Jan Van Imschoot

The artist

Born in 1963 in Ghent, Jan Van Imschoot has been living and working in France since 2013. Jan Van Imschoot’s exploration of the possibilities offered by painting have resulted in a body of work that draws its power from highly critical and dramatic themes and contains references to countless artists, from Tintoret to Luc Tuymans, Goya to Matisse. Jan Van Imschoot places his figures, decors and narratives at History’s margins, using assembled perspectives, strong tones, bodies in motion and brushwork he describes as ‘anarcho-baroque’. His work delves into a number of recurring motifs: freedom, censorship and the violence of political and ideological systems.


Exhibitions

Biography

Birth Born in 1963, in Ghent, Belgium
Residency Lives and works in Noncourt-sur-le-Rongeant, Haute-Marne, France
Education 1986 - Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2024 La danse du mal insaisissable, Templon, Brussels, Belgium
2023 The End is Never Near, S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium
Les nocturnes des bonnes vivantes, Templon, Paris, France
2021 La présentation des absents, Galerie Templon, Paris, France
2020 Le bouillon de onze heures, Galerie Templon, Brussels, Belgium
2019 Amore Dormiente, Galerie Templon, Brussels, Belgium
2017 Blumen für Angela, Galerie Karl Pfefferle, Munich, Germany
2016 Le jugement de Paris à Bruxelles, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France

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2015 Les phantômes de l'eau, Galerie Karl Pfefferle, Munich, Germany
2013 You can use my Skin, Cinquantenaire, Ruiselede, Belgium
2012 The Seduction of Light, Karl Pfefferle Galerie, Munich, Germany
The First Worldwide Presentation of Anarcho-Baroque, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA
2010 The Interference of Perception, ATOZ, Villa Goethe, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2009 A Painterʼs Lullaby, CIAP, Hasselt, Belgium
The Reversal of the 4thWall, Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva, Switzerland
2008 Repercussions, Galerie Baronian Francey, Brussels, Belgium
Kidnapping Stars, Muka Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2006 Monument for 1302, City Hall, Kortrijk, Belgium
The Recystallization of a Mental Maiden-Hood, Galerie Baronian Francey, Brussels, Belgium
Forgotten Abstraction, Galerie Bernier-Eliades, Athens, Greece
2005 Wallpaintings, WiHCC, Ghent, Belgium
Habemus Corpus, Be-Part, Waregem, Belgium
2003 Oh Tremendous Moi (la vie, le corps, le roi), Galerie Baronian Francey, Brussels, Belgium
Contemporary Colours and Mystical Sins, Museum of Fine Arts, Tallinn, Estonia
Transfiction, W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Zellen, Icob, Eupen, Belgium
The power of a painted prison (a seat of revaluation), Museum of Fine Arts, Tallinn, Estonia
2002 Not Enough Brains to Survive, SMAK, Ghent, Belgium
2001 The Misantropical Chachacha, Galerie Gebauer, Berlin, Germany
2000 Het stelen van het licht, In Den Bouw, Kalken, Belgium
How to Sell Your Wife (confession of a painter), Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York, USA
1999 The Color of a Common Dream, Galerie Gebauer, Berlin, Germany
Vereniging van het Museum Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
1997 Paintings, Provinciall Museum voor Beeldende Kunst, Hasselt, Belgium
Drawings, ArtBook, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1995 Huize Sint Jacobus, Vereniging voor het Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
Wall paintings Marcel Marchand, Beervelde, Belgium
In den Bouw, Kalken, Belgium
1994 Joost bij Jan, Jan bij Joost, Ghent, Belgium
1993 Gallery S65, Aalst, Belgium

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2022 Finis Terrae, Snijders & Rockoxhuis, Antwerp, Belgium
Haarlem Heroes: Other Masters, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands
8de Biënnale van de Schilderkunst, Roger Raveel Museum, Machelen, Belgium
Nadir, Laarne Castle, Laarne, Belgium
2020 7de Biënnale van de Schilderkunst - Binnenskamers, Roger Raveel Museum, Machelen, Belgium
De Nacht, Group show, De Warande, Turnhout, Belgium
2019 Feast of Fools, Bruegel Rediscovered. Château de Gaasbeek, Lennik, Belgique
2018 Biennale d’Art Contemporain Autun 2018, Autun, France
Sanguine / Bloedrood. Luc Tuymans on Baroque, Musée d’Art Contemporain d'Anvers, Antwerpen, Belgium
Sanguine : Luc Tuymans on Baroque, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
Het Gouden Paviljoen – The Golden Pavilion, De Warande,Turnhout, Belgium
2017 ArtExpo New York 2017, New York, USA
2016 Uit de Collectie, SMAK, Gand, Belgium
The Shop Facing the corner, Albert Baronian, Belgium
2015 Belgique, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
A line is a line is a line, Cultuurcentrum Strombeek, Belgium

