Curriculum Vitae
Marie Ilse Bourlanges, 1983 (Paris, FR)
Lives and works in Amsterdam, NL
Worked as artist duo with Elena Khurtova from 2009 to 2020
– Education
2006 - 2008 BA of Textile design, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, NL
2003 - 2006 BA of Architectural Design, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, NL
2000 - 2003 BA of Interior Design, Ecole Boulle, Paris, FR
– Duo/dual Exhibitions
2023 Honeycombing : Archive event VII, Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, NL – co-developed with Elena Khurtova
2021 Fluid Fibers, Fertile Fields: at and i.c.w Atelier Severine Amsing, Amsterdam, NL
2020 Vous trouverez mon corps au petit port, an invitation by Virginie Rebetez, Forma Art galerie, Lausanne, CH
2020 Displace, 3bisF contemporary art centre, Les Parallèles du Sud, Manifesta 13, Aix en Provence, FR – co-developed with Elena Khurtova
2019 Shelf life : Archive event II, Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, NL – i.c.w Elena Khurtova
2018 Dust to *dust, Arti & Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL – duo Khurtova & Bourlanges
2018 Wetter than wet, gallery Josilda da Conceiçao, Amsterdam, NL – i.c.w Mayra Sergio and Elena Khurtova
2017 Whispering stones, EKA gallery, Tallinn, EE – duo Khurtova & Bourlanges
2017 Cephea’s chanting stones, performance, Paleis van Mieris, Amsterdam, NL – duo Khurtova & Bourlanges
2016 Cephea’s whispering stones, The Bookstore Space, Amsterdam, NL – duo Khurtova & Bourlanges
2016 Le Dragon, Delph, Delv, Drag, PlanB, Amsterdam, NL – duo Khurtova & Bourlanges
2016 Looking for the Ursa Major, PuntWG, Amsterdam, NL – duo Khurtova & Bourlanges
2015 The Memory of a Fold, De Vitrine, Amsterdam, NL – duo Khurtova & Bourlanges
2014 The Sky is on the Earth, Atelier Holsboer, Paris, FR – duo Khurtova & Bourlanges
2011 Encapsulated Stories, HMK {Hotel Maria Kapel}, Hoorn, NL – i.c.w Virginie Rebetez and Elena Khurtova
– Group Exhibitions (selection)
2022 Tuning in, Zone2Source, Amsterdam, NL
2021 Artistic Research fellowship presentation, Sandberg Institute, NL
2021 Art and Textiles – A Selection by Lottozero, Vijion Art Gallery, Ortisei, BZ – curated by Alessandra Tempesti
2021 Freedom of Desire, performance at Reneenee project space (former Maison Descartes) Amsterdam, NL read here
2019 50 years anniversary exhibition EKWC
2019 International Biennale of Contemporary Ceramics, Musée Magnelli, Vallauris, FR
2019 Korean International Ceramic Biennale, Gyeonggi, KR
2019 Kunsthalle Lottozero, Prato, IT – curated by Alessandra Tempesti
2019 Dead Darlings #11, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL
2017 Dead Darlings #09, Entropy, FOAM museum, Amsterdam, NL
2017 Korean International Ceramic Biennale, Gyeonggi, KR
2016 Inside Lottozero, Kunsthalle Lottozero, Prato, IT – curated by Alessandra Tempesti
2016 Inside Lottozero, Kunsthalle Eurocenter, Lana, IT – curated by Alessandra Tempesti
2016 Cognitive Dissonance, Spartanburg Art Museum, SC, USA
2015 Dead Darlings #08, Occupational Hazards, Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, NL
2015 NCECA, Rhode Island, USA
2014 International Biennial of Contemporary Ceramics, Musée Magnelli, Vallauris, FR
2010 International Design Biennial of Liege, BE
2009 Superstories, Triennial Hasselt, Modemuseum, Hasselt, BE – curated by Koos Flinterman
– Residencies & Fellowships
2022 School for Multispecies Knowledge, Zone2Source & OpenSet, NL
2021 - 22 Steward of The Linen Project, NL
2019 - 2020 Artistic research fellowship of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, NL
2020 3bisF contemporary art centre, Aix-en-Provence, FR
2019 Pilot program network research Istanbul Biennial by Mondriaan Fonds
