TINA GILLEN (LU)
biography | cv
selected works
exhibitions
Foto Geert Goiris
_Geboren 1972, Luxemburg
Woont en werkt in Brussel, België
Tina Gillen werkt sinds het einde van de jaren negentig als schilder en ontwikkelde een praktijk waarin figuratie en abstractie op subtiele wijze in elkaar overvloeien. Haar werk verkent de spanningsvelden tussen tweedimensionaliteit en ruimtelijke ervaring, en onderzoekt hoe beelden uit de actualiteit, uit het dagelijks leven of persoonlijke herinneringen circuleren en betekenis krijgen. Thema’s als architectuur, landschap, innerlijkheid en contemplatie vormen terugkerende ankerpunten. Gillen benadert schilderkunst als een denkruimte waarin de relatie tussen binnen en buiten, tussen het zelf en de wereld, voortdurend wordt bevraagd.
Ze presenteerde solotentoonstellingen in onder meer BOZAR, Brussel (2015); Mudam Luxembourg (2012); en M-Museum Leuven (2010), en vertegenwoordigde Luxemburg op de Biënnale van Venetië (2022). Ze doceert schilderkunst aan de Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen.
_Born 1972, Luxembourg
Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium
Tina Gillen has been working as a painter since the late 1990s and has developed a practice in which figuration and abstraction subtly blend into one another. Her work explores the tensions between two-dimensionality and spatial experience, and examines how images from current events, daily life, or personal memories circulate and gain meaning. Themes such as architecture, landscape, interiority, and contemplation serve as recurring anchor points. Gillen approaches painting as a space for thought, in which the relationship between interior and exterior, between the self and the world, is repeatedly questioned.
She has presented solo exhibitions at a number of venues, including BOZAR, Brussels (2015); Mudam Luxembourg (2012); and M-Museum Leuven (2010), and her work was for the Luxembourg Pavillion at the Venice Biennale (2022). She teaches painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp.
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_solo exhibitions (selection)
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2025​
The Places We Carry - Valerie Traan Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
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2024​
Tina Gillen, Edition Populaire, Borgerhout Antwerp, Belgium
Splash,Baan 2 - Minigolf Beatrijs Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Tina Gillen - Donations BnL Bibliothèque nationale Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Nailing colours to the mast, Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg
Riverside, MCL METZ - Galerie Raymond Banas, Metz, France
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2023​Flying Mercury, Konschthal Esch, Esch sur Alzette, Luxembourg
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2022​Heat, Nosbaum Reding Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Faraway So Close, Luxembourg Pavilion,
59thInternational Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
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2019​
Windways, Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg
2016​
Vanishing Point, Galerie Nosbaum & Reding, Luxembourg
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2015
​Echo, BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium
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2014​
Real To Reel, Galerie Nosbaum & Reding,
Luxembourg
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2013​Rain_or_Shine, Galerie hanfweihnacht, Frankfurt,
Germany
Second Sight, Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
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2012​
Playground, Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg
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2011​Paint Rock, Galerie Nosbaum & Reding, Luxembourg
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2010​
Tina Gillen, M Museum Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
The Birdwatcher, Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2009​Timberland, Galerie Nosbaum & Reding, Luxembourg
2008
​Greetings From, Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
NecessaryJourney, Städtische Galerie Remscheid, Remscheid, Germany
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2005​
Projectroom, ARCO, Crown Gallery, Madrid, Spain
RavensteinGaleries, Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Short Cuts, Nosbaum & Reding - Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
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2004​
Jockey Club, Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
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2003​Sceneries, Isabella Brancolini Arte Contemporanea, Firenze, Italy
Nosbaum & Reding - Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
2002​
Circuit, Lausanne, Switzerland Arndt & Partner,
Berlin, Germany
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2001​
Nosbaum & Reding - Art Contemporain, Luxembourg Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Necessary Journey, Nosbaum & Reding - ArtContemporain, Luxembourg
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1999​
Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Bullet, Project room, Brussels, Belgium
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1998​
Caravaning, Musée d’Art Moderne de Collioure, Collioure, France
Hôtel du Golf, Antwerp, Belgium
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_monographic catalogues
Tina Gillen, Faraway So Close, dir. by Christophe Gallois, Mudam Luxembourg,Hatje Cantz, 2022,
256 p.
Tina Gillen. Echo, BOZAR Books, Brussels; MER. Paper Kunsthalle, Ghent, 2015, 140 p.
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Tina Gillen, Necessary Journey, ed. Oliver Zybok, Hatje Cantz, 2008, 152 p.
_group exhibitions (selection)
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2025 ​​​​
Painting After Painting - over seventy painters living and working in Belgium, S.M.A.K. Gent, Belgium
Corpus Domus - AZ Delta / Ter Posterie -
Roeselaere, Belgium
Floating Roads - Klooster de Pélichy, Izegem,
Belgium
Van Gogh Huis - Zundert, Netherlands
Painting After Painting, over seventy painters living and working in Belgium, S.M.A.K. Gent, Belgium
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2024​
Land In Land Out, Modo asbl - Le Gallerie degli Uffizi, Firenze, Italy
Collections/Revelations. Modern and contemporary art,MNAHA Musée national d'archéologie, d'histoire et d'art, Nationalmusée um Fëschmaart, Luxembourg
Collection of M, Museum M Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Collection, Musée Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium Wandelgangen, FRED&FERRY, Antwerp, Belgium Fêtes de la Saint Martin 2024, Tourinnes, Belgium
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2023​
Nothing Is Permanent, Esch2022, Esch sur Alzette, Luxembourg
Forms of Life, Ecosystems - Articulate 2023, RoyalAcademy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium
Alles van waarde is weerloos - A dialogue with thecollection DMDC, Hopstreet, Deurle, Belgium
grenzbefreit – sans frontière, Kunstverein LandauVilla Streccius, Landau in der Pfalz, Germany
GIST Zennevallei, Felix Art Museum, Drogenbos, Belgium
Bienvenue à la Villa 2, Acquisitions récentes, Villa Vauban, Luxembourg
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2022
​Hitchcock the Brand, Cercle Cité, Luxembourg
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2021
​Differences, HISK - Alumni exhibition, Brussels, Belgium
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2020​
25 Years of the Mudam Collection, Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg
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2019
​Eye of the World, Discovery of Chongqing, China
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2018​
Peintures des années 1980 et 1990, Mudam collection, MudamLuxembourg, Luxembourg
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2017​
Group Show, Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg
de opwarming / warming up, De Lange Zaal, RoyalAcademy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium
The Emperors New Clothes, De Lange Zaal, RoyalAcademy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium
2016​Wake Up and Dream, Antwerp Tower, Antwerp, Belgium
The City is not a road – Ringland (Auction), Antwerp, Belgium
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2015​
Spiele der Modifikation, Museum St. Wendel; Saarländische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
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2013​
Portrait?, Nosbaum & Reding - Art Contemporain, Luxembourg Dreaming of the South, Marion de Cannière Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Chancen und Risiken, Galerie HanfWeihnacht, Frankfurt, Germany
Here is always somewhere else, Kasteel Oude-Rekem, Belgium
Grenzen/Loos, Emergent, Veurne, Belgium
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2012​
Flying/Fliegen, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Verzorgers Uit!, HermanTeirlinckhuis, Beersel, Belgium
Landscapes, Cities, People, Netwerk, Aalst, Belgium
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2011​
Pearls of the North, Palais d'Iéna, Paris, France
Je m'affiche, urban posterproject, Syntra Brussels, Belgium
Dry and Wet Paintings, Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
The Barn, with Paul Casaer at Galerie HanfWeihnacht, Frankfurt, Germany
Meesterwerken in het MAS, MAS Museum aan de Stroom Antwerp, Belgium
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2010​
Changez!, Rozendael21, Enschede, Netherlands Brave NewWorld, Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg For your eyes only, De Markten, Brussels, Belgium Koers, Herman Teirlinckhuis, Beersel. Belgium
Public Private Paintings. Mars op Ostende, Mu.ZEE,Ostend, Belgium
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2009​
Re_Printed, CM Mechelen, Belgium Elo, MudamLuxembourg, Luxembourg
Un-scène, WIELS, Brussels, Belgium
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2008​
Dry and Wet Paintings, Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Guess who iscoming?..., MK Galerie, Rotterdam, Netherlands Second_Nature, Dexia BIL, Luxembourg
Samenspel, Kendall Pakhuis, Antwerp, Belgium
Over The Hedge#2, Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke, Belgium
De visuele compositie van de plaats, CCHAHasselt, Belgium
Honorons Honoré, De Garage, Mechelen, Belgium
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2007​
Business & Pleasure I, ISCP Studios, New York, USA
Over The Hedge#1, TAFA Gallery, Tianjin, China
Dry and Wet Paintings, Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Welcome to Our Neighbourhood, StadtgalerieSaarbrücken, Saarbrücken, Germany
Who's Got the Big Picture? MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
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2006
​My Home is my Castle, Dexia Banque Internationale à Luxembourg, Luxembourg
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2005
​Out of place, FLACC – Centre for Arts and Visual Culture, Gent, Belgium
(...) et le canard était toujours vivant, Abbaye Saint-André- Centre d'art contemporain, Meymac, France
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2004​
Undercurrent, Platform Garanti Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey NoFriture, Junge Kunstszene aus Belgien, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Ludwigshafen; Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim
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2003​
De Manessier à Wim Delvoye. La collection d’art moderne de la Maison grand-ducale, constituée par la Grande-Duchesse Joséphine-Charlotte, Musée National d’Histoire et d’Art, Luxembourg
Temporary Exhibition Space in Chicago, Arndt&Partner, Chicago, USA
Focus 3: Constructies, MDD – Musem Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
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2002​
Salzburg - Luxemburg, Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg; Konschthaus beim Engel, Luxembourg
Open House, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d’ArtContemporain, Luxembourg
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2001
​Claro que si, Fondacion Carlos de Amberes, Madrid, Spain Wir sinddie Anderen, billboard project, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany
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2000​
Biennale of Contemporary Art, Le Fil Rouge 3, Louvain-la- Neuve, Belgium
Storm Centers, « Poëziezomer » in Watou, S.M.A.K.,Gent, Belgium
Premio del Golfo, Profiles of young contemporary painting in Europe, La Spezia, Italy
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1999​
Jars I, Kunstcentrum Sittard, Netherlands
In/Out – Bouillon, Hisk Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium Free Space, NICC (New International CulturalCenter), Antwerp, Belgium
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1997​
Germinations IX, Prague, Czech Republic Villa Arson, Nice, France