BIO:

2010 Bachelor degree sculpture at Royal Academy Antwerp.

2011 Master degree sculpture at Royal Academy Antwerp.

Currently living and working in Antwerp, Belgium.

For the past years since graduating as a master sculptor at the Royal Academy of Antwerp Florian Tomballe has mainly been focusing on finding his way through the figurative realm.

Both disciplined as a draughtsman and a sculptor he has made way from an archaic understanding of the figure to an accomplished classical approach, resulting in monumental full standing figures as well as the art of portraiture.

In more recent times this path has lead to a firm abstracted approach of our human form and its inhabiting world, the soul. It is in this that he finds most freedom, creativity and trust to grow.

CV:

Competitions

*De Grote Startprijs 2010 Antwerp, Belgium

1st public prize

*Camille huysmanswedstrijd 2010

selected for exhibition Extra City Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

*Mark Macken competition 2012, Antwerp, Belgium

2nd prize sculpture

Exhibitions

- Fred& friends MUHKA 2007, Antwerp, Belgium

- INHABIT 2010 Antwerp, Belgium

- RA13 gallery space 2011, Antwerp, Belgium

- Leerling/meester ( apprentice/master) expo1: Marleen Schouten 2011 Kunstpodium T, Tilburg, Netherlands

*Park05 expo 2011 Ekeren, Antwerp, Belgium

- MAGMA 2011, Antwerp, Belgium

- Mark Macken tentoonstelling 2012, Antwerp, Belgium

- Verbeke Foundation: master maquette 2012, Kemzeke, Belgium

- MAGMA 2012, Antwerp, Belgium

- Wintertuin KASKA 2013, Antwerp, Belgium

“First case scenario”

- Galerie Verbeek Van Dijck 2013, Antwerp, Belgium,

“First case scenario”

- Tomballe family groupshow 2017, Antwerp, Belgium

- Groupshow with Piet Raemdonck september 2017, Antwerp, Belgium

- Shiras Galería solo show, “Echoes”.

2018, Valencia, Spain