Daan Gielis Belgian, 1988-2023
Daan Gielis’ (b. 1988 – d. 2023) work explores the conflicts and contradictions in the emotional, communicative and social systems that together make up the world as we know it: happiness and sadness coinciding, a frustration of desire that only triggers new desire, an underground culture that stays authentic while selling out… Each of these systems is riddled by contradiction. And yet, precisely because of those internal contradictions these systems thrive, contrasting feelings feed off of each other, setting in motion a never-ending cyclical process from which no escape seems possible. No wonder then that so many of us are emotionally conflicted about present reality, struggling to find consistency.
Gielis’ work often concentrates on what might be one of the most defining and influential systems: the human body. His artistic practice has, for one, been marked by the body’s resilience and more precisely by the question: how much can a body endure? Turning a personal experience around and looking outwards happened by means of exploring the paradox of embodiment and transience in digital society. Mama, je hoeft niet te huilen (2019) for example references both the artist’s mother - a professional floral arranger - as well as the generic emoji of a wilted rose. An easily accessible pictorial sign system, emoji have grafted themselves upon our everyday written communication. In fact, they have become an ubiquitous and inextricable part of our online conversations. And yet they tend to be incredibly vacuous, even gratuite. Like so, it embodies the paradox our social lives are caught up in: expressing a deeply personal story in an unforgivingly generic language.
Potluck
Group Exhibition4 Dec 2021 - 16 Jan 2022This show resulted from an invitation; an invitation to the creators who over the past few years have shaped this gallery; an open invitation to take part in a show...Read moreHistory Of Fantasy
Group Exhibition curated by Emmanuelle Luciani6 May - 12 Jun 2021'History of Fantasy' is a phantasmagorical stroll populated by ghosts, animated by a poisonous magic. It is part of the wake of a new twilight wave, a reminiscence of an...Read moreOmdat De Wereld Is Zo Ontrouw
Solo Exhibition by Daan Gielis30 Jan - 13 Mar 2021Daan Gielis’ (born 1988) work explores the conflicts and contradictions in the emotional, communicative and social systems that together make up the world as we know it: happiness and sadness...Read moreLimbo
Group Exhibition5 Sep - 4 Oct 2020For better or for worse, we are living through what may well become one of the defining moments of the twenty-first century. This much we know. What we do not...Read moreIn Real Life
Group Exhibition17 May - 30 Aug 2019During Antwerp Art Weekend 2019 Everyday Gallery (YYY) Hosts a group show curated by Boris Devis that reflects 2019 as a time capsule for future reference. 'In Real Life' will...Read more
Art Brussels 2023
Main booth with works by ASMA, Bram Kinsbergen, Colleen Barry, Daan Gielis, Dittmar Viane, Erik Chiafele, Mamali Shafahi, Max Kesteloot, Michiel Ceulers, Tom Volkaert, touche—touche20 - 23 Apr 2023Read more
Art Antwerp 2022
touche-touche, Tom Volkaert, Thom Trojanowski, Serban Ionescu, Erik Chiefele, Deborah Bowman, Daan Gielis, Bram Kinsbergen15 - 18 Dec 2022Read more
CAN Ibiza 2022
B.D. Graft, Bram Kinsbergen, Daan Gielis, Lisse Declercq, Magda Kirk, Mamali Shafahi, Marco Paul Lorenzetti, Martin Kacmarek & Serban Ionescu13 - 17 Jul 2022Read more
Art Rotterdam 2022
Anders Davidsen, B.D. Graft, Bram Kinsbergen, Ciro Duclos, Danilo Stojanovic, Daan Gielis, Erica Mao, Louis Appleby, Mamali Shafahi, Mirko Canesi, Natacha Mankowski, Tom Volkaert19 - 22 May 2022Everyday Gallery is thrilled to present for the third time at Art Rotterdam 2022 (Booth 84 Main Section).Read more
Art Brussels 2022
Bram Kinsbergen, Daan Gielis, Deborah Bowmann, Dittmar Viane, Kristof Santy, Thom Trojanowski, Tom Volkaert and Trude Viken28 Apr - 1 May 2022Read more
Art Antwerp 2021
Daan Gielis, Dittmar Viane, Tom Volkaert, Trude Viken16 - 19 Dec 2021Read more
Art Rotterdam 2021
