"My approach as an artist and experimental designer consists in including the nature and light in my creations."
Geneviève Levivier’s approach combines the sensibilities of a contemporary visual artist with personal innovative technologies. By mixing the artistic gesture, organic materials, pigments and eco-friendly self-invented paint binders and bio-sourced fibres, with sometimes digital process, Levivier defends a creation freely inspired by a mix of textile know-how and pictorial techniques, such as in her "textile stained glass". Playing with light and relief's effects, the rich sensory artistry of her work literally shines through and demonstrates Levivier’s ability to perform a material metamorphosis as living materials (eggshells, flowers, wood) that have lived one life are reborn.
In addition, she always favors a slow and eco-responsible conception, which begins, as for these "Eggshell Alchimie" artworks, by the local collection of eggshells and their transformation in her workshop, before being integrated into her work.
The integration of these raw natural elements - eggshells, flowers, swamp oak... - as source of her creations recalls the intrinsic link between man and nature, and offers a unending contemplative vision, to the exact opposite of the screens and their constant solicitations. Through a meandering alchemy of surprising and poetry materials, openworks and projected shadows, her mix-media pieces, tapestries or textile sculptures constantly reinterpret the symbols of tapestry, embroidery, or lace. Her interest for the textile as a contemporary medium is related to its possibilities of movement, flexibility, interaction with space and light, as well as with the body, touch and sight.
After having created for 10 years, with her studio A+ZDesign®, the most refined and surprising textiles for the most prestigious fashion houses - Dior, Alaïa, Gaultier, Balenciaga... - Geneviève Levivier is nowadays devoted to the creation of her contemporary tapestries and artwork in harmony with a theme or the surrounding architecture, the living nature and the natural light, performing the idea of Synaesthesia.
As such, her work, recognizable at first glance, has received significant international recognition. She’s regularly invited to present solo or group exhibition - Museum of Sculpture of Sao Paulo, Triennale of Milan, Universal Exhibition of Milan, Hong-Kong Design Week, Museum of Design Gent, Swiss and New-York Galleries…
EXHIBITIONS
COMING in 2022
- Art Centrum CHAPELLE DE BOONDAEL, solo in situ installation, Brussels.
- Art Centrum NEIMENSTER ABBEY, Residency & solo in situ installation, Luxembourg City.
2021
- LA PATINOIRE ROYALE - GALERIE VALERIE BACH : "BIOMORPHICA" solo exhibition in the Rez-a-Rue space.
2020
- Museum Van Buuren : "SYNESTHESIA" solo in situ installation, in the frame of #VanBuurenSolidaire, august 2020
- London Design Festival : "Ceci n'est pas..." curated by ADORNO Design Gallery
- Balthasar, solo show in the frame of Brussels Design Week
- MILAN DESIGN WEEK , Belgium is Design @FuroriSalone online official selection
2019
- UNIX Gallery, New-York, Chelsea : Textile Revealed - New-York Textile Month Festival, curation Li Edelkoort
- Eindhoven Dutch Design Week #WorthProject Laureates 2018
- Plexus Palace Gallery, Montreux, Suisse (Eggshell Alchimie II -solo)
- Fairmont Le Montreux Palace, Montreux, Suisse, 2019
- Plexus Palace Gallerie, Montreux, Suisse (Eggshell Alchimie I -solo)
- Museum Design Gand : "Maakbar - Generous Nature"
- Abbaye de Villers-la-Ville, Belgique, exposition solo in situ de 17 Tapisseries Eggshell Alchimie créées pour le lieu
- Milan Design Week 2019, Superstudio Piu, Worth Project # Laureates 2018
- Milan Design Week 2019, Belgium is Design : "Generous Nature"
2018
- BIP , Place Royale, Bruxelles : "Brussels Textile Design : A Contemporary Show" .
