Arne Quinze

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Arne Quinze
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Quinze and his sculpture Mojave, a Chroma Lupine
Born (1971-12-15) 15 December 1971 (age 54)
Ghent, Belgium
Known for
Style
Movement
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(m. 2009;div. 2011)​
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(m. 2012;div. 2015)​
Website https://www.arnequinze.com/

Arne Quinze (born December 15, 1971) is a Belgian conceptual artist. Quinze is known for creating large-scale public art installations consisting of sculptures made from recycled materials with the intention to both contrast and harmonize with the environment. [1]

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Early life

Quinze was born on December 15, 1971 in Gent, Belgium. [2] He attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, but dropped out. [3] He then became a graffiti artist in Brussels. [2]

Artistic Career

In 2006, Quinze built Uchronia: "A Message from the Future", a large wooden sculpture shown at the Burning Man festival in Nevada. [4] In Munich, Germany, he built Traveller (2008) for Louis Vuitton. [5] Other public art installations include Rebirth (2008) in Paris, France, [6] and an ongoing project at the Big Four Bridge in Louisville, Kentucky. [7]

In 2009, Quinze installed a public Stilt House piece called "The Visitor" in Beirut, Lebanon, [8] near its recently developed Souk complex. The auction house Phillips de Pury & Company invited Quinze to present his work at their London gallery. The exhibition was extended at London's Saatchi Gallery in the Duke of York's Headquarters on King's Road.[ citation needed ]

During the summer of 2010, at the festival Rouen impressionnée  [ fr ] (part of the Normandie Impressionniste festival, celebrating the region's impressionist past), Quinze painted the Les Jardins/The Waterlilies series for an exhibition in the Abbatiale de Saint-Ouen. [9] In addition to the exhibition, an installation titled Camille was built on the Pont Boieldieu, a bridge painted several times by Camille Pissarro. [10] Another of Quinze's works, Red Beacon (2010), can be found in the Jing'an Sculpture Park in Shanghai. [11] [12]

The installation "My Home My House My Stilt House" (2011) in Humlebaek, Denmark, at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, explores new forms of housing and living. [13] On the 4th of July, 2011, Quinze revealed a virtual installation titled Rock Strangers, [14] which was projected on the Statue of Liberty in New York City. This collaboration between Quinze and Beck's was part of their Green Box Project, co-curated, commissioned, and mentored by Nick Knight and Sam Spiegel. [15]

During Hamburg Art week in 2011, Quinze unveiled a new artwork. [16] Made from old, smashed porcelain, Quinze noted that the work symbolises the destruction of family traditions.[ citation needed ]

In June 2014, Quinze collaborated with Veridor to create an artwork consisting of 45 kilograms (99 lb) of precious metal. This piece, titled Natural Chaos - Golden Edition No. 1, was created using 18-carat rose gold, 18-carat palladium white gold in rod and pipe form, gold wire and leaves. The piece was listed for sale on JamesEdition at a price of €1,800,000. [17]

On Mons 2015 European Capital of Culture , a wooden installation called The Passenger was unveiled on December 6, 2014. [18] After a partial collapse of the piece about two weeks later (on December 24), it was rebuilt and inaugurated on 16 October 2015. The installation remained visible until December 19, 2019. [19]

Major installations

Quinze has created numerous public installations around the world. Notable works include:

His works in public space are often temporary, though several have become permanent fixtures depending on local commissions.

Uchronia, a large wooden sculpture at the Burning Man festival in Black Rock City, Nevada desert, United States Uchronia by Arne Quinze, Nevada desert, USA.jpg
Uchronia, a large wooden sculpture at the Burning Man festival in Black Rock City, Nevada desert, United States
Rock Strangers, a sculpture by Quinze in Ostend Rock Strangers (8874967803).jpg
Rock Strangers, a sculpture by Quinze in Ostend
The Beautiful Dreamer by Quinze The Beautiful Dreamer by Arne Quinze.jpg
The Beautiful Dreamer by Quinze

Personal life

Quinze married Barbara Becker at their Miami waterfront home on 9 September 2009. The couple divorced two years later, in October 2011. [23] He remarried An Lemmens a year later, on 6 October 2012; they divorced in September 2015.[ citation needed ]

He has five children, [3] and lives and works in Sint-Martens-Latem near Ghent, Belgium. [24]

Further reading

References

  1. ↑ "Interview by Kjeld Kjeldsen". Arne Quinze. Retrieved 16 July 2025.
  2. 1 2 "Arne Quinze". MARUANI MERCIER. Retrieved 5 November 2025.
  3. 1 2 Wijsenbeek, Dinah (11 July 2017). "Quinze, Arne". Artists of the World. Retrieved 14 November 2025.
  4. ↑ Article, Artnet Gallery Network ShareShare This (14 September 2023). "7 Questions for Belgian Artist Arne Quinze on How a Wildflower Garden Taught Him to Embrace the Unexpected in His Work". Artnet News. Retrieved 16 July 2025.
  5. ↑ Arne Quinze & Louis Vuitton collab in Munich, Wejetset, 29 December 2008 Archived 18 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ "Rebirth by Arne Quinze, Neu Black, 7 September 2008". Archived from the original on 29 November 2009. Retrieved 15 October 2009.
  7. ↑ Big Four Bridge proposal by Arne Quinze, Broken Sidewalk, 26 September 2009
  8. ↑ Public sculpture in Beirut, Gestalten, 12 August 2009
  9. 1 2 "wetterling gallery".
  10. ↑ www.camille-arnequinze.fr, 28 June 2010
  11. ↑ "Red Beacon". Arne Quinze. Retrieved 29 January 2025.
  12. ↑ "Jing'an Sculpture Park / IPA". www.instituteforpublicart.org. Retrieved 29 January 2025.
  13. ↑ GG Art, 14 May 2011
  14. ↑ Arne Quinze, 4 July 2011 Archived 5 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  15. ↑ Rock Strangers, Contagious Magazine, 5 July 2011 Archived 12 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  16. ↑ Hamburg Artweek, 17 June 2011 Archived 21 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  17. ↑ JamesEdition Extraordinaire
  18. ↑ Times, The Brussels. "Mons 2015 - Arne Quinze's "The Passenger" to be officially opened on December 6th in Mons". www.brusselstimes.com. Retrieved 2 January 2026.
  19. ↑ NWS, VRT (25 December 2014). "Arne Quinze installation collapses at Mons 2015 | VRT NWS: news". VRTNWS. Retrieved 2 January 2026.
  20. ↑ Future, Rethinking The (29 July 2017). "Arne Quinze 's Wonderful Wooden Art Uchronia". RTF | Rethinking The Future. Retrieved 7 December 2025.
  21. ↑ Vincent (31 August 2008). "Cityscape wooded sculpture by Arne Quinze". BrusselsPictures.com. Retrieved 7 December 2025.
  22. ↑ arxxi_admin (16 September 2024). "Arne Kinze- umetnikovi vrtovi u arhitektonskom tkivu gradova ⋆ ARXXITEKTURA". ARXXITEKTURA. Retrieved 7 December 2025.
  23. ↑ "Neue Details über die Trennung". gala.de (in German). 7 November 2011. Retrieved 16 July 2025.
  24. ↑ "The untamed nature of Arne Quinze". www.ft.com. 8 September 2024. Retrieved 8 November 2025.
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