leo
luccioni
Leo Luccioni (b.1994, France) lives and works in Brussels.
His multidisciplinary practice moves seamlessly between installation, sculpture, printmaking, and drawing. Through a colourful, pop and gaudy aesthetics, Luccioni highlights the ambiguity of our relationship with consumerism in a neoliberalism era. Between seduction and abhorrence, ephemeral and sacred, his work involves daily-life standardised products to which are given precious and fictional forms. His pieces become the characters of a fictional narration, comically similar to entrepreneurial storytelling.
Under the disguise of humour and deliberate anti-poesy, Leo Luccioni’s work is deeply conceptual. His subtly provocative practice constantly applies capitalistic phenomenons, such as counterfeit, delocalised production of his own pieces, and advertising, to the artistic field, questioning the absurdity of mass production and the illusion of material happiness of our time.
education
2017
Master Printmaking, La Cambre, École Nationale Supérieure des Arts visuels, Brussels, Belgium
award and residencies
2022
Ravi residence, Mar 2022 to May 2022, Liège, Belgium
Palazzo Monti, Jun 2022, Brescia, Italy
2021
Laureate Prix Jeune Artiste, Sculpture et installation, Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles, Belgium
2020
Centre Intermonde, Nov 2019 to Jan 2020, La Rochelle, France
2018
Third prize of the Komask Printmaking Award, grand prix Européen, Anvers, Belgium
Laurent Moonens, Oct 2017 to June 2018, Brussels, Belgium
Prize Dacos, Museum la Boverie, Liège, Belgium
2017
Laureate Prize Fédération wallonie Bruxelles, La Médiatine, Bruxelles, Belgium
Laureate International Printmaking Biennal, Museum la Boverie, Liège, Belgium
Laureate Coups de cœur Prize des Amis de La Cambre, Brussels, Belgium
Laureate Laurent Moonens Prize, Brussels, Belgium
Prize Médiatine, La Médiatine, Brussels, Belgium
solo exhibitions
2024
« The Sun Does Not Exist », Stems Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2023
« ACID », Romero Paprocki, Paris, France
« Flamin Hot Nacho Cheese Flavour », Ave Gallery, Courtrai, Belgium
2022
« GOUVERNER », UHODA Fondation, Liège, Belgium
« Nunc est Bibendum », The New Space, Liège, Belgium
« Praise of Power », Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy
« Spiritualium rerum Materialium », Chapelle des Dames Blanches, La Rochelle, France
2021
« Chakra Disco Buddha », NADA, New York, USA
« Royal Gala », Stems Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2020
« Egregorien », Everyday Gallery, Anvers, Belgium
« Hyperstition » Centre Intermonde, La Rochelle, France
2019
« Nul si découvert », Hotel de ville de Paris, Paris, France
2018
« SALE », Moonens Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
2017
« Burnworld, Waterworld, Marketworld », PMK, Brussels, Belgium
collections
2022
UHODA COLLECTION, Liège, Belgium (Installation GOUVERNER)
Palazzo Monti, Milan, Italy (Le curateur, la créature, le créateur, 2022)
2020
Centre Intermonde, La Rochelle, Fance (Le curateur, la créature, le créateur, 2020)
Thailywood foundation, Mar, Bruxelles, Belgium (Lays nature, 2020)
Prize Louis Schmidt, Salle Allende, Brussels, Belgium
2019
Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Christie's, Gand, Belgium (IKB 1500, 2018)
2018
Collection amis de La Cambre, Jan, Bruxelles, Belgium (Coolonialisme, 2018)
Museum la Boverie, collection du cabinet des estampes, Liège, Belgium (Ex-Voto 36 & 10, 2018)