Ives Maes b. 1976
° Hasselt, BE
Lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium.
Artist in residency at HISK Antwerp from 1999 to 2001
Since 2018 Ives Maes has been affiliated as a post-doctoral artistic researcher with KASK School of Arts and the Hogent Arts Research Fund. Working mainly with installations and photography, Ives Maes is a multidisciplinary artist who has developed several long-term projects that revolve around the concepts of temporary architecture, nomadism, ruination, and ephemerality.
Ives Maes' works have been on view in institutions such as the S.M.A.K. in Ghent; Prada Foundation in Milan; M HKA Museum in Antwerp; Void+ Tokyo; the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City; the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in Deurle and the 6th Moscow Biennial, amongst others. In 2022, he opened the renovated Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp with a solo exhibition 'Kosmorama'.
Ives maes is represented by Gallery Sofie Van de Velde.
www.ivesmaes.com
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Ives Maes
TROPES 11 Jan - 2 Feb 2025 New SouthIn Ives Maes' book Recyclable Refugee Camp (2008), Dieter Roelstraete wrote about “the painful association of the refugee with the Deleuzian concept of nomadology as a popular intellectual metaphor for...Read more -
Ives Maes
Forbidden Fruits Create Many Jams 26 Nov 2022 - 8 Jan 2023 New South -
L'Heure Bleue - Part II
Groupshow 1 - 23 Aug 2020 New SouthL’Heure Bleue Gallery Sofie Van de Velde and PLUS - ONE Gallery present ‘L’Heure Bleue’. L’heure bleue is the moment when the sun has set - artists/but the night has...Read more -
L'heure bleue Part I
Groupshow 9 Jun - 31 Jul 2020 New SouthL’Heure Bleue Gallery Sofie Van de Velde and PLUS - ONE Gallery present ‘L’Heure Bleue’. L’heure bleue is the moment when the sun has set, but the night has not...Read more -
Looking at the world through rose colored glasses
Group exhibition 19 Jan - 3 Mar 2019 New SouthGermaine Kruip Sara Sizer Guy Mees Bendt Eyckermans Pieter Jennes Max Pinckers Charline Tyberghein Willy De Sauter Jacques-Louis Nyst Gommaar Gilliams Perry Roberts Catharina Dhaen Rik De Boe Ives Maes...Read more -
Ives Maes
HOLOLOOL 28 Sep - 11 Nov 2017 Groen Kwartier (former location)Hololool is the first exhibition in a new, deeply personal project called Sunville. After his family went through a number of emotional events, Ives Maes (Belgium, °1976) instinctively picked up...Read more
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Sequence #17 (Calluna Vulgaris), recorded in 2014, printed in 2017
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Sequence #3 (Wedding Party), recorded in 2014, printed in 2017
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Sequence #4 (Snow), recorded in 2014, printed in 2017
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Plant, 2024
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Tent, 2024
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Waterfall, 2024
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Camp, 2023
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Cave, 2023
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Ocean, 2023
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Watchtower, 2023
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Waterfall, 2023
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Hut, 2022
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Tent, 2022
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Dark Box, 2021
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Forest, 2021
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Sequence#24 (Dusk), 2020
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Sequence#27 (Crib), 2020
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Sequence #8 (Cabaret), 2018
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Booklaunch 'Ives Maes & David Campany in Conversation' at KASK Arts Library
08/05/2025Ives Maes will present his new book Ives Maes & David Campany in Conversation at the Kunstenbibliotheek KASK on 08.05.25 at 19H. Campany will be...Read more -
Book presentation 'Ives Maes & David Campay in Conversation' at the gallery
15/02/2025Gallery Sofie Van de Velde and Ives Maes are delighted to invite you to the finissage of Ives Maes' solo exhibition TROPES on the 15th...Read more -
Survey: Ives Maes in e-flux
21/10/2024An interview with artist and lecturer Ives Maes, published in e-flux , provides insight into his work at KASK in Ghent and his unique approach...Read more
Solo exhibitions |
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2025 |
'TROPES', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE |
2022 |
'Kosmorama' at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts |
2022 |
'Forbidden Fruits Create Many Jams', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerpen, BE |
2018 |
‘Sunville’, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, BE |
2017 |
HOLOLOOL, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE |
2016 |
‘Heath (Calluna Vulgaris)’, Parapet/Real Humans, Saint-Louis, US |
2015 |
‘Ab Hier Ist Schluss Mit Lustig’, Villa van Wassenhove, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deutle, BE |
2013 |
‘The Hanover Suite’, C-Mine, Genk, BE |
2012 |
‘Stay Time Extended’, Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin, DE |
2011 |
‘Message to Youth’, MuNo / Museo Agrabado, Zacatecas, MX |
2010 |
‘Unification’, Uqbar, Berlin, DE |
2009 |
‘For Humankind’, Koraalberg Gallery, Antwerp, BE |
2008 |
‘The Great Exhibition’, Z33 Center for Contemporary Art, Hasselt, BE |
2007 |
‘Tourism’, MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, BE |
2006 |
‘Simon’, Brigitte Weiss Gallery, Zürich, CH |
2005 |
‘Fundraising appeal’, CIAP, Hasselt, BE |
2004 |
‘Il Giardino Segreto’, FLACc, Genk, BE |
Group exhibitions |
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2025 |
BRAFA Art Fair, Brussels, BE |
2024 |
BRAFA, Brussels, BE |
2023 |
'Fruits of Labour', Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, BE |
2021 |
Kunstenfestival Watou, Poperinge, BE |
2020 |
'L'heure bleue', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde & PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp, BE |
2019 |
'Looking at the World through Rose Colored Glasses', Sofie Van De Velde Gallery, Antwerp, BE |
2018 |
Sanguine/Bloedrood, Prada Foundation, Milan, IT |
2016 |
‘Unter Waffen/Fire and Forget 2’, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, DE |
2015 |
M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, BE |
2014 |
‘De Unie Hasselt Genk / Rockshow’, Emile van Doren Museum, Genk, BE |
2013 |
'First we take The Hague, then we take Berlin', Belgian Embassy, The Hague, NL |
2011 |
‘Crossroads’, KIT / Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, DE |
2010 |
‘Transient Spaces’, NGBK, Berlin, DE |
2009 |
‘The State of Things’, Bozar, Brussels, BE |
2008 |
‘Emergency Biennale’, Playspace Gallery, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, USA |
2007 |
‘Emergency Biennale’, Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, TU |
2006 |
‘After Cage, 24 Sammlungen in Bewegung’, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, DE |
2005 |
‘Frontera, a proposal for a futuristic society’, Laboratorio 060, Frontera, MX |
2004 |
‘Enduring Freedom’, Museo de Arte Carillo y Gil, Mexico D.F., MX |
2002 |
‘Guide to Trust N°2’, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco /USA |
Works in public collections |
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STAM Museum, Ghent, BE |
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The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, USA |
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Hall Family Foundation (Hallmark), Kansas City, USA |
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Z33, Hasselt, BE |
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SMAK, Gent, BE |
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Museo Carillo y Gil, Mexico D.F., MX |
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M HKA, Antwerp, BE |
Bibliography
2018 |
‘Sunville, Ives Maes’, Ludion 166pg, color, ISBN 978-94-9181-984-1 |
2013 |
‘The Future of Yesterday, Ives Maes’ |
2009 |
‘Recyclable Refugee Camp, Ives Maes’ |