Events

Open studios

Atelier Reine Brunehaut at Modulo Atelier

Modulo Atelier, Béthencourt, Nord · October 3 and 4, 2026

For the regional open-studio weekend, Modulo Atelier showed the work of Kti Vandamme and Demeure, who founded the Atelier Reine Brunehaut: the artist’s books they made together, and two series of Demeure’s prints.

Exhibition

Peindre encore, peindre autrement

Galerie Commune, Tourcoing · September 19 to October 15, 2025

Group exhibition of about twenty painters trained at the art school in Tourcoing, where Demeure teaches painting.

Exhibition

Jardins d’Armide

Maison familiale d’Henri Matisse, Bohain-en-Vermandois, Aisne · May 21 to September 6, 2025

Solo exhibition in the house where Matisse grew up: large paintings in oil on canvas, with original linocuts and lithographs.

Radio

« Matisse illustrateur des poètes »

Radio Campus Lille, P(o)ètes mais pas les plombs ! · February 3, 2020

Matisse and the world of books and poetry: his work with the publishers Skira and Tériade and with Aragon, with poems and music that inspired him.

Radio

« Jean-Claude Demeure, un artiste nous guide dans l’œuvre de Matisse »

France Bleu Nord, Sur le bout de l’oreille · January 14, 2020

A portrait of one of the guides of the exhibition Devenir Matisse at the Musée Matisse in Le Cateau-Cambrésis.

Charity auction

Low Islets to Cape Flattery

Contribution to Un Trésor à la Carte, organized by SEAtizens with the auction house Millon

Artists turned nautical charts into works, auctioned to benefit SOS Méditerranée, the SNSM sea-rescue service and Navire Avenir. Demeure’s chart, made with the charity Watever, traces Captain Cook’s passage inside the Great Barrier Reef in 1770.

Exhibition and talk

Théâtre/Roman: Aragon conference

Maison Elsa Triolet–Aragon, Moulin de Villeneuve, Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines · May 24 and 25, 2013

A conference on Théâtre/Roman, Louis Aragon’s last novel, held 30 years after his death. Kti Vandamme and Demeure showed the artist’s book they made in dialogue with the text, with other books of theirs, including Aragon’s Le Con d’Irène, and talked with the public. Their work is on the cover of the conference proceedings, published by the Presses universitaires de Valenciennes.

Conference

Aragon et le Nord

University of Valenciennes, Villa Mont-Noir, Saint-Amand-les-Eaux and Musée Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambrésis · March 2 to 5, 2005

A four-day conference on Louis Aragon and the north of France. At the Villa Mont-Noir, Kti Vandamme and Demeure presented Aragon’s Le Con d’Irène, the book they made for the University of Valenciennes.

Exhibition

Poliphile et autres songes

Library of the École régionale supérieure d’expression plastique, Tourcoing

Joint exhibition with Kti Vandamme, named after Demeure’s book of woodcuts for the Songe de Poliphile, the Renaissance dream-romance.

Exhibition

Canopée

La Chambre d’eau, Le Favril, Nord · November 3 to 24, 2002

Group exhibition with Titi Bergèse, Erik Chevalier, Jean-Emmanuel Exbrayat, Benoît Ménéboo, Valérie Robbe and Kti Vandamme. Demeure showed Piégeurs de rosée (Dew traps), sculptures of chains, velvet and glass hung in the trees; Les larmes du ciel (Tears of the sky), an outdoor installation of glass dewdrops on plant stakes; and his book of woodcuts for the Songe de Poliphile, the Renaissance dream-romance.