Victor Delestre, Tom Volkaert, Serban Ionescu, Nicolas Holiber, Marria Pratts, Jordy Kerwick, Jacopo Pagin, Estrid Lutz, Dittmar Viane, Daan Gielis1 - 4 Jul 2021Everyday Gallery was thrilled to present for the second time at Art Rotterdam 2021 (Booth 18 in the Main Section). Showcasing an eclectic mix of...Read more
kunst zetter — Limburg art at Art Brussels
Niels Dewil, kunst zetter, April 26, 2022weekendmagazine DE TIJD — Potluck Exhibition
Print Article, December 18, 2021Knack Weekend — Potluck Exhibition
Print Article, December 8, 2021dS Magazine — Potluck Exhibition
Print Article, December 4, 2021Juxtapoz Magazine — Art Rotterdam 2021
Article, July 9, 2021Art Viewer — History of Fantasy
Article, May 29, 2021Fifty & Me Magazine — Jacopo Pagin
Article, May 29, 2021Marie Claire — Jacopo Pagin and History of Fantasy Exhibition
Article, May 14, 2021L'OFFICIEL — Jacopo Pagin and History of Fantasy Exhibition
Article, May 6, 2021DAMN MAGAZINE — History of Fantasy
Article, May 6, 2021See You There — History of Fantasy
Article, May 6, 2021Art Viewer — Daan Gielis
Article, March 9, 2021Club Paradise — Tom Volkaert and Daan Gielis Solo
Article, January 30, 2021Antwerp Art — Tom Volkaert and Daan Gielis Solo
Article, January 30, 2021Stay Happening — Tom Volkaert and Daan Gielis Solo
Article , January 30, 2021FAD Magazine — Tom Volkaert and Daan Gielis solo
Article, December 17, 2020Cartoon-Productions — Tom Volkaert and Daan Gielis Solo
Article, December 16, 2020Art Viewer — Limbo Act II Exhibition
Article, November 10, 2020Gallery Viewer — Art Rotterdam 2020
Article, May 2, 2020TUBELIGHT — Daan Gielis
Interview, March 30, 2020Feeling — In Real Life Exhibition
Article, June 26, 2019De Standaard — In Real Life Exhibition
Article, May 25, 2019Kuba Paris — In Real Life Exhibition
Article, May 16, 2019
2023
In Absence - PXL-MAD, Hasselt, Belgium
Flowers at room temperature - Antwerp Art Weekend, De Studio, Antwerp, Belgium
Art Brussels - Everyday Gallery, Booth 6B-18, Brussels, Belgium
FACE TIME - Plus-One Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2022
Tu est Métamorphose III - Pact Galerie, Paris, France
Infinite Flowers, part 4 - Plus-One Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
CAN Ibiza - Everyday Gallery, Booth A.3, Ibiza, Spain
Art Antwerp - Everyday Gallery, Booth A.34, Antwerp, Belgium
Art Brussels - Everyday Gallery, Booth E.16, Brussels, Belgium
Spirit - Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Marché, Jodoigne, Belgium
Art Rotterdam - Everyday Gallery, Booth 84, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Le Dernier Combat - Willem Twee Art space, den Bosch, the Netherlands
2021
Triënnale van Brugge - Brugge, Belgium
Horst Festival - Brussels, Belgium
De wereld is zo ontrouw - Everyday Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium (Solo show)
2020
Time is on our side - Tongeren, Belgium
Duoshow - CCINQ, Brussels, Belgium
L'heure Blue - Plus One, Antwerp, Belgium
Limbo - Everyday gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Ballroom - Online initiative by BORG vzw
Box - Online exhibition initiated by Kris van Dessel
Art Rotterdam - Everyday gallery/MPV gallery, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Dew of the Sea - Alfstad & Editions, Sarasota, Florida, USA
2019
Sofreh - No Man's Art gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
A phase like home - Singular Art, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Just Looking for attention - CIAP Kunstverein, Hasselt, Belgium
You won't get what you want - de Garage, Mechelen, Belgium (Solo show)
Hanging Hammers - de Gruyter Fabriek, s' Hertogenbosch, Belgium
Growlers, Cracklers & Bursters - CIAP Kunstverein, Hasselt, Belgium
In Real Life - Everyday gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Mama, je hoeft niet te huilen - Pulsar, Antwerp, Belgium (Solo show)
2018
The gathering - Panthera.today, Brussels, Belgium
Scene Unseen - Castle Oud-Rekem, Rekem, Belgium
Open Studios - Antwerp, Belgium
Breach - Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium
Donnerwetterday - Luxor, Arnhem, the Netherlands
2017
Places of ruin, Nest - The Hague, the Netherlands
