Biography

Birth

Born in Antwerp, Belgium

Birth

• Graduated in History of Art and Archaeology in Antwerp, Belgium

Birth

• First solo‑exhibition, figurative paintings, Gallery Buyle, Antwerp, Belgium (OMS)
• Figurative paintings, Gallery Unicum, Bruges, Belgium (OMS)
• Figurative paintings, Au Cheval de Verre, Brussels, Belgium (OMS)

• One‑man show figurative paintings, Gallery Unicum, Bruges, Belgium
• 'Open Air Party', Driekoningen Castle, Beernem, Belgium (GE)
• 'Salon Quadriennal de Belgique', Liège, Belgium (GE)

• Creates coloured geometrical abstract paintings
• Gilbert Swimberge and Paul Van Hoeydonck, Galerie Théâtre du Poche, Brussels, Belgium (GE)
• 'Zomersalon Salon d'été', Gallery Unicum, Bruges, Belgium (GE)
• 'Salon quadriennal des Beaux‑Arts', Ghent, Belgium (GE)

• Gallery Dutilleul, Brussels, Belgium (OMS)

• Co-founder of art group "FORMES"
• 'Lauréats du prix Jeune Peinture Belge', Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium (GE) – Diamond among the works 'distinguished by the jury'
• 'La peintres du groupe Formes', Cercle Jean Jaurès, Salle de l'Académie de musique, Morlanwelz (GE)
• 'Défense du petit format', Gallery Saint-Laurent, Brussels, Belgium (GE)
• Gallery Saint-Laurent, Brussels, Belgium (OMS)

• Created first monochrome collages
• 'Salon national du meuble social moderne', Museum voor Sierkunst, Ghent, Belgium (GE)
• 'Lauréats du Prix Jeune Peinture', Société Royale des Beaux-Arts, Verviers, Belgium (GE)
• Gallery le rouge et le noir, Charleroi, Belgium (GE)
• 'Groupes', Gallery Accent, Antwerp, Belgium (GE)
• 'Défense du petit format', Gallery Saint Laurent, Brussels, Belgium (GE)
• 'Summer Exhibition', Gallery Accent, Antwerp, Belgium (GE)
• 'Paul Van Hoeydonck', Gallery Saint Laurent, Brussels, Belgium (OMS)
• 'Peintres belges inspirés par l'Espagne', Gallery Giroux, Brussels, Belgium (GE)

• Creates first monochrome light works with the introduction of small plexiglass structures
• 'Paul Van Hoeydonck', Gallery Accent, Antwerp, Belgium (OMS)
• 'Oeuvres graphiques', Gallery Saint-Laurent, Brussels
• Exhibition G58 with Georges Van Tongerloo at Castle Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium (GE)
• Co-founder of the G58 Hessenhuis group in Antwerp
• Opening Exhibition G58, Hessenhuis, Antwerp, Belgium (GE)
• Participation at the World Exhibition Brussels, Belgium (GE)
• 'Groupe Art Abstrait', Gallery Hella Neblung, Düsseldorf, Germany (GE)

• Begins showing in exhibitions concerned with monochrome painting and "Zerogroup"
• 'Vision in Motion/Motion in Vision', first international exhibition in G58, Antwerp, Belgium (GE)
• 'Lauréats du Prix Jeune Peinture Belge 1958', Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium (GE)
• 'Oeuvres d'art acquises par l'Etat en 1958', Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium (GE)

• 3rd group exhibition G58 Hessenhuis, Antwerp, Belgium (GE)

• Introduction of the "Boites A Monocles" as a reaction to the criticism concerning the light works
• G58 Hessenhuis, Antwerp, Belgium (OMS)
• First important one-man show, Brussels, Palace of Fine Arts
• Iris Clert Gallery, Paris, France (OMS)
• Museum of Modern Art, New York, purchases a light work
• First trip to New York, USA, private show introduced by Harry Torczyner

• Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, USA
• Created first Spacescapes and White Planets (Planetscapes)
• 'Zero 3' exhibition in Düsseldorf, Germany (OMS)

• Exhibits his first environment 'Space Control Station' at the Forum exhibition, Ghent, Belgium
• Participates in the Tokyo Biennale, Japan (GE)
• 'Contemporary painting in Belgium' St-Louis, Denver, L.A., San Francisco, USA (GE)

