Deborah Bowmann French
Deborah Bowmann is a collaboration of artists Amaury Daurel (1990, Bordeaux) and Victor Delestre (1989, Bordeaux). Started in 2014 in Amsterdam and established in Brussels since 2015, Deborah Bowmann offers a renewed form of art total based on collaboration, where distinctions between the different participants are often blurred, embracing, challenging, and merging the diverse activities of studio practice, project management, exhibition curation, and set designing. Deborah Bowmann merges codes and aesthetics specific to sculpture and large retailers, bringing together tacit links existing between the world of art and that of commerce. The two artists make gestures of appropriation and distortion of these codes and aesthetics in their sculptural practice as well in their curatorial practice. From aesthetic vocabularies to economic systems, they manipulate these systems as materials to be reshaped and standards to be sculpted. Often working with the ideas of branding and promotional efforts, Deborah Bowmann produces sculptures that act as displays–that could regardless support their own work, other artist’s artwork or real products–but always making sense as a whole, challenging our preconceived ideas of autonomy of a work of art. As a reflection of their thinking, they question the traditional modes of production and exposure in relation to contemporary society and economic and ideological realities in a posture that is both critical and humorous.
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Art Antwerp 2022
touche-touche, Tom Volkaert, Thom Trojanowski, Serban Ionescu, Erik Chiefele, Deborah Bowman, Daan Gielis, Bram Kinsbergen 15 - 18 Dec 2022Read more -
Art Brussels 2022
Bram Kinsbergen, Daan Gielis, Deborah Bowmann, Dittmar Viane, Kristof Santy, Thom Trojanowski, Tom Volkaert and Trude Viken 28 Apr - 1 May 2022Read more
Victor Delestre (1989) b. Bordeaux, France
Amaury Daurel (1990) b. Bordeaux, France
2022
Art Brussels 2022 - scenography for Everyday Gallery, Booth E.16
2021
Le Club du poisson Lune, CAPC, Bordeaux - curated by Cédric Fauq
Extra! 2021, scenography for Extra! - Centre Pompidou, Paris
The spectacle of our lives - official guest curators of the Antwerp Art Weekend, De Studio, Anwterp
The joy of painting - collaboration with Carles Benjamin, Deborah Bowmann, Brussels
Talking Baloney - collaboration with Gaillard&Claude, Deborah Bowmann, Brussels
Potluck - Everyday Gallery, Antwerp
2020
Salon de Normandy - organised by The Community, Paris
VG Awards, finalists - Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag
Crooked Positions - curation Felix Kindermann & Charlotte vander Borght at Deborah Bowmann, Brussels
Rien n’aura lieu - participation à l’exposition collective, curated by Fabien Vallos, Margaux Bonopera, and Grégoire Dablon
Grand Salon - retrospective exhibition, centre d’Art Passage, Troyes
The Magician & The Lover - collaboration with Jamie Fitzpatrick à Deborah Bowmann, Brussels
2019
LOVE DATA - ‘Alios’ biennale of La teste de buche
Verdant - Mirko Canesi at Deborah Bowmann, Brusells
Openning of FRAC Aquitaine / La Méca - collective, Bordeaux Residency and exhibition at Gallery Paradise, Nantes
Art Cologne - presented by Gallery Conradi, Cologne
Le Trogloxène - collective curated by Théo Demans at Deborah Bowmann, Brussels
Palmstrom - Jorge Diezma, Deborah Bowmann, Brussels
Cerise sur la déco - Deborah Bowmann, Brussels (Solo show)
2018
Leonard Koren & Guests - collective ex. with Nathalie Du Pasquier, Uta Eisenreich, Catherine Geel, Thomas
Jeppe, Leonard Koren, Jeppe Ugelvig, Boy Vereecken at La Loge, Brussels
Aggiornamento by Tom Volkaert - curated by Eloi Boucher, Brussels, September
Ce n’est peut être qu’un détail pour vous mais pour nous ça veut dire beaucoup, public sculpture in Antwerp, Belgium - curated by Isabel Van Bos
The Red Päck, collective exhibition in Rotterdam, curated by Roodkapje
Concept, options et autres plantalons, Solo show at Art center Les Capucins, Embrun, April - curated by Solenn Morel
LEARN FROM YESTERDAY, LIVE FOR TODAY - by Alexandre Lavet and Nicolas Moreau, Brussels, Mai FRED Chaussures - eborah Bowmann, Brussels
Listening to the form - collective exhibition with Tom Volkaert, Sarah&Charles, Philip Janssens, etc., Panthera.today, Brussels
2017
Grand Confort - at Nadie Nada Nunca No, Madrid (Solo show)
Skydeck Scare, with Ludovic Beillard - Deborah Bowmann, Brussels
Les Bons Sentiments, nominated at 19th edition of Prix Ricard - curated by Anne-Claire Schmitz - Fon dation d’entreprise Ricard
Welcome Back - with Elise Van Mourik, Kim David Bots, Barbara Braccini - D.Bowmann
Misters Higgledy & Piggledy - a collaboration with Daniel Dewar and Grégory Gicquel, Deborah Bowmann Brussels
