Nico Dockx

born 1974 in Ekeren/Antwerp
lives and works in Antwerp


Exhibitions & Projects 2013 (selection)

She talks peace!, A Dog Republic, demonstration #3
exhibition and live drum performance
Jean-Baptiste Decavèle, Nico Dockx, Helena Sidiropoulos, Krist Torfs and Yona Friedman
Esther Donatz Gallery, Munich

Unfixed, Iconostase150: Museum without building
an exhibition project
Jean-Baptiste Decavèle, Nico Dockx, Yona Friedman and students
Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerpen

Track Report 13/01 part 4: Avec une paire de ciseaux
the new conversations #4, in collaboration with Jean-Baptiste Decavèle, Yona Friedman, Molly Nesbit, Joseph Grigely, Sarat Maharaj, Johan Pas, Jörn Schafaff, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Louwrien Wijers, Egon Hanfstingl, Sarah De Wilde, Asako Iwama, Els De Bruyn, students and invited guests
Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerpen

C'est un bon coin chez toi, A Dog Republic, demonstration #4
16mm film, Un bon coin chez moi (a painting by James Ensor)
Jean-Baptiste Decavèle, Nico Dockx, James Ensor, Yona Friedman, Helena Sidiropoulos, Krist Torfs and some dogs
MuZEE, Oostende

retreating
a project by Nico Dockx, Willem Hiele & Rirkrit Tiravanija
presenting 'a 3rd land for the land foundation' (bridge architecture by Nico Dockx, Kris Kimpe and Helena Sidiropoulos) & ‘erased Rirkrit Tiravanija demonstration drawing’ (vinyl edition by Nico Dockx and Rikrit Tiravanija)
organised by Lightmachine Agency und Be-Part
Be-Part, Waregem

The Land Workshop,
a workshop by Nicolaus Hirsch & Michel Müller,
with Christina Koschowsky, Zak Kyes, Philipp Misselwitz, Sabina Priese, Luisa Roth, Att Poomtangon, Hans Sachs, Emmi Wegener, Benjamin Windhoff and Nico Dockx
SAM, Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel

MUHKADEMIE/ MUHKADEMY
a project by Nico Dockx & Johan Pas
lectures, workshops, film screenings, archives and exhibition projects
with Joseph Beuys, Nel Bonte, Kasper Bosmans, Marcel Broodthaers, Lorenzo Bruni, James Lee Byars, Jacques Charlier, Tine Colen, Bart De Baere, Jean-Baptiste Decavèle, Valerie de Ghellinck, Luc Deleu & TOP-OFFICE, Sarah De Wilde, Roger D'Hondt, Corinne Diserens, Nico Dockx, Olafur Eliasson & Institute für Raumexperimente, Charles Esche, Extra Academy, Robert Filliou, Yona Friedman, Jef Geys & Louise Osieka, Pascal Gielen, Mathias Goyvaert, Thomas Grodal, Erik Hagoort, Saori Kuno, Ina Leys, Lea Lublin, Mark Luyten, Willem Sarah, Gustav Metzger & Leanne Dmyterko, Paolo Naldini, Nele Ooms, Panamarenko, Johan Pas, Michelangelo Pistoletto & Cittadellarte, Bhagwati Prasad, Raqs Media Collective, Mima Schwahn, Luc Steels, Sterkneus, Isa Tez, Joëlle Tuelinckx, Steve van den Bosch, Annemie van Kerckhoven, Veroniek van Samang, Beatrice von Bismarck, Louwrien Wijers, etc.

