Mike Carremans

Born in Belgium, 1980.
Mike Carremans' painting engages with falsified reproduction, disruptution and deviation in series' of historical and media images which he reconstitutes around affiliations with his own life and persona. He visualises his experience as a colorblind painter, while questioning the cultural status of visuality.

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AUSBILDUNG
2004-2007: BA Fine Arts, College Limburg
2007-2009: MA Fine Arts, Higher Institute for Fine Arts Gent (HISK)
2010-2014: PhD in the Arts, Catholic University of Leuven
Research topic: “The daltonist painter: A study in the influence of colour blindness within the painterly figuration.”

EINZELAUSSTELLUNGEN
2015
DuflonRacz Gallery, Bern, MC²(with Marc Claes)

2013
Leuven, Metaforum KULeuven

2012
DuflonRacz Gallery, Bern (with Stefan Serneels)

2011
Ghent (BE), SecondRoom, Circle of Dischord

2010
Bern (CH), DuflonRacz Gallery, Chromotose

2010
Aardenburg (NL), Freemen Gallery, Backstage Life
(mit Collin Waeghe)

2009
Brussels, arteVentuno, ‘Collective Surgery’

2008
Antwerpen, Fst >Forward, ‘Batllesnake: a Duography’

2007
Hasselt, CIAP, ‘Kids Will Become Coconuts’

GRUPPENAUSSTELLUNGEN
2013
Hasselt, Anouk Vilain Art Gallery & Frank Hendrickx arteVentuno Archives, Art Attack
Hasselt, arteVentuno, LXXV – a tribute to Wout Vercammen

2012
Heusden-Zolder (BE), C.C. De Muze, ‘No Movement’
Hasselt (BE), Belgie Art Centre, ‘Open Circuit’ (Side project of Manifesta)

2011
Brussels (BE), Leopold II laan 135, ‘Showcase In-Out’

2010
Hasselt (BE), arteVentuno, 'Into Dada'

2010
Maaseik (BE), Minderbroeders Church, 'Rappel 2010'

2010
Wieze (BE), Villa de Olmen, Space for Contemporary Art, 'Invision'

2009
Ghent, HISK, ‘La Conquete de l’Espace’
New York (US), White Box, ‘ The Bruce Nauman Project’ (Collaborate work with Pierre Bismuth & Lauren von Gogh)
Ghent, HISK, ‘Curator Curator: In the end everything is different’
Watou, Verzamelde Verhalen, ‘Polyfonie’
Antwerp, Ottilia Pribilla Gallery, ‘Platenhoezenproject’
Ghent, HISK, ‘Open Studios’
Brussels, Art Brussels, ‘HISK Café’

2008
Hasselt, Witte nonnenstraat 8, ‘Eat Your Waffles’
Heerlen (NL), Kunstencentrum Signe, ‘Quiksend’
Brussels, Art Brussels, ‘HISK Café’ april
Ghent, HISK, ‘Open Studios’
Genk, FLACC, ‘Open House’

2007
Brussel, arteVentuno, ‘Winter Salon’
Hasselt, Kunstencentrum Belgie, ‘Habitat: A Cocky Roar Show
Brussels, arteVentuno, ‘Summer Salon’
Hasselt, arteVentuno, ‘Twenty One, once again’
Mechelen, Hooghuis, ‘Erfgoeddag: Niet te Schatten’
Heerlen (NL), Kunstencentrum Signe, ‘Does it Help?’

2006
Hasselt, Cultureel Centrum, ‘Vers bloed’
Tongeren, De Velinx, ‘De jongens van de buurt, deel 5’

2005
Hasselt, ‘Super: 1^stBiennial for Visual Arts, Fashion and Design’
Heusden-Zolder, C.C. De Muze, ‘Artishock 3’

2004
Hasselt, Kunstencentrum Belgie, ‘Hoera, we zijn terug’
Houthalen, Villa Basta, ‘Jonge Kunst’

2003
Heusden-Zolder, C.C. De Muze, ‘Artishock I’

PREISE UND STIPENDIEN
2012 ‘Excellence Prize 2012-2013 for Artistic Research’, Roger Dillemans Foundation (KULeuven)
2011 ‘Development Grant’, Department of Arts & Heritage of the Flemish Community
2010 ‘Development Grant’, Department of Arts & Heritage of the Flemish Community
2007 ‘Kick Off Grant’, Flanders Arts & Crafts Centre (FLACC)
2007 ‘Prize of the Fine Arts Platform Limburg’ Platform for Fine Arts Limburg

PUBLIKATIONEN
Holsbeek D. (2010) Rappel, een artistieke toch door het geheugen van Maaseik. Maaseik, vzw Stichting voor Cultuur Maaseik, Stad Maaseik & vzw Zinnebeeld
van den Boogaard O. (2010) La Conquete De L'Espace. Gent, HISK
Carremans M. (2010) hArt Artist-page. #71 www.kunsthart.org, oktober 2010
Carremans M. (2010) Reg Carremans: Slag. Heusden-Zolder, DS Contemporary Art
Campens A., Declerq J., Martens H., Tibergien W., Verstraete M., Verhelst P. (2009) Watou 2009 – Tussen Taal en Beeld, Verzamelde verhalen #1. Gent, Borgerhoff & Lamberights nv
Carremans M. (2008) Hilde Overbergh: De Hermeneutiek van het Alledaagse. Leuven, Hilde Overbergh.
Carremans M. (2008) FLACC Yearbook. Genk, FLACC
Carremans M., Gastman R., Felton L. (2008) The Brains Of His Story: Lin Felton Blues Paintings. San Francisco, Juxtapoz Sept. 2008 Vol.15 Nr.9
Vandormael B. (2007) Cultuur Limburg: Think Different. Knack-extra Oktober 2007
Holsbeek D. (2006) De jongens van de buurt Deel V. Tongeren, Velinx Martens H., Gouwenberg M. & Vanden Eynde M., Tampere K. & Saerbjörnsson E., Marambio C. & Fernandez D., Bruni L., Wielebska K. & de Blaaij R., Yildiz A., Maier-Rothe J. (2010) Curator Curator. After all, everything is different in the end #5. Gent, HISK & Enough Room for Space.