photo by Monika Müller
_Geboren 1965, Dendermonde, België
Woont en werkt in Antwerpen, België
Het werk van Hilde De Decker is niet alleen een op objecten gebaseerde praktijk, maar ook een ruimtelijke praktijk, waarbij het lichaam niet dient als exclusieve bestemming voor sieraden, maar als referentie om te werken in een omgeving op menselijke schaal. Het is geen verrassing dat ze twee jaar interieurarchitectuur studeerde voordat ze aan haar opleiding tot juwelenmaker begon aan Sint Lucas Antwerpen. De metafoor van het huis zegt veel over haar werk, dat een onderzoek is naar waardecreatie bij het verdiepen in de materialiteit van het dagelijks leven. Het werk van De Decker moet inderdaad worden benaderd als een zintuiglijke architectuur die uit meerdere kamers bestaat. Als opeenvolgende stillevens onthullen ze een interne logica die ten grondslag ligt aan de terugkerende thema's van de kunstenaar: juwelen als perspectief om na te denken over waarde; huiselijkheid en conceptualisme; en de schoonheid van het achterhaalde.
(Monica Gaspar)
In 2008 ontving ze onder meer de City Goldsmith's Price in Hanau (DE). Zij was van 2000 tot 2008 docent aan de Gerrit Rietveld Academie; van 2008 tot 2016 was ze directeur van de afdeling Studio sieraad aan Sint Lucas Antwerpen. Haar werk is opgenomen in particuliere en openbare collecties, met name het Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch (NL), het CODA Museum, Apeldoorn (NL), het Design Museum, Gent (BE) en de FNAC, Parijs (FR).
_Born 1965, Dendermonde, Belgium
Lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium
Hilde De Decker's work is not only an object-based practice but also a spatial one, the body serving not as the exclusive destination for jewellery, but as the reference to operate in a human-scale environment. It comes as no surprise that she studied interior architecture for two years before starting her training as a jewellery maker at St Lucas School of Arts Antwerp. The metaphor of the home says a lot about her work, which is an investigation of value creation when diving into the dense materiality of everyday life. Indeed, De Decker's work has to be approached as a sensorial architecture made up of several chambers. Like successive still lifes, they reveal an internal logic underlying the artist's recurrent themes: jewellery as a perspective to reflect on value; domesticity and conceptualism; and the beauty of the obsolete.
(Monica Gaspar)
Amongst other distinctions, in 2008 she was awarded the City Goldsmith's Price in Hanau (DE). She was lecturer at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie from 2000 till 2008; from 2008 till 2016 she was director of the studio jewellery at St Lucas School of Arts Antwerp. Her work features in private and public collections, most notably the Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch (NL), the CODA Museum, Apeldoorn (NL), the Design Museum, Ghent (BE), and the FNAC, Paris (FR).
_solo exhibitions
2020 Refill, valerie_traan gallery, Antwerp
2016 Contemporary jewellery from Stockholm and Antwerp (with Sofia Björkman), AVID Gallery, Wellington (NZ)
2011 On the Move, Platina Gallery, Stockholm (SE) / Gallery Marzee, Nijmegen (NL)
2010 On the Move, Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau (DE)
2008 Collected Works, Iron Inc., Copenhagen (DK)
