NO BULL ICE, NRW Forum Dûsseldorf
11 Feb — 22 May 2022

Pieterjan Ginckels uses strategies of appropriation and surrender to make his way through the art world and its affiliated tech and media bubbles. Ginckels’ art projects unfold by means of corporate sponsorships and athlete-artist endorsements. Temporary flagship stores and merchandise beef up his oeuvre. At NRW Forum’s ‘Subversives Design’ exhibition, Ginckels launches NO BULL ICE. Since 2018 Ginckels develops an energy drink brand called NO BULL and unveils related sculptures in so-called ICO’s. ICO is the artist’s equivalent to the crypto scene’s Initial Coin Offering but is here tweaked to mean Initial Can Offering. In this exhibition, NO BULL not only acts as a partner brand; Ginckels also introduces its new product, NO BULL ICE, brought to the public in a performance during the opening night.

You are invited to the Initial Can Offering on 10 February, where you can try the new NO BULL ICE. For this exhibition, Ginckels designed a new garment, which will be worn by the museum guards. This item will be for sale at the museum store in a limited edition. To secure your piece, order on www.pieterjanginckels.be and pick-up at the NRW Forum.


Photo Jean-Pierre Stoop

“Our lives are hyper-real, and we feel the urge to continuously pimp, remix, recollect our own identity,” says Pieterjan Ginckels. “As such, I see myself as an embedded outsider, playing with ambivalences in speed and authenticity.” The Belgian artist’s work concerns itself with the acceleration of modern life and he demonstrates this through exhibitions and experiences that interweave spatial, artistic and design practice, and everything in between. Performative in nature, Ginckels received attention for his installation PISTE, a velodrome within a museum, and S.P.A.M. Office, a surreal office environment dedicated to finding order within the detritus of electronic communication. (ICON Magazine, ‘Future 50,’ 2013)

Ginckels’ work can be found in the permanent collections of Mu.ZEE (Ostend), Museum Voorlinden (The Hague) and ING Belgium, and have been shown at ANDOR (London), BOZAR (Brussels), The Graham Foundation (Chicago), Onomatopee (Eindhoven), Beaufort Triennale, Bucharest Biennale and NAK (Aachen), among others. In 2011 Ginckels received the Center for Fine Arts Award at the Young Belgian Painters Award 2011, BOZAR Center for Fine Arts, Brussels.



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BOOKS
SOLAR SAFARI (APE 2018)
MUTT JUDD (S.P.A.M. BOOKS 2015)
S.P.A.M. DIARY (ANDOR 2013)
S.P.A.M. BOOK (APE 2011)
Pieterjan Ginckels (NAK 2008)

TEXTS
Archeologist of the Near Future — Sam Steverlynck
Pop Artz — Melanie Bono
YBPA2011 — Tom Nys

PHOTOGRAPHY
Olmo Peeters
www.olmopeeters.be

SOLO SHOWS, PERFORMANCES
2021 — CERIMONIA2K21, Museum Night Fever, CIVA, Brussels BE
2021 — SLEEPERS/DREAMERS, CIVA, Brussels BE
2020 — NO BULL ENERGY YES, 6HR RACE, Kortrijk BE
2019 — Precarious Pavilions: NO PEAKS, Leuven BE
2018 — ICO Initial Can Offering, Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerp BE
2018 — ICO Initial Can Offering, BLANK BUZZ CLUB, Ostend BE
2016 — BIG JAMES, RIOT, Ghent BE
2016 — LEAKERS, Hopstreet Gallery, Brussels BE
2016 — SPEED TRIP: RETROMANIC DEPRESSION, M HKA, Antwerp BE
2016 — BLANK BUZZ CLUB, at Soundseeing, Münster DE
2015-2016 — HUMAN DISCO BONG — PACT, Zollverein DE
2015 — MY LITTLE BARBARA — Super Dakota, Brussels BE
2014 — BLANK BUZZ ALIBI, 25 OCT, Andriesse-Eyck, Amsterdam NL
2014 — BLANK BUZZ CLUB, 15 NOV, RIOT, Ghent BE
2014 — BRUSSELS PARKING GARAGE DERIVE, Z33 + public school for architecture, Brussels BE
2014 — THE EMBEDDED OUTSIDER, Be-Part, Waregem BE
2013 — HUMAN DISCO BONG, artwork in residence, Beursschouwburg, Brussels BE
2013 — S.P.A.M. OFFICE, ANDOR, London UK
2013 — Focused Artist, Art Rotterdam 2013
2012 — MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofySacramento, Galerie de Expeditie, Amsterdam NL
2012 — INTO THE WHITE, SECONDroom, Antwerp, BE
2012 — HUMAN DISCO BONG, Schunck*, Heerlen NL
2012 — 1000 Beats, Mu.ZEE, Oostende BE
2011 — S.P.A.M. OFFICE, von cirne gallery, Cologne DE
2011 — S.P.A.M. OFFICE, Be-Part, Waregem BE
2010 — S.P.A.M. OFFICE, Figures and Facts festival, Gent BE
2010 — PISTE, Galerie de Expeditie, Amsterdam NL
2010 — PISTE, Netwerk, Aalst BE
2009 — SONIC YOU, Klerkx, Milan IT
2008 — Space shuttle banana, Galerie de Expeditie, Amsterdam NL
2008 — Pieterjan Ginckels, NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen DE
2007 — World Wide Winter, KIOSK, Gent, BE
2005 — Pieterjan Ginckels + Maarten Sleeuwits, Galerie De Expeditie, Amsterdam NL
2004 — you + me = you [I am not a lot], Leuven, B
2003 — Fame? Fortress? Family?, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, BE

