Biography

°1966, Hasselt, Belgium
Lives and works in Brussels

Stef Driesen's paintings feel cold. Like bodies, saving their own flesh, with alternating round shapes, hard lines and skin in soft grey tones. Looking becomes touching. Sometimes the paintings glow, like overwrought fantasies and then you see vague, anonymous bodies in a swirl of hues and tones. Driesen paints them as studies of time and light. As ‘fleurs du mal’ they are a combination of sexual subjects and an emphatic aesthetic, they are major themes that Driesen makes tangible through painting.

His works were on view in Cultuurcentrum Mechelen; MuZee in Ostend; Museum Dhondt Dhaenens in Deurle.
Driesen's paintings are collected by The Saatchi Gallery (London); Zabludowicz Collection (London); MuZee (Ostend); Dayton Art Institute (USA) and Foundation Maeght (France) amongst others.

Stef Driesen is represented by Gallery Sofie Van de Velde.

°1966, Hasselt, Belgium
Lives and works in Brussels

Stef Driesen's paintings feel cold. Like bodies, saving their own flesh, with alternating round shapes, hard lines and skin in soft grey tones. Looking becomes touching. Sometimes the paintings glow, like overwrought fantasies and then you see vague, anonymous bodies in a swirl of hues and tones. Driesen paints them as studies of time and light. As ‘fleurs du mal’ they are a combination of sexual subjects and an emphatic aesthetic, they are major themes that Driesen makes tangible through painting.

His works were on view in Cultuurcentrum Mechelen; MuZee in Ostend; Museum Dhondt Dhaenens in Deurle.
Driesen's paintings are collected by The Saatchi Gallery (London); Zabludowicz Collection (London); MuZee (Ostend); Dayton Art Institute (USA) and Foundation Maeght (France) amongst others.

Stef Driesen is represented by Gallery Sofie Van de Velde.

	Solo Exhibitions
2024	(forthcoming) Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE
2021	'BEND STRETCH RELAX', duo show with Leon Vranken, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE
2016	Gallery Baton, Seoul, KR
2015	Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, BE
2014	Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE
2013	Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2010	Hoet Bekaert Galerij, Knokke, BE
2008	Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, USA Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2007	The Breeder Gallery, Athens, GR
2006	Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, USA
2005	Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
	Group Exhibitions
2022	'Art Cologne', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde in collaboration with PLUS-ONE Gallery, Cologne, DE 'De wereld van Sofie', Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, NL
2020	'L'heure bleue', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE 'Het Schilderatelier', PXL-MAD School of Arts, Hasselt, BE
2019	'Di fuoachi e accesi sensi', Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, BE 'Looking at the world through rose coloured glasses', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE
2013	Lattice Gallery, Siege, Malta, ES 'E-motion', Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, FR
2012	Belgium Contemporary Now, Gallery Baton, Seoul, KR
2011	The Dicke Collection, Creating the New Century, Dayton Art Institute Ohio, USA Galerie Tatjana Pieters, Ghent, BE
2010	'Public Private Paintings', MuZee, Oostende, BE 'Summer Teeth', The Breeder Gallery, Athene, GR 'Redefining the Landscape', Stephan Simoens Galerij, Knokke, BE
2009	'When the mood strikes', Museum Dhondt Dhaenens, Deurle, BE
2008	'Future tense: Reshaping the Landscape', Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, USA
2007	'Pushing the Canvas', Cultuurcentrum Mechelen, BE
2006	'People', Madre Museum, Napoli, IT
2005	'The Third Peak', Art Concept, Paris, FR
2004	'Michael Bauer/Chris Brodhal/Stef Driesen', Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2001	'Deluca/Driesen', Velinx, Tongeren, BE