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Charlotte Charbonnel is an artist fascinated by the energy contained within matter. Attuned to the world around her, she creates environments through sound installations, videos, sculptures, and photographs to make us feel the flows and forces at play.
Her practice is multidisciplinary, drawing inspiration from science and investigations across various fields.
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XAVIER LUST
Xavier Lust’s creations inspire harmony, elegance and strength to their surroundings. Throughout his career the Belgian designer has created a unique poetic language inspired by nature and materiality itself. Due to his excellent understanding of materials, Xavier has devised an innovative process of curving metal allowing his design to be inhabited by a unique energy. Each piece is a rare gem exhibiting the radical vision of the designer assisted by the expertise of the best manufacturers. Xavier Lust started his design career working for leading Italian brands before expanding his practice to limited edition Art design piece.
Xavier is a regularly invited guest lecturer at leading art and design institutions around the world. His recognizable and awarded works are included in the permanent collections of many prestigious institutions such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Museum collection (selection)
Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou, Paris
ADAM Design Museum
Design Museum Gent
Modern Design at Musée des Beaux Arts de Montréal
CID Grand Hornu
Musée Des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
Stedelijk Museum CS in Amsterdam
Tate Modern, London
Musée d’Art Japonais, Brussels
SFMOMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
KRJST Studio
KRJST studio is a Belgian artist duo founded in 2012 and made up of Justine de Moriamé and Erika Schillebeeckx.
In recent years, the Belgian duo KRSJT studio has established itself as one of the most interesting players in the revival of tapestry in contemporary art. Justine de Moriamé and Erika Schillebeeckx have restored this age-old art form to its former glory, turning it into a medium in its own right, somewhere between textile and sculpture, and far beyond the transposition of tapestry cartoons. Each new work is the fruit of months of embroidery, over-embroidery, weaving and unweaving, culminating in a fascinating presence in space. The richness of threads and colors creates a baroque, mysterious and powerful universe, carried by the warmth of textiles.
Trained at the renowned La Cambre school of visual arts, Justine de Moriamé and Erika Schillebeeckx are four hands, two souls and four eyes, working together to invoke, modify and transmit collective memory. Their work has been exhibited in Paris, Zurich, New York, Miami, Mexico and Buenos Aires, and in different art fairs: Art Paris, Basel, PAD…
Galerie La Forest Divonne will unveil the duo’s first monumental tapestry at BRAFA in January 2025. A presentation that will take on its full meaning at a fair where ancient and modern tapestries are also in the spotlight, in Brussels, moreover, the historic home of this great art.
Catherine François
Born in Belgium in 1963, Catherine François studied law at university before turning to fine arts and sculpture — a discipline to which she has devoted her life for the past thirty years. Her works are regularly exhibited in Brussels, Knokke, Paris, and Geneva.
In 2007, the David and Alice van Buuren Museum in Brussels hosted the artist’s first retrospective exhibition. The event was met with great success and led to a second invitation in 2012.
Inspired by nature, Catherine François’s sculptures are at once powerful, organic, familiar, and sensual, while tending toward abstraction. Her work conveys the infinity of movement, beyond the balance of energies… a reflection of life itself.
Hao Shiming
Hao Shiming is one of the main representatives of the “New Ink” movement, which advocates a contemporary interpretation of the millennial tradition of Chinese calligraphy. Shiming works with ink on silk, on paper, on stone. While some abstract works could make one think of “street art” aesthetics, others – more figurative – evoke landscapes or traditional Chinese objects, in the great tradition of scholars. These men who have built Chinese culture over the centuries and have long ruled the Empire. Shiming’s work is nourished by great Chinese authors and thinkers.
Born in 1977 in Heze, Shandong Province, Hao Shiming graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, and holds a Masters degree from Peking University. He currently teaches at the Hubei Academy and divides his time between Wuhan and Beijing. His work weaves a new Chinese identity by combining tradition with modernity. His works have been exhibited at the National Museum of China, the Shanghai Museum, the Today Art Museum, the Wuhan Museum, the Sydney College of Art or the Royal College of Art, London, among others.
Herta Müller
Herta Müller lives and works between Berlin and northern Italy, whose landscapes are essential to his inspiration. The oils on canvases with powerful colors retranscribe the sophisticated sensations in very free abstract compositions.The drawings are punctuated with delicate lines and a light palette evoke the subtle life of the world. Herta Müller develops in her drawings and paintings a vibrant light in which color plays a role just as important as the line.
Her abstrat universe resonates in the viewer a chord and brings back to the surface the diffuse imprint of his own experience of nature. She creates an imaginary nature, a mysterious landscape, she observes and grasps the poetic sensations of the world she passes through and remembers.
