1989 @ Saint-Nazaire
lives in Paris

co-founder of The Cheapest University (2015–2021)
and Ultralocal (2010-2015)

EXHIB.

2023/24
La poursuite – Capc Bordeaux, France

2022
Hôtel des 3 collèges – Terzo Fronte, Athens, Greece

2021
The Magician’s Sleeve – Terzo Fronte, Rome, Italy
La fuite et l’enveloppe – Treignac Projet, Treignac, France

PERFORMANCES

2017
A Domestic Medicine – La Manutention, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

2016
Like a Flag within a Frame – Live Works, Centrale Fies, Dro, Italy

2015
Neglected Verticals – Nouveau Festival, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

2014
How You Could Have Become a B.A.S.E Jumper – Exo, Paris, France

GROUP SHOWS

2024
Artorama, with Terzo Fronte – Marseille, France

2023
Cocotte stickers – Cocotte, Paris, France
Systema, with Terzo Fronte – Marseille, France
[Embed] – Beaux arts de St Brieuc, France

2022
Sous le velours noir des paupières – FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême, France
Paris Internationale × CNAP – Paris, France
Lapin-Canard × Terzo Fronte – Rome, Italy

2021
Le Club du Poisson Lune – Capc Bordeaux, France

2020
Salon de Normandy by The Community – Normandy Hotel, Paris, France
Your Friends and Neighbors – High Art, Paris, France

2019
Let’s Play House – Treignac Projet, France – The Cheapest University

2018
Synonymie ambiante – FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille, France

2016
L’Ermite au blazer raisin – Monstrare Camp – Chapelle de Thouars Art Center, France
Attempting to Fly as Good as Flying – Mosquito Coast Factory, Campbon, France

2015
ODRADEK – Instants Chavirés, Montreuil, France

2013
After the Future – Museo d’arte contemporanea Villa Croce, Genova, Italy
Sous nos yeux – Kunsthalle, Mulhouse, France – LMDP

2012
Le Dos du Désert – le Crédac, Centre d’Art d’Ivry, France

COLLECTIVE SITUATIONS

2021
Du reste qui est libre ? – Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden – LMDP
Treignac Projet, France – The Cheapest University

2020
[Redevenir vieux·lles] – Treignac Projet, France – The Cheapest University

2019
[EMBED] – Kassumay – ✚

2018
Pleasure of Missing Out – La sèche – la Salle de Bains, Lyon, France – The Cheapest University
How To Become a Lesbian – Treignac Projet, France – The Cheapest University
A Theory of Obscurity – Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck, Austria – The Cheapest University
No Commons Without Commoning – ERG, Brussels, Belgium – The Cheapest University

2017
What’s in My Bag…? – Paris Internationale – The Cheapest University
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The Long Love Letter, Paris, France – The Cheapest University

2016
L’école emportée – Treignac Projet, Treignac, France – The Cheapest University
Lesjöfors Samtida – Lesjöfors, Sweden – LMDP
Workshop Tranquille – Pornichet, France – The Cheapest University

2015
LMDP-MCDA – Ouled Ftata, Morocco – LMDP
Monstrare Camp #3 – Dampierre, France
Summer Reading Club – DATE + Treignac Projet, Treignac, France
Like I talk to you right now – Maison Rouge, Paris, France – with A Constructed World
Réconfort Moderne – Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France – LMDP

2014
Monstrare Camp #2 – Dampierre, France
Real World – Shanaynay + Treignac Projet, Treignac, France
LMDP-MCDA – Ouled Ftata, Morocco – LMDP
Totem – Recyclart, Brussels, Belgium – Ultralocal
Réconfort Moderne – Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France – LMDP

2013
Si nous continuons à nous parler le même language, nous allons reproduire la même histoire – Le Commissariat at Treize, Paris, France
Recettes / Ciboure – Basque Country, France – Ultralocal
Supermarket 2013 – Stockholm, Sweden – LMDP
Réconfort Moderne – Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France – LMDP

2012
Talweg (Prologue) – Rennes Biennale (OFF), Superstrat, France – Ultralocal
Domaine Public #2 – Pornichet, France – Ultralocal
Recettes / Val d’Isère – Alps, France – Ultralocal
La Régie – Superstrat, Rennes, France – Ultralocal

2011
L’Autre Moitié Du Paysage – with Claire Roudenko-Bertin & John Sundkivst – Suzhou, China
L’Autre Moitié Du Paysage – with Claire Roudenko-Bertin – Evento 2011, Bordeaux, France
Domaine Public #1 – Pornichet, France – Ultralocal
the fat moments (la pédagogie) – with franck leibovici – La Vitrine, Paris, France

AWARD

2016
Live Works Award – Centrale Fies, Dro, Italy – Jury: Marwa Arsanios, Charles Aubin, Aaron Cezar & Lorenzo Benedetti

COLLECTIONS

Capc Bordeaux
FRAC Poitou-Charentes

RESIDENCIES

2023
Treignac Projet, Treignac, France

2022
Terzo Fronte, Athens, Greece

2021
Terzo Fronte, Rome, Italy

2020
Treignac Projet, Treignac, France

2016-2017
The Cheapest University – Carreau du Temple, Paris, France

2017
a2410 – Rifugio CAI Luigi Brioschi, Grigna Settentrionale, Italy

2016
Live Works Residency – Centrale Fies, Dro, Italy
Mosquito Coast Factory – Campbon, France

2015
École des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France

2014
104 days of free falling – Rival Center, Sydney, Australia + New Zealand

2013
MaXter with Åbäke & Giorgio A. Calò – Museo d’arte contemporanea Villa Croce, Genova, Italy

2011
Villa Pan – Suzhou, China

GRANTS

2022
Fondation des Artistes

2015
Support for a collective project (The Cheapest University) – Beaux Arts de Nantes, France

2014
Support for an artistic research – Centre National des Arts Plastiques, France
Vanmélé with Pierre Michelon in French Guiana – DICREAM, Centre National Cinématographique, France

TALKS & PANELS

2024
Talk with Cédric Fauq  – Capc Bordeaux, France

2018
L’his­toire est pleine de gens qui n’ont juste pas –with Anne Boyer – Bétonsalon, Paris, France – The Cheapest University
ENSBA – Lyon, France
commUne – ESAD Reims, France

2017
Art & citoyenneté – FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France

2016
Pour parler de ma demeure, il me faut aussi parler de la demeure de l’autre (Lotte Arndt) – Villa Vassilieff, Paris, France
The Landscape as a Relief – Tallard DZ, France
Cheap Talks #0 – Villa Belleville, Paris, France

2015
Saving school before it seizes – Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France
Editathon Art+Feminism – Fondation Lafayette, Paris, France.

2012
Talweg (Prologue) – École Européenne Supérieure d’Art de Bretagne, Rennes, France
Pratiques collectives : entre désir d’autonomie et mises en proximité – BBB, Toulouse, France

PUBLICATION

2024
The Worst Caterpillar in the World – Edited by Capc Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux

CONTRIBUTIONS

2021
Pour une multiplication d’universités cheap, Multitudes #85
[EMBED] journal – aroundpress

2017
How To Become a Lesbian #0
– DQ Press, The Cheapest University

2016
Peeping Tom’s Digest: Paris – with A Constructed World

2014
Collectif Ultralocal – Strabic Magazine

2013
Genova Ventimiglia Genova – through Giorgio Andreotta Calò – Humboldt Books
Forward: Post-Stille – Holoholo

PRESS

2024
Fad Magazine – by Toby Upson
Zérodeux – by Georgia René-Worms

2019
Le Quotidien de l’art – by Pedro Morais – The Cheapest University

2018
Les Inrockuptibles – by Ingrid Luquet-Gad – The Cheapest University

2016
Live Works 2016 – ATP Diary

2014
Arts Magazine – by François Quintin

EDUCATION

2014
Assisted Free Fall, skydiving training program with S. Zunino – Tallard, France

2013
DNSEP – École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy, France

2011
DNAP – École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy, France

AN INDUSTRY

2016
DNSEP VAE jury, École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy, France

2013
illegal_cinema coordinator, Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, France

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