BIOGRAPHY >> go to: [top][biography][contact][represented by][current projects][recent projects][upcoming projects][downloads][mailinglist][press & images request][Global Demix Diary] Matthieu Laurette (born 1970 in Villeneuve Saint Georges, France) is a media and conceptual contemporary French artist who works in a variety of media, from TV and video to installation and public interventions. Laurette uses various strategies to explore the relationships between conceptual art, Pop art, Institutional Critique, economics and contemporary society. His best known works are Apparitions (1993-ongoing), Money-back Products (Produits remboursés) (1991–2001), Citizenship Project (1996-ongoing), El Gran Trueque (2000) Déjà vu, The International Look-alike Conventions (2000-ongoing) and I AM AN ARTIST (1998-ongoing).
In 1993, Laurette declared himself an artist in a French TV gameshow called Tournez manège (The Dating Game). When the presenter asked him who he was he replied: 'A multimedia artist'. Laurette had sent out invitations to an art audience to view the show on TV from their homes.
Laurette's work has been shown in venues such as Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York (1998), the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (1999 & 2003), 49th Venice Biennale (2001), Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2001) Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (2002), Artsonje Center, Seoul (2002), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2003 & 2006), Biennal de Pontevedra (2004), P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center/MoMA, N.Y (2005), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2005), Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris (2005), Kunsthalle & Kunstforum, Vienna (2005), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2006), MNAM-Centre Pompidou, Paris, (1997, 2000, 2004, 2007 & 2009).
In 2003 he received the Ricard Prize for the most representative artist under 40 y.o. within the French scene. (more)
TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS 8 February - 24 March 2013
with Iván Argote, Esteban Rivera, Matthieu Laurette, Nicolás Leguizamon, María Angélica Madero, Adriana Martínez Mariana Murcia, María Paola Sánchez & Juan Peláez.
a project curated by MIAMI
> MUSEO LA TERTULIA
Cali, Colombia
MATTHIEU LAURETTE DOES GANGNAM STYLE After Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor, Matthieu Laurette also made his own cover of PSY's Gangnam Style!
NEW MEDIA COLLECTION curently on display in New Media permanent collection: "Apparitions (sélection 93-95)"(1995), "Apparition: J'y crois j'y crois pas"(1996), and "Apparition Je passe à la télé"(1996)
> CENTRE POMPIDOU
Musée National d'art Moderne
Collections Nouveaux Medias www.centrepompidou.fr
MATTHIEU LAURETTE: THINGS
1 January 2010 - 1 January 2020
an ongoing curated collection of 'things' sponsored by collectors for Matthieu Laurette's GLOBAL DEMIX STUDIO in Paris.
MATTHIEU LAURETTE: TROPICALIZE ME!
2010 / on going
A project by Matthieu Laurette with the collaboration of Camo Aguillera, Julieta Aranda,Ivan Argote, Felipe Arturo, Pablo Leon de la Barra, Carlos Bonil, Miguel Calderon, Francisco Camacho, Adriana Castro, Carolina Caycedo, Arturo Duclos, Julieta Gonzalez, Inti Guerrero, Kati Hernandez, Adriana Lara, Andres Roberto Londono, Catalina Lozano, Oliver Martinez Kandt, Beatriz Lopez, Maria Ines Rodriguez, Veronica Romano, Carlos Maria Romero, Hernan Salamanco, Tetine (Bruno Verner & Eli Mejorado), Juan Tessi, Natalia Valencia, Maria Wils…
(List ongoing/in formation)
> Bogota, Mexico, Buenos Aires, Rio, Sao Paulo, Guatemala City... www.lacentral.com.co
24-25-26 March 2013
Symposium with Yto Barada, Catherine David, Ali Eassafi, Simohammad Fettaka, Héléne Fleckinger, Frank Georgi, Guillaume Le Gall, Omar Mahfoudi, Zahia Rahmani, Stefano Savona, Bruno Serralongue, Christine Van Assche, Dork Zabunyan...
Curated by Stéphanie Jamet-Chavigny, Matthieu Laurette and Phillipe Terrier-Hermann.
23 March - 5 April 2013
workshop/residency with students and artists from ISBA - Institut Supérieur des Beaux Arts (Besançon, France), INBA - Institut National des Beaux-Arts (Tétouan, Morocco), La Cambre - Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels (Brussels, Belgium) and HEAD - Haute Ecole d'Art et de Design (Geneva, Switzerland)
> CINEMATHEQUE DE TANGER
Cinema Rif - Place du 9 avril
Grand Socco, 90 000 Tanger
Moroco www.cinemathequedetanger.com
BOURGEOIS LEFTOVERS 20 April — 16 June 2013
Opening: 19 April 6:00 pm curated by Curatorial Programme 2013 :Karima Boudou (1987, France/ Marocco), Kari Cwynar (1985, Canada), Angela Jerardi (1979, United States), Srajana Kaikini (1986, India), Florencia Portocarrero (1981, Peru) and Alexandra Stock (1982, United States).
