TAMARA VAN SAN

Overview
TAMARA VAN SAN
Silili, 2023 glazed ceramics ca. 66 x 34 x 33 cm unique

º1982, Antwerp, Belgium

lives and works in Belgium

Tamara Van San draait haar klei rond een sfeer van een ontembare, geheel individuele speelsheid. Haar grillige vormen rollen voort uit doorgedreven materiaalonderzoek dat de grenzen van keramiek provoceert. De structuren zijn vertakkingen van Van Sans hang naar een visuele complexiteit waarmee ze zichzelf en de toeschouwer wil blijven prikkelen. De standvastige snoepkleuren zuigen de ruimte mee in een verhaal waar figuratie geen rol meer speelt. Het resultaat zijn organische sculpturen die ons uitnodigen voor een verwarrend associatiespel.

 

 

Tamara Van San twists and turns clay around her very own atmosphere of determined playfulness. The artist’s whimsical shapes stem from thorough material research that provokes the boundaries of ceramics. The structures are branches of Van San's desire for a visual complexity with which she continues to excite herself and the viewer. The steadfast candy colours lure the space into a story where figuration no longer plays a role. The result is organic sculptures that invite us to a confusing association game.

Fragment tekst Yasmin Van 'tveld

Biography
Studio Tamara Van San, Ronse BE
Studio Tamara Van San, Ronse BE
 SELECTED COLLECTIONS S.M.A.K., Ghent MHKA, Antwerp MUBA, Tourcoing Private Collections in Brussels, London, France, Dubai SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2023 Book presentation, Gevaertsdreef01, Oudenaarde, Belgium Tamara Van San, Hilde Van Daele Gallery, Watou, Belgium Tamara Van San (with Karel Thienpont), Gevaertsdreef01, Oudenaarde, Belgium Tamara Van San, Edition on 12 AP, Vrienden van het S.M.A.K., S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium 2021 Simon Demeuter & Tamara Van San (duo), Ballroom Gallery, Brussels, Belgium 2019 Tamara Van San, Loods12, Wetteren Tamara Van San, De ziener, Asse (w/ Niek Hendrix) 2018 Modern Riddles, De Garage, Mechelen Red Babel and Other Miscellanea, Inbox, MHKA, Antwerp Tamara Van San, Jingdezhen International Studios, Jingdezhen Light, Hors Tempsia, Linkebeek (w/ Bénédicte de Brouwer) Tamara Van San, Puls Ceramics, Brussels The Grid, In-box, Brussels 2017 Tamara Van San, Galerie El, Welle Tamara Van San, Kooshk, Teheran Tamara Van San & Max Pinckers, NegenPuntNegen, Roeselare (curated by Louise Chignac) Tamara Van San, Permekemuseum, Mu.ZEE, Jabbeke Tamara Van San, YART, Ghent 2016 Bowing Monk, Standard Poodle and Other Scholarly Objects, Tatjana Pieters Gallery, Ghent Atlas of Forms and Colours, Canopy, Brussels (curated by Louise Chignac) 2015 Tamara Van San, Pierre Martens, Linkebeek Tamara Van San, Standpoint Gallery, London 2014 Indian Shuffle, Tamara Van San, Tatjana Pieters Gallery, Ghent 2013 Stellar Pleasure, Tatjana Pieters Gallery, Ghent 2012 Oronooko!, Galerie Triangle Bleu, Stavelot Tamara Van San, European Ceramic Work Centre (EKWC), The Netherlands 2011 Interpunction I: Baobab Sky, Tatjana Pieters Gallery, Ghent We’ve Plumbed This Whole Neighbourhood, Lido, St. Leonards-on-Sea , UK Beautiful Boys, Kunstencentrum België, Hasselt 2010 The Wandering Tuba Method, S.M.A.K., Ghent The Motley Crew, Openluchtmuseum Middelheim, Antwerp Real, Substantial, Wonderful, Sweet, Black Diamonds, Milky Mornings & Butterscotch, De Overslag, Eindhoven 2009 From Rain to Sun & Everything in Between – Afrikaanse Impressies (Hommage aan Raymond Roussel), Hessenhuis, Middelheimproductie Loud & Bright, Purple Birds & Blue Eyed Bitches Dancing. A Task for Poetry #2, Onomatopee, Eindhoven (curated by Erik Spinoy) The Many Things Show, Margalef & Gipponi Gallery, Antwerp 2008 Something Little & Something Big, RHOK, Brussels The Rainbow White