Hans Op De Beeck

The artist

Born in 1969, Hans Op de Beeck 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

Whispered Tales

November 7 - December 21, 2024
New York

Biography

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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	Drifting, Powerlong Museum, Shangai, China Vanishing point, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Sweden 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	Danse Macabre (street installation), Bruges, Belgium The Horseman, Sculpture in the Courtyard Project, The State Hermitage Museum, Russia The Boatman and other stories, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
2020	Short Stories, Galerie Andersson, Sandström, Stockholm, Sweden Drifting, Galerie Pilevneli, Istanbul, Turkey 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

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2017	Out of the Ordinary, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany The Silent Castle, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
2016	Silent Rooms, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria Small Things and Soothing Thoughts, Galleria Continuan, San Gimignano, Italy The Collector’s House, Art Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland Night Time, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany Saisir le Silence, Espace 104, Paris, France The Garden of Whispers, Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France
2015	Décors et Figurants, Chateâu de Chimay, Chimay, Belgium The Drawing Room, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY, USA The Amusement Park, Les Champs Libres, Rennes, France The Quiet View, Herkenrode, Hasselt, Belgium Staging Silence (2), Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany The Thread, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria Sea of Tranquillity, Screen Space, Melbourne, Australia Eyes Closed, Ron Mandos Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2014	Staging Silence (2), MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Quiet Scenery and Wandering Extras, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany Staging Silence (2), MOCA, Cleveland - Lewis Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio, USA The Night Time Drawings, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China The Drawing Room, Le botanique, Brussels, Belgium Personnages, Château de Charamande, Chamarande, France
2013	Dance, Permanent video installation, Red Star Line Museum, Antwerp, Belgium Sea of Tranquillity, FRAC Paca, Marseille, France Parade, De Warande, Turnhout, Belgium Metropolitan Scenes, MMKA, Arnhem, The Netherlands Staging Silence (2), Screen Festival, Art Palacio, São Paolo, Brazil Parade, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, France Sea of Tranquillity, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida, USA Staging Silence (2), Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida, USA 2012 Small Constructions, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria Sea of Tranquillity, Dirimart Garibaldi, Istanbul, Turkey Staging Silence, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag (GeM), The Hague, The Netherlands Video Works, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland Visual Fictions, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany Sea of Tranquillity, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania Location (8), Bommenvrij, Nieuwpoort, Belgium
2011	Extensions, Museum Het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands Sea of Tranquillity, Argos, Brussels, Belgium Sea of Tranquillity, Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos CAB, Burgos, Spain A Retrospective Selection, Kunstverein Hanover, Hannover, Germany Sea of Tranquillity, Art Unlimited, Art 42 Basel, Switzerland Sea of Tranquillity & Staging Views, Thun, Switzerland
2010	Works on Paper & Video, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium Staging Silence, Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, Columbia, USA Still Lifes, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy Sea of Tranquillity, Le Grand Café - Centre d'Art Contemporain, Saint-Nazaire, France Silent Movie, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2009	Staging Silence, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China In Silent Conversation with Correggio, Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy Paradigms, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria The Room Series, Art Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Location (6), Art Unlimited, Art 40 Basel, Switzerland Staging Silence, CC Strombeek, Grimbergen, Belgium Staging Silence, Baukunst Galerie, Cologne, Germany Circumstances, Gallery Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania 5 Sculptures, ArtBankingClub, Moscow, Russia Blender, Cultuurcentrum Evergem, Evergem, Belgium
2008	Circumstances, Rogaland Museum of Fine Arts, Stavanger, Norway Location (5), Towada Art Centrum, Towada, Japan Location (6), Westergasfabriek (Holland Festival), Amsterdam, The Netherlands Extenstions (part 2), ShContemporary, Galerie Krinzinger, Shanghai, China Celebration, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
2007	All together now..., Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, The Netherlands All together now..., Argos, Brussels, Belgium Extensions, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy The Stewarts have a party, Derlon Theater, Maastricht, the Netherlands Merry-go-round (2), Art Unlimited, Art 38 Basel, Switzerland Extensions, Treasury of Saint Peter, Leuven, Belgium Drifting, Argos, Brussels, Belgium Extensions, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2006	Video in tutti i sensi - Loss, Via Farini, Milan, Italy Video in tutti i sensi - My Brother’s Gardens, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy Tables..., Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria Drawings, Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France Videowork, MuHKA_media, Antwerp, Belgium Family (scenes and scenery), Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
2005	T-Mart, MuHKA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium In their minds..., Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, Chelsea, New York , NY, USA Loss, Chamarande - Centre Artistique et Culturel, Chamarande, France Blender, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy T-Mart, Hales Gallery, London, UK
2004	Meanwhile..., GeM, Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hague, The Netherlands Hans Op de Beeck, Galerie Ron Mandos, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Location (5), Art Unlimited, Art 35 Basel, Switzerland Art Positions: Loss, Art Basel – Miami Beach, Miami, Florida, USA
2003	My brother’s gardens, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium My brother’s gardens, Hales Gallery, London, UK

