Johan Creten

Johan Creten is a Belgian ceramic sculptor born at Sint-Truiden, Belgium. He lives and works in Paris, France. In 2009 he was nominated for the Flemish Culture Prize.^[1]

Contents 1 Solo exhibitions 2 Group exhibitions 3 Public collections 4 References 5 External links

Solo exhibitions

2011

• "Johan Creten. Pliny’s Sorrow", Almine Rech Gallery, Brussel, Belgium^[2]
• "Les ruches de Saint Bernard", Abbaye du Thoronet, in conjunction with the Centre des Monuments Nationaux, Thoronet, France

2010

• Presentation of the work "De Zuil/La Colonne", Middelheimmuseum, Antwerpen, Belgium
• "Dark Continent", Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France

2009

• "Why does Strange Fruit always look so sweet?" Galerie Saint-Séverin, Paris, France

2008

• "Johan Creten, sculptures", Galerie de la Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, Paris, France
• "Johan Creten- De gewonden/Les Blessées", Keramiekmuseum Princessehof, Leeuwarden, Netherlands^[3]
• "Johan Creten, sculptures", Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France^[4]
• "Johan Creten : La Femmina", on the occasion of "Dégelée Rabelais", Musée Archéologique Henri-Prades, Lattes, France
• "Strange Fruit", Galerie Perrotin, Miami, USA^[5]

2007

• "Johan Creten. Tour des Forces", on the occasion of the Biennale ARTour 2007, Musée Royal de Mariemont, Belgium
• "Johan Creten. Beelden", Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden, Netherlands^[6]

2006

• "Narcissus Saved", Galerie Transit, Mechelen, Belgium

2004

• "Miami Dreams", De Garage - ruimte voor actuele kunst, Mechelen, Belgium

2003

• "Johan Creten. Sculpture", Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
• "Johan Creten", Bass Museum of Art, Miami, USA^[7]
• "ArtBrussels, 21th Contemporary Art Fair", Galerie Transit, Brussels Expo, Brussel, Belgium
• "Johan Creten", J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville Beach, Florida, USA

2001

• "En attendant les Égyptiens", Galerie Papillon, Paris, France
• Installation in conjunction with "Extraits : 5 lieux investis. Art contemporain, paysage et économie", Les Rairies, Anjou, France
• "Johan Creten: 3 Torsos", Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA
• "C’est dans ma nature", Hôtel de Ville, Aulnay-sous-Bois, France

2000

• "Johan Creten Ceramic Sculpture", Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
• "Animalia", Galerie Transit, Mechelen, Belgium
• "Animalia", Cultureel Centrum de Bogaard, Sint-Truiden, Belgium

1999

• "Que Maravilla, Que Maravilla...", Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
• "Johan Creten. Escultura Villa de García", Casa del Obispado, Monterrey, Mexico

1998

• "Sculptures récentes", École des Beaux-Arts, Dunkerque, France
• "L'Homme parfait", Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCO), Genève, Switzerland
• "Johan Creten: Works on Paper", Galerie Transit, Leuven, Belgium
• "Odore di Femmina", Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA^[8]

1997

• "La Misère Dorée", in conjunction with "Retours d’Italie", Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
• "Johan Creten", La Box, Bourges, France
• Installation, Villa Médicis, Roma, Italy

1996

• "Wereldbeelden/De Voorkamer", W 139, Amsterdam, Netherlands

1995

• "Huis van bewaring - Marc Cloet en Johan Creten", Stedelijk Museum Het Toreke, Tienen, Belgium
• "Amerika Amerika", Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany

1994

• "Les Amants", Galerie Transit, Leuven, Belgium
• "La Mort d’Adonis", Musée Crozatier, Le Puy-en-Velay, France
• "La Mort d'Adonis", FRAC Auvergne, Château de Chareil-Cintrat, France
• "La Mort d’Adonis", Gallery Hesselbach, Berlin, Germany
• "La Tête d’Obsidienne", La Seyne-sur-Mer, France
• "Johan Creten", Gallery Beam, Nijmegen, Netherlands
• "60 rooms with a view", Art Hotel, Amsterdam, Netherlands

1993

• "Johan Creten", Galerie de la Villa, Villa Arson, Nice France

1992

• "Johan Creten. Het Paard van Troje/Le Cheval de Troie", 1986-1992, Galerie Transit, Leuven, Belgium

1991

• "En Quarantaine", installation, brise-lames, Sète, France

1990

• "Saint-Sodom & Stimulators", CIAP, Hasselt, Belgium
• "L'oeil de l'antiquaire", Galerie Transit, Leuven, Belgium