Show, Week 11, Secondroom, Brussels What to do With?, Argument, Tilburg SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2023 Collectible, with Florian Daguet-Bresson, Brussels, Belgium PAD Paris, with Florian Daguet-Bresson, Paris, France 2022 Paper & Clay, Canopy Collections, Cromwell Place, London, UK Contre-Nature / Against Nature, MO.CO. Montpellier Contemporain, France Toucher Terre - L’art de la sculpture céramique, Fondation Villa Datris, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France A selection of 20 YEARS, EL Galerie, Welle, Belgium Of Mice and Men, Verduyn Gallery, Moregem, Belgium 2021 Colere Deum Tuum, Startingpoint KNAP architecten, Ronse, Belgium CERAMICS NOW!, Galerie Italienne, Paris, France 2020 Staycation, Barbé Urbain Gallery, Ghent Salon des Artistes, Ronse Kleureyck, Designmuseum, Ghent Poetic Faith, S.M.A.K., Ghent Premio Faenza Prize, MIC, Faenza 2019 ZWRT, Barbé Urbain Gallery, Ghent Biënnale Kunstenfestival, Aardenburg At Night, You Dance, Barbé Urbain Gallery, Ghent 2018 Trust, new works from the S.M.A.K. collection, Les Brasseurs, Luik CRMCS#1, Galerie Zwart Huis, Brussels European Ceramic Context 2018, Bornholm Art Museum, Gudhjem Art Autun, biennale d’art contemporain, Autun Le Socle, MuBA, Tourcoing 2017 OO#2, Antwerp Art Days, Antwerp 2016 Jumanji, Soft Focus Institute, Ghent Of The Sea, The Historic Dockyard, Catham (curated by Hannah Conroy) BEELD 2, Amsterdam Art Rooms, Amsterdam Amsterdam Art Fair, w/ Tatjana Pieters Gallery, Amsterdam Open Studio, Gasworks, London Omber, Odradek & Octaëder, Galerie d’Apostrof, Meigem Art Contest, Worlds Within Worlds, ADAM museum, Brussels 2015 Small is Beautiful, Francis Carette Gallery, Brussels The Originals S1 E1, Tatjana Pieters Gallery, Ghent Art Brussels, w/ Tatjana Pieters Gallery, Brussels 2014 Works on Paper, Tatjana Pieters Gallery, Ghent, BE The Suns & Stars Exhibition, Dresselhuyspaviljoen, Hilversum, NL Amsterdam Art Fair, w/ Tatjana Pieters Gallery, Amsterdam, NL A Whitsun Wedding. Episode II, Galerie El, Welle, BE Museum to Scale 1/7, The Baker Museum, Artis-Naples, Florida & Kunsthal, Rottterdam, NL 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 Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Lokaal 01, Breda, NL Arco Madrid, w/ Tatjana Pieters Gallery, Madrid, ES Art 13 London, London First, w/ Tatjana Pieters Gallery, London, UK 2012 Project museum op schaal, Galerie Ronny Van De Velde, Antwerp Het kunstwerk een gebruiksaanwijzing, Kunst in Zicht, Ghent 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 The Meaning of Colour, Valerie Traan, Antwerp 2011 RAAK, S.M.A.K. (touring exhibition) The Company of Humour, Lokaal 01, Breda Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together, Aspex, Portsmouth Watou 2011, Watou La part des anges, Villa De Olmen, Wieze (curated by Reniere & Depla) 2010 The Daily Exhaustion, Kosmetiksalon Babette 27, Berlin Public Private Paintings, Mu.ZEE, Ostend Xanadu!, S.M.A.K., Ghent AWARDS & RESIDENCIES European Ceramic Work Centre, The Netherlands, 2025 European Ceramic Work Centre, The Netherlands, 2021 ICSHU (International Ceramics Studio), Kecskemét, Hungary, 2019 JAEA International Art Center, Jingdezhen, China, 2018 Kooshk, Teheran, Iran, 2017 Gasworks, London, UK, 2016 Art Contest Sabam Prize, 2016 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, 2016 European Ceramic Work Centre, The Netherlands, 2012 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Hope Spots, published by Tamara Van San, 2022 Indian Shuffle, published by Tornado editions, Brussels, 2014 The Wandering Tuba Method, published by S.M.A.K., Ghent, 2010 Loud & Bright, published by Onomatopee, Eindhoven, 2009 


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