Pieter Laurens Mol


1973


1990


2008


2015


BIOGRAPHY

  • 1946 Born in Breda, Netherlands, lives and works in Brussels, Belgium

EDUCATION

  • 1963-1965 Art Academy St. Joost, Department of Photography, Breda, Netherlands
  • 1959-1963 Carpentry Training, Bisschoppelijke Nijverheidsschool, Vorrhout, Netherlands

COLLECTIONS

  • Instituut Collectie Netherlands
  • Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
  • Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
  • Museum Overholland, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Musée d’Art Contemporaine de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
  • Graphische Sammlung Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany
  • Noordbrabants Museum, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
  • Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden, Netherlands
  • Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
  • Abn-Amro Bank, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Rivendell Collection, Center for Curatorail
  • Studies, Bard College, Annandale-onhudson, New York, USA
  • Cultureel Centrum ‘t Hoogt, Utrecht, Netherlands
  • Le Musée De Valence, Valence, France
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
  • Museum Voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium
  • IVAM Centre Julio González, Valencia, Spain
  • Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
  • The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
  • Walker Art Center, Rosemary Furtak Collection, Minneapolis, USA
  • Kunstpalais Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
  • Malmö Kosnthall, Malmö, Sweden
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
  • Collectie De Bruin-heijn, Wassenaar, Netherlands
  • Fonds National D’Art Contemporain, Ministére de la Culture, Paris, France
  • Moderna Musset, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Noordbrabants Museum, Den Bosch, Netherlands
  • Collection Barbier-mueller, Genève, Switzerland
  • Abn Amro Bank, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Museum Voorlinnden, Waasenaaar, Netherlands

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)

  • 2018 Red Lead Index, Parrotta Contemporary Art Cologne, Germany
  • 2016 Wiegezang (voor Vincent), Vincent Van Gogh Huis, Zundert, Netherlands
  • 2016 Forty-Five Feathers Fallen on a Field, Parrotta Contemporary Art, Stuttgart, Germany
  • 2015 Zucht Zocht Zicht, Galerie Nouvelles Images, The Hague, Netherlands
  • 2015 Farideh Cadot Associés, Paris, France
  • 2014 Farideh Cadot Associés, Paris, France
  • 2013 Dust that never sets, Galerie Triangle Bleu, Stavelot, Belgium
  • 2013 Interest Generator, De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 2011 The Flyby, Galerie Nouvelles Images, The Hague, Netherlands
  • 2009 Method and Mode, Hidde van Seggelen, London, UK
  • 2009 Puu-puu-puu-tsjing-tsjing-tsaf-tsjit, We-Project Space, Brussels, Belgium
  • 2009 La Salutation Bruxelloise, La Maison Dotremont, Brussels, Belgium
  • 2008 Chant de Mars, Galerie Triangle Bleu, Stayelot, Belgium
  • 2008 Lustre in the Dark (celestial Studies, Reveries, Twilight Scenes Ans Noctures), Galerie Nouvelles Images, The Hague, Netherlands
  • 2008 Plug In # 37 / One on One, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
  • 2006 Several Shot Films From The Seventies, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent, Belgium
  • 2005 Root out, Cast up and Thrust Down, Galerie Bowievanvalen, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 2004 Seashore/Semaphore, Galerie Nouvelles Images, The Hague, Netherlands
  • 2002 Chambres Separées, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent, Belgium
  • 2002 The Limit to which Man can reach out into Space, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 2002 Moedervlek (1965-1975), Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent, Belgium
  • 2002 Ook, Line and Sinker (collected Editions: 1967-2002), Centrum Voor Beeldende Kunst Dordrecht, Dordrecht, Netherlands
  • 2000 Imminent Tempest, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent, Belgium
  • 1999 Obsidio Bredana, Breda’s Museum, Breda, Netherlands
  • 1999 Hollow Sorrow, Kunstvereniging Diepenheim, Diepenheim, Netherlands
  • 1998 Winter over Spring, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
  • 1998 Pathway Colours, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 1997 Ferro Fever, “In het Kabinet”, Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands
  • 1996 Lure of Thumb, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 1996 Pulse and Orbit, Sean Kelly, New York, Usa
  • 1996 Projects, The Museum Of Modern Art, New York, USA
  • 1995 Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 1994 Mit List Visual Arts Center, Boston, USA
  • 1994 Centre Saidye Bronfman, Montréal, Canada
  • 1994 Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA
  • 1993 Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA
  • 1993 Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
  • 1993 Ferro Fever, Institute of Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 1993 La Charge Utile, Centre D’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
  • 1993 IVAM, Centre del Carme, Valencia, Spain
  • 1993 Pieter Laurens Mol, Zeichnungen, Galerie Franck & Schulte, Berlin, Germany
  • 1992 Once I Existed, Galerie Franck & Schulte, Berlin, Germany
  • 1992 Once I Existed, Louver Gallery, New York, USA
  • 1992 Selected Works: 1983-1992, L.A. Louver Inc., Venice, Italy
  • 1991 Galleria Sperone, Rome, Italy
  • 1990 Galleria Mikkola & Rislakki, Helsinki, Finland
  • 1990 Louver Gallery, New York, USA
  • 1990 Galerie Cintrik, Antwerp, Belgium
  • 1989 The Sanguine Surrender, A Tribute to Mars, Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
  • 1989 Migraine Meadow, Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norway
  • 1989 Portretten Van De Waan 1983-1985, Cultureel Centrum De Beyerd, Breda, Netherlands
  • 1989 Internationaal Cultureel Centrum ICC, Antwerp, Belgium
  • 1988 Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
  • 1988 Le Musée de Valence, Valence, France
  • 1988 Galerie Nikki Diana Marquardt, Paris, France
  • 1988 Prenten en Voorwerpen, Galerie de Expeditie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 1988 Galerie Cintrik, Antwerp, Belgium
  • 1987 Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden
  • 1987 Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdsam, Netherlands
  • 1986 Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 1986 Galerie Cintrik, Antwerp, Belgium
  • 1985 Kunstverein Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany
  • 1985 Portretten van de Waan 1983-1985, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 1985 Travaux Récents, Galerie Rivolta, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • 1985 Fotografien, Zeichnungen, Galerie Hartmut Beck, Erlangen, Germany
  • 1985 Raum 41 (with Bert Boogaard), Bonn, Germany
  • 1983 Galerie Helen Van Der Meij/ Paul Th. Andriesse, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 1982 Galerie Helen van Der Meij, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 1981 Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
  • 1981 Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
  • 1981 Galerie Toni Gerber, Bern, Switzerand
  • 1980 Galerie Helen van der Meij, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 1980 Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
  • 1978 Galerie Helen van der Meij, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 1977 Galerie Seriaal, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 1977 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 1977 Deux Artistes de la Biennale (with Paul Van Dijk), Institut Néerlandais, Paris, France
  • 1976 Galerie Lóa, Haarlem, Netherlands
  • 1975 Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
  • 1974 Scultura Italiana, In-Out Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 1974 Galerie Fignal, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 1973 In-Out Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 1969 Galerie 845, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 1968 Cultureel Centrum de Beyerd, Breda, Netherlands

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)

  • 2015 Le drand Large: Territoire de la Pensée, Galerie le Magasin de Papier, Mons, Belgium
  • 2015 Veldwerk, Kunstvereniging Diepenheim, Diepenheim, Netherlands
  • 2014 00:00:01 A Split Second, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent, Belgium
  • 2014 Lés Echos De La Nature, Annex14 Raum für Aktuelle Kunst, Zürich, Switzerland
  • 2014 Hoge Horizon. Bruegelland Vroeg 21e Eeuw, Stedelijk Museum Lier, Lier, Belgium
  • 2014 As Exciting As We Can Make It: Ikon In The 1980s, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
  • 2013 One of a Kind, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent, Belgium
  • 2013 Donatie Maurice van Valen, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
  • 2013 Black Out – On the Verge of the Photographic, Parrotta Contemporary Art, Stuttgart, Germany
  • 2012 Absence # Presence, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent, Belgium
  • 2012 Among the Leaves, (with Bas Jan Ader, Walter Dahn And Daan Van Golden), Figge Von Rosen Galerie, Cologne, Germany
  • 2012 Colorific, Ecole des Arts de Braine-l’alleud, Braine-l’alleud, Belgium
  • 2012 Porta Nigra, Hidde van Seggelen Gallery, London, UK
  • 2011 Sculpture, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent, Belgium
  • 2011 Over your cities grass will grow, Hidde van Seggelen Gallery, London, UK
  • 2011 All about Drawing, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam, Netherlands
  • 2011 Meer dan tekenen, Galerie Nouvelles Images, The Hague, Netherlands
  • 2011 Origin(s), Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium
  • 2010 Antigrav – Figuren des Schwebens und Schwindels, Parrotta Contemporary Art, Stuttgart, Germany
  • 2010 Tu me fais tourner la tête, Galerie Triangle Bleu, Stavelot, Belgium
  • 2009 Far from Turmoil, Mol’s Place, London, UK
  • 2009 Past-Present-Future #2, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent, Belgium
  • 2008 Faces/(Auto)Portraits, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent, Belgium
  • 2007 Icare, Salle Saint-georges / Le Musée de l’Art Wallon de la Ville de Liège, Liége, Belgium
  • 2007 Land, Sea and in the Air, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent, Belgium
  • 2005 A Guest + A Host = A Ghost, Hedge House / Kasteel Wijlre, Wijlre, Netherlands
  • 2005 45 Jaar N.i. / 2 Aan 2 (deel 1), Galerie Nouvelles Images, The Hague, Netherlands
  • 2005 Cross Reference, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent, Belgium
  • 2005 Untitled Folly, Galerie Bowie Van Valen, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 2004 Le Cinéma des Photographes Néerlandais, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
  • 2004 Raisons & Dérisions, Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Liège, Liége, Belgium
  • 2004 Drawing Room, Galerie Ram, Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • 2002 Chambres Séparées, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent, Belgium
  • 2002 Crafting Space, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 2001 Paper, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent, Belgium
  • 2000 World Wide Flags – Drapeaux d’Artistes, Palais des Congrès, Liége, Belgium and Luxembourg, Luxembourg
  • 2000 Bloemen van de Nieuwe Tijd / Nederlandse Bloemschilderkunst 1980-2000, Noordbrabants Museum, ’s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
  • 2000 De Anatomie van de Melancholie, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent, Belgium
  • 1999 Sense of drawing, Galerie Nouvelles Images, The Hague, Netherlands
  • 1999 Manufacturing Meaning, The Adam Art Gallery / Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
  • 1999 Drawing Thinking, Rha Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
  • 1999 Einerseits der Sterne wegen…, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
  • 1998 Materiais de Construção / Building Materials, (with Markus Raetz And Michelangelo Pistoletto), Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Centro de Arte Moderna José De Azeredo Perdigão, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 1998 Der Vogel Selbsterkenntnis, Tiroler Volksmuseum, Innsbruck, Austria
  • 1998 Self-Portraits, Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, Netherlands
  • 1997 Lightness and Gravity, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia
  • 1997 Amour & Obsession, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent, Belgium
  • 1996 Fotografische Momenten, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
  • 1996 De Muze als Motor, De Beyerd, Breda, Netherlands
  • 1996 Ego Detox, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 1995 Blue, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, USA
  • 1994 De ideale plaats, Haags Centrum voor Actuele Kunst Hcak, The Hague, Netherlands
  • 1994 Tulpomania Binnen En Buiten, Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem, Netherlands
  • 1993 Louver Gallery, New York, USA
