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- Michael Blum
Based in Vienna/A
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- BIOGRAPHY
1966 Born Jerusalem/IL - 1988 MA in History, University
of Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne/F
- 1992 Graduated from Ecole
Nationale de la Photographie, Arles/F
- EXHIBITIONS,
SCREENINGS,
PROJECTS
- 2008
- True
(Hi)stories of Work, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection at
the Centre of Contemporary Art "Znaki Czasu", Torun/PL
- Branded and On Display, SMoCA, Phoenix, AZ/US
- Be(com)ing Dutch, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven/NL
- Data Recovery, GAMEC, Bergamo/I
- Open Studios, International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York
- Festival international de film et video de creation, Beyrouth/LB
- Se Permuta, Museo Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City/MEX
- Diagonale, Austrian Film Festival, Graz/A
- Land of Human Rights: An der Grenze des Denkbaren, <rotor>, Graz/A
- Conspire!, Transmediale, Berlin/DE
- Branded and On Display, Tufts University Gallery, Medford, MA./US
- 2007
- Transforming Memory - The Politics of Images, Galerija Nadezda Petrovic, Cacak/ SRB
- Branded and On Display, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS./US
- OK video Militia, 3rd Jakarta International Video Festival, Jakarta/IND
- Revolution Is Not A Garden Party, Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb/HR
- Cape Town - Stockholm (On Thembo Mjobo), Mobile Art Production, Stockholm/SE
- Choix d'artistes, Institut Neerlandais, Paris/F
- Panorama der Arbeit, Forum Schlossplatz, Aarau/CH
- Revolution Is Not A Garden Party, Norwich Gallery, Norwich/UK
- Revolution Is Not A Garden Party, Holden Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester/UK
- Branded and On Display, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL./US
- World Factory, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA./US
2006
Work [w3:k], Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast/N.IRL
Revolution Is Not A Garden Party, Trafo Gallery,
Budapest/H
Make
Everything New, A Project on Communism, Bookworks, London/UK &
Project Arts Center, Dublin/IRL
No Space Is Innocent, Forum Stadtpark /
Steirischer Herbst, Graz/A
L'usage du monde, Museum of modern and
contemporary art, Rijeka/HR
Einmal Empire und Zurueck,
Westfaelischer Kunstverein, Muenster/DE
The Grand Promenade, National
Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens/GR
The Monument To The Birth Of The 20th Century (For Nikola Tesla), Galerija Nova, Zagreb/HR
Human Game, Fondazione Pitti,
Florence/I
Art
in the service of lefties ?, Kronika, Bytom/PL
Geschichte(n) vor Ort, Public Art
Vienna/A
Trajectories,
Latvian Center for
Contemporary Art, Riga/LV
Work [w3:k], Lewis Glucksman
Gallery, Cork/IRL
Passages en ville, Festival Photo
et Video, Biarritz/F
Mercury in Retrograde, De Appel,
Amsterdam/NL
Normalization,
Rooseum, Malmo/SE
Storytellers,
The Art Gallery,
University of Haifa/IL
Capital (It Fails Us Now),
Kunstihoone, Tallinn/EST
- 2005
- 3rd Tirana Biennial, Tirana/AL
- Superstars, Kunsthalle, Vienna/A
- Capital
(It Fails Us Now), UKS,
Oslo/N
- K.O
video art festival, Durban/SA
- 9th Istanbul Biennial/TR
- Arbeit, Galerie im
Taxispalais, Innsbruck/A
- Suburbia Without Borders,
billboard
project, Clockshop, Los Angeles/US
- 17 Aandbloem Street, Mess Hall,
Chicago/US
- Video Lounge Mobile, artprocess,
Paris/F
- Zero Interest / Interessi Zero,
Galleria civica de Arte Contemporanea, Trento/I
- Just do it!, Lentos Kunstmuseum,