- Espace 155, Woluwe Saint-Lambert, Bruxelles : " Brussels Design September"
- Galerie AP, Vevey, Suisse, 2018 (solo)
- Fairmont Le Montreux Palace, Montreux, Suisse, 2018 (solo)
- Salon Création de la Province du Brabant Wallon, Court-Saint-Etienne, 2018
- Château du Lac, Genval 2018 (solo)
2017-2016-2015 :
- 60 Innovations Wallones 2017 - Innovatech Belgique
- Maison & Objet, PROJECT, Paris 2017 (stand solo)
- 50 Innovations Wallones 2016 - Innovatech Belgique
- So Flex - Architect@Work & Innovathèque Paris
- Exposition Universelle Milano 2015 , Pavillon officiel of France, Milano
- Pallazzo delle Steline, Milan 2015 -Textifood – Futurotextiles
- Musée d’Histoire Naturelle, Lille 2015 - Textifood – Futurotextiles
- Musée du Textile de Bourgoin Jailleu, France - Des artisans du Luxe , in collaboration with Anna-Barbara Aumuller
- Opéra Royal de Liège, Liège, 2015- Rook & Raven Galery, London - Worth Project Exhibition
- Gallerie Joseph Braque, Paris - Worth Project Exhibition
- Palais des Congrès, Liège 2014 - Métamorphoses (stand solo)
2014-2013-2012
- HONG KONG Design Week, Belgium is Design, 2014 - Tales of Heroes
- MUBE, Musée de la Sculpture de Sao Polo, Belgium is Design, 2014 - A Materia das Nuvens
- Centre Wallonie Bruxelles, Belgium is Design, Paris 2014 - A Materia das Nuvens
- Théâtre Royal de Namur, Namur 2014 (solo)
- BE MANOS, Bruxelles 2014 - Brussels Design September 2014, in situ installation (solo)
- Maisons d’Exception, Paris 2014
- TRIENALE di MILANO, Belgium is Design, Milano 2013 - The Toolbox
- Maisons d’Exception, Paris 2013
- The Dominican, Bruxelles 2013 - Brussels Design September 2013, in situ installation (solo)
- Fedustria - Fédération Belge du Textile - Brussels Design September 2013.
- Galerie Jacob Norden Fine Antiques, Sablon, Bruxelles -Trough the mirror of time , 2013 (solo)
- Canevas Collection, RTBF Collection, Bruxelles 2012
- Métamorphoses, Val Saint Lambert, Liège 2012 (stand solo)
- EUNIQUE art fair, Belgium is Design, Karlsrhue 2011
- Designer - RDV / Whitehotel, Bruxelles 2008 (solo).
AWARDS
2020 : BOURSE de la Région Wallonne "RAYONNEMENT WALLONIE"
2019 : BOURSE de la FEDERATION DES ARTS PLASTIQUES DE LA COMMUNAUTE FRANCAISE DE BELGIQUE, pour le développement de tapisseries d'art, innovantes, luminescentes.
2018 : LAUREATE WORTH PROJECT, prix européen destiné aux jeunes entreprises innovantes à haute valeur ajoutée créative,
géré par l’AITEX - Centre de Recherche Textile International, Madrid, et l'IED Master - Institut Européen de Design, Milan-Madrid.
2018 : Finaliste aux Trophées Incidences de l'Economie Circulaire et Développement Durable,
organisé par la Province du Brabant Wallon.
2016: Lauréate d’une Bourse d’innovation de la Région Wallonne, Belgique, pour le textile et oeuvres EGGSHELL by GENEVIEVE LEVIVIER®.
2015: Lauréate d’une Bourse d’innovation de la Région Wallonne, Belgique, pour les DENTELLES AU LASER.
2014 : Finaliste du Prix Théophile Legrand de l’Innovation Textile - Institut de France, Paris, pour les DENTELLES AU LASER.
2014: Lauréate Worth Project Pilote, prix européen destiné aux jeunes entreprises innovantes à haute valeur ajoutée créative,
géré par l’IFM - Institut Français de la Mode, Paris, et le London College of Fashion, Londres.
2013: Demi-finaliste au prix RTBF Canevas: Tapisserie Polymère monumentale.
2011: Lauréate Creative Boost-Up - Wallonie, Belgique - pour le développement du “Glacis Textile”.
2008 : Lauréate de la Biennale Internationale du Design de Liège, Belgique avec les « Dentelles et Tapisseries Polymères ».
2006 : 1er prix du Concours Heytens : création d'une collection textile d’ameublement sérigraphiée artisanalement.
2006: Bourse de la Région Wallonne pour le développement des « Dentelles Polymères”.
GALLERY
Geneviève Levivier’s artwork is permanently represented by LA PATINOIRE ROYALE - VALERIE BACH GALLERY.
PUBLIC COLLECTION
2019 : "EDEN" large Textile Mobile Circle from the EGGSHELL ALCHEMY COLLECTION is part of the ART COLLECTION of WALLOON PROVINCE of BRABANT .
AUCTION
"INFINITY" , Textile Mobile Circle from the EGGSHELL ALCHEMY COLLECTION sold at the auction directed by CORNETTE DE SAINT CYR for the "Fonds Erasme"
This circle Textile Sculpture has been the point of a vivid auction, and being acquired by a famous private collection.
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Lausanne - Gruyère - Londres - New-York - Abu Dhabi - Paris - Bruxelles - Karlsrhue - Liège - Hotel BE MANOS, Bruxelles .