Ives Maes is a visual artist based in Belgium. He is a post-doctoral artistic researcher with KASK School of Arts and the Hogent Arts Research Fund in Ghent, Belgium. He studied sculpture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Belgium, and was an artist in residency at HISK Antwerp, the Bagfactory in Johannesburg, and Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. In 2018 he obtained his PhD in the Arts at the KASK School of Arts & University Ghent. Working mainly with installations and photography, he is a multidisciplinary artist who has developed several long-term projects that revolve around temporary architecture, nomadism, and ruination.

His work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Ludwig Forum in Aachen (2007), the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City (2012), the Royal Museum of Fine Art Antwerp / KMSKA (2022), and in group exhibitions at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco (2002), the Museo de arte Carillo y Gil in Mexico City (2005), 3rd Biennial of Photography Ludwigshafen (2009), the 6th Moscow Biennial (2015), Prada Foundation Milan (2018), among others. He has published three books, Recyclable Refugee Camp (Mer Paper Kunsthalle, 2008), The Future of Yesterday (Ludion, 2013), and Sunville (Ludion, 2018).