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2024	Paquebots 1913-1942. Une esthétique transatlantique, Musée d’arts de Nantes, Nantes, France Size Matters, MORE Museum, Gorssel, Netherlands Within the space of a dream, Musée des Confluences, Lyon, France Art Routine for Well Being, Spazio Leonardo, Milano, Italy Book as…, Huis van het boek, The Hague, Netherlands Soulmates, Stedelijk Museum, Breda, Netherlands faire corps, Villa Datris, L’Isle-Sur-La-Sorgue, France How Language Invents the World, Museum of Fine Arts, Chur, Swiss In The Night, Saudi Arabia Museum of Contemporary Art, Riyad, Saudi Arabia Land In/Land Out, Uffizi Galleries, Florence, Italy Just Like Escher, Escher In The Palace, The Hague, The Netherlands
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, Florida, USA

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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
2015	Moving Image Festival, La Gaité Lyrique, Paris, France Thema # Paquebots, Théâtre de la Liberté, Toulon, France Visual Deception II, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan Uncanny Reality – Models in Contemporary Art, Galerie Rudolfinum, Praha, Czech Republic Le Fil Rouge, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris, France Le Fil Rouge, Espace Louis Vuitton, Tokyo, Japan One Big Family, Alden Biesen, Bilzen, Belgium Kochi Muziris Biennale, Biennale, Kochi, Kerala, India The Importance of Being…, 40 Belgian artists, Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina All the World’s a Stage : Works from the Goetz Collection, Fundacion Banco Santander, Madrid, Spain Happy Birhtday, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel Landscape of Belgium, Musée d’Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium Glastress – Gotika, 56th Venice Biennale of Art, Palazzo Franchetti, Venice, Italy Proportio, 56th Venice Biennale of Art, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy Kino der Kunst, Filmfestival Hochscule für Fernsehen und Film, Munich, Germany Les Rencontres Internationales, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany Follia Continua !, Les 25 ans de Galleria Continua, Le Cenquatre, Paris, France Parallel, Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium 2050 A Brief History of the Future, Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium Belgique, TEMPLON, Paris, France
2014	Les Rencontres Internationales, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France Family Matters, Strozzina, Centre for Contemporary Culture, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze, Italy Museum to scale 1/7, The Naples Museum of Art, Naples, USA Cineramabc, Filmfestival, Santa Catarina, Brazil Loop Festival, Festival, Maritime Museum, Barcelona, Spain Days of Endless Time, Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, Columbia, USA Memory Place, Contemporary Arts Center CAC, Cincinnnati, USA Museum to Scale 1/7, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2013	HEIMsuchung, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany Artificial Amsterdam, de Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands My little paradise, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium Europalia.India, Bozar, Brussels, Belgium Liquid Landscape, Macro Testaccio, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy The Great Magic, Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna (MAMbo), Bologna, Italy The Gesamtkunstwerk Project, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Victoria, Australia Ai Wei Wei / Kendell Geers / Moataz Nasr / Hans Op de Beeck, Galleria Continua / Le Moulin, Boissy-le-Châtel, France Emscherkunst.2013, Rheinaue Walsum Nature Reserve, Essen, Germany Contemporary Future, C.A.B. (Contemporary Art Brussels), Bank Degroof, Brussels, Belgium Bon travail, Argos, Brussels, Belgium
