Galerie Van De Weghe

Narcisse Tordoir’s visual language can be called swell dynamic, bold and intriguing. For more than three decades he reinvents the act of painting. As an artist he is constantly trying out new possibilities where media and style are mixed. In a flashy way he challenges himself and his audience, both content wise as in his technical approach. His works are full of bravado, simultaneously subtle and in your face. Like no other he weaves romance with harsh reality, history with actuality, moving pictures with static, madness with seriousness. He raises painting to an act, a performance that continues to resonate long after. Tiepolo, the Arab revolution, news and history, gods and fairy tales, war and piece, all components of Tordoir’s imaginary world that he brings to the canvas or paper, with paint of fragile pastels constructing new stories through the eye of the master painter in the true tradition of Flemish greatest.

Narcisse Tordoir represented Belgium at the Venice Biennale in 1988 and he was senior advisor of the Rijksakademie (Amsterdam) till 2015. He exhibited in several museums in Belgium and abroad, and thereby he often invited (and collaborated with) other artists. In 1999 he curates Trouble Spot Painting in collaboration with Luc Tuymans. In 2014 Tordoir showed monumental pastel drawings in his exhibition The Pink Spy at M HKA, Antwerp. Publications include Are we changing the world (Extra City, 2005), The Way of the World (CC Mechelen, 2009) and The Pink Spy (M HKA, 2014).

2018

Fake Barok, Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België, Brussels (solo)

Narcisse Tordoir & Fendry Ekel, CC Strombeek, Strombeek-Bever

Artist talk with Philippe Van Cauteren, CC Strombeek, Strombeek-Bever

Kunstvestdagen, group show organised by Kristoff Meersman

2017

Tiepolo’s Silence, Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam

Superdemocratie, Belgische Senaat, Brussels, group exhibition curated by Bart De Baere and Pierre-Olivier Rollin

2016

Narcisse Tordoir, Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam

Follow the White Cube, Honold Fine Art, Ubud, Bali

Regards Partagés (collectie Rudy Joseph), musée Marthe Donas, Ittre

2015

Narcisse Tordoir - De plaats van het tekenen in het scheppingsproces, Museum Plantin Moretus, Antwerp (solo)

Recente aanwinsten, M HKA, Antwerp

Works on paper, Galerie Van De Weghe, Antwerp

Gravel Beat / Sleepwalker, Galerie Van De Weghe, Antwerp (solo)

Tordoir verkent Tiepolo, Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen (solo)

2014

The Pink Spy, M HKA, Antwerp

The Pink Spy, Galerie Duan, Paris (solo)

Capita Selecta, Broelmuseum, Kortrijk

The Part In The Story Where A Part Becomes A Part of Something Else, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam

2013

About Waves - Refiguratie CC Strombeek, Strombeek-Bever

2012

The Pink Spy, Galerie Van De Weghe, Antwerp (solo)

Switch, Galerie Dukan Hourdequin, Paris

Collectie XXII M HKA, Antwerp

About Waves - Refiguratie CC Strombeek, Strombeek-Bever

2011

Meesterwerken in het MAS, Vijf eeuwen beeld in Antwerpen, Antwerp

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously, Galerie Dukan Hourdequin, Paris

Untitled, Galerie Van de Weghe, Antwerp

2010

Square 1, Galerie Van De Weghe, Antwerp

Tegenlicht, SMAK, Gent

Ecce Homo Ludens, Musée Régional d’Art Contemporain Languedoc-Rousilllon, Sérignan

An unpardonable sin, Castillo/Corrales, Paris

2009

The Way of the World, Cultuurcentrum Mechelen

Picture this!, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle

Textiles, M HKA, Antwerp

A Story of the Image: Old & New Masters from Antwerp, National Museum of Singapore

A Story of the Image: Old & New Masters from Antwerp, Shanghai Art Museum , Shanghai

2008

Confronting the Image, Elements MoCA, Beijing

Honorons Honoré, De Garage, Mechelen

Dry and wet paintings, Crown Gallery, Brussels

The ARC Collection, Office for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam

2007

Kunst als Leben, Kunsthaus Bern, Bern

Bad Dad, Objectif (retribution), Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp

Strike a pose, Circuit, Lausanne

Dry and wet paintings, Crown Gallery, Brussels

Jubilee, M KHA, Antwerp

2006

Shakalakaboum, Lamot, Mechelen

Modern People, Crown Gallery, Brussels

2005

Collaborate works, Extra City, Antwerp

Dear ICC, MuKHA, Antwerp

de wereld deugt, wij een beetje minder, De Appel, Amsterdam

2004

Working Ethics, Krinzinger Projecte, Wien

Artists Favourites, ICA , London

2003

Kunstenaars in beweging, De Markten, Brussels

De Collectie, MuKHA, Antwerp

Bogodia, Centre Soleil d’Afrique, 5ième Rencontres de Bamako Biennale

Tears of the skull, De Watertoren, Vlissingen

2002

9 Points of view, Ronse

Legaat R.De ROECK-Vos, Factor 44, Antwerp

2001

Editions, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp

CLICK, Centre Soleil d’Afrique, 4ième Rencontres de Bamako Biennale

2000

The Dancant, Galerie Nadia Vilenne, Luik

Galerie Milco Onrust, Amsterdam

Echap, Centre Soleil d’Afrique, Bamako

1999

Trouble spot: Painting MUKHA, Antwerp

1997

N.T.Z.T., Centraal Museum, Utrecht

1998

Vive la Peinture, l’Aquarium, Galerie d’Ecole, Valenciennes

Narcisse Tordoir, Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam

François Curlet, Michel François, Han Schuil, Narcisse Tordoir, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Gent

1995

Tim Ayers, Narcisse Tordoir, Alan Uglow, Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam

1994

Link, The Contemporary Art Company, Den Haag

(group) Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam

1993

Narcisse Tordoir, Galerie Annette De Keyser, Antwerp

Narcisse Tordoir, Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam

Kunst in België na 1980, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Brussels

1992

Woord en Beeld in de Belgische Kunst, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Brussels

1991

Narcisse Tordoir, Galerie Joost Declerq, Gent

Narcisse Tordoir, Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam

Luc Deleu, Guy Rombouts-Monika Droste, Narcisse Tordoir, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo

1990

Narcisse Tordoir, Galerie Joost Declerq, Knokke

(group), Ponton, Temse

(group), Beelden Buiten, Tielt

Belgique, une nouvelle génération, FRAC du Pays de la Loire, Clisson

Beeldenstorm 1990, M HKA, Antwerp

1989

Narcisse Tordoir, Galerie Joost Declerq, Gent

Narcisse Tordoir, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin

(group), Jack Tilton Gallery , New York

1988

XLIII BIENNALE–DI–VENEZIA, Belgian Pavillion, Venice

Narcisse Tordoir, Art & Project, Amsterdam

Narcisse Tordoir, Gallery Laure Gennilard, London

Gran Pavese, The Flag Project, M HKA, Antwerp

De Verzameling/The Collection, M HKA, Antwerp

1987

Narcisse Tordoir, 121 Art Gallery , Antwerp

Narcisse Tordoir, Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels

(group), Studio Massimi, Roma

Déconstruction, Hallen van Schaarbeek, Brussels

1986

Narcisse Tordoir, Galerie De Lege Ruimte, Brugge

6 Young Flemish Artists, Art Society of the International Monetary Fund, Washington

Abstraction ‘86’, 121 Art Gallery, Antwerp

Een Keuze, KunstRAI, Amsterdam

Initiatief 86, Sint-Pietersabdij, Gent

Portraits de scène, l’Ile de Phoques, Casa Frollo, Venezia

Portraits de scène, Musée d’Ansembourg, Liège

1985

Narcisse Tordoir, Galerie Plus-Kern, Brussels Narcisse Tordoir’, Galerie ‘t Venster, Rotterdam

Beelden in de Plancius, Art & Project, Amsterdam

1984

Narcisse Tordoir, Vereniging voor het Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent

Le Musée de Voyag’, Espace 251 Nord, Liège

1983

Narcisse Tordoir, Art & Project, Amsterdam

Narcisse Tordoir, 121 Art Gallery , Antwerp

Jonge Kunstenaars uit het Antwerpse, Museum Dhont-Dhaenens, Deurle

1982

Het picturaal verlangen/Le désir pictural, Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels

De magie van het beeld/La magie de l’image, Vereniging voor tentoonstellingen van het Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels

1981

Narcisse Tordoir, 121 Art Gallery , Antwerp

Picturaal 1, Recente schilderkunst in Vlaanderen, ICC, Antwerp

1980

Narcisse Tordoir, Associates, Enschede

A week of Informations about Selforganisations, Kleiner Ausstellungsraum, Hamburg

1979

The Many Faces of Modern Art, Old House, Brentwood

1978

Today’s Place, The Registry Gallery, San Francisco

1977

Performance Art, Galerie New Reform, Aalst

Performance Art, R.H.O.K., Brussels

Performance Art, Stadsarchief, Kassel