Artbeat, collaboration with Koen van den Broek during Festival van Vlaanderen, Gent, Belgium
Talk to me in your language - Bernaerts, Antwerp, Belgium
Why Patterns? - Vleeshal, Middelburg, the Netherlands
Open Studios - Van Eyck, Maastricht, the Netherlands
So Far, So Real - Van Eyck, Maastricht, the Netherlands
2016
Pakstad Limburg Prijs - Heerlen, the Netherlands
Mad Power, de warande - Turnhout, Belgium
Private room 2.0 - Gent, Belgium
Dopplereffect - Voorkamer, Lier, Belgium
Ten dans - CC Maasmechelen, Belgium
Unfair Amsterdam - Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Antwerp Art Weekend - Hole of the Fox, Antwerp, Belgium
2015
Unterseeboot über Malermeister - CC Mechelen, Mechelen, Belgium
No Blossom, No Moonlight - ExtraCity, Antwerp, Belgium
WGDD, W139, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
A cozy mystery with bite - Greylight projects, Brussels, Belgium
TRASH - Hasselt, Belgium
Art traces across the western front - Ieper, Belgium
It could be the goldfish is mistaking the bowtie for a football - Boetzelaer-Nispen, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Antwerp Art weekend - Group show, Antwerp, Belgium
2014
Citadel'Arte (w MUHKA) - Diest, Belgium
Auction MDD, Museum Dhont Daenens - Deurle, Belgium
(MDD) Night Shop - Group show, Knokke, Belgium
UnfairAmsterdam 2014 - Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Kunstvlaai with Apice for Artists - Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Interpunction #7 - Tatjana Pieters gallery, Ghent, Belgium
2013
Wild Horses & Trojan Dreams - Marres, Maastricht, the Netherlands
First we take the Hague, then we take Berlin - Belgian Consulate the Hague (Z33), the Hague, the Netherlands
Young Masters - Het glazen huis, Lommel, Belgium
Art Attack - Hasselt, Belgium
NOT for sale - ArtandAdvice, Hasselt, Belgium
Open studio - Bonnefanten atelier, Hasselt, Belgium
The static also is electric - deSERVICEGARAGE, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Friends & Neighbors - atelier Koen van den Broek, Merksem
Toutestfini - Hasselt, Belgium
2012
Young Guns - Hajke Müsstege gallery, 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
Kunstvlaai - Oud Lyceum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Groupshow - Arti Capelli gallery, s' Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
Reconverse # 3 - Casino, Beringen, Belgium
No Movement - CC Muze, Heusden-Zolder, Belgium
The other, first year final show - s' Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
Bienvenue, Manifesta Parallel - Genk, Belgium
Leaving for a Living, Manifesta Parallel - Genk, Belgium
Open Studio - Sint Joost, s' Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
2011
Face/Off, Sint Joost - s' Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
In Out, In Out - Vanbuel home, Brussels, Belgium
New Times, New Heroes, design fair - Ventura Lambrate, Milan, Italy
Morning Glory - Tzarart gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
I think you're beautiful, beautiful - CC Hasselt, Hasselt, Belgium
2010
XXI - into dada - Arteventuno gallery, Hasselt, Belgium
Fris VIII - Jan Colle gallery, Gent, Belgium
PIHNDY - CIAP, Hasselt, Belgium
DANNY DONDER - CIAP, Hasselt, Belgium
5th International Student Triennial - Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey
Interventie - Emile van Doren museum, Genk, Belgium
Wunderkammer - Arteventuno Gallery, Genk, Belgium
Center of Mass - Lokaal01, Antwerp, Belgium
2009
DANNY DONDER - Z33, Hasselt, Belgium
Bachelorexpo 2009 - PHL, Hasselt, Belgium
White Boxes - Arteventuno gallery, Genk, Belgium
Traject H, Hasselt, Belgium
De keuze van Koen van den Broek - Indian Caps gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2008
Kunst in het moederhuis - Hasselt, Belgium
Education
2016-2017
Jan van Eyck academy, Maastricht, the Netherlands
2011-2013
HBO Master Autonomous Fine Arts, Sint-Joost, 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
2009-2010
Master in Fine Arts, Provinciale Hogeschool Limburg, Hasselt, Belgium
2006-2009
Bachelor in Fine Arts, Provinciale Hogeschool Limburg, Hasselt, Belgium
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