2002 Waldeslust (with I. Eichenberg & C. Zellweger), Verzameld Werk, Ghent
2001 Waldeslust (with I. Eichenberg & C. Zellweger), Gallery V&V, Vienna (AT)
2000 Silver Leafed, Gallery Marzee, Nijmegen (NL)
1999 For the farmer and the market gardener, Gallery Marzee, Nijmegen (NL)
1998 Lustre for the eye, Gallery Marzee, Nijmeghen / Kunstrai, Amsterdam (NL)
1996 Eva’s Cushion, Gallery V&V, Vienna (AT)
_work in public collections
2015 Manchester Metropolitan University Special Collections (UK)
2012 Stedelijk Museum ‘s-Hertogenbosch (NL)
2010 Alice and Louis Koch Collection, Basel (AT)
2005 FNAC, Paris (FR)
2002 CODA Museum, Apeldoorn (NL)
2001 Design Museum, Ghent
2000 CODA Museum, Apeldoorn (NL)
1999
Prov. Vlaams-Brabant/cultural department, Leuven
Van Reekum Museum, Apeldoorn (NL)
1998 ABN AMRO bank, Amsterdam (NL)
_awards
2008 City Goldsmith of Hanau (DE)
2000 Prov. Prize for Applied Arts of the Prov. of Vlaams-Brabant
1999 VIZO-Award "Henry Van de Velde" Young Talent
1997 Nomination VIZO-award ‘Henry Van de Velde’ Young Talent
1995 Nomination VIZO-award ‘Henry Van de Velde’ Young Talent
1993 Alessi Award
_teaching
2008 –
Teacher, Jewellery Design, St Lucas School of Arts Antwerp
2008 – 2019
Researcher, Jewellery Design, St Lucas School of Arts Antwerp
2008 – 2016
Head, Jewellery Design, St Lucas School of Arts Antwerp
2007 – 2008
Teacher, Preparatory Training, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (NL)
2007
Coordinator, Readership ‘Tomorrow Matters’, Design Academy Eindhoven (NL)
2005 – 2006
Head, Jewellery Department, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (NL)
2000 – 2008
Teacher, Jewellery Department, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (NL)
_group exhibitions
2021
Small Sculptures, Michel Rein gallery, Brussels
cold sweat, São Roque Museum, Lisboa (P)
2019
Nature morte/Nature vivante, CID au Grand-Hornu, Hornu
New Tales of Acoya Pearls, K Plaza 3-13-15 Nishiazabu Minato-ku, Tokyo (J)
PRESENT – 40 Years of Galerie Marzee, Gallery Marzee, Nijmegen (NL)
2018
The contemporary metal art biennial METALLOphone 4, the House of the Signatories, Vilnius (LT)
These are a few of her favourite things - Jorunn Veiteberg's collection of jewellery Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum, Trondheim (NO)
Internationale Schmuckszene 2018, Handwerksmesse, Munich (DE)
Elle luit - Jewellery and Light, WCC, Mons
The Language of Things: Meaning and Value in Contemporary Jewellery, The Dowse Art Museum, Wellington (Lower Hutt) (NZ)
2016
Ceci n’est pas une copie - Design entre Innovation et Imitation, CID au Grand-Hornu, Hornu
Vernieuwd Verleden – in sieraden van Evert Nijland en in hedendaagse kunst, CODA Museum, Apeldoorn (NL)
2015
Body Alchemy - the Hangzhou Contemporary International Jewelry and Metal Art Triennial 2015, Museum of Contemporary Art of CAA, Hangzhou (CN)
België Belgique Belgien Belgium, Galerie Handwerk, München (DE)
Design Derby, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL) / Design Museum, Ghent
A touch of steel (initiated by Kolloquium Nordrhein Westfalen and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp), Design Flanders Gallery, Brussels / RECIPROCITY Design, Liège
Suspended in Green, STUDIO 20/17, Sydney (AU)
Triple Parade, TAFA Art Museum, Tianjin (CN) / Kuopion Museum, Kuopio (FI) / Zijsprong Gallery, Antwerp
2014
