Jos de Gruyter
Born 1965 in Geel, Belgium
Lives and works in Brussels
Harald Thys
Born 1966 in Wilrijk, Belgium
Lives and works in Brussels
Selected Solo Shows
- 2024 —Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Kunsthaus Centre d’art Pasquart / KBCB, Kunsthaus Biel Centre d’art Bienne, Biel (upcoming)
- —Pasta Fatal, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
- —Die Vier von der Tankstelle (The Four from the Filling Station), Ordet, Milan
- 2023 —The 48 Hours of Kwik & Kwak, Studioli, Rome
- —Macro, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels
- —Micro, Kin Gallery, Brussels
- 2022 —Piip, Maniera, Brussels (Harald Thys)
- —Dépression à Dortmund, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
- 2021 —Emperor Ro: Report of a Coup in Belgium, Maxwell Graham/Essex Street, New York
- 2020 —Mondo Cane, Bozar, Brussels
- 2019 —Mondo Cane, Belgian Pavillon, 58th Venice Biennale
- 2018 —Objects as Friends, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York
- —Konkurs Experten, Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark
- —A FOPS 3, dépendance, Brussels
- 2017 —Xanax Film Festival, Gavin’s Brown Enterprise, New York
- —30 Jahre Kunst, Kunstverein München, Munich
- —Elegantia, Triennale di Milano, Milan
- 2016 —Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, CAC, Vilnius
- —Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin
- 2015 —Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys: Fine Arts, Raven Row, London
- —Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Yale Union, Portland
- —Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Gavin Brown, Rome
- —Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, MCA, Chicago
- —Fine Arts, MoMA PS1, New York
- —Die Schmutzigen Puppen von Pommern, The Power Station, Dallas
- —Tram 3, CCA Wattis, San Francisco
- 2014 —DE BLOEMENFONTEIN VAN WORPSWEDE, 1646, The Hague
- —Das Wunder des Lebens, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
- —Die schmutzigen Puppen von Pommern, Art Unlimited / Art 41 Basel, Basel
- —Die schmutzigen Puppen von Pommern, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
- 2013 —Optimundus, M HKA, Antwerp
- 2012 —Les énigmes de Saarlouis, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
- —Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, PMMK, Provincial Museum Voor Moderne Kunst, Oostende
- —Objects as friends, Culturgest, Porto
- —Objekten als Vrieden, Mu.ZEE, Ostend
- 2011 —Im Reich der Sonnenfinsternis, Isabella Bortolozzi Gallery, Berlin
- —Das Loch, NAK, Aachen
- —Objekte als Freunde, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover
- —FCA Award Exhibition, New York
- 2010 —Das Loch, Art Unlimited, Art 41 Basel, Basel
- —Projekt 13, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
- 2009 —Der Schlamm von Branst, Culturgest, Lisbon
- —Suitcase Illuminated #6: Tunnel Effect – Part 1: Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys (curated by Katia Anguelova, Alessandra Poggianti, and Andrea Wiarda), Kaleidoscope HQ, Milan
- —Der Schlamm Von Branst, Pro Choice, Vienna
- —Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Dépendance, Brussels
- 2008 —Ten Weyngaert, Isabella Bortolozzi Gallery, Berlin
- 2007 —Dr Curlet reçoit Jos de Gruyter et Harald Thys, FRAC Ile-de-France Le Plateau, Paris
- —Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Dépendance, Brussels
- —Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Le Granit, Belfort
- —Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, MuHKA, Antwerp
- —Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Artspeak, Vancouver
- —No Ins and Outs, Carlier | Gebauer, Berlin
- 2006 —Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Galerie Aliceday, Brussels
- 2005 —Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, SMP (Sol, Mur, Plafond), Marseille
- 2004 —The 48 hours of Kwik and Kwak, Etablissement d'en face, Brussels
- 2003 —Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Galerie EOF, Paris
- —Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Galerie AD 46 (Jan Mot), Brussels
- —Harald Thys, Musée juif de Belgique, Brussels
- 2002 —The Spinning Wheel, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp
- —Domus Kartonus (Harald Thys), Bijloke, Ghent
- 2000 —Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Etablissement d'en face, Brussels
