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

°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

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

2024

'It's all right, don't think twice', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE
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
Trans, Johannesburg University Art Gallery, Johannesburg, SA
Photo Friction, CC Mechelen, Mechelen, BE

2016

‘Unter Waffen/Fire and Forget 2’, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, DE
‘Imagine Europe’, BOZAR, Brussels, BE
‘The Camera’s Blind Spot III: La Camera - On the Materiality of Photography’, Palazzo De’ Toschi, Bologna, IT ‘Imagine Europe: In Search of New Narratives, BOZAR – Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, BE

2015

M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, BE
‘How to gather? Acting in a Center in a City in the Heart of the Island of Eurasia’, 6th Moscow Biennial, Moscow, RU
‘DIS---PLAY’, Panache Towers, 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
‘In-Discipline’, Bonnefanten Museum, Roermond, NL

2011

‘Crossroads’, KIT / Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, DE
‘Finisterre’, Photo Museum Antwerp, Antwerp, BE

2010

‘Transient Spaces’, NGBK, Berlin, DE
‘Speedbump, Works from the collection of Frans Oomen’, Kunstfort, Vijfhuizen, NL
‘Into the woods that see and hear’, Stichting Dertien Hectare, St-Hertogensbosch, NL
‘The State of Things’, Namoc, Beijing, CN

2009

‘The State of Things’, Bozar, Brussels, BE
‘Images Recalled, 3rd Biennial of Photography’, Kunsthalle Ludwigshafen, Mannheim, Heidelberg, DE
‘Broken Vision’, Kunstverein Mannheim, DE
‘Colossal’, Landschaftsverband Osnabrücker land, Osnabrück, DE

2008

‘Emergency Biennale’, Playspace Gallery, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, USA

2007

‘Emergency Biennale’, Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, TU
‘Reduce, Recycle and Recreate’, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, NL
‘Melting ice’, Bozar, Brussels, BE
‘Commitment’, bkSM, De Garage, Mechelen, BE

2006

‘After Cage, 24 Sammlungen in Bewegung’, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, DE
‘Künstler der Euregio Maas-Rhein’, IKOB, Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst Eupen, Eupen, BE
‘Adjustments & Errors’, Bagfactory, Johannesburg, ZA
‘SCREENING 001 (The exhibition re-curated)’, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, NL
‘Jahresgabe’, NAK, Neuer Aachner Kunstverein, Aachen, DE

2005

‘Frontera, a proposal for a futuristic society’, Laboratorio 060, Frontera, MX
‘SUPER!’, Triennial Hasselt, Hasselt, BE

2004

‘Enduring Freedom’, Museo de Arte Carillo y Gil, Mexico D.F., MX
‘Localismos’, Perros Negros, Mexico D.F., MX
‘Alien 3 / a project by Heidrun Holzfeind’, W139, Amsterdam, NL

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, BE

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

Artworks

Ives Maes
Watchtower, 2023
UV print on multiplex, oil paint, afromosia wooden frame
82 x 61,6 cm

Ives Maes
Camp, 2023
UV print on multiplex, oil paint, afromosia wooden frame
27,5 x 34 cm

Ives Maes
Ocean, 2023
UV print on multiplex, oil paint, afromosia wooden frame
110,8 x 74,6 cm

Ives Maes
Waterfall, 2023
UV print on multiplex, oil paint, afromosia wooden frame
24,3 x 41,3 cm

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

News

Ives Maes, 'Cosmorama' at KMSKA

.2022— Ives Maes at KMSKA 24 September 2022 until 03 September 2023 Through the world exhibitions, the visual artist Ives Maes creates an image of the world's greatest expectations for the future: sometimes … Continue reading