°1976, Hasselt, BE Lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium. Artist in residency at HISK Antwerp from 1999 to 2001 Since 2018 Ives Maes is affiliated as a post-doctoral artistic researcher to 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. With his upcoming solo exhibition 'Kosmorama' he will open the renovated Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp in 2022.
Ives maes is represented by Gallery Sofie Van de Velde.
www.ivesmaes.com
Solo exhibitions
'Forbidden Fruits Create Many Jams', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerpen, BE
‘Sunville’, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, BE
HOLOLOOL, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE
‘Heath (Calluna Vulgaris)’, Parapet/Real Humans, Saint-Louis, US
‘Ab Hier Ist Schluss Mit Lustig’, Villa van Wassenhove, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deutle, BE
‘The Hanover Suite’, C-Mine, Genk, BE ‘Afterimages’, STAM Museum, Ghent, BE
‘Stay Time Extended’, Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin, DE ‘The Future from Yesterday’, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, US
‘Message to Youth’, MuNo / Museo Agrabado, Zacatecas, MX
‘Unification’, Uqbar, Berlin, DE ‘Progress’, VOID+, Tokyo, JP
‘For Humankind’, Koraalberg Gallery, Antwerp, BE ‘Open Space’, Art Cologne, Köln, DE ‘Drawings’, Koraalberg Gallery, Antwerp, BE ‘Die Stadt von Morgen’, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE
‘The Great Exhibition’, Z33 Center for Contemporary Art, Hasselt, BE
‘Tourism’, MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, BE ‘Tourism’, 03one, Belgrade, RS ‘Roofing’, Koraalberg Gallery, Antwerp, BE
‘Simon’, Brigitte Weiss Gallery, Zürich, CH ‘The Greenery Line’, SMAK Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, BE
‘Fundraising appeal’, CIAP, Hasselt, BE
‘Il Giardino Segreto’, FLACc, Genk, BE ‘Recyclable Refugee Camp’, Brigitte Weiss Gallery, Zürich, CH
Group exhibitions
Kunstenfestival Watou, Poperinge, BE
'L'heure bleue', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde & PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp, BE
'Looking at the World through Rose Colored Glasses', Sofie Van De Velde Gallery, Antwerp, BE
Sanguine/Bloedrood, Prada Foundation, Milan, IT Trans, Johannesburg University Art Gallery, Johannesburg, SA Photo Friction, CC Mechelen, Mechelen, BE
‘Unter Waffen/Fire and Forget 2’, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany ‘Imagine Europe’, BOZAR, Brussel / Belgium ‘The Camera’s Blind Spot III: La Camera - On the Materiality of Photography’, Palazzo De’ Toschi, Bologna /Italy‘Imagine Europe: In Search of New Narratives, BOZAR – Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussel, Belgium
M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerpen, Belgium ‘How to gather? Acting in a Center in a City in the Heart of the Island of Eurasia’, 6th Moscow Biennial, Moscow /Russia ‘DIS---PLAY’, Panache Towers, Antwerpen / Belgium
‘De Unie Hasselt Genk / Rockshow’, Emile van Doren Museum, Genk /Belgium
'First we take The Hague, then we take Berlin', Belgian Embassy, The Hague / The Netherlands ‘In-Discipline’, Bonnefanten Museum, Roermond /The Netherlands
‘Crossroads’, KIT / Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf /Germany ‘Finisterre’, Photo Museum Antwerp, Antwerp /Belgium
‘Transient Spaces’, NGBK, Berlin /Germany ‘Speedbump, Works from the collection of Frans Oomen’, Kunstfort, Vijfhuizen /The Netherlands ‘Into the woods that see and hear’, Stichting Dertien Hectare, St-Hertogensbosch /The Netherlands ‘The State of Things’, Namoc, Beijing /China
