We, humans learn to classify the things of the world at a young age. Like in the game live, lifeless, person, object, etc. Artist and poet Mimi Kunz, however, ignores this classification. And she does so with paper that we know is an object, but we also know it is a living creature.
Marianne Csaky, artist and curator
exhibitions (selection)
2020
Shapes of a Day, solo show, theexhibit, online
Nature Art Cube Exhibition, Geumgang Nature Art Center, Gongju City, KR
Something Beautiful 2, La Vallée Brussels, BE (rescheduled for spring 2021, date to be announced)
Pedestrians, Muntpunt Grand Cafe, Brussels, BE (solo)
Je compte ses mouvements, duo exhibition with Clément Davout, MAAC, Brussels, BE (curated by Lucie Pinier)
2019
Le Horla, Sterput Gallery, Brussels, BE (curated by Marine Penhouet)
PAPER,Streetview Anderlecht, Brussels, BE (curated by Marianne Csaky)
WeArtXL, Open studios, Ixelles, Brussels, BE
Cube, Jeongseojin Artcube, Incheon, KR
Symbiose, R2D2, Brussels (curated by Lucie Pinier)
Something Beautiful, La Vallée, Brussels, BE
2018
Lms + Xbc = <3, Undecided Productions, Xóm Bắc Cầu Cultural Space, Hanoi, VN
Open Day, Undecided Productions, the museum, Hien Van Village, VN
The Lion’s Face,The Pipe Factory, Glasgow, UK
Nature Art Cube Exhibition, Geumgang Nature Art Biennale 2018, Geumgang Nature Art Center, KR
Collaboration with architect Ioana Neacsu, Brussels, BE
Asymmetrische Demobilisierung, Galerie Luis Leu, Karlsruhe, DE (curated by Axel Heil)
FICTIONS, Chapitre XII, Brussels, BE (solo)
EAU, Blasius Boekel-Zwalm, BE
Carte de Visite, Brussels, BE
Modules, Rome, IT
2017
Blue and Snow, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Durbach, DE (solo)
Galerie Ahnen 5, Galerie Luis Leu, Karlsruhe, DE
Étude et métaphore du vivant, LeKabinet, Brussels, BE (curated by Lucie Pinier)
Graduation scholarship exhibition, State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe, DE
Zoveel Many Trees >< Abattre, La Vallée, Brussels, BE (curated by Fabien Defendini)
Wildwuchs, Orangerie Wolfegg, DE
Mitten im Zwischen, Haus am Wehrsteg, Heidelberg, DE
Old & New masters, Galerie Bastien Art, Brussels, BE
2016
Katsika, MEDEX, Paris, FR
Graduation Scholarship Exhibition, State Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe, DE
If Wishes were Fishes, La Vallée, Brussels, BE
Entre les lignes, Galerie Bastien Art, Brussels, BE
NOW, Breitenbachstudios, Heidelberg, DE
Pavillon Calmo, Orgelfabrik, Karlsruhe, DE
2015
Bonsai, Labokube, Brussels, BE
Graduation Scholarship Exhibition, State Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe, DE
Summer exhibition, State Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe, DE
TOP 15 Meisterschüler exhibition, Kunstverein, Reutlingen, DE
residencies, grants
2019 Symbiose, Duo Artist Residency with Stéfan Tulépo, R2D2, Brussels, BE
2018 Residency Grant, Goethe Institute Hanoi, Vietnam
2018 live.make.share Artist Residency, Undecided Productions, Hanoi, Vietnam
2017 Alumni Project Scholarship, Graduiertenförderung des Landes Baden-Württemberg, DE
2017 Common Grounds, Artist Residency, Cairngorm National Park, Scotland, UK
2015 Mitten im Zwischen, Artist Residency, Haus am Wehrsteg, Heidelberg, DE
2011 Academy Award, State Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe, DE
site specific commissioned works
2017 Shapes of a day, wall painting, private collection, Brussels, BE
2017 Birdmen, wall painting, private commection, Waterloo, BE
2016 Syllabary Tree, wall drawing, private collection, Bruxelles, BE
catalogs, art books
2019 ‘Pedestrians’, exhibition catalog, edition of 100, Brussels
2017 Snow on space, exhibition catalog, Museum of Contemporary Arts Durbach
2014 Three Wishes, artist book, State Acedmy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe
literary publications
2019 April, always – A portrait of Brussels in parts, Form, Brussels Express
2018 By a name I know not how to tell thee who I am, Brussels Writers Series VIII, Brussels Express
2018 The Museum of Favorite Things, The Circle, Harvard Square Editions
2018 Things We Do (crazy about you), Entropy Magazine
2015 Independence Day, Reciprocalturn, first edition
studies
2014-2015 Post-MA (Meisterschülerin) in Fine Arts at State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe, Germany
2009-2014 MA in Fine Arts at State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe, Germany, class Prof. Tatjana Doll and Prof. Daniel Roth
2007-2009 BA-Studies in English Literature, Translation, Sociolinguistics and Art History, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany
projects, workshops
2018 Founding of Something Beautiful, Festival for Visual Arts and Poetry, Brussels, BE (www.somethingbeautiful.be)
2017 Workshop «rock, paper, line», Karlsruhe University, DE
2016 Open Studio Workshop, Musée des Beaux de Lyon, FR
Video
View into the studio, Artists in Quarantine, The Artcouch Belgium, in collaboration with Elisa Vanderkerckhove
texts
Le futur du passé. Zu einigen Beobachtungen von Mimi Kunz, catalog text, Axel Heil, 2018 Deutsche Originalversion English version
Leaves. Portrait of a Tightrope Dancer in Autumn., exhibition text, Moritz Gansen, 2015 English version
portfolios
2019 Frühling, Sommer, Herbst – spring, summer, autumn (DE, ENG)
What If, ephemeral installations – ephemere Installationen (DE, ENG)
Mimi Kunz, live-make-share residency, 2018 (ENG)
