Erik Wesselo

1964		Born in ’s-Hertogenbosch
Lives and works in Tamil Nadu, India and ’s-Hertogenbosch the Netherlands

Education
1995		Graduated Ateliers Arnhem, College of Higher Education 
of the Arts, Arnhem
		
Solo Exhibitions
2011		Zand/ Sand, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, NL
2010		Art Amsterdam, Annet Gelink Gallery, NL
2006 		56 Beaver Street, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2003		Journal #2, van Abbemuseum Eindhoven NL	
2002		Forest Time, The Bakery, Annet Gelink Gallery 
Amsterdam NL	
		She Did It Again, Le Studio, Yvon Lambert Galerie, Paris
2001		Team Gallery, New York USA
		Irvine Fine Arts Centre, Irvine, CA	
2000		Project Space, Museum het Valkhof, Nijmegen NL
1999		Cokkie Snoei Galerie, Rotterdam NL
1998		Love, De Fabriek, Eindhoven NL
		Blind Date, W139, Amsterdam NL ( With Slater Bradley)
1997		Hole in One, W139 Amsterdam, NL
		Hole in One ( second attempt ) Galerie Nei Liicht, 
Dudelange, Luxembourg

Duo Exhibitions
2001	Apexart, New York  USA (with Clifford Lecuyer, under the auspices of the SKOR foundation, Netherlands)
1998	W139, Amsterdam NL (with Slater Bradley )

Selected Group Exhibitions
2007	Time Out, W139, Amsterdam, NL
2005	The Gravity in art, Stichting de Appel, Amsterdam, NL
Nederland Niet Nederland, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven NL
2004	Art Hypermarkets, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena IT
2003	Defying Gravity, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh USA
	Galerie ron Mandos, Rotterdam NL
	Public Spaces, Keukenhof, Lisse NL (under the auspices of the SKOR Foundation, Netherlands)
	Zucht, De Paraplufabriek, Nijmegen NL
2002	Superlounge, Gale Gates, Brooklyn  NY (curated by Andrea Salerno and Mari Spirito)
	Videodrome II, New Museum of Contemporary Art,/Zentih Media Lounge New York USA ( curated by Anne Ellegood)
	Entre Amis/Among Friends, Platform, Dunkerque F	
		Art Forum Berlin, (under the auspices of Annet Gelink 
Gallery Amsterdam)
		Boring Boring Boring, Galerie Ron Mandos, Rotterdam NL
2001	The People’s Art, Witte deWith, Centre of Contemporary Art Rotterdam NL (curated by Bartomeu Mari)
	The People’s Art, Public Spaces Porto 	
The Armory, New York USA (with Madeleine Berhemer, under the auspices of Cokkie Snoei Gallery rotterdam)	
2000	Parel, Amsterdam
	Missing, Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich CH
	Dutch Vieuws, ARCO, Madrid (under the auspices of Cokkie Snoei Gallery Rotterdam)
	Zien is Geloven, Public Spaces, Gouda NL	
1999	Ideated Sensation, Galerie Singel 74, Amsterdam NL
	Extra et Ordinaire, LePrintemps de Cahors, Cahors F	
	From A to B and Back, Arti et Emicitae, Amsterdam NL
	Field@ Glassbox, Glassbox  Paris F	
	Liste 99, Basel (under the ausspices Cokkie Snoei Gallery Rotterdam)
	From B to A and Further, Art Max, Braunschweig D
	Long Cold winter in an Endless Nameless, Studio 870,  Los Angeles USA
1998	What Ever Happens, Archipel, Apeldoorn NL
	Metis Galerie, Amsterdam
	Slipstream, De Paraplufabriek Nijmegen NL	
	Gramercy Art Fair, Cokkie Snoei/Torch New York

	Time Fiction, Biennale Gelderland, Van Reekum Museum Apeldoorn NL
	De Tres Courtes Espaces de Temps, Centre National de la Photgraphie, Paris F
1997	Booster up Dutch Courage, Post, Los Angeles	
	Forever Young, Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam NL
	Fast Forward, Fonds BKVB,, Amsterdam NL
		Voor Mijn Moeder, Public Spacec, Leiden NL
1996		Coop, Casco, Utrecht NL	
1995		Installment, Hooghuis, Arnhem NL
Performances
1996		“Overwinteren op Elba”, Elba, Nijmegen NL
		“Performing on the Edge”, Tejatro Popular, Rotterdam NL 
		“Everyone is a Winner”, De Fabriek, Eindhoven NL
1995		“A Night at the Show”, Field, Zurich CH
		“Bazaar 139”, W139, Amsterdam NL
Film Screenings
2010		VIDEOEX, International Experimentalfilm & Videofestival Zurich, CH
2006		“Re:visie – Pick up the pieces”, Centraal Museum Utrecht, NL
2004		33rd International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL
2003		Lux, Nijmegen, NL
		Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, NL
		“Fluxus and After”, Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven (curated 
by Nelly Voorhuis), NL
2002 		Haags Filmhuis, Den Haag, NL
		DE Balie, Amsterdam, NL
2000		Haags Filmhuis, Den Haag, NL
		“Collective Unconcious”, New York USA
		Schiller Theater, Utrecht, NL
		Kunstkanaal, Amsterdam, NL	
		Korzo Theater, Den Haag, NL
		Theater de Kolk, Assen, NL
1999		Ziegler, Groningen, NL
		Faktor 44, Antwerpen BE	
		“Exit”, Chisenhalle Gallery, London UK	
		De Unie, Rotterdam, NL
		KunstKanaal, Amsterdam, NL
1998		De Melkfabriek, ’s-Hertogenbosch, NL

		Montevideo, Amsterdam, NL
		Scala, Utrecht, NL
		’t Hoogt, Utrecht, NL
		Kapel van het Paard, Den Haag, NL
		Field, Zurich, CH
1997		Paradiso, Amsterdam, NL
		De Unie, Rotterdam, NL
  		Kapel van het Paard, Den Haag, NL
		Theater Kikker, Utrecht, NL
		NPS, NED3, Hilversum, NL
		Theater de Kolk, Assen, NL
		Haags Filmhuis, Den Haag, NL
Artists Publications / Monographs
2006 	Erik Wesselo & J.M. Edwards, 56 Beaver Street, Episode publishers Rotterdam 
2002	Will Oldham and Erik Wesselo, Forest Time, by Artimo/Gijs Stork Amsterdam

Selected bibliography
2003		Huston Pascal, Defying Gravity, Contemporary Art and Flight
		Lucette ter Borg, Kunstenaars heroveren het 
landschap, Vrij Nederland
		Angelique Spaninks, Aardse Dromen, Tube Light#29
		Philip van den Bossche, interview in journal#2 Van Abbemuseum
2002		Dazed&Confused #87, If you go down the woods today, 
Eyespy, Gerrit van den Hoven, Foto’s en muziek vinden elkaar, 
Brabants Dagblad
		Anne van Driel, Melancholie kleurt Oostzee-eiland, de Volkskrant
2001		Ned Higgins, Man in a box, Artnet Magazine
Kim Levin, Voice Choice, 
Christopher Bollen, Review, Time Out New York
Ken Johnson, Review, the New York Times
Salerno Spirit Constructions, Smock magazine issue #3
Derek Eller, Duffels Mol, Brochure Apexart
Carel Blotkamp/Bartomeu Mari, The People’s Art
2000		Theo Tegelaers, Olie een film van Erik Wesselo, Museumnieuws Het Valkhof
Cokkie Snoei, Erik Wesselo, Burning up, 1998, 16mm film, Basta jaarboek van hedendaagse kunst in Nederland.
1999		Anne van Driel, David Lynch in Parijs, de Volkskrant
Sacha Bronwasser, Heilig vuur in brandend haar, de Volkskrant

		Adriaan van der Have&Rafael von Uslar, Evil Camouflage Chapter II; The Body, 				Zingmagazine
Francois Piron, Extra et Ordinaire, Le Printemps de Cahors’99/Actes Sud (catalogue)
1998	Yann Beauvais, De tres courtsespaces de temp, Biennale de L’image Paris’98/Actes Sud (catalogue)
	Sacha Bronwasser, Kunst is als een passerend schip, de Volkskrant
	Sandra Smallenburg, Biënnale Gelderland in het tijdperk van globalisering, NRC Handelsblad
	Erik Hagoort, Wat een blind-date niet leuk maakt, de Volkskrant
	Ineke Schwartz, Vergeefs wachten op een pak verse melk, De Volkskrant
	Inge Pollet, Erik Wesselo, de man in het ijsberenpak, De kunsten uitgave van Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Arnhem
	Ineke Schwartz, Op gabberhouse swingend skelet, de Volkskrant
1997  	Coop, Heather Allen, Stefano Pasquini, Erik Wesselo, In Casco Projects
	Bianca Stigter, Nederlands Film Festival, NRC Handelsblad
	Michael Darling, Art: Conceptual Country: Booster up Dutch Courage, LA Weekly
	Willem Sanders, Antonin Artaud: “I am he that for sheer existence sake, must lash out against his own naturalness, Erik Wesselo in Booster up Dutch Courage
	Miklos Beyer, The easy way in...and the easy way out..., W.006 Hole in One
	Lucette ter Borg, W139 vastgeklonken aan molenwiek, de Volkskrant
	Cathelijne de Muijnck, Lonesome cowboy Erik Wesselo, Metropolis M #1