Born in Turnhout, Belgium in 1969.
He lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.
Education/Programs:
1992-1996 Masters Degree in Visual Arts, Higher Institute Sint - Lukas, Brussels
1996-1997 Participant at The Higher Institute for Fine Arts-Flanders, Antwerp (post-MA)
1998-1999 Participant at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam (post-MA)
1999 Winner of the ‘Uriôt Prize’, Amsterdam
2001 Winner of the ‘Prix Jeune Peinture Belge 2001’,Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels
2002-2003 Artist at the MoMA - P.S.1 Studio Program, New York
2006 Winner of the Prize Eugène Baie 2003-2005, Antwerp
Upcoming exhibitions:
2009
Staging Silence, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China
Solo Exhibitions:
2008
Celebration, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
Location (6), Westergasfabriek (Holland Festival), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Circumstances, Rogaland Museum of Fine Arts, Stavanger, Norway
Extensions, Treasury of Saint Peter, Leuven, Belgium
2007
Extensions, Treasury of Saint Peter, Leuven, Belgium
Extensions, Centraal Utrecth Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Art Unlimited: Merry-go-round (2), Art Basel, Switzerland
Extensions, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
All together now…, Argos, Brussels, Belgium
All together now..., Ronmandos Galerie, Amsterdam, Holland
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
Entrance, Art Rotterdam, Ronmandos galerie, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Tables..., Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
Drawings, Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France
Videowork, MuHKA_media, Antwerp, Belgium
Family (scenes and scenery), Xavier Hufkens Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2005
T-Mart, MuHKA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
In their minds…, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, Chelsea, New York
Loss, Chamarande - Centre Artistique et Culturel, Chamarande, France
Blender, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
T-Mart, Hales Gallery, London, UK
2004
Ondertussen… / Meanwhile…, GeM, Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hague, The Netherlands
Hans Op de Beeck, Galerie Ronmandos, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Determination (Vottem Requiem), video installation with music by composer Steve Houben, Flanders’ Fields Museum, Ieper, Belgium
Location (5), Art Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland
Loss, Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France
Art Positions: Loss, Art Miami Basel, Miami, USA
2003
Henri Lacoste, 'Musée des Archives d'Architecture Moderne, Brussels, Belgium
My brother's gardens, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
My brother’s gardens, Hales Gallery, London, UK
2001
Hans Op de Beeck, Hales Gallery, London, UK
Colours, DOT Projects, London, UK
2000
Hans Op de Beeck, Spazio Erasmus Brera, Milano, Italy
Summer with friends/2nd space, Team Gallery, New York, USA
Hans Op de Beeck, Dorothée De Pauw Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Group Exhibitions:
2008
Singapore Biennale 2008: Wonder, 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
COLLECTION XXIII, MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
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, Arizone, Usa
Arrivals and Departures, White Box, Chelsea, NYC
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. Perspective on Belgian Art, Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg, Germany
No Place- like Home. Perspective 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, England
VIVA Festival, MoCA, Shanghai, China
2007
Ouverture, Galleria Continua / Le Moulin, Boissy-le-Châtel, France
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
Our Magic Hour, Arario Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Animated Stories, Le Fresnoy - Studio National des Arts Contemporain Tourcoing, France
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, four day long video art event, Tate Modern, London, UK
2006
Art Video Lounge (Curatorial Programme), Art Basel - Miami Beach, Miami, USA
6th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Analog Animation / Selections Spring 2006, The Drawing Center, New York, USA
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
Summerize, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK
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, Saint - Gervais, Genève, Switzerland
Twice Drawn, Tang, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
18:Beckett, Group show, Blackwood Gallery (UTM), Mississauga, Canada
Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin 2006, different venues, Paris, France
Digital Tales, CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2005
The MARTa Herford Collection, MARTa, Herford, Germany
Night Sites, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany
Visionary Belgium, BOZAR, Palais des Beaux - Arts, Brussels
Wasteland: 21st Century Landscape, Roebling Hall, New York, USA
Terra Infirma, EACC, Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castelló, Castelló, Spain
Nous le passage - Watou 2005, Watou, Belgium
En Attente, Casino Luxembourg - forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg
SOUL (Corpus '05), Episcopal Seminary, Bruges, Belgium
Coniston Water Festival, Old Hall, Coniston Water, UK
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, USA
Border, In Flanders’ Fields Museum, Ieper, Belgium
Brooklyn EUphoria, Volume, Williamsburg, Brooklyn New York, USA
All that useless beauty, Whitechapel, Project Space, London, UK
Voodoo Shit, Hales Gallery, London, UK
100 % Acid Free, White Columns, New York, USA
2003
Breaking Away, P.S.1 studio program artists 2002 - 2003, PS1 - MoMA, New
York, USA
Gelijk het leven is, S.M.A.K. Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium
Leere X Vision. Körper und Gegenstände, MARTa, Herford, Germany
Rijksakademie, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
Critique is not enough, Shedhalle, Zürich, Switzerland
City Mouse / Country Mouse, Space 101, Williamsburg, New York, USA
The Ambiguity of the Image, Art Athinai, Athens, Greece
Entdecke die Möglichkeiten, Espaces de rêve, Köln, Germany
Intervallo n°1 : Maloberti, Onofre, Op de Beeck, VistaMare, Pescara, Italy
Some Panoramas, Pump House Gallery, London, UK
Still / Move, Caermersklooster, Ghent, Belgium
Present / Future, Presentation in the Present / Future - section with Spazio Erasmus Brera at Artissima, Torino, Italy
Lautloses Irren - Ways of worldmaking to…, Postbahnhof Am Ostbahnhof, Berlin, Germany
Once Upon a Time… A view on art in Belgium in the 90's, MHKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
2002
BIG Torino 2002, International Biennale of Young Art, Big Social Game, Torino, Italy
Not I, Beckett as a point of reference, NICC Antwerp, Belgium
Other than film, International Film Festival of Rotterdam, TENT, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Landscape, Le Botanique, Brussels
Video Festival Verbania, C.A.L.C., Verbania, Italy
Scale, Museum of Installation, London, UK
La Nuova Agorà, Cittadellarte / Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy
Printemps de Septembre, Festival in Toulouse, France
Arsenal / Armoury, Wandelhalle, Köln, Germany
2001
C’est beau, c’est Belge, Barbara Farber Gallery, Trets, France
Still / life, hARTware projekte, Dortmund, Germany
Nowaday, Spazio Erasmus Brera, Italy
Aubette, Museum Dhondt - Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
Prix Jeune Peinture Belge, Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels
2000
Lovideo, The Vedanta Gallery, Chicago, ILL, USA
Not I, The Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Anno Zero - Cittadellarte 2000, Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy
Home Wrecker, Private Space Meloche, Chicago, ILL, USA
1999
Progetto Arti Incontri, Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy
TroubleSpot. Painting, MUHKA & NICC, Antwerp, Belgium
Musical Theatre and Opera Productions:
2007-2008
VOID (Produced by Muziektheater Transparant, Ghent, Belgium)
Concept, stage design and video (in collaboration with composer Wim Henderickx and Gert Op de Beeck).
Happy End (Produced by Ictus, Brussels, Belgium)
Animation film (in collaboration with composer Georges Aperghis and Bruno Hardt and Klaas Verpoest).
2003-2005
Sestina (Produced by Muziektheater Transparant, Ghent, Belgium)
Stage design and video for opera production with music by Monteverdi.
Lectures, Artist Talks, Debates and Tutorials:
HISK, Antwerp, Belgium
Tutorials as visiting lecturer
10-11 December 2008
Sint-Lucas Visual Arts, Ghent, Belgium
'Materialising the immaterial' - Lecture within the three-day international symposium 'Matter and Image'
8 December 2008
'Made by sculptors? Forms of sculpture today'
Thematic publication, composed by Johan Pas, KV, Ghent, Belgium
October-November 2008
Filmplateau, Ghent, Belgium
Artist Talk (Videosalon)
November 4, 2008
Art Basel 39, Basel, Switzerland
Panel on ‘How contemporary art would be without video?’
June 6, 2008
Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Lecture and tutorials as visiting lecturer
May 22-23, 2008
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art/ Arizona State University, Arizona, USA
Lectures and tutorials within the framework of a two-week residency
March 29 – April 9, 2008
Pavillon Bosso - Ecole Supérieure d'Arts Plastiques de Monaco, Monaco
Lecture within the framework of the European symposium ‘Imagina’
January 30, 2008
HISK, Antwerp, Belgium
Tutorials as visiting lecturer
November 19-21, 2007
Tate Modern, London, UK
Lecture and tutorials within the framework of the video art event ‘Art Summer University’ September 21-24, 2007
Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France
Artist talk and screening of video work within the scope of the touring group exhibition ‘Animated Stories’
March 9, 2007
Argos, Belgium
Artist talk within the scope of the solo presentation of ‘All together now...’
February 15, 2007
Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy
Artist talk on the occasion of the solo presentation of ‘My Brother’s Gardens’
January 10, 2006
Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
Lecture and tutorials as visiting lecturer
March 1 – 2, 2006
IBK / MuHKA / Art Brussels, Belgium
Panel discussion: “Photography in the 21st century: between tableau and document”
April 22, 2006
Lieven Gevaert Research Center for Photography and Visual Studies, KULeuven, Belgium
Panel discussion: “Belgian Artists in the International Art Scene”
May 12, 2006
NICC Bruxel, Belgium
Artist talk: “Hans Op de Beeck. Staging of a non-event”
July 7, 2006
Impakt Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Artist talk and screening of video work within the scope of ‘Impakt Invites’
August 26 - 27, 2006
Casino Luxembourg - Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg
Lecture and tutorials on the occasion of the group show ‘En attente’
July 19 – 20, 2005
Kunstverein Hannover, Germany
Artist talk on the occasion of the group show ‘NIGHT SITES’
November 27, 2005
HISK, Antwerp, Belgium
Tutorials as visiting lecturer
December 5, 2005
Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
Tutorial for Richard T. Walker, MA Fine Arts
2003
