(b. 1950, Brussels, Belgium, Lives and works in Paris)
One of the most important filmmakers of her generation, Chantal Akerman has been a leading figure in European experimental cinema since the early seventies. Important solo exhibitions of Akerman’s work have been held at the Museum for Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium (2012), MIT, Cambridge Massachusetts (2008), the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel (2006); Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ (2006); and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2003). Akerman has participated in Documenta XI (2002) and the Venice Biennale (2001). In 2011 a film retrospective of Akerman’s work was shown at the Vienna Film Festival.
RECENT SOLO SHOWS
2013
Chantal Akerman : Maniac Shadows, The Kitchen, New York ; Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels, Belgium
2012
Chantal Akerman, Too Far, Too Close, Museum for Contemporary Art Antwerp, Belgium
2011
Chantal Akerman – Film Retrospective, Vienna Film Festival, Vienna
2009
Chantal Akerman – Film Retrospective, São Paulo, Brazil; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Brasília, Brazil
2008
Chantal Akerman: Moving Through Time and Space, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Texas; List Visual Arts Center, M.I.T., Cambridge, Massachusetts; Miami Art Museum, Miami; Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis; Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco
2006
Chantal Akerman, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel.
RECENT GROUP SHOWS
2012
A wavy line is drawn across the middle of the original plans, Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
La Triennale, Intense Proximity, Le Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Atelier + Kitchen = Laboratories of the Senses, Marta Herford gGmbH, Herford, Germany
Migration, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, Vermont
2011
You Have Been There, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
2010
29th Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil
The first Haifa Mediterranean Biennale, Haifa
2009
1989: The End of History or the Beginning of the Future? Comments on an Epochal Change, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
2007-2008
WACK!, Art and the Feminist Revolution, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles; Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York
2005
Faces in the Crowd, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Turin, Italy