2012	Fantastic. Lille3000, Euratechnologies, Lille, France Vanitas : Contemporary Reflections, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia Predicting memories, Former K.K. Telegrafenamt, Vienna, Austria Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany Into the Labyrinth, Garage Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Beaufort 04, Location (8), Bommenvrij, Nieuwpoort, Belgium Video Selecta, LOOP, Banco Herrero, Oviedo, Spain Contour On Tour, De Loketten, Brussels, Belgium Habita(n)t, Rabo Kunstzone, Utrecht, The Netherlands Resonance & Silence, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany Pop Up, Musée d’Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium MärklinWorld, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, The Netherlands Surreal, IVAM, Valencia, Spain Dessiner-Tracer: Watercolors, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Calais, Calais, France
2011	I promise to love you. Caldic Collectie, Kunsthal, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Things are Queer – Highlights from the UniCredit Collection, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany Car Culture : Media of Mobility, ZKM, Media Museum, Karlsruhe, Germany One of a Thousand Ways to Defeat Entropy, Biennale di Venezia, Arsenale Novissimo, Venice, Italy Time and Place, Kunsthalle Detroit, Detoit, Michigan, USA TRA. Edge of Becoming, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy Chengdu Biennale - Changing Vistas: Creative Duration, East Chengdu Music Park, Chengdu, China Surreal, IVAM, Valencia, Spain Monodrome : Athens Biennale, Different Venues, Athens, Greece Rencontres Internationales, Festival, Reina Sofia and Tabacelara, Madrid, Spain
2010	Vexations, Beton 7, Athens, Greece Aichi Triennale 2010. Arts and Cities (Aichi), Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan Do or Die. The Human Condition in Painting and Photography, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud (in cooperation with the Collection Teutloff), Cologne, Germany Let’s Dance, Mac/Val, Vitry-sur-seine, France Sphères 3 2010, Galleria Continua / Le Moulin, Boissy-le-Chatel, France Terre Vulnerabili, Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy Panorama #12, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France Contemporary artifices and Baroque deformities, ARCOS, Benevento, Italy Rencontres Internationales, La Tabacalera, Madrid, Spain Remote Viewing, Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
2009	KunstFilmBiennale 2007 on tour, KunstWerke, Berlin, Germany; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Argos – Open lunge, Villa Merkel, Esslingen am Neckar, Germany State/s of emergency (DEEP NORTH - transmediale.09), House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany A Story of the Image, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China In-Finitum, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy Spheres 2009, Galleria Continua / Le Moulin, Boissy-le-Châtel, France Le sort probable de l'homme qui avait avalé le fantôme, La Conciergerie, Paris, France Fantastic Illusions, Arts Center Buda, Kortrijk, Belgium Hans Op de Beeck. A selection of video works, Tokyo eat - Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France Pittoresk - Neue Perspektiven auf das Landschaftsbild, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2010, The Chapel Gallery, Singapore Conflicting Tales - The Burger Collection in Berlin, Zimmerstrasse 90-91, Berlin, Germany Solo al buio, Mercati di Traiano, Roma, Italy Discovering Slowness, CEAC - Chinese European Art Centre, Xiamen, China Auto. Dream and Matter, Dos de Mayo Art Center, Madrid, Spain It's our Earth II. From Kyoto to Copenhagen, Tour & Taxis, Brussels, Belgium
