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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

2022The Silly Running Troubled Dots, Gevaert Editions and Chez Rosi, Brussels
2020Les Cinémas, Shhh Festival by Monokino, Ostende
2020Chose rythme, Rue du Chapeau 10, Brussels 2019 De Backer & Thielemans, Cinémiroir,
2017Au Bain, Bom Dia Bonjour, Brussels
2014When 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
2022Comme un télescope, MULTIPLEXE @ Le Bassin, Brussels
2022Allez, Allez!, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris
2022Domestic Science, Nothing for Free in Pfand – Leeggoed, Brussels
2021Institution Building, CIVA, Brussels
2020Carnaval digital, online festival by Maria Angelica Madero and Camilo Pachon (Bogotà, Colombia)
2018Le re-bureau de Rubiero, by Rubiero da Reixirà at R2D2 Architecture, Brussels
2017Chorus of cold people, by Benjamin Installé at Swallowing Helmets, Brussels
2017Au Bureau / Au Salon, Chez Bob, Brussels 2017 Bedroom Talks n°6, Deborah Bowmann Gallery, Brussels Bowmann, Brussels
2016The gap between, by Cristiàn Valenzuela at Transformers Space, Brussels
2014 Corso Aperto 2014, Fondazione Ratti, Como, Italy

Publishing

2024Colour Book, book, risograph printing, 92 p., 17 x 24 cm, 300 copies, Chez Rosi, Brussels
2024Quest for Paradise #1 #2 #3, fanzine, risograph printing, 16p., 18 x 24 cm, 50 copies, Lyon/Brussels
2022L’Imagier – Feu #1 et #2, poster, silkscreen printing, 50 x 70 cm, 10 copies, Factatory + Atelier Chalopin, Lyon
2022My Printer’s Speech, portfolio of 8 posters, risograph printing, 29,7 x 42 cm, 30 copies, Gevaert Editions + PTTL-Chez Rosi, Bruxelles
2021Living the Grid, combination of 4 posters, risograph printing, 70,2 x 94,8 cm, 7 copies, Chez Rosi, Bruxelles
2021Country Happening, with Benjamin De Backer, book, offset, 21 x 27 cm, 96 p., 200 copies, Surfaces Utiles, Brussels
2020The Chemist, poster, risograph printing, 29,7 x 42 cm, 50 copies, Gevaert Editions, Bruxelles
2017Au Bureau, with Bérénice Béguerie, booklet, offset printing, 28 x 40 cm, 500 copies, Rubiero da Reixirà, Brussels