Deborah Bowmann is a collaborative artist persona formed by artists Amaury Daurel (b. 1990, Bordeaux) and Victor Delestre (b. 1989, Bordeaux). Working at the fringe of sculpture and set design, their practice spans curating exhibitions and producing sculptures, installations, and scenographic environments.

Deborah Bowmann develops alternative approaches to exhibition-making at the intersection of contemporary art and design, articulating a close relationship between studio practice and curatorial practice. For eight years, from 2015 until 2022, they ran an eponymous exhibition space in Brussels, where they directed and programmed more than 32 exhibitions, balancing solo presentations of their own work with collaborative projects involving numerous artists.

These exhibitions merged artistic production, exhibition-making, and scenography in the spirit of a Gesamtkunstwerk, drawing on détournements of domestic environments, bureaucratic settings, and commercial language, and operating within a service-oriented logic that moves between sculpture, design, and scenography. Within this context, authorship was frequently blurred, privileging the exhibition as a collective and spatial proposition.

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FRONT ROW is a monthly series of artist’s talks jointly organised by M HKA and NICC. Serving as an open format to artists – whether a talk, a presentation of an idea, a lecture performance – the programme offers the opportunity to reflect on art, culture and society by some of the most thought-provoking artists practising today.