Victor Delestre French, b. 1989
Victor Delestre (b. 1989) is a multidisciplinary artist in the broadest sense of the term. Initially from the theater world in which he practiced for 8 years, he later shifted his attention to the Fine Arts. This background in theater has significantly influenced his current artistic practice, his deeper interest is to play different roles in real life rather than on stage or behind a screen. Since then, his passion for the scenic, spectacular, and narrative aspects of the theater remains untouched yet adding to these now are ideas of community and building affinities with others. He articulates his practice between solo and various collaborative projects such as the entity Deborah Bowmann which he founded along with the artist Amaury Daurel, Horrible Bise (a trio with Amaury Daurel and Romain Juan) and also his two current musical projects (France Frites and Victor & Lucas).
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Beliefs, Apples and Machines
Solo Exhibition by Victor Delestre 19 Mar - 17 Apr 2022Looking at Delestre's work, the first thing one notices is the poetic character of his visual language. His work manages to reshape reality as we know it to seemingly simple...Read more -
Potluck
Group Exhibition 4 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 more -
Limbo Act II
Group Exhibition 17 Oct - 15 Nov 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 more -
Limbo
Group Exhibition 5 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 more
2021
Curator of the Antwerp Art Weekend - Antwerp
Duo show at Island - Brussels
Group show - curated by Bruno Peinado,Le SHED, Rouen
2020
Deborah Bowmann & Guests - at Centre d’art Passages, Troyes,
France (Solo show)
Vordemberge Gildewart Prize 2020, The Hague, NL
2019
Has Been Alaïa - cur. Émilie Pischeda - with Carlotta Bailly-Borg, Anastasia Bay, Sophie Graniou, Zora Mann, Joseph Marzolla, Heloise Rival, Éric Stephany, Adrien Vermont, WATP, Everyday Gallery, Antwerp
À la dérive - with Ludovic Beillard and Angélique Aubrit, Festival de l’Estran, Trégastel, France
Les Chemins du Sud : une théorie du mineur - curated by par E. Luciani & C. Cosson, Southway studio, with Jean-Marie Appriou, Jenna Kaës & Jean-Marie Appriou, Bella Hunt & Dante di Calce, Hélène Bertin, Joanne Burke, Maggy Champsaur, Giovanni Copelli, Jade Fourès-Varnier & Vincent de Hoÿm, Andrew Humke, Jean-Baptiste Janisset, Lucile Littot, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Emiliano Maggi, Zoë Paul... MRAC Sérignan, France
Il était une fois dans l’Ouest - curated by Irwin Marchal, FRAC MÉCA, Bordeaux
Residency and solo show at Galerie Paradise, Nantes, France Art Cologne, collaboration with Gallery Conradi, Koln, Germany Cerise sur la déco, solo show at D.Bowmann, Brussels
2018
Jdf - Club, avec Ludovic Beillard, Tatiana Defraine, Dewar & Gicquel, Philip Janssens, Rémi Lambert, Jonas Locht, Sarah Margnetti and Nicolas Party, Jour de Fête, Brussels
B-SIDES - curaté par Saloon, avec Michel François, Gaillard&Claude, Tom Krol, Sophie Nys, Perri Mackenzie, Project space Saloon, Brussels
Ce n’est peut être qu’un détail pour vous mais pour nous ça veut dire beaucoup, public sculpture - curated by Isabel Van Bos, Antwerp
Les Boudoirs du réel - with Ludovic Beillard - Galerie Pierre Poumet, Bordeaux
Les pissenlits, with Ludovic Beillard, Rémi Lambert and Romain Juan, Greylight Projects, Brussels Fred Chaussures - with Deborah Bowmann, D.Bowmann Brussels (Solo show)
2017
Grand Confort - at Nadie Nada Nunca No, Madrid, Spain (Solo show)
Le hasard, la règle et l’océan - Afterhowl, Brussels (Solo show)
Les Bons Sentiments - 19th Prize of Fondation d’entreprise Ricard - curated by Anne-Claire Schmitz, with Pauline Curnier Jardin, L. Gonzàlez, Thomas Jeppe, C. Mesquita and Zin Taylor, Fondation Ricard, Paris
Misters Higgledy & Piggledy - with D. Bowmann in collaboration with D. Dewar & G. Gicquel, D. Bowmann Brussels
2016
Just what is it’ - Collection #3 - curated by Matylda Krzykowski, with Martino Gamper, Stéphanie Baechler, Maxime Guyon...Chamber, NYC, USA
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, D.Bowmann, Brussels
Starting over and failing again - with Deborah Bowmann, Rémi Lambert and Ludovic Beillard - D.Bowmann, Proposal for Andrea Crews, by Deborah Bowmann, Andrea Crews, Paris
