Tamara Van San
BIO | SELECTED WORKS
Installation view Tamara Van San, group show ‘At Night, You Dance’ (2019), Barbé Urbain gallery, Gent, BE
Making sculptures for inside and outside spaces and giant three-dimensional installations Tamara Van San (BE,1982) plays skillfully with strings, plastic, ceramic, metal and others materials letting colors and especially forms freedom to triumph. Circles and ovals in different sizes dominate in her works, whose great variety - from small ceramic sculptures to big, illuminated thin sculptures in public places - let even the most critical eye find its pleasure. "Allowing the works to resolve themselves through the process of their own making, and at all times keeping the tendency toward decentred chaos at bay, Van San arranges coloured forms in space that attain a harmonic, if temporary, order - an order that suppresses its constituent materiality's potential to upstage the whole. She achieves a formal sophistication in her work without recourse to dry or well rehearsed technique. Instead, by sailing close to the wind in her embrace of the language and material of the everyday, she is able to transform the familiar, revealing a space of visual delight and complexity that exists beneath the semiotically vociferous surface" (Dan Howard-Birt, October, 2011 ).
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Tamara Van San
Born in 1982
Works and lives in Kluisbergen, BE
Solo exhibitions
2019
Tamara Van San, Loods12, Wetteren, BE
Tamara Van San, De ziener, Asse, BE (duo)
2018
Modern Riddles, De Garage, Mechelen, BE
Red Babel and Other Miscellanea, Inbox, Muhka, Antwerp, BE Tamara Van San, Jingdezhen International Studios, Jingdezhen, CN Light, Hors Tempsia, Linkebeek, BE (duo)
Tamara Van San, Pulse gallery, Brussels, BE (duo)
The Grid, INBOX, Brussels, BE
2017
Tamara Van San, Galerie El, BE
Tamara Van San, Kooshk, Teheran, Iran.
Tamara Van San & Max Pinckers (duo), NegenPuntNegen, Roeselare, BE Tamara Van San (duo), Permekemuseum, MuZEE, Jabbeke, BE
Tamara Van San, YART, Ghent, BE
2016
Bowing Monk, Standard Poodle and Other Scholarly Objects, Tatjana Pieters, Ghent, BE Atlas of Forms and Colours, Canopy, Brussels, BE
2015
Tamara Van San @ Pierre Martens, Linkebeek, BE (solo) Tamara Van San, Standpoint Gallery, London, UK (duo)
2014
Indian Shuffle, Tamara Van San, Tatjana Pieters Gallery, Ghent, Belgium 2013
Tamara Van San & Anneke Eussen’, Tatjana Pieters Gallery at Nightshop, Knokke, BE Stellar Pleasure’, Tamara Van San, Tatjana Pieters Gallery, Ghent, BE
Bend it a Bit, Second Room, Antwerp, BE
2012
‘Oronooko!’, Galerie Triangle Bleu, Stavelot, BE (duo)
‘Tamara Van San’, EKWC, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL
2011
Tamara Van San, ‘Interpunction I: Baobab Sky,’ Tatjana Pieters Gallery, Ghent, BE
Tamara Van San, ‘We’ve Plumbed This Whole Neighbourhood’, Lido, St. Leonards-on-Sea, UK (duo)
Tamara Van San, ‘Beautiful Boys’, Kunstencentrum België, Hasselt, BE
2010
Tamara Van San, ‘The Wandering Tuba Method’, S.M.A.K, Ghent, BE
Tamara Van San. ‘The Motley Crew’, Openluchtmuseum Middelheim, Antwerp, BE
Tamara Van San. ‘Real, Substantial, Wonderful, Sweet, Black Diamonds, Milky Mornings & Butterscotch’, De Overslag, Eindhoven, NL
2009
‘From Rain to Sun & Everything in Between – Afrikaanse Impressies (Hommage aan Raymond Roussel)’, Tamara Van San, ‘Loud & Bright, Purple Birds & Blue Eyed Bitches Dancing. A Task for Poetry # 2’, Onomatopee, Eindhoven, NL (Curator: Erik Spinoy)
Tamara Van San. ‘The Many Things Show’, Margalef & Gipponi Gallery, Antwerp, BE
2008
Tamara Van San, ‘Something Little & Something Big’, RHOK, Brussels, BE
Tamara Van San. ‘The Rainbow White Show’, Week 11, Secondroom, Brussels, BE
Tamara Van San. ‘What to do With?’, Argument, Tilburg, NL
2007
Tamara Van San. Crox 238, Croxhapox, Ghent, BE
2006
Tamara Van San. Lokaal 01, Antwerp, BE
2005
‘Tamara Van San’, Nivoo1, Borgerhout, BE
Group exhibitions
2020
CHA CHA CVA, Group show, Barbé Urbain Gallery, Gent, BE
Staycation, Group show, Barbé Urbain Gallery, Gent, BE
2019
Groupshow, Foundation for Contemporary Ceramics, Kecskemét, HU ZWRT, Barbé Urbain gallery, Ghent, BE
