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

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

Voir plus

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

Voir plus

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

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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’.  

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