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Miet Warlop is from Torhout (BE), lives and works in Ghent and Brussels, and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from KASK, Ghent. For her graduation project "Huilend Hert, Aangeschoten Wild," an inhabited installation consisting of six tableaux vivants and a crawling subject, she received the Franciscus Pycke Award and the TAZ 2004 Audience Award.

Several other performances, actions, and projects followed. In 2005, her project "SPORTBAND / Afgetrainde Klanken," a forty-minute performance in which twenty people work against the clock through music and sports, premiered. As part of Lovepangs (Vooruit, 2005), she developed the one-on-one performance "Keester de Kersen" (Cherish Cherries). From January 2006 to November 2007, Warlop was one of six artists at DE BANK (CAMPO, Ghent), where she worked on a series of "Propositions" entitled Grote Hoop / Berg (Great Hope / Mountain). In between, she was also responsible for the set design of performances by Pieter Genard, Raven Ruëll, DitoDito-Jef Lambrecht, KVS (Brussels), kc Vooruit (Ghent), and Les Ballets C de la B (Ghent).

During the European tour of ‘Propositions,’ she created Springville, a fifty-minute action piece full of chaos, expectations, and surprises, in which the set design, costumes, props, and characters were closely intertwined. The performance premiered in May 2009 at kc BUDA (Kortrijk).

For the next three years, Miet Warlop lived in Berlin, where she focused on her visual work and a new performance, Mystery Magnet, which premiered at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in May 2012. Mystery Magnet won the Stückemarkt Theatertreffen Prize at the Berliner Festspiele for her innovative form of theater. Mystery Magnet has since been performed over a hundred times worldwide and was nominated for the Theatertreffen Berlin for its innovative approach to stage arts. Mystery Magnet continues to perform in Europe and beyond.

During 2012-2013, Miet Warlop developed several presentations of her Nervous Pictures and performances/interventions, within the framework of projects and various invitations, both within the visual arts and the performing arts field, such as Baltic Triennial (Vilnius), Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin), Lisson Gallery (London), and Southard Reid Gallery (London). In November 2012, during her four-year residency at the Beursschouwburg (Brussels), she presented the season opener, Alligator Project: a weekend of diverse media and performances by various artists and musicians, including Reggie Watts and Michael Portnoy, a project curated by Miet Warlop.

In 2014, Miet Warlop launched her own production company: Miet Warlop / Irene Wool. In October 2014, Irene Wool's first production, Dragging the Bone, premiered at the Beursschouwburg (Brussels). Dragging the Bone is a solo performance in a sculptural world.

In 2015, Miet Warlop opened the festivities for the fiftieth anniversary of the Beursschouwburg (Brussels) with "Rocket," which launches into the grid. Art Gallery Barbican (London) also invited her to perform as part of the Station to Station project, presented by Doug Aitken.

While her solo piece, Dragging the Bone, tours and celebrates Mystery Magnet's 100th show in Ghent, Porto, and Bordeaux, she ends the year with the opening of her first solo exhibition, Crumbling Down the Circle of my Iconoclasm, at KIOSK Gallery (Ghent). In 2016, a new large-scale production premiered – Fruits of Labor, a deep-night choreographic concert performance offered as a painkiller for the world. Fruits of Labor premiered at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels) in May 2016 and continues to be shown worldwide.

In addition to her performances in the performing arts sector, Miet Warlop presents a growing number of performances, interventions, and live installations within the visual arts. In 2017, Nervous Pictures was programmed at KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), and Performatik (Brussels), among others.

In 2017, Miet Warlop opened at Vooruit (Ghent) with the monumental installation Amusement Park. She was also invited by BOZAR (Brussels) as part of the Yves Klein retrospective exhibition. There, she presented HORSE: a man, a woman, a desire for adventure, and Mystery Magnet. During the closing event of the Paul Bury exhibition, her visual intervention, The Board, will be presented.

Festival Actoral. 17 (Marseille) invited Miet Warlop to perform "L'Objet des Mots," resulting in a new project, Ghost Writer and the Broken Hand Break – a production premiering in September 2018 at NTGent (Ghent). Warlop collaborated with author and curator Raimundas Malasauskas and musician Pieter De Meester on this project.

In early 2018, Miet Warlop created Big Bears Cry Too, a solo performance with Wietse Tanghe. This show is for all