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Lilou Vidal is a French independent curator based in Brussels and Turin and founder and director of the Non Profit organization Bureau des Réalités established in Brussels since May 2015.
Bureau des Réalités’ aim is to create an intimate and critical approach to contemporary practices through the participation of artists, curators, critics and editors in the cross-sectional shapes of works, objects, texts, archives, dialogues in the specific environment of an office as a place of thought production. The program includes exhibitions, residences, lectures, editions and publications as well as outside curatorial projects.
Since its foundation, Bureau des Réalités has developed projects with Zin Taylor, Benjamin Seror, Meggy Rustamova, Marianne Berenhaut & Juan Pablo Plazas, Rosa Aiello, Guy Mees (exhibition and catalogue) and the publication project, April 21-24, 2016 a book as an exhibition articulated around Seth Siegelaub eponymous exhibition & publication January 5-31, 1969. Bureau des Réalités starts a residency program in 2017 with Simon Asencio, Claire Andrzejczak, (see upcoming program). www.bureaudesrealites.org
Following a series of projects dedicated to the work of Guy Mees (B.1935-2003), she is invited as a guest curator at the Kunsthalle Wien in Austria to curate Guy Mees solo exhibition and the edition of the publication in February 2018.
As an independent curator she organized an itinerant exhibition project in several chapters "Displacement" from 2017 to 2018 based on the polysemic issue of the notion of displacement with Giovanni Anselmo, stanley brouwn, André Cadere, Peter Downsbrough, Runo Lagomarsino, Basim Magdy, Charlotte Moth ("Prologue" in the exhibition space of Independent in Brussels, BE) and a second chapter with Manon de Boer, Simone Forti, Julien Prévieux, Ruth Proctor, Yvonne Rainer ("Part 1. Choreography and Mechanics of the Mind" in Residence Space at Franco Noero in Turin, IT Part 2 & 3 on progress.)
In 2017, she curated a group exhibition "Pélamide" at Gladstone Gallery New York - Brussels articulated around the mechanisms through which exhibitions communicate with the viewer and the resistance of many artists toward professionalized information on their prac¬tice and the lecture of Tristan Tzara’s 1918 Dadaist poetry volume, “The Twenty-Five Poems,” as a textual source of disinfor¬mation and a shared anachronic endeavor featuring work of Nel Aerts, Michael Bauer, Marianne Berenhaut Michaela Eichwald, Rodrigo Hernández , Cameron Jamie, Ana Jotta, Pierre Klossowski, Gabriel Kuri, Sarah Lucas, Victor Man, Marisa Merz, J Parker Valentine, Walter Swennen, Pieter Vermeersch.
From 2013 to 2014 she is invited as curator in residence by Nicolaus Schafhausen at the Kunsthalle Wien in Austria and coordinated various individual exhibition projects: "Das Wunder des Lebens" by Jos De Gruyter & Harald Thys with Lucas Gehrmann. "I'm Isa Genzken, The Only female fool" of Isa Genzken with Nicolaus Schafhausen and the group exhibition "The Brancusi Effect" with Vanessa Joan Müller (Saâdane Afif, Wilfrid Almendra, Nina Beier, Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan, Constantin Brancusi, André Cadere Koenraad Dedobbeleer Alessio delli Castelli, Thea Djordjadze, Paulien Föllings, Isa Genzken, Konstantin Grcic, Jürgen Mayer H., Sofia Hultén, Haraldur Jónsson, An Te Liu, Josephine Meckseper, Ute Müller, Anca Munteanu Rimnic, Shahryar Nashat, Olaf Nicolai, Odilon Pain, Luiz Roque and Rudi Stanzel.)
From 2010 to 2013 she was the director and founding member of VidalCuglietta Gallery and represents the work of Danai Anesiadou, Nel Aerts, Wim Catrysse, Edith Dekyndt, Cheryl Donegan, Amy Granat, Jim Lee, Erwan Mahéo, Miks Mitrevics, Mira Sanders, Emily Sundblad, Lisa Tan, Zin Taylor, Josh Tonsfeldt and participated in Art Statement Basel (Zin Taylor's solo show in 2011) - La Fiac, Paris - Liste, Basel - Art Brussels ..
She has curated various personal and collective exhibitions between 2008 and 2013 with Edith Dekyndt (solo) - Amy Granat, Olivier Mosset & Emily Sundblad - Renaud Jerez (solo) - Sven Johne (group show) - Adriana Lara (group show) - Valerie Mannearts (solo) - Erwan Mahéo (solo) - Nick Oberthaler (group show) - Edith Dekyndt & Gert Robijns (duo) and curated the collective exhibition in 2009 "There is No (w) Romanticism " with Jean-Baptiste Bernadet, Inaki Bonillas Patricia Dauder, Cyprien Gaillard, Drew Heitzler, Barnaby Hosking, Marine Hugonnier, Bas Jan Ader, Sophie Nys, Paul Pouvreau, Lisa Tan, Stefan Tcherepnin, Philippe Van Snick, Pieter Vermeersch.
She studied Art History at Paul Valéry University in Montpellier, France and taught the Actuality of the Arts at the National School of Visual Arts of La Cambre (ENSAV) in Brussels, Belgium.
Exposición. 17 dic de 2024 - 16 mar de 2025 / Museo Picasso Málaga / Málaga, España
Formación. 01 oct de 2024 - 04 abr de 2025 / PHotoEspaña / Madrid, España