Willem Jan Smit, born in Eindhoven, 1984 (NL, GR)
Emily Carr University of Art, Vancouver, graduate, 2013
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Parrhesia, Melina Mercouri, Hydra, GR
2017 It Is Conceivable That She Will Refuse, New Sea Waterfront, Thessaloniki, GR
2017 SHIMMER, Athens School of Fine Arts annex. Hydra, GR
2017 AD NAUSEAM, intervention at documenta 14 Kassel, DE
2017 They Were Shown The Door in a Matter of Minutes, Museum of Contemporary Cuts, Platforms Project in Athens, GR
Group Exhibitions
2020 - Sculpture & Nature (2020-2023), Schlossgut Schwante Sculpture Park, DE
2019 Empty Pr(œ)mises, National Museum of Contemporary Art Αthens (ΕΜΣΤ), GR
2018 Hydra Artists, Melina Mercouri, Hydra, GR
2017 Where is the problem? Empathy - Apathy, Beton 7 Athens, GR
2015 Opening on the Foam, Schloss Sacrow, Potsdam, DE
2015 Grand Finale, Lady Fitness Contemporary Art Space, Berlin , DE
2014 STANDARDS, Temporary Berlin, Kurfurstenstrasse 19, DE
2014 D STRCT R, Projectraum Bethanien, Kreuzberg, Berlin, DE
2013 GRAY School (1), Unit/Pitt Projects, 236 East Pender Street, Vancouver, CA
2013 DANCING with Dancing In Peckham, Performance in correlation with Gillian Wearing's video work, The Apartment, Vancouver, CA
2013 It’s Hard To Find A Good Lamp, The Apartment, Vancouver, CA
2013 VASTNESS with Garry Neill Kennedy and Cathy Busby, IE Gallery, Vancouver, CA
2013 Monochromes, Equinox Gallery, Great Northern Way, Vancouver, CA
2012 Garden Scenes, Dunlevy Snackbar and VIVO media arts, Vancouver, CA
2012 PAUSE, Abraham J Rogatnik Media Gallery, Vancouver, CA
2012 QR_U - Artistic Transformation & the Search for the Higgs Boson, ECUAD, Vancouver, CA
2011 La Raie Verte, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, CA
2011 Everything In Its Right Place, Abraham J Rogatnick Media Gallery, Vancouver, CA
Publications, Reviews & Press
Kelsey Edwards, HydraDirect, https://www.hydradirect.com/arts-culture/willem-jan-smit/
Aristotelis Spiliotopoulos for Glow.gr, Don't miss: Τις εκθέσεις ξένων καλλιτεχνών στη Νέα Παραλία https://glow.gr/don-t-miss-tis-ektheseis-ksenvn-kallitexnvn-sth-nea-paralia
Lanfranco Aceti, Where Is The Problem? http://www.lanfrancoaceti.com/2017/09/where-is-the-problem/
Γιάννης Τζιμούρτας for art2.gr, Where is the problem review, http://www.art22.gr/εύα-κέκου-προσπαθούμε-να-εντοπίσουμε/
Lanfranco Aceti, AD NAUSEAM, http://www.lanfrancoaceti.com/2017/06/ad-nauseam/
Museum of Contemporary Cuts, They Were Shown the Door in a Matter of Minutes, http://museumofcontemporarycuts.org/they-were-shown-the-door-in-a-matter-of-minutes/
Antrobius, Mash-up My Funkmast, http://antrobius.de/thea-drechsel.html
Residencies
2017 Athens School of Fine Art collaboration with ACT - MIT at Hydra annex.
contact: temporaryberlin@gmail.com
