Hans Op De Beeck
The artist
Born in 1969, Hans Op de Beek lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. He produces large installations, sculptures, films, drawings, paintings, photographs and texts. Over the past twenty years Op de Beeck realised numerous monumental ‘sensorial’ installations: tactile deserted spaces as an empty set for the viewer to walk through or sit down in, sculpted havens for introspection. His work is a reflection on our complex society and the universal questions of meaning and mortality that resonate within it. He regards man as a being who stages the world around him in a tragi-comic way. Above all, Op de Beeck is keen to stimulate the viewers’ senses, and invite them to really experience the image. He seeks to create a form of visual fiction that delivers a moment of wonder and silence.
Exhibitions
-
Belgique
November 5 - December 23, 2015
Paris - Beaubourg
Biography
| Birth | Born in 1969 in Turnhout, Belgium. |
|---|---|
| Residency | Lives and works in Brussels and Gooik, Belgium |
| Education | 1998-1999 the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 1996-1997 The Higher Institute for Fine Arts-Flanders, Antwerp, Belgium 1992-1996 Master’s Degree in Visual Arts, Higher Institute Sint-Lukas, Brussels, Belgium |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2024 | 4 Rijkscollecties & Hans Op de Beeck, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, The Netherlands |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Vanishing, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China Silence et Résonance, Musée de Flandre, Cassel, France |
| 2022 | Works on Paper, Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, The Netherlands The Quiet Parade, Amos Rex Museum, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2021 | The Boatman and other stories, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy Danse Macabre (street installation), Bruges, Belgium The Horseman, Sculpture in the Courtyard Project, The State Hermitage Museum, Russia |
| 2020 | Short Stories, Galerie Andersson, Sandström, Stockholm, Sweden Drifting, Galerie Pilevneli, Istanbul, Türkiye The Horseman and other stories, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy |
| 2019 | The Cliff, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems an der Donau, Austria The Conversation, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria |
| 2018 | Sea of Tranquility, Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
Voir plus
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
| 2023 | “Mensonges Blancs”, La Crypte d’Orsay, Orsay, France Time Gravity, Chengdu Biennale, Changdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu, China The Summer Journey, Théâtre Graslin, Nantes, France L’arte è wow! 15 anni di dynamo art factory, Milano, Italy |
|---|---|
| 2022 | Inspired by Steichen, MNHA, Luxembourg 16th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France |
| 2021 | Napoléon ? Encore !, musée de l’Armée, Paris, France The Tides of the Century, Ocean Flower Island Museum, Danzhou, Hainan, China |
| 2019 | Pompei e Santorini. L’eternità in un giorno, Scuderie del Quirinale, Roma, Italia In the Spotlight of the Night - Life in the Gloom, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany 21st Edition Videoex 2019, Videoex Film Festival, Zurich, Switzerland Globe as a Palette - Contemporary Art from The Taguchi Art Collection, Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art, Obihiro, Japan Fiction and Fabrication, MAAT Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal Modell-Naturen in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie, Kallmann-MuseumIsmaning, Germany Look at Me, Argos, Brussels, Belgium La Forma del Temps, Centre Cultural La Casa Elizalde, Barcelona, Spain |
| 2018 | Autofiktionen – Zeichnung der Gegenwart, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany How To See [What Isn’t There], Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany On longing and consolation, Kunstenfestival Watou, Schore, Belgium Silence and Rituals, MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy Common Ground, Akzo, Nobel Collection, Amsterdam, Netherlands Lichtempfindlich 2 Fotografie Aus Der Sammlung Schaufler, SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen Germany Object Love, Museum het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Les Rencontres Internationales, Paris, France 2050, A Brief History of the Future, National Taiwan Museum of Art, Taichung, Taiwan Black & White. Painting from Dürer to Eliasson, Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, Germany |
| 2017 | Atlas des déplacements, Musée Hébert, La Tronche, France Aging Pride, Belvedere, Vienna, Austria Die Kraft der Alters, Belvedere, Vienna, Austria Le temps, Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris, France Videoinsight® Collection, Riso - Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, Polo Museale Regionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Palermo | Palazzo Belmonte Riso, Palermo, Italy Sterne - Kosmische Kunst von 1900 bis heute, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, Austria Com Nu Ties Seuils/drempels/thresholds - A Duoshow With Iselp, Argos, Brussels, Belgium Enjoy, Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Italy Icon, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria Sentimental Summer, Centre d’Art Bastille (CAB), Grenoble, France Sentimental Summer, Centre d'art bastille, Grenoble, France On being alone and unbearable loneliness, Kunstenfestival Watou, Schore, Belgium What is not visible is not invisible, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC), Bangkok, Thailand Les Dix ans du Prix de dessin de la Fondation d’art contemporain Daniel & Florence Guerlain, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Die andere Seite - Erzählungen des Unbewussten, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany artapes #1. Walking around the clock, MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy And what, for example, am I now seeing?, Galleria Continua - Les Moulins, Boissy-le-Châtel, France Kairos Castle, Kasteel van Gaasbeek, Lennik, Belgium What is not visible is not invisible, Song, Eun Art Space, Seoul, South Korea Du verbe à la communication, Carré d'art - Musée d´art contemporain de Nîmes, Nîmes, France MARTa Herford Collectie in het Rietveld Schröderhuis, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Netherlands Glasstress Boca Raton, Boca Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL, USA |
| 2016 | Investigations Into the Uncanny, Willem Twee Kunstruimte's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands From Slow to Stop, Holden Gallery at Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom Performing the Landscape, The Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada Dusk to Dusk: Unsettled, Unraveled, Unreal, College of Wooster Art Museum (CWAM), Wooster, OH, USA Sünde Und Erkenntnis - Die Frucht In Der Kunst, ALTANA Kulturstiftung im Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg, Germany No place like home, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany Pies In The Skies, Argos, Brussels, Belgium The importance of Being, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico La Ville Au Loin (The City Faraway), FRAC – Centre, Orleans, France Breve storia del futuro, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy Shape Benefit Art Auction and Exhibition, Shape Gallery, London, United Kingdom Walk the Line: drawing throught in contemporary art, Bernal Espacio Galería, Madrid, Spain Hans Op de Beeck & Mara Korkola, EllephantMontreal, QC, Canada Staging Film : The relation of image and space in video art, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea Devince Decadence, Kasteel van Gaasbeek, Gaasbeek, Belgium |
Voir plus
Public Collection
| Akzo Nobel, Arnhem, The Netherlands | |
| Caldic Collection, Rotterdam, The Netherlands | |
| MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium | |
| SMAK, Ghent, Belgium | |
| Cera Foundation, Leuven, Belgium | |
| Belgacom Art Foundation, Brussels, Belgium | |
| Collection Groupe Lhoist, Brussels, Belgium |
Voir plus
Awards
| 2009 Catholic University of Leuven Culture Prize, Leuven, Belgium 2003 Winner of the Prize Eugène Baie, Antwerp, Belgium 2001 Artist at the MOMA-P.S.I Studio Program, Long Island City, NY, USA 2001 Winner of the ‘Prix Jeune Peinture Belge’, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium |
Press
News
Jan Fabre
Oda Jaune
Hans Op De Beeck
THE SENSATION OF THE SEA. IN HONOUR OF BAS JAN ADER – GROUP SHOW
MESDAG COLLECTION, THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS From 14/09/2018 to 06/01/2019
From 14 September 2018 to 6 January 2019 The Sensation of the Sea: In Honour of Bas Jan Ader is presented at The Mesdag Collection in The Hague. For this exhibition, guest curator Joanna De Vos has invited several international artists to engage in a dialogue with The Mesdag Collection. These contemporary artists are captivated by the grandeur and tempestuousness of the ocean. The attraction of the sea is an inexhaustible source of inspiration for them, a ‘battery for the imagination’. Odes to the performance In Search of the Miraculous by the Dutch artist Bas Jan Ader (1942-1975) form the exhibition’s connecting thread. Ader disappeared in 1975 as he attempted to sail across the Atlantic. His soul became one with the untameable power of the sea. The tributes to Ader’s artistic practice highlight the enticement and mystery of the ocean. Visitors are encouraged to discover how the contemporary artworks integrate into the nineteenth-century museum and to prepare themselves for a series of surprising and special ‘encounters’.