HEIDI VOET

Born in 1972 in Brussels (BE)
Lives and works in Brussels (BE) and Taipei (TW)

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.

SOLO SHOWS

2018

In pieces and parts, Sint-Lukas gallery, Brussels (BE)

2016

500 years, Project Fulfill Art Space, Taipei (TW)

2015

500 years, BANK, Shanghai (CN)

2014

As far as I can see, curated by Leo Xu projects, MCM, Shanghai (CN)

2013

Can the maker repair what he makes, Salon Blanc, Oostende (BE)

2011

Is six afraid of seven, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai (CN)

2010

If I was beautiful. If I had the time., Kasteel Beauvoorde (BE)

2009

Endless Lightness, curated by Ronald Van de Sompel, FLACC, Genk (BE)

2008

Cool, Sweet & drill holes, IT Park, Taipei (TW)

2007

Happy Next Year, OneTwenty Gallery, Ghent (BE)

2006

The Joker, Beauty Room, Paris (FR)

2005

Present Perfect Tension, Sint-Lukas gallery, Brussels (BE)

2001

Islet, CCNOA, Brussels (BE)

1996

(levende lijven.), Netwerkgalerij, Aalst (BE)

GROUP SHOWS

2019

Ceci n’est pas un conte cur. Filip Luyckx, Irène Laub Gallery, Brussels (BE)
Unfolding: Fabric of our Life
, CHAT, Hong Kong

2018

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)

2017

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)

2016

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)

2015

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)

2014

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)

2013

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)

2012

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)

2011

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)

2010

This Modern World? An art as billboard project, curated by Mathieu Borysevicz, Cool Docks, Shanghai (CN)
Shifting definitions, OV Gallery, Shanghai (CN)

2009

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)

2008

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)

2007

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)

2006

hereisthere, Budafest, Kortrijk (BE)
Freestate, Old Military Hospital, Ostend (BE)

2005

Kunst & Zwalm, Zwalm (BE)
Les Ventinelles, Anglet (FR)
Hier/Anderswo, Kunstpanorama, Luzerne (CH)

2004

The square root of Memory, Huis Van Winckel, Dendermonde (BE)
The resistance of Ether, Netwerk Center for Contemporary Art, Aalst (BE)

2003

Wanderlust, with Freek Wambacq and Gabriel Lester, Dansaert 182, Brussels (BE)
Boobytrap, kunsthuis Syb, Beetsterzwaag (NL)
Bisoncaravan, Aarhuskunstmuseum, Aarhus (DK)

2002

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)

1999

Illusion/Free Space/Forever young, N.I.C.C., curated by Gert Robijns and Fransesca Lesak, Antwerp (BE)

FAIRS & EVENTS

2016

Why not ask again? The 11th Shanghai Biennale, cur. Raqs Media Collective, Power Station of Art, Shanghai (CN)