Stephan Guillais, french/german, born 1975.
Lives and works in Normandy.
Master in German literature and civilization, Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle. Painting is somehow like unloading a van full of antique furniture. You’ve got to get it out, it’s got to move, even if it’s fragile and something may break.
I think it’s like hunting with a bow and arrow in a flat: the space and the means don't fit your will, your desire.
The magic of this adventure seems to be in being able to withstand and transcend the constraints and come out with gifts and, maybe, give the sensation that the image impose itself and says many things at once: not a story but a subtle inner melody that flies between two moments.
Can one paint far from theory close to the skin, like a cave man viscerally seizing everything around: a rabbit, an oyster or a stick?
I don’t worry about theory and analysis, the painting will, or should, speak and if it does we may find ourselves facing an image that stirs us within.
2024
online exhibition at Half of Venus
Ateliers jardins
2023
Petits Formats, group show, Le Poirier qui penche, centre d’art, Coutances, France.
Peindre à tout bout de champ, solo show, Le Poirier qui penche, centre d’art, Coutances, France
2022
"Speed Paintings", solo show, Château de Regnéville-sur-mer, France.
2019
"Garden combinations", solo show, Ecole Municipale de Dessin, St Lô, France.
2017
group show POPUP #2: I paint. Someday I'll tell you why. (Reedit),Galerie t, Düsseldorf, Germany.
2015
Art.Fair, international Art Fair, Cologne, Germany.
group show La Colectiva 3, Galerie t, Düsseldorf, Germany.
solo show, Galerie t, Düsseldorf, Germany.
2014
group show, Galerie t, Düsseldorf, Germany.
solo show, Galerie t, Düsseldorf, Germany.
solo show, Galleria il Melone, Rovigo, Italy
2012
solo show, Galerie t, Düsseldorf, Germany.
group show, Galerie t, Düsseldorf, Germany.
group show, Staatsgalerie Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, Germany.
2011
solo exhibition, Galleria Il Melone, Italy.
duo exhibition with Klaus Büsen, Galerie T, Düsseldorf, Germany.
group exhibition, ESTRAN, Agon-Coutainville, France.
"My Imaginary Portrait Gallery" solo exhibition, Staatsgalerie Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin Germany.
2010
solo exhibition, Staatsgalerie Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, Germany.
"Haltung", solo exhibition, Theatergalerie, Bremen, Germany.
"Imperium Karnaval", solo exhibition, Galerie PR, Dortmund, Germany.
2009
group exhibition, Galerie PR, Dortmund, Germany.
solo exhibition, SETBA Zona d´Art, Barcelona, Spain.
solo exhibition, Il Melone Arte Contemporanea gallery, Italy.
2008
group exhibition, SETBA Zona d´Art, Barcelona, Spain.
Art Fair Arteforte, Forte dei Marmi, Italy.
Art Fair KunStart, Bozen, Il Melone Arte Contemporanea gallery, Bozen, Italy.
Contemporary Art Fair Rom, Il Melone gallery, Rom, Italy.
group exhibition, SETBA Zona d´Art, Barcelona, Spain.
2007
Museum Chiostro del Bramante, group exhibition, Margini nello spazio dell'arte, Rom, Italy.
group exhibition, Il Melone Arte Contemporanea gallery, Italy.
2006
Intervention on a Mini Cooper car (BMW) project for BMW Italy in collaboration with Il Melone Arte Contemporanea gallery, Ferrara, Italy.
2005
group exhibition , Il Melone Arte Contemporanea gallery, Italy.
Brigadas al Muro, group exhibition, La Santa gallery, Barcelona, Spain.
group exhibition , Centro de Cultura, selected for the National Painting Prize of Castellón, Spain.
2004
open studio organized by FAD (art and design organisation), Barcelona, Spain.
solo exhibition in the architecture studio Giulio Lattuada, Venice, Italy.
2003
open studio organized by FAD (art and design organisation), Barcelona, Spain.
Young Artists, group exhibition, Base Elements gallery, Barcelona, Spain.
group exhibition , Il Melone Arte Contemporanea gallery, Rovigo, Italy.