Clément Bedel

Clément Bedel (b. 1993) is a French painter based in Vienna, Austria. He creates hybrid  compositions that capture suspended moments between collapse and rebirth, depicting a world in  mutation where streams of intense color, often symbolic of pollution, merge with plants, trees, and  brutalist structures, disrupting linear time and evoking vast ecological and existential scales. With  these works, Bedel addresses the human condition not through the human body itself but through  the consequences of destroying our own earthly conditions of existence, revealing fragmented landscapes, scarred yet adaptive and continuously in motion. 

Residency dates: 6. 2. – 8. 5. 2026

RESIDENCY PROJECT  

Taking the architecture and urban landscapes of Prague and the Czech Republic as an anchor for his painting practice, Clément Bedel develops new works that intertwine built and natural environments. These works explore temporality and the traces of human and more-than-human passage, capturing layered moments where presence and absence, growth and decay, coexist in constant flux. Through the use of negative space and subtle disruptions, the paintings reveal a fragile world shaped by tension, between the contemporary, the past, and imagined futures, tracing the ecological and existential forces that run through this region of Europe.

EDUCATION 

2020    Fakultet Likovnih Umetnosti in Belgrade (RS)

2017    Master’s degree in the studio of Nina Childress, École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Nancy (FR)

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS  

solo

2025    final glimmer, first breath, Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna, Austria  2024 Echoes of Impermanence, WUK, Vienna (AU)  

2023    Radiant as the End of the World, Hestia, Belgrade (RS) 

2021    On the other side of the Sea, U10 ArtSpace, Belgrade (RS) 

group

2025    Velvet Morning, 24 Beaubourg, Paris (FR)

2025    Crooked Axis, VUNU Gallery, Bratislava (SK)