Curriculum Vitae

Lieve Van Stappen

°1958 lives and works in Ghent Belgium

One woman shows

2018

2009

  • Moving Archives, Foundlings Memling in the Saint-Johns hospital, Bruges, Belgium (28/11/09 – 29/08/10) (catalogue)

2008

  • Alaska Mercator Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium (18/02 – 28/04/08)

2007

  • Winter C.C. De Garage, Mechelen, Belgium 5/02 – 20/02/07

2005

  • Fading memories… Musée-atelier du Verre Sars Poteries, France 28/04 – 19/07/05 (catalogue).
  • When hearts start thinking Mineta Move Gallery, Brussels (14/10 – 14/11/05)

2001

  • The remembrance of Oblivion 27/4 – 27/5/01 (Catalogue) – Genealogical trees 23/6 – 14/10/01 (catalogue)
    In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres, Belgium
    Je was er bij. (WO1 archief)
  • Carpe Diem Galeria San Nicolo Venice Italy 15/02 – 15/04/01

2000

  • Hors série Art Centre ‘deWillem3’, The Water Tower Vlissingen, The Netherlands 15/7 – 27/8/00

1999

  • Empty Eyes Campo Santo Chapel, Ghent, Belgium 3/12/99 – 10/1/00 (catalogue)

1998

  • An Archeology of War Vlaams Cultureel Centrum de Brakke Grond Amsterdam, The Netherlands 16/1 – 22/2/98 (catalogue)

Group exhibitions (selection)

2019

NATURE MORTE/NATURE VIVANTE – CID Centre d’innovation et de design du Grand-Hornu
24 November 2019 – 08 March 2020
http://www.cid-grand-hornu.be/en/expositions/Nature_Morte_Nature_Vivante/317/

2018

‘the watercolour room’ 22nd November – 16th December 2018.
‘show me tomorrow, we will go there’, the laureates exhibition at the HISK.
Leopoldskaserne, Charles de Kerchovelaan 187a, 9000 Ghent Belgium
curator: Smolders/Wilkens

2016

  • 10 years Cloudknitters Oude Beurs, Antwerp, Belgium 30/09- 23/10/2016
  • La vie des collections – l’inauguration du MusVerre, MusVerre, Sars-Poteries France 29/09 2016 … (catalogue)
    musverre.lenord.fr
  • Who would have thought it? 20 years Glass Museum Alter Hof Herding – 10 years Glass Depot Höltingdhof 02/07/2016 – 08/01/2017
    Glass Museum Alter Hof Herding, Ernsting Stiftung Alter Hof Herding, Coesfeld Germany
    www.ernsting-stiftung.de

2015 – 2016

  • The Importance of Being… Exhibition on Belgian Contemporary Art in the Americas
    • Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, La Habana, Cuba 13/02/2015 – 26/04/2015
    • Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina 040815 – 12/09/2015
    • Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 02/12/2015 – 14/02/2016 –

    www.theimportanceofbeing.be

2015

  • (le) SILENCE – for my father, thoughts by a private collection 11/11 – 6/12/15 Galerie Valerie Traan, Antwerp, Belgium.
    Valerie Traan
  • Unruly Bodies, gender-norms-resistance 29 – 30/10/2015
  • Sophia vzw Belgian network for gender studies
    Lecture and presentation of my performance‘Agathe,no pain no Shame’ The Body Spectacular: towards new representations of sickness, disability and ageing, 29/10/2015
    KVS Brussels, Belgium
    www.sophia.be
  • A call for drawings, BAK, Utrecht, The Netherlands 24/06 – 12/07/2015
  • Kunst uit huis – De collection Wilploo ART Rotterdam 7/02/2015 – 12/04/2015
    Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, The Netherlands (catalogue)

2014

  • A poem a day, Muzee Ostend, Belgium 09/11/2014 – 01/02/2015 (calendar)
  • Archive Fever. Artists and their obsession with the archive, Studiostart, Borgerhout, Belgium 06/04/14 – 27/04/14
  • Exuberant Politics, A multi-site celebration of art, activism, and political feeling around the world Legion Arts, Iowa, USA 01/03/14 – 09/04/14
    exuberantpolitics.art.uiowa.edu
    legionarts.org

2013

  • SHAME Hide and Show De Pianofabriek. Sint Gillis, Brussels, Belgium. 28/09/13 – 21/12/13 (catalogue)

2012

  • Newtopia, The State of Human Rights. Museum Hof van Busleyden Mechelen, Belgium. 01/09/12 – 02/12/12 (catalogue)
    www.newtopia.be
  • 100 Visual artists @ Pianofabriek. De Pianofabriek. St-Gillis, Brussels, Belgium. 20/1/12 – 10/03/12

2011

  • Into the light . M KHA, Antwerp, Belgium. 2/12/2011 – 10/12/ 2011 (Catalogue)
  • Dangerously Young About children and youths, illness and risks, the past and the future. Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent, Belgium. 01.10.11 – 20.05.12. (catalogue)
    www.museumdrguislain.be
  • Ainsi soit il Eglise Saint Loup, Namur, Belgium. 2/6 – 17/6/11

