Paul Van Hoeydonck 1925-2025

Solo Exhibitions

1952

First Solo Exhibition: figurative paintings, Galerie Buyle, Antwerp, Belgium

 

Figurative paintings, Galerie Unicum, Bruges, Belgium

 

Figurative paintings, Au Cheval de Verre, Brussels, Belgium

1955-1960

Galerie Dutilleul, Brussels, Belgium

 

Galerie Saint-Laurent, Brussels, Belgium

 

Paul Van Hoeydonck, Galerie Saint-Laurent, Brussels, Belgium

 

Paul Van Hoeydonck, Galerie Accent, Antwerp, Belgium

 

Graphic Works, Galerie Saint-Laurent, Brussels, Belgium

1960

G58 Hessenhuis, Antwerp, Belgium

 

First major solo exhibition, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium

 

Iris Clert Gallery, Paris, France

1962-1969

Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, United States

 

ZERO 3, Düsseldorf, Germany

 

Galerie Iris Clert, Paris, France

 

Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm, Sweden

 

Galerie Thelen, Essen, Germany

 

Waddell Gallery, New York, United States

 

Galerie Krikhaar, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

 

Galerie Der Spiegel, Cologne, Germany

 

Galerie Cogéime, Brussels, Belgium

 

Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium

 

Galerie Foncke, Ghent, Belgium

 

Galerie Bonnier, Lausanne, Switzerland

 

Belgisches Haus, Cologne, Germany

 

International Monetary Fund, Washington, D.C., United States

 

Solo exhibition, Galerie Müller, Stuttgart, Germany

1969

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, United States

 

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, United States

 

Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

 

Galerie Withofs, Brussels, Belgium

 

Waddell Gallery, New York, United States

 

Galerie Foncke, Ghent, Belgium

 

Apollo Mission to the Moon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., United States

 

Palacio Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico

 

Solo exhibition, Galerie Foncke, Bruges and Ghent, Belgium

 

Galerie Bonnier, Geneva, Switzerland

 

Galerie Engelberts, Geneva, Switzerland

 

Galerie Rive Gauche, Brussels, Belgium

1972

Galerie Lanzenberg, Brussels, Belgium

 

Galerie Foncke, Ghent, Belgium

 

Galleria Einaudi, Milan, Italy

 

Waddell Gallery, New York, United States

 

Solo exhibition, Galerie Multi-Art, Antwerp, Belgium

 

Clark Polak Gallery, Los Angeles, United States

 

Drawings, Galerie Bonnier, Geneva, Switzerland

 

Talbot Rice Art Centre, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

 

Annely Juda Fine Art, London, United Kingdom

 

Proto-Astros, Studio Marconi, Milan, Italy

 

Galerie Bonnier at Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland

 

Studio Marconi, Milan, Italy

 

Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, Belgium

 

Galerie Bonnier, Geneva, Switzerland

1975

Galerie Foncke, Ghent, Belgium

 

Galerie Van Hoeywegen, Sint-Kwintens-Lennik, Belgium

 

Solo exhibition, Galerie Hüsstege, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

 

Galerie Singulier Pluriel, Brussels, Belgium

 

Galerie Bonnier, Geneva, Switzerland

 

Kunstforum, Schelderode, Belgium

 

Internazionale Biennale del Bronzetto, Palazzo della Ragione, Padua, Italy

 

The Sphere, Centre Ranelagh, Paris, France

 

Salon Ensemble, Galerie La Cour d’Ingres, Paris, France

 

Flora in Art, Kunstforum, Schelderode, Belgium

 

Bicentennial U.S.A., American Library, Brussels, Belgium

1998

Mars Chronicles, Guy Pieters Gallery, Knokke, Belgium; accompanied by a catalogue

1999

Half a Century: White on White, Orion Art Gallery, Brussels, Belgium; accompanied by a catalogue

2006

On the Moon… and with IVEG, solo exhibition, Hoboken, Belgium

2007

LAAC - Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dunkirk, France

 

Commission for forty bronze editions of Fallen Astronaut for the sculpture garden, with an exhibition of selected works, France

2008

Featured artist in the winter exhibition G58-G59 Mass-Akker, Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke, Belgium; accompanied by the monograph Lightworks, published by De Paepe Productions

2011

Oeuvre Lumière / Lightworks, Galerie Guy Pieters, Avenue Matignon, Paris, France

 

Galerie Guy Pieters, Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium

 

Early abstract-geometric works, FeliXart Museum, Drogenbos, Belgium; curated by Serge Seréveillon in collaboration with Ronny Van de Velde; accompanied by a book

 

Drawings and collages at De Rossaert, Antwerp, Belgium; presented by Wouter Van de Velde

 

Paul’s Wide White World, Guy Pieters Gallery, Knokke, Belgium

 

Mental Cinescopes: paintings from the 1970s, Eastmen Gallery, Hasselt, Belgium; curated by Willy Van den Bussche

 

Histoire Naturelle, University of Gembloux, Gembloux, Belgium; curated by Willy Van den Bussche

2014

Inauguration of the bronze sculpture Goldie, Wirtz Garden, Cultural Centre Kapellen, Belgium

 

Planets and Drawings, Eastmen Gallery, Hasselt, Belgium

2018

Ode to Movement, Maurice Verbaet Gallery, Knokke, Belgium

2019

Fallen Astronaut in Hors Pistes, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

 

Launch of Multiple Man in Space, Berlin, Germany; in collaboration with Bild Zeitung and Galerie Breckner

 

Paul Van Hoeydonck exhibition, Galerie Breckner, Düsseldorf, Germany

 

Fallen Astronaut in Fly Me to the Moon: The Moon Landing, 50 Years On, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland

 

Paul Van Hoeydonck exhibition, Space Expo, Noordwijk, the Netherlands

 

Paul Van Hoeydonck exhibition, Villers-la-Ville Abbey, Belgium

 

Fallen Astronaut in Apollo’s Muse: The Moon in the Age of Photography, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States

 

Paul Van Hoeydonck exhibition, Embassy of Belgium, Berlin, Germany

 

The Moon, Palazzo Madama, Turin, Italy; curated by Luca Beatrice and accompanied by a catalogue featuring Fallen Astronaut and the commemorative plaque on the Moon

 

Fallen Astronaut, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria

 

Moon Museum, Vasarely Museum, Budapest, Hungary; in association with the Museum of Fine Arts-Hungarian National Gallery

 

Paul Van Hoeydonck exhibition, Port House, Antwerp, Belgium

2022

Works from the 1950s and 1960s, Maurice Verbaet Gallery, Knokke, Belgium

2025

Art on the Moon, Cultuurhuis de Bijl, Zoersel, Belgium; anniversary exhibition redefined as a tribute exhibition, opening 3 May

 

Tribute exhibition to Paul Van Hoeydonck, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA), Antwerp, Belgium

 

Tribute exhibition to Paul Van Hoeydonck, Campo & Campo, Antwerp, Belgium

 

Tribute exhibition to Paul Van Hoeydonck, Callewaert Vanlangendonck Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

 

Tribute exhibition to Paul Van Hoeydonck, EICAS Museum, Deventer, the Netherlands; works from several periods, including the life-size Man in Space

 

Tribute exhibition to Paul Van Hoeydonck, Maurice Verbaet Gallery, Knokke, Belgium

 

 

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