Nico Dockx (1974) works as a visual artist, curator, publisher, and researcher with a fundamental interest in archives. His interventions, publications, texts, sounds, images, installations, performances, and conversations—which are usually the result of collaborations with other artists—embody the relationship between perception and memory, which he interprets differently each time. His work has won him a DAAD grant in Berlin (2005) and various prizes like Le Prix Jeune Peinture Belge—the Emile & Stephy Langui prize (2009, with Helena Sidiropoulos). Since 2000, he has exhibited his work at home and abroad and has published more than sixty artist's books with his independent imprint, Curious. He is co-founder of interdisciplinary projects such as Building Transmissions (2001–2009), Extra Academy (2011—…), A Dog Republic (2012—2020, with Yona Friedman), and la Galerie Imaginaire (2015—…, with Sébastien Delire), Expanding Academy (2020-2024, with Judith Wielander), Instroom Art (2023-…, with Seppe Nobels & Charuwan Pauwels). Together with Louwrien Wijers, Egon Hanfstingl, and many other collaborators, he has been working on his PhD project The New Conversations at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, which he obtained in 2014 at CAC Brétigny upon invitation of curator Pierre Bal Blanc. He also co-organized with Pascal Gielen the summer schools Mobile Autonomy (2015) and Making Public Domain (2017), as well as Commonism / Swamp School (2018), with accompanying books published by Valiz Publishers in Amsterdam. He recently published a prospective catalogue (Vol. 1) with his archives, reflecting on twenty years of practice, with essays by BLESS, Valérie Chartrain, Herman Daled, Chris Dercon, Corinne Diserens, Pascal Gielen, Lieve Laporte, Dieter Lesage, Mark Luyten, Sarat Maharaj, Jan Mast, Molly Nesbit, Federico Nicolao, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Joachim Olender, Douglas Park, Laure Severac, Helena Sidiropoulos, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Hilde Vanpelt, Christina Werner, and Louwrien Wijers.

Join us for this engaging lecture and exploration of Nico Dockx’s dynamic and archive-driven practice.