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 is affiliated as a post-doctoral artistic researcher to 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. With his upcoming solo exhibition 'Kosmorama' he will open the renovated Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp in 2022.
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 is affiliated as a post-doctoral artistic researcher to 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. With his upcoming solo exhibition 'Kosmorama' he will open the renovated Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp in 2022.
Ives maes is represented by Gallery Sofie Van de Velde.
www.ivesmaes.com
Solo exhibitions |
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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 |
2012 | ‘Stay Time Extended’, Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin, DE |
2011 | ‘Message to Youth’, MuNo / Museo Agrabado, Zacatecas, MX |
2010 | ‘Unification’, Uqbar, Berlin, DE |
2009 | ‘For Humankind’, Koraalberg Gallery, Antwerp, BE |
2008 | ‘The Great Exhibition’, Z33 Center for Contemporary Art, Hasselt, BE |
2007 | ‘Tourism’, MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, BE |
2006 | ‘Simon’, Brigitte Weiss Gallery, Zürich, CH |
2005 | ‘Fundraising appeal’, CIAP, Hasselt, BE |
2004 | ‘Il Giardino Segreto’, FLACc, Genk, BE |
Group exhibitions |
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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 |
2016 | ‘Unter Waffen/Fire and Forget 2’, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany |
2015 | M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerpen, Belgium |
2014 | ‘De Unie Hasselt Genk / Rockshow’, Emile van Doren Museum, Genk /Belgium |
2013 | 'First we take The Hague, then we take Berlin', Belgian Embassy, The Hague / The Netherlands |
2011 | ‘Crossroads’, KIT / Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf /Germany |
2010 | ‘Transient Spaces’, NGBK, Berlin /Germany |
2009 | ‘The State of Things’, Bozar, Brussels /Belgium |
2008 | ‘Emergency Biennale’, Playspace gallery, California College of the Arts, San Francisco /USA |
2007 | ‘Emergency Biennale’, Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul /Turkey |
2006 | ‘After Cage, 24 Sammlungen in Bewegung’, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen /Germany |
2005 | ‘Frontera, a proposal for a futuristic society’, Laboratorio 060, Frontera /Mexico |
2004 | ‘Enduring Freedom’, Museo de Arte Carillo y Gil, Mexico D.F. /Mexico |
2002 | ‘Guide to Trust N°2’, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco /USA |
Works in public collections |
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STAM Museum, Ghent /Belgium |
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The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, USA |
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Hall Family Foundation (Hallmark), Kansas City, USA |
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Z33, Hasselt , BE |
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SMAK, Gent, BE |
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Museo Carillo y Gil, Mexico D.F. /MX |
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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’ |
2009 | ‘Recyclable Refugee Camp, Ives Maes’ |
Artworks

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