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Ilse D’Hollander

Ilse D’Hollander

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    In her short life, Ilse D’Hollander (1968–1997) created an intelligent, sensual and highly resonant body of work. Born in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium, in 1968, graduating from the Hoger Instituut voor Beeldende Kunsten, St Lucas, Gent, in 1991, D’Hollander was steadfastly committed to painting as an intellectual and emotional endeavour. Her often small-scale canvases and works on paper are charged with references to the everyday. Yet, enlivened by an expressive, though always economical, touch, her work resonates just as strongly as a sustained, self-reflexive enquiry into the act of painting: what it might take to bring an image into being on a bounded, flat plane.

    D’Hollander drew upon her impressions and experience of place, particularly the Flemish countryside where she spent the last, highly productive years of her life. However, while alluding to objects and places in the world, as well as specifics of temperature and light, D’Hollander’s paintings are seldom immediately recognisable as straightforward landscapes. Instead, drawing the viewer in, her work reveals a masterful command of graphic and painterly touch that captures, holds and, often, diverts attention. Monochrome or near monochrome fields might be interrupted by blocks of colour; geometric volumes softened by streaks or strokes of paint – applied with a brush or sometimes the artist’s hands. The results can be read as a series of accumulated impressions, adjustments and layerings within her judiciously pared-back compositions – a visual record of the artist’s thought processes. 

    In 1991, in the only published text she wrote about her work, D’Hollander explained her process: ‘A painting comes into being when ideas and the act of painting coincide. When referring to ideas, it implies that as a painter, I am not facing my canvas as a neutral being but as an acting being who is investing into the act of painting. My being is present in my action on the canvas.’

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  • Selected Works

    Ilse D'Hollander, Untitled, 1996 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Ilse D'Hollander, Untitled, 1996 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Ilse D'Hollander, Untitled, 1996 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Ilse D'Hollander, Untitled , 1996 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Ilse D'Hollander, Untitled, 1996 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Ilse D'Hollander, Untitled, 1996 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Ilse D'Hollander, Untitled, 1996 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Ilse D’Hollander, Untitled, 1995 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Ilse D'Hollander, Untitled, 1995 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Ilse D'Hollander, Untitled, 1990-1991 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Ilse D'Hollander, Untitled, 1990-1991 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Ilse D'Hollander, Untitled, 1996
  • Biography

    Born in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium, in 1968, Ilse D’Hollander graduated from the Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, in 1988, and the Hoger Instituut voor Beeldende Kunsten, St Lucas, Gent, in 1991. During her lifetime, a solo exhibition was held at In Den Bouw, Kalken, in 1996. Posthumous solo exhibitions have been held at cc Binder, Puurs, Belgium (2020); The Arts Club, London (2019); Sean Kelly Gallery, New York (2019), Sofie Van de Velde Gallery, Antwerp (2019); Victoria Miro, London (2018); White House Gallery, Leuven (2017); ADAA The Art Show, presented by Sean Kelly Gallery, New York (2017); Sean Kelly Gallery, New York (2016); FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand (2016); Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin (2014); Sofie Van de Velde Gallery, Antwerp (2014); M Museum, Leuven (2013); Geukens & De Vil, Antwerp (2010); Lucas De Bruycker Gallery, Ghent (2004). Her work has been included in the group exhibitions L'Heure bleue, Sofie Van de Velde Gallery, Antwerp (2020); Salon de Peinture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp (2019), Surface Work, Victoria Miro, London (2018); Edifice, Complex, Visionary, Structure, Sean Kelly, New York (2018); Artemisia, Galerie Albert Baronian, Brussels (2017); In the Picture, Galerie Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp (2017); Geometric Abstractions, G262 Sofie Van De Velde Gallery, Antwerp (2015); Works on Paper, David Zwirner Gallery, New York (2014); Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf (2013); Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium (2009); Stille Schilders, Caermersklooster, Gent (2003; cat); Aula Art, Ghent (1996); Urmel Gallery, Gent (1994). Works by Ilse D’Hollander are in collections including Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium.

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  • News
    • Ilse D’Hollander at The Arts Club

      Ilse D’Hollander at The Arts Club

      September 16, 2019
      The exhibition (16 September 2019–January 2020) features canvases and works on cardboard by the late Belgian artist, focusing on the rich dialogue between representation and...
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    • Ilse D’Hollander features in Salon de Peinture at M HKA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp

      Ilse D’Hollander features in Salon de Peinture at M HKA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp

      January 15, 2019
      The exhibition (17 January–17 February 2019) features works by some 50 Belgian (or Belgium-based) artists, including Ilse D'Hollander, Raoul De Keyser, Luc Tuymans and Walter...
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    • This is tomorrow reviews Ilse D’Hollander

      This is tomorrow reviews Ilse D’Hollander

      December 14, 2018
      ‘D’Hollander’s ability to tread the tightrope between the Flemish scenery and her own world of emotion and spirit, establishes her place in the canon of abstract painters beside Piet Mondrian and Nicolas de Staël, and even Mark Rothko’s stained fields of colour.’
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    • Frieze reviews Ilse D’Hollander

      Frieze reviews Ilse D’Hollander

      December 10, 2018
      ‘As her first London solo show affirms, they are controlled exercises in mystery, which, though created at speed and in retiring shades, demand our time and scrutiny.’
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    • Read Laura Cumming’s review of Ilse D’Hollander in The Observer

      Read Laura Cumming’s review of Ilse D’Hollander in The Observer

      November 18, 2018
      ‘Small, calm and balanced, these landscapes are exceptionally beautiful.’
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    • Jackie Wullschlager features Ilse D’Hollander in the FT Critics’ Choice

      Jackie Wullschlager features Ilse D’Hollander in the FT Critics’ Choice

      November 10, 2018
      ‘… spare, still, subtle, small-scale but rhapsodic compositions, flitting between abstraction and evocations of the Flemish countryside…’
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    • Victoria Miro announces representation of The Estate of Ilse D’Hollander

      Victoria Miro announces representation of The Estate of Ilse D’Hollander

      April 21, 2018
      Victoria Miro is delighted to announce representation of The Estate of Ilse D’Hollander. The first London exhibition of works by the Belgian artist will be...
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    • The Financial Times announces Victoria Miro’s representation of the Ilse D’Hollander Estate

      The Financial Times announces Victoria Miro’s representation of the Ilse D’Hollander Estate

      April 20, 2018
      D’Hollander’s soft, small-scale but highly charged works often draw on the Flemish countryside and are increasingly finding their audience with recent institutional shows in Europe.
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    • Laura Cumming reviews Surface Work in The Observer

      Laura Cumming reviews Surface Work in The Observer

      April 15, 2018
      ★★★★★ This magnificent, century-spanning survey of abstract painting, all of it by women, many of whom are unknown, is as poignant as it is momentous...
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  • Gallery Exhibitions
    • Ilse D’Hollander

      Ilse D’Hollander

      7 Nov 2018 – 11 Jan 2019 Victoria Miro Mayfair
      Victoria Miro presents the first solo exhibition in the UK of paintings by Ilse D’Hollander.
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