©image: M HKA, 2011
° 1954
Born in Merksem (BE), lives in Antwerp (BE).
Ria Pacquée (°1954) has been active as an artist since 1979. She portrays casual situations and objects from the everyday world: the street, the market, cemeteries and the desert are her work area.
Initially, her work consists of performances and body art. In the early eighties, for example, she develops the Madame character, exploring her life for several years. She is accompanied by a photographer who captures Madame's experiences. Despite the light humours approach, the photos present an endless loneliness.
Since 1992, Pacquée renounces performance and takes place behind the camera herself. From then on, different series follow. Often, these are pictures of objects found in the street, which are mutually associated through their shape or colour. This way, she shows our environment in a different manner.
Pacquée's later work is characterised by observation, with strong elements of visual anthropology and political commentary.
>Ria Pacquée, The girl who was never asked to marry, 1988.Installation, leather, paper, silk, 90 x 80 x 100 cm.
>Christian Boltanski, Luis Buñuel , Salvador Dalí, Ria Pacquée, Wilfried Huet, GA - Tijdschrift van de Galerij van de Akademie Van Waasmunster, Jrg.8, nr.2, 1 maart 1989, 1989.Periodical, ink, paper, 57.7 x 41.7 cm, 3 p., ill., language : Dutch, publisher : Galerij van de Akademie Van Waasmunster.
>Ria Pacquée, Waiting for my man who lost the war, 1989.Photography, colour photograph, 106.5 x 150 cm.
>Ria Pacquée, Zes foto's van verschillende performances 1982 - 1988 [Six photographs of various performances 1982 - 1988], 1989.Photography, colour photograph, marouflage on canvas, 6 x (40 x 50 cm).
>Ria Pacquée, Ria Pacquée - 40 foto's, 1989.Book, ink, paper, 21 x 15 cm, idea & layout : Ria Pacquée, nr 3/4 of the series PASSAGES, publisher : Stichting Kunst en Projecten vzw, Zedelgem.
>Jef Geys, Michel François, Ulli Lindmayr, Ria Pacquée, Patrick Vanden Eynde, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Bernd Lohaus, Frank F Castelyns, Jef Lambrecht, Von der Wiederholung der Träume zur Realität (cat.), 1991.Book, paper, ink (printing), A5 var..
>Marlene Dumas, Christine & Irene Hohenbüchler, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK, Ria Pacquée, INDIVIDU : DUIDING. Verboden verbindingen + Twijfelachtige verbanden (Marlene Dumas, Christine & Irene Hohenbuchler, Annemie Van Kerckhoven, Ria Pacquée), 1991.Book, ink, paper, 42 x 29.8 cm, 31 p., language : Dutch, publisher : Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten/Internationaal Cultureel Centrum, Antwerpen.
>Ria Pacquée, Madame Looking for the Right Direction Without Seeing the Beauty of the City, 1991.Photography.
>Ria Pacquée, Have you accepted that whatever seems to be is not, and that that which seems not to be is?, 1991.Photography.
>Ria Pacquée, Zonder titel [Untitled], 1992.Installation, colour photo, 490 x 690 cm.
>Ria Pacquée, Curtain of Silence, 1998.Photography, colour photograph on aluminium, protected by a layer of foil, 190 x 120 cm.
>Ria Pacquée, Document for the right to the everyday, 1999-2000.Photography.
>Ria Pacquée, Ria Pacquée 'Desert of Fragments', 2001.Book, ink, paper, 24.5 x 19 cm, language : English, Dutch, publisher : Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpen, ISBN : 90-72828-15-1.
>Ria Pacquée, Inch'Allah, 2005.Video, videotape digital betacam, dvd, 00:18:40.
>Ria Pacquée, Hats, 2011-2019.Projection, digital slideshow, 00:04:18.
>Ria Pacquée, Untitled, 2011.Object, wood, paper, chalk.
>Ria Pacquée, FROM MY ROTTING BODY, FLOWERS SHALL GROW AND I AM IN THEM AND THAT IS ETERNITY, 2014.Multiple, photo print on barite paper, wooden shelf, flower pot in terra cotta, ground, dymo lettering.
>Ria Pacquée, Facebook Cover, 2014.Mixed Media.
>Ria Pacquée, Crash Crack, 2014.Text.
>Ria Pacquée, Complete Collapse, 2014.Mixed Media.
>Ria Pacquée, Gold Magic, 2014.Photography.
>Ria Pacquée, The Foot, 2014.Photography.
>Ria Pacquée, Resting, 2014.Photography.
>Ria Pacquée, I didn’t do it, 2016.Installation, graffiti, variable dimensions.
> Exhibition: Above/Below the Surface. 22 November 1996 - 12 January 1997.
> Exhibition: AMBERES – Roberto Bolaño’s Antwerp. 07 June 2019 - 15 September 2019.