2008	Schunck Collectors House, Glaspaleis, Heerlen, The Netherlands It’s Our Earth!, Tour & Taxis, Brussels, Belgium Collection XXIII, MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium Singapore Biennale 2008: Wonder, Marina Bay, Singapore Nach/Sichten - Selected works from the Goetz Collection, Oldenburg, Germany Elektronenströme: Psychogeographie, Videonale im Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany Academia Qui es-tu?, Chapelle de l’Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France Le temps sensible - Video des monats, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria Location (5), Permanent installation, Towada Art Center, Towada, Japan Car Culture, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporany Art, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA Arrivals and Departures, White Box, New York, NY, USA Le Dessin Eveillé, Frac Picardie & Maison de la Culture, Amiens, France Du dessin à l’animation du dess(e)in, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris, France Wandering in Contemporary Video art, Magazzini del Sale - Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, Italy Doing it my way. Perspectives on Belgian Art, Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg, Germany No Place - like Home. Perspectives on Migration and Europe, Argos, Brussels, Belgium Garden Eden - the garden in art since 1900, Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen, Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany Variable Capital, Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool, UK Viva Festival, MoCA, Shanghai, China
2007	Our Magic Hour, Arario Gallery, Seoul, South Korea Animated Stories, Le Fresnoy - Studio National des Arts Contemporain, Tourcoing, France Les Recontres Internationales, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain La Città Che Sale. We try to build the future, Arcos, Benevento; MACRO Future, Rome, Italy The Leading Thread, CAB, Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos, Burgos, Spain De Gustibus..., Broelmuseum, Kortrijk, Belgium Imagination Becomes Reality (# 6), ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany Dealing with Reality, Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem, The Netherlands Art Summer University, Tate Modern, London, UK
2006	Analog Animation/ Selections Spring 2006, The Drawing Center, New York, USA Art Video Lounge (Curatorial Programme), Art Basel - Miami Beach, Miami, USA 6th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China Psychogeographies, ArtBrussels, Brussels, Belgium Collection XIV, MuHKA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium Zwischen Körper und Objekt, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany Fresh! Contemporary Takes on Nature and Allegory, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington, USA The Scarecrow, Evangelos Averoff Museum, Metsovo, Greece À la recherche d’une beauté perdue, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone, Italy Version Animé - Biennale des nouveaux medias, Centre pour l’image contemporaine,, Geneva, Switzerland Twice Drawn, Tang, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA 18:Beckett, Blackwood Gallery (UTM), Mississauga, Canada Rencontres Internationales, different venues, Paris, France Digital Tales, CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain Night Sites, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany
2005	Visionary Belgium, BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium Wasteland: 21st Century Landscape, Roebling Hall, New York, NY, USA En Attente, Casino Luxembourg - forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg Nous le passage, Different Venues, Watou, Belgium Terra Infirma, EACC, Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló, Castelló, Spain The MARTa Herford Collection, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany Night Sites, Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover, Germany Ko Video - 1st Durban Video Festival, Durban, South Africa Senza Confine (15th Year), Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy Argos Festival, Argos, Brussels, Belgium
2004	On Paper, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, Chelsea, New York, NY, USA Border, In Flanders’ Fields Museum, Ieper, Belgium Brooklyn EUphoria, Volume, Williamsburg, Brooklyn New York, NY, USA All that useless beauty, Whitechapel, Project Space, London, UK Voodoo Shit, Hales Gallery, London, UK 100 % Acid Free, White Columns, New York, NY, USA

