Johan Creten
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Johan Creten is a Belgian ceramic sculptor born at Sint-Truiden
Sint-Truiden
Sint-Truiden is a city and municipality located in the province of Limburg, Flemish Region, Belgium, near the towns of Hasselt and Tongeren. The municipality includes the old communes of Aalst, Brustem, Duras, Engelmanshoven, Gelinden, Gorsem, Groot-Gelmen, Halmaal, Kerkom-bij-Sint-Truiden,...

, Belgium
Belgium
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. He lives and works in Paris, France. In 2009 he was nominated for the Flemish Culture Prize.

Solo exhibitions

2011
  • "Johan Creten. Pliny’s Sorrow", Almine Rech Gallery, Brussel, Belgium
  • "Les ruches de Saint Bernard", Abbaye du Thoronet, in conjunction with the Centre des Monuments Nationaux, Thoronet, France


2010
  • Presentation of the work "De Zuil/La Colonne", Middelheimmuseum, Antwerpen, Belgium
  • "Dark Continent", Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France


2009
  • "Why does Strange Fruit always look so sweet?" Galerie Saint-Séverin, Paris, France


2008
  • "Johan Creten, sculptures", Galerie de la Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, Paris, France
  • "Johan Creten- De gewonden/Les Blessées", Keramiekmuseum Princessehof, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
  • "Johan Creten, sculptures", Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France
  • "Johan Creten : La Femmina", on the occasion of "Dégelée Rabelais", Musée Archéologique Henri-Prades, Lattes, France
  • "Strange Fruit", Galerie Perrotin, Miami, USA


2007
  • "Johan Creten. Tour des Forces", on the occasion of the Biennale ARTour 2007, Musée Royal de Mariemont, Belgium
  • "Johan Creten. Beelden", Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden, Netherlands


2006
  • "Narcissus Saved", Galerie Transit, Mechelen, Belgium


2004
  • "Miami Dreams", De Garage - ruimte voor actuele kunst, Mechelen, Belgium


2003
  • "Johan Creten. Sculpture", Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
  • "Johan Creten", Bass Museum of Art, Miami, USA
  • "ArtBrussels, Contemporary Art Fair", Galerie Transit, Brussels Expo, Brussel, Belgium
  • "Johan Creten", J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville Beach, Florida, USA


2001
  • "En attendant les Égyptiens", Galerie Papillon, Paris, France
  • Installation in conjunction with "Extraits : 5 lieux investis. Art contemporain, paysage et économie", Les Rairies, Anjou, France
  • "Johan Creten: 3 Torsos", Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA
  • "C’est dans ma nature", Hôtel de Ville, Aulnay-sous-Bois, France


2000
  • "Johan Creten Ceramic Sculpture", Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
  • "Animalia", Galerie Transit, Mechelen, Belgium
  • "Animalia", Cultureel Centrum de Bogaard, Sint-Truiden, Belgium


1999
  • "Que Maravilla, Que Maravilla...", Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
  • "Johan Creten. Escultura Villa de García", Casa del Obispado, Monterrey, Mexico


1998
  • "Sculptures récentes", École des Beaux-Arts, Dunkerque, France
  • "L'Homme parfait", Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCO), Genève, Switzerland
  • "Johan Creten: Works on Paper", Galerie Transit, Leuven, Belgium
  • "Odore di Femmina", Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA


1997
  • "La Misère Dorée", in conjunction with "Retours d’Italie", Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
  • "Johan Creten", La Box, Bourges, France
  • Installation, Villa Médicis, Roma, Italy


1996
  • "Wereldbeelden/De Voorkamer", W 139, Amsterdam, Netherlands


1995
  • "Huis van bewaring - Marc Cloet en Johan Creten", Stedelijk Museum Het Toreke, Tienen, Belgium
  • "Amerika Amerika", Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany


1994
  • "Les Amants", Galerie Transit, Leuven, Belgium
  • "La Mort d’Adonis", Musée Crozatier, Le Puy-en-Velay, France
  • "La Mort d'Adonis", FRAC Auvergne, Château de Chareil-Cintrat, France
  • "La Mort d’Adonis", Gallery Hesselbach, Berlin, Germany
  • "La Tête d’Obsidienne", La Seyne-sur-Mer, France
  • "Johan Creten", Gallery Beam, Nijmegen, Netherlands
  • "60 rooms with a view", Art Hotel, Amsterdam, Netherlands


1993
  • "Johan Creten", Galerie de la Villa, Villa Arson, Nice France


1992
  • "Johan Creten. Het Paard van Troje/Le Cheval de Troie", 1986-1992, Galerie Transit, Leuven, Belgium


1991
  • "En Quarantaine", installation, brise-lames, Sète, France


1990
  • "Saint-Sodom & Stimulators", CIAP, Hasselt, Belgium
  • "L'oeil de l'antiquaire", Galerie Transit, Leuven, Belgium


1988
  • "Kunstkamer", installation and performance, Galerie Meyer, Paris, France


1987
  • "Johan Creten: Peintures et sculptures", Galerie Meyer, Paris, France

Group exhibitions

2011
  • "Bêtes off", Conciergerie, Paris, France
  • "Bestes, bestiaux et bestioles (Genèse)", in conjunction with "Monuments et animaux", Château d’Oiron, Oiron, France
  • "Big brother, l’artiste face aux tyrans", Palais des Arts et du Festival, Dinard, France
  • "Art HK. Hong Kong International Art Fair", Almine Rech Gallery, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, China
  • "Art in the City. Outdoor sculpture exhibition", Art Brussel, 29th Contemporary Art Fair, Almine Rech Gallery, Egmont Park, Brussel, Belgium
  • "Art Brussels, 29th Contemporary Art Fair", Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels Expo, Brussel, Belgium
  • "Art Brussels, 29th Contemporary Art Fair", Galerie Perrotin, Brussels Expo, Brussel, Belgium
  • "Art Brussels, 29th Contemporary Art Fair", Galerie Transit, Brussels Expo, Brussel, Belgium
  • "Céramiques d’artistes depuis Picasso", works of the collections of the Fond National d’Art Contemporain, Centre d’art contemporain Doual’art, Douala, Cameroun
  • "Propos d’Europe 10: des artistes belges", Fondation Hippocrène, Paris, France


2010
  • "Beyond Limits, a selling exhibition of modern and contemporary sculpture", Sotheby's, Chatsworth Castle, Derbyshire, UK
  • "Circuit Céramique : la scène française contemporaine", Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, France
  • "Liefde voor het boek", Hasselt, Belgium
  • "Between the Sacred and the Profane", CIAP, Hasselt, Belgium
  • "Sèvres, Porcelaines Contemporaines", Musée de l'Ermitage, Palais Menchikov, Saint Petersbourg, Russia
  • Château de Rambouillet, France
  • "Who is afraid of the Museum?" Museum Hof van Busleyden Mechelen, Belgium
  • "Olbricht Collection", Essen & Berlin, Germany
  • "New Monuments" Middelheimmuseum, Anvers, Belgium
  • "Coup de ville en chambre d'amis" Tentoonstellingsproject , Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
  • "Weizijwijzei, Landart", Flandres, Belgium
  • "Manifestation d’art contemporain", Centre culturel français, Yaoundé, Cameroun
  • "Métissages à Rochefort : Rencontre entre un artiste et une technique textile", Rochefort, France


2009
  • "New Love" Princessehof Museum of Ceramics, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
  • "Feux continus" Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, Grand Hornu, Belgium
  • "La Conquista della Modernita", 1920-2008, Musei Capitolini, Roma, Italy
  • "Flower Power", Villa Giulia, Verbania, Italy
  • "Silencio", Johan Creten - Paolo Grassino - Sarkis, Eglise Saint Jean, Le Monastier organized by Fonds Régional D'Art Contemporain Auvergne, France


2008
  • "Christian Lacroix", Musée Reattu, Arles, France
  • "Grandeur", curator Anna Tilroe, Sonsbeek, Netherlands
  • "Sand : Memory, Meaning and Metaphor", The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, USA
  • "La dégelée Rabelais, la Dive Bouteille, Trich", Château de Jau, FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, France
  • "Pour ainsi dire", Galerie Vasistas, Montpellier, France
  • "Trinch !", Cases-de-Pène, Château de Jau, Languedoc-Roussillon, France


2007
  • "Intrusions", Petit Palais, Paris, France
  • "Dialogues Méditerranéens", Saint-Tropez, France


2006
  • "From Arp to Bourgeaois", Wallace Collection, London, United-Kingdom
  • "Céramique Fiction", Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France


2005
  • "Contrepoint 2", Musée du Louvre, Paris, Louvre, France


2004
  • "Because the earth is 1/3 dirt", C.U. Art Museum, Bolder, Colorado, USA
  • "Métissages", MACO Oaxaca, Mexico, Mexique


2003
  • "Fragileé, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Reims, France


2002
  • "The Erotic Life of Clay : Sex Pots", Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA
  • "Beyond the Male Pale", J.M. Kohler Arts Center, Wisconsin, USA


2001
  • "Water on paper", CIAP, Hasselt, Belgium


2000
  • "Confrontational Clay", the artist as Social Critic, traveling show, USA


1999
  • "Garten der Flora", Museum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany


1997
  • "5th International Istanbul Biennial", Yerebatan Cistern, Istanbul, Turkey
  • "Sables brulants", Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen, Netherlands
  • "Retour d'Italie", Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Palais du Louvre, Paris
  • "L'exposition informelle", Frac Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France


1995
  • "Fémininmasculin", Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France


1991
  • "Incrustaties", Picaron Editions, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Public collections

  • Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
  • Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France
  • Sèvres-Cité de la Céramique, Sèvres, France
  • FRAC
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    Languedoc-Roussillon, France
  • FRAC Pays de la Loire, France
  • FRAC Auverge, France
  • The Olbricht Collection, Berlin / Essen, Germany
  • Collection of the city of Sonsbeek, Netherlands
  • Provincial Museum voor Moderne kunst (PMMK), Oostende, Belgium
  • Keramiekmuseum Princessehof, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
  • Collection of the Ministry of the Flemish Community, Belgium
  • Collection of the Province of Flemish Brabant, Belgium
  • Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
  • John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Wisconsin, USA
  • Kohler Co. Collection, USA
  • Fonds Municipal d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
  • Museum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany
  • Cultural Heritage Agency, Amersfoort, Netherlands

External links

  • http://www.transit.be
  • http://www.galerieperrotin.com
  • http://www.alminerech.com
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