Lives and works in Brussels and Antwerp since 2010
[EN] In the space where normality is the common realm of the absurd,
Aukje Koks brings the object and its representation into an oneiric
dimension in which resemblance always lapses into estrangement.
[FR] Dans un espace ou la normalite est le lieu commun de l'absurde, Aukje Koks parvient a reunir l'objet et sa representation dans une dimension onirique, ou l'apparence bascule toujours dans l'alienation. [NL] In een ruimte waar normaliteit de gemeenschappelijke leefwereld van het absurde is, voert Aukje Koks het object en haar representatie naar een droomachtige dimensie waar gelijkenis steeds vervalt in vervreemding. For more info: Stigter van Doesburg Thanks
to Mondriaan Fund, The Flemish Government, Stichting Heartpool,
Materiaalfonds, galerie Stigter van Doesburg, Level Five Artisitic
Community Brussels, AAIR/Studio Start Antwerp, and many more.
Photo credits: Kristien Daem, Gert Jan van Rooij, Willem Vermaasse, Tomas Uyttendaele, Sander Tiedema, Bea Borgers. EDUCATION 2007/2008 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten / Dutch Ministry of Education Culture and Science, Amsterdam, NL 2002 Academie St. Joost, Breda, NL
RESIDENCIES
2019 Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Woning van Wassenhove, BE2018 SOLO Zomerresidentie, Machelen aan de Leie, BE 2018 Het Glazen Huis, Lommel, BE 2014 Sammlung Lenikus, Vienna, AU 2013 CCA Andratx, Mallorca, SP 2010/2011 Wiels, center for contemporary art Brussels, BE 2009 Meetfactory international centre of contemporary art, Prague, CZ
PRIZES
2012 Wolvecamp prize, Stichting Heartpool2005 Stichting Koninklijk Paleis, Amsterdam, NL – Koninklijke Subsidie voor Vrije Schilderkunst – Royal Prize for Painting
NOMINATIONS
2012 Illy Prize 2012
GRANTS / STIPENDS
2019 Netherlands Embassy/ Ministry of Foreign Affairs, icw Cinemaximiliaan, BE2015 Mondriaan Fund, Stipendium established artists 2012 Mondriaan Fonds, NL, Project grant for exhibition Time, Trade & Travel 2009 Fonds BKVB, NL, Stipendium emerging artists 2008 Mr. Rob Defares, NL, in collaboration with Rijksakademie 2007 Stichting Dr. Hendrik Muller's Vaderlandsch Fonds, NL, in collaboration with Rijksakademie 2007 Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, NL, Peter Paul Peterich Fonds, in collaboration with Rijksakademie 2005 Fonds BKVB, NL, Stipendium emerging artists.
BIBLIOGRAPHY (selection)
2017 NRC newspaper, Aukje Koks weigert zich te beperken, H. den Hartog Jager2016 NRC newspaper, Echte luxaflex voor een nepuitzicht, S. Smets 2016 De illusies van Aukje Koks vervelen nooit, A. van Leeuwen 2015 Ways of Being, publicatie with publisher Onomatopee 2015 Metropolis M, Ways of being, D. Ruyters 2014 La Libre Belgique, Reflets du jeune art emergent, C.Lorent 2012 Blouin Artinfo magazine, FIAC report, N. Hartvig 2012 Kunstuur, television 2012 Maitresses d'Illusion, Agenda Magazine, S. Steverlynck 2012 Artslant, interview by Andrea Alessi
COLLECTIONS
Museumcollections ;Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Caldic Collection - Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar. Long term loans; Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem Company collections ; Central European Bank in Frankfurt, ING Bank, De Nederlandsche Bank, Aegon, Fontys, Simmons Contemporary - London, and others. Private collections ; Sanders Collection, Collection Hugo & Carla Brown, Collection Joseph Kouli, and others.
