2008 "MONOLITH, Once or Many", Culturgest, Lisbon
2006 "bigger, higher, leader", SMAK Gent
2005 "Bild, oder" (with Joëlle Tuerlinckx), Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf
2004 "Bild oder Mit dem Fuss in der Realität" (with Joëlle Tuerlinckx), Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
2001 "BXL 2000", Galerie Drantmann, Brüssel
Adamski Frehrking Wiesehöfer, Cologne (with Edgar Arceneaux)
2000 "Total Blackout totale", NICC, Antwerp
1998 "On / Off Screen", WAG, Winnipeg, Kanada
1997 Biennale Venedig XLVII (with Aernout Mik)
1996 "Muren/Walls", Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam
1994 "MONOLITH, lettered rock", Witte de With, Rotterdam
1991 Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
1990 Galerie De Expeditie, Amsterdam
1989 Plug-In Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
1988 Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam


GROUP SHOWS (selected):

2009 "Avec le Temps - In Time", Robert Miller Gallery, New York City
2008 "DIE LUCKY BUSH", MuHKA, Antwerp/Belgium
"common-place", VIENNA INTERNATIONAL APARTMENT, Brussels/Belgium
2006 "Being in Brussels", argos, Brussels
2005 "BIWAK", Frehrking Wiesehöfer, Cologne
"CANTOS", Casino Luxemburg
2004 "Once upon a time", Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp
2003 "Models & Mavericks", Museum het Domein, Sittard
"Electric", Solar room with Joelle Tuerlinckx, TENT, Rotterdam
2002 "GROUP EFFECT", Frehrking Wiesehöfer, Köln
"Other than Film", TENT, Rotterdam
"Paramount Basics (extended)", Richard Venlet, MUHKA Antwerpen
2001 "Rondom Jheronimus Bosch", Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
2000 "After Blackout", Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
"Because there was fire in my head", South London Gallery, London
"Total BLACKOUT Totale", NICC Antwerp
1999 "City Pity II", DAAD Galerie, Berlin
"Free Space", NICC, Antwerpen (mit Joelle Tuerlinckx)
"Tegenvleug", Kunstcentrum Sittard
1998 "Verzachtende Omstandigheden", Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
1997 "Lost in Space", Kunstmuseum, Luzern
1995 "Les limites de tableau", Musee Departemental de Rochechouart
1993 Kunsthal, Rotterdam
1992 "Negen", Provinciaal Museum, Hasselt
Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
1991 "Negen", Witte de With, Rotterdam
"9 Artisti Olandesi Contemporanei", Museo d'arte Contemporanea, Prato
"Kunst Europa", Kunstverein Düsseldorf
1987 "Rotterdam-Retrospectief", Boijmans Van Beuningen, Museum,Rotterdam