Overview
Hell'O Collective

Hell'O is an artistic duo composed of Jerôme Meynen (1982) and Antoine Detaille (1980), both living and working in Belgium.

They quickly left behind graffiti letters and spray paint in favour of paper, characters, ink drawings and paint, moving on to sculpture, installations and wall drawing. They developed a unique graphic vocabulary that is complex and ambiguous, which they continue to expand in the course of their creative output, customising many recurrent elements, which they combine each time with new characters, or incorporate into unusual settings.

 

 Through their creative approach, characterised by its extreme conventional freedom, as well as its rigorous execution, they produce a fertile, imaginary fantasy world, sometimes grotesque yet always poetic. A kind of strange fantastic bestiary, populated with enigmatic animals and vaguely human-looking, asexual creatures, with shapes and symbols drawn from the iconography of fairy tales, fables, and other medieval allegories, ancient and contemporary mythologies, but also vanities, esotericism and surrealism. Death, hope, failure, optimism, frivolity, animalism, cruelty, constraint and the desire to control are the most frequently addressed themes in the works of Hell'O.

 

Using brief narrative sequences, which are sometimes juxtaposed, and a healthy dose of humor and mockery, they rail against human foibles in compositions that combine metaphysical reflection and pure non sense, showcasing mystery and the free interpretation of the viewer. The art of Hell'O lies in the image of the name the duo has chosen for itself: both joyful and macabre, amusing and frightening, cutesy and brooding, morbid and seductive, absurd and meaningful...Oxymoron and dichotomy are key areas of their work, playing on duality, ambiguity and pretence, continually oscillating between attraction and repulsion and dissolving into chaos that is paradoxically highly structured.

Works
Biography
Hell'O Collective
SOLO SHOWS | EXPOSICIONES INDIVIDUALES

2020
"This must be the place", Alice Gallery, Brussels

2019

"Noboy's here", Delimbo Gallery, Spain

2018

"Enjoy the show", Solo exhibition at Museum of Fine Art, Mons, Belgium

"Balance", Urban Spree, Berlin, Germany

2017

"DYSTOPIA", First Amendment Gallery, San Francisco, USA

2016

"DYADE", Alice Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

"WORK. 16", Galerie Centrale, Liège, Belgium
2014
"Nameless coterie", Delimbo Gallery, Spain

2013

"Deaf, Dumb and Blind", Alice gallery, Brussels, Belgium.

"Modern ghosts " Agnes B Gallery, Hong Kong, China.

"Modern Ghosts 2", Galerie du jour Agnes B, Paris, France.

2012

"Modern Ghosts", Espace LVL & Le lieu unique, Nantes, France.

"Another Brick in the Hole", Alley Art Gallery, Hasselt, Belgium.

"Two sticks and a cross are easily confused", Espai Tactel Art Gallery, Valencia, Spain.

"Memento Mori", A.L.I.C.E Gallery, Brussels, Belgium.

2011

"End of magic", MOHS gallery,copenhague, Danemark.

"Might fall", JAS gallery,Paris, france.

2010

"Chaosmos", M.A.A.C, Brussels, Belgium.

"Lost and confused", Think.21 gallery, Brussels, Belgium.

"Prix Mediatine", Médiatine, Brussels, Belgium.

2009

Residency, M.A.A.C, Brussels, Belgium.

"Artour biennale", Mariemont, Belgium.

Mural for the Keith Haring retrospective, BAM, Mons, Belgium.

"Kartel love art", Kartell store, Brussels, Belgium.

2008

Pulse, artfair, Miami ,USA.

Hell'O Monsters, think.21 gallery, Brussels, Belgium.

2007

"Paradis" , I.S.E.L.P., Brussels, Belgium.

"Smile for Slime", Extrabold Gallery, Luxembourg.

"Mural for a playground", Alicante, Spain.

"Game on You" (A4 project), BOZAR , Bruxelles, Belgique.

 

GROUP SHOWS | EXPOSICIONES COLECTIVAS

2018

"Dreambox" MIMA, Bruxelles, Belgium

"Technicolor" Zimmerling-Jungfueich, Saarbücken, Germany

"Surreal Irreverence", Magma Gallery, Bologna, Italy

2014

"Artmosphere" Art Play, Moscu , Rusia.

"Parallel Universe" Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Los Ángeles, USA.

"Iconic/Ironic" Galería MLF, Roma, Italia.

"Bienale Asphalte" Chareroi, Bélgica.

"Just before Brasil" Alice Gallery, Bruselas.

"Pareidoile" (Drawing Art Fair) Alice Gallery, Marsella, Francia.

"Drawing Now" Agnes B, Paris, Francia.

"Therimorfism" I.A.M gallery, Madrid, Spain.

"A cheval", nantes, France.

2013

"Bien urbain", Besancon, France.

"Ottanta - An international perspective. A local insight.", Bipielle Arte, Lodi, Italy.

"Fresh flanneurs", Doppelganger Gallery, Bari, Italy.

"Celebration", Centre Wallonie-bruxelles, Paris, France.

"Drawing now", contemporary drawing art fair, stand galerie du jour Agnes B, Paris, France.

"Kill two bird whit one stone", Charlotte Fogh gallery, copenhagen, Danmark.

"Just mad", contemporay art fair, stand espae Tactel, Madrid, Spain.

"Two years mean nothing".Rambletta, Valencia, Spain.

"HEY! modern art and pop culture", Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, France.

2012

"Artcopenhagen" contemporary art fair, A.L.I.C.E. gallery, Copenhagen, Danmark.

"Artbrussels" contemporary art fair, A.L.I.C.E. gallery, Brussels, Belgium.

"Out of STH", Wroklaw, Poland.

"Drawing now", contemporary drawing art fair, stand JAS Gallery, Paris, France.

2011

"Summer invitational",Jonathan Levine gallery, new York, USA.

"Dreamteam",Choque Cultural gallery,Sao Paulo, Brazil.

"Explosition" l'art du graffiti à Bruxelles,Musée d'ixelles, Belgique.

2010

"En quelques traits", I.S.E.L.P, Brusels, Belgium.

"ARTBRUSSELS", stand think.21 gallery, Brussels, Belgium.

2009

"Parcours d'artistes de Bruxelles- ville", Belgium.

"ARTBRUSSELS", stand think.21 gallery, Brussels, Belgium.

"Sales 0%", think.21 gallery, Brussels, Belgium.

2008

Stand think.21, Pulse art fair, Miami, USA.

"Rock the City 2", graffiti convention, Segovia, Spain.

2007

"Summer show",Louis Adelantado Gallery, Alicante, Spain

"ARTREK", Upstairs Mekanik Strip, Antwerpen, Belgium.

« Plintub », Plintub Gallery, Recyclart, Brussels, Belgium.

Exhibitions