• Creation of a new race "The Mutants"
• Participation Documenta III, Kassel, Germany (GE)
• The Hague, Vienna, Berlin, Otterlo, Bern and Brussels — Pierre Restany "baptises" him "archaeologist of the future"
• Gallery Iris Clert, Paris, France (OMS)
• Participated Floating Biennale Iris Clert, Canale Grande, Venice, Italy (GE)
• Article in Times Magazine
• Participated Iris Clert in Berlin, Germany (GE)
• 'Nieuw Realisme-Pop Art' City Museum Den Hague, Netherlands (GE)

• Joins the Waddell Gallery, New York, where he presents several one-man shows
• Svensk-Franska Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden (OMS)
• Gallery Theelen, Essen, Germany (OMS)
• Gallery Waddell Gallery, New York, USA (OMS)
• 'Pop-Art/Nouveau Réalisme' PSK/Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium (GE)
• Biënnale Middelheim, Antwerp, Belgium (GE)
• 'Flemish Art' Gallery Arditti, Paris, France (GE)
• 'Belgian Drawings since Permeke', Lima, Peru (GE)
• '45 years Belgian Art' Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (GE)
• 'Collection Graindorge' Copenhagen, Denmark (GE)
• 'Sculptures from all directions' Worldhouse Gallery, New York, USA (GE)
• 'White on White' Lincoln, USA (GE)
• 'Pop, pop, whence pop' Heckster Museum, Huntington, New York, USA (GE)
• 'Nouvelles Recherches Flamandes' Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium (GE)
• 'Flemish Art', Svensk Handelsbanken, Stockholm, Sweden (GE)
• 'Art for collectors' Rhode Island, USA (GE)

• Joins the Gallery Bonnier, Lausanne, Geneva and Stockholm
• Gallery Kirkhaar, Amsterdam, Netherlands (OMS)
• Gallery der Spiegel, Köln, Germany (OMS)
• Gallery Cogéime, Brussels, Belgium (OMS)
• Stadtisches Museum Schloss Moirsbach, Leverkusen, Germany (GE)
• 'Weis auf Weis' Kunsthalle Bern, Suisse (GE)
• 'Premio Marzotto' Valdagno, Italy (GE)
• 'L'Espace dans l'Art' Museum of Modern Art, Brussels, Belgium (GE)
• Triënale of the Southern Netherlands, Belgium/Netherlands

• Produces CYBS (Cybernetics)
• Starts using elements from sawn-up car fenders
• Waddell Gallery, New York, USA (OMS)
• Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium (OMS)
• Gallery Foncke, Ghent, Belgium (OMS)
• '45 years of Belgium Contemporary Art' National Art Gallery, Budapest, Hungary (GE)
• '45 years of Belgium Contemporary Art' Salles d'état Dalles, Bucharest, Romania (GE)
• 'New Flemish School' City Gallery, Zürich, Suisse (GE)
• 'Actual Belgium Drawings' Madrid, Sevilla, Barcelona, Spain (GE)
• 'Collection Stuyvesant' Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium (GE)
• 'Superlund' curator Pierre Restany, Kunsthall Lund, Sweden (GE)
• 'Hommage to Bosch', De Moriaan, 's Hertogenbosch, Netherlands (GE)
• 'Science Fiction', Kunsthalle, Bern, Suisse (GE)

• First contact with NASA
• Gallery Kirkhaar, Amsterdam, Netherlands (OMS)
• Gallery Bonhier, Lausanne, Suisse (OMS)
• Belgium Haus, Köln, Germany (OMS)
• International Monetary Fund, Washington, USA (OMS)
• One-man show Gallery Müller, Stuttgart, Germany
• 'Contrasts 1947-1967', Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium (GE)
• 'Science Fiction', Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France (GE)
• 'Science Fiction', Kunstverein, Düsseldorf, Germany (GE)
• '40 ans d'Art Vivant', Hommage à Robert Giron, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium (GE)
• 'L'église ouverte à l'Art Contemporain', La Biënnale, Centre Notre-Dame, Argenteuil, France (GE)
• 'Triënale', Hallen Brugge, Belgium (GE)
• 'The obsessive image 1960-1968', Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK (GE)
• 'Im Reiche des Phantastischen', Kunstverein, Recklinghausen, Germany (GE)
• 'Destruction Art' at Finch College, New York, USA
• 'Art Vivant' at Vence, France
• 'Three blind mice', Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
• 'Three blind mice', Saint-Peter Monastery, Ghent
• Lignano Biënnale in Italy, proclaimed as the official laureate
• 'Contact 68 Kelkheim', Pfarzencentrum Kelkheim, Germany
• 'Belgium Art', Archaeological Museum, Tehran, Iran

