82eliote BIO

Born in 1982 in The Hague, Netherlands

Lives and works in Marseille, France

Solo and group shows

Viens manger des chips 2, group show, Marseille, France, 2025

Wasteland Tunnel Rats, group show, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2024

Concrete Noir, solo show, Automat Space, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2022

Cassis Garden Art Show, live painting and auction, Cassis, France, 2022

Eliote&Esmo, duo show, Openbach Gallery, Paris, France, 2022

Cassis Garden Art Show, live painting and auction, Cassis, France, 2021

Papers Please, group show, Colab Gallery, Weil-am-Rhein, Germany, 2020

Local Heroes, group show, Musée Regards de Provence, Marseille, France, 2020

Denial, group show, Gama, Mexico city, Mexico, 2020

Mega Bomb, group show, Espace Destré, Marseille, France, 2020

Interstellaire, solo show, Studio H13, Lyon, France, 2019

Rudi-Ment, group show, Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, France, 2019

Eliote, solo show, Montanashop, Vienna, Austria, 2019

Sunny Side Up, group show, Fort de la Pointe Sainte-Marine, France, 2019

Methodology, group show, Martinez Gallery, New York, United States, 2018

Friends of Fine Vandalism, group show, Colab Gallery, Weil-am-Rhein, Germany, 2018

Murals

Automat Space, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2022

Polinizados festival, Valencia, Spain, 2020

Musée Regards de Provence, Marseille, France, 2020

La Gâche, Lyon, France, 2019

Mur XIII, Paris, France, 2019

Artazoï, Paris, France, 2019

Mur du Fond, La Cité des Arts de la rue, Marseille, France, 2019

Palma Festival, Caen, France, 2018

Articles and interviews

Gabari Magazine, France, 2023

Düstere Romantik, Luxemburger Wort, Luxemburg, 2022

Brutalism in black and white, interview with Eliote, mtn-world.com, 2020

Eliote-The mood of a piece, Urban Presents, by Katia Hermann, 2020

Visual Satiation : 82eliote, livetrigger.com, 2020

Where graffiti and abstraction meet, montana-cans.blog, 2019

Podpolie Magazine 04, Germany, 2019

Joia Magazine 55, Chile, 2018

Chemistry Magazine 08, Netherlands, 2017

Prints and zines

Wasteland Tunnel Rats, Stickit Publication, 2024

Transitions, Les Editions Comète, 2022

Interstellaire, Editions Studio H13, 2019

Sérigraphie Mur13, Editions Terrains Vagues, 2019

Lunaire, Eliote, Les Editions comète, 2019

Nébuleuse marseillaise, Eliote & Ishem, Les Editions comète, 2017

Sérigraphie Canal, Les Editions comète, 2017

Curator and workshops

Curator and artistic manager at Straat Galerie, Marseille, France, 2011-2018

Workshop on graffiti No Blazes, Rebel Rebel Festival, Marseille, France, 2015

Born in 1982 in The Netherlands, Eliote lives and works in Marseille where he does most of his paintings since 2003. In his writings he aims at creating an atmosphere by adding to his classic graffiti, shapes and lines which suggest brutalism architectures and misty landscapes. Inspired by an eerie environment composed of mountains, lightning and planets, his letters seem to fade into galactic compositions with a few outlines and simple spray techniques. The basis is always black and white, and the goal is to seek for the most efficiency in effects without using the multicolor palette of traditional graffiti.

“Eliote himself classifies his works into two categories: on the one hand the pieces, in which the letters remain clearly legible and contain a graffiti dynamic that is typical for style writing. On the other hand, he paints many pieces with abstracted letters that can only be guessed at as a hint in the picture, with thin strokes symbolizing bars or spheres for round shapes of letters. Eliote calls these kinds of pieces species landscapes. Using forms borrowed from nature, the writer creates formations that are structured and graphically well-thought-out. In some works, spheres remind us of planets, flat, wavy forms of clouds or puddles of water, angular surfaces with lines running through recall cracks, like split rocks. Some works contain a black and white grid in surfaces that are placed in such ways creating optical illusions and space and depth. Shadings add volume, creating additional materiality, masses, or even lightness to some surfaces.