Linz/A
- Greatest
Hits, ruangrupa,
Jakarta/IND
- 2004
- Video & Apres, Musee national
d'art moderne, Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris (w. Ursula Biemann)/F
- La derniere breve,
Centre d'art de
la synagogue de Delme, Delme/F
La Republique de la Salicorne, collab. w. Philippe Lepeut &
Lycee
Agricole pupils, Chateau-Salins/F - The Monument to the Birth of the
20th Century, O.K Center for Contemporary Art, Linz/A
- Social Affairs!, The Ministery of
Social Affairs, Den Haag/NL
- Terminal 5, JFK Airport, New York/US
- Dazibao, Nuit Blanche, Paris/F
- Les Rencontres
cinema et video,
Nice/F
- Micro-cinema,
Rooseum, Malmö/SE
- One in a Million: Economies of the
Self in Everyday Urban Life, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York/US
Heimat_nicht, Sendung ohne Sender, Kunsthalle project space, Vienna/A
- 2003
- 10e Biennale de l'Image en
Mouvement, Geneva/CH
24/7: Wilno - Nueva York (Visa Para), Contemporary Art Centre,
Vilnius/LT
OK video, Jakarta video art festival, ruangrupa /Galeri Nasional
Indonesia
Influence, Anxiety and Gratitude, MIT List Visual Arts Center,
Cambridge, MA./US
Rooseum Universal Studios, Rooseum, Malmö/SE
Critique is not enough, Shedhalle, Zurich/CH - 17 Aandbloem Street, Very Real
Time, Cape Town/SA
potlatch.doc, distribution in waiting rooms worldwide, on-going
- 2002
- 400 jaar zonder graaf, den heb je
lang gezwegen (400 years without a grave is a long time to shut up),
OostIndisch Huis, Amsterdam/NL
Rabu Video Club, ruangrupa, Jakarta/IND - Kunstkanaal, Amsterdam - Rotterdam
- Den Haag/NL
- Video lounge, Musee national d'art
moderne, Centre-Georges-Pompidou, Paris/F
Bingo, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris/F
Primetime declassement film festival, b_books, Berlin/D
La nuova agora, Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella/I
Institut Français d'Architecture, Paris/F
Alien, Austrian Institute, Rome/I
tele-journeys, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA./US
BIG biennial, Torino/I
Non-Places, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt-am-Main/D
- 2001
- CBK / TENT., Rotterdam/NL
Open ateliers, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam/NL
Salto 1 TV, Amsterdam/NL
Going places, Smart project space, Amsterdam/NL
Den-city, Eme3 / CCCB, Barcelona/ES
Hamburger Kammerkunstverein, Hamburg/D
58 films cash, Musée d'art contemporain, Marseille/F
Take Two / Reprise, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa/CND - Free Speech TV,
broadcast/US
Festival internacional de musica contemporanea,
Bogota/COL - Park
4DTV, Amsterdam/NL
2000 - Homo Oeconomicus,
Stanley-Picker
Gallery, Kingston-upon-Thames/UK
The Language Course, collaboration with Carlos Amorales & NGO
El
Caracol, Mexico DF/MEX
Der Standard / Museum in Progress, Vienna/A, 30.11 - Public
Inventions and
Interventions, Temporary Services, Chicago/US
Open studios, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam/NL
I.C.I., W139, Amsterdam/NL
Viper Festival, Basel/CH
6e Videogrammes, Marseille/F
World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam/NL
Videoszene Paris, Konstruirte Wirklichkeit, Huis a/d Werf, Utrecht/NL
Crash, Sidestreet magazine, Los Angeles/US
Contribution to Simon Morris' Bibliomania, www.bibliomania.org.uk
- 1999
- Videoszene Paris, Konstruirte
Wirklichkeit, Kunsthalle, Basel/CH
- Videoszene Paris, Kunstmuseum des
Kantons Thurgau, Warth/CH
28e festival du nouveau cinéma et des nouveaux medias,
Montreal/CND
Rentree, Stanley-Picker Gallery, Kingston-upon-Thames/UK
Ipso Facto, Nantes/F
Bandits-Mages, Bourges/F
Visions Underground, Stalingrad metro station, Paris/F
13, rue Marcel Duchamp, Paris/F
But is it politics ?, website by Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber
www.lot.or.at/politics/index.htm - V Tape, Toronto/CND
- 1998
- Vacance, Venividi / Shopping
center, Ivry-sur-Seine/F
Tales Of Britain, Espace Culturel François Mitterand,
Beauvais/F - Une histoire de circonstances, Le
Lieu, Lorient/F
Librairie Florence Loewy, Paris-Photo fair/F
Glassbox Open, Glassbox, Paris/F
The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff/CND
Disquieting Strangeness, Center for Freudian Analysis &
Research,
London/UK
Videochroniques, Marseille/F
- 1997
- La salle des temps perdus, Le
Grand
Wazoo, Amiens/F
C'est la vie, Au Rendez-Vous des Clowns / Galerie Elisabeth Valleix,
Paris/F
Un rude hiver, Musee des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle, Calais/F (w. Vito Acconci)
Happy Hour, Galerie Elisabeth
Valleix, FIAC, Paris/F
Venividi, SAGA, Paris/F
Sous le manteau, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris/F
N° 5, Casa Factori (Marseille), public posting in Marseille,
Paris,
Leipzig, Casablanca
- 1996
- De
deux choses l'une, Le Grand
Wazoo, Amiens/F
Virtual Actions, icono.org - Les cent jours
d'art contemporain,
CIAC, Montreal/CND
Marche de Noel, 81 rue Albert, Paris/F
9e Instants Video, Manosque/F
Thes Video / La Revue Eclair / Galerie EOF, Paris/F
1995 - Le
couvert est mis, Zoo Galerie,
Nantes/F
Voisins et amis, A l'Ecart, Montreuil/F
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- PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
- Museum der Moderne, Salzburg/A
- Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam/NL
- Musee national
d'art moderne, Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris/F
Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris/F
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- GRANTS, PRIZES,
COMMISSIONS
- 2008 Nomination for Transmediale prize, Berlin/DE
- 2004-06 Bundeskanzleramt, Vienna/A
- 2002 Commission from
the
Amsterdams fonds voor de kunst, Amsterdam/NL
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Minimum Prize, menzione speziale, Fondazione Pistoletto,
Biella/I
2001 The Ministry of Culture, Education & Science/NL,
AFAA-DAP/F
2000 Stichting Schürmann-Krant, Amsterdam/NL
1999 Prix du FRAC Ile-de-France, Paris/F
1998 DRAC IdF, Ministère de la culture/F
1994 City of Paris ; DRAC IdF, Ministère de la
culture/F
1993 Research grant, Mission du Patrimoine Photographique,
Paris/F
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- RESIDENCIES
- 2008 International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York/US
- 2007 Digital ArtLab, Holon/IL
- 2005
Austrian studio, Chicago/US/A
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Rooseum,
Malmo / IASPIS, Stockholm/SE
2004 Centre d'art de la synagogue de Delme/F
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O.K Center for
Contemporary Art, Linz/A
2003 Very Real Time, Cape Town/SA
2002 Maison Descartes, Amsterdam/NL
2000-01 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam/NL
2001 Ruangrupa, Jakarta/IND
2000 Los Mutantes, Mexico City/MEX
1998 The Long March: Trot, Trot, Mao, Meow, The Banff Center
for
the Arts, Banff/CND
1997 Glasgow School of Art/UK
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- LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS,
WORKSHOPS
- 2008
- BYO lunch lecture, Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA/US
- 2007
- Tradition,
Modernity, Crisis, Nostalgia (On 1967), Semiotics in Art and
