Walter Swennen  (Belgian, 1946) 

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Walter Swennen Biography
1948   Born in Brussels, Belgium
  Lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium
Selected Exhibitions
2010   Three Bald Men, Ansel Krut and Walter Swennen at domobaal gallery (September/October) (solo)
2010   Walter Swennen, In het Arentshuis, Brugge, Belgium, curated by Dirk Snauwaert 23.01.10 – 23.05.10 (solo)
2009   Time is a Sausage (A Show of Shows) solo presentation of paintings and collage by Walter Swennen, domobaal gallery (solo)
2009   Nadja Vilenne, Liège, Belgium (solo)
2009   Nicolas Krupp, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
2009   Ventriloquist, curated by Emma Dexter, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
2009   Bande Annonce II, aliceday, Brussels, Belgium
2009   Werken, fragmenten from the collection, STUK, Liège, Belgium
2009   The tragic and the funny meet again, de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, Holland
2009   BPS 22, Charleroi, Belgium
2008   L'amiral cherche une maison à louer, galerie Nadja Vilenne, Liège, Belgium
2008   aliceday, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
2008   How to paint a Horse, De Garage, Cultuurcentrum Mechelen, Belgium (catalogue) (solo)
2008   Cultuurcentrum Strombeek, Grimbergen, Belgium (solo)
2008   Curating the Campus, de Singel, Antwerp, Belgium (solo)
2008   Honorons Honoré, cultuurcentrum Mechelen, Belgium
2008   TH Gallery, The Hague, Holland
2008   Soigneurs de gravité, Musée des Arts Contemporain, Grand Hornu, Belgium
2007   Muhka, Antwerp, Belgium
2007   Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, USA
2007   Le peintre maudit, De Halle, Geel, Belgium
2007   Merz in February, Emyt, Berlin, Germany
2007   New International Cultural Centre, Antwerp, Belgium
2007   The moss gathering tumbleweed experience, galerie Manuela Klerkx, Milan, Italy
2007   aliceday, Brussels, Belgium
2007   Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
2007   Galerie Nadja Vilenne, Liège, Belgium (solo)
2006   Galerie Nicolas Krupp, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
2006   Maybe a Duck … Maybe a Rabbit … Ansel Krut with Jemima Burrill and Walter Swennen (publication) with essay by Peter Suchin, The Drawing Centre, Wimbledon College of Art, UK
2004   aliceday, Brussels (with Michael Dans) Belgium (solo)
2003   Galerie Nadja Vilenne, Liège, Belgium (solo)
2003   Galerie Annie Gentils, Antwerp, Belgium (solo)
2003   Herman Teirlinckhuis, Beersel, Belgium (solo)
2002   Flemish Culture Prize for the Visual Arts, Belgium (solo)
2001   Factor 44, Antwerp (with Dialogist–Kantor) Belgium (solo)
2001   S. Cole Gallery, Ghent, Belgium (solo)
2001   Hogeschool St–Lucas, Antwerp, Belgium (solo)
2001   Galerie Nadja Vilenne, Liège, Belgium (solo)
2001   Galerie ACGK, Brussels, (with Patrick Teugels) Belgium (solo)
1999   Stella Lohaus, Antwerp, (with Frankie DC) Belgium (solo)
1999   Hyperspace, Marie–Puck Broodthaers, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
Literature
2004   Walter Swennen, PIF, La Lettre volée – MAC’s, dir. Laurent Busine, texte de Jan Florizoone, Brussels
1999   La Consolation : Œuvres de la collection de la Communauté flamande de Belgique, Le Magasin - Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble
1994   Walter Swennen, MUHKA – Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp
1992   Modernism in Painting, 10 Jaar Schilderkunst in Vlaanderen / 10 Years of Painting in Flanders, PMMK, Oostende, Stichting Kunstboek, Brugge
1991   Kunst Europa, Belgien Niederlanden Luxemburg, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
1991   Brussel 1951 – 1991, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
1990   Walter Swennen, Stichting Zuidnederlandse Ontmoetingen : ill.
1988   Galerie Albert Baronian in ICC, ICC – Internationaal Cultureel Centrum, Antwerp
1982   La Magie de l’Image / De Magie van het Beeld, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
1981   Prix de la jeune peinture belge, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels