*1963 in Halle, Belgium,
lives and works in Sint Amandsberg, Belgium.
Maria Blondeel is a Belgian artist, photographer and scientific associate at KASK, Gent. Known
for her sound art works, she has developed her own unique visual style, which is characterized
as an interdisciplinary, experimental approach to technology, image, light and sound.
The abstract, airtight, ambiguous and ambivalent process of generative transmutations that opens up a performance of an unseen scene of image and sound in many of her works have gained her films the reputation to bring their audiences beyond the mental event.
In 2010 Maria Blondeel was awarded official guest of North-Rhine Westphalia in the scope of the state grant awarded in cooperation with the City of Düsseldorf and Medienwerk-NRW. She has resided in Düsseldorf in order to work on her sound-and-video project A40 RUHR. The DVD A40 RUHR was premiered at the Happy New Festival of Kortrijk in Belgium.
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2009
- Galerie 08, Bremen (Germany)
- Galerij Jan Colle, Ghent (Belgium)
2003
- 'Earwitness', CCNOA, Brussels (Belgium)
2002
- Galerie Rachel Haferkamp, Cologne (Germany)
- Ausstellungsraum Zweite Zeit, Münster (Germany)
2001
- Kunsthalle Lophem, Loppem (Belgium)
2000
- ACAC - Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Aomori (Japan)
- Galerie Im Winter, Bremen (Germany)
1999
- Studio 5 Beekman, New York (NY) (USA)
- Ausstellungsraum , Leipzig (Germany)
1998
- Fotogalerie Wien, Wien (Austria)
1996
- MuHKA, Antwerp (Belgium)
- Sint Pietersabdij, Ghent (Belgium)
- Croxhapox, Ghent (Belgium)
- Jan Mot & Oscar van de Boogaard, Brussels (Belgium)
1995
- Opus Operandi, Ghent (Belgium)
1994
- Experimental Intermedia, New York (NY) (USA)
1993
- Netwerk Galerij, Aalst (Belgium)
1992
Group exhibitions (selection)
2010'A longing for abstraction', FeliXart Museum, Drogenbos (Belgium)
'Good Vibrations', MUSICA, Neerpelt (Belgium)
2009
'Het beweegt', De Markten, Brussels (Belgium)
'FLASH B(L)ACK', CCStrombeek, Grimbergen (Belgium)
2007
'Hedendaagse fotografie uit de collectie van de Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen', s.l., Ghent (Belgium)
2006
'The Sound Of Music', La Maison Eclusière, Toulouse (France)
Museum Nikola Tesla & Belgrade Public Bath, Belgrado (Serbia Montenegro)
'Heilige Geest 3 (Weekend)', Voorkamer, Lier (Belgium)
'Sonambiente', Akademie der Künste, Berlin (Germany)
CCNOA, Brussel (België)
2005
'Hot Re-Strike', De Warande, Turnhout (Belgium)
2004
'LICHT KUNST LICHT', ArToll Labor e.V., Bedburg-Hau (Germany)
'Lichtkunst', LUX.US, Stadtwerke Lüdenscheid (Germany)
2003
'Puddles 2003', Jusshi Square, Tokyo (Japan)
2002
'Fractals', Beelden Buiten, Tielt (Belgium)
Gallery CD, Tielt (Belgium)
ATTACHMENT +, Brugge2002, Bruges (Belgium)
2001
'WOP', PS, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
1998
'Sittard on tour', Watertoren HK, Vlissingen (The Netherlands)
Speelhoven'98, Aarschot (Belgium)
1997
'Axis', Lasalle-Sia College of the Arts/Affandi Museum, Yogyakarta/Singapore (Singapore/Indonesia)
'Trapped Reality', Santa Monica Arts Centre, Barcelona (Spain)
'ProjectEI, Experimental Intermedia', Kunstencentrum Sittard, Sittard (The Netherlands)
1995
'Kunstlicht', Produzentengalerie, Kassel (Germany)
'Lichtecht', Der Schwarzenberg'schen Meierei, Schrattenberg (Austria)
1994
'MeX' , Lento (Eigenzeit), Essen & Dortmund & Munster (Germany)
1993
B'Art Code – Zetes, Brussels (Belgium)
1992
'Papier, beeld en basis', Netwerk Galerij, Aalst (Belgium)
1998
Iritis / Flux News, Liège (Belgium)
1987
Sint Lukas Galerij, Brussels (Belgium)
1985
Vereniging v.h. Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent (Belgium)
Festivals (selection)
2010'MUSIC II', Edith-Russ-Haus / Klangpol, Oldenburg (Germany)
'Klinkende Stad', Happy New Festival Kortrijk, Kortrijk (Belgium)
Medienwerk-nrw / Onomato Künstlerverein, Düsseldorf (Germany)
2009
'Het beweegt', De Markten, Brussels (Belgium)
'FLASH B(L)ACK', CCStrombeek, Grimbergen (Belgium)
2008
'Luminale 2008 - light and sound II', SKOP, Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
2007
Happy New Ears 07, Kortrijk (Belgium)
2006
'DAW06 Digital Art Weeks, Soundscapes For Two Channels', ETH, Zurich (Switzerland)
2005
'Tracing Spaces', 66 East: Centre for Urban Culture, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
II International Festival of Electronic Art 404, Rosario (Argentina)
'Argosfestival 2005', Argos, Brussels (Belgium)
1st Electronic Art Festival [prog:ME], Rio de Janeiro (Brasil)
'European Media Art Festival', EMAF 2005, Osnabruck (Germany)
2004
ARGOSFESTIVAL 2004, Brussels (Belgium)
November Music (Belgium & The Netherlands)
2002
'Simultaneous Silence', MaerzMusik, Berlijn (Germany)
2001
'(audio)incident # 10', Kaaitheater, Brussels (Belgium)
1994
Week van de Hedendaagse Muziek, Ghent (Belgium)
1989
AVE Festival, Arnhem (The Netherlands)
1987
Galerij V.U.B., Videografie Brussels (Belgium)
Interfilm 5 / Filmfestival Berlin (Germany)
1986
Stichting Logos, Ghent (Belgium)
