Tamara Van San
Tamara Van San (°1982) studied sculpture at Sint-Lucas in Antwerp. She soon abandoned the classical technique of sculpting from a model and experimented with all manner of non-classical materials and shapes in vivid hues. For several years now, she has primarily been working in clay with brightly-coloured glazes. She makes sculptural spatial installations for both indoors and outdoors, but in addition also creates small-scale sculptures for a more intimate setting. In her work, she plays a spontaneous game with the basic sculptural elements of volume, form and colour.
Exhibitions
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Group Exhibition Never mind the weather
Antwerp Nieuw Zuid Now open: October 24 — December 19, 2026![]()
All exhibitions, Tamara Van San
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Group Exhibition Never mind the weather
Antwerp Nieuw Zuid Now open: October 24 — December 19, 2026![]()
Resume of Tamara Van San
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- 2026
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- Hope Spots, Daguet-Bresson gallery, Paris, France
- Tamara Van San, CC De Ververij, Ronse, Belgium
- 2025
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- Public sculpture for bees and other insects, with REAKTOR, Ronse, Belgium
- Forms & Singularities, Museum Torhouts Aardewerk, Torhout, Belgium
- 2024
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- Sylvester gallery window, Ghent, Belgium
- 2023
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- Book presentation, Gevaertsdreef01, Oudenaarde, Belgium
- Tamara Van San, Hilde Van Daele Gallery, Watou, Belgium
- Neutral Buoyancy (with Karel Thienpont), Gevaertsdreef01, Oudenaarde, Belgium
- 2021
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- Simon Demeuter & Tamara Van San (duo), Ballroom Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
- 2019
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- Tamara Van San, Loods12, Wetteren
- Tamara Van San, De ziener, Asse (w/ Niek Hendrix)
- 2018
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- 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
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- 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
- 2016
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- Bowing Monk, Standard Poodle and Other Scholarly Objects, Tatjana Pieters Gallery, Ghent
- Atlas of Forms and Colours, Canopy, Brussels (curated by Louise Chignac)
- 2015
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- Tamara Van San, Pierre Martens, Linkebeek
- Tamara Van San, Standpoint Gallery, London
- 2014
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- Indian Shuffle, Tamara Van San, Tatjana Pieters Gallery, Ghent
- 2013
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- Stellar Pleasure, Tatjana Pieters Gallery, Ghent
- 2012
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- Oronooko!, Galerie Triangle Bleu, Stavelot
- Tamara Van San, European Ceramic Work Centre (EKWC), The Netherlands
- 2011
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- 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
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- 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
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- From Rain to Sun & Everything in Between – Afrikaanse Impressies (Hommage aan Raymond Roussel), Hessenhuis, Middelheimproductie, Antwerp, Belgium
- 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
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- Something Little & Something Big, RHOK, Brussels
- The Rainbow White Show, Week 11, Secondroom, Brussels
- What to do With?, Argument, Tilburg
- 2006
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- Lokaal01, Antwerp, BE
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2026
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- Collect Art Fair, with Daguet-Bresson, London, UK
- Hangar d’ Amis, St Sauveur, BE
- Group show during Art Antwerp, Sint-Lucas Antwerpen, BE
- 2025
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- De Rampe, Kwaremont, BE
- Kerke, Gent, BE
- Tortilla Flat, M12, Ronse, BE
- 2024
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- La Fête, Musée De Carouge, Carouge, Zwitserland
- Groupshow, Museumhuis Lucien De Gheus, Poperinge, BE
- Kunst te Ronse, Ronse, BE
- De Rampe, Kwaremont, BE
- 2023
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- Collectible, with Florian Daguet-Bresson, Brussels, Belgium
- PAD Paris, with Florian Daguet-Bresson, Paris, France
- Kunst & Zwalm 2023, Zwalm, Belgium
- Tamara Van San, Edition on 12 AP, Vrienden van het S.M.A.K., S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium
- Healing The Museum, by Grace Ndiritu, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium
- 2022
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- 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
- 2021
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- Colere Deum Tuem, KNAP architecten, Ronse, Belgium
- CERAMICS NOW!, Galerie Italienne, Paris, France
- 2020
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- 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
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- ZWRT, Barbé Urbain Gallery, Ghent
- Biënnale Kunstenfestival, Aardenburg
- At Night, You Dance, Barbé Urbain Gallery, Ghent
- 2018
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- 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
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- OO#2, Antwerp Art Days, Antwerp
- 2016
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- 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
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- Small is Beautiful, Francis Carette Gallery, Brussels
- The Originals S1 E1, Tatjana Pieters Gallery, Ghent
- Art Brussels, w/ Tatjana Pieters Gallery, Brussels
- 2014
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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, UK
- 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
Selected Collections
- S.M.A.K., Ghent
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- S.M.A.K., Ghent
- MHKA, Antwerp
- MUBA, Tourcoing
- Private Collections in Brussels, London, France, Dubai
Awards & Residencies
- 2025
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- European Ceramic Work Centre, The Netherlands
- 2021
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- European Ceramic Work Centre, The Netherlands
- 2019
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- ICSHU (International Ceramics Studio), Kecskemét, Hungary
- 2018
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- JAEA International Art Center, Jingdezhen, China
- 2017
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- Kooshk, Teheran, Iran
- 2016
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- Gasworks, London, UK
- Art Contest Sabam Prize
- Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
- 2012
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- European Ceramic Work Centre, The Netherlands
Selected Publications
- 2022
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- Hope Spots, published by Tamara Van San
- 2014
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- Indian Shuffle, published by Tornado editions, Brussels
- 2010
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- The Wandering Tuba Method, published by S.M.A.K., Ghent
- 2009
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- Loud & Bright, published by Onomatopee, Eindhoven
Education
- 2005-2006
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- Sint Lucas, Antwerp (MA Sculpture)
- 2002-2005
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- Sint Lucas, Antwerp (BA Visual Arts)
Selected Lectures, Artist Talks, Teaching, Jury
- 2024
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- Artist Talk, Academie Arendonk, Belgium
- 2023
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- Artist Talk, SLAC, Leuven, Belgium
- 2022
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- Talk about art in the cabinet of minister Petra De Sutter
- 2019
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- Lecture, Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten, Dendermonde, Belgium
- Jury member, master students ceramics, La Cambre, Brussels, BE
- 2017
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- Annual Degree Show Bartlett Critique, Newcastle University, Fine Art, Newcastle, UK
- 2015
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- Lecture, Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten, Gent, Belgium
- 2013
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- Workshop, muZEE, Oostende, Belgium
- 2012
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- Guest professor, Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (KASK), opleiding INSITU, Antwerpen, Belgium
Curating
- 2018
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- Listening to The Form, Panthera Today, Brussels, Belgium
- The Gathering, Panthera Today, Brussels, Belgium
- 2010
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- XANADU!, collection presentation of the S.M.A.K, with Hans Theys, Ghent, Belgium