Johan Grimonprez achieved international acclaim with his video collage, Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y. With its premiere at Centre Pompidou and Documenta X in Kassel in 1997, it eerily foreshadowed the events of September 11th. The film tells the story of airplane hijackings since the 1970s and how these changed the course of news reporting. The movie consists of recycled images taken from news broadcasts, Hollywood movies, animated films and commercials.Grimonprez’s productions have traveled the main
festival circuit from Telluride, Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, to Tokyo and Berlin. Curatorial projects were hosted at major exhibitions and museums worldwide such as the Whitney Museum in New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich and the Tate Modern in London. Grimonprez’s work is included in numerous collections such as the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, theKanazawa Art Museum, Japan, the National Gallery, Berlin and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark. Nominated for the Hugo Boss Award in 2005. Johan Grimonprez lives and works in Brussels andNew York. In 2007 he had his first retrospective at thePinakothek Der Moderne (München), accompanied by a monograph with texts by Thomas P. Elseasser, Slavoj Zizek and Tom Mccarthy. |
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