2015
Everything you need to bring bathrooms to a shine - with Thea Djordjadze, Estrid Lutz & Emile Mold, Vincent Knopper and Amaury Daurel, Deborah Bowmann Brussels
Moucharabieh - collaboration with Clémence Seilles curated Céline Kopp, Triangle France, Marseille, France
Grand Salon n°1 - la première rétrospective Deborah Bowmann - Sandberg Graduation show, Amsterdam
Full Time Sofa - avec Deborah Bowmann, Alice Hauret-Labarthe, AroundFunction, Galerie Treize, Paris
Deborah Bowmann Grand Bakery, curated by SSBA-Salon - Kunstenaarsbal, Amsterdam
Noblesse Oblige - with Travis Broussard, Jean-Baptiste Carobolante,
D. Bowmann, Amsterdam
Suspended Goods Delicate Holes - with Deborah Bowmann, Alliance Française, HabitDeNous, Amsterdam
2014
Non-stop Plaza - collaboration with Parking Club, De Fabriek, Eindhoven, NL
Art by telephone...Recalled - curated by Sébastien Pluot and Fabien Vallos, La Panacée, Montpellier, France
About love and violence (with Horrible Bise) - Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam Blue Curtains Black Coffee - collaboration with Clémence Seilles, Stéphane Barbier-Bouvet, Heather & Rosetta, Jurjen Van Houte, Victor Delestre, Deborah Bowmann Amsterdam, Amsterdam
2013
Rencontre d’Art et Paysage d’Artigues - curated by Jean-François Dumont, Artigues-près-bordeaux, France
Helbling (with France Frites) - curated by Guillaume Leblon et Paraguay Press, Fondation Ricard, Paris
2012
Art by Telephone...Recalled - curated by Sébastien Pluot & Fabien Vallos, CAPC, Bordeaux
Chrématistique - curated by Jérémie Gaulin & Fabien Vallos, with A Constructed World, Olivier Bardin, J-B Farkas, Pierre-Damien Huyghe, Chiara Parisi, Société Réaliste, Yann Sérandour... 360 m3, Lyon
THE LAST SONG - avec Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Nino Sekhniashvili, Gallery Micky Schubert, Berlin
Pedagogical experiences and lectures
2020
Tutor at Goldsmiths College, London Tutor at KASK, Ghent
2019
Workshop at l’École des Beaux-arts de Dunkerque, France
2018
Lecture at W139, Amsterdam, NL Lecture at l’Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Belgium Lecture at Brasseurs, Liège
2017
Master jury at l’Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles (Master 2) Lecture at La Cambre, Bruxelles, Belgium
2016
Lecture at l’Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Belgium Workshop at Dirty Art Department, Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, NL Workshop at l’école des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux (Horrible Bise), France
Publications / Victor Delestre
Les visiteurs, in Chrématistique, éditions Mix 2015
The Grave digger successor, in Chrématistique, éditions Mix 2014
Que faire ? in Le chiffre et le texte (formes d’usages) éditions MIX + EBABX, 2012
Chiffon in Sur le concept de négligence (éloge du chiffonnier) éditions MIX + EBABX, 2011
Publications / Deborah Bowmann
Article dans Zérodeux, 2020
Article et interview dans IntraMuros, 2019
Carte blanche dans ALMA MATTER, 2018
Mention dans Beaux-Arts Magasine, octobre 2017
Mention dans Les Inrockuptibles, par Ingrid Luquet-Gad, Septembre 2017 Mention dans Libération, par Judicaël Lavrador, Septembre 2017
Texte critique dans Metropolis M, par Laura Herman Interview dans Manifesto 21, par Marjolaine Szwed Interview dans Bijutsu, par Miki Kanai, Japon, avril 2016 Texte critique dans LE SALON, par Jean-Baptiste Carobolante, mars 2016 Review dans Artspaces, avril 2016 Review dans TheWord Magazine, avril 2016 Review dans COLLECT, janvier 2016
Interview pour SSBA-SALON, Amsterdam, 2014
Various experiences
2018 Contribution to the edition and show of Paroles by Saâdane Afif at Wiels, Brussels, Belgium
2017 Nominated to the Fondation Ricard Prize as Deborah Bowmann with Amaury Daurel
2015 Opening of Deborah Bowmann Brussels with Amaury Daurel, Brussels
2014 Opening of Deborah Bowmann Amsterdam with Amaury Daurel, Amsterdam Recording of New Dirty Enterprises de Jerszy Seymour at Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, France
2011 Studio assistant of Thea Djordjadze in Berlin (Gallery Sprueth:Magers) / documenta 13, Kassel
Education
2015 Master - Dirty Art Department, Sandberg Institute (MA Program of Rietveld Academie), Amsterdam, NL
2012 DNSEP - École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, France