Jonathan Sullam’s artworks all reveal a state of precarious equilibrium : they seek to capture the tensions preceding a fall or an ascent. Installations, sculptures and images all appear to be suspended in time and space.
His creations are often paradoxical. They appear as oxymorons, where the material used is in blatant opposition to the purpose of the represented object. This duality opens up scopes of interpretations ranging from organic forms in states of juxtaposition, through to their ultimate resolution as smooth, industrial, inanimate objects devoid of any trace of gesture or movement.
The pieces all present a state of ambiguity as to their status and function, seeking to evoke a sense of general abandonment or desolation, conveying at the same time both strength and fragility.
Master in Multimedia, Slade School of Fine Arts, University College, London (UK)
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art in Public Spaces, Royal Academy, Brussels (BE)
Ernst & Young Collection, Corporate Art Collection (UK)
The Wonderful Fund Collection (UK)
Galila Barzilaï Foundation (BE)
Thousands of lights from here, Irène Laub Gallery, Brussels (BE)
Speech Acts, cur. Sérgio Fazenda Rodrigues, Rui Calçada Bastos studio, Lisbon (PT)
Relics & contemplation, Irène Laub Gallery (FEIZI), Brussels (BE)
I Killed My Mom, Maison des arts de Schaerbeek, Brussels (BE)
Black Gold, ArteContemporanea gallery, Brussels (BE)
City festival Damme, cur. by Jan Moyaert, Damme (BE)
Present, cur Michel Van Dyck, Musée et Jardin Van Buuren, Brussels (BE)
Politics of Discontent, cur. by Jonathan Sullam, Irène Laub Gallery, Brussels (BE)
Art public, Le Vecteur, Charleroi (BE)
Festival Musiq3, Théâtre le Marni, Bruxelles, (BE)
Private Choices, cur. by Carine Fol, Centrale for Contemporary Art, Bruxelles (BE)
Semantic of numbers, curated by Lab(au), society-d-electricite, Brussels (BE)
Only Lovers, cur. by Thimothee Chaillou, Le Coeur, Paris (FR)
Attitude Scultpure #1, cur. Daniele Capra, Eduardo Secci Gallery, Florencia (IT)
Traversee, Gouvernement aan de Maas, Maastricht (NL)
Collection province de Liège, Belgian ambassador’s house, Den Haag (NL)
Pierre, papier… Lino, Galerie Quai 4, Liège (BE)
Steve Reich project, different trains & WTC 9/11, Brigittines Theater, Brussels (BE)
Not a group show, ArteContemporanea gallery, Brussels (BE)
We do not remember the berlin wall, Brussels (BE)
Do it, cultural house of Namur, Namur (BE)
Capsule Project, Kibla Platform, Maribor (SI)
Île Flottante, ArteContemporanea gallery, Brussels (BE)
Onze, Exit11 Gallery, Grand Leez (BE)
Capsule Project, Musée d’art Moderne and 9-bis, Saint-Etienne (FR)
Borderline, MAAC, Brussels (BE)
2PASS I & II, V-TRO Gallery, Brussels (BE)
Nothing to say, White Hôtel, Brussels (BE)
0,1, Nuit Blanche, Grand place, Brussels (BE)
FILM, Centre culturel FIDEC, Huy (BE)
The wonderful fund collection, Pallant house Gallery, Chichester (UK)
The wonderful fund collection, Musée de Marrakech, Medina (MA)
Les soeurs Jacques unseen by the gardener, London (UK)
Roaratorio Transmedia, Paris-Berlin, les Halles, Paris (FR)
The international exchange, Hunter College Gallery, New-York (USA)
The crossing, La Raffinerie, Plan K, Brussels (BE)
Digital Animation & Composite Works, 291 Gallery, London (UK)
Art Brussels, Booth A04 (BE)
Festival Musiq’3, Flagey, Brussels (BE)
Art public, Le vecteur, Charleroi (BE)
Yia Art Fair, Louise 186, Brussels (BE)
Brussels Art Days, cur. by Amandine Wittouk, Louise 186, Brussels (BE)
Mons 2015 – Fluide, Thuin (BE)
Biennale de Jehay, Liège (BE)
Bologna Art Fair, Boccanera Gallery, Bologna (IT)
Verona Art Fair, Boccanera Gallery, Verona (IT)
Blumm Prize, International Art Prize, Brussels (BE)
Big Bang, Boccanera Gallery, Trento (IT)
Popposition, le Brass, Brussels (BE)
Swatch Residency, Shanghai (CN)
Dam’ Gorgeous, Mobile Institute Organhaus Art Platform, Chongqing (CN)
Mobile Institu, Mexico by Mobile Institute TEP, Monterrey (MX)
Marc Feullien Award, Fondation Marie-Louise Jacques belgian sculpture competition (BE)
Julian Sullivan Prize, Slade School of Fine Arts end degree show prize (UK)
