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COMPETITIONS, AWARDS AND EXHIBITIONS.

•  Selection and exhibition in the «International COCOON Exhibition». Brussels, 1991.

• Selection and exhibition at the bank “GENERALE DE BANQUE» Lieja, 1992.

• Competition and first prize of the Province of Liège, 1992 “JEUNES CREATEURS DE LA PROVINCE DE LIEGE”, “TECHNO-ARTS FESTIVAL”.

• Exhibition in «LA MAISON DE LA CULTURE DE MARCHE-EN-FAMENNE», 1992.

• Selection and contest GODECHARLE, Brussels, 1993.

• Individual exhibition in the «REAL ACADEMIA DE BELLAS ARTES«. Liège, 1995.

• International collective exhibition for the «PRIMAVERA DEL DISEÑO» «Engine of change». April 1997. ZERO Gallery (Barcelona).

• Prototyping of VICTORIO Y LUCCHINO (fashion designers – Spain) and MICHAEL GRAVES (Architect and furniture designer, USA) for the Valencia International Fair (FIM), ANIEME and ICEX 1997. Commissioners: Juli Capella and Quim Larrea.

• Realization of 2 prototypes for the designer MARTIN RUIZ DE AZUA for the contest of Casa Mediterráneo (Barcelona) EXPO HOGAR; The 2 models were selected.

• He presents his creations at the VI PRIMAVERA DEL DISEÑO in Barcelona 2001.

• WINNER OF THE 3rd PRIZE of the Concurso Regional de Diseño Aplicado a la Artesanía de Castilla La Mancha 2006.

• Collective exhibition “+ AGUA TUNING BOTIJO” in the Museo Municipal de Albacete 2007 with the “COLECTIVO REACTIVO”.

• Collective exhibition “AGUA TUNING BOTIJO” Daimiel Water Center, 2008.

• Great exhibition “ESCULTURAS Y DIBUJOS” Letur 2007.

• Personal exhibition “ESCULTURAS Y DIBUJOS” Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla-La-Mancha, 2008.

• Honorable mention in the International Sculpture Contest “RUTA CINEMATOGRÁFICA PEDRO ALMODÓVAR” 2008 for a sculpture in Granátula de Calatrava.

• Collective exhibition at the Junta de Comunidades de Albacete, 2008.

• Collective exhibition in Abelardo Sánchez de Albacete Park, 2008.

• Great retrospective and personal exhibition at the Municipal Museum of Albacete, January 2009.

• Member of Albacete “REACTIVE COLLECTIVE” ARTISTIC GROUP.

• Collective exhibition at the Casa de la Cultura de Pinto (Madrid) 2015.

• Participation in the MADRID DESIGN FESTIVAL 2023.

• Participation in the ARTIST360 Contemporary Art Fair 2023.
  
• Stand at the Contemporary Art Fair ARTIST360 2024
  
• Group exhibition at the gallery FUCAR 22 in Madrid for 9 months between 2023 and 2024.
  
• Group exhibition at the ORIGEN gallery in Madrid, 2024
  
• Group exhibition at the PITIJOPOS GALLERY 2024
  
• Stand at Art FAIR MARBELLA 2024
  
• Group exhibition at the Municipal Museum of Albacete with La bicicleta Azul 2024
  
• Great personal and retrospective exhibition at the MARTIN CHIRINO Gallery, Centro Socio Cultural Pablo Iglesias, San Sebastian de los Reyes 2024

• Group exhibition at GENCLEMAN Spain 2024
  
• Group exhibition at MIAD Fair (Madrid Inside Art & Design) 2025
  
• Member of the MTG (Mínimo Tamaño Grande) sculptors’ association, July 2025
  
• Collective sculpture exhibition at the Miramar Palace in Sitges, 2025.
  
• Solo exhibition ESCULTURA, HOY at the Casa de la Cultura in SOTO DEL REAL, 2026.
  
• Stand at FORMA Art Fair as part of Madrid Design Festival (Matadero), 2026.
  
• Permanent exhibition of a monumental sculpture at the new VALART gallery in Chinchón (Madrid), 2026.
  
• Gold medal at the 8th International Sculpture Biennial in El Valle de Los Sueños, Puebla de la Sierra (Madrid), 2026.
  
• Donation and permanent exhibition of a sculpture for “El Valle de Los Sueños” in Puebla de la Sierra (Madrid), 2026.
  
• Group exhibition featuring the sculptors collective from the Mínimo Tamaño Grande association, 2026.
  
• MTG Exhibition, 28th Edition, at the Casa de la Cultura in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, 2026.

The dream of many artists, furniture designer and creators is to get to produce their own creations. Getting to this point is usually a very long and drawn out process and often goes nowhere.
Almost always everything starts in your head and then the drawings follow and, from time to time, you get to go to the technical level. If we get to this point, we will have already made a big step…

And now what?

Small scale model, prototype… looking for a firm?
Yes, the dream in general for any furniture designer, is to find a firm interested in our product. The bad thing is that it is usually a dream that is rarely fulfilled, but that’s the way dreams are…

What if I try to auto produce my designs?

It is the challenge of Jean Baptiste Van den Heede who defines himself as a productdesigner.

His roots and his vocation have come together to give him total versatility, because in addition to designing he self-produces his own furniture designs and confesses that he enjoys this most when he works on the study and realization of the prototype, either for one of his pieces or for another designer, architect or individual.

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«I encourage the creator, furniture designer to AUTO PRODUCE their designs because it can be a great idea and pays off in the long run. Is a long process that you can do yourself or in collaboration with different workshops. It requires a lot of patience, but you will learn a lot because we will go through each point until we get to the completion of the piece. It is a training in a field that can be disheartening, but also gives us much satisfaction, and it will almost certainly lead to the final manufacture of a single or serial piece. What is also interesting is that, if we manage to present a finished product, it will be easier to attract the attention of a design firm.»

Jean-Baptiste Van den Heede.