Manon de Boer

Manon de Boer (1966, Kodaikanal, India) is a Dutch video-artist. She studied at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam and at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam. Since 2006 de Boer is part of the Brussels production and distribution platform Auguste Orts. She was also the co-founder of this platform. She lives and works in Brussels.

The experience of time pervades the work of Manon de Boer. This is an extended experience of time, firmly anchored in the conditions of creation that incessantly produces a present and presence and resists a normative, functional and productive concept of time. Manon de Boer mainly works within the audiovisual realm. In connection with her films, she works increasingly with sculpture, installation and in 2021 she made a performance, Ghost Party (1) together with Latifa Laâbissi.

Her work has been exhibited internationally, at the Venice Biennale (2007), Berlin Biennale (2008), São Paulo Biennial (2010), Kassel Documenta (2012), Taipei Biennial (2016). Her work has been the subject of monographic exhibitions at Witte de With in Rotterdam (2008), Frankfurter Kunstverein (2008), South London Gallery (2010), Contemporary Art Museum of St Louis (2011), Museum of Art Philadelphia (2012), Van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven (2013), Secession Vienna (2016), Gulbenkian Museum Lisbon (2020), Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens Ghent (2022) and Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (2022) among others; and has also been included in numerous film festivals in Hong Kong, Marseille, Rotterdam and Vienna.