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Warum ist nicht alles schon verschwunden?, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Germany, 2021; Photo: Eric Jobs; Courtesy: Kunstmuseum Bochum, © Kunstmuseum Bochum
Warum ist nicht alles schon verschwunden?, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Germany, 2021; Photo: Eric Jobs; Courtesy: Kunstmuseum Bochum, © Kunstmuseum Bochum
Joëlle Tuerlinckx
born 1958 in Brussels, Belgium
lives and works in Brussels
read inGerman
In 2018, she received the honorary doctor by the Hasselt University, Belgium, faculty of Architecture and Arts. Joëlle Tuerlinckx is a multi-media artist whose works pose as archival materials. Her visual vocabulary includes books, display cases, wall installations, video screens, and (not least) the exhibition rooms themselves. In her situation-specific presentations, she establishes a relationship between simple things and found objects, texts, drawings, her own earlier works, and film material rich with intertextuality. Through the application of different methods of transformation and an infinite system of references and quotes, she lets us experience space and time, present and past, memory and immediacy all on the same level. Tuerlinckx’ s works are variable; they remain fixated only for a moment. They are subject to a permanent process of reconsideration and re-adaptation in which media categories and designations are continually subverted, leaving the works in an open process. Tuerlinckx participated at Skulptur Projekte Münster (2017); the Manifesta 10 in Saint Petersburg, Russia (2014); the Manifesta 3 in Ljubljana, Slovenia (2003); and the documenta 11 in Kassel, Germany (2002). Selected solo exhibitions: KANAL – Centre Pompidou, Brussels (2025); ARTIUM MUSEOA, Araba (2024); Kunsthal Gent, Ghent (2019); Dia:Beacon – Dia Art Foundation, Beacon, NY (2018); Kunstmuseum Basel/Museum für Gegenwartskunst (2016); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2013); Arnolfini, Bristol (2013); Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels (2012); Reina Sofia, Palacio de Cristal, Madrid (2009); Drawing Center, New York City (2006); MAMCO, Geneva (2004); The Renaissance Society, Chicago (2003); Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht (2001); Witte de With, Rotterdam (1994). Selected museum collections: Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht; FNAC Paris; Generali Foundation/Museum der Moderne, Salzburg; MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Reina Sofia, Madrid; S.M.A.K. – Stedelijk Museum voor Aktuele Kunst, Ghent; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and The Renaissance Society, Chicago.
Selected Works
Joëlle Tuerlinckx
‘Collage d’Atelier ‘Petit Katern 4/4 -serie papier sol d’atelier/rues’, 2020-21
paper, cardboard, plastic, acrylic pigment, lacquer pigment, wooden frame
45 x 64 cm (17 3/4 x 25 in.), framed 49,5 x 67,5 x 4 cm (19 1/2 x 26 1/2 x 1 5/8 in.)
Joëlle Tuerlinckx
‘Collage d’Atelier ‘Petit Katern 4/4 -serie papier sol d’atelier/rues’, 2020-21
paper, cardboard, plastic, acrylic pigment, lacquer pigment, wooden frame
45 x 64 cm (17 3/4 x 25 in.), framed 49,5 x 67,5 x 4 cm (19 1/2 x 26 1/2 x 1 5/8 in.)
Joëlle Tuerlinckx
Collage d’atelier ‘LES DESSOUS DE LA CONFECTION’ (LE SOIR LUNDI) -série Remake ‘binaire’/journal, 2017
collage, aluminum frame
65,3 x 83,9 cm (25 3/4 x 33 in.)
Joëlle Tuerlinckx
Collage d’atelier (THE NEW YORK TIMES) -série Remake ‘binaire’/journal´, 2017
collage, aluminum frame
57,6 x 69,2 cm (22 1/2 x 27 1/4 in.)
Joëlle Tuerlinckx
Surcollage d’atelier #2 - série paléolithique, Surcollage d’atelier #2 - série Frottage-mur ’atelier #1, 2005-2016
acrylic caséine on cardboard, digital print on paper, digital print on plastic, pastel on paper, pencil on paper, aluminum, aluminum frame
92,5 x 123 x 5 cm (27 x 48 x 2 in.)
Joëlle Tuerlinckx
Surcollage d’atelier #1 - série paléolithique, Surcollage d’atelier #1 - série Frottage-sol ‘Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder’ , 2005-2016
pencil on paper, acrylic on paper, cardboard, paper, aluminum, aluminum frame
92,5 x 123 x 5 cm (27 x 48 x 2 in.)
Joëlle Tuerlinckx
Planche d'atelier 2/16 - série Pauvres Sujets / gold , 2016
collage on gold paper, aluminum frame
70 x 100 cm (27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in.), framed 72 x 101,7 cm (28 3/8 x 40 in.)
Joëlle Tuerlinckx
Planche d'atelier 6/16 - série Pauvres Sujets / gold , 2016
collage on gold paper, aluminum frame
70 x 100 cm (27 1/2 x 39 3/8 in.), framed 72 x 101,7 cm (28 3/8 x 40 in.)
Joëlle Tuerlinckx
SELLE DE SCÈNE (III), 'Objets de scène': les Rols - série scénique', 2015
paper, chalk, ball pen, wood
pedestal 137 x 34 x 43 cm
Joëlle Tuerlinckx
Collages d'Archives-Atelier Série Grandes Blanches d'Atelier
Grand Bleuté Atelier, 2012collage, aluminum frame
90,4 x 63,2 cm (35 5/8 x 24 7/8 in.)
Joëlle Tuerlinckx
Collages d'Archives-Atelier Série Grandes Blanches d'Atelier
Grand Bleuté Atelier, 2012collage, aluminum frame
90,4 x 63,2 cm (35 5/8 x 24 7/8 in.)
Joëlle Tuerlinckx
COLLAGES D’ARCHIVES-ATELIER Série Human Body - Portrait Tache, 2012
collage, aluminum frame
72,2 x 52,3 cm (28 1/2 x 20 5/8 in.)
Joëlle Tuerlinckx
COLLAGES D’ARCHIVES-ATELIER Série Human Body - Portrait Tache, 2012
collage, aluminum frame
72,2 x 52,3 cm (28 1/2 x 20 5/8 in.)
Joëlle Tuerlinckx
Planche explicative - série De sterren in hun loop (Les étoiles dans le couleur)
'Certains n'admettent pas cette théorie', 2012digital print on self-adhesive paper, galvanized steel, magnets, cellophan-film
100 x 125 cm (39 3/8 x 49 1/4 in.)
Joëlle Tuerlinckx
Planche explicative - série De sterren in hun loop (Les étoiles dans le course), 2011
digital print on self-adhesive paper, galvanized steel, magnets, cellophan-film
100 x 125 cm (39 3/8 x 49 1/4 in.)
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