Leroy Brothers

Belgium & France

Ian Wallace writes in his essay What Is Post-Internet Art? Understanding the Revolutionary New Art Movement that “Net Art refers to art that uses the Internet as its medium and cannot be experienced any other way. Post-Internet art makes the leap from the screen into brick-and-mortar galleries.”

Since the Myspace Portraits series in 2003, it could be stated that our practice would have fit in what post-internet art is about: our net-generated art has never been stuck on the screen and systematically made the leap into the tangible world.

Secondly, Ben Davis declares in his writing Social Media Art in the Expanded Field that “The only thing that would be ‘social media art‘ in the full and genuine sense would be a social networking service actually designed as an art project, which would raise all sorts of questions.”

Witness Your World – developed since 2006, first as Axel King then as BDRTist – is a project that qualifies for both statements.

Belgian brothers Nicolas (°1979), Gilles (°1978) and Gregory (°1975) are the creative minds behind the art collective Leroy Brothers. Nicolas studied Fine Art at Villa Arson (Nice, France) and at The Cass (London Metropolitan University) while Gregory and Gilles are autodidact. They currently live and work in Belgium and in France.

Exhibitions Teleportation January 23, 2016 - March 03, 2016 HIGH 5 - Five Years of ART LABOR September 09, 2011 - October 10, 2011 How to Be A Successful Contemporary Artist from A to Z June 25, 2011 - July 07, 2011

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016
Coding as Social & Creative Inception, IFA Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Witness My Face, Interactive In Situ Installation at Music Festival Pukkelpop, Kiewit, Belgium
The Aesthetics of Coding, Podgorny Robinson Gallery, Saint Paul de Vence, France
We all have at least one meaningful Picture or Thought to share, Podgorny Robinson Gallery, Paris, France

2015
Witness Your World: Testimonies of the Network Users, Spazio Bogogno, Milan, Italy

2014
Witness Your World: Extracts from our picture & message culture, At The Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

2013
Witness Your World for Mumiy Troll – part 3, Lazarev Foundation, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Witness your World for Mumiy Troll – part 2, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
Windows to the World, Guy Pieters Gallery, Saint-Paul de Vence, France
Witness your World for Mumiy Troll – part 1, ArtEtazh Museum of Modern Art, Vladivostok, Russia

2012
Portraitures of Accidental Human Relationships, acb Galeria, Budapest, Hungary
Leroy Brothers Summer Show, Galerie St Paul Art Moderne, Saint-Paul de Vence, France

2011
Symbiotic Cloud Intelligence: BDRTist, Art Beijing, Beijing
How to be a Successful Contemporary Artist from A to Z, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai

2008
The user as creativity source, W3 Art Center, Vlissingen, The Netherlands

2006
Artmann paintings by Gorki frontman, Luc De Vos, Artmann Gallery, Ghent, Belgium

2005
Artmann Painting Collection, Artmann Gallery, Ghent, Belgium

2004
MySpace User Portraits, VanRam Gallery, Ghent, Belgium

2002
Carte Blanche, CIAC – Centre International d’Art Contemporain, Carros, France

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2017
Ghost, STUK Leuven, Belgium
Celibataire Divas, Herkenrode Refuge, Kunstgalerij de Mijlpaal, Hasselt, Belgium
On The Go (not comparable), Zaal 29, MAart KunstRoute, Belgium
S-T-ARTS: Innovation at the nexus of Science, Technology & Arts, DG Connect (European Commission), CNCT University, Brussels, Belgium
If I disappear, IFA Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Ghost, Recyclart Art Center, Train station of Chapelle, Brussels, Belgium
Ghost, Jacobus, Church of Saint Jacobs, Ghent, Belgium

2016
Identity as a TM, Trademarks // City Triennale Hasselt, Hasselt, Belgium
Teleportation, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai

2015
The Wrong: New Digital Art Biennale, Homeostasis Lab Pavillon
3 Generations of Belgian artists: Paul Delvaux / Wim Delvoye / Leroy Brothers, At The Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

2012
A Neverending Mess, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai

2011
This could be your show!, ShContemporary (Hot Spot), Shanghai
High 5, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai
Lernaean Strouthion: extraction from Axel King, Jing An International Sculpture Park, Shanghai

2010
Outsourced painting production from Dafen, Don Gallery, Shanghai

2008
Update II: New Media Art Award: Axel King, Liedts-Meesen Foundation, Ghent, Belgium