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Manon de Boer and Latifa Laâbissi will perform Ghost Party (1) on 22 and 23 August, at 18.00, at Hamburger Kunsthalle, as part of the exhibition Untranquil Now: A Constellation of Narratives and Resonances. The performance is the result of a dialog between de Boer and Laâbissi in which they explore a polyphony of artistic voices that haunt their bodies and minds, including Chantal Akerman, Beyoncé, Octavia Butler, Angela Davis, Marguerite Duras, Frantz Fanon, Valeska Gert, Umm Kulthum, Oskar Schlemmer and many others. (Photo: Rembert de Prez)

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On Saturday 25 May, Manon de Boer's An Experiment in Leisure (2016) and Sharon Lockhart's EVENTIDE (2022) screen as part the program 'Fort Beau' at CINEMATEK, Brussels, guest-curated by critic and curator Pieter Van Bogaert. Two additional films by de Boer — Maud Capturing the Light ‘On a Clear Day’ (2015) and The Untroubled Mind (2016) — are presented as installations in the CINEMATEK foyer on 25 and 26 May.

As part of the exhibition Her Voice - Echoes of Chantal Akerman at FOMU, Antwerp (BE), a projection of Ghost Party (2) by Manon de Boer and Latifa Laâbissi is organised at Cinema Lumière, Antwerp (BE) on Tuesday 06/02, at 8 pm. In the film, De Boer and Laâbissi create little fictions with vases, stones and other materials, while giving voice to texts of ‘ghosts’ from their shared genealogies, like Marguerite Duras, Serge Daney, Casey and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. Manon De Boer will be there to present the film. Tickets can be purchased via the cinema's website.

Manon de Boer is part of the group exhibition On the Other Side opening at Fondation CAB, Brussels, on Tuesday 12 March, and running until 13 July. The works on view — including de Boer's film The Untroubled Mind (2016) — refer to construction and deconstruction in the parallel spaces of playing and image-making. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue. (photo: Manon de Boer, The Untroubled Mind, 2016 [still], 7 min 39 sec, 16mm to digital file, color, 4:3, silent)

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Manon de Boer and Latifa Laâbissi will be in conversation at the Jeu de Paume, Paris, on 9 January 2024, at 6 pm, around their recently released book Another Ghost Party published by Walther et Franz König. Another Ghost Party can be purchased via the BY ASSOCIATION webshop. (Photo: Rik Vannevel)

Works by Manon de Boer, David Lamelas and Ian Wilson are currently on view in the large-scale exhibition Time, presented until 14 January, 2021 at Kunsthaus Zürich. Starting with the clock as an instrument for measuring time, the exhibition curated by Cathérine Hug invites visitors — through six chapters over 1,200 square meters — to reflect on different visions of the future against the backdrop of the Anthropocene, marked by increasing speculation about how much time both individuals and humanity have left to ensure their survival on – and with – planet earth.

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Manon de Boer's film Dissonant (2010) will screen on Friday 2 June, 4pm, at Cinéma Ermitage, Fontainebleau, as part of the 2023 Festival de l'histoire de l'art. Belgium is the guest country of this year's edition of the Festival, and the overarching theme is 'The Climate'. Every year since 2011, the Festival draws hundreds of art historians, museum professionals, artists, filmmakers, writers, curators, researchers and students to Fontainebleau for three days of events, including lectures, panel discussions, film screenings and exhibitions. (Image: Manon de Boer, Dissonant, 2010, still, 16mm film, colour, 10 min. 40 sec.)

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Jan Mot's booth at Art Basel (CH) with works by Francis Alÿs, stanley brouwn, Andrea Büttner, Manon de Boer, Rineke Dijkstra, Mario Garcia Torres, David Lamelas, Edouard Merino, Lawrence Weiner, Ian Wilson (photo: Studio Shapiro).

Manon de Boer's solo show Down Time will take place at Kunsthal Aarhus (DK) from 3 June till 7 August 2022. The exhibition will present the series From Nothing to Something to Something Else (2018–2019) which features a group of young adults between the ages of sixteen and twenty. The artist does not give them any systematized scenario or instructions for producing the work but simply invites them to play music, dance and spend time together. All three films explore the time span between the already and the not yet, the time of potentiality. The three films are presented along with The Untroubled Mind (2016) in which de Boer observes and films her son’s playful constructions at home over a period of 3 years, setting the duration of each shot at 20 seconds, the length of time one can film with a Bolex 16mm camera when winding it manually. (Image: Manon de Boer, Caco, João, Mava and Rebecca (From nothing to something to something else, part 2), 2019, HD video, color, sound, 48 minutes, film still)

Opening on February 13th, Blindsight (2022) for which Manon de Boer and Latifa Laâbissi collaborated furthermore with Laszlo Umbreit will be on view at the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens until May 22nd. In addition to the extensive sound installation, the show will include works by artists such as stanley brouwn, Andrea Büttner, Lygia Clark, Marlene Dumas, Valeska Gert, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Agnes Martin, Louise Lawler, Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Joëlle Tuerlinckx who all shaped Manon de Boer’s practice. The starting point of this sound installation is de Boer and Laâbissi's continuous dialogue about the numerous voices that inhabit their thinking and bodies. During a long process of exchange and ‘cannibalizing’, the performance Ghost Party (1) (2021) was created that further lead to the production of the film Ghost Party (2) (2022) as well as sound installation Blindsight (2022). While Ghost Party (1) & (2) are currently presented in their duo show at the Frac Bretagne in Rennes (FR) (until 15/05), the film will have its Belgian premiere at the Cinematek in Brussels on March 1st.

Manon de Boer will present 4 of her films (Attica, 2008 - Dissonant, 2010 - On a Warm Day in July, 2015 - One, Two, Many, 2012) this Friday 19 November, at 7 pm as part of LOOP Festival in Barcelona. The screening will be followed by a discussion between the artist, Pascale Cassagnau and Pascale Pronnier.

Jan Mot participates in BXL x EMERGENT, presenting work by Francis Alÿs, Andrea Büttner, Manon de Boer and Mario Garcia Torres.
BXL x EMERGENT, which opens this weekend (08-09/05, 2-6 pm), is a collaboration between 10 Brussels galleries, presenting work at Emergent in Veurne. The project creates an opportunity for a live encounter between art, public and gallerists who will be personally and safely welcoming visitors during the opening weekend. The exhibition will be open on Saturdays and Sundays until 06/06, 2-6 pm).
Participating galleries: Ballon Rouge Collective, 
Dépendance
, Dvir
, Harlan Levey Projects
, Jan Mot
, La Maison De Rendez-Vous, 
Meessen De Clercq, 
Stems Gallery
, Super Dakota, 
Waldburger Wouters.

Caption: Andrea Büttner, Phone Etching, 2015, etching, framed, 212 x 113 cm (paper), 218 x 118,5 x 5 cm (frame), unique.

The film by Manon de Boer An Experiment in Leisure (2016 -  2019) is available for online viewing in the context of the inauguration of Artica Writings 2021, which is a curated series of texts aiming to influence critical thinking around our oceans and the urgent issues related to ocean health, knowledge and policy. In An Experiment in Leisure excerpts of texts by psychoanalyst Marion Milner (1900-1998) on themes such as concentration, the body, repetition and daydreaming are combined with meditative shots of artists' working spaces and Norwegian coast.