Joëlle Tuerlinckx Biography

In 2018, she receives the honorary doctor by the Hasselt University, 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.

Joëlle Tuerlinckx participated in the Manifesta 10 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 2014; the Manifesta 3 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 2003; and the documenta 11 in Kassel, Germany in 2002. She participates in the show "Skulptur Projekte Muenster" in 2017, in 2018 she has a solo presentation at the Dia:Beacon, New York.

She has had solo exhibitions in major institutions, including the Kunstmuseum Basel/Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Switzerland (2016); the Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (2013); the Arnolfini, Bristol, United Kingdom (2013); the Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium (2012); the Reina Sofia, Palacio de Cristal, Madrid, Spain (2009); the Drawing Center, New York City, New York (2006); the MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland (2004); The Renaissance Society, Chicago, Illinois (2003); the Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands (2001); and Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (1994).

Her works can be found in renowned museum collections, including the Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht; FNAC Paris; Generali Foundation/Museum der Moderne, Salzburg; MoMA, New York City; Reina Sofia, Madrid; S.M.A.K., Ghent; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and The Renaissance Society, Chicago.