Mike Moonen
1990
Amsterdam, Netherlands
mail:moonenmike@live.nl
website: www.mikemoonen.com
IG: https://www.instagram.com/blod_heinie/
Education
2010-2014 – Bachelor of Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts & Design, Maastricht, NL.
2022-2024 – Dirty Art Department, Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, NL.
Exhibitions / Projects
Solo
2021
-Schwellmann Ambiance, SCHUNCK Glaspaleis, Heerlen, NL.
-Tour Ultimo, Heyoka, Maastricht, NL.
-ZETLE, Transport Artspace, Maastricht, NL.
2020
-Golden Harvest, sub.archives, Maastricht, NL.
-Melk = nat, L’Atelier Maastricht, Maastricht, NL.
2019
-High floored basement grotto, Art Bar Kippy (Althuis Hofland Fine Arts), Amsterdam, NL.
2017
- Parrot Ice, NEVERNEVERLAND, Amsterdam, NL.
2016
-Outside in, Moira, Utrecht, NL.
2015
-Planet Quirk, Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam, NL.
Collective
2024
-DAMPY, Dirty Art Department, Door Open Space, Amsterdam, NL.
-Pepper & Pepper,with Christopher LG Hill, Meadow and Meadow, Melbourne, Aus.
- Du Maats Misj Veadisj, Duo show with Bart Kelleter, De Kopermolen, Vaals, NL.
-Geelshop Geelzug, Installation with LosDQ, De Meldkamer, Maastricht, NL.
2023
-Transformer Sonja,Installation with Dominik at de Meldkamer for Fashionclash Festival, Maastricht, NL.
-Lotgenoten, Interactive installation with Tuyg, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo, NL.
-Men in Snack,Installation with LosDQ for Museumnacht Maastricht, Landbouwbelang, Maastricht, NL.
-Bent // broken,Performance/video with Otomax, virtual world wide circuit bending festival, USA.
-Opi Shopi, Installation with Arto van Dongen, Het Blauwe Veld, Arnhem, NL.
-Twister, Installation with Frederique Jonker, Sander van Noort, Arash Fakim, Marcel van den Berg, De Apotheek, Amsterdam, NL.
2022
-Bevroren Muziek, Installation with Otomax in collaboration with Michiel Ubels, Bureau Europa, Maastricht, NL.
-Dominik Shop 3 (Clothes Friends), Installation wit Dominik at Pizzeria DaNonna and Bureau Europa for Fashionclash Festival, Maastricht, NL.
-Schudder XL, installation with LosDQ, Het Creatieve Huis, Bijenkorf, Maastricht, NL.
-Schrubbery, installation with Mike Feijen and Sebastián González de Gortari, B32 Artspace, Maastricht, NL.
-SOF,installation in collaboration with Christopher LG Hill (AUS), St. Michel, Maastricht, NL.
-De Blauwe Haan 2, Installation and open call/wall with Arto van Dongen, ‘Pand, Heerlen, NL.
-Prepper Paradise, Installation with OTOMAX, Bureau Europa, Maastricht, NL.
2021
-Wouter World, installation with Cas Beijers and Rebecca Treur, St. Michel, Maastricht, NL.
-Soft on the Skin, DOMINIK collection/shop/installation with Nika Schmitt, De Meldkamer / Fashionclash Festival, NL.
-De Blauwe Haan, installation with Dirk de Haan (Arto van Dongen), Organic Earth, Maastricht, NL.
-Groetenla,installation with LosDQ for Etalage Project CMM, Maastricht, NL.
-Feelafood, performance and installation with LosDQ for Magnificent Migraine Festival, Maison Florida/ The School, Hasselt, BE.
2020
-DOMINIK SHOP, collection/shop/installation with Don Possen and Nika Schmitt, Fashionclash Festival / The B, Maastricht, NL.
-Limburg Biënnale, curated room in collaboration with Willem van Kempen, Marres, House for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, NL.
-Lampedouza, collaboration with LOSDQ, Transport Artspace, Maastricht, NL.
-Geniet Ervan, collaboration with Frank Koolen, Rowan van As and Vincent Bijleveld, ExTra#2, Kunstpodium T, Tilburg, NL.
-Jank voet of kom eriner, collaboration with Rowan van As and Vincent Bijleveld, The Wrong Biennale. , http://lettersfromthesouth.nl/info .
2019
-I love you Baby Bear, collaboration with Michiel Ubels, Marres, House for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, NL.
-The Joyride Show, collaboration with Simone Schuffelen and Joep Vossebeld, Jan van Eyck, Maastricht, NL.
-Massage Saloon, installation with Jörg Theissen for “Mike Theissen Magazine” Launch, Big Boys Studio, Maastricht, NL.
2018
-Half full / Half empty, group installation with OTOMAX (Joep Hinssen, Nika Schmitt, Paul Devens and Fran Hoebergen), Museum De Domijnen, Sittard, NL.
-Plat Froid, duo show with Jeroen Jaenen (and the help of Joep Vossebeld,B32), SPACE Collection, Liege, BE.
-The Kitchen #17, duo show with Oscar Creemers, The Kitchen (Billytown), Den Haag, NL.
-Flip it stew pit, duo show with Ide Andre, Expoplu, Nijmegen, NL.
2017
-Nasenbluten,duo installation exhibition with Jeroen Jaenen, B32, Maastricht, NL.
- Open studio installie nyc remake spaghtd, with Ray Moon, Oscar Creemers, Jeroen Jaenen and Willem van Kempen, Big Boys Studio, Maastricht, NL.
2016
-Houd Moed, with Frank Koolen, Thijs Franssen, Rowan van As and Vincent Bijleveld , Galerie Sign, Groningen, NL.
2015
-TOY(kunstnacht Den Bosch), collaboration with Miguel Huinder, Studio PK14, Den Bosch, NL.
-BBBBBQ + vette kleppen, collaboration with Don Possen, Big Boys, Maastricht, NL.
-Making Spaces II – Let’s chase the hints and check the file, residency with Vincent Bijleveld, Bert Scholten and Anan Striker, MoMart, Amsterdam, NL.
2014
-Altijd Wat, with Frank Koolen, Thijs Franssen, Rowan van As and Vincent Bijleveld, B32 Artspace, Maastricht, NL.
-Lekker Bezig, with Frank Koolen, Thijs Franssen, Rowan van As and Vincent Bijleveld, Leerling/Meester project, Kunstpodium T, Tilburg, NL.
Group exhibitions
2024
-Pharmakon Video Screening, Greylight Projects, Heerlen, NL.
-Meow Twin City Filmfestival,FAX, Hasselt, BE.
-Everything is on the One, co-organised groupshow, Arti Et Amicitae, Amsterdam, NL.
2023
-HORTUS HORTI HORTO,Kalf Space, Hasselt, BE.
-Death 3, Hinterraum, Berlin, DE.
-Middelpuntvliedend, AMFI, Amsterdam, NL.
-Corazones Service: Superheroes of Love, Espacio Estamos Bien, Plan B, Amsterdam, NL.
-VI International Bad Video Art Festival, collaboration with Oscar Lemerle and Theo Dietz, Auditoria, Tbisili, Georgia.
-Dirty World, Sexyland World, Amsterdam, NL.
-Riso, paper, scissors // Animation Screenings,Roodkapje/Hocus Bugus Publishing, Rotterdam, NL.
-Transitions,SCHAAMTE & TROTS by Michiel Ubels, Sphinxkwartier, Maastricht, NL.
2022
-Books By Artists, De Meldkamer, Maastricht, NL.
-Parkstad Limburg Prijs, SCHUNCK Glaspaleis, Heerlen, NL.
-Kleptopolix, Mister Ed, Genk, BE.
-The School Destroys The Art Night, Maison Florida, Hasselt, BE.
-Project Mayhem, W139, Amsterdam, NL.
2021
-Immaculate Conception, Dungeon and Meadow, Melbourne, AUS.
-What the flag, Greylight Projects/Very Contemporary, various locations.
2020
-December Exhibition, De Meldkamer, Maastricht, NL.
-Once Upon A Town, Big Boys Studio, Maastricht, NL.
-Je loopt door mijn hoofd, Odapark, Venray, NL.
-IV International Bad Video Art Festival, collaboration with Rowan van As and Vincent Bijleveld, A3 Gallery, Moskou, RUS.
-The Wrong,Letters from the South, international digital-art biennale, online.
2019
-Christmas Special,De Meldkamer, Maastricht, NL.
-Video Power verovert Limburg, ECI Cultuurfabriek Roermond, NL.
-En piste!, Space Collection, Liege, Be.
-Pasfoto’s, dat zijn pas foto’s, Maastricht Photo Festival, Maastricht, NL.
-Der Rausch, Arti et Amicitiea, Amsterdam, NL.
-It boils down, Pure Propaganda, Rotterdam, NL.
-Publieke Geheimen, Bureau Europa, Maastricht, NL.
-Plateaukunst, Wanda Reiff Contemporary Art, Bemelen, NL.
-Nightwatch, Babygirl Movement, Maastricht, NL.
-Tijdgenoten #7: Klas 1B 2019, Patty Morgan / De School, Amsterdam, NL.
-Off White, Pure Propaganda, Rotterdam, NL.
-FairShare, self-publishing as an artistic practice, CIAP Kunstverein, Hasselt, BE.
-Play-Doh Casserole, De Vlieg, Haarlem, NL.
-Prospects & Concepts, Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL.
2018
-1 Michiel,2 films en 3 vrienden, RUIS, Nijmegen, NL.
-December, De Meldkamer, Maastricht, NL.
-JKBK-Prijs 2018, BKKC, Tilburg, NL.
-Inauguración @boombboring Show, “El Cuarto del recreo”, Barcelona, ES.
-As Far As I Can Reach, Quartiar, Den Haag, NL.
-Green Capital Fashion Expo, Stevenskerk,Nijmegen, NL.
-Face the fact, I fly on planets every day, Studio Omstand, Arnhem, NL.
-20x20,showroom Arnhem, Arnhem, NL.
-NON-STOP BASEMENT, B32 & Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL.
-Being At Home, pop up gallery, Maastricht, NL.
-International Bad Video Art Festival, collaboration with Simone Schuffelen, A3 Gallery, Moskou, RUS.
2017
-Elite 17, Krieg, Hasselt, BE.
-Lost & Found, De Waag, Amsterdam, NL.
-Bad Drawing Competition, Sign, Groningen, NL.
-Hermine van Bers Beeldende Kunstprijs, Muziekgieterij, Maastricht, NL.
-Europa is dood. Leve Europa!, B32 & Marres House for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, NL.
-Laat ons dansen # extra moves, Galerie Mieke van Schaijk, Den Bosch, NL.
-Parallel#2, Nieuwe Nor, Heerlen, NL.
-In Dialoog, Encore concept gallery, Heerlen, NL.
2016
-Laat ons dansen, Galerie Mieke van Schaijk, Den Bosch, NL.
-Bronsgroen Eikenhout- van landschap tot achtertuin, Bureau Europa, Maastricht, NL.
-Marres Tourist Office, Marres Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, NL.
-I <3 Camp, MAMA, Rotterdam, NL.
-Afwassers,Kunsttour, Maastricht, NL.
-PLANET TALLULAH, B32, Maastricht, NL.
- Testosteron, Galerie Drift, Breda, NL.
-MAMA's X-MAS CRIB, MAMA, Rotterdam, NL.
2015
-E.A.T. Maastricht, open studios tour, Big Boys Studio, Maastricht, NL.
-Hotel Pink House, Pink House, Antwerpen, BE.
-100 Alter Egos, Projekt 66, Cologne, DE.
-Big Boys KunstTour, Big Boys studio, Maastricht, NL.
-Young Talent Show, Tapijn, Maastricht, NL.
-To get there, All Together Now: label for contemporary art, Rotterdam, NL.
-STRANGE DAYS, SBK Breda, Breda, NL.
-Marres Currents #2 Rumour Has It, Marres Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, NL.
2014
-Kerstgrot, Maas-Residence, Nijmegen, NL.
-Destillaat #16, Extrapool, Nijmegen, NL.
-In the end nothing matters but until then some things do, Academy of Fine Arts & Design, Maastricht, NL.
Awards/nominations/funding:
2022
-Nomination for Parkstad Limburg Prijs, Heerlen, NL.
-Werkbijdrage Basis, Mondriaan Fonds, NL.
2020
-Project Grants for Artist, Mondriaan Fonds, NL.
2018
-Third Place JKBK- Prijs 2018, Tilburg, NL.
2017
-Winner Hermine van Bers Beeldende Kunstprijs, Maastricht, NL.
-Werkbijdrage Start, Mondriaan Fonds, NL.
-AFK funding for Parrot Ice, Amsterdam, NL.
2015
-Nomination Hermine van Bers Beeldende Kunstprijs, Maastricht, NL.
Publications
2024
- Kerozine, collective magazine presented at Kunsthal Gent, BE.
2023
-Just Dunk it,collective zine published on Hocus Bogus Publishing.
-KÖP, zine published on Hocus Bogus Publishing.
-Murf/Murw, contribution of 1 page.
2022
-The Sound Of Scrapbooking, xerox zine with Plinio Razildo, Henki Willie, Arto van Dongen, Lukas Malzan and Willem van Kempen, published on Hocus Bogus Publishing.
2021
-Feel A Food, cookbook with LosDQ for SCHUNCK Glaspaleis.
-Don't you want me, baby?, magazine for INNEN BOOKS Zurich.
-Heb Lief, nieuwe encyclopedie van de liefde en van het genieten, magazine with Rowan van As, Vincent Bijleveld, Thijs Franssen, Frank Koolen. Scheltopusik Series / Hocus Bogus Publishing.
-Under The Rainbow - Over The Weather, contribution for Hocus Bogus Publishing.
2020
-Dulle Funky,Hocus Bogus Publishing.
-‘Je loopt door mijn hoofd’– in Dagblad de Limburger by Kim Noah.
- Grote Nederlandse Kunstkalender 2020, contribution of 1 page, published by Trichis Publishing.
2019
-Anus Magazine no. 5 – Contribution of 1 page.
2018
-LOSDQ – wat deo ik heir?– magazine in collaboration with LOSDQ, self published.
-Mike Theissen, magazine in collaboration with Jörg Theissen, Hocus Bogs Publishing
-mike-moonen-weet-wel-raad-met-vingernagels-en-navelpluis, interview for Vice Creators by Gerda van de Glind.
-Anus magazine no.4 , contribution of 2 pages.
-Maastricht – Gids voor de zintuigen, contribution of 1 page, published by Marres/Hanne Hagenaars.
2017
-Flashzine, published by Hocus Bogus Publishing.
- Grote Nederlandse Kunstkalender 2017, contribution of 1 page, published by Trichis Publishing.
2016
-A Recent Writing: “Notes”,contribution of 1 page, published by Publication Studio Rotterdam for “I <3 Camp” , MAMA, Rotterdam, NL.
-HOUD MOED, magazine in collaboration with Frank Koolen, Thijs Franssen, Rowan van As en Vincent Bijleveld, for HOUD MOED, Galerie Sign, Groningen, NL. (self published)
2015
-On-zine series, series of magazines in collaboration with Paul Drissen, Daniel Goldbach, Willem van Kempen, Rowan van As, Ray Moon and Timo van Grinsven. For Planet Quirk , MAMA, Rotterdam, NL. (self published)
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- (DJ) Blöd Heinie https://soundcloud.com/blodheinie
- Los Dansing Queenc (Dralt band with Ray Moon, Oscar Creemers, Joep Hinssen, Cas Beijers and Fran Hoebergen)https://soundcloud.com/user-728764275
- Otomax (band with Paul Devens, Joep Hinssen, Fran Hoebergen and Nika Schmitt) https://soundcloud.com/user-552829231
- Dominik Shop (fashion collective with Don Possen and Nika Schmitt)https://www.instagram.com/dominik_shop/