Christian Satin

After returning to painting, Christian Satin exhibited his work at the Venta Gallery in Liège in 2014 as well as at the Expo Tempo Gallery in Knokke. The town of Liège and the Wallonia-Brussels Federation set up a major retrospective exhibition at the Grand Curtius Museum entitled: "Christian Satin: Painter and Architect" in March 2015.

Christian Satin was awarded the Urban Planning Prize of Liège in 1991 for the building Maréchal in Rue Cathédrale. In 1996, Satin was awarded the title Knight of the Order of the Crown by His Majesty King Albert II of Belgium. In 2015, Satin received the Bruggenbouwer award from the Institut royal des Élites du Travail, Belgium.

From the end of the 1960s and for the next forty-five years, Christian Satin was better known as an architect and as a professor. In 1973, he opened his architecture firm, AGE Engineering.

Christian Satin (born 1946) is a painter born in Brussels. He began painting with oil on canvas at age nine, first borrowing from impressionist techniques, going through a cubist period, before turning towards Surrealism. He started exhibiting and selling his early works as a teenager; this part of his career ended in 1966. His last exhibition was at the Gallery Piranèse together with three other young and upcoming artists. Satin gradually abandoned painting for architecture, partly because of André Breton's death, which seemed to mark the end of the Surrealist movement. He graduated in architecture in 1970 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Liège. After nearly fifty years without touching a paintbrush, Satin rejoined Surrealism in 2012, giving it a new form: Trans-realism.