Heidi Voet’s multidisciplinary practice is informed by her transcultural experience of both residing in Europe and Asia and offers a critical approach on cultural conventions and belief systems, modes of production in consumer society, and the ubiquitous experience of time. Her works are infused with a wry humour that plays between material properties of everyday objects and the connotations they carry.
The central concern of Heidi Voet’s oeuvre is the contrasting registers of time that shape the present. The immediacy and fleeting nature of popular culture and everyday commodities – plastic watches, magazines, fruit and vegetables – that are among her unexpected media, place her work in a critical relationship with today’s globalized culture. Combined in assemblages that draw on arts, crafts, historical artefacts and myths from diverse cultures, Voet nimbly folds the past into the present.
The apparent simplicity of their form belies their highly crafted, and often labour intensive, production – a further register of relative time and value – recurs throughout her practice. Acutely aware of her works historical and cultural context, Heidi Voet places the materials and processes within an intricate network of associations in her “thoughts turned form”. Through this playful approach she directs our attention to pressing issues of social inequity, imperialism, and other affects under globalization. Favouring conundrum, absurdity and contradiction as its means, Heidi Voet consistently provokes a reappraisal of today’s complex and relative social conditions.
In pieces and parts, Sint-Lukas gallery, Brussels (BE)
500 years, Project Fulfill Art Space, Taipei (TW)
500 years, BANK, Shanghai (CN)
As far as I can see, curated by Leo Xu projects, MCM, Shanghai (CN)
Can the maker repair what he makes, Salon Blanc, Oostende (BE)
Is six afraid of seven, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai (CN)
If I was beautiful. If I had the time., Kasteel Beauvoorde (BE)
Endless Lightness, curated by Ronald Van de Sompel, FLACC, Genk (BE)
Cool, Sweet & drill holes, IT Park, Taipei (TW)
Happy Next Year, OneTwenty Gallery, Ghent (BE)
The Joker, Beauty Room, Paris (FR)
Present Perfect Tension, Sint-Lukas gallery, Brussels (BE)
Islet, CCNOA, Brussels (BE)
(levende lijven.), Netwerkgalerij, Aalst (BE)
Ceci n’est pas un conte cur. Filip Luyckx, Irène Laub Gallery, Brussels (BE)
Unfolding: Fabric of our Life, CHAT, Hong Kong
20 Years N.I.C.C. – Jubilee, N.I.C.C., Antwerp (BE)
California dreaming, Chi-Wen Gallery, Taipei (TW)
PLAY, curated by Hilde Teerlink and Patrick Ronse, Kortrijk (BE)
How beautiful it is and easily it can be broken, S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE)
Now is the summer of our (dis)content, BANK, Shanghai, (CN)
PARKLIFE, Chi-Wen Gallery, Taipei (TW)
Living in Dreams, De Bondt, Bruges (BE)
The Morality Reflex, Contemporary Art Center CAC, Vilnius (LT)
Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou (CN)
Private tag, Domein Raversyde, Ostend (BE)
Shanghai Biennale (CN)
7+1, curated by Martina Koppel-Yang, CIGB, Beijing (CN)
Vive le Capital, curated by Christophe Draeger and Xin Wang, BANK, Shanghai (CN)
Aandacht! Aandacht!, de Warande, Turnhout (BE)
Balance Sheets, curated by Kit Hammonds, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong (CN)
Aandacht! Aandacht, C-Mine, Genk (BE)
DECORUM, carpets and tapestries from artists, curated by Anne Dressen and Gong Yan, Powerstation of Art, Shanghai (CN)
Art of living, curated by Zhou Tiehai and MABsociety, Jing An Kerry Center, Shanghai (CN)
Spoor 9, curated by SecondRoom and Lokaal01, Central Station, Antwerp (BE)
Art in the city, K11, Shanghai (CN)
Another dream, Another sense, Another Mind, Law faculty Library, KULeuven, Leuven (BE)
PO(r)TION, L’Avenue, Shanghai (CN)
Revel, MOCA, Shanghai (CN)
Laowai Allegorist/Antagonist, BANK, Shanghai (CN)
Neo Povera, L&M Arts, curated by Harmony Murphy, Los Angeles (USA)
Lounge #2, Le Clougoff, curated by Philippe Bream, Private house, Brussels (BE)
Does Europe matter, Vitamin creative space/The Pavillion, Beijing (CN)
Found in translation, curated by Emmanuel Lambion in collaboration with Nathalie Guiot & Thalie Art Project, collector’s house, Brussels (B)
The Critical Fundamentals of Europe, Goethe Institut, Brussels (BE)
What is it about the end of the world that makes it so appealing?, V Art Center, Shanghai (CN)
Very Fun Park, Fubon Art Foundation, Taipei (TW)
Everyday, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai (CN)
Nachtauslage, Galerie Lena Bruening, curated by Susanne Prinz, Berlin (DE)
The Couple Show, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai (CN)
No Government No Cry, curated by Kendell Geers, c.i.a.p., Hasselt (BE)
This Modern World? An art as billboard project, curated by Mathieu Borysevicz, Cool Docks, Shanghai (CN)
Shifting definitions, OV Gallery, Shanghai (CN)
Fantastic Illusions, Buda Art Center, Kortrijk (BE)
Time to destination, Komplot at Zennestraat 17, Brussels (BE)
Jeugdzonde, over opus een en min een, Hedah Center for Contemporary Art, Maastricht (NL)
Fantastic Illusions, MOCA, Shanghai (CN)
International Photo Festival 2009, Knokke-Heist (BE)
Un-Scene, Wiels Center for Contemporary Art, Brussels (BE)
Artlab/ Artificial Nature, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Shanghai (CN)
Cuesta, Contemporary Art in Tielt, Tielt (BE)
Markiezin zkt. Kunst, Kasteel van Gaasbeek, Gaasbeek (BE)
Intrude: Art & Life 366, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai (CN)
Multi/Plier, Galerie Les filles du calvaire, curated by Edith Doove, Brussels (BE)
Versus IV, Maegdendaele, Oudenaarde (BE)
SecondRoom @ W139, Amsterdam (NL)
Storm op Komst, de Warande, Turnhout (BE)
Remote/ Control, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Shanghai (CN)
hereisthere, Budafest, Kortrijk (BE)
Freestate, Old Military Hospital, Ostend (BE)
Kunst & Zwalm, Zwalm (BE)
Les Ventinelles, Anglet (FR)
Hier/Anderswo, Kunstpanorama, Luzerne (CH)
The square root of Memory, Huis Van Winckel, Dendermonde (BE)
The resistance of Ether, Netwerk Center for Contemporary Art, Aalst (BE)
Wanderlust, with Freek Wambacq and Gabriel Lester, Dansaert 182, Brussels (BE)
Boobytrap, kunsthuis Syb, Beetsterzwaag (NL)
Bisoncaravan, Aarhuskunstmuseum, Aarhus (DK)
Staal/made in Belgium, Galerie Duchamp, Yvetot (FR)
Young Artists, Sint-Lukas gallery, Brussels (BE)
A haunted house of Art, curated by Gabriel Lester, Outline, Amsterdam (NL)
Illusion/Free Space/Forever young, N.I.C.C., curated by Gert Robijns and Fransesca Lesak, Antwerp (BE)
Why not ask again? The 11th Shanghai Biennale, cur. Raqs Media Collective, Power Station of Art, Shanghai (CN)
