Thomas Renwart

Thomas Renwart (°1995) graduated in 2019 at LUCA School of Arts, gaining his master's in Textiles. Until 2021, he worked under the alias Les Monseigneurs; as of September 2021, he took on his birth name to continue his work as a textile artist. From there on, he developed a textile practice where crafts-ship and poetic depictions of a horticultural universe constantly meet. Starting with written matter, a world is built around it, carefully translated into tactile matter. Thomas' techniques are jacquard weaving, embroidery, quilting and digital printing. His weaving speciality is the Damask technique, where he delves into how this technique can grow. Monochromic weaving enhances his viewing experience. The visitor must honestly imagine the colour to completely grasp the image—a way of not taking things for granted.

Thomas Renwart has participated in several group shows in Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Germany and the USA. In 2020, he had a solo at Kunsthal Gent's Gilding The Lily, followed by a large installation as part of the 'Endless Exhibition'. In 2021, the artist was laureate of the Dorothy Waxman Prize 2021 by Parsons (NY, USA) and won two Henry Van De Velde awards for his work as a textile artist. In the same year his artist book ‘Comme si de rien n'était: Catalogue & Cahier Intime’ was published by MER. B&L. At the beginning of 2022, he had a solo in the Europe House (London, UK) by invitation of the Belgian Embassy, and later that year, the Flemish government acquired a work for the collection of the Flemish Community, which was given on loan to the Mu. Zee collection in Ostend. In December 2023, he will have a solo at Kunsthalle Lissabon.