MIET WARLOP / Irene Wool vzw

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BIOGRAPHY Miet Warlop
Miet Warlop (°1978) is a Belgian visual artist born in Torhout. She lives and works between Ghent,
Berlin and Brussels.
Miet Warlop holds a master degree in Multimedial Arts from KASK, Ghent. For her graduation project
Huilend Hert, Aangeschoten Wild, an ‘inhabited installation consisting of six scenes and a crawling
subject’, she won the Franciscus Pycke Jury Award and the residence prize for Young Theatre Work
2004.
Many other performances, actions and projects followed and in 2005 she premiered SPORTBAND /
Afgetrainde Klanken a 40’ performance, 20 people racing against time through music and sports. In
the context of Lovepangs (Vooruit, 2005) she created the one-on- one performance Koester de Kersen.
From January 2006 until November 2007 Warlop was one of the six artists of DE BANK (arts centre
CAMPO, Ghent), where she was working on her series of ‘Propositions’, called Grote Hoop / Berg. In
between, she was responsible for the set design for performances by Pieter Genard, Raven Ruëll,
DitoDito-Jef Lambrecht, KVS (Brussels), arts centre Vooruit (Ghent) and Les Ballets C de la B (Ghent).
While she was touring the ‘Propositions’ all over Europe, she realised Springville, a 50 min game of
chaos, expectation and surprise, in which scenography, costumes, props and characters are closely
interwoven and merged together. Springville premièred in May 2009 at arts centre Buda (Kortrijk).
Miet Warlop moved to Berlin for 3 years, to concentrate on her visual work and prepare a new piece
called Mystery Magnet, which premiered at KunstenFestivalDesArts (Brussels) in May 2012. Mystery
Magnet Won the stuckemarkt theatertreffen prize at the Berliner Festspiele for new forms of theatre.
Mystery Magnet has played more than 100 times all over the world and was nominated for
theatertreffen Berlin for finding a new way of making stagearts.
In the course of 2012-2013 Miet Warlop explored different possibilities with her Nervous Pictures and
performances, through projects and invitations, both in a visual arts as in a theatre context (Baltic
Triennial (Vulnius), Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Lisson Gallery (London). In November 2012 she did a kick-
off at Beursschouwburg (Brussels) with the Alligator project: a weekend of combined media and
performances by different artists and musicians like Reggie Watts and Michael Portnoy Invited by Miet
Warlop herself. Miet was artist in residence at the Beursschouwburg in Brussels for the last 4 years.
In 2014 Miet Warlop started her own legal structure “Irene Wool”. In October 2014 the first production
Dragging the Bone premiered at Beursschouwburg Brussels. Dragging the Bone is a solo performance
on a sculpted planet.
In 2015 Miet Warlop opened the festivities that celebrated the 50 years of Beursschouwburg Brussels
with a piece that tookt off with a Rocket to the Grit. Art Gallery Barbican London asked her for a
performance in the project Station to Station hosted by Doug Aitken.
While touring her solo Dragging the Bone and celebrating the 100th show of Mystery Magnet in Ghent,
Porto and Bordeaux, she finished the year by opening her first solo exhibition project in KIOSK gallery
Ghent titled Crumbling Down the Circle of my Iconoclasm.
In 2016 a new big piece for the stage was made, Fruits of Labor, a deep night music performance
functioning as a painkiller for the world. Fruits of Labor premiered at KunstenFestivalDesArts
(Brussels) in May 2016 and is now touring around the world.
Miet takes off this year at KW – Berlin where she will show some of her Nervous Pictures together with
the Trisha Brown Company and Guy de Cointet. In the coming year she will open Art Institute Vooruit in
Ghent with her monumental performance Amusement Park, in Brussels the Yves Klein exhibition at
BOZAR and she will be part of Performatik 2017. Festival Actoral Marseille made Miet the godmother of
the 2017 edition. At the same time she is rendering Big Bears Cry Too, a show for all ages that will
premiere at HETPALEIS Antwerpen in April 2018.