TEACHING/ LECTURING
2019 ENSAV La Cambre, Brussels, guest tutor2015-2019 KABK Royal academy of The Hague, tutor 2013 Frank Mohr Instituut MFA, Groningen, guest tutor 2013 Artez, Arnhem, Rijksgecommitteerde, guest tutor 2012/2013 HKU, Utrecht, tutor
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2018
Kantine, Brussels BE – Inscape at Sunrise, group exhibition around
painting with Carlotta Bailly-Borg, Vanessa Disler, Rémi
Lambert, Fiona Mackay , Gijs Milius , Nancy Moreno, curated by Perri
MacKenzie and Aukje Koks. 2016 Founder of Flections.net, a self designed and maintained curatorial website around artistic writings. 2014 Onomatopee Eindhoven NL – Didn't Know But Knew It All Along, group exhibition with Feiko Beckers, Carlotta Bailly-Borg, Alejandro Cesarco, Lynne Cohen, Theo Cowley. 2006 Still Wet, group painting exhibition 2006 Still Wet II, group painting exhibition
OTHER
2019 Workshop From Idea to Publication – Tique Art Space, Antwerpen, BE2019 Diverse courses and workshops ; Typografie en lay-out, Impositie en Vouwschema's, Camtasia, HTML5, Javascript, PHP, CSS3, Wordpress, Financieringsmix, Kasplanning, Vergoeden in de cultuursector, Vallen en opstaan in de cultuursector. 2007-2018 Occasional curatorial projects 2016 Founder of Flections.net, a self designed and maintained curatorial website about writing. 2010 Co-founder and part of artist collective 'projectGoleb' Amsterdam, NL 2009- 2012 Writer for Endless Lowlands artist blog 2006 Bandmember The Legs, NL
SOLO/DUO EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2019 De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, NL – Portrait of a Banker? 2018 SOLO zomerresidentie, Machelen aan de Leie, BE 2017 Galerie Stigter van Doesburg, Amsterdam, NL – With 2017 Feeelings, Brussel, BE – Mo ma me mi mu you me, me you, duo with Agata Jastrzabek 2016 Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, NL – Pure Positive Energy 2014 Croxhapox, Gent, BE, duo with Paulien Oltheten 2014 Akkuh/Wolvecampprijs, Enschede, NL 2013/14 Galerie Stigter van Doesburg, Amsterdam, NL – Somewhere between a rock and a pudding 2013 Out of Focus, curatorial project by Ariella Yedgar and Rosie Cooper, GB – Wallet’s Oracle 2012 Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam, NL 2012 MOT International, Brussel, BE duo with Philomene Pirecki 2011 Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, NL – Manieren 2011 Wiels, center for contemporary art, project room, Brussels, BE – Fraud, abscence, impossibility, duo with Istvan Ist Huzjan 2011 Cultuurcentrum Strombeek/Grimbergen, BE, duo with Roger Raveel 2010 Ganes Pratt, Ljubljana, SI, duo with Istvan Ist Huzjan 2009 Lokaal 01, Antwerp, BE 2009 Meetfactory , Prague, CZ – Finished and forgotten scenes and situations 2008 Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL – Take illusion apart, add reality 2006 Dubbelbee Galerie (former Loerakker galerie), Amsterdam, NL 2006 Noordbrabants Museum, Den Bosch, NL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2019 Cinemaximiliaan projectspace, BE – This being human is a guest house, curated by Agata Jastrzabek2019 Galerie Stigter van Doesburg, NL – Wall Based Wall 2019 Feeelings at Poppositions, Brussels, BE 2018 Jozsa Gallery, Brussels, BE – Odette: Private Appearances 2017 Une, Une, Une, Perpignan, FR – Pinceau et Canapé, curated by Constance Barrere Dangleterre 2017 Centre d'Art Contemporain Chanot, Clamart FR – La Vie, Mode d'Emploi 2017 Greylight Projects, Brussels, BE 2017 A Rose is a Rose is a Rose, Amsterdam, NL 2017 Art Rotterdam with Galerie Stigter van Doesburg, NL 2016 Parcours privé de la FIAC, Parijs, FR – 10 ans de collection de Joseph Kouli 2016 Lokaal 01 - Here’s to being 23 2016 Stichting Heartpool – 10th Wolvecamp prize 2016 