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°Kapellen, Belgium, 1980
Lives and works in Ghent, Belgium
SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Lechbinska Gallery
Demountable spatial drawings
Zürich CH
2022 V/MSP Gallery
Geotropism
Brussels BE
2021 Huize St. Bonaventura
Ghent BE
2020 har. art gallery / keilecollectief
Zhixin Liao (CN), Johan Gelper (BE)
Rotterdam BE
2020 D'Apostrof
Constellations With Borrowed Forms
Meigem BE
2018 One
Ghent BE
2018 V/MSP Gallery
Motion without Movement
Brussels BE
2018 Curiosity XLV,
Constellation With Borrowed Forms
Ghent BE
2018 SECONDroom Gent
PARK 03: Christophe Malfliet BE, Johan Gelper BE
Ghent BE
2017 Open studio
Presentation Botanicals, 2017 edition for The friends of S.M.A.K.
Ghent BE
2016 SB25, Salon Blanc
Ostend BE
2016 DMW Art Space
Borrowed forms: Johan Gelper BE invites Wannes Lecompte BE
Antwerp BE
2016 Zaal 29
Korneel Avijn BE, Johan Gelper BE
Waregem BE
2015 V/MSP Gallery (OMS Pradhan)
Brussels BE
2015 Curiosity
Ghent BE
2014 Curiosity
Ghent BE
2013 Marion De Cannière
Antwerp BE
2013 Gallery EL
Guy Rombouts BE, Johan Gelper BE
Welle BE
2012 Gasthuiskapel
Borgloon BE
2012 Ricou Gallery
Brussels BE
2010 Galerie EL
Welle BE
2010 Ricou Gallery
Brussels BE
2010 Loods12
Tom Jooris, Johan Gelper
Wetteren BE
2009 Marion De Cannière
Antwerp BE
2008 Galerie EL
Demountable Sculpturepark II
Welle BE
2008 croxhapox
Spatial drawing installation and interventions
crox 257
Ghent BE
2008 Galerie EL
Welle BE
2008 Galery EL
Steven Baelen, Johan Gelper
Welle BE
2007 croxhapox
Kubusruimte / crox 217
Ghent BE
2005 Galerie EL
Spatial Drawing
Welle BE
2004 Sint Lucas Hogeschool voor Wetenschap en Kunst
Spatial Drawings / Kamer XII
Higher Institute for Visual Arts Sint Lucas
Ghent BE
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Confrontaties IV
Ambassador & Zonta Club Tielt (cat.)
Curator: Frans Vercoutere
Meulebeke BE
2023 Because every house tells a story
Collection Das Dingenen
Duffel BE
2023 Walking on thin ince (een archivering van een tijdspanne)
cas ruimte
curator Lieven Cateau
Zottegem BE
2023 Serendipiteit
Academie Harelbeke Anders
curator Xavier Marescaux
Harelbeke BE
2023 Lightness
CC De Ververij
Curator Bart Van De Vijvere
Ronse BE
2023 A PRO POT,
D'apostrof
Curator Trees De Mits
Meigem BE
2022 tout est nouveau sous la lune
Galerie Van Caelenbergh
Aalst BE
2022 Onbelast
Diksmuide BE
2022 Art Au Centre Liège
Liège BE
2022 Keile contemporary
Keilepand
Rotterdam NL
2022 Duets
CC De Steiger & city museum
Curators Chiel Vandenberghe and Bart Vandevijvere
Menen BE
2021 Tortilla Flat
M12
Ronse BE
2021 Belgium Art and Design Fair
with V/MSP Gallery
Floraliënhal
Ghent BE
2021 Art@work
De Cellen (cat.)
Oostkamp BE
2021 b20
Kasteel van Poeke
Aalter BE
2021 Das - Dingenen
CC Zwanenberg
Heist-op-den-Berg BE
2021 Composte 2021
Steenhuize
Herzele BE
2021 Zweefkracht en zwaartevlucht
Hof ter Saksen (cat.)
Curator: Edith Ronse
Beveren BE
2020 Mono- come up and see my prints!
Jakob Smits Museum (cat.)
Curator: Tom Liekens
Mol BE
2020 Desire for a Dream
Galerie Van Caelenbergh (cat.)
Aalst BE
2020 Ladekastproject
PHŒBUS•Rotterdam
Rotterdam NL
2020 Unravelings
PARCE Art Initiative / Sint-Amanduskapel
Ghent BE
2020 Star trac K
CAS
Zottegem BE
2020 Ballroom project 2
with DMW Art Space
Antwerp BE
2019 Art au jardin
With V/MSP Gallery
Curator: Aude de Bourbon Parme
Esquelbecq FR
2019 Confrontaties III
Ambassador & Zonta Club Tielt (cat.)
Curator: Frans Vercoutere
Meulebeke BE
2019 Print Art Fair
Frans Masereel Centrum
Kasterlee BE
2019 Ballroom project
with Twelve Twelve Gallery
Curator: Yirka De Brucker
Pekfabriek
Antwerp BE
2019 Loss, kunstenfestival
SABK
Zottegem BE
2019 Tekening (disegno)
Vierkante zaal (cat.)
Sint-Niklaas BE
2019 The Fast Show
Loods 12
Wetteren BE
2018 Constructor
Curators: Luc Hoekx and Arjan Janssen
Galerie-NZ
Arendonk BE
2018 Op de grond, tussenin of aan de hemel
Curator: Els Wuyts
Kunstencentrum Ten Bogaerde
Koksijde BE2018
2018 Harry & Friends
Curator: Harlinde De Mol
Stoom
Oudenaarde
2018 Art Pop Pop Art / Kunstenfestival
Kunstnetwerk Haspengouw / Art Borgloon
Curator: Jos Herk
Borgloon BE
2018 RAW
Curator: Lieven Cateau
Mechelen BE
2018 2 years DMW Artspace
DMW Artspace
Antwerp, BE
2018 Abstract Connections
cwart (cat.)
Knokke-Heist BE
2018 Onvoorziene Omstandigheden
Stedelijke Kunstacademie
Curator Tuur Delodder
Tielt BE
2018 BAD Belgium Art and Design
Curator: Daan Rau
solo booth with V/MSP Gallery
Ghent BE
2018 Cross-overplatform / Where Art meets Design
Curators: Daan Rau and Siegrid Demyttenaere
Ghent BE
2018 'LE SUD' (50° 38' 28'' N, 4° 40' 5'' E)
Curator: Gert Scheerlinck
Twelve twelve gallery
The Hague, NL
2017 Yügen#02 Art
Curator Jan Hoet Junior
Yugen Kombucha
Ghent BE
2017 Anybody home?
D'Apostrof
Deinze (Meigem) BE
2017 Kunstkussen
Rasa (cat.)
Antwerp BE
2017 Bastion 10 (cat.)
Curator: Philippe Van Cauteren
Menen BE
2017 Poppositions: DMW Artspace
ING Art Center
Brussels BE
2016 Vincent Van Gogh huis
Symposium & Veiling Van Gogh artist-in-residence
Landkunst op de Buissche Heide (cat.)
Zundert NL
2016 V E R W A N D
D'Apostrof
Deinze (Meigem) BE
2016 DMW Art Space
GOGOGOGO
Antwerp BE
2016 Vierkante Zaal
La Primavera
Sint - Niklaas BE
2015 Kunstnetwerk Haspengouw / Art Borgloon
Actueel Kunsten Festival
Borgloon BE
2015 Vincent Van Gogh huis
Landkunst op de Buisse Heide
Zundert NL
2015 Chocoladefabriek
Before the foodfight
Tongeren BE
2015 M Museum
Attitudes to Form, Open M (cat.)
