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Éric Van Hove
b.1975, Guelma, Algeria.
Lives and works between Japan, Belgium and Morocco.
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Éric Van Hove is a nomadic artist whose multi media, craft-focused work combines western conceptual, post-colonial and Japanese non-dualist approaches and sensibilities. Taking the experiences of his upbringing in Cameroon, his studies in Brussels, and later his PhD in Japan, van Hove seeks to synthesise these varied environments in his work, linking the local to the global, the preceding and the impending. The hope to create the Total artwork (Gesamtkunstwerk) underlies all van Hove’s work.
 
Van Hove's work has been acquired by Kanal Pompidou (Belgium), MoMA, New York (USA), and Friesmuseum (New Zealand).

Recent and upcoming projects include a solo exhibition Gesamt vs kunstwerk, Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke (Belgium), Savoir Faire, Institut Supérieur pour l’Étude du Langage Plastique [ISELP], Brussels (Belgium), The Charbagh Diplomatic Labyrinth, Commission for the New Belgian embassy, Rabat (Morocco), and QRcodes and botany, Commission for the Foundation Jardin Majorelle, Marrakesh, Morocco.

For his most recent solo exhibition with the gallery please click here.

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Éric Van Hove, Alfasud Alternator, 2018, Mixed media: camel bone, cow bone, resin, recycled aluminum, yellow copper, red copper, wood glue, tin and steel, 25 x 27 x 25 cm
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Éric Van Hove, V12 Laraki Air Filter, 2013, Mixed media: aluminum, yellow copper, red copper, nickel silver, tin, cedar wood, cowskin, chinese superglue and cow bone, 23 x 23 x 23 cm
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Eric Van Hove, Untitled #1 (Garage Verona), 2020, galvanized steel shelf, embossed brass, 108 sorted spare parts, 200 x 120 x 100cm
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Eric van Hove, V12 Laraki, Intake manifold, 2013, Yellow copper, tin, nickelled silver, 60 x 60 x 15 cm
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Eric van Hove, Atchilihtalah (This is all that God gave us), 2014. (Photo P.Antoine)
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Eric van Hove, Mahjouba I, 2016, a protoype from the Mahjouba initative, mixed media, 200 x 70 x 113cm
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Eric van Hove, Making Sidi Ali rainbows, 2011, Single chanel video - 16:9 ratio - 2,5 minutes

Solo Exhibitions
2021
Ama Mesciri, Verbeke Foundation, Belgium
Charbagh Diplomatic Labyrinth, Commission for the New Belgian embassy, Rabat, Morocco
 
2020             
Fenduq, Vandalorum Museum, Värnamo, Sweden
Binatna, Voice Gallery, Marrakech, Morocco
 
2019
Fenduq, Friese Museum Leeuwarden, the Netherlands
 
2018
Metamodern apparatuses, RED Gallery, Antwerp, the Netherlands
 
2017                
Atchilihtallah, On the transformation of art, craft and product - Mu.ZEE, Oostend, Belgium
Ethics in the World of Strangers, Richard Tatting, New York (Duo), USA
 
2016
Anthropocene Geodesy, Voice gallery, Marrakech, Morocco
Atchilihtallah, On the Transformation of Things - Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
The Art of Craft, Hood Museum of Arts, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
 
2014
Atchilihtallah, STUK kunstencentrum Museum, Leuven, Belgium
V12, Copperfield, London, UK
Testosterone, Voice Gallery, Marrakech, Morocco
 
2013
V12 Laraki, CCC, Tours, France
 
2012
In Spite of the Unheroic Times, Rossicontemporary Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
 
2011
Wonderlust, Monty_ABN, Brussels, Belgium
 
2010
Arrangements After Whistler, Cypress Gallery, Leuven, Belgium
Exonymie, Institut Supérieur du Langage Plastique, Brussels, Belgium
Métragrammes, Agnès b., Brussels, Belgium
 
2009
Vacilar, Adhoc gallery, Vigo, Galicia, Spain
Metragram Series, Rossicontemporary gallery, Brussels, Belgium
 
2008
Freer trade - ::.: ..: ::.: :. : . .: art space, Barrio Amon, San José, Costa Rica
Dan liever de lucht in #1, Royal Belgium embassy, Yotsuya, Tokyo, Japan
Off the record #2, Shimbashi Station, Tokyo
 
2007
Dan liever de lucht in #2, Lokaal01, Breda, The Netherlands
 
 

Group Exhibitions
2021
Savoir Faire - Institut Supérieur pour l’Etude du Langage Plastique (ISELP), Brussels, Belgium 
Come What May - Aeroplastics gallery, Brussels, Belgium
 
