Current Exhibition
Richard Bilan – Dreaming in Color
23.2.25 - 20.4.25
We invite you to Richard Bilan’s solo exhibition at the Engel Gallery, where we are displaying a variety of artworks by the artist from the gallery’s collection.
Bilan is a storyteller. In his paintings, he moves between formal compositions and colorful figures. He creates complex scenes in which high-rise buildings form a backdrop for gracefully moving figures – clowns, dancers, and runners.
Bilan combines a wide palette of hues and colors in a celebration of abstraction and expressiveness on canvas and board.
Richard Bilan was born in Poland in 1946 to Holocaust survivors. His father died at a young age and his mother was frequently hospitalized in psychiatric institutions. Bilan spent his childhood homeless, wandering the streets of Poland, befriending gypsies, vagabonds and circus performers, who would later become an integral part of his work. after some years he was captured and placed in an orphanage.
In 1969, he immigrated to Israel by himself and settled in Kibbutz Ma’agan Michael, joined the army and later completed his art studies at Bezalel. According to him, the greatest influence on his life was his teacher, the engraver Yaakov Pines.
After his studies at Bezalel, Bilan won an honors scholarship and came to Paris to continue his studies at the National School. After a few years, he settled in Paris with his new family.
Richard Bilan has lived and created for forty years between France, Poland and Israel.
