Dirk Bell

Born 1969 in Munich, Germany. Lives and works in Berlin.

Selected solo exhibitions include Retour, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2011);
MADE IN GERMANY, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead and Paradise Lost, Kunstverein Arnsberg (with Juliette Blightman) (both 2010); Li’ve is Li’ve, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2009); Openeng, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York (2008). Selected group exhibitions include Under One Umbrella, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen and Old Ideas, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel (both 2010); freier Fall. Magazin fr Befindlichkeit, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe and modern modern, Chelsea Art Museum, New York (both 2009); Vertrautes Terrain. Aktuelle Kunst in/uber Deutschland. Collectors Choice, ZKM Museum for Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe (2008); Pure Self Expression, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2007).

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The Melanchotopia logo is a hybrid composition of Witte de With’s own cloud by Gerard Hadders (Hard Werken) and the Melanchotopia-rain of Sarah Morris, arranged by Markus Weisbeck (Surface)
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Melanchotopia

Witte de With’s Melanchotopia is an exhibition that invites more than forty international artists to work with different venues in the city-center of Rotterdam – places where people live and work – and to activate their potential as spaces for ideas, discourse and invention.Read more