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

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	Belfius Collection, Brussels, Belgium
	National Bank of Belgium, Brusels, Belgium
	Swift Collection, La Hulpe, Belgium
	Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
	MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany
	Toledo Museum of Arts, Toledo, Ohio, USA
	Burger Collection, Zumikon, Switzerland
	Chamarande-Centre Atistique et Culturel, Chamarande, France
	La Maison Rouge, Paris, France

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, New York, USA Winner of the ‘Prix Jeune Peinture Belge’, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium

Press Release

BEAUX ARTS - April, 2023

La magie silencieuse d'Hans Op de Beeck face aux maîtres flamands

Joséphine Bindé

CONNAISSANCE DES ARTS - December, 2020

L'art doux-amer de Hans Op de Beeck

LIBÉRATION - November, 2016

Hans Op de Beeck, matières grises

Clémentine Mercier

News

Hans Op De Beeck
PAQUEBOTS 1913-1942. UNE ESTHéTIQUE TRANSATLANTIQUE

Group show

Musée d'arts de Nantes, France
From October 25, 2024 to February 23, 2025

On the occasion of the exhibition Paquebots 1913-1942. Une esthétique transatlantique, Hans Op de Beeck exhibits his work at the Musée d’arts de Nantes from October 25, 2024.

Hans Op De Beeck
SIZE MATTERS

Group show

Museum More, Gorssel
From October 20, 2024 to February 2, 2025

On the occasion of the group show Size Matters, Hans Op de Beeck exhibits his work Night Time at Museum More in the Netherlands from October 20, 2024.

Hans Op De Beeck
ART ROUTINE FOR WELL BEING

Group show

Spazio Leonardo, Milan
From October 10, 2024 to January 17, 2025

On the occasion of the group show Art Routine for Well Being, curated by Rebecca Russo, Hans Op de Beeck exhibits his work at Spazio Leonardo in Milan from October 10, 2024.

Hans Op De Beeck
DRIFTING

Solo Show

Powerlong Museum, Shanghai
From June 22 to September 1, 2024

The Powerlong Museum in Shanghai is dedicating a solo show to Hans Op de Beeck from June 22, 2024. Drifting is the artist’s first museum exhibition in China, including an animated film, sculptures and watercolours.

Hans Op De Beeck
HOW LANGUAGE INVENTS THE WORLD

Group show

Art Museum Graubünden, Switzerland
From February 24 to July 28, 2024

On the occasion of the group show How Language Invents the World, Hans Op de Beeck is exhibiting his work at the Art Museum Graubünden in Switzerland until July 28, 2024. The exhibition addresses a central theme of human culture and locates regional peculiarities in global coherencies.

Hans Op De Beeck
THE WOOD FOR THE TREES

Group show

Kröller-Müller Museum, The Netherlands
From March 23 to September 15, 2024

On the occasion of the group show The Wood for the Trees, Hans Op de Beeck is exhibiting his work The Settlement at the Kröller-Müller Museum in the Netherlands until September 15, 2024.
The exhibition features artworks by four artists who examine the relationship between humans and nature.

Hans Op De Beeck
VANISHING POINT

Solo Show

Nordic Watercolour Museum, Sweden
From May 26 to September 22, 2024

The Nordic Watercolour Museum dedicates a solo show to Hans Op de Beeck presenting a large collection of more than twenty black-and-white watercolour paintings and a collection of recent sculptures alongside an animated film.

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’.

Hans Op De Beeck

The artist

Exhibitions

Whispered Tales

Biography

Solo Exhibitions

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

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Public Collection

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Awards

Press Release

BEAUX ARTS - April, 2023

CONNAISSANCE DES ARTS - December, 2020

LIBÉRATION - November, 2016

News

Hans Op De Beeck PAQUEBOTS 1913-1942. UNE ESTHéTIQUE TRANSATLANTIQUE

Hans Op De Beeck SIZE MATTERS

Hans Op De Beeck ART ROUTINE FOR WELL BEING

Hans Op De Beeck DRIFTING

Hans Op De Beeck HOW LANGUAGE INVENTS THE WORLD

Hans Op De Beeck THE WOOD FOR THE TREES

Hans Op De Beeck VANISHING POINT

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