Aline Bouvy

Aline Bouvy's multidisciplinary practice is a way of expressing her refusal to compromise and adapt to systems in our society which aim to regulate our longing, conforming it to the norms and values which shape that same society. Bouvy questions and denounces how the images we have of ourselves and of humanity are determined by this morality. Generally speaking, she looks at how we handle contemporary cultural production and takes a stand against norms and values society imposes upon us. Because of this, she is attracted to the non-conventional — not to fetishize elements from the margins of society, but from a wish to normalize what is considered out-of-bounds, and thereby to adjust the prevailing morality. (Thomas Caron)

Born in Watermael-Boitsfort (BE) in 1974. Lives and works in Perlé (LU) and Brussels (BE)

Solo shows (Selection)

2022
Sculpture Enclosure, 2020, Luxembourg Art Week, Entrée de la foire, Place du Glacis, Luxembourg, 07.11.- 21.11.2022
Cruising Bye, MACS (Musée des Arts Contemporains), Grand-Hornu, BE

2021
As Sirens Rise and Fall, Kunsthal, Gand, BE

2020
PUP - Die Kabarett Version, IKOB, Eupen (BE)
Splendeur et Décadence des Sirènes, New Space, Space Collection, Liège (BE)

2019
Aline Bouvy, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, D

2018
Aline Bouvy, Galerie Albert Baronian, Brussels, BE
People With Vaginas, Galerie Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg, LU
Maturity, Loggia, Munich, DE
Slender Thrills, A Temporary Monument For Brussels – Art in Public Space, curated by Artlead, Place Sainctelette, Brussels, BE

2017
The future of not working, curated by Louise Osieka, CIAP, Hasselt, BE
Pale, Havoc, Maison Grégoire-­Observatoire Galerie, duoshow with Simon Davenport, curated by Emmanuel Lambion, Brussels, BE

2016
Heavy Fuckry / I don't need you to feed me, Billboard Series #5, commissioned by Artlead, 019-Dock Noord, Ghent, BE

Who will wear my teeth as amulets?, curated by Laurence Dujardyn and Matthias Wille, Motel, Brooklyn, NY

Urine Mate, Galerie Albert Baronian, Brussels, BE

2015
New Pabulum, duoshow with Simon Davenport, curated by Juste Kostikovaite, Kunstraum, London, UK

Sorry, I slept with your dog, Exo Exo, Paris, FR

Man-­made  objects, curated by Lieven Seghers & Frank Koolen, 120 minutes, Brussels, BE

I'm not interested in humans these days, Le Salon, Brussels, BE

2014
Politics of Intimacy, Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg, LU
Forme et Langage de l'Empathie, Espace d'Arts Plastiques Madeleine Lambert, Vénissieux/Lyon, FR (catalogue)

2013
It tastes like shit, it is shit, want a toothbrush, NICC, Brussels, BE

Group shows (Selection)

2020
Uplift, Galerie Xippas, Geneva, Switzerland

2019
Prix Robert Schuman, Villa Vauban, Luxembourg, L (novembre)
Open Studios, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, D
Labour, Musée Constantin Meunier, commissaire: Komplot, Bruxelles, B
Bad Romance, Gussglashalle, commissaire: +Dede, Berlin, D
A closed mouth gathers no feet, Dash, commissaire: Joachim Coucke, Courtrai, B

2018
Even if it's Jazz or the Quiet Storm, NEST, curated by Vincent Van Velsen and Dan
Walvin, The Hague, NL
Late Dawn, duo show avec Nicolas Pelzer, Mélange, Cologne, D
Expérience Pommery #14. L'Esprit souterrain, curated by Hugo Vitrani, Domaine Pommery, Reims, FR
Norma,curated by Maud Salembier, Maison Pelgrims, Brussels, BE
Scar/Face, curated by Hugo Vitrani, Galerie Ceysson Bénétière, Paris, FR
Something in Between, Bozar, Brussels, BE
Late Dawn, duo show with Nicolas Pelzer, Mélange, Cologne, DE
Neighbours Vol.7, curated by Manor Grunewald, Galerie Jan Colle, Ghent, BE
Collection Nr.8, Hôtel l'Amigo, curated by Interior & The Collectors, Brussels, BE
Agua Del Dia, El Quinto Piso, curated by Rodrigue Mouchez, Mexico DF, Mexico

2017
Soft Cell, Center, Berlin, DE
Unclear Clarity, ABC Klubhuis, Anwerp, BE
How deep is your love ?, Cooper Cole Gallery, curated by Jenine Marsh, Toronto, CA

Plant B, Parc de la Fonderie, curated by Toke Lykkeberg and Sonia Dermience, Brussels, BE

Le règne de l'harmonie, Le Quadrilatère, curated by Tipahie Dragaut-Lupescu, Beauvais, FR

Hypokeimenon - En-Dessous du Sang, Galerie Nadine Feront, curated by Nils-Alix Tabeling, Brussels, BE

Laurel, Greenpoint, curated by Tatiana Kronberg, Rosie Motley and Laurence Dujardyn, Brooklyn, NY, US

Form Cannibalism, The Stable, Waregem, BE

2016
Grands Formats, Musée National d'Art et d'Histoire, Luxembourg, LU
Les Sept Péchés Spectraux, Curated by Emeline Depas, Galerie Arnaud Deschin, Paris, FR
Transistion, curated by Pedro Morais, Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris, FR
A Last Song For The Titanic Orchestra, curated by Diesel Project Space, 019-Dock Noord, Ghent, BE
Blue Plate Special, curated by Stephanie Hier and Larissa Lockshin, Dead Horse Bay, Brooklyn, NY
A Thousand Friends, curated by Elisa Rigoulet and Antoine Donzeaud, New Jörg Gallery, Vienna, AU
Retiens la nuit, curated by Hugo Vitrani, Galerie Rabouan Moussion, Paris, FR
Highway Raven, Diesel Project Space, curated by X. Mary et N. Merca, Liège, BE

2015
How my mother got hacked, Dash Gallery, Kortrijk, BE
Happy Faces, Johannes Vogt Gallery, curated by J.-B. Bernardet,  New York, NY
I'M Ten, IMT Gallery, London, UK
To blow smoke in order to heal, Galerie Albert Baronian, Brussels, BE
Break out!, curated by Julian Elias Bronner and Benjamin Faust Weber, Frédéric de Goldschmidt Collection, Brussels, BE

2014
Andrew Birk, Aline Bouvy, Absalon Kirkeby, Christopher Crescent Gallery, Brussels, BE
Paradise Lost, curated by Damien & The Love Guru, Quincaillerie Vander Eycken, Brussels, BE
Natura Lapsa, curated by Yann Chevalier and Laurent Le Deunff, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, FR
My Legs Up And Exposed To The World My Bottom Under The Jean-Trousers, Nosbaum Reding Projects, curated by Alberto Garcia del Castillo, Luxembourg, LU
Return to Sender, curated by KAOS - Kunstatelier Opperstraat, WIELS, Brussels, BE
Vive l'Eté, Galerie Olivier Biltereyst, curated by D. Delepeleire, Brussels, BE
Bien ou Bien, Mon Chéri, Brussels, BE
Obliteration Devices, IMT Gallery, curated by David Burrows, London, UK
Are You Thinking About Atlantis?, curated by Komplot, Parallel, Oaxaca, MX
Material Art Fair, Komplot, Hilton Reforma, Mexico DF , MX
Acid Rain, Island, Brussels, BE