Group show, Pulsar, Antwerpen, BE
Biënnale Kunstenfestival, Aardenburg, NL
At Night, You Dance. Barbé Urbain gallery, Ghent, BE The Fast Show. Loods12, Wetteren, BE
2018
Trust, new works from the S.M.A.K. - collection, Les Brasseurs, Luik, BE CRMCS#1, Galerie Zwart Huis, Brussels, BE
European Ceramic Context 2018, Bornholm Art Museum, DK Art Autun, biennale d’art contemporain, Autun, FR
Motility, Kasteelstraat 1, Watou, BE
Le Socle, MuBA, Tourcoing, FR
2017
OO#2, Antwerp Art Days, Antwerp, BE L’art pour l’accueil, Brussels, BE
2016
Jumanji, Soft Focus Institute, Ghent, BE
Of The Sea, The Historic Dockyard, Curated by Hannah Conroy, Catham, UK BEELD 2, Amsterdam Art Rooms, Amsterdam, NL
Amsterdam Art Fair, with Tatjana Pieters, Amsterdam, NL
Cité des Arts, Paris, FR
Open Studio, Gasworks, London, UK
Omber, Odradek & Octaëder, Galerie d’ Apostrof, Meigem, BE
Art Contest, Worlds Within Worlds, ADA museum, Brussel, BE
2015
Small is Beautiful, Francis Carette Gallery, Brussels, BE The Originals S1 E1, Tatjana Pieters Gallery, Ghent, BE Art Brussels, with Galerie Tatjana Pieters, BE
2014
Works on Paper, Tatjana Pieters Gallery, Ghent, BE
The Suns & Stars Exhibition, Dresselhuyspaviljoen, Hilversum, NL
‘A Whitsun Wedding. Episode II’, June, Galerie El, Welle. BE
‘Tempus Horribilis’. Met Philip Aguirre y Otegui, Johan Tahon and others, 14 June till 19 October 2014, Sint- Maartenskathedraal, Ieper, BE
Mayyi Zittan Ounfousinou ? (IV), De ververij, Ronse., BE
‘Museum to Scale 1/7’, The Baker Museum, Artis-Naples, Florida (USA), Kunsthal, Rottterdam
RAAK, travelling exhibition, BE
2013
‘Dag van de kunstuitleen’, Kunst in Huis, Antwerp, BE
‘Museum to Scale 1/7’, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, BE ‘The Gunshot’, Marion De Cannière Gallery, Antwerp, BE
‘Hey June’, Dworp, BE
Salon Blanc, Ostend, BE
‘Once More, unto the Breach, Dear Friends, Once More’, Lokaal 01, Breda, NL ‘RAAK’, organized by RASA, travelling exhibition, BE
Arco Madrid, with Tatjana Pieters Gallery, ES
Art 13 London, London First, with Tatjana Pieters Gallery, UK
2012
‘Project museum op schaal’, Galerie Ronny Van De Velde, Antwerp, BE ‘Het kunstwerk een gebruiksaanwijzing’, Kunst in Zicht, Ghent, BE Groupshow organized by Michael Dans, St Luc, Liège, BE
‘The New Candour! Works by Tamara Van San, Rein Dufait and Kasper Bosmans meeting works by Luc Deleu, Bernd Lohaus and Panamarenko’, Tatjana Pieters Gallery, Ghent, BE
‘The Meaning of Colour’, works by Philippe Van Snick, Tamara Van San and others, Valerie Traan, Antwerp, BE RAAK, organized by RASA, travelling exhibition, BE
‘Questa 2012’. With works by Tamara Van San, Maarten Van den Eynde, Peter Puype, Karl Philips, Benoit Felix, Koosje Smeddes and others, Tielt, BE
‘Mais l’aile ne fait pas l’oiseau’, with Johan Tahon, Tamara Van San, Bart Baele and others, Villa De Olmen, Wieze, BE
March Design Month, with works by Jerszey Seymour, Tamara Van San and others, Ghent, BE
‘A Whitsun Wedding’. With Guy Rombouts, Pol Matthé, Rein Dufait and others. In Galerie El, Welle, BE
2011
‘RAAK’, with Berlinde De Bruyckere, Edith De Kyndt, Panamarenko and others, organized by Rasa, at S.M.A.K., BE
‘The Company of Humour’, with Walter Swennen, Panamarenko, Michel Francois and others, at Lokaal 01, Breda, NL
‘Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together’, Aspex, Portsmouth, UK
‘Konsoorten’, Herman Teirlinckhuis, Beersel, BE
‘Watou 2011’. With Dirk Braeckman, Ann Veronica Janssens, Berlinde De Bruyckere and others, Watou, Belgium
‘La part des anges’. Met Johan Clarysse, Yves Velter, Gery Desmet, Jan Van Imschoot, Ludwig Vandevelde,Berlinde De Bruyckere, Peter Buggenhout, Tamara Van San, Thierry De Cordier and others, Villa De Olmen, Wieze (Curators: Reniere & Depla) BE
2010
’The Daily Exhaustion’, Kosmetiksalon Babette, 27, Berlin, DE
‘Public Private Paintings’, Mu.Zee, Ostend, BE
‘Xanadu!’ Met werk van Panamarenko, Bruce Nauman, Dirk Braeckman, Koen Theys, Bernd Lohaus, Ann Veronica Janssens, Walter Swennen, Raoul de Keyser, Tamara Van San and others, S.M.A.K., Ghent., 03/07 - 03/10