Born in 1994 in Kortrijk, BE
Lives and works in Harelbeke, BE

Julien Delagrange, born in 1994 in Kortrijk, Belgium, is a contemporary artist residing and working in Harelbeke, Belgium. Delagrange is trained as an art historian, having graduated (magna cum laude) his MA Science of Arts at Ghent University, Belgium. As a result, his artistic practice and art criticism are strongly intertwined, examining contemporary art encompassing media such as painting, drawing, video, installation and writing.

His oeuvre is marked by a representational visual language and a strongly conceptual foundation. Delagrange is best known for his oil paintings and charcoal drawings, examining the human condition from a universal, contemporary and anthropological point of view. Recurring concepts throughout his works are existentialism, (neo-)surrealism, melancholy, appropriation, post-conceptualism, (post-)postmodernism and a continuous search for the iconic in (found) imagery.

Delagrange has worked for the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels, Belgium; the Ghent University in Ghent, Belgium; the Jan Vercruysse Foundation in Brussels, Belgium and is the artistic director and editor in chief of CAI and CAI Gallery. The Belgian artist has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Germany and features in national and international private collections.

Selected exhibitions:

2021, Micksart (group exhibition), Emmen, NL
2021, Human Preservation (solo exhibition), Verduyn Gallery, Moreghem, BE
2021, Martyrs (group exhibition), Galerie A.B., Roeselare, BE
2021, The Passion (solo exhibition), CAI Gallery, Kortrijk, BE
2020, Johnny Werkbrouck and Julien Delagrange (group exhibition), JW Atelier, Torhout, BE
2020, (group exhibition), Kühlhaus, Berlin, DE
2020, La/Là (group exhibition), Galerie 0, Paris, FR
2019, (group exhibition) BIGA Hoeve, Kortemark, BE
2019, (group exhibition), D Space, Den Haag, NL
2018, Selected Works (solo exhibition), Koetshuis, Waregem, BE
2018, A.O.S. III (group exhibition), De Linde, Ingooigem, BE
2017, M0(ve)ment (group exhibition), Contrair (curated by Arthur Buerms), Antwerpen, BE
2017, Suspects III (solo exhibition, Oude Kerk, Vichte, BE
2017, Suspects II (solo exhibition), Koetshuis, Waregem, BE
2017, Suspects I (solo exhibition), Huis De Leeuw, BE
2016, Texture (solo exhibition), Koetshuis, Waregem, BE
2016, A.O.S. II (group exhibition), OC De Leege Platse, Beselare, BE
2015, A.O.S. I (group exhibition), CC De Brouckere, Torhout, BE

Selected publications:

Julien Delagrange and Sylvia Walker, Julien Delagrange: The Passion 2019 – 2021. Kortrijk: CAI, 2021.
Julien Delagrange, Apologia. Kortrijk: CAI, 2021.
Julien Delagrange and Romas Viesulas, Figurative Painting Today. S.l., Five Books, 2020.
Julien Delagrange, Het gastmaal van Acheloüs. Ghent: Ghent University, 2018.
Arthur Buerms, M0(ve)ment – exhibition catalogue. 17.11 – 19.11.2017. Antwerp: Life 0f L, 2017.

Collections:

Delagrange features in national and international private collections in Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, the United Kingdom and Australia.

Awards:

Selected as a jury member for the Contemporary Award 2021

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