Arnout Killian
17 March 1969, Limbricht, Netherlands
Lives and works in Amsterdam
www.arnoutkillian.nl
Education
- 1988–1990 – Universiteit van Amsterdam, History, Amsterdam
- 1990–1995 – Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Fine Arts, Amsterdam
- 1994–1995 – STEIM (Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music), Amsterdam
- 1996–1997 – Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
Solo & Duo Exhibitions (Selection)
- 2025 – Cornered, NLisus, Rotterdam
- 2023 – Acousticals, ICOON, Hoek van Holland (sound installation)
- 2022 – Transferred, NLisus, Rotterdam
- 2021 – Tubes, Van Zijll Langhout Contemporary Art, Amsterdam (sound installation)
- 2019 – Broken Screens, Punt WG, Amsterdam
- 2019 – Silent Light, Lisa Norris Gallery, London
- 2018 – Pulse Miami Art Fair, duo with Hans van Bentem, NLisus, Miami
- 2018 – Volta Basel, duo with André Kruijsen, NLisus, Basel
- 2017 – Sphericals, Van Zijll Langhout Contemporary Art, Amsterdam (sound installation)
- 2017 – In Disguise, Pulchri, The Hague (duo with Ruth Borgenicht, NLisus)
- 2016 – ENTER THE VOID, Museum MORE, Gorssel (co-curated with Ype Koopmans)
- 2016 – Screens, Lisa Norris Gallery, London
- 2015 – Leftovers, Van Zijll Langhout Contemporary Art, Amsterdam
- 2014 – ACOUSTICALS 2, Punt WG, Amsterdam (sound installation)
- 2013 – No Credits, Brandt Gallery, Amsterdam
- 2012 – Ruin Remake, Consort Architects/Albus Lux, Rotterdam
- 2010 – Souvenir, Van Zijll Langhout Contemporary Art, Amsterdam
- 2008 – Park, Van Zijll Langhout Contemporary Art, Amsterdam
- 1997 – Speakers, W139, Amsterdam (sound installation, with Matthijs de Bruyne)
More exhibitions available upon request or via website.
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
- 2024 – Revisiting Museutopia, Punt WG, Amsterdam (with Tatyana Yassievich & Ilya Rabinovich)
- 2024 – YACAY, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam
- 2023 – Art Rotterdam, with NLisus (with Niels Post, Margriet van Breevoort)
- 2021 – Structures on Mars, Teekengenootschap Pictura, Dordrecht (TAOP)
- 2019 – Pulse Miami Art Fair, NLisus (with Hans van Bentem & Schilte & Portielje)
- 2015–ongoing – Museum MORE, Gorssel (collection display rotation)
- 2015 – Scherp Kijken, Museum MORE, Gorssel (cur. Ype Koopmans)
- 2014 – The New Dutch Masters, Lisa Norris Gallery, London
- 2012 – Door Schilderogen, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (co-curated, also exhibited)
- 2010 – Dutch Art Now, National Arts Club, New York
- 2008 – Beyond Paradise, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam
- 2006 – Non Places, 66 East, Amsterdam (cur. Ayako Yoshimura)
- 2002 – We’ll Slide Down the Surface of Things, De Vleeshal, Middelburg (cur. Rutger Wolfson)
Curatorial Projects
- 2015–2016 – Door Schilderogen II, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (with Harm van den Berg & Frenk Meeuwsen)
- 2013 – Curated solo exhibitions at Punt WG, Amsterdam (Eduard Genee, Julia Muenstermann, Ayako Yoshimura, others)
- 2012 – Door Schilderogen I, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (with Harm van den Berg & Frenk Meeuwsen)
Collaborations
- 2018 – Sound design for Cell Memory, Thank You Plant (installation by Wineke Gartz), Hortus Botanicus, Haren
- 2018 – Sound for Rock Garden (installation by Wineke Gartz), De Nederlandsche Bank
- 2012 – Soundtrack for View from the Acropolis (film by Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan, shown at Berlinale 2013)
Publications & Reviews
- Book – Museum More 100 jaar realisme, Marieke Jooren en Chris Reinewald
- Kunst Blijft een Raadsel – review of Sphericals (sound installation)
- Mister Motley – review of Enter the Void, Museum MORE
- KCLOG – review of Trinkets for the Rich, Nationalmuseum
- Slashseconds – multiple features
- Artinfo, Metropolis M – Lotte Haagsma on Beyond Paradise
- Book – This is the Flow – The Museum as a Space for Ideas, ed. Rutger Wolfson
Collections
- Museum MORE, Gorssel
- SCHUNCK (Glaspaleis), Heerlen