Yona Friedman Museum, le musée du quotidien
a project by Jean-Baptiste Decavèle & Yona Friedman,
in collaboration with Nico Dockx, A Dog Republic demonstration #7, Lorenzo Benedetti & Annie Ratti
screening of Iconofilm, a project by Jean-Baptiste Decavèle, Nico Dockx und Yona Friedman (based on Iconobook/ How to exhibit?, a book project by Jean-Baptiste Decavèle, Nico Dockx, Yona Friedman & Lorenzo Benedetti)
Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como

Gustav Metzger, Some Drawings, One Painting. Antwerpen, 1948-49
curated by Nico Dockx
part of MUHKADAMIE, a project by Nico Dockx & Johan Pas
Wintertuin, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerpen

Exhibitions & Projects 2012

Let’s have a bone! A Dog Republic 2012 Demonstration #2, De Vleeshal, Middelburg
initiated by Jean-Baptiste Decavèle, Nico Dockx, Helena Sidiropoulos, Yona Friedman, and Krist Torfs

Let's talk peace! A Dog Republic, Ludlow 38/MINI/Goethe-Institut, New York City
Audio-visual installation and book in collaboration with Yona Friedman, Jean-Baptiste Decavèle, Thomas Mayfried, Clara Meister, Helena Sidiropoulos, Krist Torfs, Quentin Walesch / talks in collaboration with Jean-Baptiste Decavèle, Camille Henrot, Clara Meister, Molly Nesbit, Vanessa Place, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Krist Torfs, xxx, and invited guests.

Agency of Unrealized Projects, daadgalerie, Berlin
project by e-flux and the Serpentine Gallery London devised by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Julia Peyton-Jones, Julieta Aranda, and Anton Vidokle

The Retreat: A Position of dOCUMENTA (13), The Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta/Canada

Rob Pruitt's Flea Market, Museum Night,
Monnaie de Paris, Paris

Avec une paire de ciseaux, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp
Lectures in collaboration with Jean-Baptiste Decavèle, Yona Friedman, Molly Nesbit, Joseph Grigely, Sarat Maharaj, Johan Pas, Jörn Schafaff, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Louwrien Wijers, Egon Hanfstingl, Sarah De Wilde, Asako Iwama, Els De bruyn and invited participants

Conversations are tapes, not objects, Herengracht 1 (private house Louwrien Wijers & Egon Hanfstingl), Amsterdam
Celebrating Louwrien Wijers in collaboration with AA Bronson, General Idea, Egon Hanfstingl, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lawrence Weiner, Louwrien Wijers, Matthew Stone, Machteld van Buren, Marina Abramovic, Olafur Eliasson, Institut für Raumexperimente, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Rory Pilgrim, Sands Murray-Wassink, Ton van der Laaken and invited participants

Every Sunday Hides Another Sunday,
Sint Lucas Antwerp Gallery, Antwerp

Text intervention in collaboration with MORE publishers

Book Show Book Shop, Be Part, Waregem/Belgium
Two artist books: Projet pour un livre. Projet pour un film.
in collaboration with Helena Sidiropoulos and
Daybydaybyday in collaboration with Mark Luyten

Symprovisation, Extra City Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp
Workshop in collaboration with Erik Hagoort and students from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and the Academy of Art & Design St Joost, Breda-Den Bosch/Netherlands

The Long Now, Athens Academy of Fine Arts, Athens Workshop in collaboration with Yiannis Papadopoulos, Helena Sidiropoulos, Thomas Crombez and students from the bookmaking department Athens Academy of Fine Arts

As Long As It Lasts, The Future Will Be Curious,
Esther Donatz Gallery, Munich

Northern Lights, Absolut Vodka Blank Room in collaboration with Lightmachine Agency, Fashion & Design Museum, Brussels
Live audio-visual performance and installation in collaboration with Ann Veronica Janssens, Jan Mast and Krist Torfs

Smoke on the Water, Netwerk/center for contemporary art, Aalst/Belgium
Live sound performance in collaboration with Krist Torfs 

Extra Academy, Extra City Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp
Experimental pedagogical structures in collaboration with Steve van den Bosch, Mihnea Mircan and students from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, Sint Lucas Antwerp and invited guests: Yona Friedman, Maurizio Bortolotti, Ergin Cavusoglu, Matteo Lucchetti, Andrea Viliani, Pierre Bal-Blanc, Erik Hagoort, Ilse Bulhof, Thomas Bayrle, Tomo Savic-Gecan, Thomas Mayfried, Luc Derycke and Hermann Pitz