Emily Kelly

Emily Kelly (b. 1997) is a Belgian artist based in Berlin, Germany. She is an alumna of The Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Antwerp, where she completed her master's degree in sculpture in 2021, earning the Sculpture Department Prize upon graduation.

She has exhibited her work in both Belgium and Germany and has participated in artist residencies at Atelier 34ZERO Muzeum in Brussels in 2019 and Culterim Gallery in Berlin/Brandenburg in both 2023 and 2024. Her solo exhibitions include Fluid Structure in Pinkie Bowtie, Plastic/Clastic in Art Partout gallery, Side by side expanding in a line in the artist run collective FAAR and Types of order are forms of thought in LifeisArt gallery, all in Antwerp, Belgium and the duo exhibition SEE YOU IN MY ROOM with Gonzalo Morales Leiva in the project space of GlogauAIR in Berlin, Germany.

Kelly explores the intersection of materialities, spaces and narratives in the realm of sculpture and site-specific installations, the emergence of a personal and political language.

Her practice is an intuitive pulse where the intertwining of natural and industrial elements enables the formation of hybrid constructions. Her body is a fundamental element, both in the creation through repetitive manual work, which evidences deviations and imperfections, contrasting the nature of the materials used, and in the modular creation of works that she can carry, assemble and disassemble.

In this logic, the body is a creative criterion that accounts for diversity in contact and its contradictions are necessary for the generation of new resistances and adaptations, as well as a state of constant alertness to a need for mobility.

IG: @kellyemilykelly

Sint-Jorispoort 23

2000 Antwerpen

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