• Contemporary Art Museum Chicago, USA (OMS)
• Contemporary Art Museum Houston, USA (OMS)
• Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany (OMS)
• Gallery Withofs, Brussels, Belgium (OMS)
• Gallery Waddell, New York, USA (OMS)
• "Painting and sculpture today", Museum of Art Indianapolis, USA (GE)
• "Belgium Art", Museum Baghdad, Iraq (GE)
• "Belgium Art", Museum Beirut, Lebanon (GE)
• "Exposition Internationale de gravure", Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia (GE)
• "10 Belgische Maler", Gallery 66 Hofheim, Germany (GE)
• "Space Art", Technical High School, Eindhoven, Netherlands (GE)
• Gallery Foncke, Ghent, Belgium (OMS)
• "Apollo Mission of the Moon", National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA (OMS)
• "The Jaques Kaplan collection", Finch College Museum New York, USA (GE)

• Creation of the first Astros
• Palacio National de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico (OMS)
• One-man show Gallery Foncke, Bruges and Ghent, Belgium
• "Belgian Art 1960-1970", Kunstverein Köln, Germany (GE)
• Gallery Bonnier, Genève, Suisse (OMS)
• Gallery Engelberts, Genève, Suisse (OMS)
• "Jeu de blancs", Gallery Withofs, Brussels, Belgium (GE)
• Gallery Rive Gauche, Brussels, Belgium (OMS)
• "Jewels by Belgian Artists", Belgian Pavilion Osaka, Japan (GE)
• "Itinéraires 'blancs'", Musée d'Art Moderne, St-Étienne, France (GE)
• "Zeitgenossen", Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany
• "Second annual internal moonwalk festival", Cape Kennedy, USA

Birth

• The Apollo 15 Crew officially placed the statue "Fallen Astronaut" on the moon (OMS)
• Gallery Waddell, New York, USA (OMS)
• "Die Puppe" Aspekte zum Bild der Frau, Berlin/Leverkusen/Frankfurt, Germany (GE)
• "Travelling Exhibition" Playboy Art Collection, Milano, London, Antwerp, Hannover, Aachen, München (GE)
• "Travelling Exhibition" Stuyvesant Art Collection, Hannover, Aachen, München, Antwerp, Brussels, Arnhem (GE)
• Travelling Exhibition "L'Objet", Brussels, Rotterdam, Berlin (GE)
• 2e Triënnale, Hallen Bruges, Belgium (GE)
• Svensk Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm, Sweden (OMS)
• Leids Academiegebouw, Leiden, Netherlands (OMS)

• Gallery Lanzenberg, Brussels, Belgium (OMS)
• Gallery Foncke, Gent, Belgium (OMS)
• Gallery Einaudi, Milano, Italy (OMS)
• Waddell Gallery, New York, USA (OMS)
• Travelling Exhibition FTD Art Collection, USA (GE)
• One-man show Gallery Multi-art, Antwerp, Belgium
• "Comparaisons" Gallery Bonnier, Genève, Suisse (GE)
• Sculpture show Gallery Annely Juda Fine Art, London, UK (GE)
• "Metamorfosi dell'oggetto", Palazzo Reale, Milano, Italy (GE)
• "Métamorphose de l'objet", Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France (GE)
• "Métamorphose de l'objet", Basel, Suisse (GE)
• "Weltkulturen und moderne Kunst" Olympiades, München, Germany (GE)
• "Space Exhibition" The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, USA (GE)
• "Arte e gioelli del Belgio", Italy Palazzo delle esposizioni, Faenza (GE)
• "Critics choice" Sculpture Center, New York, USA (GE)
• Clark Polak's Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (OMS)
• "Vitrines de la vie Manzoni s'inspirant de la statue lunaire", Via Manzoni, Milan, Italy (GE)
• "Inter-étrennes", Gallery Lara Vincy, Paris, France (GE)

• Official retrospective of P.V.H., Rotondo della Besana, Milan, Italy
• Beyond illustration - the Art of Playboy Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
• Drawings, Gallery Bonnier, Genève, Suisse (OMS)
• Selection West-Flanders, Casino, Knokke, Belgium (GE)
• Talbot Rice Art Center, Edinburgh, UK (OMS)
• Space Sculpture show, Gallery Annely Juda, London, UK (GE)
• Gallery Annely Juda, London, UK (OMS)
• 50 Jahre Kunsthandelsverband der Schweiz, Kunsthaus, Zürich, Suisse (GE)
• G-58 Hessehuis retro, Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium (GE)
• Proto-Astros, Studio Modern Art, Milano, Italy (OMS)
• Gioielli di artisti belgi dal 1900 al 1973, Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, Italy (GE)

