1989 @ Saint-Nazaire
lives in Paris

co-founder of The Cheapest University (2015 – ?)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Upcoming
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 (Paul Maheke) — 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

Upcoming
Systema, with Terzo Fronte — Marseille, France

2023
[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

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

CONFERENCES, TALKS & PANELS

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

PUBLICATIONS

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

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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