vincent meessen (B/US), born in Baltimore in 1971, lives in

vincent meessen (B/US), born in Baltimore in 1971, lives in Brussels.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
(* denotes exhibition)
(¨ denotes screening)
(° denote seminar, panel or artist talk)
2013
SOLO PRESENTATION
-Apperceptions, KIOSK, Ghent
GROUP PRESENTATIONS
-When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, MOCAD, Detroit *
-Leituras do Real, Indie moving Image, Indielisboa'13, Lisbon *
-Archives tellers, Opificio Telecom/Spazio contemporaneo, Roma ¨
-Vinyl in the studio, Mu.ZEE, Ostende¨*
TALKS
-Le mirage du noir dans la chaîne des blancs, “Locus Solus Domesticus” exhibition, A.VE.NU.DE.JET.TE,
Brussels °
2012
SOLO PRESENTATIONS
-My Last Life, Netwerk centrum voor hedendaagse kunst, Aalst (B) *
GROUP PRESENTATIONS
-Colonial Specters, MUMOK, Vienna °¨
-When Attitudes Become Forms Become Attitudes, CCA Wattis, San Francisco *
-Bewitched System, XIX Jornadas de Estudio de las Imagen, CA2M, Madrid (co-organizer) °
-Un-scene II, Wiels, Brussels *
-A Blind Spot, HKW/Berlin Documentary Forum, Berlin *
-Colonial hauntology, WORM, Rotterdam ¨ °
-Live Rightly, Die, Die… , Cinémathèque Québecoise , Montréal (CAN) *
-Atlas critique, Parc Saint-Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux (F) *
-Sweet Protestations, Argos center for art & media, Brussels ¨
TALKS
-Film Forum/X Magis International Film Studies Spring School, University of Gorizia, (IT) ¨°
-Prospectus, Netwerk, Aalst (B) °
-L'avenir du passé: politiques de l'archive, ENSA Bourges (F)¨°
-Spectres of History: Documents in Contemporary art, De Appel/University of Amsterdam °
2011
SOLO PRESENTATIONS
-My Last Life, Espace Khiasma, Les Lilas (F)*
-Cher Conseiller, FRAC Lorraine / La première Rue, Cité Radieuse, Briey-en-Forêt (F)*
-Vita Nova, Wäscherei Kunstverein, Zürich ¨°
GROUP PRESENTATIONS
-Routes, voyages et traductions, Contrechamp/Le Cinématographe, Nantes ¨
-Hantologie des Colonies, Paris & Seine St-Denis (F) (guest curator) Normal in collaboration with Espace
Khiasma, and Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers, Musée du Jeu de Paume, La Galerie de Noisy-le-Sec, Mains
d'Oeuvre, Ciné 104, Maison Populaire de Montreuil,... )¨°
-Community without Propinquity, Milton Keynes Art Gallery, Milton Keynes (UK )*
-The Eye is a Lonely Hunter : Images of Humankind, 4.Foto-festival/ Kunsthalle Mannheim (DE)*
-Moving Images, London ¨
-dumbo_festival, Dumbo Arts Center, New York ¨
-Never written stories, CA2M, Madrid ° ¨
-Rencontres Paris-Berlin-Madrid, HKW, Berlin¨
-Le Rayon vert, Palais de Tokyo, Paris *
-ARS 11, Kiasma Museum, Helsinki *
-Cabinet Voltaire / Potential Estate, Videoex, Zurich ¨
-Rencontres Paris-Berlin-Madrid, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid ¨
-Distant Montage, ERBA, Valence (F) (guest curator)*
-FESPACO, official selection, Ouagadougou (BF) ¨
-Expanding documentary, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam *
TALKS
-Pensées archipéliques, ENSA Nantes (F) °
-Manifesta 9/Coffee Break, , Genk (B) °
2010
SOLO PRESENTATIONS
-Clinamen Cinema, Artist in focus / Open Archive #2, Argos, Brussels ¨
-Vita Nova, ABP Autograph, London ¨°
GROUP PRESENTATIONS
-(dé)Colonisation, Ciné Lux, Caen (F) ¨
-Transmediale Highlights, KW Berlin ¨
-Offmostoles 2010, CA2M, Madrid ¨
-Walking the Hinterland, Open Archive #2, Argos center for art & media, Brussels *
-Cabinet Bald Eagle/Potential Estate, Argos center for art & media, Brussels *
-Stardust in a Nutshell, Savvy Contemporaryn, Berlin¨
-transmediale.10 video on Tour, Athens, Moscow, Firenze, Mexico City,... ¨
