Yoann Van Parys

(1981- , Brussels), lives and works in Brussels

At the heart of the practice of Yoann Van Parys, born in 1981 under the sign of Scorpio, there might be the idea of "contact point": a spot where image and matter, individual and collective imagination come together.
Such an encounter would inevitably pertain of surrealism. There would be elements there that would collide, finding themselves face to face in some form of stupor. But it would also involve the debates of philosophy or even politics, since globalisation today brings face to face cultures and individuals whose values are radically opposed.
Coming from drawing, comic strips, then photography and art writing, the artist examines the image and its aesthetics from different angles, effects combinations like an alchemist, plays several parts himself: all of this in order to probe the existence (or absence) of boundaries (or areas of contact) between singularity and universality.


Education


2003-2004 > Master in modern and contemporary art, given jointly by UCL
(University of Louvain-La-Neuve), ULB (University of Brussels), ULG (University
of Liège), FUNDP (University of Namur), FPMS (University of Mons).


1999-2003 > Master in Art and Archaeology, UCL (University of
Louvain-La-Neuve)

 


Solo Exhibitions


2021
Roma, Le Delta, Namur (B)
Le marchand de glaces, Eté 78, Brussels (B)


2020
Support act : la clé des champs, Le Botanique, Bruxelles (B)


2019
Astérix & Obélix sur la Côte d'Azur, performance au MAMAC organisée par l'association Thankyouforcoming, dans le cadre de la résidence Across (commissaire Claire Migraine), Nice (F)
 

2018
Luna di mezzogiorno, sole di mezzanotte, Fondazione Aurelio Petroni, San Cipriano Picentino (IT)


2017
Private Choice. 11 collections bruxelloises d'art contemporain, Centrale for contemporary ART,Brussels, (B).
Au(s) mont(s) sans(s) soucis(s), Galerie LMNO, Brussels (B)
Red Boll/Mentus, Vitrine Art Contest, Rivoli Building, Brussels (B)


2016
De l'assemblée à l'imprimante, Institut Supérieur pour l'Etude du
Langage Plastique, Brussels (B)
Palio!, Musumeci contemporary, Brussels (B)
L'heure locale, Espace-Galerie Flux, Liège (B)


2015
RAVI Open Studios, RAVI residency, Liège (B)


2011
Mardi n'existe pas, De Cacaofabriek, Helmond (NL)
Le poulpe au regard de soie, Lokaal 01, Anvers (B)


2010
Laurent Dupont-Garitte, Raphaël Van Lerberghe, Yoann Van Parys, Galerie
Dominique Lang, Dudelange (Lu)


2009
Images and imagination: Warren Neidich / Yoann Van Parys, Onomatopee /
De Overslag, Eindhoven (NL)


2008
Le hasard fait bien les choses, Argument, Tilburg (NL)
Dos canciones inéditas para el recuerdo, CIAP, Hasselt (B)


2007
If you want to carve a great white shark, you can carve a great white shark,
Hedah, Maastricht (NL)


Group exhibitions

2022

"Exposition du 30e Prix de la Gravure et de l'Image imprimée", by Eva Busoni at Centre de la Gravure et de l'Image imprimée, La Louvière, Belgium

Limited Edition Art Fair (LEAF) booth, Boghossian Foundation, The Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium


2021
rosa rosa rosae rosae, La Maison Pelgrims, Brussels (B)
Art au Centre #6, Liège (B)


2020
L'équipe de nuit, LMNO gallery, Bruxelles (B)


2019
Prix Georges Collignon, La Boverie, Liège (B) 
SB37, Salon Blanc, Ostende (B)
Rosa, rosa, rosae, rosae, SB34, Bruxelles (B)
We need to talk about painting, galerie LMNO, Bruxelles (B)


2018
Zone bleue, atelier synoptique portatif, Brussels (B)
Collection, oeuvres de la collection Rikkers-Helsmoortel, Liège (B)
Art Brussels 2018, Galerie LMNO (B)
Wishes, Galerie LMNO, Brussels (B)


2016
Investigate what is, not what pleases, Lokaal01, Anvers (B)


2015
Schone kunsten, De Cacaofabriek, Helmond (NL)
Input/output, Cultureel Centrum Brugge / De Bond, Bruges (B)


2014
Friche II (VOstfr), Dieweg, Uccle (B)
Friche I, Boulevard de la révision, Anderlecht (B)


2013
Mater, Deraedt, Fliervoet (a brief intervention within the exhibition of Sarah
Deraedt, Maartje Fliervoet and Katja Mater), Institut de carton, Brussels (B)
Once more, unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Lokaal 01, Breda (NL)


2012
Do it, Maison de la culture de la Province de Namur, Namur (B)


2010
Why Look at things upside down?, Martin Van Blerk Gallery, Antwerp (B)
One Shot, BPS22, Charleroi (B)
Chipka, Netwerk, Aalst (B)
Group show, De Overslag, Eindhoven (NL)


2009
Sentiers Rouges 2009, Luxembourg (L)
Jeugdzonde, Hedah, Maastricht (NL)
Jeugdzonde, LLS 387, Anvers (B)
Residency exhibition, Wiels, Bruxelles (B)
Constellations, Galerie Olivari Veys, Bruxelles (B)


2008
Honorons Honoré, Cultuur Centrum Mechelen, Malines (B)


2007
Variety / around the work of Ian Breakwell, Lokaal 01, Breda (NL)
Welcome to our neighbourhood, Arsenal, Metz (F)


2006
Prix Médiatine, Médiatine, Bruxelles (B)
Dessins d'esprit, Recyclart, Bruxelles (B)



Residencies


Août 2018 
 
Résidence Fondazione Aurelio Petroni, San Cipriano Picentino, Salerno (It)


January 2015 > March 2015 : Residency at RAVI / Résidences Ateliers
Vivegnis International, Liège (B)


August 2014, July 2015, July 2016 : Residency at Fondation Bevilacqua
La Masa, Venise (It)


November 2008 > April 2009 : Residency at Wiels, contemporary art
center, Brussels (B)


July 2008 > August 2008 : Residency at FRAC Lorraine (Fonds Régional
d'Art Contemporain de Lorraine), Metz (F)

 

Prizes


Prix Paul Artôt, Académie Royale de Belgique, 2018

 

 

Bibliography

 

DUBOIS (Colette), La Clé des champs. Yoann Van Parys au Botanique, HART magazine (hart-magazine.be), mis en ligne en février 2020

 

LORENT (Claude), Installation picturale polysémique, La Libre Belgique, supplément Arts Libres, 27 septembre 2017, p. 7.

 

RAINVILLE (Mélanie), #Institut : monstration, médiation et production de la recherche, L'art même, numéro 71, quatrième trimestre 2016, p. 36-37.

 

DELMOTTE (Messieurs), Azerty peignait les vitres en blanc, Flux News, numéro 69, Janvier 2016, p. 5. ELOY (Céline), Yoann Van Parys, catalogue RAVI 2015-2016, Bulletin des musées de la ville de Liège, hors-série 45, Octobre 2016, p. 40-41.