May The office of gravitational documents #Neptune - with Jean-Baptiste Carobolante et Dieudonné Cartier - Deborah Bowmann, Brussels
White sun grey thoughts - Deborah Bowmann, Brussels
OPTIONS - with Alix Brandenbourger, Tatiana Defraine, Théo Demans, Will Polard and Tom & Artur, Deborah Bowmann Brussels
2016
Just what is it’ - Collection #3 - curated by Matylda Krzykowski, with Martino Gamper, Stéphanie Baechler, Maxime Guyon at Chamber, New-York City
De gustibus et coloribus, non disputandum, as part of the Brussels Gallery Week-end with Deborah Bowmann and Horrible Bise - Deborah Bowmann, Brussels
(to come) Manchester Contemporary - invited by Collar - Manchester Contemporary, Manchester
Les Fausses dents du prince - with Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Stéphane Barbiet-Bouvet, Martin
Belou, Margaux Schwarz, After Howl, Romain Juan, Cyril Debon, Hector Latrille - Deborah Bowmann, Brussels
Easy come, easy go, with Deborah Bowmann and Jean-Baptiste Carobolante - during POPPOSITIONS 2016, Brussels
Starting over and failing again, with Deborah Bowmann, Rémi Lambert and Ludovic Beillard - D.Bowmann, Brus, Mar. Proposal for Andrea Crews, by Deborah Bowmann Studio© - Andrea Crews, Paris
TANGO CHALLENGE - with Michele Rizzo and Laurent-David Garnier - Deborah Bowmann, Brussels
2015
Back in ten minutes - curated by Irwin Marchal, Silicone Gallery, Bordeaux
Opening of Deborah Bowmann Brussels
Everything you need to bring bathrooms to a shine - collaboration with Thea Djordjadze, Estrid Lutz & Emile Mold, Vincent Knopper and Amaury Daurel
Grand Salon n°1 - the first Deborah Bowmann retrospective, Sandberg Graduation, Burgerweeshuis, Amsterdam
Full Time Sofa - with Alice Hauret-Labarthe, guests, at Treize Gallery, Paris
In the end horses are only what they are not, curated by Caroline Lange, Luis Leu, Berlin
Deborah Bowmann Grand Bakery, Kunstenaarsbal - curated by SSBA-Salon, Amsterdam
Moucharabieh - collaboration with Victor Delestre, Clémence Seilles, Triangle France, Marseille
Noblesse Oblige - collaboration with Travis Broussard, Jean-Baptiste Carobolante, Amsterdam
Suspended Goods Delicate Holes - collaboration with Alliance Française, HabitDeNous and Jeanne Magnenat, Amsterdam
2014
Opening of Deborah Bowmann Amsterdam
Blue Curtains Black Coffee - a collaboration with Clémence Seilles, Stéphane Barbier-Bouvet, Heather & Rosetta, Jurjen Van Houte, Victor Delestre, Deborah Bowmann Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Talks and workshops
Studio visits at Goldschmidt, London, 2020
Talk and studio visits, Kask, Ghent, 2019
Workshop at Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Dunkerk, 2019 Examination board at Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, July 2018
Talk at La Cambre, Brussels, May 2018
Talk at Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, November 2017
Workshop at Dirty Art Department, Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, October 2017
Workshop at École des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, February 2016
Publications
Exhibition review in Beaux-Arts Magasine, October 2017
Exhibition review in Les Inrockuptibles, by Ingrid Luquet-Gad, September 2017
Exhibition review in Libération, by Judicaël Lavrador, September 2017
Essai in Metropolis M, by Laura Herman, 2017
Interview in Manifesto 21, by Marjolaine Szwed, 2017
Review in La Libre, by Claude Lorent, October 2016
Interview dans Bijutsu, by Miki Kanai, Japon, Apri 2016 Interview dans Le Chassis, by Queenie Tassell, April 2016 Critical essai in LE SALON, by Jean-Baptiste Carobolante, March 2016
Review in Artspaces, April 2016
Review in TheWord Magazine, 2016, 2017, 2018
Review in Art Viewer, 2016, 2017, 2018
Review in KUBAPARIS, 2016, 2017, 2018
Review in DAILYLAZY, 2016, 2017, 2018
Review in COLLECT, January 2016
Review in SEEYOUTHERE, 2015, 2017, 2018
Interview in SSBA-SALON, Amsterdam, 2014
Interview with Minke Havelaar, Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, 2015
Interview in MUG Magazine, Amsterdam, 2014 2015 2014
Education
AMAURY DAUREL (1990) 2014 MLitt Fine Art Practice - Sculpture (master) – A level Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland 2013 D.N.S.E.P. (master) / Congratualations EBABX - Ecole des Beaux-arts de Bordeaux 2011 D.N.A.P (Licence) / Congratulations EBABX - Ecole des Beaux-arts de Bordeaux
VICTOR DELESTRE (1989) 2013-2015 Master at Dirty Art Department, Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam 2012 Diplôme National Supérieur d’Expression Plastique, Que faire ? / MA thesis directed by Fabien Vallos, École d’Enseignement Supérieur d’Art de Bordeaux, January