Jesse Willems

Biography
Jesse Willems
Jesse Willems (1984) is a Belgian contemporary artist. He uses his street photography as a base for complex collages, often provoking contemplation and silence. By wrapping photographic prints in the most wonderful paper (often scored from forgotten archives and old stationery shops), he draws our attention to what is often overlooked. By eliminating any superfluous elements, and consciously leaving out all too recognizable items such as letters and symbols, Jesse frees the composition from a limited reading. In recent years, he has evolved towards a restrained style, deriving abstraction from reality.
Jesse’s work is in the collections of the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Verbeke foundation, private collections in Europe, Asia and the US, and has appeared in publications such as Billboard magazine (US), The New York Times (US), The Times (UK), De volkskrant (NL),...
 

EXHIBITIONS

2024 Atlas, galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière, Paris
2024 Art Paris, galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière, Paris

2023 Art Antwerp, Schönfeld gallery, Antwerp
2023 Luxembourg Art Week, Schönfeld gallery, Luxemburg
2023 Silence. Pregnant with Promise, groupshow Schönfeld Gallery, Brussels
2023 Raumdeutung, ZS art, Vienna

2022 Luxembourg Art Week, Schönfeld Gallery, Luxemburg
2022 Kairos, Schönfeld Gallery, Brussels
2022 Sketch for a summer, Schönfeld Projects, Antwerp
2022 Lido, Zeit Gallery, Antwerp

2021 Order disorder, ZS Art, Vienna, Austria
2021 7x70 That was then, this is now, Zeit Gallery, Antwerp

2020 Renaissance II, Schönfeld Projects, Antwerp
2020 Renaissance I, Schönfeld Gallery, Brussels
2020 Collage, Museum Dr Guislain, Ghent
2020 Paper Stories, Schönfeld Gallery, Brussels

2019  Belgian Contemporary collage, Verbeke Foundation
2019 Eden, Artelli Gallery, Antwerp
2019 Paper Positions, Schönfeld Gallery, Munich
2019 Luxembourg Art Week, Schönfeld Gallery, Luxemburg
2019 919 – Artelli Gallery – Antwerp

2018 Fallen Idols – Native – Solo show, Brussels
2018 Chresis ton Phantasion – BAD - Solo show, Gent

2017 Barak Friture – Belgian Embassy, Kinshasa, Congo
2017 MAS Museum – Antwerpen à la carte - Antwerp
2017 The future – and other jet age inventions – Solo show, Samuel Maenhoudt Gallery, Knokke

Works
  • The Summit
    The Summit
  • Autoportrait
    Autoportrait
  • Amaryllis
    Amaryllis
  • Calavera
    Calavera
  • Lot
    Lot
  • Nastro
    Nastro
  • Atlas
    Atlas
  • Eris
    Eris
  • Kensho
    Kensho
  • Mithra
    Mithra
  • Pantheon
    Pantheon
  • Philotes
    Philotes
  • Samsara
    Samsara
  • Satori
    Satori
  • Sorites
    Sorites
  • Olympia
    Olympia
  • Morphe
    Morphe
  • Kosmos
    Kosmos
  • Aurora
    Aurora
  • Hyle
    Hyle
  • Moonshine I
    Moonshine I
  • Moonshine II
    Moonshine II
  • Moonshine III
    Moonshine III
  • Every lyric ever written
    Every lyric ever written
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