Rob Moonen
born 1958 Schaesberg, The Netherlands, lives in Tilburg (NL)
Visual artist, scenographer, and curator.
Founder and managing director of PARK, Platform for Visual Arts, Tilburg (NL)
Projects, installations, films, and scenography:
2024
"Heilige Heide" residency with A.H.J.Dautzenberg at AiR de Vlaamsche Schuur, Zundert (NL)
"Natuursonnetten.nl" collaboration with A.H.J. Dautzenberg
Festival of Poetry-Shaped Art, with A.H.J.Dautzenberg, Eindhoven (NL)
2022
"West cape" multichannel videoinstallation at Mezz Breda (NL)
"Die Spiele müssen weitergehen – München 1972" scenography & video concept Residenztheater München (DE)
"ZeeZenZee" videoinstallation at Plateaukunst, Wanda Reiff, Gasthuis Bemelen (NL)
Festival of Poetry-Shaped Art, with A.H.J.Dautzenberg, Baltan Laborotories, Eindhoven (NL)
"Zehn Ave Maria" scenography & videoconcept Landestheater Linz (AT)
"Benefit For Brabant" Groupshow Albert van Abbehuis Eindhoven (NL)
2021
"Saal 600 Spurensuche" scenography & video concept Saal 600 Nuremberg Tribunal, Staatstheater Nürnberg (DE)
2020
"Heilige Heide" residency with A.H.J.Dautzenberg at AiR de Vlaamsche Schuur, Zundert (NL)
Project 24x24, Kunstpodium T Tilburg (NL)
Van Gogh Naar Nu, Vincent van Gogh Huis Zundert (NL)
24x24, kunst in de openbare ruimte Tilburg (NL)
NMZKD Nicht Museum Für Zeitgemässe Kunst Dresden (DE)
"De Taol van de T" adaptatie stadsgedicht IX van A.H.J.Dautzenberg, Omroep Tilburg (NL)
2019
"Vincent's Gun" Vincent van Goghhuis Zundert (NL)
"Proposal for Holocaust Memorial" Municipality Tilburg (NL)
"Mythos Voest" scenography & video concept for Landestheater Linz (AT)
AiR Vincent van Goghhuis Zundert (NL)
2018
"Stolpersteine Staatstheater" scenography & video concept Academic Theatre Kiev (UA)
"De Roze Sokkel" Kunstpodium T Tillburg (NL)
"Stolpersteine Staatstheater" scenography & video concept Jaffa Fest Tel Aviv (IL)
"Tien jaar Kunstpodium T" Tilburg (NL)
"139x Nothing but Good" PARK Tilburg (NL)
"36. Bayerische Theatertage" Furth (DE)
"#Meinungsmacher" scenography & video concept for Theater Erlangen (DE) (nov 2017- jan 2018)
2017
"Seascapes" multi-channel video installation Hilvaria Studio’s Hilvarenbeek (NL)
"Stolpersteine Staatstheater" scenography & videoconcept, Kammerspiele München (DE)
"Nowhere Out" scenography & video concept for Staatstheater Karlsruhe (DE)
"Stolpersteine Staatstheater" scenography & video concept, TNT Timisoara Fest (RO)
"Stolpersteine Staatstheater" scenography & video concept, Vaba Lava, Tallinn (EE)
"Stolpersteine Staatstheater" scenography & video concept, National Theatre Vilnius (LT)
"Stolpersteine Staatstheater" scenography & video concept, International Theatre Festival Tblisi (GE)
"SWAP, wem gehört die Stadt?" scenography & video concept for Landestheater Linz (AT)
"Stolpersteine Staatstheater" scenography & video concept, Theatre De La Manufacture Nancy (FR)
"Stolpersteine Staatstheater" scenography & video concept, Bejing, Tianjin Grand Theater (CHN)
2016
"Stolpersteine Staatstheater" scenography & video concept Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf (DE)
"Berliner Festspiele" scenography & video concept Volksbühne Berlin (DE)
"Stolpersteine Staatstheater" scenography & video concept, Shakespeare festival Gdansk (PL),
"Stolpersteine Staatstheater" scenography & video concept, Archa Theatre Prague (CZ)
"Stolpersteine Staatstheater" scenography & video concept Theater im Pfalzbau Ludwigshafen (DE)
"Graecomania 200 Years" scenography & video concept for HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin (DE)
"Land licht water lucht II" museum van Bommel van Dam Venlo (NL)
2015
"Coldwar.nl", concept, website, installations, and documentaries for MOB complex Wanroij (NL)
"Greatmore 30-th anniversary" Greatmore studio’s Cape Town (ZA)
"Land licht water lucht I" museum van Bommel van Dam Venlo (NL)
"Stolpersteine Staatstheater" scenography & video concept Staatstheater Karlsruhe (DE)
"Boom, Bubble & Blast" Motorenhalle Projektzentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Dresden (DE)
2014
"Operation Big Week" scenography & video concept Brechtbühne Augsburg (DE)
"City as Context" Prix Italia Museo Della Radio e TV Torino (IT)
"Waterpieces Festival" Screencity Lab Urban Screenings Waterpieces Festival Riga (LV)
"Kunstroute Plateau van Margraten" Wanda Reiff Maastricht (NL)
"Tilburg Ontwerp + Design Eindhoven" Designhuis Eindhoven - DDW 2014 (NL)
2013
"In the Beginning" Willem 3 Vlissingen (solo) (NL)
"360 ?eascapes" 10 channel video installation Goretti Tilburg (NL)
"Nieuwe Aanwinsten" Museum VBVD Venlo (NL)
"Video-opera Quadrant" Speelhuisplein Gemeente Helmond (NL)
2012
"The Other Horizon" Wanda Reiff Contemporary Art (NL)
"The Other Horizon" solo Museum VBVD Venlo (NL)
"Nieuwe Brabanders" Brabant Doc Omroep Brabant /NPO (NL)
"Anders Nichts" single-channel video installation, Ikob, Eupen (B)
"Die Schutzflehenden" scenography Mainfrankentheater Würzburg (DE)
"Gulliver Goes," Galerie van den Berge Goes (NL)
2011
"More Power to You" video installation Kuopio Art Museum (FI)
"Die Pest" scenography Theater Aachen (DE)
"Last Supper/laatste maal X" with Loek Grootjans Ruimte X Tilburg (NL)
"Zichzelf/de Ander" with Loek Grootjans Luycks Gallery Tilburg (NL)
"Mission Impossible" Kunstpodium T Tilburg (NL)
"Nieuwe Aanwinsten" museum van Bommel van Dam Venlo (NL)
"Met andere ogen" museum van Bommel van Dam Venlo (NL)
"With the greatest respect" Museum Le Secret 'sHeer Arendskerke (NL
2010
"Challenge Yourself" text work in public space Woodstock Community Centre Cape Town (ZA)
"The Breathing Room" PuntWG Amsterdam (NL)
2009
"Any Idea?" with Loek Grootjans Int. Filmfestival Breda (NL)
"More Power to You" CASZuidas Amsterdam (NL)
"Appetizing" Luycks Gallery Tilburg (NL)
"Coming Home for Christmas" Kunstencentrum Signe Heerlen (NL)
2008
"I wanna see you" De Overslag Eindhoven (NL)
"Mijn/Koel" with H.W.Kroesinger & Tom America Cultura Nova Heerlen (NL)
"Noord" with Tom America Theater de Vorst (NL)
"I wanna see you" YYZ Toronto (CA)
2007
"Uit het Nucleair Onderkomen" with Loek Grootjans Museum van Bommel van Dam Venlo (NL)
"Vet en Mager" with Loek Grootjans, Tzaar Peterstraat Amsterdam (NL)
"Mijn/Koel" with H.W.Kroesinger & Tom America Cultura Nova Heerlen (NL)
"Noord" with Tom America Theater de Vorst (NL)
"Rooksignaal" de Melkfabriek 's Hertogenbosch (NL)
2006
"Exces" Z33 Hasselt (B)
"Dag van de Duo's" Burgh Haamstede (NL)
2005
"S.O.P." Seizure of Power, Museum de Pont Tilburg (NL)
"Plan Gelb" with H.W.Kroesinger, Epcor Centre Calgary Canada, Frascati Amsterdam, HAU3 Berlin
"Regarding Terror: The RAF-Exhibition ", Kunstwerke Berlin, (D)
"Reflexionen", Art Center Berlin, Berlin (D)
"Resort off: Live Cinema Tempelhof" with Tom America,
OT 301 Amsterdam, Worm@Zaal de Unie Rotterdam, Artots 's Hertogenbosch, Den Haag, Extrapool Nijmegen
2004
"Tempelhof" with Tom America, Museum de Pont Tilburg, Verkadefabriek 's Hertogenbosch, Speelhuis Helmond, Plaza Futura Eindhoven, St.Joost Academie Breda, TENT Rotterdam (NL)
"Plan Gelb" with H.W.Kroesinger, Stadsschouwburg Rotterdam (NL)
"Truth" with H.W.Kroesinger, Theater de Vorst Tilburg (NL)
"Xaviera" with Tom America, Ruimte X Tilburg (NL)
"Anders/Nichts" DVD triptych with Loek Grootjans, Argument Tilburg (NL)
"Open House" OK Centrum für Gegenwartskunst Linz (AU
"The bison caravan" de Watertoren AK Vlissingen (NL)
"Brave New Works" Denmark Arts Council, Denmark, Western Australia
"Sound-Watch" W Cube project Tokyo (JP)
"Site-mapping, Site-seeing" New Media Art Festival 2004, Bangkok (TH)
2003
"Sub-Room" Gallerie Room Rotterdam (NL)
"Vlaggen voor Nagele" intervention in public space for "Tijd en transformatie" Museum Nagele (NL)
"Sang Y Oro" DVD installation, international art festival "Espais Sagrats" La Bisbal Gerona (E)
"Men with a mission" interactive DVD installation, "History is what's happening" de Smederij Heerlen (NL)
2002
"Truth" with H.W.Kroesinger, Festival "Politik im freien Theater", Kampnagel Hamburg (D)
"Site-mapping, Site-seeing" video installation Videoart Center Tokyo/ Gallery Surge Tokyo/ out-lounge gallery Tokyo, de Vooruit Gent (B)
"www.freekwattaclub.nl“ installation/ website "Het geheugen van een stad" Breda (NL)
"Camera Silens“ with Olaf Arndt install. Stichting Verbazingwekkende Extremiteiten Atrium Ac.St.Joost Breda (NL)
"Outside in & upside down“ De Watertoren Vlissingen (NL)
"Gladius Dei“ with H.W.Kroesinger, Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel, Haus der Kunst München (D)
"Truth“ with H.W.Kroesinger Podewil Berlin (D)
"Goede hoop/Alien Nation" installation/ website (www.goodhope.nl) Amsterdams Historisch Museum
"Upstream" Amsterdam (NL)
2001
"West Australian artist workshop" Walpole, West Australia
"Incognito/assimilation" John Curtin Art Gallery, Visual Arts Festival, Perth Australia
"Three minutes Silence" IACEE Tokyo (JP)
"Adrift" Las Palmas /Goethe- instituut Rotterdam (NL)
"Temporary meeting room" Surge Gallery Tokyo (JP)
"Truth-part one" with Hans Werner Kroesinger Forum Freies Theater Düsseldorf (D)
"More /Power/ Less" with Loek Grootjans, Opera Paese, Rome (I)
"Patchwork" 011 Academie voor Beeldende Vorming Tilburg (NL)
2000
"Het werkpaleis" Pieter Breugel Instituut Veghel (NL)
"The blind Spot" intervention in public space District Six Capetown (RSA) with Kevin Brand
"Ideëel Depot" De Overslag Eindhoven (NL)
"Expectacion" contribution for 7th biennale Havana Cuba cooperation with Kevin Brand
"Heart of Darkness" Ruimte X Tilburg (NL)*
1999
"Translacje 1999" Piotrkow Tribunalski (PL)
"Between the lines" De Overslag Eindhoven (NL)
"Access Random Memory" Lokaal 01 Breda (NL)
"Het werkpaleis" Faxx podium voor hedendaagse kunst Tilburg (NL)
1998
"Deep Storage" Kunstmuseum im Ehrenhof Düsseldorf (D)
"Kunst in opdracht" Faxx podium voor hedendaagse kunst Tilburg (NL)
"Overexposed" Faxx podium voor hedendaagse kunst Tilburg (NL)
"Deep Storage" MOMA P.S.1 New York (USA)
"Deep Storage" Henry Art Gallery Washington (USA)
1997
"Acumulus" Lokaal 01 Breda (NL)
"Deep Storage" Haus der Kunst München (D)
"Permanent Light" Nova Zembla s´Hertogenbosch (NL)
"Multimediale 5" ZKM / Medienmuseum Karlsruhe (D)
"Deep Storage" Nationalgalerie SMPK Berlin (D)
1996
"Februaristaking" Academie voor Bouwkunst Amsterdam (NL)
"Pearls vol. 4" Galerie Weißer Elephant Berlin (D)
"Passage" installation Bahnhof Zoo Berlin (D) with Olaf Arndt & Nils Peters *
"Buna 4-Bauformen der Vernichting" Foro Artistico Eisfabrik Hannover (D) with Arndt & Peters
"Passage" installation Faxx podium voor hedendaagse kunst Tilburg (NL) with Arndt & Peters
"Floating Identities" installation Thupelo-workshop Capetown (RSA)
1995
"Frühlingserwachen“ Kunstverein Hannover (D)
"Vitola,Tripa,Lectura“ with Olaf Arndt Artis Den Bosch (NL)
"Buna 4-Bauformen der Vernichting“ Kunstverein Hellerau Dresden (D) with Arndt & Peters
"My Name is Nobody“ Dirty Windows Gallery Berlin (D)
"I am the Predator“ Lokaal 01 Breda (NL)
"Camera Silens“ Neue Gesellschaft Bildende Kunst Berlin (D) with Olaf Arndt *
1994
"Achse Solitude Stammheim" Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin (D) with Olaf Arndt
"Out of the middle" de Verschijning Tilburg (NL)
"Achse Solitude Stammheim" Kunstverein Hannover (D) with Olaf Arndt
Galerie Saga Basement Kopenhagen with Olaf Arndt
"Camera silens" ZKM medienmuseum Karlsruhe (D) with Olaf Arndt
"Achse Solitude Stammheim" Halle & Bremen(D)with Olaf Arndt
"Schetsontwerpen Vreedeplein Tilburg" Galerie Artikel Tilburg (NL)
"Achse Solitude Stammheim" Tilburg (NL) with Olaf Arndt
"Alles verspielt" Rotationshalle Lüdenscheid (D)*solo
Education
1971-1977 Atheneum B Eijckhagencollege Landgraaf (NL)
1977-1982 NLO Tehatex, Mollerinstituut Tilburg (NL)
1982-1984 Academie voor Beeldende Vorming Tilburg (NL)
Grants, residencies, awards
2022 Resident Landestheater Linz (AU), Resident Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel Munich (D)
2021 Resident Staatstheater Nürnberg (DE)
2019 Resident Landestheater Linz (AU)
2018 Resident Markgrafentheater Erlangen (DE)
2017 Resident Landestheater Linz (AU) / Resident Staatstheater Karlsruhe (DE)
travelgrant Goethe-institut Beijing (CN)
2016 Berliner Festspiele (DE) "Stolpersteine Staatstheater" awarded for best German theatre
production
2015 Resident Staatstheater Karlsruhe (DE)
2013 Project grant "Quadrant" BKKC Tilburg,
Project grant "Quadrant" 2018Brabantstad (NL)
2011 Film grant Province of Noord Brabant (NL)
2010 Resident TriangleTrust @Greatmore Studio's Cape Town (SA)
2009 Basisstipendium Fonds BKVB Amsterdam (NL)
2006 Project grant Z33 Hasselt (B) by Mondrian foundation Amsterdam (NL)
2005 Project grant KW Berlin (DE) by Mondrian foundation Amsterdam (NL)
2004 Basisstipendium Fonds BKVB Amsterdam (NL)
Project grant OK Centrum Linz (AU) by Mondrian foundation Amsterdam (NL)
2001 Resident Opera Paese Rome (I) Resident Triangle Workshop Perth (AUS)
Resident Surge Gallery Tokio (JP)
1995 Resident TriangleTrust Cape Town (SA)
1994 Resident ZKM Karlsruhe (DE)
Carl Hofer Award Universität der Künste Berlin (DE)
1992 Fellowship Akademie Schloss Solitude Stuttgart (DE)
1989 Fellowship Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin (DE)