°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 a skin in soft gray tones. Looking becomes touching. Sometimes the paintings glow, like overwrought fantasies, 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 in London; Zabludowicz Collection London; MuZee Ostend; Dayton Art Institute, USA and Foundation Maeght, France, amongst others.
Stef Driesen is represented by the gallery.
Solo Exhibitions
'BEND STRETCH RELAX', duo show with Leon Vranken, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE
Gallery Baton, Seoul, KR
Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, BE
Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE
Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Hoet Bekaert Galerij, Knokke, BE
Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, USA Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
The Breeder Gallery, Athens, GR
Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, USA
Group Exhibitions
'Art Cologne', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde in collaboration with PLUS-ONE Gallery, Cologne, DE
'L'heure bleue', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE 'Het Schilderatelier', PXL-MAD School of Arts, Hasselt, BE
'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
Lattice Gallery, Siege, Malta, ES 'E-motion', Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, FR
Belgium Contemporary Now, Gallery Baton, Seoul, KR
The Dicke Collection, Creating the New Century, Dayton Art Institute Ohio, USA Galerie Tatjana Pieters, Ghent, BE
'Public Private Paintings', MuZee, Oostende, BE 'Summer Teeth', The Breeder Gallery, Athene, GR 'Redefining the Landscape', Stephan Simoens Galerij, Knokke, BE
'When the mood strikes', Museum Dhondt Dhaenens, Deurle, BE
'Future tense: Reshaping the Landscape', Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, USA
'Pushing the Canvas', Cultuurcentrum Mechelen, BE
'People', Madre Museum, Napoli, IT
'The Third Peak', Art Concept, Paris, FR
'Michael Bauer/Chris Brodhal/Stef Driesen', Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
'Deluca/Driesen', Velinx, Tongeren, BE
Stef Driesen Untitled, 2022 Oil on canvas 160 x 116 cm
Stef Driesen Untitled, 2022 Oil on canvas 160 x 130 cm
Stef Driesen Untitled Oil on canvas
Stef Driesen Untitled, 2017 Oil on canvas 160 x 130 cm
Stef Driesen Untitled, 2017 Oil on canvas 200 x 145 cm
Stef Driesen Untitled, 2016 Oil on canvas 160 x 120 cm
Stef Driesen Untitled, 2015 Oil on canvas 75 x 60 cm
Stef Driesen Untitled, 2014 Oil on canvas 225 x 175 cm
Stef Driesen Untitled, 2014 Oil on canvas 160 x 130 cm
Stef Driesen Untitled, 2014 Oil on canvas 200 x 180 cm