FELIX ROULIN

BIO FELIX ROULIN

Félix Roulin was born on August 21, 1931 in Dinant, Belgium.

First a student, then a professor at the School of Arts of Maredsous, professor of Art of Metal, followed by being professor of Sculpture at the Higher Institute of Architecture and Visual Art of the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de La Cambre from 1962 to 1996, he was in 1961 Laureate of the Young Belgian Sculpture Prize, the laureate of the Paris Biennale where he receives the price of the Rodin Museum.

Felix exhibited around the world, including the Paris Biennale in 1966, at the Sao Paulo Biennial in 1967, at the Middelheim Biennial in 1974... The main personal exhibitions are at the Anderson Gallery. Mayer in Paris in 1965, at the Palace of Fine Arts in Brussels in 1971, at the Fred Lanzenberg Gallery in Brussels in 1977 at the Saint-Georges Museum in Liège. In 1979, Lagalie Prétée in Paris in 1986, at Space Partners in Hamois in 1990, in Dinant in 1994, Louvain-la-Neuve in 95, 97, 99, Nivelles in 1997, in the Priory of Anseremme in 1998, Freÿr, near Dinant, in 2000, at the Cap d'Art gallery in Genval, in 2003.

Félix Roulin’s work is visible in public spaces, particularly in Namur (1966), Ronquières (1967), Lesselors (1972), doors at Grand Hornu (1973), a wall sculpture at the Wallonia-Brussels Center in Paris (1979), sculptures in Gerpinnes (1980), in Liège at Sart Tilman Park (1981).

Achievements in the most recent public spaces are visible in Dinant (1994), Namur (1995), Tilly and Louvain-la-Neuve (1996), at the Theater of the Martyrs Place in Brussels (1998), in Moncton (New Brunswig, Canada) (1999), the Millennium Arche in Andenne, in 2001.