Inch'Allah, 2005
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Egypt 2002 [part 1 & 2], 2002
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Performance, 1980
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Performance, 1980
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An Act Of Sheating, 1995
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The Cry 2, 2007
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The Witness Appeal I, 2001
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Dive into Mankind, 2009
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In Search of White, 2000
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Egypt 2002 [part 1], 2002
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Egypt 2002 [part 2], 2002
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Entre nous quelque chose se passe..., 2006
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Egypt 2002 [part 1 & 2], 2002
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The Witness Appeal II, 2001
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The Cry 2, 2007
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Egypt 2002 [part 1], 2002
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In Search Of White [Mountain], 2000
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In Search of White, 2000
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The Witness and the Witness Appeal, 2001
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Entre nous quelque chose se passe..., 2006
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9 petits moments, 2003
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Cantaert Hunter 890602 [Ronse 2003], 2003
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In Search Of White [Mountain], 2000
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In Search Of White [Sea], 2000
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Gizeh-Blankenberghe,
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Egypt 2002 [part 1], 2002
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In Search Of White [City], 2000
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Egypt 2002 [part 2], 2002
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Vox Clamans in Deserto, 2003
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The Witness, 2001
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An Act Of Sheating, 1995
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In Search Of White [City], 2000
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In Search of White, 2000
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In Search Of White [Sea], 2000
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Between Two Walls, 2004
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The Cry 2, 2007
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Inch'Allah, 2005
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The Witness Appeal I, 2001
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Between Two Walls, 2004
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Pilgrim World, 2004
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The Witness, 2001
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The Witness Appeal II, 2001
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Gizeh-Blankenberghe,
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Pilgrim World, 2004
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Performance, 1980
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Dive into Mankind, 2009
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Dive into Mankind, 2009
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Cantaert Hunter 890602 [Ronse 2003], 2003
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Vox Clamans in Deserto, 2003
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The Witness and the Witness Appeal, 2001
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1954
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Since the seventies, Ria Pacquée has recorded her presence in this world, or rather disguised herself as a specific persona. These personifications, including ‘Madame’ or ‘It’, were ‘played out’ in photographs at first, but for some years now she has been recording characters on video as well, displaying a slightly adapted version of her ‘true’ self. Lately, Pacquée has turned the camera towards the ‘outside’ world. Here as well, she deals with everyday life, embracing all that is encompassed by it including what may be seen as relative, as left-out or even as odd.

º 1954, lives in Antwerp (Belgium).

Already from the seventies Ria Pacquée disguises herself in everyday life. As if it were pieces of social archaeology she records her presence in this world, first on photos and, for several years now, on video as well. During the second half of the eighties she won fame with her ‘Madame’-works, in which she takes on the character of a lonely middle-aged lady. From the ‘Madame’- and ‘It’-characters she has evolved into ‘street rambling’, from graveyards her fascination shifted to the desert, always on the lookout.

Her work has been shown, among others, at Kunsthalle Lophem (Loppem), the museum for contemporary arts MUHKA (Antwerp) and Musée des Beaux-arts Tourcoing.

Solo exhibitions:
2005: ’Zonzolola’, Kunsthalle Lophem, Loppem (B). 2002: ’Une Minute de Silence’, Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts, Dunkerque (F). 2001: ’Desert of fragments’, MuHKA, Antwerp (B) - ’Touch Me’, Barbierama Museum, St Niklaas (B). 2000: ’Sea of dead letters’, Badcomplex, Brussel (B). 1999: ’A Small Box of Air Trapped and Drawn’, with Andrew Webb, Campo Santo, Gent (B). 1996: ’Artedomani’, Spoleto (I) - ’A thing of infinite solitude’, Museum Moderne Kunst, Arnhem (NL) - ’Burial Ground’, with Jon Thompson, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle (B). 1995: ’A thing of infinite solitude’, Provinciaal Museum Hasselt, Hasselt (B). 1993: ’The story of It’, Cultureel Centrum De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (NL). 1992: ’Streetrambling’, Gallery Ronny Van de Velde, Antwerp (B) - ’The day “It” took an initiative’, Kunsthalle, Vienna (AU). 1991: Vereniging voor het Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent (B). 1990: Gallery De Rive Gauche, Amsterdam (NL) - Gallery Lydia Megert, Bern (CH). 1989: GA Gallery, Waasmunster (B) - Kunstcentrum, Hoorn (NL) - Gallery Tanja Rumpff, Haarlem (NL) - Gallery Kolon, Cologne (D) - Gallery Montevideo, Antwerp (B) - Vrije Universiteit Amterdam – Alsterdam (NL).

