Manon de Boer

Current and upcoming

Ghost Party (duo with Latifa Laâbissi)
Opening 20/01
Frac Rennes (FR)

Frac Franche-Comté's collection (title to be confirmed)
Frac Franche-Comté, Besançon (FR)

12/02 - 22/05 (solo)
Manon de Boer in Conversation with Latifa Laâbissi and Laszlo Umbreit
Museum Dhondt Daenens, Sint-Martens-Latem (BE)

18/02 - 27/03 (solo)
Down Time
Kunsthal Aarhus (DK)

Exhibitions at Jan Mot

Manon de Boer, For C.A. (Her Voice), 2020

13/03/20 - 30/05/20

Chantal Akerman, Manon de Boer

Manon de Boer - installation view at Jan Mot, 2020

16/01/20 - 07/03/20

Manon de Boer
Caco, João, Mava and Rebecca

07/12/18 - 19/01/19

Andrea Büttner, Manon de Boer

Manon de Boer, installation view at Jan Mot, 2016

04/11/16 - 17/12/16

Manon de Boer
An Experiment in Leisure

Manon de Boer, installation view at Jan Mot 2015

12/09/15 - 24/10/15

Manon de Boer
On a Warm Day in July

12/06/15 - 27/07/15

Manon de Boer, Joachim Koester, Ian Wilson

06/09/13 - 26/10/13

Manon de Boer
one, two, many

01/09/12 - 19/01/13

Manon de Boer
one, two, many
Jan Mot, Mexico City

20/09/12
Manon de Boer
one, two, many (2012); Two Times (2008); Dissonant (2010)
Film Screening
at CINEMATEK, Brussels
in collaboration with Auguste Orts vzw

03/11/11 - 14/01/12

Manon de Boer
Think about Wood, Think about Metal

21/05/11 - 09/07/11

Manon de Boer, David Lamelas, Ian Wilson
People and Time

Manon de Boer, installation view at Jan Mot, 2010

12/02/10 - 10/04/10

Manon de Boer
Dissonant

04/07/08
Manon de Boer
Switch (live version)
Performed by Michael Schmid
Duration (ca. 15 min.)
Followed by the book launch of ‘Manon de Boer’, published by Frankfurter Kunstverein and Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art.
Part of the Oral Culture series

02/05/08 - 24/05/08

Manon de Boer
Laurien 1996-2001-2007

27/04/08
Manon de Boer
Presto, Perfect Sound and Two Times 4’33”
Screening at Flagey Studio 5, Brussels
In collaboration with Auguste Orts vzw

Manon de Boer, installation view at Jan Mot, 2008

18/01/08 - 01/03/08

Manon de Boer
Attica

03/11/05 - 17/12/05

Manon de Boer
Resonating Surfaces

09/12/04 - 29/01/05

Robert Barry, Manon de Boer, Pierre Bismuth, Daniel Buren, Douglas Gordon Joachim Koester, David Lamelas, Jonathan Monk, Mario Garcia Torres, Ian Wilson
Today is just a copy of yesterday

18/09/03 - 25/10/03

Manon de Boer
Sylvia Kristel - Paris

16/05/03 - 16/05/03

Manon de Boer and Dora Garcia
Presentation of two websites

27/09/02 - 19/10/02

Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Sven Augustijnen, Richard Billingham, Pierre Bismuth, Manon de Boer, Rineke Dijkstra, Honoré ∂'O, Dora García, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Joachim Koester, Sharon Lockhart, Deimantas Narkevičius, Uri Tzaig, Ian Wilson
New Space Opening Show

01/02/01 - 10/03/01

Manon de Boer
The Alpha and Omega Project

07/01/98 - 07/02/98

Manon de Boer & Ed Ruscha
Audio / Video / Books

03/07/96 - 03/08/96

Pierre Bismuth, Maria Blondeel, Manon de Boer,
Rebecca Bournigault, Adam Chodzko, Michael Curran,
Tracey Emin, Dora García, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster,
Douglas Gordon, Joseph Grigely, Pierre Huyghe,
Renée Kool, David Lamelas, Kobe Matthys,
Wouter van Riessen, Ian Wilson, Zapp magazine
PERFECT

Other exhibitions (selection)

31/01/20 - 13/04/20

Manon de Boer
Downtime/ Tempo de Respiração
Calouste Gulbenkian Museum

01/07/16 - 28/08/16

Manon de Boer
Giving Time to Time
Secession, Vienna

08/06/13 - 15/09/13

Manon de Boer
Encounters
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven

09/06/12 - 16/09/12

Manon de Boer
at Documenta 13, Kassel (DE)
Photo: Nils Klinger

Works

Manon de Boer
Bella, Maia and Nick (From nothing to something to something else, part 1), 2018
HD video, color, sound, no dialogue, GB/DE, 26 minutes, film still

Manon de Boer - Caco, Jaoa, Mava and Rebecca

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

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Manon de Boer
Caco, João, Mava and Rebecca (From nothing to something to something else, part 2), 2019
HD video, color, sound, 48 minutes

Manon de Boer
Oumi (From nothing to something to something else, part 3), 2019
HD video, color, sound, 14 minutes 32 seconds, film still

Manon de Boer
Maud Capturing the Light ‘On a Clear Day’, 2015
16 mm film transferred to video, colour, silent
2 minutes 20 seconds
edition of 6 and 2 A.P.