-Free Falling, PACT Zollverein, Essen (DE) ¨°
-transmediale.10, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin ¨
-International Film Festival Rotterdam ¨°
-International Documentary Festival Amsterdam ¨°
2009
SOLO PRESENTATIONS
-Dear Adviser, Argos, Black Box, Brussels *
-Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (with Susanne Kriemann) *
GROUP PRESENTATIONS
-Africa Reflected, SMBA/Montevideo, Amsterdam ¨
-Back Sourcing, CEAC, Xiamen, China (guest curator) *
-Contour Biennale for Moving Images, Mechelen (B) *
-Cabinet Jurino/ Potential Estate, MuHKA extra muros, Antwerp *
-Unknown territory, Museum De Paviljoens, Almere (NL) *
-Splav Meduze, Center for Contemporary Art Celje (SLO) *
-Destiny without destination, Versus V, Oudenaerde (B)*
-Argos Open Lounge, Villa Merkel, Esslingen (DE) *
-transmediale.09, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin ¨
-Cinema du Réel, Centre Pompidou/MK2 Beaubourg, Paris
-55th Oberhausen International Shortfilm festival (DE)
-Courtisane Festival, Gent¨
-CA2M, Centro de Artes dos de Mayo, Madrid ¨
-KunstFilmBiennale, Cologne¨
-Lost Nation, WRO Biennale, Wroclaw (PL)¨
-Psychogeographies, FRAME, Helsinki ¨
-Hospitalités, touring pogram in 28 arts centers in Paris & Ile-de-France (F)¨
-Cinémathèque Française, Paris ¨
2008
SOLO PRESENTATION
-Foreign Affairs, Egmont Palace, Brussels * (public commission)
GROUP PRESENTATIONS
-Brussels Biennale, Cabinet Anciaux / Potential Estate *
-Temporary Museum, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam*
-Videonale 10, Kunstmuseum, Bonn¨
-International Film Festival Rotterdam¨
-Shadow Cabinet (three rendezvous), Extra City/Error one, Antwerp (guest curator) *
-Cabinet Hope/Potential Estate, Koraalberg, Antwerp *
2007
SOLO PRESENTATIONS
-Video works, Beursschouwburg, Brussels*
-Argos center for art & media (black box), Brussels*
-Walker-on, Hisk/Art Brussels
GROUP PRESENTATIONS
-MUSEION @ Filmclub, Bolzano (IT) ¨
-Cine y casi Cine, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid ¨
-Rencontres Paris-Berlin-Madrid, Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris ¨
-International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam ¨
-Open Archive #01, Argos center for art & media, Brussels (guest curator) *
-Just a Movie for Godsake, error # 7, Antwerp *
-De leur temps (2), Musée des Beaux Arts, Grenoble (F) *
-Cabinet Reclus /Potential Estate, Netwerk, Aalst (B) *
-Elusive Cities, Witte Zaal, Gent *
-Film without picture, Swiss Institute, New York ¨
-53rd Oberhausen International Shortfilm Festival ¨
-Image Forum Festival, Tokyo,Yokohama & Kyoto¨
-transmediale.07, Berlin ¨
-International Film Festival Rotterdam ¨
-Weak Foundations, Momenta Art, New York *
-e-flux video rental, New York & touring worldwide *
-LeereXVision, MARTa, Herford (DE)*
2006
SOLO PRESENTATIONS
Unincorporated, STUK, Leuven *
GROUP PRESENTATIONS
-Concerning "Knowledge Production", BAK, Utrecht (NL)°¨
-Archéologie d'un territoire, Cinémathèque Française, Paris (F)¨
-Cabinet Jacotot /Potential Estate, STUK, Leuven *
-Breughel Revisited, Botanical Gardens, Meise (B) *
-52nd International Shortfilm Festival Oberhausen¨
-Entrevues Festival, Belfort (F) ¨
-Argos Festival, Brussels *
RECENT ESSAYS
-TJ Demos, Colonial Hauntology (in Return to the Postcolony, Sternberg Press, 2013)
-Peter J.Bloom, Vita Nova amidst the colonial ruins of Françafrique (to be published)
-TJ Demos, Photography's (Post)Humanist Interventions : Or, Can Photography Make the World More
Liveable? in The Eye is a Lonely Hunter's exhibition catalogue, Kehrer, 2011.