1988

• "Kunstkamer", installation and performance, Galerie Meyer, Paris, France

1987

• "Johan Creten: Peintures et sculptures", Galerie Meyer, Paris, France

Group exhibitions

2011

• "Bêtes off", Conciergerie, Paris, France
• "Bestes, bestiaux et bestioles (Genèse)", in conjunction with "Monuments et animaux", Château d’Oiron, Oiron, France
• "Big brother, l’artiste face aux tyrans", Palais des Arts et du Festival, Dinard, France
• "Art HK. Hong Kong International Art Fair", Almine Rech Gallery, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, China
• "Art in the City. Outdoor sculpture exhibition", Art Brussel, 29th Contemporary Art Fair, Almine Rech Gallery, Egmont Park, Brussel, Belgium
• "Art Brussels, 29th Contemporary Art Fair", Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels Expo, Brussel, Belgium
• "Art Brussels, 29th Contemporary Art Fair", Galerie Perrotin, Brussels Expo, Brussel, Belgium
• "Art Brussels, 29th Contemporary Art Fair", Galerie Transit, Brussels Expo, Brussel, Belgium
• "Céramiques d’artistes depuis Picasso", works of the collections of the Fond National d’Art Contemporain, Centre d’art contemporain Doual’art, Douala, Cameroun
• "Propos d’Europe 10: des artistes belges", Fondation Hippocrène, Paris, France

2010

• "Beyond Limits, a selling exhibition of modern and contemporary sculpture", Sotheby's, Chatsworth Castle, Derbyshire, UK
• "Circuit Céramique : la scène française contemporaine", Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, France
• "Liefde voor het boek", Hasselt, Belgium
• "Between the Sacred and the Profane", CIAP, Hasselt, Belgium
• "Sèvres, Porcelaines Contemporaines", Musée de l'Ermitage, Palais Menchikov, Saint Petersbourg, Russia
• Château de Rambouillet, France
• "Who is afraid of the Museum?" Museum Hof van Busleyden Mechelen, Belgium
• "Olbricht Collection", Essen & Berlin, Germany
• "New Monuments" Middelheimmuseum, Anvers, Belgium
• "Coup de ville en chambre d'amis" Tentoonstellingsproject , Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
• "Weizijwijzei, Landart", Flandres, Belgium
• "Manifestation d’art contemporain", Centre culturel français, Yaoundé, Cameroun
• "Métissages à Rochefort : Rencontre entre un artiste et une technique textile", Rochefort, France

2009

• "New Love" Princessehof Museum of Ceramics, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
• "Feux continus" Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, Grand Hornu, Belgium
• "La Conquista della Modernita", 1920-2008, Musei Capitolini, Roma, Italy^[9]
• "Flower Power", Villa Giulia, Verbania, Italy
• "Silencio", Johan Creten - Paolo Grassino - Sarkis, Eglise Saint Jean, Le Monastier organized by Fonds Régional D'Art Contemporain Auvergne, France

2008

• "Christian Lacroix", Musée Reattu, Arles, France^[10]
• "Grandeur", curator Anna Tilroe, Sonsbeek, Netherlands^[11]
• "Sand : Memory, Meaning and Metaphor", The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, USA
• "La dégelée Rabelais, la Dive Bouteille, Trich", Château de Jau, FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, France
• "Pour ainsi dire", Galerie Vasistas, Montpellier, France
• "Trinch !", Cases-de-Pène, Château de Jau, Languedoc-Roussillon, France

2007

• "Intrusions", Petit Palais, Paris, France
• "Dialogues Méditerranéens", Saint-Tropez, France

2006

• "From Arp to Bourgeaois", Wallace Collection, London, United-Kingdom^[12]
• "Céramique Fiction", Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France

2005

• "Contrepoint 2", Musée du Louvre, Paris, Louvre, France

2004

• "Because the earth is 1/3 dirt", C.U. Art Museum, Bolder, Colorado, USA^[13]
• "Métissages", MACO Oaxaca, Mexico, Mexique

2003

• "Fragileé, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Reims, France

2002

• "The Erotic Life of Clay : Sex Pots", Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA
• "Beyond the Male Pale", J.M. Kohler Arts Center, Wisconsin, USA

2001

• "Water on paper", CIAP, Hasselt, Belgium

2000

• "Confrontational Clay", the artist as Social Critic, traveling show, USA^[14]

1999

• "Garten der Flora", Museum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany

1997

• "5th International Istanbul Biennial", Yerebatan Cistern, Istanbul, Turkey^[15]
• "Sables brulants", Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen, Netherlands
• "Retour d'Italie", Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Palais du Louvre, Paris^[16]
• "L'exposition informelle", Frac Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France

1995

• "Fémininmasculin", Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

1991

• "Incrustaties", Picaron Editions, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Public collections

• Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
• Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France
• Sèvres-Cité de la Céramique, Sèvres, France
• FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, France
• FRAC Pays de la Loire, France
• FRAC Auverge, France
• The Olbricht Collection, Berlin / Essen, Germany
• Collection of the city of Sonsbeek, Netherlands
• Provincial Museum voor Moderne kunst (PMMK), Oostende, Belgium
• Keramiekmuseum Princessehof, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
• Collection of the Ministry of the Flemish Community, Belgium
• Collection of the Province of Flemish Brabant, Belgium
• Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
• John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Wisconsin, USA
• Kohler Co. Collection, USA
• Fonds Municipal d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
• Museum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany
• Cultural Heritage Agency, Amersfoort, Netherlands

References

External links

• http://www.transit.be
• http://www.galerieperrotin.com
• http://www.alminerech.com

Persondata
Name	Creten, Johan
Alternative names
Short description	sculptor
Date of birth
Place of birth	Sint-Truiden, Belgium
Date of death
Place of death