Visual artist

Visual artist teaching photography and cinema, Valerie Berteau began her journey as a photojournalist and documentary filmmaker.
Her work relates to connections, the links between the territory, the body, the environment, with a particular sensitivity for gestures and materials.

Artiste plasticienne, professeure de photographie et de cinéma, Valérie Berteau a commencé son parcours comme photojournaliste et réalisatrice de documentaires. Son travail artistique interroge les connexions, les liens entre l’homme, le territoire, le corps, l’environnement, avec une sensibilité particulière pour les gestes et la matière.

Exhibitions

1

March-April 2025

Marcel Mariën s'entoure de
Valérie Berteau - Louise Brodsky - Emelyne Duval - Phil Van Duyn - Sofie Vangor
2

November 2024

TOPO with Mario Ferretti
3

October 2024

Ateliers ouverts at TAF - Blc
4

December 2023

Silentscapes at Château d'Eau. Brussels
5

June 2023

RIVES at We Insist Brussels
6

December 2022

DERIVES at La cinquième porte. Bruxelles
7

November 2022

Territoires - Chateau de Bioul
8

October 2022

VERT- La Nave Va
9

June 2022

L'EAU NOIRE. Residency with Didier Leemans
10

September 2021

Solo Exhibition "Passages" at Ygal Gabay
11

October 2021

Exhibition on La Nave Va with Sophie Retif
12

June 2017

Exhibition with Marie-Pierre Deltombe - Parcours d'artiste de Linkebeek
13

October 2016

Collective exhibition - Maison des arts d'Uccle
14

June 2015

Solo exhibition- parcours d'artistes Uccle
15

April 2009

LABELLE exhibition of creative talents
16

June-September 2008

Galerie du levant, Porto Vecchio, Corse.
17

November-December 2007

Exposition-installation de Golden Kitchen au MOMA, Museum of Modern ART, New YORK
Exposition collective dans le cadre du Prix Hamesse, Maison Pelgrims, Bruxelles.
Exposition collective, dans le cadre du Prix Fernand Dumeunier, BPS 22, Charleroi.
Intermezzo III, exposition rétrospective Winterkleuren, Amart Gallery, Bruxelles.
Intermezzo III, retrospective Winterkleuren, Amart Gallery, Brussels.
18

October 2006

Motions, with designer Alain Berteau,Espace Vange, Liège.
Prix Lambert Lecrénier, galerie Juvénale, Huy.
19

September 2006

Art’Contest,galerie Art22, Brussels.
20

June-July 2006

Intermezzo II, Amart galery.
21

May 2006

Salon de mai 2006, Maison communale de Saint-Gilles, prix Patrick Lecomte de la Fondation Hamesse
Age Galery, Sart Bernard
22

December 2005

Winterkleuren 2005, Maison Pelgrims, Brussels
23

June 2005

In between, at galerie Bortier, Brussels.
24

March - may 2003

“Chronique du temps présent” at Usage Externe. Brussels. Curator: Georges Vercheval
25

June 2001

“Le plein de vie”, National Theater, Brussels. Curator: Alain d’Hooghe
26

January 99

Galerie Ester Woerdehoff, Paris, Granted Agfa contest 98.
27

March 98

“Places of life, European award for women photographers”, Toscany
28

Jan - Feb 98

La Médiatine. Brussels.
29

Juin 96

Exposition collective au Gallery, lauréate du concours de l’a.s.b.l Imag’Emergence. Bruxelles.
30

June 96

Gallery, Brussels.
31

November 96

DESACORPS, Brussels.
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May 96

“propositions d’artistes” at l’espace photographique Contretype. Brussels.

Filmography

1

Work in progress

You have a match - fiction
2

work in progress

De là-bas. Documentary women travelogue
3

2013

"Himself He cooks" photography book and DVD
4

2011

Himself He cooks, 65’ documentary. (with Philippe Witjes)
screened in more than 50 festivals.
Nine awards.
5

2010

SA RE GA, 54’ documentary.
screened in about 10 festivals.
One award
6

2009

Video portraits for «Not just numbers» (with Philippe Witjes)
Part of the IOM & UNHCR collabotration project about refugees stories.
7

2005

Golden Kitchen. 5’ documentary essay (with Philippe Witjes)
screened in more than 30 festivals