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Maarten Vanden Eynde
Maarten Vanden Eynde (born 1977 in Leuven, Belgium) lives and works between Brussels and Saint-Mihiel, in France. He studied free media at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam (2000), attended the Mountain School of Arts in Los Angeles (2006), obtained a postgraduate degree at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts (HISK) in Ghent (2009), and earned a doctorate at the University of Bergen, in Norway (2024). The practice of Maarten Vanden Eynde is embedded in long term research projects that focus on numerous subjects of social and political relevance such as post-industrialism, capitalism and ecology.

Among his most notable recent solo exhibitions are The Art to Remember at Høyersten Contemporary in Bergen (2024), Exhumer le futur at La Kunsthalle Mulhouse (2022), Digging up the Future at Mu.ZEE in Ostend (2021) and Museum of Forgotten History XXX at M HKA in Antwerp (2012). He has participated in major international exhibitions, including Why Look at Animals? at EMST, Athens (2025), Magical Realism at WIELS, Brussels (2025), the Bruges Triennial (2024), the Riga International Biennial RIBOCA (2018) and Manifesta 9 in Genk (2012).

He will be the subject of a major multi-venue retrospective in Oudenaarde, entitled After Present, on view from 9 May to 27 September at MOU Oudenaarde, the Provinciale Erfgoedsite Ename, the Steenbakkerij Vande Moortel, among others.

His work is held in public collections including those of KANAL - Centre Pompidou (Brussels), Mu.ZEE (Ostend), FRAC Lorraine (France), Futurium (Berlin), ARTER (Istanbul), Zeeuws Museum (Middelburg), Verbeke Foundation (Kemzeke) and the Ixelles Museum (Brussels), among others. In 2017 he was nominated for the Belgian Art Prize and won the ING Public Prize.

Works

Plastic Reef
Maarten Vanden Eynde
The Gadget 3D
Maarten Vanden Eynde
The Great Decline
Maarten Vanden Eynde
Taxonomic Trophies
Maarten Vanden Eynde
Industrial Evolution
Maarten Vanden Eynde
Oil Bubble
Maarten Vanden Eynde
The Invisible Hand
Maarten Vanden Eynde
Malachite Mobiles
Maarten Vanden Eynde
Histories of Memories II
Maarten Vanden Eynde

Gallery exhibitions

Exhibitions

Gravend naar de toekomst
Museum Eicas, Deventer (Netherlands)
2023
Exhumer le futur, retrospective exhibition
La Kunsthalle, Mulhouse (France)
2022
Digging up the Future, retrospective exhibition
Mu.ZEE, Oostende (Belgium)
2021 - 2022
Belgian Art Prize 2017
Bozar, Brussels (Belgium)
2017
Museum of Forgotten History XXX
MuHKA, Antwerpen (Belgium)
2012
Manifesta 9 – The Deep of the Modern
Genk (Belgium)
2012
Museum of Forgotten History
Arnolfini, Bristol (UK)
2011 - 2012