Stigter van Doesburg gallery, NL – It’s not your painting I like, it’s your painting 2016 Villa Empain/ Fondation Boghossian, Brussels, BE – Cinemaximiliaan 2016 Z33, Hasselt, BE – Cinemaximiliaan 2016 Fontys art collection, NL – Diepzwart 2015 Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, Milan IT, – Forme e Antiforme, curated by Hans de Wolf 2015 H18, Brussels, BE, – After, curated by Agata Jastrzabek 2015 Riot, Gent, BE – The Edition Show 2015 Art Brussels, BE, with Stigter van Doesburg gallery 2015 Art Rotterdam, NL – Tafels. Publication presentations curated by Luc Derycke and Maaike Lauwaert. 2015 Onomatopee project space, NL – Didn’t know but knew it all along 2015 Fontys art collection NL, – Zoek Licht 2015 Maison Gregoire, Brussels, BE – Won’t you not see? curated by Emmanuel Lambion 2014 Le Moinsun, Paris, FR – Grey skies and sunny dispositions, curated by The Ister 2014 Wiels, Brussels, BE – During the exhibition, the studio will be close, curated by Lorenzo Benedetti 2014 Yoko Uhoda gallery / Uhoda collection, Liege, BE – Trailers for the future 2014 Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht – wall paintings 2014 Croxhapox, Gent, BE 2014 Kunstvereniging Diepenheim, NL – Het landschap en de romantische verleiding 2014 Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, NL – Complex images 2014 Jan van Eyck academie, Maastricht, NL 2014 38CC, Delft, NL - Repeat 2.0, herhaling baart kunst 2013 Standards Expositions, Rennes, FR - Plus jamais seul 2013 Broadcast gallery Dublin, IE / Voorkamer Lier, BE – Dublin Doubles 2013 Het Paviljoen, Gent, BE - Forms fell to pieces, met Kato Six 2013 Kasteel Keukenhof, Lisse, NL – Collectie Hugo & Carla Brown 2013 Mains d'Oeuvres, Saint Ouen, France - Collection Joseph Kouli 2012 Nubuke Foundation, Accra, Ghana – Time, Trade & Travel 2012 Wiels, center for contemporary art, Brussels, BE – benefit auction 2012 Testbed, London, GB – Reconnaissance, Dutch Collectors’ Eyes & Some of the Places They Look 2012 Akkuh, Hengelo – Wolvecamp prize 2012 Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL – Secret Postcards 2012 Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (SMBA), NL – Time Trade & Travel 2012 Autocenter, Berlin, DE – Objects of Dismissal 2011 Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht, NL – What's Up 2011 Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, NL – Patchwork 2010 De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), NL – Aanwinsten 2010: een keuze 2010 Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam, NL – We like 6% 2010 Museum Dhondt Dhaenens, Deurle, BE – veiling 2010 Stichting Outline, Amsterdam, NL – Presenteert 2010 Watou art festival, Watou, BE, curated by Joost Declercq for Museum Dhondt Dhaenens 2010 Kunz/Vis/Gonzalez projectspace, Chicago IL., USA – Angels 2010 Mini Market @ Magazijn, Galerie Diana Stigter, NL 2010 Dada Post, Berlin, DE – Youth Cult 2010 Galerie im regierungsviertel/Forgotten Bar project, Berlin, DE – Protection 2009 Secondroom/Zennestraat 17, Brussels, BE – A certain Proposition 2009 Meetfactory, Prague, CZ – Csakany, Koks, Kruithof, Tarr 2009 Galerie LUMC, Leiden, NL – Nieuwe Schilders 2008 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL – Open ateliers 2008 Rijksakademie / Projectspace Rijksacademie, Amsterdam, NL – North vs. South 2007 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL – Open Ateliers 2007 Centrum voor Beeldende Kunst, Den Bosch, NL – Succes 2006 GIST Galerie voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Brummen, NL – Still wet II 2006 Gebouw F, Breda, NL – Still wet I 2006 KUS-Festival, Breda, NL, Chasse Theater 2005 GEM, museum voor actuele kunst, Den Haag, NL – Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst |