Pieter Laurens Mol
Selected solo exhibitions
2013 DUST THAT NEVER SETS, Galerie Triangle Bleu, Stavelot, Belgium
2011 The Flyby, Galerie Nouvelles Images, The Hague. The Netherlands
2009 Method and Mode, Hidde van Seggelen Gallery, London
puu-puu-puu-tsjing-tsjing-tsjaf-tsjaf-tsjit, WE-Project Space, Brussels, Belgium
La Salutation Bruxelloise, La Maison Dotremont, Brussels, Belgium
2008 Chant de Mars, Galerie Triangle Bleu, Stavelot, Belgium
Lustre in the Dark (Celestial Studies, Reveries, Twilight Scenes and Nocturnes), Galerie Nouvelles Images, The Hague, The Netherlands
Plug In #37 / One on One, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
2006 Galerie Nouvelles Images, The Hague, The Netherlands
Several Short Films from the Seventies, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent, Belgium
2005 Root Out, Cast Up and Thrust Down, Galerie Bowie Van Valen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
De Vrije Academie, Studium Generale project: Tracks of Inner Engagement, The Hague, The Netherlands
Maintenance Procedure, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent, Belgium
2004 Seashore/Semaphore, Galerie Nouvelles Images, The Hague, The Netherlands
2002 The Limit to Which Man Can Reach Out into Space, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Moedervlek, Kunsthandel Lambert Tegenbosch, Heusden, The Netherlands
Moedervlek (1965-1975), Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent, Belgium
Hook, Line and Sinker/Collected Editions: 1967-2002, Centrum Beeldende Kunst Dordrecht, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
2000 Imminent Tempest, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent, Belgium
1999 Obsidio Bredana, Breda’s Museum, Breda, The Netherlands
1999 Hollow Sorrow, Kunstvereniging Diepenheim, Diepenheim, The Netherlands
1998 Winter over Spring, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Pathway Colours, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1997 Ferro Fever, In het Kabinet, Het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands
1996 Projects, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Lure of Thumb, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Pulse and Orbit, Sean Kelly, New York, USA
1995 Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1994 MIT List Visual Arts Center, Boston, USA
Centre Saidye Bronfman, Montreal, Canada
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA
Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA
1993 Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Ferro Fever, Institute of Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
La Charge Utile, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
IVAM, Centre del Carme, Valencia, Spain
Pieter Laurens Mol, Zeichnungen, Galerie Franck & Schulte, Berlin, Germany
1992 Once I Existed, Galerie Franck & Schulte, Berlin, Germany
Once I Existed, Louver Gallery, New York, USA
Selected Works: 1983-1992, L.A.Louver Inc., Venice, USA
1991 Galleria Sperone, Rome, Italy
1990 Galleria Mikkola & Rislakki, Helsinki, Finland
Louver Gallery, New York, USA
Galerie Cintrik, Antwerp, Belgium
1989 The Sanguine Surrender: A Tribute to Mars, Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Migraine Meadow, Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norway
Portretten van de Waan 1983-1985, Cultureel Centrum De Beyerd, Breda, The Netherlands
Internationaal Cultureel Centrum ICC, Antwerp, Belgium
1988 Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Le Musée de Valence, Valence, France
Galerie Nikki Diana Marquardt, Paris, France
Prenten en voorwerpen, Galerie De Expeditie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Galerie Cintrik, Antwerp, Belgium
1987 Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Switzerland
Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdsam, The Netherlands
1986 Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Galerie Cintrik, Antwerp, Belgium
Kunstverein Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany
1985 Portretten van de Waan, 1983-1985, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Travaux récents, Galerie Rivolta, Lausanne, Switzerland
Fotografien, Zeichnungen, Galerie Hartmut Beck, Erlangen, Germany
Raum 41, Bonn, Germany, with Bert Boogaard
1983 Galerie Helen van der Meij/ Paul Th. Andriesse, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1982 Galerie Helen van der Meij, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1981 Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Galerie Toni Gerber, Bern, Switzerland
1980 Galerie Helen van der Meij, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
1978 Galerie Helen van der Meij, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1977 Galerie Seriaal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Deux Artistes de la Biennale, Institut Néerlandais, Paris, France, with Paul van Dijk
1976 Galerie Lóa, Haarlem, The Netherlands
1975 Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
1974 Scultura Italiana, In-Out Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Galerie Fignal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1973 In-Out Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1969 Galerie 845, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1968 Cultureel Centrum De Beyerd, Breda, The Netherlands
Selected group exhibitions
2012 Absence # Presence, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent, Belgium
Downside Up, Galerie Traingle Bleu, Stavelot, Belgium
Colorific, Ecole des Arts de Braine-l’Alleud, Belgium
Through an open window: Art contemporain de la Rabo Art Collection, Instituut Néerlandais, Paris, France
2011 Mind Games, China Art Objects, Los Angeles, USA
Origins, Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium
Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow, Hidde van Seggelen Gallery, London
Sculpture, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent, Belgium
All About Drawing, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam, The Netherlands
Meer dan Tekenen, Galerie Nouvelles Images, The Hague, The Netherlands
2010 Antigrav - Figuren des Schwebens und Schwindels, Parotta Contemporary Art, Stuttgart, Germany
Her/His Nature, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent, Belgium
Tu me fais tourner la tête, Galerie Triangle Bleu, Stavelot, Belgium
Het Onweerstaanbare Verlangen, Galerie Nouvelles Images, The Hague, The Netherlands
Far from Turmoil, Mol's Place, London
NI 50 Years Part 2, Galerie Nouvelles Images, The Hague, The Netherlands
2009 Past-Present-Future #2, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent, Belgium
2008 Faces/(Auto)Portraits, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent, Belgium
2007 Land, Sea and in the Air, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent, Belgium
Icare, Salle Saint-Georges / Le Musée de l’Art wallon de la Ville de Liège, Liége, Belgium
2005 A Guest + a Host = a Ghost, Hedge House / Kasteel Wijlre, Wijlre, The Netherlands
45 jaar N.I. / 2 aan 2 (Deel 1), Galerie Nouvelles Images, The Hague, The Netherlands
Cross Reference, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent, Belgium
Untitled Folly, Galerie Bowie van Valen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Gravity in Art, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2004 Le Cinéma des Photographes Néerlandais, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, FRaisons & Dérisions, Académie royale des Beaux-Arts de Liège, Liége, Belgium
Drawing Room, Galerie RAM, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2002 Chambres Séparées, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent, Belgium
Crafting Space, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2001 Paper, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent, Belgium
2000 World Wide Flags - Drapeaux d’Artistes, Palais des Congrès, Liége, Belgium ; Luxembourg
Bloemen van de Nieuwe Tijd / Nederlandse Bloemschilderkunst 1980-2000, Noordbrabants Museum, ’s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
De Anatomie van de Melancholie, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent, Belgium
1999 Sense of Drawing, Galerie Nouvelles Images, The Hague, The Netherlands
Manufacturing Meaning, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
1999 Drawing Thinking, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Einerseits der Sterne wegen..., Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 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
Der Vogel Selbsterkenntnis, Tiroler Volksmuseum, Innsbruck, Austria
Self-Portraits, Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, The Netherlands
1997 Lightness and Gravity, The Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, Australia
Amour & Obsession, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Gent, Belgium
1996 Fotografische Momenten, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium
De Muze als Motor, De Beyerd, Breda, The Netherlands
Ego Detox, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1995 Blue, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1994 De Ideale Plaats, Haags Centrum voor Actuele Kunst HCAK, The Hague, The Netherlands
Tulpomania binnen en buiten, Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem, The Netherlands
Het Grote Gedicht, De Grote Kerk, The Hague, The Netherlands
1993 Louver Gallery, New York
Flora Photographica, Hayward Gallery, London
Fictions on the Self, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Azur, Fondation Cartier, Jouy-en-Josas, France
1993 Le Jardin de la Vierge, Espace 251 Nord, Brussels, Belgium
1992 Strata, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
Joy & Pain..., Institute of Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Poiesis, Aspects of contemporary poetic Activity, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
1991 Nachtregels / Nightlines. Words without Thoughts Never to Heaven Go, Art in Utrecht’s historic inner city from sunset to sunrise, Utrecht, The Netherlands, various sites in the city
Clemente, Dorner, Iglesias, Mol, Sarmento, Louver Gallery, New York, USA
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, The Netherlands
Zelfportretten, Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, The Netherlands
1989 Passages, Haags Centrum voor Actuele Kunst HCAK, The Hague, The Netherlands
1988 Universalis / Beelden van de Idee, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
La Giovane Scultura Olandese, Palazzo Sagredo, Venice, Italy
Nobody’s Fools, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1987 Tekenen ’87, Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Art from Europe, The Tate Gallery, London
Déconstruction, Halles des Schaerbeek, Brussels, Belgium
A l’heure de la Hollande / Out of Holland, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montréal, Canada
1987 Century 87, Kunst van nu ontmoet Amsterdams verleden / Today’s Art face to face with Amsterdam’s Past, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, various sites in the city (“Ons’ Lieve Heer op Solder”)
Nachtvuur / Nightfire , De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1986 Origins, Originality + Beyond, The Sixth Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Portraits de scène à l’île aux phoques, Casa Frollo, Venice, Italy
Prospekt 86, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Photography as Performance (message through object & picture), The Photographer’s Gallery, London
1985 Das poetische ABC, Alles und noch viel mehr, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
Investigations, Place Saint-Lambert, Liège, Belgium
Geënt op Bosch, Museum ‘t Kruithuis, 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
Wat Amsterdam betreft / As far as Amsterdam goes, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
Self-portrait in the age of photography. Photographers reflecting their own image, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland; Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany; Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany; Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, Houston, USA; San Antonio Traves Park Plaza, San Antonio, USA
1984 Onder invloed van Mercurius, Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1983 Kunst mit Photographie, Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne; Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich; Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany
Gesignaleerd – Neue Kunst aus den Niederlanden, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany
1982 Momentbild-Künstlerphotographie, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
Contemporary Art from the Netherlands, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; Iowa State University, Ames, USA; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, USA
’60-’80, Attitudes, Concepts, Images, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Zien en gezien worden. Fotografische zelfbespiegelingen in Nederland, Nijmeegs Museum “Commanderie van Sint-Jan”, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
1981 Instant fotografie, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1980 Nuova Immagine, Palazzo della Triennale, Galleria del Disegno, Milan, Italy
Beograd ’80, Exposition internationale des Arts plastiques, Musée d’Art Moderne, Belgrade, Serbia
Het Eeuwige Tijdelijke, Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
1979 Fotografie in Nederland 1940-1975, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Europa 1979, Kunst der 80-er Jahre / Art of the Eighties, Stuttgart, Germany
Photographie als Kunst 1879-1979. Kunst als Photographie 1949-1979, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck; Neue Galerie am Wolfgang Gurlitt Museum, Linz; Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz; Museum des XX. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, Austria
Mit Natur zu tun, To do with Nature, Pulchri Studio, The Hague, The Netherlands
Unga Hollandäre, Tre aspekter på verkligheten, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
1978 Personal Worlds, Reality as Metaphor, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1977 X. Biennale de Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Nederlandse Kunstenaarsboeken, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands
1976 7 Holländische Künstler, Kunstmuseum, Luzern, Switzerland
Hollandse Week, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Brabant Biënnale, Cultureel Centrum De Beyerd, Breda, The Netherlands
1975 Visual Poetry International, De Doelen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Internationale Visuele Poëzie, Cultureel Centrum ’t Hoogt, Utrecht, The Netherlands
1974 In-Out Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1972 Reykjavik Art Festival, Galleri Súm, Reykjavik, Iceland
In-Out Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1969 Zomer-opstelling, Galerie “OREZ”, The Hague, The Netherlands
Pläne und Projekte als Kunst, Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland
Publications
2002 Moedervlek, Artist Book, publ. Uitgeverij SUN, Nijmegen/Amsterdam, The Netherlands, ISBN 90-58750-59-0
Hook, Line and Sinker, publ. CBK Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
2000 Grand Promptness, Pieter Laurens Mol, ed. Marente Bloemheuvel, Artimo Foundation Breda Edition, ISBN : 90-75380-03-8
1998 Winter over Spring, Artist Book, publ. The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, ISBN 0-907660-63-0
1995 Ferro Fever, Artist Book, publ. Artimo Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, ISBN 90-75380-02-X
1989 The Sanguine Surrender, Artist Book, publ. Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh, UK, ISBN 0-948-274-05-0
Portretten van de Waan, Artist Book, publ. Cultureel Centrum De Beyerd, Breda, The Netherlands & ICC, Antwerpen, Belgium, ISBN 90-72637-02-X
Exhibition catalogues
1999 Einerseits der Sterne Wegen, publ. Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden Germany, ISBN 3-92-5521-64-X
Manufacturing Meaning, publ. The Adam Art Gallery / Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, ISBN 0-9582112-1-3
Materiais de Construção // Building Materials, publ. undação Calouste Gulbenkian, Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão, Centro de Arte Moderna, Lisboa, Portugal, ISBN 972-635-112-X
1998 Der Vogel Selbsterkenntnis // The Bird of Self-Knowledge, publ. Tiroler Volksmuseum, Innsbruck, Austria, German version: ISBN 3-908161-67-7, English version: ISBN 3-908161-67-3
1997 Lightness and Gravity, publ. Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia, ISBN 0-947104399
1993 Pieter Laurens Mol, publ. by Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Dutch version: ISBN 90-70149-38-9, English version without ISBN
1992 Poesis, publ. Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK, ISBN 0-947912-00-2
Joy and Pain, publ. I.C.A, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Strata, publ. Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland, ISBN 951-47-6049-2
1991 Nachtregels // Night Lines, publ. Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands, ISBN 90-73285-07-0
1988 Pieter Laurens Mol, publ. Musée de Valence, Valence, France
Pieter Laurens Mol, publ. unstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
La Giovane Scultura Olandese, publ. Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst, Den Haag, The Netherlands, ISBN 90-71465-17-9
1987 Pieter Laurens Mol, publ. Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden
Century ’87, publ. Stichting Onafhankelijk Kunsthistorisch Onderzoek, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
À L’Heure de la Hollande, publ. Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst, Den Haag, The Netherlands & Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Canada, ISBN 2-551-06771-5
Art from Europe, publ. Tate Gallery, London, UK, ISBN 2-551-06771-5
1986 Prospect ’86, publ. Frankfurter Kunstverein & Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
1982 Contemporary Art from the Netherlands, publ. ijksdienst Beeldende Kunst, Den Haag, The Netherlands & Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, United States of America
1981 Pieter Laurens Mol, publ. Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany; IKON Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom & Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
1980 Nuova Immagine, publ. Palazzo della Triennale, Milano, Italy, ISBN 88-202-0434-7
1978 Pieter Laurens Mol, publ. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Personal Worlds, publ. Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst, Den Haag, The Netherlands
1976 7 Holländische Künstler, publ. Kunsthalle Luzern, Luzern, The Czech Republic
1975 Pieter Laurens Mol, publ. Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Internationale Visuele Poëzie // Anthologie Visuele Poëzie, publ. Cultureel Centrum ’t Hoogt, Utrecht, The Netherlands, ISBN 90-6019-372-5
1972 Reykjavik Art Festival, publ. Galleri Súm, Reykjavik, Iceland
Education
1959 – 1963 Carpentry training
1963 – 1965 Art Academy St.Joost, Breda, The Netherlands; Department of Photography
