Behind the door when it s entirely open, touching the wall a floor area of 83,5 x 2 x 87 cm covered with transparant adhesive spray, gradually

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1 Behind the door when it s entirely open, touching the wall a floor area of 83,5 x 2 x 87 cm covered with transparant adhesive spray, gradually becomes visible by accumulated footsteps made by visitors 2010 installation view during Take space for example... at Annex 14, Bern, CH, 2010

2 8 neons, each 50 x 50 x 50 cm variable positions installation view during Untilted, Artis Den Bosch, NL, 2009

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4 Untitled new NAD C355BEE Stereo Integrated Amplifier, never to be used switched on, no input/output 2009

5 Drip Letraset on A4 paper, framed 2009

6 Untitled transpiration stains on A4 isometric paper, framed 2009

7 Untitled passe-partout for a torn out page, framed 2009

8 The Curators a collaboration with Annaïk Lou Pitteloud 9 digital slide show projection/ 16 video projection, sound 2009 (excerpt from notes on the work :) The slideshow projects images of the setting of a public conference on curating in an art institute in which curators are featured. The conference uses a setting that wants to hide the exhibition space it is appropriating with a mask that allows only verbal discourse. Ironically, the setting simulates the image of an exhibition and because of this, the exhibition space does not really disappear but rather re-appears through its reciprocal relation to the conference. The huge omnipresent monochromes for example are not artworks but serve as panels to muffle the reverberation, adhesive wall texts are not museal explanations nor conceptual text pieces but oneliners distilled from the history of curating, used as slogans for a public meeting, etc... Nonetheless, they guarantee the visuality of the event by their cross-referencing. The photographs litteraly show this image of the conference as an ambiguous façade. While these pictures formally seem to refer to the genre of authorial objective photography, they are in fact carefully constructed stand-ins for this genre, allowing them to be read -much like the setting of the conference itself- as a façade, an image that seems to be re-enacting its visibility. Alongside these still images, a video projection with sound takes the spectator through the conference. The video aims to offer a closer view of the event, a view from the inside which at first glance seems to be a documentation of the happening, more direct and truthful. But the video folds back onto itself, since it essentially ends up documenting the implication of the videomaker in the situation and showing his/her subjective points of attention, rather than fulfilling the expectations of a documentary. It is precise in an amateuristic sense, showing more relevance by seemingly missing the point. installation view during The Conspiracy/Die Verschwörung, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, CH, 2009

9 instruction for a page in the catalogue VOIDS, A Retrospective of Empty Exhibitions Centre Pompidou, Paris, F / Kunsthalle Bern, CH 2009

10 Amplifier DVD projection, 15 minute loop, sound 2008 A booklet from a cd containing early feedback performances by Max Neuhaus lays on the worktable in my studio. The caption under the image reads: Neuhaus switching off the amplifier to end a performance at the New School for Social Research. The image, including the sound in and outside of my studio, is recorded on video while I leave for about 15 minutes.

11 The Artist Will Be Present black inkstamp, 3 cm x 0,4 cm 2008 installation for Between Beach Ball and Rubber Raft, The Front Room, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, USA, 2008

12 Dot neon, diameter: 5 cm. 2008

13 Hole mini DV cassette, wall A hole was made in the wall that divides the exhibition space from the storage room of the gallery. The making of the hole was recorded on mini DV until the opening was big enough to see the adjacent space and to fit the mini DV cassette. At this point the mini DV was taken out of the camera without re-winding it and put into the hole after which the wall was carefully restored into its original state. installation view during E N D, Alexandre Pollazzon Ltd., London, UK, 2008

14 Bag plastic bag containing metal bolts screwed into the floor 2008

15 Untitled engraved PVC titlecard 20 x 30 cm 2007 installation view with Bag during E N D at Alexandre Pollazzon Ltd., London, UK, 2008

16 Behind the door when it s entirely open, touching the wall removed wallsegment, extended electrical wiring, protective metal corner 2007 installation during Open Ateliers, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL, 2007

17 Secret ways to remain happy, PANTONE colour sheet, copier paper on a catalogue page isolating the title of Richard Tuttle s installation Secret ways to remain happy,

18 Pretending to look elsewhere in exhibition venues, NYC DVD projection, 4 minutes loop, sound 2007 installaton view during The Eternal Flame, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, CH, 2008

19 on Pretending to look elsewhere in exhibition venues, NYC At the end of last year I began recording white walls during visits to known galleries in New York -Marian Goodman, Gavin Brown s enterprise, Baumgartner, etc. After I realized this wasn t allowed I had to act like a regular spectator to be able to make the recordings, which made the whole idea more interesting. Because there wasn t just the shift from context to exhibit and the other way around, created by the gallery itself, but it also forced me to engage in several performances which were -necessarily- unnoticed by the audience, in this case the venues staff. Of main importance to me though is that, through basically generating itself the way it did, the work has a questionnable existence. It s neither a performance nor a carefully constructed video, maybe it s a residue of something that wasn t really there in the first place.

