The 9th edition of the Amsterdam Sculpture Biennale
Amsterdam is celebrating its 750th anniversary with the theme “Enlightenment,” a celebration of the city’s freedom and tolerance.
The exhibition features sculptures by internationally renowned artists and emerging talent along a 5-kilometer route through Amsterdam South. The route takes in Minervalaan, Appololaan, and Churchilllaan.
During the summer months, Francis Maere Fine Arts invites more than 40 contemporary artists to transform the 17th century estate “Goed te Réables” in Ooidonk (Deinze) into a surprising exhibition.
Horst returns with his Expo 2025, a dynamic summer exhibition exploring themes of resilience, rebirth, and community through striking installations, performances, and innovative architecture at Asiat Park in Vilvoorde.
My contribution: Trees as a Human Landscape: eight sculptures in an avenue on existing 2-meter-high concrete plinths.
From November 28th, 2024 until January 9th 2025
In the Royal Museum of Koninklijk Museum voor Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA)
What’s the Story? is all about the dialogue between the collection and contemporary artists. In a free, associative way, curator Nico Van Hout and co-curator Erno Vroonen place the works in thematic ensembles, challenging the audience to discover for themselves connections between today’s artists and their soulmates from the past.
This second edition of What’s the Story? features three new themes: Life and Death, Seduction, and Storytelling.
Featuring work by
Evelyne Axell, Maen Florin, Kati Heck, Jozef Legrand,
Rinus Van de Velde, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven and Liliane Vertessen.
More info on the KMSKA website
06.09.2024 – 20.10.2024
Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art
Gyeonggi (Korea)
With Kim Simonson (FI), Tip Toland (USA), Anja Seiler (ZW)
Together with the world: Balancing the Eath
Evolved Mutations
The artworks by Maen Florin, reminiscent of boneless creatures, depict hybrid marine organisms blending human and sea life forms. These vibrant creatures inhabit a future paradise where plants, animals, and humans coexist equally. In the midst of pandemics, natural destruction, and social upheaval, Maen Florin draws out primitive interests deeply rooted within, creating mutations that evolve into forms more advanced than the present, forging new connections with nature. Coral with four hands, shell-shaped faces, and octopus-human hybrids appear unfamiliar to us who live in the present.
Additionele, abstract and simple forms coupled with bright, vivid colors evoke a fairytale atmosphere. Breaking away from familiar species and ways of life centered around humans, the artist focuses on a world where nature takes center stage, heralding a new way of life. Florin presents a “strange yet ideal paradis” where hybrid creatures live, proposing a new a
ark for all refugees of the Anthropocene.
24.07.2022 – 18.09.2022
Verduyn Gallery
Those Lazy – Hazy – Crazy
Days of Summer
Open weekend 2:00 to 6:00
Heerbaan 10
9790 Moregem
With work by: Michaël Aerts, Stephan Ballezux, Stief Desmet, Maen Florin, Pieter Obels Tinka Pittoors, Kelly Schacht, Ante Timmermans, Vadim Vosters
www.verduyngallery.com
MAEN FLORIN
Le Voyage à Nantes 2023
48 pages Soft cover, 10 €
ISBN: 9789464772388
Graphic design: Johan September
Maen Florin
Scenography David Peleman
Cultuurhuis Merelbeke
1.10.22 – 27.11.22
Opening: sunday october 2nd, 11 am – opening talk by Johan September
More info at www.merelbeke.be
Location:
Cultural House Merelbeke, BE
Driekoningenplein 15
9820 Merelbeke
When:
October 1rst 2022 to November 27th, 2022
Monday van 09:00 to 12:00
Wednessday : 14:00 to 17:00
Organisation and contact:
Cultuurhuis Merelbeke
info@cultuurhuis.be
https://cultuurhuismerelbeke.be
09 210 35 80
14.09.2022 – 20.11.2022
4th Triennial of Contemporary Art
‘(dis) CONNECTED’
University Psychiatric Center, Duffel
Stationstraat 22 c
2570 Duffel
According to the British-Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, we live in ‘liquid times’. The old solid structures and institutional frameworks, which formed the foundation of society, are falling apart today and must make way for processes that are constantly in motion. The pace at which society changes and innovates today is so fast that no fixed patterns can emerge.
One consequence is that society is becoming an unpredictable complex system, in which there is little dependence and connection between individuals. Despite the high degree of autonomy to determine the meaning and goals of life, there is great uncertainty and fear of what the future holds. This can be characterized as indeterminacy, loneliness and uprooting.
The exhibition ‘VERBINDING (verbroken) / (dis)CONNECTED’ aims to explore this social theme in all its consequences, both critical and hopeful.
With work by: Marina Abramović & Ulay, Ben Benaouisse, Wim Cuyvers, Gao Brothers, Anouk De Clercq, Olivier De Vos, Sarah De Vos, Ilke De Vries, Anno Dijkstra, Joëlle Dubois, Maen Florin, Jean-Luc Godard, Marc Maet, Neo Matloga, Kris Martin, Bruce Nauman, Zhigang Tang, Ingel Vaikla, Philippe Vandenberg, Guido van der Werve, Luc Van Eycken, Leon Vranken, Andy Warhol, Artur Żmijewski, …
Curators : Hans Martens, Luc Pelgrims, Christian Verschelden