> Exhibition: A Story of the Image: Old & New Masters from Antwerp (Singapore). 13 August 2009 - 06 September 2009.
> Exhibition: Bernd Lohaus – Fremdkörper: works from the studio of Bernd Lohaus. Third presentation: Von der Wiederholung der Träume zur Realität. 30 June 2015 - 26 July 2015.
> Exhibition: ERCOLA 1968–2018. 15 September 2018 - 06 January 2019.
> Exhibition: EURASIA − A Landscape of Mutability. 08 October 2021 - 23 January 2022.
> Exhibition: EXTRA MUROS: A Story of the Image: Old & New Masters from Antwerp (Shanghai). 01 May 2009 - 21 June 2009.
> Exhibition: EXTRA MUROS: Geel – Middle Gate II – The Story of Dymphna. 15 September 2018 - 04 November 2018.
> Exhibition: EXTRA MUROS: Visite Herzele – Beyond words. 03 April 2015 - 03 May 2015.
> Exhibition: From Broodthaers to Braeckman – Photography in the Visual Arts in Belgium. 06 October 2016 - 05 February 2017.
> Exhibition: Hommage à Bernd Lohaus. 20 January 2011.
> Exhibition: INBOX - Ria Pacquée. 01 July 2014 - 31 July 2014.
> Exhibition: LATT: Dialogue #3 Ria Pacquée & Filip Gilissen - Real Fake Gold is all around you. 27 June 2014 - 05 October 2014.
> Exhibition: Museum E!: Els Vanden Meersch – Storyboard. 28 January 2017 - 25 February 2017.
> Exhibition: Ria Pacquée – Desert of Fragments. 21 January 2001 - 29 April 2001.
> Exhibition: Superdemocracy – The Senate of Things. 01 October 2017 - 31 October 2017.
> Exhibition: The Collection. 28 April 2017 - 31 December 2021.
> Exhibition: The collection III – Spring 2003, with interventions by Gert Robijns, Wilhelm Sasnal, Bojan Fajfric & Christophe Terlinden. 22 February 2003 - 18 May 2003.
> Exhibition: The Collection XIX – A Story of the Image (Jubilee). 31 May 2007 - 19 August 2007.
> Exhibition: The collection XVII – En Double . 25 November 2006 - 11 February 2007.
> Exhibition: The collection XVIII – Ontmoeting. 15 March 2007 - 13 June 2007.
> Exhibition: The collection XXI – Winter 2007. 01 December 2007 - 09 March 2008.
> Exhibition: The collection XXVII – East of 4°24'. 03 March 2011 - 21 August 2011.
> Exhibition: The collection XXXIII – The Collection as a Character. 07 June 2013 - 22 September 2013.
> Exhibition: The Eightees – A Decade of Extremes. 17 June 2016 - 18 September 2016.
> Exhibition: Urgent Conversations: Antwerp – Athens, Part IV: Dealing with Catastrophe, The Flow of the World. 18 November 2017 - 07 January 2018.
> Exhibition: Urgent Conversations Athens - Antwerp. 31 October 2016 - 05 February 2017.
> Exhibition: Visite. 03 April 2009 - 10 September 2009.
> Exhibition: Visite - Kunstenparcours 'Touching Textiles'. 28 September 2013 - 13 October 2013.
> Exhibition: Von der Wiederholung der Träume zur Realität (expo). 18 October 1991 - 23 November 1991.
> Ensemble: Aanwinsten 2015 [Acquisitions 2015].
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> Ensemble: An Architecture for Art - Walter Swennen.
> Ensemble: ARCHIEF JEF LAMBRECHT.
> Ensemble: Artist Books.
> Ensemble: Belgian Institute for World Affairs.
> Ensemble: Collectie Vlaamse Gemeenschap.
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> Ensemble: Eerste verdieping | First Floor.
> Ensemble: ESTATE JEF LAMBRECHT.
> Ensemble: Furkapas.
> Ensemble: humor & tragedie [humour & tragedy].
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> Ensemble: ICC_Publications.
> Ensemble: IE - Intercontinentaal Entrepot.
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> Ensemble: kunstenaarsboeken uit de jaren '80 [artists' books from the 80s].
> Ensemble: maatschappij.
> Ensemble: M HKA_DEFAULT_PUBLICATIONS.
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> Ensemble: M HKA_DEFAULT_WORKS.
> Ensemble: Middle Gate.
> Ensemble: MIGRATIE | MIGRATION.
> Ensemble: MOBILITEIT / MOBILITE / MOBILITY / MOBILITÄT.
> Ensemble: Nova Belgica / Novum Belgium.
> Ensemble: NUCLEUS.
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> Ensemble: Photographs of Various Performances.
> Ensemble: SUPERDEMOCATIE / SUPERDEMOKRATIE / SUPERDEMOCRACY.
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> Ensemble: The Flow of the World.