Johan Creten

Born in Belgium in 1963, Johan Creten is a Paris-based Flemish sculptor and former resident of the Académie de France in Rome – Villa Médicis (1996). He works all over the world, from The Hague to New York, from Miami to Mexico City. He has notably exhibited in the Renaissance rooms of the Louvre in dialogue with Bernard Palissy and at the Eugène Delacroix Museum in Paris, the Bass Museum of Art in Miami, the Istanbul Biennial, the MAMCO in Geneva and the Middelheim Museum in Antwerp. 2018 Johan Creten’s work is represented by Galerie Perrotin in Paris, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo and Shanghai; Galerie Almine Rech in Brussels and Galerie Transit in Mechelen.

A trailblazer, unclassifiable and against the current, Johan Creten (b. 1963) is an artist who has established himself as a strong, enigmatic and intriguing figure in the artistic landscape of recent decades, occupying a singular place on the international scene of contemporary creation.

Since the 1980s, Johan Creten has distinguished himself through his innovative use of ceramics. Today, he is considered one of the leading figures of his revival in the field of contemporary art. Johan Creten also makes virtuoso use of bronze to create monumental sculptures, a major example of which is “De Vleermuis – La Chauve-Souris”, to be presented in the gardens of the Villa Médicis.