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ANTE TIMMERMANS (BE)

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​_geboren in 1976, Ninove, Belgium

Woont en werkt in Gent.

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« In Antes kunst leunen tekenen, schrijven en construeren, kijken, lezen en zich verspreken zo dicht tegen elkaar aan, dat ze mekaar wel eens omarmen. »

(Frank Maes)

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In het werk van Belgisch kunstenaar Ante Timmermans staat de absurditeit van het leven, haar cycli en repetitiviteit centraal. Hij stelt vragen over ons bestaan en hoe stil te blijven in de chaos. Repetitieve structuren in zijn werk doen een poging om deze chaos te organiseren. Terwijl in zijn vroegere oeuvre Timmermans vaak figuratief aan het werk ging om de waargenomen absurditeit van (sociale) systemen te veruitwendigen, is zijn recente praktijk veelal abstract en verwijst het naar niets buiten zichzelf. Doorheen Timmermans praktijk in tekenkunst, schilderkunst, beeldhouwkunst, installatie en performance, speelt taal en het jongleren met woorden en betekenissen een belangrijke rol. Recente solotentoonstellingen van Ante Timmermans vonden o.a. plaats in Garage Neven, Ninove (2023), OV Project, Brussel (met Bernd Lohaus) (2021), Emergent, Veurne (met Charl van Ark) (2019), Les Tanneries, Centre d'art contemporain, Amilly (2019), GEM, Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Den Haag (2016), Be-Part, Waregem (2015) en Kunsthalle Sao Paulo, Brazilië (2014). Zijn werk wordt getoond in groepstentoonstellingen wereldwijd en maakt deel uit van voorname collecties in België en daarbuiten.

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_solo exhibitions 

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2025

Valerie Traan gallery, Antwerp

 

2023

MAYBE , Garage Neven , Ninove, Belgium

 

2021

OV Project 28, Bernd Lohaus >< Ante Timmermans, ov project room, Brussels, Belgium

 

2019

Zwiefall, Charl van Ark & Ante Timmermans, Emergent, Veurne, Belgium

RIEN DE NIER DE RIEN, Les Tanneries, Center d'art contemporain, Amilly, France

 

2016

O0, GEM, Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hague, The Netherlands

 

2015

OHNMIT, Be-Part, Waregem, Belgium

ICHTS, Barbara Seiler Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

 

2014

)pause(, Barbara Seiler Gallery, Frieze London, UK

Ordem do Progresso, Kunsthalle Sao Paulo, Brasilia

[Pause.], Barbara Seiler Galerie, Art Brussels, Belgium

 

2013

DRUSBA, Sputnik, GA/GA Basel, Switzerland

 

2012

ANTE POST ANTE, Art Museum St.Gallen, Switzerland

Le gardien de l'ennui, Musée Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland

work statt work, Barbara Seiler Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

 

2011

Zeitvertreib, Benedengalerie, Kortrijk, Belgium

Architektur der Disziplin, Barbara Seiler Galerie, Art Rotterdam 2011, Rotterdam, NL

 

2010

Poesie der Langeweile, Barbara Seiler Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

Poesie des alltäglichen, oT Raum für aktuelle Kunst, Lucerne, Switzerland

Die Wand ist totally super #3, Galerie Zink Berlin Interim, Germany

Construction#1, BE-PART platform for Contemporary Art, Waregem, Belgium

 

2009

Artist in Residence, Open Studio, Zink Gallery inc., New York, USA

 

2008

Mindscape, Galerie Zink, Munich, Germany

 

2007

ante timmermans/john pilson, Galerie Zink, Berlin, Germany

Mapping (Proposal#3), Ruimte Morguen, Antwerp, Belgium

Mapping the city (Proposal#2), Kunstverein, Ahlen, Germany (cat.)

 

2006

Space Morguen, Antwerp, Belgium

Galerie EL, Welle, Belgium

 

2005

Mind map, Croxhapox, Ghent, Belgium

 

2004

bored control, Galerie EL, Welle, Belgium

 

2003

Drawings, SEAS, Scharpoord, Knokke-Heist, Belgium



 

_projects

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2022 Curator KRASJ-6, The (im)possible encounter, Biennale of Contemporary Art, Ninove

2016 [ ], Art integration, De Brug primary school, Erpe-Mere



 

_collections

 

Staatliche Grafische Sammlung, Munich, Germany

Fundación 'La Caixa', Barcelona, ​​Spain

Art Museum St. Gallen, Switzerland

Musee Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland

SMAK - Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium

Mu.ZEE - Museum of Modern Art, Ostend. Belgium

Collection Flemish Community

Flemish Parliament Collection

Federal Art Collection, Switzerland

Kantonale Kunstsammlung, Zurich, Switzerland

Credit Suisse Art Collection

Die Schweizerische Post, Bern, Switzerland

Nestle Collection, Switzerland

National Bank of Belgium, Belgium

Collection province East Flanders, Belgium

Collection Nedko Solakov

Musae Foundation

Private Collections

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​_born in 1976, Ninove, Belgium

Lives and works in Ghent.

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« In Ante's art, drawing, writing and constructing, looking, reading and fluffing converge so strongly that they sometimes seem to embrace each other. »

(Frank Maes)

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The work of Belgian artist Ante Timmermans is inspired by the absurdity of living, its cycles and repetitiveness. It raises questions about our existence and how to remain still in this noise. Repetitive structures included in his work attempt to organise the surrounding chaos. While in earlier works, Timmermans often resorted to figurative work to express the perceived absurdity of (social) systems, his recent work is abstract, not standing in for anything but itself. Language and the juggling of words and meaning play a constant role throughout his practice, which involves drawing, painting, sculpture, installation and performance. Recent solo exhibitions of Ante Timmermans include Garage Neven, Ninove (2023), OV Project, Brussels (with Bernd Lohaus) (2021), Emergent, Veurne (with Charl van Ark) (2019), Les Tanneries, Centre d'art contemporain, Amilly (2019), GEM, Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Den Haag (2016), Be-Part, Waregem (2015) and Kunsthalle Sao Paulo, Brazil (2014). His work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions worldwide, and is part of prominent collections both in Belgium and abroad. 

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_group exhibitions (selection) 

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2024

FULL HOUSE COLLECTION, Mu.ZEE, Oostende, Belgium

In Sole Ambulare, The Merode, Brussels, Belgium

 

2023

Tageldimde Middlegate, Geel, Belgium

Guests, Old Mill Prové, Garage Neven, Ninove, Belgium

Grand Prix Ernest Albert 2023, Prize for Drawing and Free Graphics of the City of Mechelen, De Garage, Mechelen, Belgium (Laureate)

 

2022

Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer, Verduyn Gallery, Art Summer Moregem, Belgium

What's in an artwork, HISK Gosset site, Brussels, Belgium

 

2021 - 2022

XXL - Le design en grand, Musée Jenisch Vevey, Switzerland

 

2020

Artefact 2020 : Alone Together, STUK, Leuven, Belgium

The House of Opportunity, Collection Exhibition SMAK, Cultural Centre and City Museum Menen, Belgium

Known Words, Art Academy Tielt, Belgium

 

2019

Drawing (Disegno), Square room and Annex | d'Academie Sint-Niklaas, Belgium

 

2018

Mystic Properties, Hôtel de la Poste – Tour & Taxis, Brussels, Belgium

Me, me, me, me, …, Island, Brussels, Belgium

 

2017

Provincial Prize Visual Arts 1997-2017, Roger Raveel Museum, Machelen-Zulte, Belgium (cat.)

wordswordswords, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium

 

2016

WEWANTOSEE, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan

BRAVOURE SCARCITY BEAUTY, Belgian pavilion - Architecture Biennial Venice, Italy

DRAWING FRONT, Drawing Center Diepenheim, Diepenheim, The Netherlands

 

2015

Sammlung mit losen Enden – Einsichten und Aussichten, Kunsthaus NRW Kornelimünster, Germany

Drawing | THE BOTTOM LINE, SMAK, Ghent, Belgium

ALFRED JARRY ARCHIPELAGO: La nationale des pantins – Acte I, Quartier, center d'art contemporain de Quimper, France

[Un]completed Past Tense, LUCA Biennale 2015, University Library Leuven, Belgium

Little Hisk, Antwerp, Belgium

 

2014

Cartography of the Mind's I, Barbara Seiler Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

KRASJ, Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ninove, Belgium

 

2013

TOO MANY THINGS ARE TOO MANY THINGS, Sputnik III, GA/GA Basel, Switzerland

Traction Avant, CIAP, Hasselt, Belgium

 

2012

The Ambition of the Territory, AWJGGRAUaDVVTAT, Belgian pavilion - Architecture Biennial Venice, Italy

Manifesta 9, The Deep of the Modern, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Genk, Limburg, Belgium

 

2011

All work and no play, Galerie Mikael Andersen, Berlin, Germany

Accidental Thoughts and Metaphors, Ana Cristea Gallery, New York, USA

Der Reiz derbelanglosen Geschichte, Galerie Zink, Berlin, Germany

MärklinWorld, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, The Netherlands

Nullportrait, Galerie Zink, Berlin, Germany

Tomorrow Is The Question | Collection presentation, SMAK, Ghent, Belgium

Splendid isolation, Freestate, Ostend, Belgium

It's raining, fighting youngsters, Wetering Galerie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

In- and outside - writing, Voorkamer, Lier, Belgium

Zeichnung und Raum, Galerie im Gluri Suter Huus Wettingen, Switzerland

Voici un dessin suisse, 1990-2010, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland

 

2010

Cabinet of Curiosities from Belgium for Europe, Cabinet of Mr. Van Rompuy, Brussels, Belgium

(when will they finally see) the power of drawing, Geukens & De Vil, Antwerp, Belgium

Voici un dessin suisse, 1990-2010, Musée Rath, Geneva, Switzerland

Guestroom HISK, Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands (curator Roel Arkesteijn)

Pictography, Roger Raveel Museum, Machelen-Zulte, Belgium

Chest of drawers project (Simon Benson), Phœbus gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

 

2009

you can tell a cowboy by the horse he rides, Barbara Seiler Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

Jahresgaben 2009, Kunstverein Munich eV, Germany

contenidos en un plano, Nina Menocal Gallery, Mexico City

Swiss Art Awards, Basel, Switzerland

Die Gegenwart der Linie, Eine Auswahl neuerer Erwerbungen des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts, Pinakothek der Moderne, Staatliche

Graphic Collection Munich, Germany (cat.)

Clinamen, The Markets, Brussels, Belgium

MyPainting.nu, Lokaal01, Breda, The Netherlands

Modellhaft, Kunstraum Riehen, Basel, Switzerland

Drawing Actions, de Halle, Geel, Belgium

 

2008

Ideas in Paint(ing): The visual composition of the place, Cultural Center, Hasselt, Belgium

collection presentation, SMAK, Ghent, Belgium

Ariane de Rothschild Prize, mindscape #2, Tour & Taxis, Brussels, Belgium

what's the point of giving you any more artworks when you don't understand the ones you've got?, works of the own collection,

Galerie Zink, Munich, Germany

environmental drawing Provincial Prize Visual Arts 2007, Caermersklooster, Ghent, Belgium (curator Edith Doove)(cat.)

 

2007 BLACK IS BLACK, a selection from the recent acquisitions of the SMAK, Ghent, Belgium

2007 3xBelgium, Art and Zwalm 2007, Zwalm, Belgium (cat.)

2007 Open House, Galerie Zink, New York, USA

2007 very selected, a creative work by Marcel van Eeden, Galerie Zink, Munich, Germany

2006 BARRACK -Mapping the city (Proposal#1)-, HISK, Antwerp, Belgium (cat.)

2006 FW:painting, The Factory, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

2006 Extiem / Extimate / Extime, Poetry Summer 2006, Watou, Belgium (curator Joost Declercq) (cat.)

2006 Che fare, Open Studios, HISK, Antwerp, Belgium

2006 Leere X Vision - ConneXion, Herford, Germany (curator Maïté Vissault) (cat.)

2005 IN/OUT- Open Studios, HISK, Antwerp, Belgium.

2005 DRAWINGS+, Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Deurle, Belgium

2005 An Orchestrated Reduction, De Schrijnwerkerij, Geel, Belgium (curator Tanguy Eeckhout & Pieter Matthynssens)

2005 VERSUSIII, Oudenaarde, Belgium (curator Tanguy Eeckhout & Pieter Matthynssens) (cat.)

2004 Boring Boogie-Woogie, Ruimte Morguen, Antwerp, Belgium (curator Thibaut Verhoeven - Marc Schepers)

2004 Eclipse, Bornem - Puurs - Willebroek, Belgium (curator Stef Van Bellingen) (cat.)

2004 Jan Lijzeen, new Flemish artist (2003), l'autre génie d'art sans talent, Richard Foncke Gallery, Ghent, Belgium

2003 For your eyes only, Arts Festival 'Feel Estate', Minardschouwburg, Ghent, Belgium

2003 Ghent New 2003, Saint Peter's Abbey, Ghent, Belgium (curator Piet Vanrobaeys)

2002 The Art Salon 2002, Sint-Pietersabdij, Ghent, Belgium

2002 Start>>

2001 Project-i(s)les, St-Michelgebouw, Brussels, Belgium (curator Eva Gonzalez-Sancho) (cat.)

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