Ana Torfs

♀ *1963 / Belgium

Works

Contacts for the work of Ana Torfs

Ana Torfs

Brussel
www.anatorfs.com

Solo exhibitions

Die Sammlung betrachten &

The Day You Were Thinking About the Sibyl While You Were Picking Autumn Leaves An Insert

Akademie Bildende Künste, Wien (AT)
3 Oct 2025 – 30 Aug 2026
THE MAGICIAN & THE SURGEON

Centre for Fine Arts - Bozar, Brussels (BE)
12 Mar 2020 – 1 Nov 2020
FIGMENTS & FRAGMENTS

Pori Art Museum, Pori (FI)
22 Sep 2017 – 25 Feb 2018
Echolalia, Ana Torfs

centro de arte moderna, Lisbon (PT)
11 Mar 2016 – 13 Jun 2016
Echolalia

WIELS Centre d'art contemporain, Brussels (BE)
12 Sep 2014 – 14 Dec 2014
ALBUM/TRACKS B

Generali Foundation, Wien (AT)
3 Sep 2010 – 12 Dec 2010
ALBUM/TRACKS A

K21 Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf (DE)
27 Feb 2010 – 18 Jul 2010
ANATOMY

Sprengel Museum, Hannover (DE)
13 Apr 2008 – 7 Sep 2008
Anatomy

Argos - Centre for Art & Media, Brussels (BE)
6 Feb 2007 – 10 Mar 2007
ANATOMY

daadgalerie, Berlin (DE)
23 Sep 2006 – 4 Nov 2006
Figuren/Projektionen 2000-2005

GAK Gesellschaft Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen (DE)
27 Jan 2006 – 23 Apr 2006

Group

Visual Echoes

Counter-Images in the Stream of Pictures. Video, Film, Photography // Gegenbilder im Bilderstrom Video, Film, Fotografie

Museum der Moderne , Salzburg (AT)
3 Oct 2025 – 8 Mar 2026

with Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, Lynda Benglis, Danica Dakic, Lili Dujourie, Valie Export, Harun Farocki, Andrea Fraser, Dan Graham, Sanja Ivekovic, Luis Jacob, Arthur Jafa …
VIDEONALE.20

Festival für Video und zeitbasierte Kunstformen

Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn (DE)
11 Apr 2025 – 18 May 2025

with Viktor Brim, Chto Delat International, Valie Export, Philipp Gufler, Lynn Hershman, Ida Kammerloch, Alwin Lay, Angelica Mesiti, Ana María Millán, Marcel Odenbach, Stefan Panhans, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz …
Macht der Sprache. Aus den Sammlungen

Power of Language - From the Collections

Museum der Moderne , Salzburg (AT)
20 Oct 2018 – 7 Apr 2019

with Christian Ludwig Attersee, Robert Barry, Lothar Baumgarten, Peter Downsbrough, Valie Export, Rainer Ganahl, Jaroslaw Kozlowski, David Lamelas, Ewa Partum, Arnulf Rainer, Klaus Scheruebel, Kurt Schwitters …
The Liar's Cloth

GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
22 Feb 2018 – 7 Apr 2018

with Gwenneth Boelens, Dirk Braeckman, Thomas Hirschhorn, Liz Magic Laser, Jeff Wall
The Still Point of the Turning World

Between Film and Photography

FOMU Fotomuseum Antwerp, Antwerp (BE)
23 Jun 2017 – 8 Oct 2017

with Morten Barker , Dirk Braeckman, Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Claerbout, Manon de Boer, Jason Dee, Nir Evron, Mekhitar Garabedian, Geert Goiris, Paul Graham, Guido Guidi, Mark Lewis …
Contour Biennale 8

Polyphonic worlds: justice as medium

Contour Mechelen vzw, Mechelen (BE)
11 Mar 2017 – 21 May 2017

with Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Eric Baudelaire, Rossella Biscotti, Filipa Cesar, Louis Henderson, Adelita Husni-Bey, Beatriz Santiago Munoz, Trinh Thi Nguyen, Otobong Nkanga, Trevor Paglen, Judy Radul, Madonna Staunton …
Et in Arcadia Ego—World Chaos and Idyll

Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve (DE)
10 Jul 2015 – 10 Sep 2015

with Ellen Harvey, Olaf Holzapfel, Korpys / Loeffler, Louise Lawler, Maix Mayer, Julian Rosefeldt, Corinna Schnitt
Cinema Remake, Art & Film

Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam (NL)
22 Mar 2014 – 1 Jun 2014

with Cory Arcangel, Slater Bradley, Gregory Crewdson, David Maljkovic, Nicolas Provost, Clemens von Wedemeyer
Reading Cinema, Finding Words: Art after Marcel Broodthaers

Nat. Museum Modern Art, Tokyo (JP)
22 Apr 2014 – 1 Jun 2014

with Marcel Broodthaers, Pierre Huyghe, Isaac Julien, Anri Sala, Cindy Sherman, Dayanita Singh, Miwa Yanagi, Akram Zaatari
The way of the shovel

