Artist Ana Maria Asan Sonores Exhibition Contemporary Ceramics Galerie Vertige Brussels

Ana Maria Asan's solo exhibitions

In 2024, after few years of work, Ana Maria Asan counts more than 10 solo shows and land art interventions in France, Belgium and Latvia, most of them curated by herself.

As a student, she conceives Twisted Ceramics and exhibits it in 2010, a personal dialogue with Double Hôtel De Bodt architecture, built in Brussels by Henry Van de Velde.

The same year, she starts the exploration of the sound universe of fired clays, project that she entitles SONORES, a metonymy from “Céramiques sonores”. She graduates la Cambre with two acousmatic installations and goes deeper in another art field that interests her, the printed image. During the Master studies, she works mainly with printed glass. Kafka In My Mind, Manole and Ana and a part of Walls Series are made during this period of time. She exhibits them at the Master graduation in Dexia Art Center, in Brussels.

Braam Art Restauration & Gallery featuring three women artists in winter 2013, under the title Transparences, gives her the opportunity to exhibit Précaire, a serie of glass sculptures and drawings as a self-portrait inspired by plant life and the passage of time. Around this body of work, conceived as a solo show, Jean-Philippe Braam has the intuition of a true dialogue between Ana Maria Asan's universe and Julia Hyde's drawings as well as Arlette Vermeiren's textile installation and decides to invite them to join the exhibition.

Since 2011, several art galleries show the installations and objects belonging to the SONORES project: in Brussels (Galerie La Part du Feu/ Ecole supérieure des Arts visuels de la Cambre/ Galerie Vertige/…), Paris (Le Studiolo), Daugavpils (Fortress of Daugavpils). For this exceptional location and on the occasion of Latvia 100, in 2018, she creates two permanent site-specific installations: Resonances and To The Unknown, part of Memories From The Future: Exploring The Fortress As A Woman, which are included now in the Mark Rothko Art Centre and the Daugavpils Fortress Culture & Information Centre collections.

In 2019, she exhibits En vibration in Pélissanne and conceives Torride, a photographic and land art project in South of France, near the Salagou Lake and the Saint Nicolas Bridge on the Gardon River. In the same vein of the climate upheaval, the artist lets herself to be surprised by the unexpected and short-lived presence of abundant snow in Walloon Brabant in January 2024. Ephemerally recording the traces of her footsteps during a solitary wandering of several hours across a vast territory wrapped in white, she comes across deer, hunts for images and creates Sans Trace with found twigs and melting snow.

In summer 2024, after a terrible family loss, she finally honors her selection as artist in residence in/at ARS Art Factory (Tallinn, Estonia) and visits Rome, la città eterna.