Curriculum
CURRICULUM VITAE
Michiel Blumenthal (1964 Amsterdam, The Netherlands) works and lives in The Netherlands and Italy.
Email: miblum@ hotmail.com
EDUCATION
1995 - 1999 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
1998 School of Visual Arts, New York
1983 - 1991 History (MA), University of Amsterdam
2000 - 2022 EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
2022 Oltre l'infintio, Milan Book City, Studio CaBaRe, Milano, IT
2022 Dialoghi con la natura, Primitivo e contemporaneo, Spoleto, IT
2022 Au dela de l'infini, 7 libri d'artisti, Libreria Stendhal/Storie Contemporanee, curated by Anna Cochetti, Roma, IT
2021 Conchiglie e rinoceronti, together with Graziella Reggio, Storie Contemporanee, curated by Anna Cochetti Roma, IT
2020 Riccordi al Nassaustraat, Bar Tabacchi La Piazzetta, Pugliola, IT
2020 Della resilienza della sopravvivenza, Museo Contemporanea Arte Instabile Cisternino, Cisternino, IT
2020 Neue Werke, together with Susan Kopp, Peter Noser Schaueslager, Hombrechtlikon, Zurich, CH
2019 Te gast in Meditatiecentrum De Zamenhof, together with Mathilde de Vriese, Amsterdam NL
2019 Taccuini d’artista 3 l’Archivio Libri d’Artista di Fernanda Fedi e Gino Gini, Milano IT
2018 set design: Go with the Vlo, Ketelstichting/ Maaike van den Hoek, Zuidhorn, NL
2018 Taccuini d’Artista, Movimento Aperto, Napoli, IT
2018 Plant Revolution, curated by Anna Cochetti, Arte Contemporanea al Majorana, Roma, IT
2018 Stend/art, Ass. Arco di Gallieno, Piazza Vittorio, Roma, IT
2017 l’Applicazione dell’Arte, Museo Area Archeologica Arte Contemporanea, Cisternino, IT
2017 Tequilla, il Misterio di Arturo Bandini, Taccuini d'artisti, Studio zu spat, curated by Silvana Leonardi, Roma, IT
2017 Il labirinto della nostra vita, Azienda Agricola nostra Vita, Elena e Annibale Parisi, Montalcino, IT
2017 Mapping Traces, with Graziella Reggio, curated by Anna Cochetti, Ass Culturale Trebisonda, Perugia, IT
2016 Ragioni e sentimenti, MAAAC Cisternino, curated by Alberto Vannetti, Cisternino, IT
2016 Simbiosi II, Il bruco di Pietraporciana together with Graziella Reggio, curated by Anna Cocchetti, Riserva Naturale di Pietraporciana, Sarteano, Siena, IT
2016 Size matters, curated by we like art! Tetem, Enschede, NL
2016 Conflictus, curated by Alberto Vannetti, MAAAC, Cisternino, IT
2016 Verlangerung, Kunstraum Egg, Egg-Zurich, CH
2016 Spoleto Contemporanea, curated by Gianluca Marziani, Palazzo Colicola, Spoleto, IT
2015 Simbiosi, 100 Alberi, together with Graziella Reggio, curated by Anna Cocchetti, Rifugio della Riserva Naturale di Pietraporciana, Sarteano, Siena, IT
2015 Together with John Seery, curated by Peter Noser and Susanna Hoffman, catalogus, Kunstraum Egg, Egg-Zurich, CH (solo)
2014 200 Alberi together with Graziella Reggio, curated by Gianleonardo Latini, text: Luigi M. Bruno, KADO, creazioni Floreali, Roma, IT
2013 Er was eens een ezel...animations on songs of Maaike van Den Hoek, Westerklavier, Den Horn and Werkgebouw Het Veem, Amsterdam, NL
2013 trans/uman(z)e 2013, together with Graziella Reggio, curated by Anna Cochetti, Storie Contemporanee, Roma, IT
2013 8° Viaggio Viaggiatori sulla Flaminia: Arcadia: mente_corpo & paesaggio, together with Graziella Reggio, curated by Franco Troiani, Emanuele De Donno and Giuliano Macchia, Palazzo Mauri, Spoleto, IT
2013 Art House Ostuni, curated by Alberto Vannetti, Ostuni, IT
2013 Metamorfosi, together with Graziella Reggio, curated by Franco Troiani STUDIO A'87, Chiesetta Madonna del Pozzo, Spoleto, IT
2012 Umbruch 1, curated by Peter Noser and Susanna Hoffman, Kunstraum Egg, Zurich, CH
2012, Een huis in een huis in een huis, curated by Edward Janssen, Art Circle, NeWestFest Amsterdam, NL
2012, Raccolta: projection of poems of Maria Leonardi, Estate Romane, Isola Tiberina, Roma, IT
2012, 100% Periferia, Palazzo delle esposizioni, Roma, IT
2012, C'è qualcosa nel dolore degli altri, Libreria Frane, Roma, IT
2011 Villa Etra together with Beatrice Pasquet, Cave, IT
2011 Numero 5 bis, Daniela e Lorenzo Sacchi, Milano, IT
2010 Sweet lemon tree, Biblioteca Rispoli, Roma, IT (solo)
2009 Luci Sorgenti, Chiesa di Sant Antonio, Cascia, IT
2009 set design: Welkom in het Bos, Maaike van den Hoek, Groningen, NL
2008 Terra, collettiva a cura di Alberto Vannetti, Cisternino, IT
2008 Blauwe Maandag, Productiehuis Tripact, Amsterdam, NL
2007 Per la Musica III, Castelluccio di Pienza, Pienza, IT
2006 set design: Blauw, Maaike van den Hoek, Zuidhorn, NL
2006 Najaar in De Tienhof, curated by Louis de Vocht, Utrecht, NL
2006 Het huis voor vlinders, curated by Mark Kremer, De kleine Biennale, Utrecht, NL
2006 Castellucio di Pienza together with Peter Noser e Annibale Parisi, Pienza, IT
2005 Per la Musica, curated by Peter Noser, mostra internazionale di arte contemporanea Castelluccio di Pienza, IT
2004 Gli ultimi asini, MAD/Gabriele Mannino, Roma, IT (solo)
2004 Voorjaar in De Tienhof, curated by Louis de Vocht, Utrecht, NL
2003 Aeneas in Saaksum, Gallerie de Verbeelding, Saaksum, NL (solo)
2003 Een ezel verliefd, Friso Tammes en Martine Schotte, Amsterdam, NL (solo)
2003 Numero 5, Daniela e Lorenzo Sacchi, Milano, IT
2002 Materia Diforme2, Confartigianato di Asolo, Angelo Pauletti, Asolo, IT
2002 Sentimento, Cielo del Esquilino, Roma, IT
2002 Kulturschiene Herliberg, curated by Peter Noser, Zurigo, CH
2002 Studio Puopolo, curated by Renée Christine Picabia, Rome, IT
2002 Il tempo degli Asini, Giochi d’Acqua e Verde, Artena RM, IT (solo)
2001 Galleria Turchi, Montalcino (Si), IT (solo)
2001 Gallery Patrick Maffei, Follonica, IT
2001 View on the lake, curated by Peter Noser, Zurich, CH (solo)
2001 Kunsthaus Dietikon, Casa da Vinci, Dietikon, CH
February 2001 Locanda Piazza Padella, Montalcino, IT
2001 Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden Baden, DE
2000 Oosterkerk, Amsterdam, NL
ARTIST IN RESIDENCIES
2016 Rifugio di Pietraporciana, Siena Italy, together with Graziella Reggio
2018 Kunstartnun Leveld, Norway
2020 Frans Masereel Centre, Kasterlee, Belgium
2021 Hollufsgard, Odense, Denmark
2021/22 AIR Studio NDD 532, Amsterdam, Netherlands
ARTIST BOOKS/PUBLICATIONS
2022 Diary of a Garden, book on demand
2021 Bloot, gedichten van Barth Kappeyne van de Coppello, vormgeving Floris Tilanus (in eigen beheer 100 exemplaren)
2020 Casa Motta risoprint (15)
2017 De keizerin van Kusland, Tekst Victor Frolke
2017 Justifications, mapping memories & places of Paul Blumenthal, book on demand
(travels through the life of my grandfather in images and text, making use of travel journals, archives etc.)
2015 Michiel Blumenthal 2000 - 2015, catalogue, published by Kunstraum Egg, Switzerland
2014 De Scheet Tekst Victor Frolke
2011 Onderweg 2 2000 - 2011 (catalogue 110 pages)
2009 Onderweg 1 Ezels, bomen, mensen en andere dingen... (catalogue 38 pages)
2002 Aeneid Artist book (limited edition)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2022 Aspettando i rinoceronti by Tiziana Gazzini
2022 Oltre l'infinito by Anna Cocchetti
2017 Mapping traces by Anna Cocchetti
2015 Spoleto Contemporaneo Un progetto ideato e curato da Gianluca Marziani supporo curatoriale: Davide Silvioli
2013 Tran(s)umanze by Anna Cocchetti
2002 Nergens thuis by Floris Tilanus (traduzione in Italiano)
2002 Giochi d’acqua by Gabriele Mannino
OTHER ACTIVITIES:
2011 - 2019 Festival Tweetakt, Utrecht
2016 Assistent productiondesigner film: Tulips, love, honour and a bike
2004 - 2005 Teacher, Insieme per fare, Rome
1998 - 1999 Cosmic Theater, Amsterdam
1987 - 1997 Festival a/d Werf, Utrecht
1979 - 2019 Luethi Peterson Camps