GROUP SHOWS
2022 — შინ მეგობრებთან (Shin Megobrebtan) (at home with friends), CCA Tbilisi GE
2022 — Subversives Design, NRW Forum, Düsseldorf DE
2021 — Ulterieur, Kortrijk BE
2021 — Institution Building, CIVA, Brussels BE
2020 — Entropies, GLUON, Snowball, Kortrijk BE
2020 — Artishok Biennale, Tallinn EE
2020 — ECHO, Avee Gallery, Broelkaai, Kortrijk BE
2018 — NOMADIC MOUNTAINS — Schunck*, Heerlen NL
2018 — THE REALM — Observatorium @ Meatpack, Atwerp BE
2018 — Eating Each Other, Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerp BE
2017 — 'How To be being' Super Dakota, Brussels BE
2016 — 'Just What Is It', Collection #3 curated by Matylda Krzykowski, Chamber NYC, New York City US
2016 — DUMB DRONE at HORST arts and music festival, Horst BE
2016 — Romanian Vistas: The BB7 Travel Agency, Onomatopee, Eindhoven NL
2015 — The Collective Intention — Depot Basel CH
2015 — Beaufort triennial, Ostend BE
2015 — Resumé, Andriesse-Eyck Gallery, Amsterdam NL
2015 — Ghent Art Book Fair — GABF, Ghent BE
2015 — Treatise: Why Write Alone? — The Graham Foundation, Chicago US
2015 — A Belgian Politician — Marion De Cannière, Antwerp BE
2015 — << < > >> (Vol. 2) — Super Dakota, Brussels BE
2014 — Return to Sender, WIELS, Brussels BE
2014 — Festival Kanal Play Ground, Brussels BE
2014 — Private collection selected by Derek Sullivan, Tatjana Pieters, Ghent BE
2014 — CHESS, Jai & Jai, Los Angeles USA
2013 — Amsterdam Drawing, Galerie de Expeditie, NL
2013 — Dordtyart 2013, Dordrecht, NL
2013 — Rock Paper Scissors, Galerie de Expeditie, Amsterdam NL
2012 — Vinyl in the Studio, Artists' record sleeves in Belgium, Mu.ZEE,Oostende BE
2012 — State X New Forms, Paard van Troje, Den Haag NL
2012 — Contemporary Istanbul, Galerie de Expeditie, Istanbul TR
2012 — Pinkpop Newseum, Pinkpop, Landgraaf NL
2012 — Art Rotterdam, Galerie de Expeditie / Zsa-Zsa Eyck, Rotterdam NL
2011 — ΔTX, Or Gallery, Berlin DE
2011 — Trompe Le Monde, Transit gallery, Mechelen BE
2011 — Kunst & Zwalm, Zwalm BE
2011 — Young Belgian Painters Award 2011, BOZAR Center for Fine Arts, Brussels BE
2011 — The More Crisis, The More Performance, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam NL
2010 — Public Private Paintings, Mu.ZEE, Oostende BE
2009 — Short Tracks, WIELS, Brussels BE
2009 — Additions, Komplot, Brussels BE
2009 — Today is OK, KLERKX, Milan IT
2009 — TEFAF, Maastricht (During TEFAF, Theater aan het Vrijthof) NL
2008 — STAND, Galerie de Expeditie, Villa La Tourelle, Oostende BE
2008 — PLUTO, Nijdrop, Opwijk BE
2008 — PLAYGROUND, live art festival, STUK, Leuven BE
2008 — Across the borders, Ludwig Forum, Aachen DE
2008 — I wish you a merry FRONT-night, Netwerk, Aalst BE
2008 — Event #11, Netwerk, Aalst BE
2007 — SQUASH33, Z33, Hasselt BE
2007 — Beauty Unrealized, PSWAR group exhibition, Amsterdam NL
2006 — After Cage Artists Interventions, NAK Aachen / Museum Zitadelle Jülich DE
2006 — Street: beyond the cliché, Witte de With, Rotterdam NL
2006 — Front knows what's best for you, Recyclart, Brussels BE
2005 — Group exhibiton with gallery artists: Jan De Cock, Pieterjan Ginckels, Manfred Pernice, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Erik Van Lieshout. Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp BE
2004 — Intervening the urban void, Public Space With A Roof, Amsterdam NL
2004 — A/MAZE, Tréfilerie / EPEDA, Laken, Brussels BE
2004 — Voix Gras - TAZ Theatre Festival, STUK, Leuven BE
2004 — Provincial Prize for Visual Arts Vlaams-Brabant, Provinciehuis, Leuven BE
2003 — Ithaka'03 - voy[AG]eur, STUK, Leuven BE
2002 — Speelhoven'02 - Location Update, Aarschot BE
2002 — Spervuur, Leuven, Kapelle-op-den-Bos BE