2010

  • 100 Visual artists @ Verbeke Foundation Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke (Stekene) Belgium. 20/11/10 – 30/01/2011
  • The fabulous Destiny of the Quotidian Mac’s and Grand Hornu Images, Site du Grand-Hornu, Hornu, Belgium. 07/02/10 – 23/05/10 (catalogue)
    www.mac-s.be
  • From memory. About knowing and Forgetting. KATHO-IPSO Kortrijk, Belgium 23 /01/10 – 31/3/

2009

  • From memory. About knowing and Forgetting Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent, Belgium 10/10/09 – 2/5/10 (catalogue)
    www.museumdrguislain.be
  • Public Art’ & ‘Documentary exhibition Galleria Neon-Campobase Bologna, Italy 29/04/09 – 29/05/09
  • Auction contemporary art in favour of Ademloos vzw Bernaerts Auctioneers Zaal platform, Antwerp, Belgium 15 – 18, 22/10/09
  • When hearts start thinking Open Monuments day Huis De Drie Zwanen, Bruges, Belgium 12-13/09/09

2008

  • Corpus Delicti Court House Brussels, Belgium 26/09 – 21/11/2008 (catalogue)

2007

  • Public Art in Triëste Museo Revoltella, Triëste, Italy 6/9/07 – 18/10/ 2007

2006

  • Eine Frage (nach) der Geste Opera House Leipzig Germany 03/12/06 – 10/12/06 (catalogue)
  • Irre ist Weiblich Dr. Guislain museum, Ghent, Belgium 06/10/06 – 28/0

2005

  • Emilie Fresco Mechelen, city in the hands of woman De Noker, Mechelen, Belgium 05/11 – 18/12/05
  • Howl third festival of East Village artists NY The Musée de Barb and Beth New York, (East Village) USA 21/8/05 – 28/8/05
  • Il corpo, l’abito, la mente Villa Revoltella, Triëste, Italy 15/9/05 – 6/10/05 (catalogue)
  • Sibylle Peretti – Lieve Van Stappen Ernsting Foundation, Coesfeldt-Lette, Germany 15/10/05 – 28/01/06
    www.ernsting-stiftung.de

2004

  • Vanitas, Eitelkeit of the vanities… IKOB, Eupen, Belgium 30/11/04 – 23/01/05

2003

  • Phase 2 Grusenmeyer Art Deurle, Belgium ‘(December 2003)
  • De Draad van Ariadne ‘Delbar site’ Cultural Centre Ronse, Belgium 18/10 – 16/11/03 (catalogue)

2002

  • The Potential – Interrogating archives and notions of archives Gallerie ‘Tent.’ Rotterdam, Nederland 6/9 – 6/10/02, John Hansard Gallery, Souththhampton, UK 2/06 – 25/08/02 (catalogue)

Work in public collections

  • Glass Museum Lommel Lommel, Belgium
    Het glazen huis
  • The Ernsting Foundation Museum Alter Hof Herding Coesveld – Lette, Germany
    Glass museum
  • Le Musée – Atelier du Verre
    Sars – Poteries, France
  • Corning Museum
    New York, USA
    https://www.cmog.org/
  • Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe
    Hamburg, Germany
    http://www.mkg-hamburg.de/en/
  • Province East-Flandres
    ‘Price Equal Opportunities’ Province East-Flanders’
    Oosterzele, Belgium
  • IKOB – Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst
    Eupen, Belgium

Artist in Residencies

2010

  • Memling in Saint John’s Hospital museum,
    Bruges, Belgium

2004

  • Musverre – Musée national du Verre, France
    Sars Poteries, France

2003

2001

Lectures

  • Behind the scenes of an exhibition: questions you may not have thought of answered. 2003
    https://www.cmog.org/bio/lieve-van-stappen-0
  • Introduction to a work in progress: an exhibition yet to be shown
    Musverre – Musée national du Verre, France
    Sars Poteries, France
  • Guest professor, University college, Sint-Lucas Visual Arts, Ghent,
    May – June 2010, October 2010 – January 2011, Jury member 2010, 2011, Department ‘Glass and Ceramics.’
  • Sophia vzw Belgian network for gender studies
    Lecture and presentation of my performance‘Agathe,no pain no Shame’ The Body Spectacular: towards new representations of sickness, disability and ageing, 29/10/2015
    KVS Brussels, Belgium
    www.sophia.be
  • Presentation of the video: Cire Regagnée on Symposium Experiences of embodiment and illness from a philosophical perspective prior to the de PhD defence of Marjolein de Boer:
    ‘Extended Bodies: An Empirical-Philosophical Study to Women’s Bodily Experiences in Breast Cancer.’ December 14th, 2016
    Maastricht University, The Netherlands.
  • Performative lecture: ‘Dear Agathe, Agathe dear…’ auditorium, M KHA, March 3rd, 2018, Museum Contemporary Art Antwerp
    March the 3rd 2018, auditorium.
    Dear Agather, Agather dear … M HKA