À l’insu des objets et des paysages,le photographe belge Geert Goiris capte la part inapprivoisée du monde. Des clichés mélancoliques et étranges, pris à la lisière des choses, qui donnent à entrevoir une intense expérience de la réalité.

Geert Goiris

Proinde die funestis interrogationibus praes-tituto imaginarius iudex equitum resedit magister adhibitis aliis iam quae essent agenda praedoctis, et adsistebant hinc inde notarii, quid quaesitum esset, quidve res-ponsum, cursim ad Caesarem perferentes, cuius imperio truci, stimulis reginae exser-tantis aurem subinde per aulaeum, nec diluere obiecta permissi nec defensi periere conplures.

Restabat ut Caesar post haec properaret accitus et abstergendae causa suspicionis sororem suam, eius uxorem, Constantius ad se tandem desideratam venire multis fictisque blanditiis hortabatur. quae licet ambigeret metuens saepe cruentum, spe tamen quod eum lenire poterit ut germa-num profecta, cum Bithyniam introisset, in statione quae Caenos Gallicanos appellatur, absumpta est vi febrium repentina. cuius post obitum maritus contemplans cecidisse fiduciam qua se fultum existimabat, anxia cogitatione, quid moliretur hae

GEERT GOIRIS

Born 1971 in Bornemlives and works in Antwerp (BE)

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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS2012 Darkcloud, Galerie art:Concept, Paris (FR) Walk and Dissolve, Stadtgalerie Backnang (DE)

2011 The Unreliable Narrator, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels (BE)

2010 Czar Bomba, CAB, Burgos (ES) Turbulence, Geert Goiris / Vincent Lamouroux, KIOSK, Ghent (BE) Whiteout and Other Stories, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg (DE)

2009 Confabulation, Kunstforum Baloise, Basel (CH) Imagine There’s No Countries, Le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine (FR) Whiteout #02, Statements Art Basel, Basel (CH)

2008 Whiteout #01, Images 08 festival, Vevey (CH)

2007 Frontier, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels (BE)

2006 Le Grand Café, Centre d’art contemporain Saint Nazaire (FR)

2005 LFL gallery, New York (USA)

2004 Art: Concept, Paris (FR) The world as we know it (with Ville Lenkkeri), Prospekto, Vilnius (LIT)

2003 Lost in Space, Roger Vandaele Edition, Antwerp (BE)

2002 Possibilities, Netwerk Gallery, Aalst (BE)

2001 Van Wijngaarden Gallery, Amsterdam (NL) Surrounded, Gallery Vaclav Spaly, Prague (CZ) Kontor in Der Schneiderei, Cologne (DE)

2000 Reconstruction, Museum for Photography, Antwerp (BE)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012 Junctions (curator: Lara D’Hondt), Bozar, Brussels (BE) Pop-Up, Liens artistiques, Musée d’Ixelles (BE) Sculpture is everything, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (AU) Arcadian Boxes, Siakos Hanappe Gallery, Athens (GR) Be here now, Deutsche Börse AG, Frankfurt am Main (DE) Le Silence, une fiction, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco (MC) curator Simone Menegoi

2011 Transformed Land, Gulbenkian foundation, Paris (FR) curator Sergio Mah The Eye is a Lonely Hunter, photofestival Heidelberg-Mannheim-Ludwigs hafen (DE) curators Katerina Gregos & Solvej Helweg Ovesen The second Act, de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (NL) curator Chris Clarke Weiss und andere farben, Galerie der Gegenwart, Hamburger kunsthalle (DE) curators Brigitte Kölle, Gonçalo Sousa Pinto, Petra Roettig Mirages and Fountains, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels (BE) curator Catherine Sullivan De Stad 3D, Hilversum Museum (NL). curator Imke Ruigrok

2010 CLIMAX REDVX, Bac – Bâtiment d’art contemporain, Geneva (CH). curator Eveline Notter Le Carillon de Big Ben, Le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine (FR) curator Claire Le Restif Out of Control, BIP, Liege (BE) Structures du temps, FRAC, Bourgogne (FR) America Deserta, Parc Saint- Léger, Pougues – les – Eaux (FR), curator Etienne Bernard Fresh Hell, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR). curator Adam McEwen

2009 The State of Things, Bozar, Brussels (BE) / NAMOC, Bejing (CN) curators Luc Tuymans, Ai Weiwei, Fan Di’an & Philippe Pirotte, Beyond the Picturesque, S.M.A.K., Gent (BE) / MARTA, Herford (DE)

2008 Un-Scene, Wiels centre for Contemporary Art, Brussels (BE) A meeting between the tragic and the funny , Hessenhuis, Antwerp (BE) / De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (NL) Images’08- Festival des arts visuels- Vevey (CH) Lugares comprometidos, topography and actuality. Fundación ICO Madrid (ES) P2P – casino Luxembourg (LU)

The Unwanted Self, University of Brighton Gallery, Brighton (UK) Le travail de rivière Le Crédac centre d’art contemporain, Ivry-sur-Seine (FR)

2007 Private/Public, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL) Spectacular City – Photographing the Future, NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf (DE) Proposals for an art integration project, Netwerk, Aalst (BE) El Hilo Conductor, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Burgos, Burgos (ES)

2006 Spectacular City – Photographing the Future, Architecture Institute, Rotterdam (NL) Tunnel Vision, Fotomuseum, Antwerp (BE) Les rencontres d’Arles Photographie, Arles (FR) Freestate, Ostend (BE) Galerie Edward Mitterrand, Geneva (CH) Right on Write Off, Chapman Fine ARTS, London (GB) Traces, Biennale #1, photographie et architecture, Espace Architecture La Cambre, Brussels, (BE) Buenos dias Santiago – an exhibition as an expedition, Museum of contemporary Art, Santiago de Chile (CL)

2005 Belgian photographers 1840 – 2005, FotoMuseum Antwerp (BE) Croiser des mondes, Jeu de Paume, Paris (FR)

2004 A temporary monument for David Mc Comb, STUK, Leuven (BE) Undercurrent, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul (TR) Manifesta 5, European Biennal for Contemporary Art, San Sebastian (ES)

2003 At least begin to make an end, W 139, Amsterdam (NL) Kaap Helder, Den Helder (NL) Prijs Jonge Belgische Schilderkunst, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels (BE) Happiness Land, Plovdiv (BUL) Contemporary Photography from Flanders, Karavanserai, Tbilisi (GE)

2002 Overgangslocaties, Sint-Lukas Gallery, Brussels (BE) Paramount Basics, Richard Venlet, MUHKA, Antwerp (BE)2000 Introduction à une philosophie du presque, De ladder van Pontormo, Ghent (BE) Short-circuits, Contemporary photography from Flanders, Tallinn (EST) We’re always on the edge of wilderness, W 139, Amsterdam (NL) Ici et Maintenant, Tours et taxis, Brussels (BE)

TRAINING / PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

from 2012 Tutor at Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp (BE)2003-2012 Tutor at Sint Lukas Higher College for Art and Design, Brussels (BE)2002 Master’s Degree in photography, Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp (BE)1997-2000 Post-graduate, Higher Institute for Fine Arts (HISK), Antwerp (BE)1995-1997 Living and working in Copenhagen (DK)1993-1995 Department of still photography, FAMU Academy, Prague (CZ)1989-1993 Photography department Sint Lukas Higher College for Art andDesign,Brussels (BE)

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Centre National des Arts Plastiques – CNAP, Paris (FR)Fonds National d’Art Contemporain (FR)Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Burgos (ES)La Salle Bank Photography Collection, Chicago (USA)ING, Brussels (BE)Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (FR)Fotomuseum, Antwerp (BE)University Hospital, Jette (BE)Williams College Museum of Art (USA)Flemish Parliament, Brussels (BE)Seattle Art Museum (USA)Frac Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier (FR)Frac Bourgogne, Dijon (FR)Province of Antwerp (BE)Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane (AU)Lhoist Collection, Brussels (BE)Deutsche Börse, Frankfurt (DE)Hamburger Kunsthalle (DE)Baloise holding, Basel (CH)MUDAM, Luxemburg (LU)Musée d’Ixelles (BE)