First monograph on the work of Sigefride Bruna Hautman.
The book offers a visual overview of the rich oeuvre that Hautman has been building since the 1980s. Hautman's sculptures, installations, collages and videos are brought together in large numbers for the first time and contextualised with the help of diverse archive material, much of which comes from her personal (photo) archive. The works have been brought together in such a way that patterns and links between them become visible. The whole thus sheds new light on the thematic layers of Hautman's oeuvre.
Published on the occasion of Sigefride Bruna Hautmans exhibition at M Leuven in 2025.
Sigefride Bruna Hautman (born 1955, lives and works in Antwerp) is a Belgian artist.
Poetry captured in images—this is an apt description of her work. She has been making sculptures, reliefs, installations, videos, drawings, collages and textual work since the 1980s. Her oeuvre is distinctly figurative and moves between hyperrealism and stylization, between legibility and symbolism, simplicity and complex layering. Hautman often creates interrelated series. Themes such as social outrage, existential questions and family or interpersonal relationships run like a connecting thread through her practice. She draws inspiration from art, music and literature, citing influences as diverse as Giotto, Oskar Schlemmer, Samuel Beckett and David Bowie.
Edited by Valerie Verhack with Babette Rummens.
Texts by Valerie Verhack, Melanie Bühler, Luk Lambrecht, with a conversation between Patrizia Dander and Sigefride Bruna Hautman.