> DE APPEL Arts Centre
Prins Hendrikkade 142
1011 AT Amsterdam
T +31 (0)20 6255 651 www.deappel.nl
CURRENT VALUES (postponed mid 2013)
lecture and panel discussion
guest tba
> TENT
Witte de Withstraat 50
3012BR Rotterdam
The Netherlands www.tentrotterdam.nl
LES ARCHIPELS REINVENTES 2 : PRIX FONDATION D'ENTREPRISE RICARD 28 June - 22 September 2013
opening 27 June 2013, 6:30
group show with Boris Achour, Christophe Berdaguer, Katinka Bock, Isabelle Cornaro, Loris Gréaud, Vincent Lamouroux, Matthieu Laurette, Natacha Lesueur, Benoît Maire, Didier Marcel, Adrien Missika, Marie Péjus, Tatiana Trouvé, Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille, Raphaël Zarka.
curated by Emma Lavigne.
> CENTRE DE LA VIEILLE CHARITE
2 Rue De la Vieille Charité
13002 Marseille, France
"BIENNIAL CATALOGUE : BEHOLD THE TANGIBLE 2013 with Brian Dillon, Mariana Castillo Deball, Yael Davids, Gintaras Didziapetris, Chris Fitzpatrick and Post Brothers, Pablo Helguera, John Holten, Gabriel Lester, Via Lewandowsky, Marcos Luytens, Erik Niedling, Warren Neidich, Pedro Reyes, Reynold Reynolds, Superflex, Akram Zaatari...
curated by Weronika Trojanska
(more info tba)
> No time, no physical space
MATTHIEU LAURETTE: TROPICALIZE ME!
2010 / on going
A project by Matthieu Laurette with the collaboration of Camo Aguillera, Julieta Aranda, Ivan Argote, Felipe Arturo, Pablo Leon de la Barra, Carlos Bonil, Miguel Calderon, Francisco Camacho, Adriana Castro, Carolina Caycedo, Arturo Duclos, Julieta Gonzalez, Inti Guerrero, Kati Hernandez, Adriana Lara, Andres Roberto Londono, Catalina Lozano, Oliver Martinez Kandt, Beatriz Lopez, Cristina Ricupero, Maria Ines Rodriguez, Veronica Romano, Carlos Maria Romero, Hernan Salamanco, Tetine (Bruno Verner & Eli Mejorado), Juan Tessi, Natalia Valencia, Maria Wils…
(List ongoing/in formation).
> Bogota, Mexico, Buenos Aires, Rio, Sao Paulo, Guatemala City (more city TBC)... www.lacentral.com.co
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ART & ARGENT, LIAISONS DANGEREUSES
12 July 2011 - 31 December 2012
Group show with Allora & Calzadilla, Teresa Aninat & Catalina Swinburn, Arman, Fikret Atay, Ben, Joseph Beuys, Sophie Calle, Claude Closky, Marcel Duchamp, Tracey Emin, Gary Hill, Damien Hirst, Yves Klein, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Matthieu Laurette, Cildo Meireless, Gianni Motti, Orlan, Philippe Perrin, Richard Prince, Peter Saul, Tino Sehgal, Société Réaliste, Philippe Starck, Wolf Vostell, Andy Warhol...
