Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven (born 5 December, 1951) is a

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artist whose work involves

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, drawing,

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and

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Biography

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven (also known as ''AMVK'') was born in Antwerp and lives in Antwerp and

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. In 1981 she founded the

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band

Club Moral Club Moral is a Belgian artist collective and noise band formed in 1981 by Danny Devos and Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven based in Antwerp, Belgium. They are known for their controversial performances and imagery. In 2001 "Dylan" briefly joined the ban ...

with Danny Devos. Since 1982 she has been represented by Zeno X Gallery in Antwerp, Belgium, and since 1999 by Galerie Barbara Thumm in Berlin. In 2003 she was awarded the

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' Prize for Visual Arts. In 2005 the HeadNurse-files was published. By means of installation shots, film stills and artistic images, this book presents an overview of the projects' development from 1995 to 2004 and possibly beyond. Patrick Van Rossem (Ed.) 2005 ''The HeadNurse-files'' – objectif_exhibitions, Antwerpen (B), the NeuerAachenerKunstverein (D) and the Kunsthalle Bern (CH). In 2006 she was awarded a DAAD stipendium to spend one year in Berlin. In 2022 she will receive an honorary doctor degree from the

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Life and work

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven has been fascinated for a long time with the representation in the

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of images of women, of interiors, of the

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powers of any kind of language. She investigates supra-moral connections in contemporary society between sex and technology. Her work connects different knowledge systems, explores the areas of the

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, and looks at moral aberrations or the obscene from a female point of view. Since 2005 she has been working on a conceptual and pictorial trialogue between the mystic

Marguerite Porete Marguerite Porete (; 13th century1 June 1310) was a French-speaking mystic and the author of '' The Mirror of Simple Souls'', a work of Christian mysticism dealing with the workings of agape (divine love). She was burnt at the stake for heresy i ...

, the hermetic Giordano Bruno and the philosopher Herbert Marcuse.

Selected exhibitions

Solo

* Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Zeno X Gallery Antwerp, 1995 * Morele Herbewapening / Moral Rearmament, Kunsthalle Lophem 1996 * HeadNurse, Zeno X Gallery Antwerp, 1998 * Nursing care, in melancholy stupor, MuHKA Antwerp, 1999 * Prober5, Galerie Barbara Thumm

, 2000 * In Dreams, Galerie Barbara Thumm 2003 * Deeper, Kunsthalle Lophem 2003 * AntiSade, Zeno X Gallery Antwerpen, 2003 * How reliable is the brain?, , Aachen, 2004 * AMVK – EZFK: Europaisches Zentrum für Futuristische Kunst (Kunsthalle Bern) 2005. * Veerkracht thuis!, Objectif exhibitions Antwerp, 2006 * Oh, the Sick Lady / Ah, the Sick Lady (Explodes from Within), Galerie Barbara Thumm Berlin, 2007 * Über das ICH (Willkür und Transzendenz) ''and a lot of fun'' (daadgalerie Berlin) 2007 * Nothing More Natural,

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Lucerne, 2008 * Nothing More Natural, Wiels Center for Contemporary Art,

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, 2008 * Nothing More Natural,

Kunsthalle Nürnberg The Kunsthalle Nürnberg is an art centre founded in 1967, near the city centre. It organizes exhibitions by contemporary international artists in its galleries in Nuremberg. The Kunsthalle commissions new work by a majority of the artists it wo ...

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2009 * On Mars the Rising Sun is Blue, Zeno X Gallery Antwerp, 2009 * In a Saturnian World, Renaissance Society

Chicago (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name ...

2011 * Mistress of the Horizon, Mu.ZEE

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, 2012 * 3 Carrels (Degenerate Customized Solutions), Zeno X Gallery Antwerp, 2014 * Serving Compressed Energy with Vacuum, Kunstverein München München, 2015 * AMVK, MuHKA, Antwerp 2018 * AMVK, , Kassel, 2018

Group

* Woord en Beeld, MuHKA Antwerp, 1992 * Trouble spot.painting (MuHKA/NICC) Antwerp 1999 * Die Verletzte Diva, Galerie im Taxispalais Berlin, 2000 * Dream Extensions

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2004 * Dear ICC, MuHKA Antwerp, 2004 * Collectiepresentatie XI, MuHKA Antwerp * Extremities. Flemish art in Vladivostok, Museum Artetage,

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, 2006 * Collectiepresentatie XVI: Attributen en Substantie, MuHKA Antwerp, 2006 * I Walk the Lines, Galerie Barbara Thumm Berlin, 2006 * Manifesta 7 / "THE SOUL (or, Much Trouble in the Transportation of Souls)", Manifesta 7

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, 2006

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