Manon de Boer - The Untroubled Mind, 2013 - 2018

Manon de Boer
The Untroubled Mind, 2013 – 2018
10 prints on baryta paper (12 x 16 cm, each), mounted on cardboard (36 x 40 cm, each), box (52 x 41 x 6 cm)
edition of 10 and 2 A.P.

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Manon de Boer
The Untroubled Mind, 2013 – 2016
16 mm film transferred to video, color, silent
7 minutes 39 seconds
edition of 6 and 2 A.P.

Manon de Boer
Dissonant, 2010
16 mm film transferred to video, colour, sound
10 minutes 40 seconds
(excerpt)

Manon de Boer
Sylvia Kristel – Paris, 2003
super-8 film transferred to video, color and stereo sound
French spoken, English subtitles
39 minutes, filmstill
edition of 5 and 2 A.P.

Sylvia Kristel – Paris is a portrait of Sylvia Kristel, best known for her role in the 1970’s erotic cult classic Emmanuelle, as well as a film about the impossibility of memory in relation to biography. Between November 2000 and June 2002 Manon de Boer recorded the stories and memories of Kristel. At each recording session she asked her to speak about a city where Kristel has lived: Paris, Los Angeles, Brussels or Amsterdam; over the two years she spoke on several occasions about the same city. At first glance the collection of stories appears to make up a sort of biography, but over time it shows the impossibility of biography: the impossibility of ‘plotting’ somebody’s life as a coherent narrative.

Biography

Manon de Boer

Born in 1966 in Kodaicanal, India
Lives in Brussels

co-founder of Auguste Orts

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Bibliography

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News

16/11/21

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.

14/09/21

This coming weekend WIELS, Brussels organises the premiere of the performance Ghost Party by Manon de Boer and Latifa Laâbissi.

In 2016, artist/filmmaker Manon de Boer and choreographer/dancer Latifa Laâbissi entered into a continuous dialogue, addressing the multiple voices that inhabit their bodies and thinking. From the exchange, conversation itself emerged as a working tool and a performative form. By capturing and “cannibalising” each other’s influences, a genealogy of shared references appeared. Ghosted by the words of artists and writers such as Marguerite Duras, Anne Carson, Felix Gonzalez Torres and Casey, in Ghost Party, their new and first performance together, de Boer and Laâbissi play with language, accents and voices, meshing their very beings with others.

The performance will take place at the Wild Gallery (Rue du Charroi 11, 1190 Brussels) on Saturday 18/09 at 6pm and Sunday 19/09 at 4pm. FR with EN subtitles. Tickets via WIELS.

26/06/21

The Brussels-based production and distribution platform Auguste Orts founded by Herman Asselberghs, Sven Augustijnen, Manon de Boer and Anouk De Clercq was appointed to curate the 10th edition of Contour Biennale in Mechelen in fall 2023.
Since 2003, Contour Biennale has grown into a locally and internationally acclaimed exhibition focussed on the moving image. The four artists want to explore how they can unlock the archive and memory of the biennial in order to give it a place amidst new works and thus propagate the importance of the event in and outside Mechelen.

07/05/21

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.

10/02/21

Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft acquired Manon de Boer's work Presto, Perfect Sound (2006). The film depicts composer and violinist, George Van Dam, performing Béla Bartok's sonata for violin solo, Presto. Manon de Boer filmed George van Dam six times playing the whole piece while at the same time recording the sound. In order to achieve the ‘perfect’ soundtrack, she gave George van Dam the six sound recordings and asked him to reconstruct the Bartok piece into a perfect sound piece. Afterwards de Boer synchronized the filmed image to this soundtrack. The jump-cuts in the image visualize the cuts in the sound, while the sound sounds continuous. In allowing the audio sequence to dictate the image on screen, de Boer inverts the traditional dominance of image over sound in cinema. The film is a meditation on the relationship between sound and image and offers an intense reflection on a moment of creative concentration.

04/02/21

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.

16/09/20

Ghosted by the words of artists and writers such as Marguerite Duras, Anne Carson and Casey, in Ghost Party, their new and first performance together, Manon de Boer and Latifa Laâbissi play with language, accents and voices, meshing their selves with others. The performance is part of the exhibition Risquons-Tout and will premiere at Wiels at the Open School Risquons-Tout (Avenue Van Volxemlaan 316, 1190 Forest/Vorst) on 30th and 31st of October at 6.30 and 8.30pm. This performance was postponed due to the new restrictions. New dates are to be confirmed.