Ank’s body of work can be considered as an extensive research into the relationship between matter and void and the various ways in which contemporary sculpture can be defined in relation to its surrounding space.
Marking off the boundaries of a certain chosen space, Ank creates moulds with a variety of materials such as wood, aluminium, rubber and clay, which he then casts in plaster. During the casting process he mixes pigments with the liquid plaster, letting the material render their ultimate appearance. The works created by this process are both fragile and robust, delicate and solid, light as a feather and heavy as lead.
For Ank his works are not merely sculptures placed in space but 'stances' or 'subjects' that appear out of the space itself. They do not refer to any reality or to themselves as objects and define themselves on the basis of the relationships with both the viewer and the space thus continuously changing.
TRAINING & EDUCATION
2002 - 2004 Studio Arriolafiol, Barcelona
1997 - 2002 Sint-Lucas Architecture LUCA (Master in Architecture), Brussels
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
Stijn Ank - Breathe, Gallery ÖktemAykut, Istanbul (TR)
2020
Stijn Ank - Poems to Rome, Academia Belgica, Rome (IT), Curated by Sabine Van Sprang
2019
Stijn Ank - Unvoid, Temple University, Rome (IT)
Stijn Ank, Club Solo + Van Abbemuseum, Breda, NL
Curated by Thomas Bakker & Steven ten Thije
2018
Stijn Ank – The Beauty I feel, Bastide Projects, Marseille, FR
2017
Stijn Ank - Purity, Nunu Fine Art Gallery, Taipei, TW
Stijn Ank - Unvoid, curated by Huang Yi-Han, MoCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, TW
Stijn Ank - Fresco, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, DE
Stijn Ank - Fresco, curated by Christoph Tannert, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE
2015
Stijn Ank - Unvoid, Netwerk Art Center, Aalst, BE
2014
Stijn Ank - Vector, curated by Kevin Muhlen & Christine Walentiny, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d‘art contemporain, LU
Stijn Ank - diSTANCES, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, DE
2012
Stijn Ank - Interval, curated by Thomas Caron, S.M.A.K. Ghent, BE
2011
Stijn Ank, CIAP art center, Hasselt, BE
2007
Stijn Ank, CCHA Gallery, Hasselt, BE
2006
Stijn Ank, Galerie Jan Colle, Ghent, BE
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
To much is never enough, Pera Museum, Istanbul (TR)
2020
Summer Exhibition, Crown Gallery, Knokke (BE) I dreamed a dream, Marignana Arte, Venice (IT), Curated by Domenico de Chirico
2019
Stijn Ank - Peter Zimmermann, Crown Gallery, Knokke (BE) Trauma, Forays into contemporary painting, Marignana Arte, Venice (IT), Curated by Ilaria Bignotti Nuit de la roquette, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles (FR)
2018
Dialogues, Crown Gallery, Knokke, BE
Infinity Appearances, Innoart, Hsinchu, TW
2017
Drawing Ambience, deSingel, Antwerp, BE
Endless, Cwart, Knokke, BE
2016
The Extension of Medium, Nunu Fine Art Gallery, Taipei, TW
Open Studios, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE
The Biennial of Painting, Roger Raveel Museum, Machelen, BE
2015
Queering Taste - Total Affirmation, Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin
(re)view, CCHA Gallery, Hasselt, Belgium
2014
'Endless Column', VOLTA 10, Markthalle Basel, CH
2013
I could have lived here, M-Museum, Leuven, BE
2012
Facade, Netwerk art center, Aalst, BE
Efemeer, Museum van Deinze en Leiestreek, Deinze, BE
2011
group 1, Entrepot Fictief, Ghent, BE
Benefit Show & Auction, Museum Dhondt Dhaenens, Deurle, BE
Ename Actueel - Sediment, curated by Hans Martens, Provincial Archeological Museum, Ename, BE
2010
Public Private Painting, Provincial Museum of Modern Art - Mu.ZEE, Oostende, BE
Open Studio, Organized by Museum Dhondt Dhaenens, Deurle, BE
Group 5, Galerie Tatjana Pieters, Ghent, BE
Chipka - Prototypes, Netwerk art Center, Aalst, BE
2009
Folding, Witte Zaal Ghent, BE
2007
La jeune création belge, La Pommerie, Saint Sétiers, FR
Jamal‘s Poets Cafe, Beursschouwburg, Brussels, BE
Antigone, National Theatre, Ghent, BE
2006
Jette–Sur–MerC Atelier 340 Museum, Brussels, BE
A-parckunst, Musées Royaux d‘Art et d‘Histoire, Brussels, BE
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, TW
MUDAM - Musee d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg, LU
S.M.A.K. the Municipal Museum of Contemorary Art, Ghent, BE
BOOKS / CATALOGUES
2017
BE24, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE
2016
The Biennial of Painting, Roger Raveel Museum, Machelen, BE
2015
Traces, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d‘art contemporain, LU
2014
Stijn Ank - Vector, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d‘art contemporain, Graphic Design by Ward Heirwegh, Luxembourg, LU
2013
I could have lived here, Emannuel Lambion, M-Museum, Leuven, BE
2012
Stijn Ank - Interval, S.M.A.K, Graphic Design by Ward Heirwegh, Ghent, BE
2011
Ename Actueel 2011 Sediment, PAM, Hans Martens, Ename, BE
2010
PPP, Public Private Painting, Mu.Zee, Oostende, BE
Chipka, Netwerk, Aalst, BE
2009
Folding the landscape, Witte Zaal, Veronique Boone, Ghent, BE
2006
Mumures de sirènes, Atelier 340 museum, Paul Gonze, Brussels, BE