Architecture, Technical University, Vienna/A (semester course)
- Monuments, Konsthogskolan, Stockholm/SE (lecture)
- Norwich Arts Center, Norwich/UK (lecture)
- The Indestructible Ruins of Utopia, SocialEast seminar, Manchester Art Gallery/UK (lecture)
- 2006
- Artistic explorations in
cultural memory, Faculty of creative and performing arts, Leiden
University/NL (seminar)
- The Myth of Origin, Art radionica Lazareti,
Dubrovnik/HR (lecture)
- The Myth of Origin, Galerija Nova,
Zagreb/HR (lecture)
- Wandering Marxwards, NOASS, Riga/LV (presentation)
- Traces Between Fact and Fiction,
MIT Visual Arts Program, Cambridge MA./US (w. Barbara
Clausen)
- About a context-constructivist
approach to curating, Close Connections/Amsterdam Art Fair/NL
(intervention)
- What Mean These Stones ?, Loods6/De
Appel, Amsterdam/NL (panel)
- Negotiating Memory, The New
European Landscape and The Jewish Experience, Moderna Museet,
Stockholm/SE (congress)
- Dispositifs artistiques,
dispositifs de pensée, College
International de Philosophie/ENSBA, Paris/F (seminar)
- Brands als neue Religion ?,
Kunsthalle, Vienna/A (panel)
For a Productive Practice of Failure, Signal Gallery, Malmo/SE (lecture)
Three Monuments, New Media Dpt, Royal Art Academy, Copenhagen/DK
(presentation)
- 2005
- Three Monuments, Akademie der
bildenden Kunste, Vienna/A (presentation)
- A Tribute to Safiye Behar, Dpt
of
Walls and Space, Royal Art Academy, Copenhagen/DK (presentation)
- Mock-doc.
Strategies to undermine
the documentary, Art Academy, Malmo/SE (workshop)
- Trajectories, Latvian center for
contemporary art, Riga/LV (panel)
- Mess Hall, Chicago/US (presentation)
- Another History (Travelogues and
Monuments), French Inst./Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul/TR (lecture)
- The
Monument to the Birth of the
20th Century, Secession, Vienna/A (w. Stella Rollig) (presentation)
- 2003
- Filesharer values - Ökonomien
des Austauschs, Interfiction X, Kassel/D (symposium)
Michaelis Art School, University of Cape Town/SA (presentation)
Power of Representation, Representation of Power, NIFCA,
Helsinki/FIN (conference)
From Marx to my sneakers, Akademie der bildenden Künste,
Vienna/A
(presentation)
- 2002
- tele-journeys, MIT
Visual Arts
Program, Cambridge,
MA./US (panel)
Ecole Gabriel Leroy, Melun / Centre photographique d'Ile-de-France/F
(workshop)
- 2001
- Cittadellarte, Fondazione
Pistoletto, Biella/I (presentation)
ruangrupa, Jakarta/IND (presentation)
De Verschijning, Tilburg/NL (panel)
- 2000
- MK2 Project Cafe, Paris/F
(presentation)
Ecole Regionale des Beaux-Arts, Nantes/F (lecture)
Midway Studios, University of Chicago/US (presentation)
- 1999
- Depot, Vienna/A (presentation)
Telerama, Ecole superieure des Beaux-Arts, Tours/F (workshop)
Ecole Pierre-Mendès-France, Créteil / Centre
photographique d'Ile-de-France/F (workshop)
- 1998
- Centre culturel, Beauvais/F
(workshop)
The Banff Center for the Arts, Banff/CND (presentation)
- 1997
- The Network, Glasgow School of
Art/UK (lecture)
The Network, Art College, Hallam University, Sheffield/UK (lecture)
The Network, Faculty of Art and Design, Kingston University,
Kingston-upon-Thames/UK (lecture)
The Network, University of Northumbria, Newcastle-upon-Tyne/UK (lecture
& workshop)
- 1996
The Network, Ecole
d'Architecture, Versailles/F (lecture)
- 1992 Classe Arc-en-Ciel, ENP,
Arles/F (workshop)
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- WRITINGS,
RESEARCH
- 2003
- Research in photo-archives
throughout Austria for Im Rausch der Dinge, Fotomuseum Winterthur/CH,
2004-05, in collaboration with Barbara Clausen.