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2014 De verloofden. De collectie van Belfius en S.M.A.K. in dialoog, Belfius collection, Brussels, Belgium
Private Shelter, Vrijstaat, Raversijde, Belgium
States of Mind, Maison Particulière, Bruxelles, Belgium
2013 Museum to scale, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Middlegate Geel, 13, Geel, Belgium
2012 2012 Western China International Biennale, TianYe Art Museum, China
Senza Titolo, Fondazione Volume, Rome, Italy
Pop Up (liens artistiques), Museum of Elsene/Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium
Sint Jan, Sint-Baafskathedraal, Ghent, Belgium
Struggles, Maison Particuliére, Brussels, Belgium
2011 New Art from Belgium 2011, Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin & Köln, Germany
sehe raue, curated by Jan Hoet, Galerie Karl Pfefferle, Munich, Germany
Trix, Galleri Brandstrup, Oslo, Norway
2010 The State of Things, curated by Luc Tuymans & Ai Weiwei, The National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium
Tuesday Afternoon in a Cage, ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, USA
Feel home, Cultural Centrum Strombeek, Bever, Belgium
2009 Thatʼs All Folks, Belfort Halls, Bruges, Belgium
Strike a Pose, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Something Else!, MAN, Nuoro, Italy
2008 Power to the People, Aeroplastics, Brussels, Belgium
Over the Hedge, Verbeke Foundation, Stekene, Belgium
TAFA GALLERY, Tianjin, China
Wallpaintings 9+1, De Garage, Mechelen, Belgium
Die Wasserrube und die Kohl, De Witte Zaal, Ghent, Belgium
Over Tekenen, De Witte Zaal, Ghent, Belgium
Biennale van de Schilderkunst, Museum Dhondt Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
Ad Absurdum, MARta Museum, Herford, Germany
Fantasy, MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
Rots.Wol, SSKI, Ghent, Belgium
Ziekte, Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent, Belgium
Verzameling IKOB, IKOB, Eupen, Belgium
2007 Stranger than Paradise, Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva, Switzerland
Von Francis Picabia bis Jason Rhoades, Friedrich Christian Flick collection, Berlin, Germany
Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart Berlin, Germany
Nighthawks, ACEC, Ghent, Belgium
Underground – Sound&Vision, WARP, Saint-Nicolas, Belgium
Open Air, Antwerp, Belgium
Integratie kunst in Troubleyn/Laboratorium, Troubleyn, Antwerp, Belgium
2006 Helter Helter, Galerie Anne De Villepoix, Paris, France
Beaufort 2006, North Sea, Belgium
2005 Vrouwbeelden in mannenhanden, Galerie Transit, Mechelen, Belgium
SlowArt, Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf, Germany
2004 Looking at Painting 2, Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
Alors, c'est bien pour toi, Galerie Commune Tourcoing, France
VANITAS, EITELKEIT VAN DE IJDELHEDEN, IKOB, Eupen, Belgium
2003 Klik, Lichtervelde, Belgium
Kindertekeningen van mensen met naam, Saint-Nicolas, Belgium
Five, Galerie Kusseneers, Antwerp, Belgium
FeelEstate, Ghent, Belgium
Wasi Sabi, Zingem, Belgium
Gelijk het leven is, SMAK, Ghent, Belgium
Fonkeling, Cultural Centrum Strombeek, Bever, Belgium
2001 Squatters, Porto, Portugal
Yel-low, Geel, Belgium
Wir sind die Ander(en), Herford, Germany
Milano Europa 2000, Milan, Italy
EU, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
2000 Kinderspel, Waarschoot, Belgium
Epifani, Heverlee, Belgium
The Oldest Possible Memory, Sammlung Hauser and Wirtz, St Gallen, Switzerland
Hommages - Outrages (Picasso), Musée des beaux arts, Liege, Belgium
11th Vilnius Painting Triennal, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lituania
1999 Zich ophouden bi j, Belfort, Bruges, Belgium
Trouble Spot, MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
Melbourne International Biennal, Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia
Het Kind, Woerden, The Netherlands
De collectie, SMAK, Ghent, Belgium
Trattendosi, Zitelle,Venice, Italy
Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York, USA
1998 Aspects de l'art Belge, FRAC Nord-Pas De Calais, Dunkirk, France
Ev+a, Limerick, Ireland
1997 Trapped reality, Barcelona, Spain
P.O.Box, Ghent, Belgium; Bonn, Germany ; Bern, Switzerland ; Netherlands, Denmark
1996 Twee meisjes op het strand, Galerie Joost De Clerq, Knokke, Belgium
1995 Muhka Youth Prints, New Zealand, Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland
1994 Bal Masqué Karaoke, MP Center, Ghent, Belgium
1992 Frontiera I Forum, Bolzano, Italy
1990 Zonder Grenzen, Oud Hospitaal, Aalst, Belgium
1986 10xjonger kunstenaars, Museum L. De Smet, Deurle, Belgium
Akademie bezet Vooruit, Ghent, Belgium
Nieuw uit België en Nederland, C.C. Ter Delft, Bornem, Belgium
Ph. Guimiot Art Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

