L’AUTRE CÔTÉ EST TOUT PRÈS: Villa Bernasconi. Lancy, Switzerland, 2023
An exhibition held in a beautiful 18th century building. The curators, Marie Roduit and Nicole Kunz, came to see me in Belgium, and we had a long and beautiful discussion about art, children’s books, philosophy, and Dante. What is particularly interesting about Villa Bernasconi is that they have contemporary art exhibitions as well as illustration exhibitions.
I was able to show the both sides of my work: art and illustration. And for the exhibition, we also made a big fanzine (there are still copies available to buy).
In the villa there are three floors, and a big underground room, where I made a big mural painting in yellow luminance paint. In this space, we played an audio piece that I wrote and recorded with Sam McCullen and sound designer James McCullen.
On the final day of the exhibition, I did a drawing performance with three wonderful Swiss artists: Lika Nüssli, Jonanna Schaible and Fred Fivaz.
Photos by Théodore Bauthier.
EN FLUO: Les Chiroux, Liege, Belgium, 2022
In recent years, I have used luminance colour in my books. Luminance is an interesting one: it has a different kind of meaning, and a strong energy. So when I was invited by the wonderful team at Chiroux in Liège (a place which works with all the librarians in and around Liege) and my dear friend Brigitte Van den Bossche at ATI, we came up with the idea of the exhibition being FLUO (mainly orange like in my book I Want a Dog – Any Dog.
I mainly worked with the curator Gilles Dewalque, who was also in charge of making the wooden structures. It was a very playful space (but not a representation of what we think is playful, I hope, away from cliché).
We also made a small activity book for the exhibition: Drawing with Kitty Crowther PRINCE.
The exhibition is currently travelling around Belgium.
Photos by Gilles Dewalque.
OTHER EXHIBITIONS
Here is a collection of photos from different exhibitions I’ve had over the years. Not all of them are shown here, but you can find them all listed on the about page.
Galerie Le Serpent Vert, Paris, France, 2024 (photos by Théodore Bauthier)
Galerie Le Serpent Vert, Paris, France, 2024 (photos by Théodore Bauthier)
Galerie Le Serpent Vert, Paris, France, 2024 (photos by Théodore Bauthier)
Galerie Le Serpent Vert, Paris, France, 2024 (photos by Théodore Bauthier)
Galerie Le Serpent Vert, Paris, France, 2024 (photos by Théodore Bauthier)
"Pas de livres pour enfants. Enfantillages" (collective exhibition), Musée Tomi Ungerer, Strasbourg, France, 2024–2025
"Pas de livres pour enfants. Enfantillages" (collective exhibition), Musée Tomi Ungerer, Strasbourg, France, 2024–2025
ANIMA Festival, Brussels, Belgium, 2023
ANIMA Festival, Brussels, Belgium, 2023
ANIMA Festival, Brussels, Belgium, 2023
ANIMA Festival, Brussels, Belgium, 2023
ANIMA Festival, Brussels, Belgium, 2023
MAGMA with Vincent Glowinski, Ottignies, Belgium, 2021 (photo by Théodore Bauthier)
MAGMA with Vincent Glowinski, Ottignies, Belgium, 2021 (photos by Théodore Bauthier)
MAGMA with Vincent Glowinski, Ottignies, Belgium, 2021 (photo by Théodore Bauthier)
Galerie Robillard, Paris, France, 2023
Picture Festival with Gerda Dendooven, Magritte Museum, Brussels, Belgium, 2019
Picture Festival with Gerda Dendooven, Magritte Museum, Brussels, Belgium, 2019
Picture Festival with Gerda Dendooven, Magritte Museum, Brussels, Belgium, 2019
Picture Festival with Gerda Dendooven, Magritte Museum, Brussels, Belgium, 2019
Picture Festival with Gerda Dendooven, Magritte Museum, Brussels, Belgium, 2019
Picture Festival with Gerda Dendooven, Magritte Museum, Brussels, Belgium, 2019
Triennal d’art contemporain MAGMA, Ottignies, Belgium, 2021
Grafixx Festival, Antwerp, Belgium, 2019
Grafixx Festival, Antwerp, Belgium, 2019
Grafixx Festival, Antwerp, Belgium, 2019
Laterna Magica, Fotokino, L’autoportrait, Marseille, France, 2022
Picture Festival, Canine, Brussels, Belgium, 2021
Picture Festival, Canine, Brussels, Belgium, 2021
Picture Festival, Canine, Brussels, Belgium, 2021
Picture Festival, Canine, Brussels, Belgium, 2021
Studio Fotokino, Marseille, France, 2023
Studio Fotokino, Marseille, France, 2023
Institut Suédois, Paris, France, 2022
La Métairie Bruyère, Parly, France, 2022
L’ora Magica, Hamelin Associazione Culturale, Bologna, Italy, 2022
L’ora Magica, Hamelin Associazione Culturale, Bologna, Italy, 2022 (photo by Yuan Yue)
L’ora Magica, Hamelin Associazione Culturale, Bologna, Italy, 2022 (photo by Yuan Yue)
L’ora Magica, Hamelin Associazione Culturale, Bologna, Italy, 2022 (photo by Arianna Farina)
L’ora Magica, Hamelin Associazione Culturale, Bologna, Italy, 2022 (photo by Jingyi Wang)
L’ora Magica, Hamelin Associazione Culturale, Bologna, Italy, 2022 (photo by Jingyi Wang)
L’ora Magica, Hamelin Associazione Culturale, Bologna, Italy, 2022 (photo by Yuan Yue)
Hälsinglands Museum, Hudiksvall, Sweden, 2019
Bror Hjorths Hus Museum, Uppsala, Sweden, 2019
Bror Hjorths Hus Museum, Uppsala, Sweden, 2019
Nordic Watercolour Museum, Skärhamn, Sweden, 2015 (photo by Kalle Sanner)
Nordic Watercolour Museum, Skärhamn, Sweden, 2015 (photo by Kalle Sanner)
Nordic Watercolour Museum, Skärhamn, Sweden, 2015 (photo by Kalle Sanner)
Nordic Watercolour Museum, Skärhamn, Sweden, 2015 (photo by Kalle Sanner)
Nordic Watercolour Museum, Skärhamn, Sweden, 2015 (photo by Kalle Sanner)
Nordic Watercolour Museum, Skärhamn, Sweden, 2015 (photo by Kalle Sanner)
Ville Culturel, Mons, Belgium, 2015 (photo by Greetje Van Buggenhout)