Suspended in Green, V&V Gallery, Vienna (AT) / Studio Gabi Green, Munich (DE) /Lesley Craze Gallery, London (UK)
Jewellery Sessions, Bezalel Academy for Art & Design, Jerusalem (IL)
A touch of steel (initiated by Kolloquium Nordrhein Westfalen and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp), Klingenmuseum, Solingen (DE) / Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau (DE) / Design Museum, Ghent
15 Year Platina Gallery, Färgfabriken, Stockholm (SE)
European Triennial for Contemporary Jewellery, WCC, Mons
2013
For Money, De Oude Post, Halle
Money’s Worth, Gallery Sofie Lachaert, Tielrode
Jewellery Sessions, Platina Gallery at Schmuck, Munich (DE) / De Winkelhaak, Antwerp
Bucks ‘N Barter, Gallery Kullukcu, Munich (DE) / Sieraad Art Fair, Amsterdam (NL)
Mirrors & Candles, Gallery Sofie Lachaert at Art Dubai (UAE)
Tweex 1, Vander A Gallery, Brussels
Tales of Heroes, Design Vlaanderen at Galleri RAM, Oslo (NO) / Design Vlaanderen Gallery, Brussels / Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong (HK) / Polytechnick University, Hong Kong (HK)
2012
Collection of Curiosities 2012, Lloyd Hotel, Amsterdam (NL)
Unleashed! An overview of rule-breaking jewellery, Museum Bellerive, Zurich (CH)
Mirrors & Candles, Gallery Sofie Lachaert, Tielrode / Collect, London (UK)
Tales of Heroes, Design Vlaanderen at Design Week Helsinki (FI) / Reciprocity 2012, Saint Luc, Liège
This is 2007, Caroline van Hoek Gallery, Brussels
Op Voorraad (Pop-Up Store), Inside Design & Dutch Design Double, Amsterdam (NL) / Berlin (DE) / Klimt Gallery, Barcelona (ES)
Koru 4 – Kindred Spirits, Imatra (FI)
2011
In Stock (Pop-up Store), Lloyd Hotel, Amsterdam (NL) / Club Trouw, Amsterdam (NL)
Collect, Gallery Marzee, London (UK)
Platina for pleasure, Form & Design Center, Malmö (SE)
European Triennial for Contemporary Jewellery, WCC, Mons
Unleashed! An overview of rule-breaking jewellery, Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem (NL)
Heat, Gallery Frank Steyaert, Ghent
Wallpiece #14, Sint Lucas Passage, Antwerp
2010
Je suis dada, Design Vlaanderen at De Salons, Sint-Niklaas / Spazio Herno, Milan (IT) / Stadhuis, Eindhoven (NL) / Norwegian Design & Architecture Centre, Oslo (NO) / Design Biennale Liège / Fundacion Carlos de Amberes, Madrid (ES)
Speed, Think Tank at Kunsthandwerk & Design Munich (DE) / Collect, London (UK)
Lingam, WCC, Mons
In Stock (Pop-up Store), FABRIK, Taipei (TW) / Silke & The Gallery, Antwerp
Steinbeisser (Pop-up Store), Hamburg (DE) / Lisbon (PT)
Inspirations, Sieraad Art Fair, Amsterdam (NL)
2009
Challenging the Chatelaine, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia (USA)
Over design over, Torino, Perugia (IT)
Expérience n°3 – Sur le fil, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours (FR)
Auf Vorrat (Pop-up Store), Schmuck, Munich (DE) / Inside Design-Dutch Design Double, Amsterdam (NL)
Je suis dada, Design Vlaanderen at Brussels / Vienna (AT) / Prague (CZ)
Lingam, Könstfack, Stockholm (SE)
Speed, Think Tank at Kammerhof Museen Gmunden (AT)
For Long and Faithful Duty – 10 Years of Beauty, Gallery Platina, Stockholm (SE)
2008
Challenging the Chatelaine, Design Museum, Ghent
Collected works, Iron Inc., Copenhagen (DK)
Je suis dada, Design Vlaanderen at Serra Valdo Fusi, Torino (IT)
Anthology from our own collection/part 2, CODA Museum, Apeldoorn (NL)
2007
Challenging the Chatelaine, Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum, Athens (GR)
Licht, RC De Ruimte, IJmuiden (NL)
2006
500 Nestkastjes, Forum des Halles, Louvain-la-Neuve
Achter de dingen, Artefact Sint Lucas, Antwerp / Elia, Ghent
Chatelaines, Helen Drutt English, Design Museum Helsinki (FI)
2005
500 Nestkastjes, Kasteel van Rullingen, Borgloon
14th International Silver Art Competition Deconstruction-Reconstruction, Gallery of Art, Legnica (PL)
Inspired by Nature?, Bergianska Botanical Garden, Stockholm (SE)
Pret à Porter Paris – Casabo, Paris (FR)
Graduation show, Gallery Marzee, Nijmegen (NL)
2004
Fast Affection Bear, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (NL)
Hotel 275, Mass-Art, Boston (US)
Open Borders, Tri Postal, Lille (FR)
Lower Gallery (Int.), Contemporary Applied Arts, London (UK)
2003
A field of silver, The New Millennium Galleries, Sheffield (UK)
Mikromegas, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney (AU) / John Curtin Gallery, Perth (AU) / Oratorio di San Rocco, Padova (IT)
Koru I, South Karelia Museum, Lappeenranta (FI)
Inner Luxury, CaixaForum, Barcelona (ES)
Fast Affection Bear, Broelmuseum, Kortrijk
Crossed, CCCB, Barcelona (ES)
2002
A field of silver, Flow Gallery, London (UK) / The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh (UK) / Detail Zwo, Düsseldorf (DE)
Mikromegas, Musée de l'horlogerie et de l'émaillerie, Geneva (CH) / Gallery Yu, Tokyo (JP)
Nature and Time, Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau (DE)
2001
Balanced, Museo de l'Art de la Pell, Vic (ES)
Brooching It Diplomatically, Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim (DE)
Al wat groeit ende bloeit, Staatsbosbeheer (NL)
Mikromegas, Bayerischer Kunstgewerkbe-Verein, Munich (DE) / American Craft Museum, New York (US)
Rietveld naar de Beurs, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam (NL)
Belgium-The Netherlands: Jewellery 1945-2000, Design Museum, Ghent
Vernetzt, Fashion Institute Vienna at Schloss Hetzendorf, Vienna (AT)
Jewellery, the choice of Almere, De Paviljoens, Almere (organised by Marzee) (NL)
Transit, Verzameld Werk, Brussels /Ghen
2000
Brooching It Diplomatically, Philadelphia Int. Airport (US) / Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin (DE) / Villa Croce, Genova (IT)
Informalin, Forms From Flanders, Möbelmesse Köln (DE)
Im Blumengarten der Schmuckkunst, Gallery Apex, Tirol
Door Piet - Voor Piet, City Hall, Genk
Kunst Hautnah, Künstlerhaus, Vienna (AT)
Provinciale Prijzen 1999, Prov. trefcentrum Rufferdinge, Landen
The Politics of History, Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia (US)
In and Out, VIZO Gallery, Brussel
Nieuwe combinaties, Verzameld Werk, Ghent
The Decorated Ego, Kon. Fabiolazaal, Antwerp (BE)
Balanced, Gallery Zijsprong, Antwerp / Forum Ferlandina, Barcelona (ES)
1999
Casa Europea, Bouwcentrum - VIZO stand, Antwerp
Parures
Im Blumengarten der Schmuckkunst, NO Gesellschaft für Kunst und Kultur at Langenlois (AU) / Allensteig (AU) / Ziersdorf (AU)
Blikvangers, Villa Eksternest, Rumbeke / Kon. Fabiolazaal, Antwerp
Brooching It Diplomatically, Tarbekunstimuuseum, Tallinn (EE) / Museum of Modern Art, Ostend/ The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu (US)
Awards Henry Van de Velde, VIZO Gallery, Brussels
La Renaissance dans le Bijou, Gallery Piltzer, Paris (FR) / Basel (AT) / …
Edel Labeur, Design Museum, Ghent
Het Samplisme in België, De Elf - Cultuurcentrum België, Hasselt
Chic, Landcommanderij Alden Biesen, Bilzen (BE)
Contemporary Belgian Jewellery, Mikimoto Co showroom, Tokyo (JP) / Belgian Flanders Exchange Center, Osaka (JP)
1998
Jewellery, the choice of Nijmeghen, Gallery Marzee, Nijmeghen (NL)
Parures, Birmingham (UK) / Mainz (DE) / …
Water, Gallery Cebra, Düsseldorf (DE)
Internationale Schmuckszene '98, Handwerksmesse, Munich (DE)
Contemporary Belgian Jewellery, Arvada Center for the Arts, Colorado (US)
Im Blumengarten der Schmuckkunst, Städtischen Museum, Györ (HU) / Gallery Cebra, Düsseldorf (DE) / Palmenhaus, Vienna (AT) / Gallery V&V, Vienna (AT)
Blikvangers, Nederlands Textielmuseum, Tilburg (NL)
Bijoux – Sauvage, Gallery Claude Wesel, Waterloo
Brooching It Diplomatically, Helen Drutt, Philadelphia (US) / Het Kruithuis, 's-Hertogenbosch (NL) / Museum of Art and Design, Helsinki (FI)
Schmuck & Gerät, Galerie Katia Rid, Munich (DE)
1997
Parures, Cultureel Centrum Strombeek, Deurne, St.-Niklaas, Kortrijk, Hasselt/Gallery Ademloos, Den Hague (NL)
Bullet-Proof Forms, Design Museum, Ghent (NL) / Palau Marc, Barcelona (ES)
Water, Gallery Ademloos, Den Hague (NL) / Gallery Art Box, Waregem
Im Blumengarten der Schmuckkunst, Burg Wels, Wels / Kunstmesse, Vienna / Gallery V&V, Vienna (AT)
Contemporary Belgian Jewellery, Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus, Hanau (DE) / Museum fur Natur und Stadtkultur, Schwabisch Gmund (DE) / Kon. Fabiolazaal, Antwerp
1996
Vlaamse koffie en andere verhalen, Verzameld Werk, Ghent
Kunst is vrouwelijk-Gynaika, Gemeenschapscentrum De Kroon, St.-Agatha-Berchem
Design Triennial, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (NL)
Flemish Designers – VIZO, Gallery Lous Martin, Delft (NL)
Granulation 1996, Reuchlinhaus, Pforzheim & Hanau (DE)
Pearls, Artbox, Waregem
1g Ag, Provinciaal Museum Sterckshof-Zilvercentrum, Deurne
Contemporary Belgian Jewellery, Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim (DE)
5 jaar Verzameld Werk, Verzameld Werk, Ghent
1995
Sieraad, Symbool, Signaal, Kon. Fabiolazaal, Antwerp
Junction Norge – België, Villa Eksternest, Rumbeke
Open Monumentendag - Flemish Silversmiths, Villa De Bondt, Ghent
Design Triennial, Design Museum, Ghent
Geen parel dient bij nacht gekocht..., Gallery Sofie Lachaert, Ghent
Antiek, Kunst & Gastronomie, Huize Les Pommiers, Nieuwpoort
1994
Internationale Schmuckszene '94, Handwerksmesse, Munich (DE)
Design Schools, Acte Expo, Brussels
1993
Internationale Schmuckszene '93, Handwerksmesse, Munich (DE)
A Sparkling Party, Kon. Fabiolazaal, Antwerp
Création B, La Tactic du Moustic, Luxembourg (LU)
1992
Rings & Things, Gallery S & H De Buck, Ghent
Eco-Design, Théorèmes, Brussels
Marnixringprijs F. De Boeck, KB, Brussels
Autumn Selection, VIZO, Brussels
The link to 1993, Gallery Sofie Lachaert, Ghent
1991
Perpetuum Mobile, Villa Eksternest, Rumbeke
Multiples, Gallery Sofie Lachaert, Ghent
1990
Chapeau voor, Gallery Sofie Lachaert, Ghent
Tempels, Zuilen, Sokkels, Gallery Muylaert-Hofman, Aalst
1989
Sieraad schaal 1/1, New Jewels Kunstgalerij, Knokke
Schmuck aus Papier, Gallery Cebra, Düsseldorf (DE)
St. Lucaspaviljoen, BBL, Antwerp
1988 Contact J, Antwerp
1987 Reflex, Londerzeel
1985 Kreezie Kreaties, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle