Maarten Vanden Eynde

Maarten Vanden Eynde (born in Leuven, Belgium, in 1977) is a Belgian artist. He lives and works in Brussels (Belgium) and Saint-Mihiel (France).

Works Maarten Vanden Eynde travels constantly around the world to observe divers complexe phenomena (ecology, anthropology, archeology). Vanden Eynde has invented "Genetology", the science that covers several research fields and that forms the theoretical bases of his practice. His work shows us that the usual observation grid to understand our world (opposition of technique and nature / human and not-human) are more and more obsolete and that new ones should be reinvented. The hybrid composition of society, the more and more developed sociotechnical networks make slide the forces but also the power stakes. The transformations are evidently multiple and we can find this in the formal aspect of his work.

In Belgium his practice has received visibility in amongst others the M - Museum Leuven, Leuven and during Manifesta 9, Genk, and principally with his solo exhibition at the M HKA Antwerp. In 2015 his work has been shown in New Orleans (USA), Palazzo Reale in Milan, Italy, and in Lubumbashi, D.R. Congo, but also in Hangar H18 and the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels, Belgium.

Solo exhibitions

2016 Catastrophic Casualties & Casual Catastrophes, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)

2014 Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam (the Netherlands)

2013 Brick Era A.D. 2013, special outdoor project at Art Brussels, Brussels (Belgium) Plastic Reef, Hordaland Artcenter, Bergen (Norway) IN_DEPENDANCE, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)

2012 Museum of Forgotten History XXX, MuHKA, Antwerp (Belgium) Europe 2006–2014, FeliXart Museum, Drogenbos (Belgium)

2011 Museum of Forgotten History, Art Brussels, Brussels (Belgium)

2010 Gravitation, Kunstruimte Wagemans, Beetsterzwaag (the Netherlands) Industrial Evolution, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium) Oil Peak, Art in the City, Egmont Park, Brussels (Belgium)

2009 Homo Stupidus Stupidus, Waag Society, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

2008 The Museum of Forgotten History, Het Pand, Ugent, Ghent (Belgium)

2006 From Russia With Love, Maes & Matthys Gallery, Antwerp (Belgium)