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Born in 1989, Belgium.
Works and lives in Namur - Bruxelles, Belgium.
He studied in the drawing studio at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels (2010-2016) and obtained an advanced Master's degree in partnership with the ULG. He has participated in several artistic residencies including that of the Fondation privée du Carrefour des arts (2019-2020) and was selected for the Prix de la ville de Tournai (2021), the Prix Découverte du Rouge-Cloître (2022). Laurent Dumortier also had his first solo exhibition at Michèle Schoonjans Gallery (2022). He continues his work with the project Windows Shadows Disavow (2018-/) and his research on the figurative representation of everyday life and the narrativity of nightlife with the position of the voyeur, windows and intimate living spaces at its center. In his work, there is a recurring questioning regarding the frame, the narration, the figures, oblivion, the anecdotal, the dream and a disturbing part of the human being in his nightlife. as well as a part of mysterious bestiality. He is very attached to the works of Wilhelm Hammershoi, Edward Hopper ; more recently Becky Suss, Emily Mea Smith and Marc Bauer. But especially Francis Bacon because he rediscovers this "letting go" of form and material; this gesture which gives birth to figures in a permanent mutation and this narrativity of the image between tension and sobriety.
Education
2019 - 2020 : Visual Art Aggregation, Royal Academy of Fine Arts - Brussels, Belgium.
2014 - 2016 : Master degree, Drawing, Royal Academy of Fine Arts - Brussels and U.L.G, Belgium.
2013 - 2014 : Master degree, Lithography, Royal Academy of Fine Arts - Brussels, Belgium.
2010 - 2013 : Bachelor degree, Drawing, Royal Academy of Fine Arts - Brussels, Belgium.
Solo Exhibition
2022 : Whisper of the Windows, Michèle Schoonjans Gallery, Rivoli, Brussels, Belgium.
Art Fair
2024 : Art on Paper, Michèle Schoonjans Gallery, Tour & Taxis, Brussels, Belgium.
2023 : Art on Paper, Michèle Schoonjans Gallery, Tour & Taxis, Brussels, Belgium.
2023 : Art on Paper, Michèle Schoonjans Gallery, Gashouder, Amsterdam, Holland.
Group Exhibition
2024 : Plein Soleil, Fondation privée du Carrefour des arts, Brussels, Belgium.
2024 : Variations autour des portes et fenêtres, Centre Culturel des Trois-Ponts, Stavelot, Belgium.
2022 : 11 Years of residencies, Fondation privée du Carrefour des arts, Brussels, Belgium.
2021 : Art Confiné temporaire, Act-Exhibition, in situ, Brussels, Belgium.
2020 : 294 jours entre 4 murs, Fondation privée du Carrefour des arts, Brussels, Belgium.
2020 : No Guts, No Glory, La Chambre de l'art, Brussels, Belgium.
2019 : Heart, Louder Art Gallery, Bucarest, Roumanie.
2019 : Sans fil, Lin Gallery, Brussels, Belgium.
Prize
2022 : Prix Découverte 2022, Rouge Cloître, Brussels, Belgium. (finalist)
2022 : Prix Elisabeth Burdot, Les Amis d'ma mère, Brussels, Belgium. (finalist)
2021 : Prix de la Ville de Tournai, Centre Culturel de la Ville de Tournai, Tournai, Belgium. (finalist)
2019 : Carte de visite / ArtopenKunst, La Ville de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium. (finalist)
Residencies
2021 - 2022 : Centre Culturel de Namur - Abattoirs de Bomel, individual, Namur, Belgium.
2019 - 2020 : Fondation privée du Carrefour des arts, group, Brussels, Belgium.
Reviews
2021 - 2022 : Le murmure des fenêtres ou l’obscure clarté d’un voyeur dévoilé, Michel Voiturier, Point
Contemporain n°27 - Revue d’arts contemporain : http://pointcontemporain.com/en-direct-
exposition-laurent-dumortier-whisper-of-the-windows/
2019 - 2020 : Prix Artistique de Tournai - Génération 90’, Michel Voiturier, Flux News Magazine :
https://fluxnews.be/prix-artistique-de-tournai-generation-90/
Collection
2020 : Fondation privée du Carrefour des arts, Brussels, Belgium.