20 Untitled (slightly to the left) welded steel, epoxyglue, metal bolts, matte primer coating 2007

21 Top left to bottom right marker on A4 grid paper 2009

22 Bounced ball yellow rubber ball, numbers 0 to 9 cut out in grey adhesive vynil 10 cm diameter 2007

23 Test transparant neon, visible argon gas 180 cm x 70 cm 2007

24 Left and right at the same time Two identical radios play live sounds from an underground parkinglot left of the gallery and a showroom for design furniture on the right of the gallery. FM-transmitters were installed in both spaces. Both radios were installed accordingly on the left and the right of the gallery space. installation for Left and right at the same time, FstForward, Antwerp, B, 2007

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26 detail parkinglot detail showroom FM transmitters

27 Signature drawing of Fstforward director Damien Vanherck's signature ballpoint on A4 paper, framed 2007

28 50% empty slide, metal 2006 (right) installation view during Take space for example... at Annex 14, Bern, CH, 2010

29 Marked tubelights (edition of 12) markerpen on tubelights, titlecard installation for Open Ateliers, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL, 2006

30 Every available table in the building until the room is full an exhibition space occupied by tables from the studios, workshops, lobby, library, conference rooms, administration and direction offices, 2006 installation for Open Ateliers, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL, 2006

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32 Untitled (Blow up) battery operated clock, 2 paper circles, each 12 cm diameter 2006

33 25 cm from the wall every object found in the exhibition space measuring 25 cm was used to create an equal distance from the wall installation for Strike A Pose, Circuit, Lausanne, CH, 2007

34 About 20 minutes (intermission) DVD projection, 20 minutes loop, low sound variable dimensions 2004 (stills)

35 Permanent marker cd-r containing the sound of a marker continuously drawing a line cd-r, markerpen 2003

36 Inside out in insulation, siliconeglue 2001 installation for Decoy, Annie Gentils gallery, B, 2001

37 Untitled (panorama) latex on acrylic on canvas. 120 x 50 cm 1999

38 Steve Van den Bosch , Antwerpen, BE Education HISK, Antwerpen, BE, Karel de Grote Hogeschool, Antwerpen, BE, Residencies Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten Germinations,Prague Academy of Fine Arts, Praha, CZ, 1998, 1 month residency Solo exhibitions 2009 Artis, s Hertogenbosch, NL, Untilted 2008 galerie Alexandre Pollazzon Ltd, London, UK, E N D 2007 Ellen de Bruijne projects/dolores, Amsterdam, ( «! ø )}_- ^*$ % ``?,.;/: += 2007 fst forward >>, Antwerpen, BE, Left and right at the same time 2004 Ruimte Morguen, Antwerpen, BE, (not here) 2002 Ruimte Morguen, Antwerpen, BE, Invitation 2001 Galerie Annie Gentils, Antwerpen, BE, Decoy Group exhibitions 2009 Les Abris, Lausanne, CH, Inbetweenout 2009 Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, CH, The Conspiracy 2009 Galerie Pianissimo, Milano, I, When the vacation is over for good 2009 The Front Room, Contemporay Art Museum St. Louis, USA, Between Beach Ball and Rubber Raft 2008 Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, CH, The Eternal Flame 2008 FormContent, London, UK, The shortest short story ever written 2008 :emyt, Berlin, D, Merz in Februar 2007 Sydney Biënnale online : About 20 minutes (intermission) 2007 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL, Open Ateliers 2007 P/////AKT, Amsterdam, NL, White Cube 2006 Konsortium, Düsseldorf, DE, You can throw that trust on the fire, 2006 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL, Open Ateliers 2006 (as curator/artist) objectif_exhibitions, Antwerpen, BE, No negative, 2006 Parts, Xiamen City, CN, Rijksakademie at Parts 2005 Cultuurcentrum Strombeek, Grimbergen, BE, Cakewalk 2005 f18, Antwerpen, BE, data copy 2004 MUHKA / FotoMuseum, Antwerpen, BE, Time Canvas 2004 Netwerk, Aalst, BE, De Alpen 2002 Zuivelmarkt 33, Hasselt, BE, Free Space Limburg - Exhibition W139, Amsterdam, NL, At least begin to make an end; Strip, Revert and Dewind 2002 Hooghuis, Arnhem, NL, Huis 2001 Koningin Fabiolazaal - KFZ, Antwerpen, BE, Provinciale prijs voor schilderkunst, 2000 De Warande, Turnhout, BE, Bauhaus 2000 Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Antwerpen, BE, Exhibition: work of the laureates 2000 Marres, Maastricht, NL, test 1999 Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten - Vlaanderen, Antwerpen, BE, IN/OUT Other 2008 Kunsthalle Bern, CH, Palaver ; one night presentation and debat with Hinrich Sachs, Ana Roldàn, Nino Baumgartner Publications 2009 Artists page for the catalogue of Voids, a retrospective of empty exhibitiions, Centre Pompidou, Paris, F 2003 Decennium. Kunst in België na Documenta IX, Ludion; CERA Holding, Leuven, BE 2003 Oorsprong, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, NL Selected articles 2008 Saatchi online, Top 10 shows in London, END, Steve Van den Bosch at Alexandre Pollazzon Ltd de Volkskrant, open Ateliers zonder grondig zelfonderzoek, Sacha Bronwasser 2006 NRC Handelsblad, Tl-buizen, voor 100 euro per stuk. Op Open Ateliers van de Rijksakademie ontbreekt de gekte, Sandra Smallenburg 2006 Hart, BE, Open Ateliers 2006 in Rijksakademie Amsterdam : brug tussen praktijk en circuit, Gerrit Vermeiren, issue 14, p De Financieel-Economische Tijd, Zuivelmarkt 33. Z De Morgen, The space of Steve Vd Bosch, Luk Lambrecht