- 2000
- Trece Respuestas, La Revista del
CGAC 0, Santiago de Compostela/ES
- 1996
- Historical research on industrial
photography, 19th & 20th century, Schneider, L'histoire en
force,
Editions de Monza, Paris/F
- 1992-93
- Research grant from the Mission du
Patrimoine Photographique, Paris/F :
- «Le role des ecrivains,
poetes, critiques et historiens sur les expositions de photographie en
France au XXe siecle»
- 1992
- Series of interviews with
Jean-Louis Déotte (philosopher), Michel Nuridsany (critic),
Gilles Dusein
- (gallerist
and expert in ancient
photography), Christian Milovanoff (artist), Mission du Patrimoine
Photographique
- and
with Florence Paradeis
(artist), catalogue FRAC Limousin/F
Diploma work at the ENP, Arles : «10 x 3 conceptions du
multiple», based
on serial
aspects of literature and visual arts
- 1988
- Thesis in history : «La
perception de l'Allemagne en France au XVIIIe siècle a
travers
le 'Journal des Savants'», University of Paris
Panthéon-Sorbonne/F
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- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- 2007
- Istiklal Allee insert in Derive # 28, Vienna/A
- Miklos Erhardt, The Three Failures in Revolution Is Not A Garden Party catalogue, MMU, Manchester/UK
- Katrin Steffen, The Three Philosophers in New Media Catalogue, MNAM-Centre G. Pompidou, Paris/F
- 2006
- Jennifer Higgie, The Grand Promenade review, Frieze # 103
- Douglas Heingartner, Mercury in
Retrograde review, Frieze # 100
- Interview
with Defne Ayas, De Appel, Amsterdam/NL (published in Turkish as
Michael Blum ile Lippmann, Rosenthal & Co. Üzerine
Söylefli, art-ist, Istanbul/TR)
- Larisa Dryansky, Homo Oeconomicus
in cat. Festival Photo et Video, Biarritz/F
- Viestarts Gailitis, Triskarsa
izgasanas, Diena/LV, May 25
- Elena Crippa, Michael Blum, A Tribute to Safiye
Behar, e-cart/RO, #7
- Marinus de Ruiter, The Uncovering
and Reconstruction of a Nazi Looting Bank, Amsterdam Weekly/NL, Apr. 6
- Cay Sophie Rabinowitz, Address
Unknown, Texte zur Kunst/D # 61
- Wandering Marxwards in Mister
Motley, Amsterdam/NL # 9
- Holly Willis, Atomic Billboards, LA
Weekly/US, Jan. 18
- November Paynter, A lack of solemnity is not necessarily a lack of consciousness, Artl!ies/TX, US # 49
- Nusret Polat, Interview with
Michael Blum in PLATO/TR # 2
- Chantal Pontbriand, 9e biennale
d'Istanbul, Parachute/CA # 121
- Art Papers/US, January-February
(cover)
- 2005
- Heike Eipeldauer, Global Players,
Logokultur und Brand Religion in Superstars catalogue, Kunsthalle
Vienna/A
- Eleanor Heartney, Report from
Istanbul, Art in America, December
Arden Reed, Art and politics at the Crossroads, Los Angeles Times, Dec.
11
Susanne Boecker, Alles richtig
gemacht, diesmal ?, Kunstforum/D # 178, Nov 05-Jan 06
- Christian Rattemeyer, A Letter
From
Istanbul, Domus # 886, Nov.
- Berenice Bailly, A la biennale
d'Istanbul, l'art interroge les frontieres de l'Occident, Le Monde/F,
16.10
- Margit
Zuckriegl, Das Bild der
Wirklichkeit, Salzburger Nachrichten/A, 23.09
- Suzanne Fowler, Istanbul’s
Biennial: A Study in Living, The Wall Street Journal Europe, 16.09
- Ingo Arend, Die Schwerkraft der
Moderne, Freitag #38, Berlin/D
- Mahmut Hamsici, Ataturk'un
sevgilisi Safiye, Radikal, Istanbul/TR, 28.08
- Julide Karahan, Bienal’den sonra
tarih yeniden yazilabilir!, Zaman, Istanbul/TR, 05.09
- Esra Sarigedik in 9th Istanbul
Biennial catalogue
- Alice
Motard, Portrait de l'artiste
en touriste, ESSE #54, Montréal/CND
- Work. Art in Progress. Galleria
civica de arte contemporanea, Trento/I
- 2004
- Stella
Rollig, Stich ins Herz der
Linzer Finsternis, WOZ-die Wochenzeitung, Zürich/CH, Maerz
- Staff writer, Le
tour du monde de
la breve, Le Republicain Lorrain, Metz/F, 11.06
Shifting Map. Artists' platforms and strategies for cultural diversity,
NAi Publishers, Rotterdam/NL
Iain Louw in Very Real Time publication, Cape Town/SA
- 2003
- Charles Esche in Cream 3, Phaidon
Press, London
Lin Sampson, Talking with the Black Noise guys, The Sunday Times/SA,
30.11
Lauren Shantall, Very Real Time, Art South Africa, December
Bill Arning, e-catalogue Influence, Anxiety & Gratitude, MIT
List
Visual Arts Center, Cambrige, Ma./US
Seno Joko Suyono, Gerilya Melawan TV, Tempo, Jakarta/IND, 20.07
- 2002
- Anne Bonnin, Bingo, Art Press/F #
285, December, p. 79-80
Philippe Dagen, Sous le signe du kitsch, Le Monde/F, 15-16 Sept, p. 21
Cate McQuaid, At MIT, 'tele-journeys' to the center of globalism,
Boston Sunday Globe/US, 26.O5
Jens Hoffmann, Passing Silhouettes, tele-journeys catalogue, MIT List
Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Ma.
Giuseppe Culicchia, BIG 2002, l'arte di stupire, La Stampa/I, 27.04
Verena Kuni, Frieze #67
Elke Buhr, Im Transitraum, Frankfurter Rundschau/D, 12.03
R. Schmitz, Es dreht sich das Drehkreuz, als wär's ein
Karussell,
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung/D, 03.04
- 2001
- Sacha Bronwasser, Op hol geslagen
legioen in vloeibaar zand, De Volkskrant/NL, 30.11
- M. Groot, Kunstenaars
Rijksakademie
tonen eigen werk, Noordhollandse Dagblad/NL, 30.11
Silent Zones - on globalization and cultural interaction, RABK,
Amsterdam/NL, p. 64-67
Sylvie Fortin, Take Two catalogue, Ottawa Art Gallery/CND
- 2000
- Food for thought, ArchiNed/NL, 20
Nov - www.ArchiNed.nl
Anita de Groot, Wandering Marxwards, World Wide Video Festival
catalogue, Amsterdam/NL
- 1999
- Emmanuelle Lequeux
in Aden/F,
n°
70, 31 March
Pierre Giquel, Des rencontres imprévisibles, Ouest-France/F,
9
April
L'image, le monde, Liege/BE, n° 1
- 1998
- Eric de Saint-Fare, Les Contes de
Monsieur Blum, DDO (F/BE/UK), n° 33, July
- 1997
- L'atelier, François Mitaine,
Radio FG, Paris/F, 16 March
Anaid Demir, L'art fait le lit de la mode, Technikart/F, March
Thuy-Diep Nguyen, Sous le manteau, Le journal des expositions/F, April
Realite virtuelle : quel oxymoron !, self-interview in Oui, Icono,
Paris/F, n°2
Michael Blum a la recherche du temps perdu, Le courrier picard,
Amiens/F, Jan. 22