Art as Archaeology

MCA Museum Contemp Art, Chicago (US)
9 Nov 2013 – 9 Mar 2014

with Phil Collins, Moyra Davey, Tacita Dean, Stan Douglas, Cyprien Gaillard, Daniel Knorr, Joachim Koester, Susanne Kriemann, Jean-Luc Moulene, Deimantas Narkevicius, Sophie Nys, Anri Sala …
Crescendo

AUS Centre Contemporary Art, Melbourne (AU)
20 Dec 2013 – 2 Mar 2014

with Dorothy Cross, Rodney Graham, Hans Op de Beeck, Julian Rosefeldt, Guido van der Werve
Reading Cinema, Finding Words

Art after Marcel Broodthaers

The National Museum, Kyôto (JP)
7 Sep 2013 – 27 Oct 2013

with Eric Baudelaire, Marcel Broodthaers, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pierre Huyghe, Isaac Julien, Anri Sala, Cindy Sherman, Dayanita Singh, Koki Tanaka, Ming Wong, Miwa Yanagi, Akram Zaatari
The Collection as a Character

MUHKA Museum, Antwerp (BE)
7 Jun 2013 – 22 Sep 2013

with Vito Acconci, Charif Benhelima, Guillaume Bijl, Sergey Bratkov, Manon de Boer, Lili Dujourie, Jef Geys, Rebecca Horn, Craigie Horsfield, Antoni Muntadas, Thomas Ruff, Allan Sekula …
Sharjah Biennial 11

<em>Re:emerge</em> - Towards a New Cultural Cartography

Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah (AE)
13 Mar 2013 – 13 May 2013

with Ravi Agarwal, Francis Alys, Jananne Al-Ani, Nevin Aladag, Carlos Amorales, Burak Arikan, Ismail Bahri, Matthew Barney, Tony Chakar, Tiffany Chung, David Claerbout, Thomas Demand …
ANEIGNUNG

Teil III: Soziokulturelle Prägungen

Fotogalerie Wien, Wien (AT)
17 Dec 2012 – 26 Jan 2013

with Tanja Boukal, Jens Klein, Paula Muhr, Mikyta Vätopluk
Vérité exposée – about memory

Műcsarnok, Budapest (HU)
11 Apr 2009 – 31 May 2009

with Sven Augustijnen, David Claerbout, Els Vanden Meersch
The Projection Project, Budapest episode

Műcsarnok, Budapest (HU)
23 Jun 2007 – 26 Aug 2007

with Marie Jose Burki, Rodney Graham, Pierre Huyghe, Yeondoo JUNG, Bruce Nauman, Fiona Tan
Forschen und Erfinden

Die Recherche mit Bildern in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (CH)
2 Jun 2007 – 19 Aug 2007

with Pierre Bismuth, Kristleifur Bjoernsson, Sanna Kannisto, Joachim Koester, Jochen Lempert, Walid Raad (The Atlas Group), Costa Vece
Übergangsräume - Potential Spaces

Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (DE)
17 May 2007 – 12 Aug 2007

with Thomas Feuerstein, Runa Islam
36th International Film Festival Rotterdam

InternationalFilm Festival Rotterdam IFF, Rotterdam (NL)
24 Jan 2007 – 4 Feb 2007

with Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Karim Ainouz, Knut Asdam, Herman Asselberghs, Tessio Barba, Yael Bartana, Ondrej Brody, Matthew Buckingham, David Byrne, David Claerbout, Phil Collins, Bruce Conner …
Screentests

Netherlands Photo Museum, Rotterdam (NL)
22 Jan 2005 – 6 Mar 2005

with Martin Arnold, Manon de Boer, Johan Grimonprez, Graham Gussin, Eric Pellet, Anri Sala, Fiona Tan, Andy Warhol
14th World Wide Video Festival

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL)
26 Apr 1996 – 30 Apr 1996

with Anna Anders, Phyllis Baldino, George Barber, Zoe Beloff, Birgit Johnsen & Hanne Nielsen, Kjell Bjørgeengen, Andy Cameron, Shu Lea Cheang, Seoungho Cho, Tony Cokes, Marcel Dinahet, James Duesing …

Events

VIDEONALE.20

40 Jahre Festival für Video und zeitbasierte Kunstformen

Videonale, Bonn (DE)
11 Apr 2025 – 18 May 2025

with Viktor Brim, Valie Export, Beatrice Gibson, Gorilla Tapes, Philipp Gufler, Lynn Hershman, Ida Kammerloch, Alwin Lay, Lukas Marxt, Angelica Mesiti, Ana María Millán, Marcel Odenbach …
Videonale 20

Videonale, Bonn (DE)
11 Apr 2025 – 18 May 2025

with Viktor Brim, Chto Delat International, Valie Export, Beatrice Gibson, Philipp Gufler, Lynn Hershman, Ida Kammerloch, Alwin Lay, Lukas Marxt, Angelica Mesiti, Ana María Millán, Marcel Odenbach …
Figuren/Projektionen 2000-2005

GAK Gesellschaft Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen (DE)
23 Apr 2006