Hugo Claus 1929-2008

Solo Exhibitions

1949 

Henri Vandeputte Bookshop, Ostend

1956

Galerie Taptoe, Brussels

1959

Paintings on Paper, Galerie Aujourd'hui / Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels; Frogs and Kings in the Mountains, Rotterdam Art Circle, Rotterdam

1961 

In Honour of Jonathan Swift, Knoll International, Brussels

1962

The Games of Hugo Claus, Celbeton, Dendermonde

1963

Design for a Pinacotheca of the Low Countries, Galerie Espace, Amsterdam; Galerie 20, Arnhem

1965

Diary Pages of Hugo Claus, Galerie Kaleidoscoop, Ghent; Retrospective, Galerie Margareta de Boevé, Assenede

1972

Estro Armonico, Antwerp

1978

Cobra Revisited, Printshop Belgium, Antwerp

1979 

Claustrum, Cultural Centre, Hasselt

1980

Gouaches, Drawings and Mixed Media, Galerie Wanda Reiff, Hulsberg

1981 

Ordinary Drawings, Galerie A.D.G., Ghent

1986

Photomorphoses, Stichting Veranneman, Kruishoutem; Evergreens, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam

1987

Imitations, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

1988

Memorial, Galerie Espace, Amsterdam; Works on Paper 1950-1982, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp

1990

Perte Totale, Stichting Veranneman, Kruishoutem; Astraea, Washington, D.C.; The Sacrament, De Warande, Brussels

1991 

Drawings (Crimes and Caresses), Galerie du Cirque Divers, Liège;Visual Work 1950-1990, De Zonnehof, Amersfoort; Galerie Van Gogh Centrum, Zundert

1992

Venus Vulgaris, Liverpool Gallery, Brussels; Galerie Quintessens, Utrecht

1994

Hugo Claus 65, Arnold Vander Haeghen Museum, Ghent

1995

Museum van der Togt, Amstelveen; Hugo Claus as Printmaker, Galerie Luc Aerts, Antwerp

1996

Zwijgershoek Exhibition Hall, Sint-Niklaas

2014

Hugo Claus: Omdat ik geen beeld ben (Because I Am Not an Image), Mu.ZEE, Ostend

2018 

Hugo Claus, Con Amore, Bozar, Brussels

2024

Hugo Claus: Aan de andere kant van woorden (On the Other Side of Words), Maurice Verbaet Gallery, Knokke

 

 

 


 

 

Group Exhibitions

1950

Apport 49, Galerie Apollo, Brussels (with Alechinsky, Bergen, Burssens, Bury, Claus, Collignon, De Coninck, Delhaye, François, Hannoset, Van Roy, Van Ginniken, Vlerick, Welles)

 

Exhibition for the sixth issue of Cobra, Galerie Apollo, Brussels (Claus, Corneille, Götz, Jorn, Österlin)

1951 

Works by Max Ernst presented in collaboration with Cobra, Galerie Apollo, Brussels

1958

Belgian Painters of Today, Stedelijk Museum, Diest

1959

Vitalità nell'Arte, Palazzo Grassi, Venice; Kunsthalle Recklinghausen; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

1960

Internationale Galerij Orez, The Hague; Autour de Florent Welles, L'Art à Forest

1962

The Sea, Galerie Delta, Rotterdam; Marzotto Prize, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Art within Everyone's Reach, Knokke; Forum 62, Ghent

1963

Belgian Aluchromists Group, Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels; Prix de la Critique, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi; Belgian Aluchromists,

 

Casino de Spa; Collectors in Contemporary Belgian Art, Les Contemporains, Brussels

1964

Galerie Delta, Rotterdam

1966

Cobra 1948-1951, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Paint in, Sigma Centre, Amsterdam

1975

Cobra exhibitions, Stedelijk Museum, Sint-Niklaas; Maison de la Culture, Namur

1980

Word and Image, Catholic University of Leuven, Kortrijk Campus

1981 

From Dada to the Present in Belgium, PMMK, Ypres

1988

Hommage à Cobra, Galerie Schoen, Berlin (Claus, Alechinsky, Appel, Corneille, Lucebert)

1989 

Double Talent, Hessenhuis, Antwerp; Poetry in Painting, Galerie Wauters, Assenede-Oosteeklo (Claus, Lucebert, Roobjee)

1993

Hugo Claus and Breyten Breytenbach, 't Elzenveld, Antwerp