Biography

°1959, Leuven, BE.
Lives and works in Zandhoven, Belgium.

The artworld has always been rather suspicious of any form that is purely visual, a form
where beauty or emotion prevails. A form that is often referred to as ‘design’ or
‘decoration’. Yet, it is precisely this twilight zone that interests Van Saene. As an artist, his work has no functionality: it still shows the human body, not in a direct context but rather as the notions of a human figure. At the same time, the emotions they depict are equally as important. His sculptures are the stage-managers of their own story. Not only with regard to their material, colors and shapes, but also in the historic value that they carry and that he assigns to them.

Dirk Van Saene is represented by Gallery Sofie Van de Velde.

°1959, Leuven, BE.
Lives and works in Zandhoven, Belgium.

The artworld has always been rather suspicious of any form that is purely visual, a form
where beauty or emotion prevails. A form that is often referred to as ‘design’ or
‘decoration’. Yet, it is precisely this twilight zone that interests Van Saene. As an artist, his work has no functionality: it still shows the human body, not in a direct context but rather as the notions of a human figure. At the same time, the emotions they depict are equally as important. His sculptures are the stage-managers of their own story. Not only with regard to their material, colors and shapes, but also in the historic value that they carry and that he assigns to them.

Dirk Van Saene is represented by Gallery Sofie Van de Velde.

	Solo exhibitions
2023	"An angel, kissing spring", Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium
2021	"Stories of hope and despair", Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium
2017	"Ceramics", Song Song Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2011	"Dirk Van Saene for Studio Delvaux", Showroom Delvaux, Brussels, Belgium
2009	"Ceramics", Song, Song Gallery, Vienna, Austria
	Residences
2011	"Artist in residence", "Workshop in residence", San Francisco, USA