-Kobena Mercer, ARS11's exhibition catalogue, Kiasma Museum, Helsinki ,2011
-Katerina Gregos, Raising the Phantoms of Empire : Post-Colonial Discourse in recent Artists' Films" in
Mousse magazine (IT).
-Muriel Andrin, Vincent Meessen / Rejouer les territoires in L'art-même, 2011.
-Katrin Mundt (in dialogue with), Words have a second order memory, A prior #20, 2010
RECENT PRESS
TexteZurKunst #87, Von schönheit und fiktion, review by Ines Kleesattel about „A Blind Spot“ in HKW
Berlin
L'Art Même, Un-scene II, interview by Christine Jamart.
Mouvement, La Possession de Vanneste, essay by Olivier Marboeuf.
TexteZurKunst #85, Colonial specters, review by Eric de Bruyn, march 2012, pp 220-224.
H>art, #90 , interview by Pieter van Bogaert
Kunstforum, The Eye is Lonely Hunter, review by Johannes Meinhardt, november-december 2011, pp 312315.
Art Forum, ARS11 review by Timo Valjakka.
Frieze, ARS11 review, by Jens Hoffman
Art Papers (USA), Contour 2009, review by Sam Steverlynck, january/february 2010.
Flash Art (IT), Contour : 4th Biennale of Moving Images, review by Elena Sorokina, November-December
2009.
H>art (B), Destiny without destination, article by Marko Stamenkovic, #55, September 10, 2009.
H>art, De Tijd loopt, review by Pieter van Bogaert, #55, September 10, 2009
Metropolis M (NL), Lost and found utopia, review by Hendrik Folkerts, February 11, 2009
Artnet (DE), Wanderwege zum Ortsbezug, review by Sabine B. Vogel, august 21, 2009
Metropolis M (NL), Contour 2009, interview with Katerna Gregos by Nina Folkersma, n°4, august 2009
De Tijd (B), De toekomst van het geheugen, review by Marc Holtof, august 21, 2009
De Volkskrant (NL), Pleidooi voor minder ambitieuze bouwkunst, review by Lennard Dost, august 26, 2009
L'art même, Brussels Biennale/Trier par numéro postal, review by Pierre-Yves Desaive, n°41, pp26-27, 2008
GUEST LECTURER
Piet Zwart Instituut (NL)
Gorizia University / Film Studies, (IT)
Tebeac/KASK, Gent
Amsterdam University (NL)
HISK, Antwerpen (B)
ENSA - Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Art, Bourges (F)
Zurich University for the Arts / On curating , Zurich (CH)
ENSA - Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Nantes (F)
ERBA- Valence (F)
RITS, Brussels
Sint-Lukas / Transmedia, Brussels
ERG- Ecole de Recherche Graphique, Brussels
ENSAV - La Cambre, Brussels
Académie des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
Gerrit Rietveld Academie / Studium Generale, Amsterdam (NL)
Transmedia / Sint-Lukas, Brussels (B)
RECENT GRANT
Cera-Partners in art, Belgium
FILM AWARDS
Grand Prize International Competition, Oberhausen film festival (Germany), 2005
Meilleur court-métrage documentaire, Entrevues Festival, Belfort (F), 2006
Meilleur court-métrage belge, Courtisane film festival, 2005