Émilie Magnan
2000, Saint-Ghislain, lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.
Émilie Magnan is a Belgian visual artist who graduated from the Dessin de La Cambre studio in Brussels. Since her early days, Émilie has been drawn to the human body. Overall, her works evoke a restrained gentleness and suggest intimate narratives. Through her portraits, she explores themes such as motherhood, childhood, and human solidarity, capturing moments imbued with comfort and calm, but not without disruptive elements, such as the indecision of location or the ambiguous play of gazes, which deepen the potential reading of the drawings. The group portraits highlight the solidarity and tenderness between the characters, while sensuality manifests itself on an individual level.
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FORMATION
2024-2025 – Upper secondary education teacher training certificate at ENSAV La Cambre, Brussels, Belgium
2022-2024 – Master’s degree at ENSAV La Cambre, Brussels, Belgium
2022 – Erasmus semester in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, London, England
2019-2022 – Bachelor’s degree in Drawing at ENSAV La Cambre, Brussels, Belgium
PRIX
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Louise Dehem Prize from the Royal Academy of Belgium, 2025.
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First Prize in the Plastic and Visual Arts Competition, Nivelles, 2025.
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Luxembourg Prize (winner), Montauban, 2024.
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2023 – Residency organized by VAF in collaboration with ENSAV La Cambre and supervised by Emilio López-Menchero in Birzeit, West Bank.
EXPERIENCES
2023–2025 – Assistant to artist Robin Wen
2022 – Co-curator and co-organizer of the exhibition “Métamorphoses,” former printing house of the National Institute of Geography, February 10–13, ENSAV La Cambre
EXHIBITIONS
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Baron Pierre Paulus Art Biennial, Town Hall, Chatelet.
Links, Le Totem, Libramont.
Group exhibition of the Nivelles Plastic and Visual Arts Competition, Nivelles.
Les Animaux, with the Les Chatons collective, ENSAV La Cambre, Brussels.
Écotone, CACLB, Montauban.
Saul Fia, Moonens Foundation, Brussels.
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2024
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Drawing From Where We Are, ELEVEN STEENS, Brussels.
De long en large, large-format drawing, Autonomie Centre d’atrs pluriels, Brussels.
Group exhibition of the Wallonia Arts Commission Prize, Delta, Namur.
Solo exhibition, Espace Marguerite Brouhon, Virton.
Summer Exhibition, with the Risorvoir Dogs collective, Atelier Bardaf, Brussels.
Is that what you’re offering?, Maison des Arts de Schaerbeek, Brussels.
Collective exhibition of the Luxembourg Prize, CACLB, Montauban.
Fin de bail – Einde huur, Nova cinema, Brussels.
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2023
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Some Body Strange, Gare Maritime (Tour & Taxi), Brussels.
Group exhibition of master’s students in drawing and urban space at ENSAV La Cambre, La Vallée, Brussels.