2014 Atelier Holsboer, Paris, FR (with Mondriaan Fonds)
2011 HMK {Hotel Maria Kapel}, Hoorn, NL
2011 European Ceramic Workcentre (Sunday Morning @ EKWC) residency
– Fairs
2018 & 2019 Printing Plant Artist book Fair, Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, NL
2018 This Art Fair, with gallery Josilda da Conceiçao, Amsterdam, NL
2017 Printed matter, inc. New York Art book fair, NYC, USA
2013 Unseen Photofair Amsterdam, NL – with gallery Willem van Zoetendaal
2013 Prospects & Concepts, Art Rotterdam, NL (curated by Wim Waelput)
–– Selected Lectures & performative talks
2023 Book launch Mother’s Milk, discussion with M. Pagliuca Pelacani and A. Chauvet, Looiersgracht 60, NL
2023 Songs of Flax, workshop with Liza Prins, Garden department, Rietveld Academie, NL / ARKC, UvA
2021 About The Linen Project, Lectoraat Research Club, KABK, NL
2021 Artistic Research fellowship symposium, Sandberg Institute, NL listen here
2021 Guest Radio JaJaJaNeeNeeNee, Het Nieuwe Instituut Re:activate Episode #2 by Femke Dekker, listen here
2020 Guest on Radio show Trait d'union(s) par Radio Grenouille #5 for Manifesta13, (in French) listen here
2019 Guest speaker symposium SISU, Tallinn, EE
2019 Public talk with Alena Alexandrova for Shelf life : Archive event II, Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, NL
2018 Book launch during Printing Plant Artist book Fair, Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, NL
– Fundings
2021 Corona overbrugging, Mondriaan Fonds
2021 Gerbrandy Cultuurfonds for Fluid Fibers - Fertile Field, research trip to Burkina Faso
2021 Tijl Fonds & Stichting Stokroos & fondation Harlet Snug (CH), for Mother’s Milk publication
2019 - 2023 Bewezen talent, Mondriaan Fonds
2020 Region Sud - Manifesta13 & Stichting Stokroos, for Displace
2018 AFK (Amsterdamse Fonds voor de Kunst) for Dust to *dust
2015 - 2017 Mondriaan Fonds, project grant for The Sky is on the Earth (part 1, 2, 3)
2015 Stichting Stokroos, project grant for The Sky is on the Earth
2014 Mondriaan Fonds, Residency grant, Atelier Holsboer
2012 - 2013 Mondriaan Fonds, Standaard werkbudget
2011 - 2012 Fonds BKVB, Startstipendium
2010 Stichting Stokroos, Project subsidy
– Artist books
2023 Mother’s Milk, design by Alix Chauvet – published by Jap Sam Books
2021 Pollinating Agents – Resilient Beings, intuitive reader and artistic essays – self-published
2018 Sans Réponse, design by Cécile Tafanelli – self-published
2016 Looking for the Ursa Major, design by XF Fuentes – self-published
2015 The Memory of a Fold, design by Cécile Tafanelli – self-published
2014 Anticipated Decay, Towards a Grand Ruin, design by Miguel Hervas Gomez – published by Gerrit Rietveld Academie
2013 Decay, design by XF Fuentes – limited edition published by Van Zoetendaal edition,
2010 Investigating the Surface, design by XF Fuentes– self-published
2008 Decay, design by XF Fuentes– self-published
– Artistic essays
2023 The bottles you brought to my house, Tubelight magazine ‘The Gift’
2022 Almost an Island, published in Robida magazine #8 The Island
2021 Pollinating Agents – Resilient Beings, published in Fellows in Print, Gerrit Rietveld Academie
2021 Sealed LIPS & Freudian Slip, performative reading at Reneenee (former French Institute in Amsterdam) read here
2021 Stranded, published in Simulacrum magazine – Myths read here
2020 To Patchwork an Archive, published in SISU-LINE #5 Journal of Interior Architecture Research (EST) read here
2020 On Charming worms, and other wiggling miscellanea, published in P/////pool publication by Brigitte Louter read here
2019 Ignite and Soak, published in The Map is not the Territory, Nowhere collective #4 read here