Leuven BE
2015 No Walls Expo at North Sea Jazz
Ahoy
Rotterdam, NL
2015 Poppositions: OMS Pradhan
Canal Wharf
Brussels BE
2015 Zelden ontgaat verbeelding haar eerste druk
Print Art Fair
Frans Masereel Centrum
Kasterlee BE
2015 No Walls
Fenixloods
Rotterdam NL
2014 Tussen
D'Apostrof
Deinze (Meigem) BE
2014 Biodiversiteit Nieuwenhoven
Kasteel, Provinciaal Domein Nieuwenhoven
Sint-Truiden BE
2014 Showroom
Ricou Gallery
Brussels BE
2014 Art Brussels (cat.)
Rasa
Brussels BE
2014 Separation of concerns
Villa De Olmen
Wieze BE
2014 Print Art Fair
Frans Masereel Centrum
Kasterlee BE
2014 Contemporary Art in Belgium (cat.)
Maison de ventes Cornette de Saint Cyr
Brussels BE
2013 A petite fair
(During Capital A - Amsterdam Art Weekend)
Ricou Gallery / Boetzelaer/Nispen
& Jeanine Hofland Contemporary Art
Amsterdam NL
2013 Jan Colle Gallery / Entrepot Fictief
TEKEN
Curators: Jan Colle, Julie Crenn
Ghent BE (cat.)
2013 RASCHE RIPKEN BERLIN
4 aus belgien
Berlin DE
2013 SECONDroom
John Van Oers & Roeland Tweelinckx invite
Antwerp BE
2013 Art Brussels
Ricou Gallery
Brussels BE (cat.)
2013 Kunst op pootjes
Rasa, Mu.zee, Ostend (Museum of Modern Art)
Ostend BE
2013 SCHUNK
Kunst op pootjes
Heerlen NL
2012 Raak
Rasa, Mu.zee, Ostend (Museum of Modern Art)
Ostend BE
2012 Kunst op pootjes
Rasa
Antwerp BE
2012 Thread - part two
Gallery EL
Welle BE
2012 Art Brussels / Ricou Gallery
Brussels BE (cat.)
2012 Raak
Rasa, SCHUNK
Heerlen NL
2012 Raak
Rasa, Z33
Hasselt BE
2011 Raak
Rasa, S.M.A.K.
Ghent BE
2011 De Lading
Curator Lieven Cateau
Old Factory
Wetteren BE
2011 Translating Practices
Sint Lucas Library
Ghent BE
2011 Van stof tot asse
Triënnal on Contemporary Art
Asse BE (cat.)
2011 Art in the city
Brussels BE (cat.)
2011 Art Brussels / Ricou Gallery
Brussels BE (cat.)
2010 Public Private Paintings
Mu.zee, Ostend (Museum of Modern Art)
Ostend BE (cat.)
2010 Basement
Marion De Cannière
Antwerp BE
2010 Between the Sacred and the Profane
Curator: Peter Pollers,
CIAP
Hasselt BE
2010 Translating Practices
HISK
Ghent BE
2010 Art Brussels / Gallery EL
Brussels, BE (cat.)
2009 Sculptural / Collection, new acquisitions
S.M.A.K.
Ghent BE
2009 Orde - Chaos
Klein Begijnhof
Mechelen BE
2009 Tais-toi soiree belle
Amusez Vous in het MSK
Museum of Fine Arts
Ghent BE
2009 De connectie
Curator: Lieven Cateau
Campo Santo Chappel
Ghent BE
2008 Visions: 40 years drawing contest, Ronse
Curator Jan Leconte
Former hospital
Ronse
2008 Circulation / Movinn-art
Bruges BE (cat.)
2008 Young Ones Award, Ghent / Giga C.
Curators: Philippe Van Cauteren
and Pierre Muyle
Lineart
Ghent, BE (cat.)
2008 Galerie EL
B-new Gallery selected by Hans Martens
(HISK) and Flor Bex (MUHKA)
Lineart
Ghent, BE (cat.)
2008 Young Artists (selected by) Kathrin Ginsberg
Ghent University Botanical Garden
(Palmarium, S.M.A.K.)
Ghent BE (cat.)
2008 Omgevingstekenen
Provincial prize East-Flanders
Curator Edith Doove
Caermersklooster
Ghent BE (cat.)
2007 39th drawing contest in the city of Ronse
Brouwerij De Keyser
Ronse BE
2007 Young Artists (selected by) Dirk Pauwels
Ghent University Botanical Garden
(Palmarium, S.M.A.K.)
Ghent BE (cat.)
2007 Elia, 9th Elia Biënnial Conference
Handelsbeurs
Ghent BE (cat.)
2006 Out of control
VUB (Brussels University)
Brussels BE (cat.)
2006 Fris IV
Gallery Jan Colle
Ghent BE
2006 Wel klaar maar nog lang niet af, Mixed Media
KASK, Royal Academy of Fine Arts
Ghent BE
2005 Mixed Media 2D
Art Track (KASK, Royal Academy of Fine Arts)
Ghent BE
2005 Young Artists
(selected by) Philippe Van Cauteren
Ghent University Botanical Garden
(Palmarium, S.M.A.K.)
Ghent BE (cat.)
2004 Leopold
Leopoldskazerne
Ghent BE (cat.)
2004 Sint Lucas 2004
Curator Dirk Manesse
Accec site
Ghent BE (cat.)
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
S.M.A.K. Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium works purchased regarding Young Artists (selected by) 2007 and 2008:> https://smak.be/nl/kunstenaars/johan-gelper
Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke, Belgium Collection collages > https://verbekefoundation.com/2017/04/johan-gelper-be/
"Reversible" (2008)
"Constructed living organism" (2008)
SONS Museum (shoes or no shoes)
Province East Flanders, Ghent, Belgium
works purchased regarding the provincial prize, 2008 (nomination premium)
"Botanical Sculpture" (2006)
"Random Movement" (2006)
"Inside Out" (2006)
"Botanical" (2007)
"Botanical" (2007)
Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium "Botanical" (2014)
Collection of the city of Waregem, Belgium "Botanical" (2008)
PRIZES
2008 Young Ones Award, Lineart 2008
2008 Prize Young Artists 2008 (S.M.A.K. Ghent)
2007 Nomination premium, Provincial prize for visual arts
(Province East-Flanders)
2007 Prize Young Artists 2007 (S.M.A.K. Ghent)
2006 Prize Charles de Leu
(KASK, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Ghent)
EDUCATION
2004 - 2006
Royal Academy of Fine Arts, KASK Ghent BE
Mixed Media, postgraduate in audiovisual and visual art
graduated with distinction
2000 - 2004
Sint-Lucas Hogeschool voor Wetenschap en Kunst
Painting, LUCA School of Arts, Ghent BE
graduated with distinction
ASSISTANT
2007-2008 Mark Manders' studio, Ronse BE
SCHOLARSHIPS
2011 Development-oriented grant
Flemish Ministry of Culture
2023 Allowance for an international presentation within the Arts Decree
Flemish Ministry of Culture
RESIDENCIES
2015 Landkunst op de Buisse Heide,
Vincent Van Gogh huis, Zundert, NL
2013 Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, BE
2009 what, De Kunstbank, Brussels, BE
SELECTIONS
2023 Ik Koop Belgisch:
https://ikkoopbelgisch.be/nl/belgische-merken/johan-gelper
2009 Kunstendatabank online database:
https://databank.kunsten.be/
2007 The Drawing Center Viewing Program,
New York
2005 EEYA,
European Exhibition of Young Artists (aica)
2005 Kunstonline, online database,
www.kunstonline.info
PUBLICATIONS
2023 SALON BLANC 2007 - 2022 studio-est / Die Keure, Ostend BE
2019 Integrale collectiecatalogus S.M.A.K., Ghent BE
2017 Video by Svend Thomsen: Een ateliergesprek met Johan Gelper, TVF
2008 Video by Svend Thomsen: Johan Gelper
"Dismountable drawing" 52 min. Loop, TVF
2008 Giga C. Book,
MER. Paper Kunsthalle for Lineart, Ghent BE
2008 Steven Baelen / Johan Gelper (laserprint), Gallery EL, Welle BE
LECTURES
2023 Geotropie
KUMA, academie voor beeldende kunsten
Maldegem BE
2022 Spatial drawing in Color
Shanti Sadan
Virtual talk from Ghent BE to Ahmedabad IN
2018 Demonteerbaar ruimtelijk tekenen
Kunstacademie Beveren
Beveren BE
2009 Dismantable drawing
Academy of Fine Arts
Anderlecht BE
2008 Gigacase, dialogue with Philippe Van Cauteren,
Pascal de Pauw, Pieter Vermeersch, Ward Denys and
Hans Albrecht, moderated by Pierre Muyle
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