1988: Sphinx, Boechout (B) - Forum, Hamburg (D). 1983: Ruimte Stalker, Brussels (B). 1982: Club Moral, Antwerp (B). 1981: Ruimte Morguen, Antwerp (B) - Kunstlerhaus, Hamburg (D).

Group exhibitions:
2009: Argos - Open Lounge, Villa Merkel & Bahnwärterhaus, Esslingen (DE). 2008: ’Mimitisme’, Extra City, Antwerp (B) - ’Die Lucky Bush’, MuHKA, Antwerp (B) - ’Momentum-Festival’, Les Baines, Brussels (B) - ’24 hours bits and pieces, dreams and confessions’ (performance), with Christophe Fink, Les Soirées du Laboureur, Brussels (B) - ’Van Provo tot Nu’, cc De Werf, Aalst (B) - ’Manifesta 7’, Palazzo delle Poste, Trento (I). 2007: ’Een keuze uit collectie’, MuHKA, Antwerp (B) - ’Kunst en recht’, Lokaal 01, Antwerp (B) - ’ErrorOne’, Alcatel Building, Antwerp (B) - ’Vanaf Nu’, space LLS 387, Antwerp (B) - ’Frontforyou’, Z33, Hasselt (B). 2006: ’Ethiopië’, Factor 44, Borgerhout (B) - ’Filiaal van de hemel’, Stedelijk Museum, Lokeren (B) - ’Oudoors’, Gallery Dannielle Laumand, Londen (UK) - ’Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen’ (G) - ’Impakt Festival’, Utrecht (NL). 2005: ’Locus Loppem’, Heidelberg, Loppem (B) - ’Between skin & orgasm’, Belfort, Brugge (B) - ’Belgische fotografen 1840-2005’, Fotomuseum Antwerpen, Antwerp (B) - ’Monopolis’, Witte de Wiyh, Rotterdam (NL) - ’Boulevard Amandla’, Bibliotheek Antwerpen, Antwerp (B) -

’Videofestival 2005’, Argos, Brussels (B). 2004: ’Amicalement vôtre’, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tourcoing (F) - ’Pauvres Nous’, Factor 44, Borgerhout (B) - ’Rush’, Kapel Abdij Maagdendale, Oudenaarde (B) - ’Solo Quint II’, AZ Sint-Blasius, Dendermonde (B) - ’Videofestival’, Argos, Brussels (B) - ’Dear ICC’, MuHKA, Antwerp (B) - ’30 jaar gallerij’, Gallerij de Gryse, Tielt (B) - ’Cine y casi cine 2005’, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (Es). 2003: ’Desert and city dweler’, Factor 44, Borgerhout (B) - ’Five’, Galerie Kusseneers, Lier (B) - ’The Ambiguity of the Image, Belgian Art Now’, Art Athina, Athens (G) - ’Autobiografie in der Kunst’, Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst, Leipzig (D) - ’De Brakke Hond’, Nottebohmzaal, Antwerp (B). 2002: ’Le petit cabinet d’un Amateur de Ruines’, Orion Art Gallery, Oostende (B) - ’Attachment’, Brugge 2002, Brugge (B) - ’Human-ism(e) I’, Art Agents Gallery, Hamburg (D) - ’Dans la peau d’une femme’, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris (F) - ’Human-ism(e) II’; Orion Art Gallery, Oostende (B) - ’Laboratiore Paracycliste’, La maison de peuple, Brussels (B) - ’Wankel evenwicht’, project Oikoten, Kadoc kapel, Leuven (B). 2001: ’Still/Life’, Rockoxhuis, Antwerp (B) - ’Double Life’, Generali Foundation, Vienna (AU) - ’Beeld van een Beeld’, De Markten, Brussels (B) - ’Three Way Switch’, Art Agent Gallery, Hamburg (D) - ’Ici et Maintenant’, Entrepôt Royal Thurn & Taxis, Brussels (B). 2000: ’Mouvements’, MuHKA, Antwerp (B) - ’Art /Nature’, Belgisch Paviljoen -

Hannover 2000 (D). 1999: ’Masque’, Cambridge Darkroom, Cambridge (UK) - ’Storytelling’, Casino Luxembourg (L) - ’Jesus Christ-Super Art’, Cultureel Centrum Heusden-Zolder (B) - ’Les Occasions du Travail’, N.I.C.C., Antwerp (B) - ’Public Domain’, Fototriennale Graz (AU) - ’De Schreeuw’, Gallery ’t Leerhuys, Brugge (B) - ’Tremendum fascinosum’, Cultureel Centrum Berchem, Berchem (B) - ’De Slang’, Brugge 2003, Groeningemuseum, Brugge (B). 1998: ’Incubatieproject’, Brugge (B) - Gallery Fortlaan 17, Gent (B) - ’Masque’, John Hansard Gallery, University Southampton, Southampton (UK) - Gallery Montevideo, Antwerp (B) - ’Chien Vierkant’, Factor 44, Antwerp (B) - ’Bildgewordene Wirklichkeiten’, Internat.Kunstzentrum Ostbelgien, Eupen (B) - ’Make-Up’, Maastricht (NL). 1997: ’Above/Below the Surface’, Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki (FI) - ’Heteronymous’, San Michelle A Ripa, Roma (I). 1996: ’Ad Usum Fabricae’, Museo D’arte Contemporanea, L’Aquilla (I) - ’Everybody’s talking’, Gemeentemuseum Helmond (NL) - ’Woordenloos’, Ruimte Morguen, Antwerp (B) - ’Zijsporen’, Gynaika, Antwerp (B). 1995: ’Alter Ego’, Kunstcentrum W138, Amsterdam (NL) - ’Body Smart’, Oratorio di San Rocco, Padova (I) - ’Make me clean again’, Alpenmilchzentrale, Vienna (AU) - ’Animale Domestica’, Antwerp (B) - ’Fotografische Obsessionen’, Schlob Wolkersdorf (AU) - Gallery 400, Chicago (US) - Gallery De Gryse, Tielt (B). 1994: ’Oh boy, it’s a girl’, Kunstverein Munchen (D) - Kunsthaus, Vienna (AU) - Gallery De Gryse, Tielt (B) -

’Project for Europe’, Copenhagen (DK) - ’Contemporary art in Flanders’, Palacio National de Sintra, Sintra (P) - ’Extreme Limite’, Gallery Janos, Paris (F) - ’4 Conceptual artists’, Gallery Ponte Pietra, Verona (I) - ’Le Cadavre Exquis’, Stadsschouwburg, Antwerp (B) - ’Ontheemde Kinderen’, Art & Engagement, Amserdam (NL) - Gallery Patrick De Brock, Knokke (B). 1993: ’Dress Codes’, I.C.A., Boston (US) - ’Konstruction Zizat’, Sprengel Museum Hannover (D) - ’Contemporary art in Belgium’ (touring exhibition), different museums in Japan (J) - ’The Image of Reality’, Plovdiv, Bulgaria - ’Morgen gemaakt’, Art et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (NL). 1992: ’Rum Mellan Rum’, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (S) - Gallery Dooley de Cappelaine, New York (US) - ’Furkart’, Hotel Furkablick (CH). 1991: MuHKA, Antwerp (B) - Artedomani, Spoleto (I) - ’From the replication of dream to reality’, Gallery Grita Insam, Vienna (AU) - Gallery Carine Campo, Antwerp (B) - ’Individu : Duiding’, I.C.C., Antwerp (B). 1990: Ars Musica, Brussels (B) - Gallery Tanja Rumpff, Haarlem (NL) - Museum Modern Art, Oxford (UK) - Gallery Snoei, Rotterdam (NL) - Edge 90, Newcastle (UK) - Gallery Montevideo, Antwerp (B). 1989: Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (D) - Passage, Waregem (B) - Gallery Kaes Weiss, Stuttgart (D). 1988: Casa Frolo, Venice (I).

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Gizeh-Blankenberghe Ria Pacquée
Compilation Urbino - Italy Ann Veronica Janssens, Harald Thys, Sophie Whettnall, Gert Verhoeven, Peter De Cupere, Charley Case, Frank Theys, Bernard Gigounon, Stéphanie Hamaide, Michel François, Ria Pacquée, Els Opsomer, Laurent Van Lancker, Messieurs Delmotte
Performance 1980 Ria Pacquée
Madame going to a dog show 1988 Ria Pacquée
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