2018 Psychomagic, published in Parking Lot #4 read here
2018 Farewell to my lover, published in Parking Lot #4 read here
– Press & Catalogues (selection)
2023 Metropolis M, 'Telling someone else's story', interview by Liza Prins about Mother’s Milk artist’s book read here
2022 Touching, artistic research publication by Lektoraat KABK, interview by Alice Twemlow
2020 RTS (Swiss French television) Rendez-vous culture & K Kultur Zeit (Swiss German television) video-article on ‘Vous Trouverez mon corps au petit port’ with Virginie Rebetez watch here
2020, En revenant de l’expo, review on Displace, article by Jean-Luc Cougy (in French) read here
2020 “Chantier interdit au public – à propos de Manifesta 13”, review on Displace in AOC by Léo Guy-Denarcy (in French - paragraph Pluralism p5 /8)
2019 The Big Issue (Taiwan) – highlight of our publishing practice for Printing Plant
2019 Klei – review on Dust to *dust, article by Lotte van Geijn
2018 Trendbeheer – review on Dust to *dust, article by Jeroen Bosch read here
2018 Simulacrum magazine – the Archive
2017 Destig magazine #2
2017 Kunstblijfteenraadsel, article by Paul Voors, 27-07-2017 read here
2017 Catalogue Gyonggi ceramic biennale, article by Ranti Tjan (director EKWC)
2017 Looking back - Moving forward, Dead Darlings for Collectivism exhibition at FOAM, NL
2017 Books of Ours, HMK {Hotel Maria Kapel}
2017 Jury mention and review by Anouk Kruihof for Anamorphosis prize
2016 Catalogue Inside Lottozero, article by Alessandra Tempesti (curator)
2014 Catalogue International Biennale of Contemporary Ceramics, Vallauris
2013 Unseen Photofair catalogue
2013 Abitare, IT (on curatorial work for Salone del Mobile, Milan)
2013 Kunstuur by AVRO (TV)
2011 Morf magazine, NL
2011 Moon V_Gue, a project by Alicia Framis & Maryme-JimmyPaul
2009 Superstories, exhibition catalogue, article by Koos Flinterman
2008 - 2009 Items magazine, on design prize graduates & one year later development
2008 Over/Under, Under/Over, book TXT department, NL
2007 Vrij Nederland, N-48, NL
– Prize & Nominations
2016 Jury prize, Anamorphosis prize for self-published photobooks
(Looking for the Ursa Major included in MoMA library collection, NY, USA)
2008 Gerrit Rietveld Academie Award
– Teaching
from 2021 Royal Academy of Art of The Hague, NL – IST Lab Entangled Resources, with Mayra Sérgio
from 2011 Royal Academy of Art of The Hague, NL – Interior Architecture & furniture
2012 - 2019 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Architectural design Amsterdam, NL
2011 & 2016 TXT (textile), G. Rietveld Academie, NL
2015 MIARD (Master of Interior Architecture) Piet Zwart Institute, NL
2010 & 2011 Form Study, Academie van Bouwkunst, Amsterdam, NL
– Curatorial work
2022 Nothing makes itself, KABK x De Besturing, Den Haag, NL
2019 Transient Embodiment, GRA x Het Hem, Amsterdam, NL
2019 Uncut, Architectural design, GRA x Stedelijk museum, Amsterdam, NL
2017 From One to Another, GRA x gallery Josilda da Conceicao, Amsterdam, NL
2017 The Voice of Materials, GRA x Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, NL
2016 Into the Ground, GRA x OT 301, Amsterdam, NL
2016 Reset, KABK in Salone del Mobile, Milan, IT
2015 Disclosing, GRA x Castrum Peregrini, NL
2014 Anticipated Decay, Towards a Grand Ruin, GRA x deService Garage, NL
2014 Backstage Onstage, KABK in Salone del Mobile, Milan IT
2013 Live Factory, KABK in in Salone del Mobile, Milan IT
2011 SlowLloyd, GRA x Bouwkunst Academie x Lloyd hotel Amsterdam, NL
2010 Investigating the Surface, Bouwkunst Academie x Temporary Museum De Paviljoens, Almere Poort NL
– Contact
+31 6 31950909
info@marieilsebourlanges.com
www.theskyisontheearth.com
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