Ives Maes

Biography

°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

Ives maes is represented by Gallery Sofie Van de Velde.

www.ivesmaes.com

	Solo exhibitions
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 ‘Afterimages’, STAM Museum, Ghent, BE
2012	‘Stay Time Extended’, Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin, DE ‘The Future from Yesterday’, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, US
2011	‘Message to Youth’, MuNo / Museo Agrabado, Zacatecas, MX
2010	‘Unification’, Uqbar, Berlin, DE ‘Progress’, VOID+, Tokyo, JP
2009	‘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
2008	‘The Great Exhibition’, Z33 Center for Contemporary Art, Hasselt, BE
2007	‘Tourism’, MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, BE ‘Tourism’, 03one, Belgrade, RS ‘Roofing’, Koraalberg Gallery, Antwerp, BE
2006	‘Simon’, Brigitte Weiss Gallery, Zürich, CH ‘The Greenery Line’, SMAK Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, BE
2005	‘Fundraising appeal’, CIAP, Hasselt, BE
2004	‘Il Giardino Segreto’, FLACc, Genk, BE ‘Recyclable Refugee Camp’, Brigitte Weiss Gallery, Zürich, CH
	Group exhibitions
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 Trans, Johannesburg University Art Gallery, Johannesburg, SA Photo Friction, CC Mechelen, Mechelen, BE
2016	‘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
2015	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
2014	‘De Unie Hasselt Genk / Rockshow’, Emile van Doren Museum, Genk /Belgium
2013	'First we take The Hague, then we take Berlin', Belgian Embassy, The Hague / The Netherlands ‘In-Discipline’, Bonnefanten Museum, Roermond /The Netherlands
2011	‘Crossroads’, KIT / Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf /Germany ‘Finisterre’, Photo Museum Antwerp, Antwerp /Belgium
2010	‘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
2009	‘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
2008	‘Emergency Biennale’, Playspace gallery, California College of the Arts, San Francisco /USA
2007	‘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
2006	‘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
2005	‘Frontera, a proposal for a futuristic society’, Laboratorio 060, Frontera /Mexico ‘SUPER!’, Triennial Hasselt, Hasselt /Belgium
2004	‘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
2002	‘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

Bibliography

2018	‘Sunville, Ives Maes’, Ludion 166pg, color, ISBN 978-94-9181-984-1
2013	‘The Future of Yesterday, Ives Maes’ Ludion 248pg, color ISBN 978-94-6130-086-7
2009	‘Recyclable Refugee Camp, Ives Maes’ Mer Paper Kunsthalle 144pg, color ISBN 978-90-76979-59-5