COLLECTIONS (SELECTION)

Belfius Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image Imprimée, La Louvière, Belgium
Collection Hauser & Wirth, St-Gallen, Switzerland
Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, Berlin, Deutschland
Groeninghemuseum, Bruges, Belgium
IKOB, Eupen, Belgium
ING Collection, Brussels, Belgium

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MAMCS, Strasbourg, France
M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium
Musée d’Ixelles, Ixelles, Belgium
Mu.Zee, Oostende, Belgium
Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand
National Bank collection, Belgium Collection of the Majesties, Brussels, Belgium
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL, USA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA
S.M.A.K, Ghent, Belgium
The Royal King and Queen of the Belgians, Brussels, Belgium

Press Release

Beaux-arts Magazine - octobre 2023

Héritier de Manet et de Magritte, le peintre Jan Van Imschoot s'expose à Gand

Delphine Peresan-Roudil

Le Quotidien de l'Art - janvier 2023

Solo Show Jan Van Imschoot

Hommage aux grands maîtres

Transfuge - décembre 2021

La Présentation des Absents

Damien Aubel


hart - novembre 2021

Jan Van Imschoot - L'Échange des bêtises

art daily - novembre 2021

Belgian painter Jan Van Imschoot opens an exhibition at Galerie Templon

Focus Vif - janvier 2021

Le festin cru

Michel Verlinden


Art Libre - décembre 2020

À table avec Van Imschoot

Roger Pierre Turine

Wattedoen.be - november 2020

De bouillon van elf urr

Inferno - octobre 2020

Le bouillon de onze heures


Arts Libre - janvier 2019

Van Imschoot caravagesque

Roger Pierre Turine

Transfuge - janvier 2019

"Duchamp est un petit bourgeois médiocre"

Damien Aubel


Bruzz - janvier 2019

The passion of the painter

Michel Verlinden

Artforum - juin 2016

Jan Van Imschoot

Jos Van Den Bergh

Focus Vif (Le Vif L'Express) - mars 2016

Le jugement de Pâris à Bruxelles

M.V.


H'art - mars 2016

Een Schone-Scheve Rechtslijnigheid

Eliane Van Den Ende

La Libre Belgique - mars 2016

Le jugement de Pâris à Bruxelles

Roger Pierre Turine

L'Echo - mars 2016

Moderne mythologie

Bernard Roisin


Cult.Weekend - décembre 2015

Al die opgeklopte verhalen, ik had er schoon genoeg van

Lander Deweer

News

Jan Van Imschoot
AFTER PARADISE – TRIENNAL KORTRIJK

Group show

Stad Kortrijk Musea, Belgium
From June 29 to October 6, 2024

On the occasion of the After Paradise Triennial, the Belgian artist Jan Van Imschoot created the piece After Abraham (2006-2024) with 42 drawings in the adjoining room. The emblematic scenes are a mix of 9 original design drawings for Monument for 1302 and 31 new drawings inspired by the work of Abraham van Diepenbeeck.

Jan Van Imschoot
THE END IS NEVER NEAR

Solo Show

S.M.A.K., Gent
From October 7, 2023 to March 3, 2024

Jan Van Imschoot’s retrospective exhibition The End Is Never Near at S.M.A.K. opens on October 7, 2023.

Jan Van Imschoot
DE NACHT, GROUP SHOW

De Warande, Turnhout, Belgium
From July 1st to December 13, 2020

This spring, the Expo Hall at de Warande in Turnhout, Belgium, will host a group exhibition on a theme everyone is somehow familiar with: the night.
Before artificial light was introduced, nights were intrinsically related to darkness. Day and night were two utterly separate worlds. The night then looked like a parallel universe, with its own rituals, smells and sounds, where one could escape everyday reality, social conventions and hierarchies. Even today we still experience the night-time as a special moment. On their side, artists are often inspired by this realm which is both familiar and mysterious.
 
Participating artists : Nel Aerts, Fred Bervoets, John Bijnens, David Claerbout, Felix De Clercq, Bieke Depoorter and Mattias De Craene, Danny Devos, Brecht Evens, Francisco Goya, Joris Ghekiere, Harry Gruyaert, Soham Gupta, Dr. Hugo Heyrman, Wouter Huis, Pieter Jennes, Natasja Kensmil, Frans Masereel, Laetitia Molenaar, Andreas Mühe, Hans Op de Beeck, Thomas Ruff, Stefan Serneels, George Shiras, Ben Sledsens, Helmut Smits, Léon Spilliaert, Dennis Tyfus, Nele Van Canneyt, Fik van Gestel, Jan Van Imschoot, Johannes Vogl, Peter Waterschoot, Kohei Yoshiyuki.

Jan Van Imschoot
POETIC FAITH – GROUP SHOW

From February 8 to May 3, 2020
S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium

A person can never perceive truth and fiction at the same time. But there is such a thing as ‘poetic faith’ or the ‘suspension of disbelief’. While reading a novel or watching a film, we ‘believe’ in the story, however implausible it might seem. ‘Poetic faith’ is considered an essential ingredient for storytelling of any kind. The exhibition ‘Poetic Faith’ can be seen as a tribute to the power of, and belief in, the imagination. With work by Jan Van Imschoot, Shikh Sabbir Alam, Marie Cloquet, Leo Copers, Hanne Darboven, Markus Degerman, Joseph Grigely, Jorge Macchi, Bruce Nauman, Navid Nuur, Panamarenko, Giulio Paolini, Mandla Reuter, Jason Rhoades, Gil Shachar, Nedko Solakov, Birde Vanheerswynghels, Tamara Van San and Philippe Van Snick.

Jan Van Imschoot
SANGUINE. LUC TUYMANS ON BAROQUE – GROUP SHOW

FONDAZIONE PRADA, MILAN, ITALYFrom 18/10/2018 to 25/02/2019

Fondazione Prada presents the exhibition “Sanguine. Luc Tuymans on Baroque”, curated by Luc Tuymans, in its Milan venue from 18 October 2018 to 25 February 2019. Organized with M KHA (Museum of Contemporary Art of Antwerp) and KMSKA (Museum of Fine Arts of Antwerp) and the City of Antwerp, the project will be featured in Milan in a new and more extensive version, following its first presentation in the Belgian city from June to September 2018. Luc Tuymans conceived an intense visual experience presenting more than 80 works by 63 international artists, including 25 exhibited exclusively at Fondazione Prada.

Jan Van Imschoot
FEAST OF FOOLS – GROUPS SHOW

KASTEEL VAN GAASBEEK, PAJOTTENLAND, BELGIUMFrom 7/04/2019 to 28/07/2019

Pieter Bruegel is often seen as the embodiment of Flemish identity. Why has that been so since the revival of his work around 1900? How has he grown to become an icon, an inexhaustible source of inspiration and a huge cliché? In the exhibition ‘Feast of Fools. Bruegel Rediscovered’ the visitor becomes acquainted with a series of key works by modern masters and creations by contemporary artists who ‘have a thing for Bruegel’. They latch onto his themes, reinterpret them, quote him … and thus demonstrate that his work has lost none of its relevance.

Jan Fabre
Jan Van Imschoot
ECCE HOMO – GROUP SHOW

Antwerp, Belgium

ECCE HOMO is based on a strong collaboration of Gallery GEUKENS & DE VIL with MARION DE CANNIÈRE and Belgian art-critic ERIC RINCKHOUT.
ECCE HOMO started several years ago in the mind of art historians Yasmine Geukens & Marie-Paule De Vil as a small group exhibition but evolved today into a grand event that takes place on several locations in the city of Antwerp.

Jan Fabre
Oda Jaune
Jonathan Meese
Julião Sarmento
Chiharu Shiota
Jan Van Imschoot
« THE RAFT. ART IS (NOT) LONELY » – GROUP SHOW

OSTENDE, BELGIUMFrom 21/10/17 to 15/04/18

« The Raft. Art is (not) Lonely » will bring together 73 international artists in Oostende chosen by curators Jan Fabre and Joanna De Vos and will present 52 new creations of young and experienced artists.
The exhibition discusses the artist’s quest and the duality of the creation, based on isolation and engagement.
Artists from different generations and different paths were invited to question the link between « Le radeau de la méduse » (1818) of Théodore Géricault and Jan Fabre’s work « Le Radeau est (pas) solitaire (1986) ». The curators have the intention to stimulate the city in order to make it (re)discovered. Besides the well-known museum, they looked for more unsual places like the Peperbusse restaurant, le 
Palais de Justice, the Eurpacentrum building, the stables of the Wellington track race or the crypts of the Sint-Jozef church. « The Raft. Art is (not) Lonely » will be an artistic journey disseminated in 22 places of the « City by the sea » .