Ann Van Hoey

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Born in Belgium in 1956, Ann Van Hoey initially trained as a commercial engineer, then developed a passion for ceramics and changed careers. It took her less than ten years to make her mark on the international art scene.
Spotted at the Vallauris Ceramics Biennial in 2008, Ann Van Hoey went on to accumulate a string of exhibitions and awards, while her work found its way into the most prestigious collections.
She was recently appointed Commander of the Order of the Belgian Crown.

Using a system of cut-outs, incisions and a series of folds reminiscent of the Japanese technique of origami, Ann Van Hoey creates forms in which geometric rigor and sobriety of expression accompany, even amplify, the elegant poetry of lines and volumes. The artist leaves nothing to chance, expressing a quest for perfection and great simplicity that turn these "objects" into veritable sculptures.

"Absolute formal perfection" wrote Guillaume Morel, pointing to a radicality that Ann Van Hoey certainly shares with the minimalist sculptors she admires, but which in her case, far from their avant-garde austerity, is a source of beauty and delight. To their slogan "Less is more", she responds with "always more simplicity", or even "always more calm". From the Minimalist regime, she retains the principle that reduction, repetition and seriality allow us to play with the smallest deviations, with detonating subtleties [...].
And the colors. Red. Yellow. Orange. Blue. Green. We haven't experienced this undivided joy of color since... our childhood, perhaps. Just as intense, but much warmer, matte and tactile since the artist substituted engobe for the glossy lacquers of his earlier pieces, these colors bathe you in light. Objects bursting with precision and exactness, color opens you up to the unlimited, as if topped with sky, blue, red, yellow, green!
Manuel Jover, journalist and art critic, excerpt from the 2021 exhibition catalog.

Public and private collections

  • KMKG Royal Museum of Art and History Brussels, Belgium
  • Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), New York, USA
  • Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, Alfred Univrsity, New York, USA
  • Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza, Italy
  • New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan
  • Ariana Museum, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Qingdao Shinan District People's Government, Qingdao, China
  • Cheongju International Craft Museum, Cheongju, South-Korea
  • WOCEF World Ceramic Exposition Foundation, Seoul, South- Korea
  • City Ceramic Industrial Technical Laboratory, Mizunami City, Gifu Prefecture, Japan
  • Museum MUDAL, Deinze, Belgium
  • The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, USA
  • Jingdezhen Ceramics Museum, Jingdezhen City, China
  • City Museum of Varazdin, Croatia
  • Design Museum Gent, permanent loan Dirk Schrijvers, Belgium
  • Stedelijke Musea Mechelen, Belgium
  • Cultural Center 'Het Gasthuis', Aarschot, Belgium
  • Frank Steyaert Private Collection, Ghent, Belgium
  • The Hetjens Museum, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • State Art Collection, Ireland
  • Lotte Reimers - Stiftung, Diedesheim, Germany
  • Kecskemét Collection, Kecskemét, Hungary
  • Grassi Museum, Leipzig, Austria
  • Qingdao Shinan District People's Government, Qingdao, China
  • Openluchtmuseum Bokrijk, Genk, Belgium
  • Keramiekmuseum Princessehof, Leeuwarden, The Netherlan
  • Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, USA
  • Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon France
  • AMOCA, American of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California, USA

Solo exhibitions at the gallery

Works

Recent solo exhibitions

2024
Landcommanderij Alden Biesen, Bilzen, Belgium, solo exhibition
Marc Heiremans Gallery, Antwerpen, Belgium, solo exhibition
Galerie de l'Ancienne Poste, Toucy, France, duo exhibition
2022
Lucy Lacoste Gallery, Concorde, Maine, USA, solo exhibition
Maud&Mabel, London, United Kingdom, solo exhibition
2021
Lucy Lacoste Gallery, Concorde, Maine, USA, solo exhibition
Galerie de l'Ancienne PosteToucy, France, solo exhibition
2020
A-quadraat Galerie, Vorden, The Netherlands, Ann Van Hoey - Rik Lina
2019
Museum Torhouts Aardewerk, Torhout, Belgium, solo exhibition
Gallery Marc Heiremans, Antwerpen, Belgium, solo exhibition
Ursula Morley Price - Ann Van Hoey, Galerie de l'Ancienne Poste, Toucy, France
Rachel Wood - Ann Van Hoey, Galerie Terra, Delft, The Netherlands
2018
Gallery Life Seeding, Tapei, Taiwan, solo exhibition
2017
Galerie de l'Ancienne PosteToucy, France, solo exhibition
Gallery A-Quadraat, Doet Boersma en AnnVan Hoey, Vorden, The Netherlands
Kunstgalerij De Mijlpaal, Peter Vanbekbergen en Ann Van hoey, Heusden-Zolder, BE
2016
Het Atelier Roland Rens, Aarschot, Belgium, solo exhibition
2015
Puls Contemporary Ceramics (with Jean-Francois Fouilhoux), Brussels
Tortus, Copenhagen, Denmark, solo exhibition
2013
Galerie Terra, Delft, The Netherlands, solo exhibition
2012
Museum MUDAL, Deinze, Belgium: solo exhibition
2011
Puls Contemporary Ceramics, Gustavo Pérez- Ann Van Hoey, Brussel
Galerie Marianne Brand, Carouge, Geneva, Switserland, solo exhibition
2010
Made in Mechelen, Ann Van Hoey - Carine Neutjens, Cultural Centre Mechelen, Belgium
Ashraf Hanna - Ann Van Hoey, Galerie du Don, Le Fel, France

  • Ann Van Hoey - Galerie de l'Ancienne Poste - Maison du Chanoine in Treigny.
  • Ann Van Hoey
  • Musée la Piscine Roubaix -Ann Van hoey - Galerie de l'Ancienne Poste