Timothée Schelstraete

(b. 1985, FR)

BIOGRAPHY

Timothée Schelstraete is best known for his black and white, monochrome paintings in which representational imagery seemingly disintegrates within the picture. Images, varied in subject matter – think of plants, trees, landscapes, daily objects or urban elements – are deconstructed throughout the artist’s creative process, before being reconstructed in the act of painting.

The artistic process consists of an amalgam of techniques, manipulating the picture analogously and digitally, incorporating photography, abstraction, repetition, grids, glitches, glazing, scratches, textures, patterns and highlights, constructing the painting by manner of multiple layers of everything mentioned above. Doing so, Schelstraete achieves a strongly homogenous oeuvre combining printing with painting, or ink toner with oil paint.

Timothée Schelstraete (b. 1985, Paris, France) resides and works in Paris, France. Schelstraete studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Rouen and has exhibited nationally and internationally at renowned galleries and institutions including Thaddaeus Ropac, Musée Rolin, Centre d’Art Contemporain (CAC) in Meymac, POCTB in Orléans or Maison des Arts de Créteil (MAC). As a result, the works by Timothée Schelstraete are featured in reputable private and public collections including FRAC Normandie in Rouen, Goethe-Institut Palermo and the Collection de la ville de Vitry-sur-Seine.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2021, Prossima (solo exhibition), CAI Gallery, Kortrijk, BE
2021, Close Encounters (solo exhibition), Galerie Valérie Delaunay, Paris, FR
2021, Deux Scénarios Pour Une Collection (group exhibition), FRAC Rouen Normandie, FR
2020, Un Mètre (group exhibition), Galerie Valérie Delaunay, Paris, FR
2020, ArtAutun (group exhibition), Musée Rolin, Autun, FR
2019, Sur La Défensive (solo exhibition), Galerie Valérie Delauney, Paris, FR
2019, Anti Chambre 2 (group exhibition), Galerie Valérie Delaunay, George V Art Center, Beijing, CN
2018, Lazare (solo exhibition), La Chapelle Espace d’Art Contemporain, Pithiviers, FR
2018, Columbia (solo exhibition), Galerie Duchamp Centre d’Art Contemporain, Yvetôt, FR
2018, MIC CHECK 1 2 (solo exhibition), Le Hall, Rouen, FR
2018, La Born (solo exhibition), le POCTB, Orléans, FR
2018, Deux Vermouthes Ne Font Jamais Mail (group exhibition), ChezKit, Pantin, FR
2017, Les Clefs Sous La Porte (group exhibition), La Vigie, Nîmes, FR
2017 La Main Invisible (group exhibition), La Belle Absente, Paris, FR
2017, Versatile Photography #2 (group exhibition), Fotogalerie, Vienne, AT
2016, Il Y Avait Bien Une Autre Stratégie Possible (solo exhibition), Galerie Jeune Création, Paris, FR
2016, Dichotomie (solo exhibition), 2 Angles, Flers, FR
2016, Le Rayon Vert (group exhibition), ChezKit, Pantin, FR
2016, Vendagnes Tardives (group exhibition), CAC Meymac, FR
2016, NoPoTo 10 ans (group exhibition), La Couleuvre, Saint-Ouen, FR
2016, Versatile Photography (group exhibition), Galerie Jeune Création, Paris, FR
2016, Microscopie du Banc (group exhibition), La Graineterie, Houilles, FR
2016, L’Art A Décidé de ma Façon de Vivre, Galerie ALB, Paris, FR
2016, 11eme Biennale de la Jeune Création (group exhibition), La Graineterie, Houilles, FR
2016 Jeune Création 66eme édition (group exhibition), Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin, FR
2015, Ca Ira Mieux Demain (group exhibition), Commissariat du Magazine Branded, Galerie ALB, Paris, FR
2015, Concentré Sans Raison Une Seconde de Trop #2 (group exhibition), Progress Gallery, Paris, FR
2015, Yes To All (group exhibition), Treize, Paris, FR
2015, Lauréats! Un Choix Dans La Collection Novembre à Vitry, MAC Maison des Arts, Créteil, FR
2015, NoPoTo, Galerie Satellite, Paris, FR
2015, Mues (group exhibition), le POCTB, Orléans, FR
2015, Des Envies D’Eux (group exhibition), Galerie ALB, Paris, FR
2015, Concentré Sans Raison Une Seconde de Trop (group exhibition), Clovis XV, Bruxelles, BE
2014, Lauréats du prix Novembre à Vitry 2013 (solo exhibition), Galerie Municipale Jean-Collet, Vitry-sur-Seine, FR
2014, 40 x 30 (group exhibition), Galerie ALB, Paris, FR
2014, Cessez Le Feu! (group exhibition), Thiérache, FR
2014, Sea (group exhibition), Art & Sun, Galerie ALB, Paris, FR
2014, Angle Mort (group exhibition), Le Hall, Rouen, FR
2013, NoPoTo (group exhibition), Atelier 4003, Paris, FR
2013, Novembre à Vitry (group exhibition), Galerie Municipale Jean-Collet, Vitry-sur-Seine, FR
2013, Little Big Crunch (group exhibition), Plateforme, Paris, FR
2013, Vivarium 1 (group exhibition), La Couleuvre, Saint-Ouen, FR
2011, Work in Progress (group exhibition), Galerie Gour-Beneforti, Bastia, FR
2010, Suite, à suivre (group exhibition), Grandes Galeries, École des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, FR
2010, Tri…Cycle (group exhibition), La Ruche, Sotteville-Lès-Rouen, FR
2010, Quant au Livre 2 (group exhibition), Galerie Martainville, École des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, FR
2010, Quant au Livre (group exhibition), Accademia Belle Arti Catania, IT
2009, 13 (group exhibition), Petite Galerie, École des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, FR
2009, NeuNow (group exhibition), ELIA Online Festival
2009, Party/Contrepartie (group exhibition), Galerie du Bellay, Mont-St.-Aignan, FR

PUBLICATIONS

2021, Atrpress 492, Octobre
2019, Revue Point Contemporain #11
2018 Revue Mâtin #1
2017, Revue Facettes – 50° Nord, Numéro 3
2017, Bilder, Versatile Photography
2016, Timothée Schelstraete, Prix Art Collector à Jeune Création
2016, Chamalot, Résidents
2016, 11eme Biennale de la Jeune Création, Catalogue de l’Exposition
2016, Jeune Création 66eme édition, Catalogue de l’Exposition
2015, Mues, Le Pays Où Le Ciel Est Toujours Bleu
2013, Vivarium 1, La Couleuvre, Saint-Ouen

RESIDENCIES

2020, Palermo Panorama, Haus Der Kunst, Palermo, IT
2016, Chamalot Résidence d’Artiste, Moustier-Ventadour, FR
2016, Résidence de Création, 2 Angles, Flers, FR
2014, Résidence Coup de Pouce, Galerie l’H du Siège, Valenciennes, FR
2013, Vivarium 1, La Couleuvre, Saint-Ouen, FR