• Constructing bronze mixed media Robots, Archeos and Bios
• Gallery Bonnier at the Art-Market Basel, Suisse (OMS)
• Studio Modern Art, Milano, Italy (OMS)
• Travelling Exhibition F.T.D. art collection, USA (GE)
• Salon de printemps, Gallery Isy Brachot, Brussels, Belgium (GE)
• Gallery Isy Brachot, Brussels, Belgium (OMS)
• 3e Triënnale, Beurshalle, Bruges, Belgium (GE)
• Biënnale Middelheim open air Museum, Antwerp, Belgium (GE)
• Art Market, Gallery Lechien, Düsseldorf, Germany (GE)
• Gallery Bonnier, Genève, Suisse (OMS)

• Internazionale Biennale del Bronzetto, Salla del Ragione, Padua, Italy (GE)
• Gallery Foncke, Ghent, Belgium (OMS)
• "La Boule", Centre Ranelagh, Paris, France (GE)
• "Salon Ensemble", Gallery La Cour d'Ingres, Paris, France (GE)
• "Flora in Arte", Kunstforum, Schelderode, Belgium (GE)

• Important participation in the Art-Market in Bologna at the Galleries Bonnier, Genève and Hüsstege, Amsterdam
• Retrospective Warande, Turnhout, Belgium
• "Bicentennial U.S.A.", American Library, Brussels, Belgium (GE)
• Gallery Van Hoeywegen, St-Kwintens-Lennik, Belgium (OMS)
• One-man show, Gallery Hüsstege, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Retrospective Noordbrabants Museum, 's Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
• Retrospective, Gemeentemuseum, Arnhem, Netherlands
• Gallery Singulier Pluriel, Brussels, Belgium (OMS)
• Gallery Bonnier, Genève, Suisse (OMS)
• Kunstforum, Schelderode, Belgium (OMS)

Series of Moonscapes, Moonrocks and drawings with integrated personal photographs collection "Reina Sophia"

Metro of Brussels commissions him for the '18 x Ikaros' work

Participates in the 'Robotics' show, which toured all over the USA

Commissioned for monumental Robot sculptures for "Parque de las Naciones", Madrid, Spain

• Commissioned for a large Robot by Massive International, on the highway between Paris and Lille, France
• Commissioned for a large Robot and Spoetnik by the Caixa Andorrana, in the Edifici Prada Casadet in Andorra La Vella (Plan: architect Bofill)

• Participating at the Sevilla World Fair with the moonsculpture "Fallen Astronaut"
• Commissioned by Gevaert, Belgium for the sculpture "Taidalos" in Wuxi, China for Wuxi-Agfa factory
• Participation in "The Suite OLYMPIC CENTENIAL art collection", patronized by the IOC, presentation at the Barcelona Colet Museum, Spain
• Also shown in the Olympic Committee pavilion at the Seville Expo 1992
• Permanently exhibited in the Lausanne Olympic Museum, Suisse

Commissioned by Degussa, Antwerp for the sculptures "Aurus" & "Aurelia", Koningin Elisabeth Concertzaal, Antwerp, Belgium.

Commissioned by the Provincial Counsel for the sculpture "Madec", Rivierhof, Deurne – Antwerp.

• Commissioned by the OCMW Antwerp for the sculpture "De Wandeling", Oversnes, Wilrijk
• Commissioned by the Flemish Government for a Planet, Vlaamse Raad, Zaal "Vlaanderen in de Ruimte", Brussels, Belgium.

Retrospective at Museum of Contemporary Art/PMMK curator conservator Willy Van den Bussche, Ostend, Belgium, including edition Retrospective blue book (most complete retrospective edition)

• "Mars Chronicles" Guy Pieters Gallery, Knokke including catalog publication, Belgium.
• Participated in Paris for show "L'Objet" by invitation of Gerard Xuriguera & Pierre Restany in Les Ulis, France.

"Half a Century White on White" Orion Art Gallery, Brussels, Belgium (OMS) including edition catalogue.

Paul Van Hoeydonck 75 year 'Alexandria at Aegyptum' zaal Adornes, Hallen-Markt, Brugge, Belgium.

• "On the Moon…and with Iveg" One-man show, Hoboken, Belgium.
• Transgressions...renoma II, 32 contemporary artists divert the mythical blazer. Galerie Meyer Le Bihan, Paris, France.
• The projection project / dare to think, dare to dream traveling group exhibition, MUHKA, Budapest, Hungary. (GE)

• LAAC Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dunkerque, France.
• Commissioned sculpture on the Moon x40 "Fallen Astronaut" at Jardin de sculptures including exhibition from a selection of his works, France.

• Base-Alpha Gallery group exhibition featuring Paul Van Hoeydonck as Intruder. (GE)
• Participation at the summer exhibit "Vision in Motion / Motion in Vision," Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke, Belgium. (GE)
• "G-58" Hommage on -58 Museum Albert Van Dijck, Schilde, Belgium. (GE)
• "Van uw tijd?" Artistic approaches regarding '58 Museum Hof van Busleyden, Mechelen, Belgium. (GE)
• Leading figure in the winter exhibition "G58 - G59 Mass-akker," Verbeke Foundation including monograph "Lightworks," editor de Paepe productions, Kemzeke, Belgium.

• Participated auction "Les années magiques autour d'Iris Clert & Pierre Restany," Pierre Bergé & Associés, Paris.
• Participated 'No Label' Belgium Art '50-'70 under curator Jan Stalmans, inauguration by Flemish Minister President Kris Peeters. (GE)
• Participated group exhibition Galerie Guy Pieters at St-Paul de Vence, France. (GE)
• Participated group exhibition Musée l'Art Modern, Metropole St-Etiénne, France. (GE)

Participates in 'Avant Garde in België 1940-1970' by Ronny Van de Velde in Bank Delen with thanks to Mr. Filips Deferme, incl. book, Berchem, Antwerp.

• Presentation of early works 'Coloured Geometric Abstract' at BRAFA 2011 in stand Ronny Van de Velde, visit of Queen Mathilde of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
• Also at BRAFA 2011 works presented by Gallery Guy Pieters, Galerie Withford (London) and main sponsor Bank Delen, Brussels, Belgium
• 'Oeuvre Lumiére/Lightworks' at Gallery Guy Pieters, Avenue Matignon, Paris, France (OMS)
• Participation at 'L'Art de Paris' Grand Palais in Paris by Guy Pieters, France (GE)
• Gallery Guy Pieters, Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium (OMS)
• 'Roboter Träume' Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland (GE)
• Museum Felicien Rops 'Grandville un autre Monde' including Jan Fabre, Koen van Mechelen, Fred Eerdekens, César, etc., curator Ronny and Jessy Van de Velde in Namur / Belgium and Besançon / France (GE)
• One-man show early Abstract Geometric Works 'Felix-Art Museum' curator Serge Sérveillon cohabitation with Ronny Van de Velde, including book, Drogenbos, Brussels, Belgium
• Drawings and collages at house 'De Rotsaert' by Wouter Van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium
• Presentation "Bank Delen '12" by Ronny Van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium (GE)

• Presentation "Little musea Belgium artists" by Ronny Van de Velde at BRAFA 2012, Brussels, Belgium (GE)
• Presentation Withford Galerie at BRAFA 2012, Brussels, Belgium (GE)
• NASA-ART exposition, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA. With thanks to Mireille Dohmen (GE)
• "Spirits of Internationalism" with Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni, Yves Klein, ... Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp/MuHKA, Belgium (GE)
• "New Art in Antwerp 1958 - 1962" about 'G-58' series exhibit (x5) Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp/MuHKA, Belgium (GE)
• Honoured "Doctor Honoris Causa" together with Secretary General of NASA Dr. Charles Bolden, Director General of ESA Jean-Jacques Dordain and the Belgian Astronauts Dirk Frimout and Franky Dewinne at the University of Liège, Belgium
• Presentation in renewed Open Air Museum Middelheim, pavilion Renaat Braem, with Rodin, Vermeersch, etc., Antwerp, Belgium (GE)
• "58'ers" curator Ernest Van Buynder (Chairman MuHKA, UIA, UZA) at ING-België headquarters, Antwerp, Belgium (GE)
• Donation "Fallen Astronaut" Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp/MuHKA, Belgium
• "Museum of Forgotten History xxx" Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp/MuHKA, Belgium (GE)
• "The Soul of the Master" Antwerp drawings from Rubens to Panamarenko, Museum Plantin Moretus, Antwerp, Belgium (GE)
• "Pop-Art in Europe" Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen, Netherlands (GE)
• Presentation at Art-Gent by Eastmen Gallery, Ghent, Belgium (GE)
• "Belgium Art - A modern century" collection Caroline and Maurice Verbaet, Museum Elsene, Brussels, Belgium (GE)

• "Paul's wide white world" at Guy Pieters Gallery, Knokke, Belgium (OMS)
• Participated "Happy Birthday Dear Academie" 350 years Antwerp Academy, Museum at the river/Mas, Antwerp, Belgium
• "Eine Handvoll Erde aus dem Paradies" Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany (GE)
• "Museum to scale 1/7" curator Ronny Van de Velde at Royal Museum of Fine Arts Brussels, Belgium (GE)
• "Mental Cinescopes" painting from the seventies, curator Willy Van den Bussche at "Eastmen Gallery" Hasselt, Belgium (OMS)
• "Histoire Naturelle" curator Willy Van den Bussche at University Gembloux, Belgium (OMS)
• Presentation at Art-Gent by Eastmen Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
• Participated "De Autodidact" curator Guillaume Bijl at "Extra City" Antwerp, Belgium (GE)
• "Sculpture on the Moon - Meet Artist Paul Van Hoeydonck" honouring event at Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, Washington D.C., USA
• Meeting with Secretary General Dr. Charles Bolden in his office at NASA headquarters, Washington D.C.

• "Zero" at Guggenheim, New York, USA; Gropius Museum, Berlin; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands
• "Museum to scale 1/7" at Rotterdam, Netherlands and Naples, Florida
• BRAFA '14 Presentation at Whitford Fine Art Gallery, London
• "Abstractions Géométriques Belges" from 1945 to present, BAM Beaux-Arts Mons
• Inauguration of bronze sculpture "Goldie", Wirtz Garden, Culture Center Kapellen
• "Planets and Drawings", Eastman Gallery, Hasselt
• Participation "ZERO" at Guggenheim, New York, USA
• "From Zero to the Moon", Gallery Calleweart-Vanlangendonck, Antwerp
• "Museum to scale 1/7", Kunsthal Rotterdam, Netherlands
• Art Ghent presentation by Eastmen Gallery (Hasselt)
• "Color-Light-Black-White" Zero Artists at Kunstzolder, Eeklo
• Honor at Antwerp City Hall by Alderman for Culture Philip Heylen

• BRAFA'15 Presentation by Withford Fine Arts Gallery and several others
• ART ROTTERDAM Presentation by Eastmen Gallery (Hasselt)
• Participation in "ZERO" at Gropius Museum, Berlin, Germany
• Formal awarding of the Order of Leopold (Knight) by Minister of Culture Sven Gatz and Governor Cathy Berx

Listing activities from 2015 to 2018 under construction

• January 18 - February 3, 'Fallen Astronaut' at Centre Pompidou, Paris during the exhibition HORS PISTES
• January 23, Launch event of 'Multiple Man in Space' in Berlin in collaboration with Bild Zeitung & Galerie Breckner (Germany)
• January 24, Exhibition of Paul Van Hoeydonck at Galerie Breckner, Düsseldorf (Germany)
• April 5 - June 30, 'Fallen Astronaut' at Kunsthaus, Zurich; "Fly me to the Moon. The Moon landing: 50 years on"
• Summer, Exhibition of Paul Van Hoeydonck at Space Expo, Noordwijk (Netherlands)
• September 13 - 22, "Moon Museum" exhibition in Budapest, Hungary at Vasarely Museum, affiliated with the Museum of Fine Arts–Hungarian National Gallery
• June 27, Exhibition of Paul Van Hoeydonck at the beautiful Abbey of Villers-la-Ville
• July 1 - September 22, 'Fallen Astronaut' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in the exhibition "Apollo's Muse: The Moon in the Age of Photography"
• July 17, Exhibit of Paul Van Hoeydonck at the Belgian Embassy, Berlin, Germany
• July 18, Exhibition on MOON curated by Luca Beatrice in Turin, Italy at Museum Palazzo Madama; includes catalogue and picture of Fallen Astronaut with plaque on the Moon
• July 20 - November 3, 'Fallen Astronaut' at Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
• October 4 - December 20, Exhibition of Paul Van Hoeydonck in the New Havenhuis Antwerp
• Release of the unique documentary 'Fallen Astronaut' by Frank Herrebout

To his universe

On May 3, 2025, Paul Van Hoeydonck peacefully passed away at home at the age of 99, surrounded by his beloved spouse and dog.

To his universe

On May 3, 2025, Paul Van Hoeydonck peacefully passed away at home at the age of 99, surrounded by his beloved spouse and dog.