Eliote also describes these abstract works as decorative, with a strangely futuristic mood, like floating ships, entities living on the wall. In his works, Eliote wants to achieve something cinematographic, to create a universe, where nature is reduced to cracked rock, standing under electric voltage, surrounded by distant planets without a trace of life. He is often looking to create a certain dynamic in these abstract-graphic pieces, and what can remain of a graffiti piece without a clear letter: paint on a wall, classic horizontal format of about 10 m length, a structured dynamic picture, a piece. He achieves this through the mass distribution of the individual imaginary letters of his name and a balance in the overall picture, which contains movement and energy.

In Marseille, Eliote is always looking for bare, untouched walls, mostly underground in the city’s sewers, which run for miles through the city. He uses acrylic paint and a small roller, because he especially appreciates the matte black of the wall paint, and the rougher appearance associated with it. At the end of a painted picture he still uses the spray can to achieve certain effects. His well-conceived graphic works are always created beforehand in the studio as sketches/drafts. Previously painted by hand, Eliote has been increasingly using programs for his drafts such as Photoshop since 2017. There he can use a photo of a previously selected spot as a background to incorporate a design on the computer. With this tool he can try out things beforehand, rotate forms, decompose, move shapes, or delete parts. In his compositions, he always seeks renewal with similar forms that are in balance, in order to create the energy, mood and impression of a graffiti piece in urban space. The proportions of a piece are adapted to the spot in the urban space and therefore he can calculate and simulate exactly before the action of painting.

Eliote’s working method consists of several stages: finding a place, photographically capturing the exact spot in its immediate surroundings, conceiving and simulating on the computer, and the execution on site. Sometimes he photographs different stages of a piece during the process, and this is how he came up with the idea of a GIF animation with one of his pieces. He then conceived some wall works especially for GIF animations, which he painted and photographed step by step, leading from a digital conception to an analog implementation for an animated and humorous digital presentation on Instagram.” (KATIA HERMANN)


