DNSEP, EESAB (European Academy of Art in Brittany), Rennes, France
Valérian Goalec is committed to observing the shape of the utilitarian objects that populate our daily lives and public spaces. These mass-produced artefacts seem to be designed to go unnoticed. However, they take on a poetically absurd sculptural appearance once isolated from their original context, and acquire a different status due to their arrangement in space, the transition made in their material or their scale. These transitions are the result of intuitive thinking, through associations of ideas, uses, forms and materials. The initial configuration leads, through a play of meanings and personal rebuttals, to solutions that are at times completely abstract and lost from their original use. Adapting events to structures, such as the wild and tinkering thinking theorized by Claude Lévi-Strauss, he highlights a diachronic relationship between objects and beings. Since 2011, he has worked and exhibited with institutions such as Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen), 221A (Vancouver), la Ferme du Buisson (Noisiel), Bozar (Brussels), DASH (Kortrijk), Levy Delval (Brussels), Art Brussels (Brussels), as well as residencies in Hangar (Lisbon), Aldea (Bergen) CCA Andratx (Palma) and is currently at the Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris).
Biography by Maud Salembier, curator and teacher at ESA Saint-Luc Brussels.
DNSEP, EESAB (European Academy of Art in Brittany), Rennes, France
DNAP, EESAB (European Academy of Art in Brittany), Rennes, France
Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
CCA Andratx, August, Palma, (SP)
Hangar, Centro de Investigação Artística, April, Lisbon (PT)
Aldea, invited by Curatron, March, Bergen (NO)
Laureate for Prix médiatine, Wolubilis, Brussels (BE)
Laureate for Un futur pour la Culture, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles & BN Projects, Brussels (BE)
Laureate for Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, personal exhibition at Art Brussels, Brussels (BE)
Laureate for 62eme Salon de Montrouge, Beffroi, Montrouge (FR)
My, our, your. Curation : Maud Salembier, FWB booth, Art Brussels, Belgique
My, our, your, curated by Maud Salembier, FWB booth, Art Brussels, Belgium
Ordinary lane, curated by Christophe Veys, Galerie Arts², Mons, Belgium
Our time is less, Cité International des Arts, Paris, France
A Lukewarm B, Spazio Orr, Brescia, Italy
Intended Earshot, Coherent at The Others Art Fair, Turin, Italy
Potentiality of Ten, L21, Palma, Spain
One to nine, Episode 4, Stems, Brussels, Belgium
R. W. Rye, with Céline Mathieu, Cité Internationale des Arts de Paris, Paris, France
Casa dolce casa, curated by Rosario Caltabiano, 22,48m², Paris, France
TOUJOURS, curated by Pour ceux, Pal Project, Paris, France
Private song, curated by Honggyun Mok, Doosan Art Center, Séoul, Korea
Les choses d’ici bas, curated by Fabrice Schneider & Florin Filleul, Galerie DuflonRacz, Brussels, Belgium
Radar, curated by Trees De Mits, Arendonk Academy, Turnhout, Belgium
Gourmandises, curated by Ariane Defraine, Galerie Arts², Mons (BE)
Commun Imaginaire, curated by Vincent Verlé, Métroplole du Grand Nancy, France
The form springs, Senesi Contemporanea, London, Royaume-Uni
It boils down, curated by Thomas Lowe, Pure Propaganda, Rotterdam, Pays-Bas
Revoir encore un été, curated by Hubert Marot, l’Echo des vagues, Vendée, France
Lockers Vol.3, curated by Diego Diez & Borja Llobregat, Bozar, Brussels, Belgium
Natural blood circulation, curated by Cameron Macleod, Aldea, Bergen, Norway
I’m Trying to explain, L21, Palma (SP) Arco Art Fair, L21, Madrid, Spain
Neighbours Vol.8, Artist collections, curated by Manor Grunewald, RIOT, Ghent, Norwey
VI Premi Vila Santanyí Francisco Bernareggi, Casa de Cultura Ses Cases Noves, Palma, Spain
L’Économie des apostrophes, invited by Béatrice Balcou, curated by Julie Pellegrin, La Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel, France
Process time, curated by Vincent Verlé, Musée de l’Histoire du fer, Nancy, France
Copies, Eric Mouchet, curated by Théophile Calot, Paris, France
On Materiality, Dash, curated by Joachim Coucke, Kortrijk, Belgium
Arco Art Fair, L21, Madrid, Spain
20cm from the ground, L21, Palma, Spain
La Norme Idéale, Levy Delval, Brussels, Belgium
Re-Art2, curated by Julie Senden, Zaventem, Belgium
62e Salon de Montrouge, curated by Ami Barak and Marie Gautier, Beffroi, Montrouge, France
Abookaspacea, curated by Théophile Calot, Chapelle Haut Quartier, Sète (FR)
What about the color pink? Do you like pink?, Geukens & De Vil, Knokke-Het Zoute, Belgium
F/F, curated by Théophile Calot, Néon, Lyon, France
Point of view, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Danemark
Friendly Faces, curated by Middlemarch, Johannes Vogt, New York City, USA
Forme e Anti forme, curated by Hans M. De Wolf, Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, Milan, Italy
Family Matters, De la charge, Brussels, Belgium
Midway through the journey, neither here nor there, B.O.R.G. Biennale, Hal, Antwerp, Belgium
And He Built A Crooked House, curated by Sungpil Yoon, 221A, Vancouver, Canada
The Stanley parable, Levy Delval, Brussels, Belgium
Things to unfold, Préface, Paris, France
Salon, Jusqu’à l’envers, Valérian Goalec, 22,48m²
Art in Quarantine, Take our daily life, Umbigo Magazine N°73 (PT), 2020
Side to Side, by Aurélie Faure, Cité Internationale des Arts de Paris (FR), 2020
À portée de voix, by Christophe Veys, L’Art Même numéro 81, Bruxelles (BE), 2020
Obsession, Pli Revue numéro 5, Paris (FR), 2019
Copies, by Oscar Duboÿ, AD magazine (FR), 2018
Potentiality of Ten, Art Viewer, L21, Palma (SP), 2018
This is Belgium, The Word, Brussels (BE), 2017
20 cm from the ground, Art Viewer, L21 (SP), 2017