Lionel Jadot Belgian , b. 1969
Born and based in Brussels, Lionel Jadot (°1969) is an interior architect, artist, designer, filmmaker, adventurer. But preferably all at the same time. It makes all the fire. “I don't throw anything, I pick up. I don't have a green thumb, I try cuttings, unnatural marriages. I never forget a line.” Jadot invites you into subtle, quirky worlds bordering on reality. His material is dilated time. The traveler spirit seeks a protective balance in a hostile world. This is his permanent questioning: what becomes of the place where we live? For Jadot, everything is an object, everything is history. He draws on other places, other times, and seeks what binds them. He sews, seams, re-sews, combines materials, combines eras. He embeds wood in metal, mineral in vegetal, old in new. “I take care of the connection between two materials”. At home, there is play, as in a piece of machinery. From one reign to another, it causes organic, viral, energy-generating growths. Linking past and future, he never forgets a line. “I accumulate them.” Are we in 1930 or in 2030? Both, no doubt. The eye goes hand in hand with the ear. “When I walk into a place, I listen to the good (or bad) it does to me. Ineffable feeling.” He recreates buildings and mutant objects. He flirts with retro-futurism. He finds echoes of gothic comics, Moebius, Jodorowski, Bilal, sets of the Hermetic Garage and Blade Runner, protective balance in a hostile world. “I fix everything. I collect pieces of wood. A trunk wrapped in copper matrix becomes a bench”. He diverts lamps from a musician's desk, which have become a brass tree, and an orchestra lights you up..
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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 -
Enthrone Dethrone 02
Solo Exhibition by Lionel Jadot 9 Jul - 23 Oct 2020In ‘Enthrone Dethrone’, seats and thrones are seamlessly assembled from collected goods. In a space-wrapping scenography, flooring covers the walls and fencing protects the floor. Large panels of tracing paper...Read more -
Enthrone Dethrone 01
Group Exhibition + Solo Exhibition by Lionel Jadot 20 Jun - 4 Jul 2020
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weekendmagazine DE TIJD — Potluck Exhibition
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Knack Weekend — Potluck Exhibition
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dS Magazine — Potluck Exhibition
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AD Magazine — Lionel Jadot
Article, September 28, 2021
Lionel Jadot (1969) b. Brussels, Belgium
2022
COLLECTIBLE Fair - Presented by Everyday Gallery, Brussels, BE
2021
Potluck - Group Exhibition, Everyday Gallery, Antwerp, BE
Design Miami/ Basel, Solo Presentation, Everyday Gallery, Antwerp, BE
2020
ENTRHONE DETHRONE 01 - Solo Exhibition, Everyday Gallery,
Antwerp, BE
ENTHRONE DETHRONE 02 - Solo Exhibition, Everyday Gallery,
Antwerp, BE
2019
Wolf - sharing food market, Brussels
Popular - restaurant in the JAM Hotel, Brussels
Café Flora - Brussels Since, represented by Todd Merrill Studio, New York City
2018 – 2020
Aegidium - Brussels
2018
Together! - The New Architecture of the Collective, an exhibition of the Vitra Design Museum at CID, Grand-Hornu
Between Art and Design / Belgian Scene exhibition - Kanal Centre Pompidou Brussels
Zaventem Ateliers - 6000M2 of creation and manufacture
Chai - Château Castigno
Siversquare - Triomphe, Brussels
Le Pesage - restaurant in Droh!me.
Rural - Marc Veyrat new restaurant in Paris
Mixed Grill - Milano Salone (Solo show)
Two Venues Design Award for Hotel Jam
2017
Chief Design Officer at ‘Cohabs’, sustainable and community-driven
shared homes
Publication of the book ‘Mixed Grill’ Edition Lannoo
2016
Mixed Grill - CID Grand-Hornu (Solo show)
Two Trade Design Awards For Glacier Gaston
A Trade Design Awards for Hotel Jam
2010
Publication of ‘Lionel Jadot Autobiography’ a monography from Beta-plus sinds 2000 till now SPRL Lionel Jadot Foundation; Architecture and Interior Decorating and Stage Designing Agency for complete projects. Over 200 projects carried out to date for private and professional clients
1995
Creation of the ‘Sécotine’ multicultural Art Gallery, several exhibitions
1989 – 2000
Furniture Designing, Interior Decorator and Production Manager of a workshop with 30 employees, within the Vanhamme Company
Education
Self-taught film producer
Self-taught Interior Decorator and Architect; Royal Fine Arts Academy
Art History, High School Athénée Robert Catteau