Recent exhibitions include "Mbër Yi - The Wrestlers" at the Musée Ifan in Dakar in 2023, "Weaving Eternity" at the Grand Egyptian Museum in 2022, "Stoned Playin' Tawla" at Cairo Design Week in 2022, "Fresco" with La Maison Pierre Frey for the "Animals" at Sotheby's Paris in 2022. His work can be found in numerous private and public collections, including those of Christian Louboutin and many others.
His work has been published in T Magazine, Elle Deco, Financial Times, Wallpaper, Yatzer, AD France and more.
- Bachelor (Hons) in Fashion design at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London, 2012
- « Mbër Yi - The Wrestlers » solo show, December 2022 - Avril 2023, Musée IFAN, Dakar, Senegal
- « Weaving Eternity » group show with Kahhal Looms, December 2022, Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza, Egypt
- « Stoned Playin' Tawla » installation with Marmonil for Cairo Design Week, November 2022, Cairo, Egypt
- « Mbër Yi - The Wrestlers » solo show, September 2022, Zoumboulakis gallery, Athens, Greece
- Fresco created with La Maison Pierre Frey for the « Animals » sale, April 2022, Sotheby's, Paris, France
- « Cultural dialogue series », group show, September 2021, French Embassy, Cairo, Egypt
- « Resistance », group show, June 2021, That Really Cool studio, charity sales for the Egyptian Red Crescent, Cairo, Egypt
- « Reimagined memories », group show, March 2021, Ubuntu Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
- « Demain », group show, February 2021, La Galerie Solidaire, Paris, France
- « Love my way 2 », group show, November 2020, Villa Noailles, France
- « Creativity and Design », group show covered by T Magazine, February 2020, Riad Mena, Marrakech, Morocco
- « Rêveries », solo show, October 2019, Beit Hamra, Beirut, Lebanon
- « AD intérieurs », group show, September 2019, Hôtel de Coulanges, Paris, France
- 2023 - « Cairo Eternal » by Mai Eldib, Assouline, France
- 2023 - «Louis Barthelemy's tapestries capture the sublimity and dynamism is Senegalese wrestling », article written by Emeline Nsingi Nkosi, Wallpaper, UK
- 2022 - « Une croisière sur le Nil » illustrations commissioned for the book published by Voyageurs du Monde, France
- 2022 - « Best of Oasis » written by Gisela Williams, Financial Times HTSI, UK
- 2022 - « Fils du Nil » written by Soline Delos, ELLE Deco, France
- 2022 - « Parcours d'un amoureux de l'Égypte » written by Adeline Suard, Marie Claire, France
- 2022 - « Louis Barthelemy translates his inspired travels across the MENA into
- Art objects »written by Aravin Sandran, GQ Middle East, UAE
- 2022 - « Louis Barthelemy conjures the mystical universe of Senegalese wrestling through handcrafted tapestries » written by Eric David, YATZER, Greece
- 2022 - « We are moodboards » interview directed by Laura Taccari, Harper's Bazaar, Italy
- 2021 - « L'artisanat d'art » written by Cédric André Perrin, AD, France
- 2021 - « Egyptian Oasis » written by Coralie Kraft, T magazine, USA
- 2020 - « Winter Sun », series of tapestries for Kinfolk Magazine, issue 38, Denmark
- 2020 - « In another land », editorial shot by Sean Thomas, British Vogue, UK
- 2020 - « La creation renoue le fil avec la tapisserie » written by Johanna Seban, M le Monde, France
- 2019 - « Erotic Egyptian Tapestries », written by Gisela Williams, T magazine, USA