Michael van den Abeele

Born 1974 in Brussels, Belgium. Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.

Selected solo exhibitions include Perennial (with Arnaud Hendrickx and Richard Venlet), WIELS, Brussels (2011); Fimbulvetr (with Harald Thys), Etablissement d’en face, Brussels (2010); Bonus Malus (with Arnaud Hendrickx), Netwerk, Aalst (2009); It’s Character Forming, EAC les Halles, Porrentruy, Jura (2008). Selected group exhibitions include Public Private Paintings, MuZee, Oostende and Eva Berendes / Michael Van den Abeele, Galerie Elisa Platteau, Brussels (both 2010); Después del Arte, Lugar, Centro de arte contemporàneo, Havana (2009); Isomosis, performance festival, Etablissement d’en face, Brussels (2009); Curiosität, gallerie Micheline Szwajcer; With Brussels from Love, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Europa Vostra, gallery Trafu, Budapest (all 2008).

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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