Isabel Fredeus

Isabel Fredeus (°1991) is an Antwerp-based (BE) artist. She is an inter-disciplinary artist that works with installation, sculpture, video, perfomance, drawing and intervention. Fredeus is mainly interested in materials that are elastic, ma- nipulative and flexible. Within her artistic practice she tries to follow signs, investigate the origin of their attraction and search for alternative meanings within them. For these reasons Fredeus works process oriented. In her practice she is mainly occupied with natural processes, physical laws and the symbolism they create. She considers her ate-
lier as a place to explore various methodologies where irony goes hand in hand with spirituality and scientific approaches are confronted with poetic layers. Aesthetically she’s drawn to the morphology of form, contradictions and displaying development or growth. Change itself is deeply embedded in her artistic work.
A few years ago Fredeus discovered working with hot glass. Glass (just like water) has different states of “being” or scientifically you could call these “phases” of matter. Water and glass trigger her in a similar way and are essential materials that she works with in her studio. Fredeus puts her focus on what is going on with the works she creates, addressing artworks as systems that undergo change and experience processes.
Isabel Fredeus obtained a Master in Fine Arts and a Master of Research in Art & Design at St Lucas School of Arts in Antwerp. Her work was shown at Gr_Und, Berlin (DE), Intershop, Leipzig (DE), Extra City Kunsthal (BE), Middelheim Museum (BE), M KHA (BE), Art Rotterdam (NL). In 2015, she was a resident at Villa Ruffieux residence, Sierre (CH). She won the De Lucas award 2015, awarded by Sint Lucas University College, Antwerp (BE). She won the Middelheim Museum Young Artist Prize 2018 awarded by the Middelheim Promotors, Antwerp (BE). She also won the prize of the public with her sculpture ‘Under The Weather’. Currently Fredeus is preparing exhibitions in 2022 for the Benzeholz Meggen (CH), Sainte Anne Gallery Paris (FR), Whitehouse Gallery (BE) and Antwerp Art Weekend 2022 (BE)