Curriculum Vitae

Amandine Meunier . born in 1977 in Marrakech, Morrocco. Lives and works in Monteynard, France.

Education

2001-2004  Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Fine Arts - Jewellery), Amsterdam, NL - 1998-2001  Ecole des Arts Décoratifs (Object), Strasbourg, F - 1995-1997  Université J.Fourier (Mathematics), Grenoble, F

Exhibitions

2013 Salon MAC Paris, Espace Champerret, Paris, F; Makers Move, Kiosque Palais Royal, Paris, F; Zone Artistique, Recyclerie d'Anduze, Thoiras, F; Lahtikorut, Gallery 84Ghz, Munich, D; Galerie Pont en Plas, Gent, B - 2012 Salon Artisa, Alpexpo, Grenoble, F; Quatuor, Espace Recto-Verso et Hom'art, Montpellier, F; Lahtikorut, Lahti, FIN; Handsandfeet, Circle Gallery, Amsterdam, NL - 2011 Dazzle the evil eye, ode aan M. Beekman, Kunsthal Kade, Amersfoort, NL; Also known as jewellery, Ateliers de Paris, Paris, F - 2010 Also known as jewellery, Institut Français, Munich, D; Villa Bengel, Idar Oberstein, D - 2009 Le Rouge, itinerant exhibition, F - Terra di Mezzo, Museo delle Arti, Nocciano, I - Rêv-arts, River Ouest, Bezons, F - Near and Far, Museum of Cultures, Helsinki, FIN - Also known as jewellery, Flow Gallery, London, UK; Alternatives Gallery, Rome, I; Gallery Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, USA - 2007 Fort Europa, Corrosia/CBK Flevoland and at the train station Almere Centrum, Almere, NL - Exploring new identities, Galerie W139/basement, Amsterdam, NL - Troc Art, Villa des Arts, Casablanca, Rabat, Fez, MA - 2006 Parcours de l’art, Cloître Saint Louis, Avignon, F - 2005 Je me meurs où je m’attache, Galerie pontENplas, Gent, B - with handsandfeet, Huis Rechts Art Project Space, Amsterdam, NL - In-Corporer, Musée d’Ethnographie, Nîmes, F - Kunstmarokkanen, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Amsterdam, Groningen, Eindhoven, NL - Ravary, Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, NL - Long strides in tiny shoes, Huis Rechts Art Project Space, Amsterdam, NL and Galerie B.Lang, Bern, CH - Ecrire à voix haute, La Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel, F - Transcend and subvert,paper, Solidor Art Space, Cagnes-s/Mer, F - 2004 International Graduates exhibition, Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, NL

Projects

2006-2008 Artpartner, Plexus Medical Group, Amsterdam, NL (2 year collaboration with a company) - 2007 Pris au mot, Saussines, F (exhibition and readings) - Des pas dans la baignoire, La Baignoire, Montpellier, F (exhibition and reading, collaboration with Karin Espinosa) - Neanuntate, the Last Chair Zone, Bucharest-Suceava, RO (collaboration project between visual arts,poetry and sound in Romania as the country was entering Europe) - 2006 Objets de conversation, Chapelle de Salinelles, F (residency, exhibition and readings) - 2005 Brés-ile, F (scenography object for a travelling reading of texts by Blaise Cendrars) - Art for sail, Amsterdam, NL (work in situ) - 2004 Archipelago, Apeldoorn, NL (collaboration with Nel Linssen)

Residencies

2006 Neanuntate, Busteni, Romania - 2005 Ravary, Galerie Marzee, Nessonvaux-Trooz, Belgium

Debates, Conferences

2009 Contemporary Nomadism, Museum of Cultures, Helsinki, FIN (lecture about my artistic practice) - 2008 Fort Europa, Corrosia/CBK Flevoland (debate about multiculturalism in Europe, linking to the exhibition) - 2007 Transcultural Networks, Vrije Universiteit van Amsterdam, Human Sciences, Amsterdam, NL (workshop/debate about transcultural networks, particularily between occident and arabic world) - Troc Art, Villa des Arts, Casablanca, MA (debate around the notion of identity) - 2005-2006 Kunstmarokkanen, Rotterdam, Den Haag, Utrecht, Groningen, Eindhoven, Amsterdam, NL

Prices

2006 ‘STEP beyond’ mobility fund, European Cultural Foundation - 2004 Marzee Price, International Graduates exhibition, Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, NL

Collections

Galerie Marzee, Barbara Waldman, Susan Cummins

Publications

Lahtikorut, exhibition catalogue, may 2012

Dazzle the evil eye, ode aan Merina Beekman, exhibition catalogue, feb. 2011

www.korutaideyhdistys.fi/nearandfar/

Terra di Mezzo, exhibition catalogue, july 2009

Rêv-arts, exhibition catalogue, june 2009

Compendium Finale, contemporary jewellery makers, Darling Publications, 2009

Also Known as jewellery, exhibition catalogue, march 2009

Fort Europa, exhibition catalogue, nov. 2007; www.corrosia.nl

Exploring new identities, exhibition catalogue, june 2007

Created in Noord-Holland catalogue and short film, feb. 2007

Atelier ontmoet kantoor, article, NRC Handelsblad, 15/12/2006

www.transylvanianweek.org

www.huisrechts.net

www.kunstmarokkanen.nl

Kunstmarokkanen, exhibition catalogue NL/F, feb. 2006

www.pontenplas.be

www.longstridesintinyshoes.com

www.artforsail.nl

Transcend, subvert : a material in question, paper, exhibition catalogue, march 2005

Marzee exhibition catalogue, sept. 2004