- 1999 —Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Argos, Brussels
- 1993 —Emperor Ro, Galerie Foncke, Ghent / ICC, Antwerp
Selected Group Shows
- 2024 —Cutting the Strings of the Puppeteer, Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf
- 2023 —Steirischer Herbst: Humans and Demons, Graz
- —Cemetery of Splendour, Piktogram, Warsaw
- —Ridiculously Yours! Art, Awkwardness and Enthusiasm, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; Universalmuseum Joanneum / Neue Galerie Graz
- —The 4 Mostikers, Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
- 2022 —Biennale de Genève: Sculpture gardens, Geneva
- —Substance – Substancess, Collegium, Arévalo
- —After August Sander People of the 21st Centurys, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen
- —Ca. 2009s, Dawid Radziszewski Gallery, Warsaw
- 2021 —Models and Types, Art Room of Benedikt and Christine van der Vorst, Uccle
- —Établissement d'en face, WAF Galerie, Vienna
- —After all, a collection is only human, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens at Villa Vandenbussche
- —Unser Sommer in Berlin, Duflon Ratz, Bern
- —Boy Vereecken: Back Matter, MACRO, Rome
- —Conversation Piece Part VII: Towards Narragonia, Fondazione Memmo, Rome
- 2020 —MONOCULTURE, A Recent History, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp
- —Busan Biennale 2020, Busan, South Korea
- 2019 —Convex/Concave: Belgian Contemporary Art, TANK, Shanghai
- —Just what is it that makes today so different, so appealing?, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise at Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris
- —Dog Days, C L E A R I N G, New York
- —Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys – Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel – Koenraad Dedobbeleer – François Curlet, Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
- 2018 —Beaufort Art Triennial by the Sea, Beaufort, The Netherlands
- —Present, Van Buuren Museum, Brussels
- —Hugo Claus, Con Amore, BOZAR, Brussels
- 2017 —The Absent Museum, WIELS, Contemporary Art Centre,Brussels
- —Todays Yesterday, Anren Biennale, Anren, Chengdu, Sichuan Province China
- 2016 —The Squatter, Gaudel de Stampa, Paris
- —Random Rapid Heartbeats, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn
- —Face to Face, Palazzo Fruscione, Salerno
- —Practising Habits Of The Day, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore
- 2015 —Slip of the Tongue, Punta della Dogana, Venice
- 2014 —Petals on the Wind, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
- —I would prefer not to, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (SMBA), Amsterdam
- —Lou Ford, établissement d’en face, Brussels
- —The Hawker, dépendance at Carlos/Ishikawa, London
- —Forcefield - drawing show, A.VE.NU.DE.JET.TE - Institut de Carton vzw, Brussels
- 2013 —The Vanishing Points, Muzeum Ziemi Otwockiej, Otwock
- —À triple tour, La Conciergerie, Paris
- —Il Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopedic Palace), La Biennale di Venezia / Arsenale, Venice
- —Back to Earth. From Picasso to Ai Weiwei – The rediscovery of ceramics in art, Herbert Gerisch-Stiftung, Neumünster
- —Leisure, Discipline and Punishment, Contour Biennial, Mechelen
- —Grundfrage, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch
- —Fictions à L'œuvre : l'art contemporain livré à l'expérience du récit, FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux
- —Magic Hour, The Ridder – A House for Contemporary Art, Maastricht
- —You Only Fall Twice, Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), Derry
- 2012 —The Castle in the Air. Séance of Imagination, Centre of Culture ZAMEK, Poznan
- —Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße, Bremen
- —Panegyric, Forde, Geneva
- —The Big Inexplicable Paravent Illusion, Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie, Berlin
- —LUX/ICA Biennial of Moving Images, Berlin
- —At the Speed of Stone, , Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA – curated by Anthony Huberman
- —Transmediale 12, various venues in Berlin
- 2011 —Yes, we don’t, IAC, Villeurbanne
- —Melanchotopia, Witte de With, Rotterdam
- —The Plot (curated by Melanie O'Brian), The Power Plant, Toronto
- —Found in Translation (cur. by Emmanuel Lambion), Chapter L, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- —Athens Biennial, Athens
- —In The Company of Humour (curated by Lieven Segers), Lokaal 01, Breda
- 2010 —Session_13 (curated by Joshua Simon), FormContent, London
- —Hareng Saur: Ensor and Contemporary Art, SMAK, Gent
- —Rod Bianco Gallery invites Galerie Guido W. Baudauch, Rod Bianco Gallery, Oslo
- —Error #14: Into the light', Error one, Antwerp
- —Pro Choice in Schattendorf, Kunstverein Schattendorf
- —e-flux video rental, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome
- —Rafa the Magician, Netwerk, Aalst
- 2009 —The Thing / All That Is Solid Melts Into Air (curated by Dieter Roelstraete), MuHKA at Mechelen
- —Double Happiness / The State Of Things. Brussels/Beijing (curated by Luc Tuymans & Philippe Pirotte), Bozar, Brussels
- —Un-Scene, Wiels, Brussels
- —Jeugdzonde. Over opus één en opus min één, Hedah, Maastricht travelled to LLS 387, Antwerp
- —5x5Castelló09, Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castello
- —Come in, friends, the house is yours!, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
- —Isomopolis, Etablissement d'En Face, Brussels
- 2008 —Onthaasting: About Spare Time and Slower Worlds, American University Museum at Katzen Arts Center, Washington DC
- —Manifesta 7, Trentino, Alto Adige
- —Sens dessus dessous, CRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Sète
- —When Things Cast No Shadow, 5th Berlin Biennale, Berlin
- —A meeting between the tragic and the funny, Hessenhuis, Antwerp
- 2007 —Who put Grandma under the stairs? (curated by Karina Bisch), Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
- —The Go Between, De Appel, Amsterdam
- —La Ricarda (curated by Michel François), Internationales Kunstzentrum Ostbelgien, Eupen
- —Commitment, De Garage, Mechelen
- —Confessions, Montgomery, Berlin
- 2006 —Family Affairs (Harald & Erik Thys, Richard & Danny Venlet), Bozar, Brussels
- —Le Retour de la Colonne Durutti (curated by Gyonata Bonvicini), Isabella Bortolozzi Gallery, Berlin
- —Choose Choice, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam
- 2005 —La Belgique Visionnaire (curated by Harald Szeemann), Bozar, Brussels
- —ACECA, Strasbourg
- —Galerie Ambassador, Paris
- —Galerie Aliceday, Brussels
- —Galerie Archetype, Brussels
- 2004 —The Invisible Meeting, Mariantonia, Sao Paulo
- —Amicalement votre, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tourcoing
- —Le Petit Chaperon Rouge, Galerie Archetype, Brussels
- —De Tuin van Teirlinck (Harald Thys), Brussels, Belgium
- 2003 —Once Upon a Time..., MuHKA, Antwerp
- —Urban Dramas, deSingel, Antwerp
- —Kraft der gewohnheit, Galerie Frehrking Wiesehöfer, Cologne
- —Coconutour, CRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Sète
- 2002 —The Show Must Go On, Witte Zaal, Gent
- 2001 —Marking the territory, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
- —Marres, Maastricht
- 2000 —Buro Friedrich, Berlin
- —Kunstlerhaus, Dortmund
- —House of Haunted Horrors, Huis Aan De Werf, Utrecht
- 1999 —FreeSpace, NICC, Antwerp
- —JARS 1, Sittard
- 1997 —Pica en Flandes, Barcelona
- —Centre d'Art Contemporain de Basse Normandie
- —Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
Selected Screenings
- 2014 —Die aap van Bloemfontein, WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels
- —Die aap van Bloemfontein, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
- —Die aap van Bloemfontein, Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp
- —Conversation Piece, 1646, The Hague
- 2013 —Das Loch, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture
, Moscow
- —The Frigate, WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels
- 2012 —Der Schlamm Von Branst’ & ‘Das Loch, Cricoteka, Kraków
- —The Frigate, Tramway, Glasgow
- 2011 —Perennial #1, Wiels, Brussels
- —Parallel Worlds, Arsenal, Berlin
- 2010 —Parallel Worlds, Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin
- —curated by Richard Birkett, Arnolfini, Bristol
- —If I Cant Dance...., ICA, London
- —Project 35 (curated by ICI), Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
- 2009 —curated by Anthony Huberman, The Steins, New York
- —The Filmic Conventions, FormContent, London
- —curated by Lucie Stahl, Pro Choice, Vienna
- —curated by Yann Ricordel, Centre de Création Contemporaine, Tours
- 2008 —curated by Isabella Bortolozzi & Dieter Roelstraete, Frieze Art Fair, Cinema on Baker Street, London
- —curated by Dépendance, Théatre Mercelis, Brussels
- —Parallelogram, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels