JÉRÔME POLOCZEK
Jérôme Poloczek presents us with "an experimental thought, sometimes subversive, sometimes inventive, sometimes lyrical, sometimes naive, but always in search of an inversion of perspective." - Cesare Rodriguez
Jérôme Poloczek. Born in Brussels in 1979. Lives and works in Brussels
Selected solo exhibitions, performances and installations: 2025 Two two, Rossicontemporary, Brussels 2024 One two three, open studio, Cité internationale des arts, Paris; And, performance, Le Sample, Paris/Poetini, Rossicontemporary, Brussels 2023 Becoming Someone Else, installation-performance, Something Beautiful #1, Brussels; Tourne, performance, Palais de Tokyo, Paris 2022 Eyes, performance, l’Émulation, Liège; Not Found yet, Le Comptoir, Liège; You will go elswhere, performance, Supersport Literature, Atoma, Brussels 2021 Everything Moves, performance, Mommen Workshops, Brussels/Passa Porta, Seneffe; Details, installation/performance, Iselp, Brussel; Almost Choreography, performance, Midis de la Poésie, Sabir/ Cut Me, Iselp, Brussels/ Expoésie (Périgueux); Annunciation (detail), Galerie Commune/ESA Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Tourcoing 2018 Now, performance, Les Nuits d’encre, Braine-l’Alleud, Rev, Montreuil, Vecteur, Charleroi; Personne, performance 10/12, Brussels; Autobiographie, Area 42, Brussels/ Tulitu, Brussels/ Vector, Charleroi, Monte-en-L’air, Paris 2017 Kits for Fighting for Joy, GNF Gallery, Brussels 2016 So the living danced in green, residency and solo exhibition, Brussels 2015 I put a lamb’s head in a garden and invited humans, residency and solo exhibition, Nadine Feront Gallery, Brussels 2014 I am a medium, participatory installation and performance, Claus workshops, Brussels/ Uquam, Montreal; The ghosts are not dead, we are everywhere, performance, Institut des oeuvres Belges, Paris; Why do something rather than nothing, residence and solo exhibition, Nadine Feront Gallery, Brussels 2013 Kit for Fighting for Joy, participatory project and performance, Claus Workshops, Brussels 2012 Summer Exhibition, Hôtel Rustique, Brussels; Tu, reading and performance, Théâtre au Bout Là-bas, Avignon; You’re going to blink your eyes, 10/12, Brussels 2010 Overwriting, reading and performance, Passa Porta, Brussels / Monte en L’Air, Paris / Ecuries, Liège; Motney, participatory installation and performance, Theatre de l’L, Brussels; Soom, participatory installation and performance, Theatre de l’L, Brussels 2009 Excitations, Cut Me, Brussels
Selected group exhibitions: 2025 Trust the artist, Rossicontemporary, Brussels 2019 Then (with Sixtine Jacquart), personal workshop, Brussels 2018 Drawing (with Nico Natsuhaki), Mommen workshops, Brussels 2016 Turn a blind eye, Nadine Feront Gallery, Brussels 2015 The Waste Land, Nadine Feront Gallery, Brussels 2014 A little hidden, Here #3, Montréal; Living Still Life, Here #2, Montreal 2013 Silent anatomies, Nadine Feront Gallery, Brussels 2005 What Now?, Le Bonheur, Brussels
Publications: 2024 Autobiografia, Aboio 2021 We are angry to belong to those who think the Earth is going to end, 50° North/ESA, Tourcoing; Almost Poems, Black Grouse 2018 Autobiographie, L’Arbre à mots 2017 It’s going to overflow, He is a believer, it will work , to be in progress, to continue, The Tree of Words / Poetry Lunchtimes 2016 I’d rather be a chair; Gone in Spring; A morning after the fog; Is it too late or is it too soon 2015 Lostreal, experimental documentary film 2014 you Are a Plant (with Julie Delporte); You are an animal (with Julie Delporte 2013 Rue du cinéma (with Benoît Grimalt), experimental documentary film 2011 Never (collective), Brugger; Moos (collective), Brugger 2009 Overwriting (collective), Brugger 2007 What now (collective), writings 2006 Time does not exist, in Articulations 2005 Dustan/Engagement (collective), writings
