Works

ricardo brey

Biography (selection)

Born in 1955 in Havana, Cuba

Lives and works in Ghent, Belgium

www.ricardobrey.com

Education

Graduated from the School of Arts of San Alejandro and from the Cuba National Arts School.

Grants and Prizes

2004

Cera Prize, Belgium.

1997

Prize from the Flemish Ministry of Culture, Belgium.

Foundation John Simon Guggenheim Grant, New York, USA.

One Person Exhibitions

2009

The Burden and Blessing of Mortality, NICC, Anvwerpen, Belgium.

2006/07

Universe, S.M.AK, Gand, Belgium.

2004/05

Ricardo Brey, GEM, Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hague, The Netherlands.

Group Exhibitions (Selection)

2011

Pearls of the North, Palais d'Iéna, Paris. France.

2010

Art Belge Contemporain, Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing, France.

The Good, the Bad & the Ugly, Cultuurcentrum Strombeek, Grimbergen, Belgium.

Membres Fantômes, Variations sur un thème de Peter Szendy, Galerie Xippas, Paris, France.

2009

JEUGDZONDE.Over opus één en opus min één., LLS 387, Antwerp, Belgium

Something Else!!!!.- A selection of works from the S.M.A.K. MAN-Museo d'Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Italy

Bibliography (selection)

Catalogues and Books

2006

Universe, vzw MER Paper Kunsthalle, S.M.A.K Gent, Belgium

2004

Roel Arkesteijn, Isabel Brey, Ricardo Brey Under the Leaves, Warnsveld, the Netherlands.

1999

Bart de Baere, Ricardo Brey, Galerie Xippas, Paris, France.

1996

Walter Guadagnini and Jan Hoet, Ricardo Brey, Modena, Galleria Civica Palazina dei Giardini, Edition Mazzotta.

1993

Ilse Kuijken, Ricardo Brey, Ghent, Vereniging voor het Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst.

1987

Gerardo Mosquera, Sobre la Tierra, Havana, Centro Wifredo Lam.

1981

Gerardo Mosquera, El origen de las Especies, Havana, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes.

1980

Luna Llena, Havana, Casa de la Cultura de Jaruco.

Catalogues of Group Exhibitions

2008

500 chefs d’œuvres de l’art belge 2/de Marcel Broodthears à Jacques Charlier, conceptualisme, expresionnisme et post modernisme, Le Soir/ Lanoo, Racine edition, Belgium

2007

Commitment, cultural center of Mechelen, Belgium

2006

Room with a view, The Bouwfonds Art collection, Gemeentmuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands

2002

Johan Pas, Onderstromen / Bovenstromen. Intervention in Public Spaces, Bruges, NICC, Ghent, Ludion.

Nancy Morejón, Art from Cuba. The Ludwig Collection, St Petersburg, State Russian Museum, Ludwig Museum in the Russian Museum.

2001

Walter Guadagnini, Natura arte e meraviglia, Verona, Museo Civico de Storia Naturale, a.o.

Embodiement, Amsterdam, De Brakke Grond.

2000

Walter Guadagnini, 3 Raüme - 3 Flüsse. Ihr wart ins Wasser eingeschrieben, Hann, Münden.

Flavio Ermini, Dello Spirituale Nell'Arte. Dai 'Miracoli' all'opera come reliquia, Livorno, Edizioni Roberto Peccolo.

Dust and Dirt, Ghent, Witte Zaal, S.M.A.K.

1999

Philippe Pirotte, Trattenendosi, Venice, Zitelle.

1998

Edith Doove, Tussenin / in between, Deurle, Museum Dhondt-Dhenens.

1996

Chris Driessen, Shelter, Breda, Wolfslaar Park, Foudament Foudation.

Gerardo Mosquera, Cuba Siglo XX Modernidad y Sincretismo, Centro Atlàntico de Arte Moderno Las Palmas de Gran Canarias / Fundacio La Caixa, Palma de Mallorca / Centre d' Art Santa Monica, Barcelona.

Walter Guadagnini, Hacia una Postmodernidad 'Otra': Africa en el Arte Cubano,

Arcangelo, Brey, Dessi. Nelle Mani, Nelle Cose, Nelle Luce, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, San Martino, Valle Caudina, Palazzo Ducale, San Martino, Italy.

Mari Carmen Ramirez, Universalis. 23 Bienal de Sao Paulo, Parque Ibirapuera, Sao Paulo.

1995

Jedithja de Groot, Caleidoscoop. Kunst Vanuit Transcultureel Perspectief, Utrecht, Institut voor Transculturele Ontwikkeling.

Ricardo Brey, Pino Tripodi,Leonkart, Città del desiderio, Milan, Centro Sociale Leoncavallo.

1994

Denys Gielen, V Bienal de La Habana, Havana, Centro Wifredo Lam.

Philip Peters, The Ideal Place, Den Haag, Haags Centrum voor Actuele Kunst.

Bart de Baeres, Piet Vanrobaeys,Beelden Buiten 1994, Cultureel Centrum Gildhof, Tielt.

Jan Hoet, Dirk Pültau, Koichi Watari: The Spirit of the Earth, Tokyo, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art.

1993

Pierre Clastres, Denys Zacharopoulos, Domaine 1993, Centre d'Art Contemporain Domaine de Kerguehennec, Ghent, Edition La Chambre.

1992

Documenta IX, Stuttgart, Edition Cantz, Bd 1, p.123/Bd 2, p.6265

1990

Orlando Hernàndez, Fondo Cubano de Bienes Culturales, Havana.

Antonio Eligio , Nancy Morejón, Gerardo Mosquera et al. Kuba Ok, Düsseldorf, Städtische Künsthalle.

Jan Hoet, Ponton Temse, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst te Ghent.

1989

III Bienal de la Habana, Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba.

1988/89

Ricardo Brey, Charles Merewether, Gerardo Mosquera, Made in Havana: New Art from Cuba, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sidney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne.

1988

Orlando Hernàndez, Jóvenes Artistas RDA y Cuba, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Cuba, Neue Berliner Galerie in Alten Museum, Germany.

Luis Camnitzer, Coso Fusco Signs of Transitions: 80's Art from Cuba, New York, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art.

1987

Gerardo Mosquera, Cuban reprentation, XIX Bienal Internacional de Sao Paulo.

1986

II Bienal de la Havana, Havana, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes.

1985

Corina Matamoros, De lo Contemporàneo, Havana, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes.

Benjamin Buchloh, Luis Camnitzer, Gerardo Mosquera, New Art from Cuba, Amelie A, Wallace Gallery SUNY/College at Old Westbury, State University of New York.

1984

I Bienal de la Habana, Havana, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes.

1982

Gerardo Mosquera, Cuatro, Havana, Galeria Habana.

Gerardo Mosquera, Pintura Joven Cubana, Galeria Rafaela Padilla de Zaragoza, Sala Erasto Cortès, Puebla, Mexico.

1981

Gerardo Mosquera, Volumen I, Centro Internacional de Arte de la Habana.

1978

Gerardo Mosquera, Seis Nuevos Pintores, Havana.

Articles and Reviews (Selection)

2006

Lambrecht Luk, "Het universum van Ricardo Brey Knack", 36e jn 45, # 1, p. 87

Theys Hans, "Universe van Ricardo Brey", ART, November.

Theys Hans, "Nachtvindlers in het SMAK", Stadsmagazine Zone 09 courant, # 181, November.

De Ruyk Hans, "Got Spelttmet dobbelstenen", Gazet vn Antwerpen, October 25

Van Hofe Jan, "Een bmoem, een schlep, een visje", De Standaard, October 11

2004

Van Put Roos, "Ricardo Brey spreekt in overdrachtelijke beeldspraken",

HC, November 26, 2004

Scheveningsche Courant, November 24, 2004, p. 16.

nieuws, November 24, 2004, p. 11.

Van Put Roos, "Ricardo Brey, Hanging around, GM, Museumkrant, no. 1, 2005, Den Haag, Holland.

Van Put Roos, "Ricardo Brey", Museumtijdschrift Vitrine , no. 8, December 2004 - January 2005, p. 6.

Van de Velde Paola, "Raadselachtige installaties Ricardo Brey in GEM."Er

is te weineg magie in de wereld". De telegraaf, Friday, November 26, 2004.

Welling Wouter, "Hanging Around, Ricardo Brey in het GEM", Kunstbeeld, nr

12/01, 2004/2005, p. XIV-XV.

Handelsblaad, November 27, 2004.

Charlotte Bonduel, "De facetogen ven een vlieg. Het getekende universum van Ricardo Brey", kM, spring 2004, no 49, pp. 15-17.

2001

Christine Frérot, "Ricardo Brey - Crestet Centre d'Art", Art Nexus, no. 40,

May - July 2001, pp. 132-133.

"SZ Galerie-Tipp", Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 22, 2001.

Hane Weskott, "Die Geheimnisse der Schamanen. Ricardo Breys Installationen und Bilder in der Galerie Tanit", Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 3-4, 2001.

Cees Straus, "Ricardo Brey, een tropische verrassing, in Pand Paulus", Musis 7, Februray 2001, no 2, p. 65.

Rudi Hodel, "Oude Helden - nieuwe helden", Tubelight, January - February 2001, no 13, p. 18.

Sandra Smallenburg, "Ik word steeds meer een echte Belg. Twee exposities van Cubaan Ricardo Brey", NRC Handelsblad, January 31, 2001.

2000

Alain Dreyfus, "La brocante poétique de Ricardo Brey", Libération, November 2, 2000, p. 41.

Laurent Faré, '"Sources" de Ricardo Brey au Crestel', La Provence, October 4, 2000.

Laurent Faré, "'Sources' ou l'appel du sauvage au Crestel', Le Comtadin, September 22, 2000.

1998

Marc Holthof, "Prijswinnar" Weekend KNACK, January 28, 1998, p. 89.

Christine Vulgen, "Kanal 20", de Huisarts, January 28, 1998, p. 22.

"Door Kunstenaars Geschminkt", Morgen, February 20,1998.

Walter Guadagnini, "Ricardo Brey in the Salzburg Kunstverein", Salzburger Kunstverein Magazin (2), Jahresbericht 1997, p. 34 - 39.

1997

Jan Braet, "De poot van een Olifant. Ricardo Brey over de strijd van de Kunst om een straaltje hooping de geteisterde wereld", Knack, January 1, 1997, p. 53.

Johann Auinger, "Ins Zentrum der Peripherie", Salzburger Nachvichten, April 18, 1997, p. 17.

Ernst P. Strobl, "Erster Hand aus Zweiter Hand", SVZ, Austria, April 21, 1997, p. 13.

Johanna Hofleitner, "Kultureller Grenzgan Zwischen Kuba und Gent", Die Presse, Austria, April 21, 1997.

H. Langwallner, "Handschuhbaum", Observer, Austria, May 2, 1997, p.205.

Andreas Stockinger, "Schlauch als Schlange", Der Standard, Austria May 3 - 4, 1997, p. 205.

Edith Doove, "Kunst Maken Als het Schilderslinnen op is, Ricardo Brey Cultuurprijs van Vlaamse Gemeenschap", Der Standard, Belgium, December 4, 1997, p .9.

1996

Paolo Vagheggi, "Ricardo Brey exporrà a Modena", La Republica, February 5, 1996, p. 23.

Marina Leonardi, "Ricardo Brey alla palazzina", Italy, February 18, 1996, p. 22.

Wilma Sütö, "Waar paraplu's als blœmen blœien", de Volkskrant, The Netherlands, May 24, 1996.

Cees van der Geer, "Bezoekers doen mee in Park Wolfslaar", Haagse Courant, The Netherlands, June 25, 1996.

Valerio Deho, Modena, - spray Italy - Juliet Art, no.78, June 1996, p. 66.

Roberto Daolio, "Ricardo Brey, Galleria Civica di Modena", -recennsioni- Flash Art, anno XXIX no. 198, June - July 1996, p.198;

Pieter Defeche, "Morsige dekens en horens van buffels", Limburgs Dagblad, The Netherlands, September 25, 1996, p. 16.

Wiel Beyer, "Reacties maken gelukkig", Limburgs Dagblad, The Netherlands, September 7, 1996, p. 25.

Other Publications

1995 José Veigas, Cristina Vives, Dannys Montes de Oca, Valia Garzon, Memoria. Artes Visuales Cubanas del Siglo XX, Havana.

1994 "Artistas Cubanos Invitados a la Bienal", "Revolución y Cultura", no. 3, pp. 53 - 60.

Luis Camnitzer, "New Art of Cuba", Austin, University of Texas Press, p. 400.

1983 Gerardo Mosquera, "Diez Nuevos Pintores", Editorial Letras Cubanas, coleccion Espiral, pp. 416 - 423. Exploraciones en la Plàstica Cubana, Havana,

Films

Galleria Civica, Assessorato alla cultura, Commune de Modène, Ricardo Brey, Video, 15 min, Modena, Italy, 1996.

Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, The Spirit of the Earth (artists working in the process of to assemble the exhibition, Video, Tokyo, Japan, 1994.

Enrique Alvares, Ricardo Brey, Documental color, 15 min, Havana, Cuba, 1991.

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