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Laurie Charles

Biography

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Born in 1987

Lives and works in Brussels

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PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS 

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2022 - Orinomancia, Terzo Fronte, Rome, IT

2021 - From the waiting room, curator JAP, Showcase, Drawing Art Week, Brussels, BE

 

2020 

  • Sofa fatigue, JAP curator, Vitrine Rivoli, Brussels, BE

  • Mural, Beursschouwburg, Brussels, BE

 

2019 - Moon in scorpio, Efremidis Gallery, Berlin, DE

2018 - The Chalet, CIAP Kunstverein, Hasselt, BE

2017 - The anger of the intestine, Stichting Project Space 1646, The Hague, NL

2012 - Seyran Kirmizitoprak and Laurie Charles, double solo show, Komplot, Brussels, BE

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

 

2023

  • Body Exit, Myriam Chair Gallery, Paris, France

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2022 

  • Salon de Montrouge, curated by Guillaume Desanges and Coline Davenne, City of Montrouge, FR

  • Sugar for the Pill, De Studio, Antwerp Art Weekend, Antwerp, BE

  • Re-feel everyday / Resistance techniques, La Factorine, Nancy, FR

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2021 

  • Mirrored Infinities, curated by Sam Steverlynck and Dome Wood, Tour & Taxis, Brussels, BE

  • Adrianopolis, curated by Isabel Van Bos and Godart Bakkers, Geraardsbergen, BE

  • The Spectacle of Our Lives, Antwerp Art Weekend, curated by Deborah Bowmann, Antwerp, BE

 

2020-21

  • Let's Risk Everything, Wiels, Brussels, BE

  • Re-feel every day / Techniques of resistance, Patrons of the South Montpellier-Sètes, Montpellier, FR

  • I Love Today, I Can't Wait for Tomorrow, Beige Brussels, Brussels, BE

  • Dangerous visions, Lieu Commun, Toulouse, FR

 

2019 

  • My Summer is your winter, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, AT

  • Flesh and bone, Operation Room, Istanbul, TR

  • From the island to the world, International Center for Art and Landscape, Vassivière, FR

 

2018 

  • Generation Brussels, Espace Vanderborght, Brussels Gallery Weekend, Brussels, BE

  • Fikra Graphic Design Biennial, with Loraine Furter, Department of non-binaries, Sharjah, UAE

  • Poppositions Off-fair, off-fair of the Artbrussels fair, Brussels, BE

 

2017

  • Raw, Glassbox, Paris, FR

  • What's Your Favorite Conspiracy Theory? police station Buenos Tiempos Int and Mophradat, Brussels, BE

 

2016 

  • HISTORICODE: scarcity and supply, 3rd Nanjing International Art Festival, Baijia Lake Museum, Nanjing, CN

  • Exercises of freedom#25, Documenta 14, Performance with Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens, Athens, GR

  • Extend & Pretend, curated Komplot, Enterprise Projects, Athens, GR

  • Love of Matter, Beursschouwburg, EUROPALIA ART FESTIVAL, Brussels, BE

 

2015

  • Bivouac, after sinking, Polarium-Fabrique Pola, Bordeaux, FR

 

2014 

  • UNTITLED Art Fair Miami Beach, Miami, FL, USA

  • What's the song that goes like OOO Oh Oh, duo show with Carl Palm, Le Commissariat, Paris, FR

  • François Villon heart alive, Georgia René-Worms curator, François Villon college, Paris, FR

  • Synchronized Sculpture, Villa Arson and HEAD, Jean Médecin swimming pool, Nice, FR

 

2013

  • Transmission(s), Mairie du 11e in Paris, curated by Céline Kopp and Jean-Christophe Arcos, Paris, FR

  • Romantic duo, Wasteland Belle de Mai, Marseille, FR

  • Bing bing, Arnaud Deschin Gallery, Marseille, FR

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS 

 

2020 - Collectie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, BE

2019 - CNAP Collection, Paris, FR

2017 - Frac Ile-de-France (Regional Fund for Contemporary Art), Paris, FR

 

SCHOLARSHIPS 

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2021-22 - Short Term Grant, Flanders State of Art, BE

2019-20 - Short Term Grant, Flanders State of Art, BE

2017 - Wallonia-Brussels Federation production grant, BE

2015 

  • Production grant for a first publication, Agnès b endowment fund, FR

  • Production grant for a publication, DRAC Limousin, FR

 

TALKS/ READINGS 

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2022 - BAR talk: Laurie Charles, gallery àngels barcelona, curator Veronica Valentini, Barcelona, ES

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2021

  • Destroy the patriarchy, not the planet, a debate on climate and feminism, BOZAR, Brussels, BE

  • Presentation with Ann Cesteleyn, curator and director of Beige Brussels, Brussels, BE

  • Artist talk with Barbara Fecchio director of BAM project, FRAC Nouvelle Aquitaine, Bordeaux, FR

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2020 - From the waiting room, reading and screening, Risquons-Tout, Open School, Wiels, Brussels, BE

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2019 - Artist talk, as part of the exhibition My summer is your winter, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, AT

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2018 - Camille Azaïs in conversation with Laurie Charles, SHARE seminar, ArBA EsA, Brussels, BE

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PERFORMANCE 

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2017 - The Anger of the Intestine, performed by Jay Tan and Marnie Slater, Stichting Project Space 1646, The Hague, NL

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2016 - Wet Dreams Water Ritual, with Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens, Documenta 14, Athens, GR

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EDUCATION 

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2016-22 - Teacher, Publishing Practices, master, ArBA EsA, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Brussels, BE

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2019-22 - Lecturer, Writing module, Master in Publishing Practices, ArBA EsA, Brussels, BE

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2021 - Lecturer, Publishing practices, theoretical course, Sint Lucas School of Arts, Antwerp, BE

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PUBLICATIONS 

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2016 

  • Co-editor of the book Midpoint, published by Théophiles' s Papers, produced by Europalia Arts Festival, Brussels, BE

  • Homeopathy of the absurd, text published in La Belle Revue#6, Review published by In extenso, Clermont-Ferrand FR

  • The story begins in 1965, text published in Four Seasons, P/////AKT, Amsterdam, NL

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PRESS 

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2022 

 

2020 - Wall Street International, online, https://wsimag.com/art/60148-moon-in-scorpio, January 2020

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2019 - H ART magazine, portrait of the artist in her studio and her practice written by by Isabel Van Bos, January 2019

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2018 

  • L'ART MÊME, On the personal exhibition at the CIAP Kunstverein written by Jean Baptiste Carrobolante, N° July-October

  • Subbacultcha, portrait of the artist in his studio, April 2018

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PRICE/RESIDENCIES 

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2022 - BAR Project and Hangar, Barcelona, ES

2019 - International City of Arts, Paris, FR

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2017 

  • Stichting Project Space 1646, The Hague, NL

  • Common Place, Toulouse, FR

 

2015 

  • EUROPALIA RESIDENCY AWARD-Istanbul, Istanbul, TR

  • CIAP, International Center for Art and Landscape, Vassivière Island, FR

 

2014 - BAC, Baltic Art center, Visby, SE

2012 - TRIANGLE France, Marseilles, FR

2011 - Summerlake, ESAAA, school of fine arts, Annecy, FR

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EDUCATION 

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2010 - DNSEP, Bordeaux of arts-beauties of the Superior National School, Bordeaux, FR

 

2009 - HBK with Erasmus Exchange, künste bildende für Hoschule, Braunschweig, DE

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2008 - DNAP, Bordeaux of arts-beauties of the Superior National School, Bordeaux, FR

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