	Born in 1982 in The Hague, Netherlands Lives and works in Marseille, France Solo and group shows Viens manger des chips 2, group show, Marseille, France, 2025 Wasteland Tunnel Rats, group show, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2024 Concrete Noir, solo show, Automat Space, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2022 Cassis Garden Art Show, live painting and auction, Cassis, France, 2022 Eliote&Esmo, duo show, Openbach Gallery, Paris, France, 2022 Cassis Garden Art Show, live painting and auction, Cassis, France, 2021 Papers Please, group show, Colab Gallery, Weil-am-Rhein, Germany, 2020 Local Heroes, group show, Musée Regards de Provence, Marseille, France, 2020 Denial, group show, Gama, Mexico city, Mexico, 2020 Mega Bomb, group show, Espace Destré, Marseille, France, 2020 Interstellaire, solo show, Studio H13, Lyon, France, 2019 Rudi-Ment, group show, Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, France, 2019 Eliote, solo show, Montanashop, Vienna, Austria, 2019 Sunny Side Up, group show, Fort de la Pointe Sainte-Marine, France, 2019 Methodology, group show, Martinez Gallery, New York, United States, 2018 Friends of Fine Vandalism, group show, Colab Gallery, Weil-am-Rhein, Germany, 2018 Murals Automat Space, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2022 Polinizados festival, Valencia, Spain, 2020 Musée Regards de Provence, Marseille, France, 2020 La Gâche, Lyon, France, 2019 Mur XIII, Paris, France, 2019 Artazoï, Paris, France, 2019 Mur du Fond, La Cité des Arts de la rue, Marseille, France, 2019 Palma Festival, Caen, France, 2018 Articles and interviews Gabari Magazine, France, 2023 Düstere Romantik, Luxemburger Wort, Luxemburg, 2022 Brutalism in black and white, interview with Eliote, mtn-world.com, 2020 Eliote-The mood of a piece, Urban Presents, by Katia Hermann, 2020 Visual Satiation : 82eliote, livetrigger.com, 2020 Where graffiti and abstraction meet, montana-cans.blog, 2019 Podpolie Magazine 04, Germany, 2019 Joia Magazine 55, Chile, 2018 Chemistry Magazine 08, Netherlands, 2017 Prints and zines Wasteland Tunnel Rats, Stickit Publication, 2024 Transitions, Les Editions Comète, 2022 Interstellaire, Editions Studio H13, 2019 Sérigraphie Mur13, Editions Terrains Vagues, 2019 Lunaire, Eliote, Les Editions comète, 2019 Nébuleuse marseillaise, Eliote & Ishem, Les Editions comète, 2017 Sérigraphie Canal, Les Editions comète, 2017 Curator and workshops Curator and artistic manager at Straat Galerie, Marseille, France, 2011-2018 Workshop on graffiti No Blazes, Rebel Rebel Festival, Marseille, France, 2015 Born in 1982 in The Netherlands, Eliote lives and works in Marseille where he does most of his paintings since 2003. In his writings he aims at creating an atmosphere by adding to his classic graffiti, shapes and lines which suggest brutalism architectures and misty landscapes. Inspired by an eerie environment composed of mountains, lightning and planets, his letters seem to fade into galactic compositions with a few outlines and simple spray techniques. The basis is always black and white, and the goal is to seek for the most efficiency in effects without using the multicolor palette of traditional graffiti. “Eliote himself classifies his works into two categories: on the one hand the pieces, in which the letters remain clearly legible and contain a graffiti dynamic that is typical for style writing. On the other hand, he paints many pieces with abstracted letters that can only be guessed at as a hint in the picture, with thin strokes symbolizing bars or spheres for round shapes of letters. Eliote calls these kinds of pieces species landscapes. Using forms borrowed from nature, the writer creates formations that are structured and graphically well-thought-out. In some works, spheres remind us of planets, flat, wavy forms of clouds or puddles of water, angular surfaces with lines running through recall cracks, like split rocks. Some works contain a black and white grid in surfaces that are placed in such ways creating optical illusions and space and depth. Shadings add volume, creating additional materiality, masses, or even lightness to some surfaces. Eliote also describes these abstract works as decorative, with a strangely futuristic mood, like floating ships, entities living on the wall. In his works, Eliote wants to achieve something cinematographic, to create a universe, where nature is reduced to cracked rock, standing under electric voltage, surrounded by distant planets without a trace of life. He is often looking to create a certain dynamic in these abstract-graphic pieces, and what can remain of a graffiti piece without a clear letter: paint on a wall, classic horizontal format of about 10 m length, a structured dynamic picture, a piece. He achieves this through the mass distribution of the individual imaginary letters of his name and a balance in the overall picture, which contains movement and energy. In Marseille, Eliote is always looking for bare, untouched walls, mostly underground in the city’s sewers, which run for miles through the city. He uses acrylic paint and a small roller, because he especially appreciates the matte black of the wall paint, and the rougher appearance associated with it. At the end of a painted picture he still uses the spray can to achieve certain effects. His well-conceived graphic works are always created beforehand in the studio as sketches/drafts. Previously painted by hand, Eliote has been increasingly using programs for his drafts such as Photoshop since 2017. There he can use a photo of a previously selected spot as a background to incorporate a design on the computer. With this tool he can try out things beforehand, rotate forms, decompose, move shapes, or delete parts. In his compositions, he always seeks renewal with similar forms that are in balance, in order to create the energy, mood and impression of a graffiti piece in urban space. The proportions of a piece are adapted to the spot in the urban space and therefore he can calculate and simulate exactly before the action of painting. Eliote’s working method consists of several stages: finding a place, photographically capturing the exact spot in its immediate surroundings, conceiving and simulating on the computer, and the execution on site. Sometimes he photographs different stages of a piece during the process, and this is how he came up with the idea of a GIF animation with one of his pieces. He then conceived some wall works especially for GIF animations, which he painted and photographed step by step, leading from a digital conception to an analog implementation for an animated and humorous digital presentation on Instagram.” (KATIA HERMANN)