‘The State of Things’, Bozar, Brussels /Belgium ‘Images Recalled, 3rd Biennial of Photography’, Kunsthalle Ludwigshafen, Mannheim, Heidelberg /Germany ‘Broken Vision’, Kunstverein Mannheim /Germany ‘Colossal’, Landschaftsverband Osnabrücker land, Osnabrück /Germany
‘Emergency Biennale’, Playspace gallery, California College of the Arts, San Francisco /USA
‘Emergency Biennale’, Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul /Turkey ‘Reduce, Recycle and Recreate’, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam /The Netherlands ‘Melting ice’, Bozar, Brussels /Belgium ‘Commitment’, bkSM, De Garage, Mechelen /Belgium
‘After Cage, 24 Sammlungen in Bewegung’, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen /Germany ‘Künstler der Euregio Maas-Rhein’, IKOB, Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst Eupen, Eupen /Belgium ‘Adjustments & Errors’, Bagfactory, Johannesburg /South Africa ‘SCREENING 001 (The exhibition re-curated)’, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam /The Netherlands ‘Jahresgabe’, NAK, Neuer Aachner Kunstverein, Aachen / Germany
‘Frontera, a proposal for a futuristic society’, Laboratorio 060, Frontera /Mexico ‘SUPER!’, Triennial Hasselt, Hasselt /Belgium
‘Enduring Freedom’, Museo de Arte Carillo y Gil, Mexico D.F. /Mexico ‘Localismos’, Perros Negros, Mexico D.F. /Mexico ‘Alien 3 / a project by Heidrun Holzfeind’, W139, Amsterdam / The Netherlands
‘Guide to Trust N°2’, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco /USA ‘Zoersel 2002’, Domein Kasteel van Halle, Zoersel / Belgium
Works in public collections
STAM Museum, Ghent /Belgium
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, USA
Hall Family Foundation (Hallmark), Kansas City, USA
Z33, Hasselt , BE
SMAK, Gent, BE
Museo Carillo y Gil, Mexico D.F. /MX
M HKA, Antwerp, BE
‘Sunville, Ives Maes’, Ludion 166pg, color, ISBN 978-94-9181-984-1
‘The Future of Yesterday, Ives Maes’ Ludion 248pg, color ISBN 978-94-6130-086-7
‘Recyclable Refugee Camp, Ives Maes’ Mer Paper Kunsthalle 144pg, color ISBN 978-90-76979-59-5
Ives Maes Hut, 2022 UV print on multiplex, afromosia wooden frame 23,7 x 29,3 x 3,5 cm
Ives Maes Dark Box, 2021 UV print on multiplex, powder coated steel frame, tarpaulin, inox & aluminum corrugated roofing 201 x 250 x 5 cm (framed) Installation: variable dimensions
Ives Maes Forest, 2021 UV print on multiplex, oil paint, lacquered steel frame, blackout fabric 183,2 x 246 x 4 cm (framed) Installation: variable dimensions
Ives Maes Tent, 2022 UV print on multiplex, oil paint, afromosia wooden frame 127,2 x 158,4 x 4 cm
Ives Maes Sequence#22 (NightTimeTraffic), 2020 Unique Inkjet print on Epson Bright White, oak frame 42 x 52 x 5 cm
Ives Maes Sequence#24 (Dusk), 2020 Unique Inkjet print on Epson Bright White, oak frame 40 x 40 x 3 cm
Ives Maes Sequence#7 (Tulipa), 2020 Unique Inkjet print on Epson Bright White, oak frame 36 x 45 x 3 cm
Ives Maes Sequence#27 (Crib), 2020 Unique Inkjet print on Epson Bright White, oak frame 26 x 33 x 3 cm
Ives Maes Sequence #2 (Birthday Cake) Inkjet print on Epson Photo Rag 305 gsm, oak frame, UV glass 110 x 145,5 cm (framed...) Unique Recorded in 2014, printed in 2017
Ives Maes Cabaret 160 x 250 x 6 cm; Inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308 gsm, oak frame, UV glass; Unique; Recorded in 2014, printed in 2018
Ives Maes Sequence #17 (Calluna Vulgaris), recorded in 2014, printed in 2017 Inkjet print on Epson Photo Rag 305 gsm, oak frame, UV glass, 99 x 99 x 4,5 cm
Ives Maes Sequence #4 (Snow), recorded in 2014, printed in 2017 Inkjet print on Epson Photo Rag 305 gsm, oak frame, UV glass, 64 x 64 x 3 cm
Ives Maes Sequence #27 (Snow) Inkjet print on Epson Photo Rag 305 gsm, oak frame, UV glass 60 x 60 (framed...) Unique Recorded in 2014, printed in 2017