Teun Hocks 1947 - 2022

Represented by:

TORCH Gallery

Teun Hocks was a founder and icon of Dutch staged photography. He acquired cult status with his tragicomic works of art that were somewhere between photography and painting. Since 1975, Hocks worked tirelessly on an idiosyncratic oeuvre of works that tell a whole story in a single image, often with a good dose of humour. Hocks himself was the protagonist in the tragicomic worlds he created. The large-scale, hand-colorued photos were his stage, on which he took on the role of a man who finds himself in almost surreal situations. Hocks didn't play the archetypal hero who fearlessly takes on the most unlikely of challenges; he was just the ordinary person who took on everything with a certain acceptance and defeat.

TORCH's last exhibition with Hocks was Drawings in the spring of 2021, showing a selection of drawings he had made the year before while in isolation at his home in central France. His drawings have often been overlooked by the general public, but Hocks drew all throughout his life, and also taught drawing at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the Design Academy Eindhoven.

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Artworks by Teun Hocks

Untitled (Künstlerseife)

2020

€ 1.000 - € 2.000

Articles on Teun Hocks

The gallery of... Mo van der Have

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Media

In this episode, director Pieter Verhoeff makes a portrait of Teun Hocks. He makes a combination of photography and painting, as well as video work and drawings. With a career of almost forty years and many successes to his name, Teun Hocks is one of the leading artists in the Netherlands. (Previously aired in 2011)

Highlights

Art Rotterdam 2019, Day In, Day Out / Dag in, dag uit

2017

272. Untitled/ Zonder Titel, 2019

Day In, Day Out / Dag in, dag uit

2019

About

Museum Voorlinden

Teun Hocks (1947) creates surrealistic scenes in which an ordinary man - not an archetypal hero - is confronted with the almost surrealistic but everyday tasks and environment he has to defy. The staged scenes show a person who has been thwarted, trapped and frustrated, and apparently has no solution to the situation in which he finds himself. Making his staged photographs is a lengthy process. Hocks starts with building up the set that he then paints and decorates with props. Then he takes his own place and captures the scene with black and white photographs. He enlarges the photographs and colors them with transparent oil paint. Finally, he makes a screen print of this again. Teun Hocks, untitled (1996) oil and screen printing on paper to black and white photo, 60 x 80 cm Collection museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar

Suzanne Swarts, Director Museum Voorlinden

Shows

40 x 40 x 40

TINKEBELL., Philip Akkerman, Casper Braat, Eelco Brand, Gary Carsley, Popel Coumou, MC de Waal, Sander Dekker, Wouter Deruytter, Rowena Dring, Eldon Garnet, Line Gulsett, Teun Hocks, Twan Janssen, Anya Janssen, Ellen Kooi, Nynke Koster, Loretta Lux, Terry Rodgers, Carlos & Jason Sanchez, Louise te Poele, Thijs Zweers, Ashley Zelinskie, Raul Marroquin, Annie Sprinkle, Erik de Bree, Lisette van Hoogenhuyze, Eddy Posthuma de Boer, Luis Xertu, Krijn Kroes, Mees van Rijckevorsel, Liset Castillo, Woody van Amen

6 jul - 3 aug 2024, Amsterdam, Nederland

Drawings 2.0

Teun Hocks

15 apr - 1 may 2021, Amsterdam, Nederland

Drawings

Teun Hocks

4 mar - 10 apr 2021, Amsterdam, Nederland

ONE POINT FIVE METER PLUS

Edward Burtynsky, Line Gulsett, Teun Hocks, Justin McAllister

8 may - 31 may 2020, Amsterdam, Nederland

Day In, Day Out / Dag in, dag uit

Teun Hocks

23 feb - 30 mar 2019, Amsterdam, Nederland

Art Rotterdam 2019

Eelco Brand, Teun Hocks, Yibai Liao

6 feb - 10 feb 2019, Amsterdam, Nederland

In museum collection:

Groninger Museum

Stedelijk Museum Breda

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Museum Voorlinden

CODA

MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York

In corporate collection:

CV

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2015 Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Teun Hocks, Coda Museum, Apeldoorn, the Netherlands

Heden, Den Haag, the Netherlands

2014 AMC Brummelkamp Galerie, AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

2012 Teun Hocks Recent Works, PPOW Gallery, New York, USA

2011 Cosmic Surroundings, Paci Contemporary, Brescia, Italy

2009 PPOW Gallery, New York, USA

Le chemin des images, Musée de l’Image Ville d’Epinal, Epinal, France

Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

2008 Torch Gallery , Amsterdam, the Netherlands

2007 Teun Hocks Werk in Oplage, Artoteek Den Haag, the Netherlands

Galerie Patricia Dorfmann, Paris , France

2006 Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Dordrecht, the Netherlands

PPOW Gallery, New York, USA

2004 PPOW Gallery, New York, USA

2003 Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Teun Hocks Made in Holland, Cotthem Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2002 Galerie Patricia Dorfmann, Paris, France

Cotthem Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

2001 Gasunie, Groningen, the Netherlands

PPOW Gallery, New York, USA

AMC, Kunststichting Academisch Medisch Centrum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Galerie Patricia Dorfmann, Paris (Paris Photo), France

2000 Teun Hocks Commedia dell’Arte Dutch Style, Chinese European Art Center,
Xiamen, China

The Late Hour, Lightbox Project, Metropolitan Transportation Authority:
Arts for Transit, Grand Central Station, New York, USA

1999 Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

PPOW Gallery, New York, USA

Galerie Patricia Dorfmann, Paris, France

Het Late Uur, De Beyerd, Breda, the Netherlands

Groninger Museum, Groningen, the Netherlands

Het Late Uur, Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Oostende, Belgium

1997 D.B. Kunstlok 2, Göppingen, Germany

Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Galerie Bob Coppens, Brussels, Belgium

Galerie Patricia Dorfmann, Paris, France

PPOW Gallery, New York, USA

Antiquariaat L. van Paddenburgh, Leiden, the Netherlands

1996 Galerie Anita Beckers, Darmstadt, Germany

De Zonnehof, Amersfoort, the Netherlands

1995 California State University Art Museum, Long Beach, USA

La Lune & Parachute, Epinal, France.

Neue Galerie, Bad Marienberg, Germany

1994 Galerie Bob Coppens, Brussels, Belgium

Boulder Art Center, Boulder, Colorado, USA

Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

1993 PPOW Gallery, New York, USA

Galerie 15, Paris (FIAC), France

Galerie 121, Antwerp, Belgium

1992 Cold City Gallery, Toronto, Canada

Perspektief, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Galeria Nova, Rome, Italy

Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Galerie 15, Paris, France

1991 Galerie 121, Antwerp, Belgium

PPOW Gallery, New York, USA

Bellamy 19, Stedelijk Museum Vlissingen, Vlissingen/Flushing, the Netherlands

1990 Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

1989 Galerie 121, Antwerp, Belgium

Dany Keller Galerie, Munich, Germany

Artlantis, Stuttgart, Germany

1988 Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium

Institut Néerlandais, Paris, France

1986 Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Galerie Fotomania, Leiden, the Netherlands

1979 Galerie Loa, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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