2020
Infinite Village - Manifesta 13, Les Parallèles du Sud, Marseille, France
Melhoun 2.0 - Fenduq makeshift space/1:54 African Art Fair satellite, Marrakech, Morocco
 
2019
Delicate Industry, Richard Taittinger Gallery, New York, USA
[reopening show], Hood Museum of Art, New Hampshire, USA (Group - permanent display)
Design Display, Autostadt, Wolfsburg & Frankfurt, Germany
Material Times, Rele Gallery, Lagos, Nigeria
 
2018
2050 - A Brief History of the Future, Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Belgium & National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taichung, Taichung
Ethics in the World of Strangers, Richard Taittinger gallery, New York, USA
O Triângulo do Atlântico - 11th Bienal do Mercosul, Mercosul, Brazil
Workflow, Cultural Centre of Sint-Niklaas, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
Second Life, MACAAL: Musée d'Art Contemporain Africain Al Maaden, Marrakesh, Morocco
 
2017
Sharjah Biennial 13, Tamawuj, Beirut, Lebanon
Islam, it's also our History!, Museum of Europe, Brussels, Belgium 
Chinafrika, GfZK Museum for Contemporary Art, Leipzig, Germany
Working Promises, 10th Design International Biennale of Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France
Beazley Designs of the Year, Design Museum, London, UK
SPEND, Kulte gallery, Rabat, Morocco
 
2016
What New Now?, 6th Marrakesh Biennale, Morocco
Merchants of Dreams, BRANDTS Museum of Art and Visual Culture, Odense, Denmark
Where Do We Migrate To?, Värmlands Museum, Karlstad, Sweden
Where Do We Migrate To?, Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, USA
 
2015
Les Mondes Inversés - B.P.S.22 Museum, Charleroi, Belgium  
Eppur si muove - MUDAM Museum, Luxembourg
 
2014
STUK Kunstencentrum, Leuven, Belgium
Where Are We Now?, 5th Marrakesh biennial, Morocco
 
2013
All the visible features of an area of countryside or land, Fordham University’s Center Gallery, New York, USA
My Joburg, La maison rouge, fondation antoine de galbert, Paris, France
 
2012
Road Directions, Museo d'Arte Orientale, Torino, Italy
Where Do We Migrate To?, CAC, New Orleans, USA
 
2011
Portrait Show, Gallery I-20, New York, USA
Out of Place, Lora Reynolds gallery, Austin, Texas, USA
Where Do We Migrate To?, Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
à partir, La Cambre, Brussels, Belgium
Conceptualizing the Body: Gaze, Masquerade, and Spectacle, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, New York, USA
 
2010
Danse l’Afrique danse! Biennial, Bamako, Mali
Foreign Affairs, Museum of Ansembourg, Liège, Belgium
Canvas Collectie / Collection RTBF, Bozar museum, Brussels, Belgium
Neither From, Nor Towards..., Art Pavillion, Zagreb, Croatia
Mi‘rajiyya, the Night Journey, الإسراء والمعراج, Sharjah Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Summer in the city #2, Cypres galerie, Leuven, Belgium
 
2009
Toute cruauté est-elle bonne à dire?, La Centrale électrique, Brussels, Belgium
4ème Scénographie Urbaine, The Joubert Park Project, Johannesburg, South Africa
The borders, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, College of Old Westbury, New York, USA
Into the Atomic Sunshine, Okinawa Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
Casablanca: International Video Art Festival, Casablanca, Morocco
Cul-de-sac, exposition collective satellite (fluxnews), 53ème 53rd Venice Biennial, Italy
Last Day of Magic, satellite group exhibit, ScalaMata Gallery, 53rd Venice Biennial, Italy
Untitled Ideal (collaboration with artist Nida Sinnokrot), group exhibit, Foresight gallery, Amman
Riwaq Biennial, Contemporary art & architecture in the Occupied Territories, Palestine
1st FIAC of Algiers, National Museum of Algiers (MAMA), Algiers, Algeria
 
2008
Into the Atomic Sunshine, The Puffin Room, Soho, New York, USA Localisms - De Paviljoens Museum, Almere, the Netherlands
Chinese Character Biennial, Ku Art Center, Huan Tie Museum, Beijing, China
Into the Atomic Sunshine, Hillside Forum, Daikanyama, Tokyo, Japan
Boom-Boom - Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan CamouFlashed Mediation, Meditations Biennial, Poznan, Poland
Camp Hiroshima: Migration, Hiroshima Art Project, Hiroshima, Japan
I have been to Japan, Fordham University’s Center Gallery, New York, USA
 
2007
Scriptures, Toride Art Museum, Ibaraki, Japan
Resonances, STUK, Museum of Contemporary Art, Leuven, Belgium
PILOT:3, Monastery of St. Damian and St. Cosimo, 52nd Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
Fenenin el-Rahhal, working artists’ summit, Western Desert and Townhouse gallery, Cairo, Egypt
Horizon, Bloomberg headquarters, with Art in General, New York, USA
Ecumenopolis, Location One gallery, Soho, New York, USA
Memory in Motion, Münchner Stadtbibliothek, Bavaria, Germany
30 et presque songes, zone zital ankorondrano, Antananarivo, Republic of Madagascar
Dan liever de lucht in #1, Royal Belgium embassy, Yotsuya, Tokyo
Dan liever de lucht in #2, Lokaal01 gallery, Breda, The Netherlands
Be(com)ing Dutch Causus, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Water, ink: world of monochrome, Ueno City Art Museum, Taito-ku, Tokyo, Japan
NO MAN'S LAND, Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke, Stekene, North Flanders, Belgium
 
2006
What Form Would A Life Take?, MOP Projects gallery, Sydney, Australia

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Collections
Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Belgium
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, U.K.
Hood Museum of Arts, New Hampshire, USA
Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Holland
Mu.Zee, Ostende, Belgium
For Arts Sake Collection, Lisbon, Portugal
Musée d’Art Contemporain Africain Al Maaden (MACAAL), Marrakesh, Morocco
Luma Foundation Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
Verbeke Foundation Collection, Belgium


Privates collections in Belgium, Sweden, Italy, Morocco, U.K., USA, France, Spain, Switzerland, Israël
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Residencies
2019
Civitella Ranieri Foundation artist residency, Umbria, Italy

2012
Dar Al-Ma'mûn artist residency, Marrakech, Morocco [Belgium Government support]

2010
Centre International des Récollets artist Residency and grant (Ville de Paris), Paris, France

2009
Frederico Herrero's ::.: ..: ::.: :. : . .: artist residency, San José, Costa Rica
Location One artist residency, New York [Belgium Government funded] UNESCO-Aschberg artist Residency and grant, Darat Al-Funun, Jordan
Centre for Community Cultural Development artist Residency, JCCAC, Hong Kong
Kilpisjärvi Biological Station artist residency, Icehotel commission, Kilpisjärvi, Swedish Lapland

2006
​MIDBAR artist residency, Mitzpe Ramon, Israel
Sharjah Art Museum artist residency, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Kolin Ryynänen artist residency, Northern Karelia, Kola Peninsula, Finland Lijiang Studio artist residency, Yunnan, China
Paradise Art Center artist residency, Tehran, Iran



Awards
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2019
Civitella Ranieri Foundation artist residency, Umbria, Italy


2018
Belgian Pavilion (last round of selection process)- Venezia, Italy / Brussels, Belgium

2017
Montgomery Fellow, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA
Prix Pictet photography prize (www.prixpictet.com) - Geneva, Switzerland

Beazley Designs of the Year - Design Museum, London, UK
2016
Artist Studio Program, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA


2012
Dar Al-Ma'mûn artist residency, Marrakech, Morocco [Belgium Government support] 2011 Nominated for Sam Art prize 2011, Paris, France
CDA-Projects Grant Honorary Mention, İstanbul, Turkey


2010
Centre International des Récollets artist Residency and grant (Ville de Paris), Paris, France
Pilot:3 selection, 52nd Venice Biennial / Frieze Art Fair / 101 Tokyo Art Fair, London/Italy

2009
Frederico Herrero's ::.: ..: ::.: :. : . .: artist residency, San José, Costa Rica
Location One artist residency, New York [Belgium Government funded] UNESCO-Aschberg artist Residency and grant, Darat Al-Funun, Jordan
Centre for Community Cultural Development artist Residency, JCCAC, Hong Kong
Kilpisjärvi Biological Station artist residency, Icehotel commission, Kilpisjärvi, Swedish Lapland 2006 MIDBAR artist residency, Mitzpe Ramon, Israel
Sharjah Art Museum artist residency, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Kolin Ryynänen artist residency, Northern Karelia, Kola Peninsula, Finland Lijiang Studio artist residency, Yunnan, China
Paradise Art Center artist residency, Tehran, Iran


2005
European Media Plus award, Munich/Germany
Monbusho research scholarship, Japan ministry of culture, Tokyo