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Marie-Jo Lafontaine    (Belgian, 1950)

 Marie-Jo Lafontaine - Lost Paradise (Photographs) h: 70 x w: 60 cm / h: 27.6 x w: 23.6 in
Marie-Jo Lafontaine
Lost Paradise
 
 Marie-Jo Lafontaine - Passio I, Dyptichon (Photographs) h: 24 x w: 20 in / h: 61 x w: 50.8 cm
Marie-Jo Lafontaine
Passio I, Dyptichon 2000
 
 Marie-Jo Lafontaine - Passio Video Edition (Installations) h: 19.7 x w: 15.6 x d: 2 cm / h: 7.8 x w: 6.1 x d: 0.8 in
Marie-Jo Lafontaine
Passio Video Edition 2000
 

Biography
1950 Born in Antwerp, Belgium
1975 Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Architecture et des Arts Visuelles, Brussels, Belgium
1978 Prix de la Jeune Peinture Belge, Brussels, Belgium
1979 Bronze medal, Prix Europe de Peinture, Ostend, Belgium
1987 Documenta Kassel, Germany
1992 Media Award of the European Union
1998 European Photography Award, Great Britain
1998 Cultural Ambassador of Flanders
1998 Professor at the Hochschule für Kunst und Medien, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2002 BMW Project in Munich, Germany
2005 Opening of the World Cup Football, Frankfurt

Exhibitions
2009 Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany (solo)
2008 Come to me!, André Simoens Gallery, Knokke, Belgium (solo)
2007 Art Cologne, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie
2006 Art Cologne, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie
2006 I love the world, video installation, Skyarena, Opening event for the World Football Cup, Frankfurt
2006 Foto Text Text Foto, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main
2005 Art Cologne, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie (solo)
2005 Marie Jo Lafontaine, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld
2002 Art for the Pier, Airport, Stockholm (solo)
2002 Monochrome Trivision, Justizzentrum Bonn, Bonn (solo)
2002 Babies – Lost Paradise, Galerie Bernhard Knaus, Mannheim (solo)
2001 We can all be hero’s – just for one day, Polaroid Installation, Stadtmuseum Rakevere, Estonia (solo)
2001 Lost Paradise, Galerie Thomas von Lintel, New York (solo)
2001 Brussels by Night, KBC Bank, Brussels (solo)
2000 Chill out Room, Deutsche Bank, Luxembourg (solo)
2000 The Swing, Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken (solo)
1999 Liquid Crystals, Mathildenhohe Darmstadt (solo)
1999 Ivre d’éternité j’oublie la futilité de ce monde, Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris (solo)
1999 Ausstellungsinstitut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany
1999 Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris
1998 The Blind Angels, Orchard Gallery Derry, Northern Ireland
1998 Paper Art 7 - Paper Electric, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum Düren, Germany
1997 Foto Text Text Foto, Frankfurter Kunstverein Frankfurt/Main
1997 The 90s: A Family of Man, Casino Luxembourg Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg
1996 Fertile Ground, Centrum 'tElzenveld Antwerpen, Belgium
1996 Au loin s'en vont les nuages, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer Düsseldorf
1995 Blumenstücke, Kunsthalle Bielefeld Germany
1995 Les Roses, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (solo)
1994 Victoria, Smith College Museum of Art Northampton, MA
1994 Savoir retenir et fixer ce qui est sublime, University Art Museum California State Long Beach, CA
1993 Als das Kind noch Kind war, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf
1993 Jeder Engel is schrecklich, Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv, Fondation Helena Rubenstein (solo)
1993 Multimédiale 3, HFG Karlsruhe, Germany
1993 Mediale. Feuer, Wasser, Licht, Erde, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
1993 Deutschsein, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
1992 Argusauge, Glyptothek, Munich (solo)
1992 Jeder Engel ist schrecklich, Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Danmark
1990 Passio, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
1990 Savoir, retenir et fixer ce qui est sublime, Musée des Beaux Arts, Tourcoing (solo)
1990 Threshold, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
1990 40 ans de la jeune Peinture Belge
1990 The readymade Boomerang, 8th Biennale of Sydney (cat.)
1989 Savoir, retenir et fixer ce qui est sublime, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (solo)
1989 Rappel à l’ordre, Jack Shainmann Gallery, New York (solo)
1988 Les Larmes d’acier, Museum of Contemporary Art, LACMA, Los Angeles and Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (solo)
1987 L’interdit désiré, Koninklijk Muziekconservatorium, Gent (solo)
1985 A las Cinco de la tarde, Tate Gallery, London (solo)
1984 The Luminous Image, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1982 Festival International de ciné e video, San Sebastian
1981 10ieme Biennale Internationale de la Tapisserie, Musée Cantonal de Lausanne
1981 Round around the Ring, Musée d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (solo)
1980 11ième Biennale de Paris
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