curated by Sébastien Gokalp
MIND THE SYSTEM, FIND THE GAP 1 June - 30 September 2012
Group show with Agency (INT), Atelier Van Lieshout (NL), Shigeo Anzaï (JP), Yto Barrada (FR/MA), Heath Bunting (GB), Jordi Colomer (ES), Minerva Cuevas (MX), Jaime Davidovich (AR/US), Elmgreen & Dragset (DK/N), Leandro Erlich (AR), Dora García (ES), Simon Gush (ZA), Christiane Högner (D/BE), Anne Holtrop (NL), Matthieu Laurette (FR), Minouk Lim (KOR), Jill Magid (US), Gordon Matta-Clark (US), Tadashi Kawamata (JP), Ahmet Ö?üt (TU), Karl Philips (BE), Julien Previeux (FR), Esther Stocker (IT), Sebastian Stumpf (D), Stephanie Syjuco (US), Pilvi Takala (FI/NL), Pablo Valbuena (ES), Stijn Van Dorpe (BE), Benjamin Verdonck (BE), Katleen Vermeir (BE), The Yes Men (US), Carey Young (US/GB)
Curated by Karen Verschooren, Ils Huygens, Evelien Bracke
> Z33 - HOUSE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
Zuivelmarkt 33
B-3500 Hasselt, Belgium www.z33.be/en
SITUATION(S) [48°47'33'' N / 2°23'16'' E] 29 June - 16 September 2012
Group show with Johanna Billing, Jakob Gautel, Clarisse Hahn, Matthieu Laurette, Marcello Maloberti, Melanie Manchot, Aleksandra Mir, Frédéric Nauczyciel, Marylène Negro, Tsuneko Taniuchi
curated by Frank Lamy
> MAC/VAL, Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne
Place de la Libération
BP147
F 94404 Vitry-sur-Seine Cedex
+33 (0)1 43 91 14 66 www.macval.fr
STRIKE ANYSPACEWHATEVER TRADING
August 11-27, 2012
Group show with Assume Vivid Astro Focus / Lee Aguinaldo / Wimo Bayang / Anat Ben-David / Chicks on Speed / Heman Chong / Ade Darmawan / Juan Pablo Echeverri / Susan Gibb / Agung Hujatnikajennong / Anders Kreuger / Adria Julia / Sonja Laban I & II / Robert Langenegger / Matthieu Laurette / Julio Carlos Morales / Roger Mc Donald / Wiyoga Muhardanto / Adriano Pedrosa / Caterina Riva / Jordan Wolfson / June Yap with Boris Groys
curated by Yason Banal
> FINALE GALLERY
Warehouse 17, La Fuerza Compound, 2241 Pasong Tamo,
Makati City (across Philippine School for Interior Design)
Philippines
Matthieu laurette presents
TAPIS ROUGE 4 (PHOTOCALL NUIT DES MUSEES - MAC/VAL) 19 May 2012
Solo project curated by Frank Lamy
> MAC/VAL, Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne
Place de la Libération
BP147
F 94404 Vitry-sur-Seine Cedex
+33 (0)1 43 91 14 66
www.macval.fr
MARTA 'CHE' TRABA Opening 19 Mayo 2012, 9PM
an exhibition/research under process curated by Pablo León de la Barra and Beatriz López for La Ene.
with works by:
Avianca, Galería Daniel Morón, Nicolás Gómez, Roberto Jacoby, Scott King, Runo Lagomarsino, Matthieu Laurette, Juan David Lazerna, Alberto Lezaca, Aleksandra Mir, María Isabel Rueda
y Marta Traba misma
and publications on Marta Traba by:
Julieta González and Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy
With the support of La Central, Bogota and el Centro de la Revolución Estética.
> LA ENE
Nuevo Museo Energia de Arte Contemporaneo
Santa Fe 2729, 1er piso #34, Buenos Aires, Argentina. www.laene.org
FLASH IN THE STAR
3 May 2012
Group show with B-Lo, Juan Haag, Francisco Camacho, Karen Biswell, Karl Ashcroft, Mario Llanos, Mateo Rivano, Matthieu Laurette, Paulo Licona, Próspero Carbonell, Robertson Buitrago, Sergio Vega, Sylvie Boutiq curated by Juan Haag.
> Pojectos/Sauna @ Desbordes,
Bogota, Colombia
MATTHIEU LAURETTE: DEMANDS & SUPPLIES 2 February - 6 April 2012
solo show
opening: Thursday, 2nd February 2012, 6pm to 9pm
> GAUDEL DE STAMPA
3, rue de Vaucouleurs
75011 Paris, France
T +33 1 40 21 37 38 www.gaudeldestampa.com
"TRACTS!" 5 January - 18 February 2012
Group show with Eric Andersen, Les artistes heureux, Jean-François Bergez, Olivier Blanckart, Christian Boltanski, James Lee Byars, Philippe Cazal, Dada, Dayly Bul, Peter di Stefano, Marcel Duchamp, Dector & Dupuy, Harmen de Hoop, Ernest T, Fred Forest, Antonio Gallego, Paul-Armand Gette, Camille Goemans, Gran Fury, Groupe 70, Ben Kinmont, Matthieu Laurette, Marcel Lecomte, Stéphane Le Mercier, Serge Le Squer, Tracts Lettriste, Laurent Marissal, Roberto Martinez, Jean-Christophe Massinon, Maurizio Nannucci, Paul Nougé, Olivier Nourrisson, Péril Gris, Vincent Perrotet, Estelle Pianet, Presence Panchounette, Taroop & Glabel, Jean Tinguely, Jean Toche, Tracts Situationistes, Support Surface, Tracts Surréalistes, Untel, Ben Vautier, Eric Watier, and more...
