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Fia Cielen (BE, 1978) makes drawings, sculptures, installations and monumental digital prints. An important recurring aspect in her work is metamorphosis. Cielen likes to introduce a natural element in the work that goes beyond her control, in an attempt to achieve a re-enchantment of a disenchanted world. The artist is particularly attracted by in-between states, transitory zones and the uncanny, which becomes evident especially in her drawings. They are populated by creatures that exist on the threshold between the human, the animal, and the elemental; beings on the verge of their next materialisation. An important source of inspiration are masks – carnival masks, old folklore and ritual masks, ritual animal disguises. Masquerade as something that is ingrained in European culture, originating from a time before the christening of Europe, a remnant of times when the wild and magical were still part of daily life. Hiding one’s face behind a mask is also a fitting metaphor for our modern culture, with its thin layer of civilization, the wildness brewing underneath. In an over-regulated world, Cielen wants to depict the states in which we can reclaim a sense of wildness, as a means of expressing an intuitive feeling that estrangement can be intrinsically more natural.
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Education
2008 Laureate of HISK Postgraduate Program, Ghent, BE
2006 Master of Visual Arts, KASK, Ghent, BE
Selected Exhibitions and Projects (Solo and Group)
2024 Spectral Harvest (upcoming), duo show with Julie De Kezel, DMW Gallery, Antwerp, BE
2023 FAL, group show, Red Herring Salon, Antwerp, BE
Rivierverloren, cur. Koen Broucke, In De Ruimte – cc Ter Dilft, Bornem, BE
Pot Luck, Ballroom Gallery, Brussels, BE
The Ecstatic Being, Artefact Festival, STUK, Leuven, BE
2022 Titre/Sans Titre, DMW Gallery, Antwerp, BE
Kaos, Sofie Van Den Bussche Gallery, Brussels, BE
Ballroom Project, DMW Gallery, Antwerp, BE
2021 Fiat Lux, HISK Alumni, Pilar artspace, Brussels, BE
#1, Ballroom Gallery, Brussels, BE
Breedbeeld, CC Berchem, Antwerp, BE
Art Rotterdam, DMW Gallery & Base Alpha Gallery, Rotterdam, NL
Hedge Rider, Solo, DMW Gallery, Antwerp, BE
A Forest, Galerie Dys, Brussels, BE
2020 Vergeten Vrouwen, cur. Erik Thys, supported by Museum Guislain, Cera, Leuven, BE
Becoming The Forest III, Art project and publication by Una Hamilton Helle and Lotte Brown, Het Bos Antwerpen
this place / displaced, DMW Gallery, Antwerp, BE
The Agprognostic Temple, cur. Sam Steverlynck & Dome Wood, Brussels, BE
2019 Disegno (Tekening), SASK, Sint-Niklaas, BE
Ceres, cur. Jelle Spruyt, 252CC, Antwerp, BE
Drawing Room, Drawing cabinet, HISK, Ghent, BE
New Magical Realism, cur. Micha Eden Erdesz, The Minories Galleries, UK
False Faces, DMW Gallery, Antwerp, BE
Klein Sculptuur, Laureates exhibition, CC Zwaneberg, BE
2018 Romantic Rocks, cur. Javier Barrios & Fia Cielen, Podium Artspace, Oslo, NO
Marginalia, cur. Koi Persyn, In De Ruimte artspace, Ghent, BE
Open Studios, NICC & Studio Start, Antwerp, BE
September 1980, cur. Thom Trojanowski, Asylum Studios Artspace, UK
C2H6O, Group show & presentation, Pulsar II edition, Pulsar Artspace, Antwerp, BE
A Whole Variety, LWM18, Antwerp, BE
Final Proposal, cur. Javier Barrios & Pulsar Artists, Pulsar Artspace, Antwerp, BE
OFF Paper, cur. Vincent Surmont, CC Ekeren, Antwerp, BE
Stock, NT Gent, Ghent, BE
2017 Realms II, cur. Jon Vaughn, Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, Saskatoon, CA
Duivelskermis, Presentation Artist Edition, Trampoline Gallery, Antwerp, BE
Angst, Angoise, Anxiety, Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent, BE
The Magician, Solo exhibition, Trampoline Gallery, Antwerp, BE
Paris Texas, Antwerp Art Weekend, Antwerp, BE
Group show Pulsar and Presentation of Pulsar I Edition, Antwerp Art Weekend
Etaleh, Antwerp Central Station, Antwerp Art Weekend, Antwerp, BE
Transformers, Duo show with Lysandre Begijn, Gouvernement, Ghent, BE
Art viewer booth, Independent Art Fair, Brussel, BE
Group show, cur. Els Wuyts, Black Swan Gallery, Bruges, BE
Black Pit, Extrapool, Nijmegen, NL
2016 Drawing Front, cur. Arno Kramer, Drawing Centre, Diepenheim, NL
I Call it The Universal Circle, cur. Kristina Junzell, RYMD Konstrum, Stockholm, SE
Field Notes and Dirty Drawings, Z33, Hasselt, BE
ATC, cur. Charlotte Lybeer & Barry Camps, Galerie Van Blerk, Antwerp, BE
Fia Cielen, Monica Flakk, Rina Charlott Lindgren, cur. Javier Barrios, PIL, Arena Vestfossen, Oslo, NO
Saturn Uranus, Solo, cur. Jos Herck, Gasthuiskapel Borgloon, BE
Salon Sauvage, cur. Els Wuyts, Art Lab Gent, Ghent, BE
SetUp, cur. David Wauters, Pulsar Artspace, Antwerp, BE
Een Groep, cur. Jo De Smedt, Gallery De Ziener, Asse, BE
Open Studio’s 2016, NICC & Studio Start, Antwerp, BE
An Elegant Pose Facing Nature, cur. Patrice Deweer, Galerie Le Clignoteur, Brussels, BE
Just The Tip, org. Alexandra Crouwers, Lydia Debeer, Manu Engelen & Fia Cielen, Pulsar Artspace, Antwerp, BE
Can’t Fix It, Fuck It, org. Tom Volkaert, Vincent Vandaele, Benny Vandenmeulengracht-Vranckx & Fia Cielen, Pulsar Artspace Antwerp, BE
2015 Alchemy of Embodiment, cur. Fia Cielen & Deer Trail Records, Palazzo, Antwerp, BE
Before the Food Fight, cur. Gert De Clerck, Chocoladefabriek Tongeren, BE
Dog Day Cabinet, cur. Peter Waterschoot & Michel Vaerewijck, Gallery C41, Antwerp, BE
Invisible Shine of Paradox, org. Fia Cielen, Kristien Dirkx & Maryam Najd, Project Space Studio Start, Antwerp, BE
Crystal Skies, Permanent installation, Flemish Parliament, Brussels, BE
A Belgian Politician, cur. Lieven Segers & Tom Liekens, Galerie Marion de Canniere, Antwerp, BE
2014 Distance to Zero, cur. Hans Van Der Ham, De Garage, Rotterdam, NL
Wondercabinet, cur. Tom Liekens, Het Pand, Ghent, BE
I Created Romance Where There Wasn't Any, cur. Charlot Van Buylaere, Borger, Antwerp, BE
Rituals and Darkness, cur. Makedo & Deer Trail Productions, Palazzo, Antwerp, BE
Stille Kracht, rituals in modern art, cur. Annelies Nagels & Bart Van Dijck, De Warande, Turnhout, BE
20 years Annette De Keyser Gallery, Annette De Keyser Gallery, Antwerp, BE
Missing Link, cur. Alexandra Crouwers, Artspace Flipside, Eindhoven, NL
Amethyst Skies, Permanent installation, Belgian Embassy The Hague, NL
First We Take The Hague, Then We Take Berlin, cur. Z33, Belgian Embassy The Hague, NL
2013 Slick Artfair, Solo, Brussels, BE
Myths Of The Near Future, Solo, cur. Veerle Devreese, Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, NL
Laureate show, Schunck, Heerlen, NL
Off Paper, cur. Vincent Surmont, Antwerp, BE
2012 Dweller on the Threshold', Solo, Gallery Annette De Keyser, Antwerp, BE
Parrallel Worlds, Manifesta, Genk, BE
Ongoing Story, Schunck, Heerlen, NL
2011 The December Store, cur. Vanessa Albury, NO gallery, New York City, US
Young Flemish Masters, Hermitage Museum, Amsterdam, NL
The Art of Social Network, cur. Fred Eerdekens, VO, Hasselt, BE
I Am Hurt, art as mirror of the soul, cur. Astrid David, Entrepot Fictief, Ghent, BE
Kunst en Zwalm, Biennial, Zwalm, BE
Crossroads, Young Artists from Belgium and The Netherlands, cur. Felicitas Rohden, Kunst Im Tunnel, Dusseldorf, DE
Wani (Objets Artistiques Non-Indentifiees), Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris, FR
Objects and Drawings, Annette De Keyser Gallery, Antwerp, BE
The Scape in Escape, cur. Saskia Ooms, Netwerk Aalst, Aalst, BE
2010 Hareng Saur, Ensor and Contemporary Art, cur. Philippe Van Cauteren & Ronald Vandesompel, SMAK, Ghent, BE
Realms of the Unstable, cur. Wouter Vanhaelemeesch, Superdeluxe Gallery, Tokyo, JP
Realms of the Unstable, Forest Limit Gallery, Tokyo, JP
Dark Decades, Duo show, cur. Delphine Somers & Matthias Wille, K+K Gallery, Brussels, BE
The Perseids, cur. Vanessa Albury & Max Razdow, The Custer Observatory, New York, US
BAT 10, cur. Flor Bex, Antwerp, BE
Bad Moon Rising, UKS, Oslo, NO
Pen to Paper, Concrete Hermit Gallery, London, UK
Pen to Paper, Artspace Berlin, Galerie LJ, Paris, FR
Kaoz Lily, cur. Fia Cielen & Bart Van Dijck, VVB82 Gallery, Antwerp, BE
Jenny Watson/ Fia Cielen, Duo show, CIAP, Hasselt, BE
Matchbox, Duo show with Catherine Petré, Flacc Genk, BE
2009 New Kids on the Block, cur. Philippe Van Cauteren & Guillaume Bijl, Extra City, Antwerp, BE
Hetzelfde en het Andere, cur. Willem Elias, Zebrastraat, Ghent, BE
The Last Session, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, NL
Landscaping, cur. Enough Room for Space, Galerie De Meerse, Hoofddorp, Amsterdam, NL
Last Day of Magic, Venice Biennial, Scalamata Gallery, Venice, IT
Art Brussels, Artist Project, cur. Karen Renders, collaboration with HISK, Brussels, BE
Menhir, Solo, Second Room, Brussels, BE
Pictopia, Haus Der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE
Isomopolis, cur. Danaï Anesiadou, Etablissement d’en Face gallery, Brussels, BE
2008 Pencil Towers, Stone Fish, Rising Suns, Ghosts, Auras and other Emerging Entities, cur. Hans Theys & Frank Maes, Rossi Contemporary Gallery, Brussels, BE
Pen to Paper, Group exhibition and publication, 'Les Grandes Traversées', CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporaine, Bordeaux, FR
Collections
Flemish Parliament, Brussels, BE
Belgian Embassy, The Hague, NL
Various private collections, BE and abroad
Prizes
Parkstad Limburg Prize, Laureate and winner of public’s prize, Schunck Heerlen, NL
2008 Laureate of HISK Postgraduate Program, Ghent, BE
2006 Master of Visual Arts, KASK, Ghent, BE
Selected Exhibitions and Projects (Solo and Group)
2024 Spectral Harvest (upcoming), duo show with Julie De Kezel, DMW Gallery, Antwerp, BE
2023 FAL, group show, Red Herring Salon, Antwerp, BE
Rivierverloren, cur. Koen Broucke, In De Ruimte – cc Ter Dilft, Bornem, BE
Pot Luck, Ballroom Gallery, Brussels, BE
The Ecstatic Being, Artefact Festival, STUK, Leuven, BE
2022 Titre/Sans Titre, DMW Gallery, Antwerp, BE
Kaos, Sofie Van Den Bussche Gallery, Brussels, BE
Ballroom Project, DMW Gallery, Antwerp, BE
2021 Fiat Lux, HISK Alumni, Pilar artspace, Brussels, BE
#1, Ballroom Gallery, Brussels, BE
Breedbeeld, CC Berchem, Antwerp, BE
Art Rotterdam, DMW Gallery & Base Alpha Gallery, Rotterdam, NL
Hedge Rider, Solo, DMW Gallery, Antwerp, BE
A Forest, Galerie Dys, Brussels, BE
2020 Vergeten Vrouwen, cur. Erik Thys, supported by Museum Guislain, Cera, Leuven, BE
Becoming The Forest III, Art project and publication by Una Hamilton Helle and Lotte Brown, Het Bos Antwerpen
this place / displaced, DMW Gallery, Antwerp, BE
The Agprognostic Temple, cur. Sam Steverlynck & Dome Wood, Brussels, BE
2019 Disegno (Tekening), SASK, Sint-Niklaas, BE
Ceres, cur. Jelle Spruyt, 252CC, Antwerp, BE
Drawing Room, Drawing cabinet, HISK, Ghent, BE
New Magical Realism, cur. Micha Eden Erdesz, The Minories Galleries, UK
False Faces, DMW Gallery, Antwerp, BE
Klein Sculptuur, Laureates exhibition, CC Zwaneberg, BE
2018 Romantic Rocks, cur. Javier Barrios & Fia Cielen, Podium Artspace, Oslo, NO
Marginalia, cur. Koi Persyn, In De Ruimte artspace, Ghent, BE
Open Studios, NICC & Studio Start, Antwerp, BE
September 1980, cur. Thom Trojanowski, Asylum Studios Artspace, UK
C2H6O, Group show & presentation, Pulsar II edition, Pulsar Artspace, Antwerp, BE
A Whole Variety, LWM18, Antwerp, BE
Final Proposal, cur. Javier Barrios & Pulsar Artists, Pulsar Artspace, Antwerp, BE
OFF Paper, cur. Vincent Surmont, CC Ekeren, Antwerp, BE
Stock, NT Gent, Ghent, BE
2017 Realms II, cur. Jon Vaughn, Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, Saskatoon, CA
Duivelskermis, Presentation Artist Edition, Trampoline Gallery, Antwerp, BE
Angst, Angoise, Anxiety, Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent, BE
The Magician, Solo exhibition, Trampoline Gallery, Antwerp, BE
Paris Texas, Antwerp Art Weekend, Antwerp, BE
Group show Pulsar and Presentation of Pulsar I Edition, Antwerp Art Weekend
Etaleh, Antwerp Central Station, Antwerp Art Weekend, Antwerp, BE
Transformers, Duo show with Lysandre Begijn, Gouvernement, Ghent, BE
Art viewer booth, Independent Art Fair, Brussel, BE
Group show, cur. Els Wuyts, Black Swan Gallery, Bruges, BE
Black Pit, Extrapool, Nijmegen, NL
2016 Drawing Front, cur. Arno Kramer, Drawing Centre, Diepenheim, NL
I Call it The Universal Circle, cur. Kristina Junzell, RYMD Konstrum, Stockholm, SE
Field Notes and Dirty Drawings, Z33, Hasselt, BE
ATC, cur. Charlotte Lybeer & Barry Camps, Galerie Van Blerk, Antwerp, BE
Fia Cielen, Monica Flakk, Rina Charlott Lindgren, cur. Javier Barrios, PIL, Arena Vestfossen, Oslo, NO
Saturn Uranus, Solo, cur. Jos Herck, Gasthuiskapel Borgloon, BE
Salon Sauvage, cur. Els Wuyts, Art Lab Gent, Ghent, BE
SetUp, cur. David Wauters, Pulsar Artspace, Antwerp, BE
Een Groep, cur. Jo De Smedt, Gallery De Ziener, Asse, BE
Open Studio’s 2016, NICC & Studio Start, Antwerp, BE
An Elegant Pose Facing Nature, cur. Patrice Deweer, Galerie Le Clignoteur, Brussels, BE
Just The Tip, org. Alexandra Crouwers, Lydia Debeer, Manu Engelen & Fia Cielen, Pulsar Artspace, Antwerp, BE
Can’t Fix It, Fuck It, org. Tom Volkaert, Vincent Vandaele, Benny Vandenmeulengracht-Vranckx & Fia Cielen, Pulsar Artspace Antwerp, BE
2015 Alchemy of Embodiment, cur. Fia Cielen & Deer Trail Records, Palazzo, Antwerp, BE
Before the Food Fight, cur. Gert De Clerck, Chocoladefabriek Tongeren, BE
Dog Day Cabinet, cur. Peter Waterschoot & Michel Vaerewijck, Gallery C41, Antwerp, BE
Invisible Shine of Paradox, org. Fia Cielen, Kristien Dirkx & Maryam Najd, Project Space Studio Start, Antwerp, BE
Crystal Skies, Permanent installation, Flemish Parliament, Brussels, BE
A Belgian Politician, cur. Lieven Segers & Tom Liekens, Galerie Marion de Canniere, Antwerp, BE
2014 Distance to Zero, cur. Hans Van Der Ham, De Garage, Rotterdam, NL
Wondercabinet, cur. Tom Liekens, Het Pand, Ghent, BE
I Created Romance Where There Wasn't Any, cur. Charlot Van Buylaere, Borger, Antwerp, BE
Rituals and Darkness, cur. Makedo & Deer Trail Productions, Palazzo, Antwerp, BE
Stille Kracht, rituals in modern art, cur. Annelies Nagels & Bart Van Dijck, De Warande, Turnhout, BE
20 years Annette De Keyser Gallery, Annette De Keyser Gallery, Antwerp, BE
Missing Link, cur. Alexandra Crouwers, Artspace Flipside, Eindhoven, NL
Amethyst Skies, Permanent installation, Belgian Embassy The Hague, NL
First We Take The Hague, Then We Take Berlin, cur. Z33, Belgian Embassy The Hague, NL
2013 Slick Artfair, Solo, Brussels, BE
Myths Of The Near Future, Solo, cur. Veerle Devreese, Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, NL
Laureate show, Schunck, Heerlen, NL
Off Paper, cur. Vincent Surmont, Antwerp, BE
2012 Dweller on the Threshold', Solo, Gallery Annette De Keyser, Antwerp, BE
Parrallel Worlds, Manifesta, Genk, BE
Ongoing Story, Schunck, Heerlen, NL
2011 The December Store, cur. Vanessa Albury, NO gallery, New York City, US
Young Flemish Masters, Hermitage Museum, Amsterdam, NL
The Art of Social Network, cur. Fred Eerdekens, VO, Hasselt, BE
I Am Hurt, art as mirror of the soul, cur. Astrid David, Entrepot Fictief, Ghent, BE
Kunst en Zwalm, Biennial, Zwalm, BE
Crossroads, Young Artists from Belgium and The Netherlands, cur. Felicitas Rohden, Kunst Im Tunnel, Dusseldorf, DE
Wani (Objets Artistiques Non-Indentifiees), Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris, FR
Objects and Drawings, Annette De Keyser Gallery, Antwerp, BE
The Scape in Escape, cur. Saskia Ooms, Netwerk Aalst, Aalst, BE
2010 Hareng Saur, Ensor and Contemporary Art, cur. Philippe Van Cauteren & Ronald Vandesompel, SMAK, Ghent, BE
Realms of the Unstable, cur. Wouter Vanhaelemeesch, Superdeluxe Gallery, Tokyo, JP
Realms of the Unstable, Forest Limit Gallery, Tokyo, JP
Dark Decades, Duo show, cur. Delphine Somers & Matthias Wille, K+K Gallery, Brussels, BE
The Perseids, cur. Vanessa Albury & Max Razdow, The Custer Observatory, New York, US
BAT 10, cur. Flor Bex, Antwerp, BE
Bad Moon Rising, UKS, Oslo, NO
Pen to Paper, Concrete Hermit Gallery, London, UK
Pen to Paper, Artspace Berlin, Galerie LJ, Paris, FR
Kaoz Lily, cur. Fia Cielen & Bart Van Dijck, VVB82 Gallery, Antwerp, BE
Jenny Watson/ Fia Cielen, Duo show, CIAP, Hasselt, BE
Matchbox, Duo show with Catherine Petré, Flacc Genk, BE
2009 New Kids on the Block, cur. Philippe Van Cauteren & Guillaume Bijl, Extra City, Antwerp, BE
Hetzelfde en het Andere, cur. Willem Elias, Zebrastraat, Ghent, BE
The Last Session, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, NL
Landscaping, cur. Enough Room for Space, Galerie De Meerse, Hoofddorp, Amsterdam, NL
Last Day of Magic, Venice Biennial, Scalamata Gallery, Venice, IT
Art Brussels, Artist Project, cur. Karen Renders, collaboration with HISK, Brussels, BE
Menhir, Solo, Second Room, Brussels, BE
Pictopia, Haus Der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE
Isomopolis, cur. Danaï Anesiadou, Etablissement d’en Face gallery, Brussels, BE
2008 Pencil Towers, Stone Fish, Rising Suns, Ghosts, Auras and other Emerging Entities, cur. Hans Theys & Frank Maes, Rossi Contemporary Gallery, Brussels, BE
Pen to Paper, Group exhibition and publication, 'Les Grandes Traversées', CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporaine, Bordeaux, FR
Collections
Flemish Parliament, Brussels, BE
Belgian Embassy, The Hague, NL
Various private collections, BE and abroad
Prizes
Parkstad Limburg Prize, Laureate and winner of public’s prize, Schunck Heerlen, NL
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