ABOUT
Diego Thielemans
b. 1989, lives and works in Brussels, Belgium
contact(at)diegothielemans.com
Diego Thielemans is engaged in a practice of moving image and collage. Gleaning materials and organizing them are at the heart of these practices. The resulting forms are diverse; printed posters, paintings, videos, small sculptures and sculptural furniture.
In addition to his personal practice, Diego Thielemans founded MULTIPLEXE with Benjamin De Backer, a curatorial project and collective sculpture in permanent evolution.
His current interests are an exhibition of Robert Rauschenberg in Rome in 1953, building renovation, the waste of time rationalized into laziness and imagiers for children.
Studies
2013 – Master’s degree in art, erg (School of Graphic Research), Brussels
Residencies
2021-24 – Guest artist at Chez Rosi, risography studio, Brussels
2022 – Factatory, Tator Gallery, Lyon, France
2014 – XX CSAV – Artists Research Laboratory, Fondazione Ratti, Como, Italy
2014 – Wiels Residency Program, Brussels
2013 – «Continuous Project Altered Daily, P.A.R.T.S, Brussels
2012 – Erasmus at ENSA Villa Arson, Nice, France
Solo shows
2022 – The Silly Running Troubled Dots, Gevaert Editions and Chez Rosi, Brussels
2020 – Les Cinémas, Shhh Festival by Monokino, Ostende
2020 – Chose rythme, Rue du Chapeau 10, Brussels 2019 De Backer & Thielemans, Cinémiroir,
2017 – Au Bain, Bom Dia Bonjour, Brussels
2014 – When Rubiero comes from the backdoor, the friends are already in, Wiels – Project Space, Brussels
Group shows
2023 – A4 a wall, VROOM, Bruxelles
2023 – Alternative Domestic Art Fair, Bruxelles
2022 – Comme un télescope, MULTIPLEXE @ Le Bassin, Brussels
2022 – Allez, Allez!, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris
2022 – Domestic Science, Nothing for Free in Pfand – Leeggoed, Brussels
2021 – Institution Building, CIVA, Brussels
2020 – Carnaval digital, online festival by Maria Angelica Madero and Camilo Pachon (Bogotà, Colombia)
2018 – Le re-bureau de Rubiero, by Rubiero da Reixirà at R2D2 Architecture, Brussels
2017 – Chorus of cold people, by Benjamin Installé at Swallowing Helmets, Brussels
2017 – Au Bureau / Au Salon, Chez Bob, Brussels 2017 Bedroom Talks n°6, Deborah Bowmann Gallery, Brussels Bowmann, Brussels
2016 – The gap between, by Cristiàn Valenzuela at Transformers Space, Brussels
2014 – Corso Aperto 2014, Fondazione Ratti, Como, Italy
Publishing
2022 – L’Imagier – Feu #1 et #2, affiches, sérigraphie, 50 x 70 cm, 10 ex. chaque, Factatory + Atelier Chalopin, Lyon
2022 – My Printer’s Speech, portfolio de 8 affiches, risographie, 29,7 x 42 cm, 30 ex., Gevaert Editions + PTTL-Chez Rosi, Bruxelles
2021 – Living the Grid, combinaison de 4 affiches, risographie, 70,2 x 94,8 cm, 3 variations de 7 ex., Chez Rosi, Bruxelles
2021 – Country Happening, avec Benjamin De Backer, livre, offset, 21 x 27 cm, 96 p., 200 ex., Surfaces Utiles, Bruxelles
2020 – The Chemist, affiche, risographie, 29,7 x 42 cm, 50 ex., Gevaert Editions, Bruxelles
2017 – Au Bureau, avec Bérénice Béguerie, livret, offset, 28 x 40 cm, 500 ex., Rubiero da Reixirà, Bruxelles