  • 1993 Fictions on the self, Herter Art Gallery, University Of 1993 Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
  • 1993 Flora Photographica, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
  • 1993 Le Jardin de la Vierge, Espace 251 Nord, Brussels, Belgium
  • 1992 Strata, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Fin; Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
  • 1992 Joy & Pain…, Institute of Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 1992 Poesis, Aspects of Contemporary Poetic Activity, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
  • 1991 Nachtregels / Nightlines. Words without Thoughts never to Heaven go, Art in Utrecht’s Historic Inner City from Sunset to Sunrise, Various Sites in the City, Utrecht, Netherlands
  • 1991 Clemente, Dorner, Iglesias, Mol, Sarmento, Louver Gallery, New York, Usa
  • 1991 L’invitation au voyage, art contemporain des pays bas / De uitnodiging tot de reis, Hedendaagse Kunst uit Nederland, Vergadercentrum Albert Borschette, Brussels, Belgium
  • 1990 Non-sculpture, Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 1989 Passages, Haags Centrum voor Actuele Kunst Hcak, The Hague, Netherlands
  • 1988 La Giovane Scultura Olandese, Palazzo Sagredo, Venice, Italy
  • 1988 Nobody’s Fools, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 1987 Art from Europe, The Tate Gallery, London, UK
  • 1987 À L’heure de la Hollande / Out of Holland, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montréal, Canada
  • 1987 Déconstruction, Halles des Schaerbeek, Brussels, Belgium
  • 1987 Century 87, Kunst van nu Ontmoet Amsterdams Verleden / Today’s Art Face to Face With Amsterdam’s Past, “ons’ Lieve Heer Op Solder” + Various Other Sites in the City, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 1986 Origins, Originality + Beyond, The Sixth Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
  • 1986 Portraits fe Scène à Lîle aux Phoques, Casa Frollo, Venice, Italy
  • 1986 Prospekt 86, Frankfurter Kunstverein, SCHIRN Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
  • 1986 Photography as Performance (Message through Object & Picture), The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK
  • 1985 Das Poetische ABC, Alles und noch viel mehr, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
  • 1985 Investigations, Place Saint-lambert, Liège, Belgium
  • 1985 Wat Amsterdam Betreft / As far as Amsterdam Goes, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 1985 Self-portrait in the Age of Photography. Photographers Reflecting their own Image, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Ch; Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, D; Akademie Der Künste, Berlin, D; Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, Houston, Usa; San Antonio Traves Park Plaza, San Antonio, USA
  • 1984 Onder Invloed van Mercurius, Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 1983 Kunst mit Photographie, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, D; Kölnischer 1983 Kunstverein, Cologne, D; Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich, D; Kunsthalle Zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
  • 1982 Contemporary Art from the Netherlands, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Cananada; Iowa State University, Ames, Usa; La Jolla Museum Of Contemporary Art, LA Jolla, USA
  • 1982 Zien en gezien Worden. Fotografische Zelfbespiegelingen in Nederland, Nijmeegs Museum “Commanderie Van Sint-jan”, Nijmegen, Netherlands
  • 1981 Instant Fotografie, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 1980 Nuova Immagine, Palazzo della Triennale, Galleria del Disegno, Milan, Italy
  • 1980 Beograd ’80, Exposition Internationale des Arts Plastiques, Musée d’Art Moderne, Belgrade, Serbia
  • 1979 Photographie als Kunst 1879-1979. Kunst als Photographie 1949-1979, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, A; Neue Galerie am Wolfgang Gurlitt Museum, Linz, A; Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, A; Museum Des XX. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, Austria
  • 1979 Unga Hollandäre, Tre Aspekter På Verkligheten, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
  • 1978 Personal Worlds, Reality as Metaphor, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 1977 X. Biennale de Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
  • 1977 Nederlandse Kunstenaarsboeken, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands
  • 1976 7 Holländische Künstler, Kunstmuseum, Luzern, Switzerland
  • 1976 Brabant Biënnale, Cultureel Centrum de Beyerd, Breda, Netherlands
  • 1975 Visual Poetry International, De Doelen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • 1974 In-Out Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 1972 Reykjavik Art Festival, Galleri Súm, Reykjavik, Island
  • 1969 Zomer-Opstelling, Galerie “Orez”, The Hague, Netherlands
  • 1969 Pläne und Projekte als Kunst, Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland

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