Ludwig Vandevelde
Drawings
About
Ludwig Vandevelde has refined his artistic practice over the course of forty years to its very essence, resulting in a distinctive and sophisticated contemporary position as a draughtsman of delicate, modern still lifes.
He began his artistic career in the late 1980s as a sculptor, adopting elements from leading artistic movements such as conceptualism, minimalism, and arte povera. However, he soon developed a personal and recognisable style. Approaching realistic figuration from an intellectual perspective, he reintroduced ‘lost’ artistic techniques such as woodcarving, thereby creating space for a sensory and emotional experience of the work.
Vandevelde explicitly states his belief in historical continuity, arguing that the repeated dismantling of earlier artistic achievements ultimately impoverishes the quality of contemporary art.
After a brief diversion, during which he explored human figuration in clay and bronze sculptures, he returned to woodcarving, a craft he developed to perfection.
Throughout his entire career, the artist has created landscape and object drawings.
It is this practice that he now pursues exclusively.
Biography
1984
Montevideo, Annie Gentils, Antwerpen (B)
Ludwig Vandevelde, Zeno X Gallery, Antwerpen (B) (Ind.)
1987
Tel Hai, contemporary art, Tel hai (Isr)
1988
Confrontatie-Confrontaties, Museum voor hedendaagse kunst, Gent (B)
Kunst der Melancholie, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen (D) (Ind.)
1990
Artisti della Fiandra, Biennale di Venezia (I)
Kunstenaars uit Vlaanderen, Museum voor hedendaagse kunst, Gent (B)
Confrontaçiones, M.E.A.C., Madrid (E)
Bildung-Abbildung, De Selby Gallery, Amsterdam (NL) (Ind.)
Fantaisies Baroques, Galerie Schröder, Mönchengladbach (D) (Ind.)
1991
Paradoxe des Alltags, Museum im Lenbachhaus, München (D)
Buchstäblich, Von der Heydtmuseum, Wuppertal (D)
Kunst Europa, Kunstverein Düsseldorf (D)
La Collection Oubliée, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck (D) (Ind.)
La Collection Oubliée, Galerie Schröder, Mönchengladbach(D) (Ind.)
Spiegel der Melancholie, Kunstverein Krefeld (D) (Ind.)
De l’esthétique, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg (D) (Ind.)
Spiegel der Melancholie, Gesellschaft Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen (D) (Ind.)
1992
Drei Künstler aus Belgiën, Salzburger Kunstverein (A)
Atlas, Galerie in Situ, Maastricht (NL) (Ind.)
1993
Denkbeeld en Werkelijkheid, Muhka, Antwerpen (B)
Fragmente, Galerie Kewenig, Frechen/Bachem (D) (Ind.)
1994
Zonder titel, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle (B) (with Karel Dierickx)
De twaalf maanden, V.M.H.K., Gent (B) (Ind.)
Zonder titel, Galerie Ardi Poels, Maastricht (NL) (Ind.)
1995
9 Vlaamse kunstenaars, Palacio Nacional, Sintra (P)
Beelden en tekeningen, Galerie F17, Gent (B) (Ind.)
1996
Isola Comacina (It) (artist residence)
1997
Ludwig Vandevelde, Galerie F17, Gent (B) (Ind.)
1998
Villa Romana, Deutsche Künstlerbund, Firenze (It) (artist residence)
1999
Beelden, Galerie Lambert Tegenbosch, Heusden (NL)
Les Adieux, Galerie Jule Kewenig, Frechen/Bachem (D)
Neue Skulpturen, Galerie Seitz- von Werder, Berlin (B) (Ind.)
2000
Ludwig Vandevelde, Sculpturen en tekeningen, Muhka, Antwerpen (B) (Ind.)
Ludwig Vandevelde, Galerij F17 (Ind.)
Fire in Home and Studio. Damage and destruction of drawings, sculptures, and archive.
2001
Portretten, Secret Gardens, Rekem (B)
Ludwig Vandevelde, Lambert Tegenbosch (Ind.)
2002
Portretten, Hofvijver, Den Haag (NL)
Ludwig Vandevelde, Galerie Kusseneers, Lier (B) (Ind.)
2004
Portretten, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede (NL) (Ind.)
Portretten, Groeninghemuseum, Brugge (B) (Ind.)
Tekeningen, Galerij Rob De Vries, Haarlem (NL) (Ind.)
Lecturer at the KASK, Gent (B)
2006
Schenkingen, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede (NL)
2006-2012
Doctoral Research Programm, Ugent (B)
2008
La Collection Oubliée, Villa Goecke, Krefeld (D) (Ind.)
2010
Pietà, ‘Raum für Kunst’, Aachen (D) (Ind.)
2011
Academia Belgica, Roma (It) (Artist residency)
2012
Publication of ‘Pietà’. Fenomenologie van een creatieproces. MER-Gent, (B)
Pietà, Kiosk, Gent (B) (Ind.)
2015
Pietà, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede. (Ind.)
2015-2017
Commission for a monumental wall sculpture, Uantwerpen (B)
2020
Start series of Still lifes
2024
Sculptural, KERK, Middelkerke (B)
Private, corporate and public collections
Rudolf Springer, Berlijn (D)
Joshua Gessel en Yoel Kremin, Tel Aviv (Isr)
Sammlung Goetz, München (D)
Schipper, Utrecht (NL)
Muhka, Antwerpen (B)
Muzee, Oostende (B)
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede (NL)
Teylersmuseum, Haarlem (NL)
Chabotmuseum, Rotterdam (NL)
Collectie UAntwerpen, Antwerpen (B)
Museum aan zee, Scheveningen (NL)