About

Ronald Cornelissen

Born: 1960
Education: Academy St. Joost, Breda.
Lives and works in Rotterdam

Solo Exhibitions

2008

  • Blow, Instituto Buena Bista, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles.

2006

  • Recent Drawings, De Hallen, Haarlem.
  • k2sarcophagidae2k, Museum Van Nagsael, Rotterdam.

2004

  • Sam’s Bedroom, XX Multiple Gallery, Rotterdam.

2003

  • Galerie de l’École Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Marseille, Marseille, France.

2001

  • Alien Love Calls, W139, Amsterdam, installation with Arnold Mosselman.

2000

  • Brown Star, Black Cross, God Mountain, Artis, ‘s-Hertogenbosch (also with Ben Schot)

1998

  • CBK/Villa Alckmaer, Rotterdam.
  • Zen Arcade, Rotterdam City Theatre, Rotterdam.

1997

  • Snoei Gallery, Rotterdam.

1996

  • Bijenkorfproject, Manifesta 1, Rotterdam.

1993

  • Automatons, Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Rotterdam.

Group Exhibitions

2008

  • Considering Detroit, MOCAD, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, USA. With Ellen Cantor, Maurice Greenia Jr. (Maugre), Jim Gustafson, Allie McGhee, Heather McGill, Gordon Newton and Time Stereo.
  • Galerie Jade, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam (with Johanna Billing, Miguel Calderon, Doug Fishbone, Erik Van Lieshout, Annika Ström, Keith Wilson and Time Stereo).
  • Le Salon du Dessin Contemporain, Galerie Bernard Jordan, Paris.

2007

  • Black & Black, UFO Factory, Detroit, USA.
  • Independant Drawing Gig, Quartair, Den Haag.
  • Drawing Typologies, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
  • Exchanging Roles, Alternative Platforms from Rotterdam in Careof, Milano, Italy. With Ann Course and Paul Clark, Cary Loren, Vanessa Renwick and Time Stereo.

2006

  • Wormhole 4, Stroom, The Hague.
  • Dessins, Galerie Bernard Jordan, Paris, France with Bruno Gironcoli, Elmar Trenkwalder
    Marcel van Eeden and Paul van der Eerden.
  • Hommage, Center for the Visual Arts, Rotterdam.

2005

  • Evil Walks, Project Rotterdam in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam.
  • The Devil’s Devil’s Nite, The Lab Gallery, New York City, USA.

2004

  • Scenario 2020, Ontwerpen voor de toekomst, Exposorium Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.

2003

  • Time Stereo Family, C-Pop Gallery, Detroit, USA.
  • East↔West, Gore Fest, TENT, Rotterdam.
  • Blobs, SKOR, Amsterdam with Gabriel Lester and Jurgen Bey.

2002

  • Ontvelde Plekken, De Hallen, Haarlem.
  • Buiten Zinnen/WORMHOLE 2, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam.
  • Kaboom, Museum Of New Art, Detroit, USA

2001

  • Wormhole 1, Gendai Heights Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
  • Hieronymus Bosch Exhibition, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam.

2000

  • Wormhole The Movie, XX-Multiple Gallery, Rotterdam.
  • Wormhole 1, Bookbeat gallery, Detroit, USA.
  • Strip, Gallery Outline, Amsterdam (exhibition by Stichting Zet)
  • The Majic Garden, C-Pop Gallery, exhibition and performance, Detroit, USA.

1999

  • Speciale Aanmaak, Artis,’s-Hertogenbosch.

1996

  • Fresh Breeze, Nova Zembla, ’s-Hertogenbosch.
  • Snoei Gallery, Rotterdam.
  • Galerie 96, Kunsthal, Rotterdam.

1995

  • De Uitvinders, Arti et Amicitae, Amsterdam.
  • Stroomopwaarts, De Hal, Rotterdam.
  • Shaking Patterns, W 139, Amsterdam.

1989- 1990

  • Germinations 5, ELAC Lyon, Frauenmuseum Bonn, De Beyerd, Breda.

1989 – 1991

  • Museum for Contemporary Art, MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium.

Projects

2008

  • Publishing and editing Wormhole 5 magazine.

2007

  • Publishing and editing Wormhole 4 magazine.

2002

  • Publishing and editing Wormhole 3 magazine.
  • Co-curator for RPM, (exhibition of the sound art collection of Jan van Toorn for Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam.
  • Curating Ontvelde Plekken, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem.

2001

  • Publishing and editing Wormhole 2 magazine.
  • Curating the contemporary art segment of the Hieronymus Bosch exhibition with Chris Dercon and Bernard Vermet, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam.

2000

  • Publishing and editing Wormhole 1 magazine.

1998

  • I rip you, you rip me, interdisciplinary project with Destroy All Monsters (Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Jim Shaw, Art Byington and Dave Muller), John Sinclair, Charlemagne Palestine, Princes DragonMom.

Publications

2007

  • Wormhole 5.
  • Catalogue Drawing Typologies, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.

2006

  • Halszaken, publication by De Hallen, Haarlem.
  • Catalogue for Museum Nagsael, Rotterdam.
  • Wormhole 4.

2003

  • Wormhole 3, (‘1713’, a collaboration with Chris Kennedy)

2002

  • Wormhole 2.
  • Wij Bouwen Nieuwe Zinnen, publication by W139, Amsterdam, Holland.
  • Green Groceries 2.

2001

  • Catalogue Beeldspoor by Rotterdam’s City Theatre, Rotterdam, Holland.

2000

  • Wormhole 1 (Hare-Brained a collaboration with Ben Schot), a magazine produced and edited by me.
  • Green Groceries (Captain Proteus a collaboration with Chris Kennedy)
  • Documents Sur L’Art, article about I Rip You, You Rip Me.

1999

  • Collect, Recollect, Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Holland.

1996

  • Catalogue by Nova Zembla, Den Bosch, Holland.

1993

  • Monografie by Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Rotterdam, Holland.

1990

  • Catalogue of the collection by MUHKA, Museum for Contemporary Art Antwerp, Belgium.
  • Catalogue by De Fabriek, Eindhoven, Holland.

1989 - 1990

  • Catalogue Germinations 5.

Consignments

2004

  • FEAR, a multiple made for Blanco Foundation, Rotterdam.

2003

  • Workshop with 6 students of the Technical University Eindhoven to design a pavilion consigned by SKOR and TU-e.
  • Proposal for SKOR for the ‘traffic-garden’ in the Plaswijckpark in Rotterdam.

2001

  • Ubu Roy, consignment for Beeldspoor Foundation.

Performances

2005

  • The Devil’s Robot, The Lab Gallery, New York City, USA.

2001

  • Performances with Princess DragonMom in Tokyo (Cay’s and Uplink), Nagoya (Takuzo), Osaka (&’s Gallery), Marugame (Uchiwa Port Museum) and Matsuyama (Bibros).
  • Performances with Princess DragonMom at The Knitting Factory in New York.
  • The Haunted Tube, closing performance for the Hieronymus Bosch Exhibition with Princess DragonMom at Museum Boijmans Beuningen, Rotterdam.

2000

  • Performance with Princess DragonMom, Artis, Den Bosch.

1999

  • Performance with Princess DragonMom and Koji Tano (Japan) at TENT. (Rotterdam), The Spitz (Londen, UK), Extrapool (Nijmegen), Planete (Luik, Belgium), De Fabriek (Gent, Belgium) and KunstGalerie kg (Duisburg, Germany)

1998

  • Devil’s Robot and Zoo Trip with Princess DragonMom, Nighttown, Rotterdam for    I Rip You, You Rip Me.
  • Performance with Princess DragonMom, The Spitz, Londen.

Residencies 

2007

  • Instituto Buena Bista, Curaçao Center for Contemporary Art, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles.