Daniel Derderian

Daniel Derderian was born in Marseille, lives and work between Paris and Ghent in Belgium.

With tender anger, Daniel Derderian deconstructs images in search of coherence between the social image and the particular sensation of being an individual. He seeks to unleash the strength and vulnerability that animates us by going back and forth between the surface and the bottom.

He composes singular portraits representing the confusion and vanity of the human condition. Exploring the torsions of our souls, he highlights our particularities, our otherness, driven by a naïve desire to create a colourful, exciting world of diversity.

His work is a eminent cry for love from a safe space behind the mirror.
As a former classical dancer and performer in the entertainment world, he worked a lot on appearance and dynamics.

By deconstructing formatted and idealized images, he looks for more intimate and visceral sensations including lack and desire.
Daniel works in a hurry, torn between the moral brake of an adult and the unlimited fantasy of a wild child. He wants to preserve something unfinished in his work, completion would be the end of a dynamic.
His subjects present themselves in an intimate moment with their strength, their vulnerabi...

2023
Group exhibition Figurative Destructuralism at Parc Floral Pavillon 18 Paris
from 23 Novembre to 3 Decembre 2023

Solo exhibition MONSIEUR - Open House of the Ateliers d'Artistes de Montreuil
from October13th to 15th

Group exhibition NU (NOW in NL) September
Gallery Nobody & Friends Antwerp Belgium

Group exhibition CHAOS from June 7 to July 8
Gallery Thomé Paris

Group exhibition SPECTRA with Hybrid's Crib from June 1st to 10th
Etienne de Causans Gallery Paris

DF Art Project group exhibition from 8 to 19 April
Porte Maubec La Rochelle

Solo exhibition Between strength and fragility - paintings from 2017 to 2022 - from January 25 to February 18
Gallery Thomé Paris

2022

Os Terre - Open House of the Artists' Studios of Montreuil
My studio Montreuil (Paris) France

Group Exhibition Verleden - Past
Gallery Nobody & Friends Antwerp Belgium

The dream of a shrimp - solo exhibition of paintings and drawings
Restaurant Rio dos Camaraos Montreuil

2021

Pride By Your Side – online event
FMBArtGallery Francesco M. Boni, Rome Italy

Open house of the artists' studios of Montreuil
My studio Montreuil (Paris) France

2020
Open house of the artists' studios of Montreuil
My studio Montreuil (Paris) France

2010

Urban Fetishes and Radi...