> Cabinet du livre d'artiste,
Université Rennes 2,
Rennes, France
TROPICAL HANGOVER
20-24 octobre 2011
Curated by Octavio aAya
individual projects by Alexander Apóstol, Jonathas de Andrade, Alberto Baraya, Carolina Caycedo, Felipe Cortés, Simón Fujiwara and Matthieu Laurette.
SPECTERS OF THE NINETIES
10 september – 20 november 2011
Curated by Lisette Smits & Matthieu Laurette
Selected works, reconstructions, reenactments, documents and other archival material from the period 1989-2000 by Art Club 2000, Sadie Benning, Bernadette Corporation, Plamen Dejanov & Swetlana Heger, Jeremy Deller, Stephan Dillemuth en Hans-Christian Dany, Maria Eichhorn, Annika Eriksson, Andrea Fraser, Rainer Ganahl, Renée Green, Jens Haaning, Pierre Huyghe, Karen Kilimnik, Ben Kinmont, Job Koelewijn, Renée Kool, Aleksandra Mir, Regina Müller, N55, Marylène Negro-Klaus Scherübel, Laurie Parsons, Asier Pérez, Dan Peterman, Hinrich Sachs, Joe Scanlan, Tilo Schulz, Superflex, Apolonija Sustersic, Barbara Visser, Carey Young.
> MARRES
Maastricht, The Netherlands
www.marres.org
LIVING AS FORM
23 September - 16 October 2011
An unprecedented international exhibition exploring over 20 years of cultural works that blur the forms of art and everyday life, and emphasize participation, dialogue, and community engagement. The exhibition—curated by Nato Thompson—will take place September 23–October 16, and will provide a broad look at a vast array of socially engaged practices that appear with increasing regularity in fields ranging from theater to activism, and urban planning to visual art. Living as Form will bring together 25 curators, document over 100 artists' projects in a large-scale survey exhibition at the historic Essex Street Market building, and create six new commissions in the surrounding neighborhood. In addition, a dynamic online archive of over 400 socially engaged projects is being developed, along with a book to further an understanding of the breadth and complexity of this field. Curatorial advisors include Caron Atlas, Negar Azimi, Ron Bechet, Claire Bishop, Brett Bloom, Rashida Bumbray, Carolina Caycedo, Ana Paula Cohen, Common Room, Teddy Cruz, Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, Gridthiya Gaweewong, Hou Hanru, Stephen Hobbs and Marcus Neustetter, Shannon Jackson, Maria Lind, Chus Martínez, Sina Najafi, Marion von Osten, Ted Purves, Raqs Media Collective, Gregory Sholette, Superflex, Christine Tohme, Bik Van der Pol, and Sue Bell Yank
ON STRANGER TIDES
31 May - 24 July 2011
Group show with Simon Ripoll-Hurier, Claire Fouquet, Harmonie Bénard, Pierre Antoine, Benjamin Bonaventure, Matthieu Laurette, Aurélien Gamboni, Iris Touliatou, Lucas Morin, Catherine Schwartz.
Curated by Simon Ripoll-Hurier
> Maison des Arts
Grand-Quevilly, France
BETTER BEING A VIRUS THAN CATCHING A COLD
24 May - 25 June 2011
Group show with Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Fayçal Baghriche, Julien Berthier, Igor and Ivan Buharov, Francisco Camacho, Matthieu Clainchard, Wim Delvoye, Réka Kinga Papp, Matthieu Laurette, Frédéric Pradeau, Julien Prévieux, Gruppo Tökmag, SZAF (Miklós Mécs et Judit Fisher).
Curated by Isabelle Le Normand
THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FICTIONAL ARTISTS + THE ADDITION BOOK TOUR presented by Kunstverein and de Appel
With contributions by Alan Abel, Antinomian Press, Bik Van der Pol, Michael Blum, Heman Chong, George Cup & Steve Elliott, Keren Cytter, Chris Evans (i.c.w. Will Bradley & Tirdad Zolghadr), Ryan Gander, Gruppo Parole e Immagini, Will Holder, John Fare Estate, K.D., Matthieu Laurette, Gabriel Lester, Benoît Maire, Oscar Neuestern, Adam Pendleton, Michael Portnoy & Olivier Sudden, Roee Rosen, Alexandre Singh, Uqbar Foundation, Barbara Visser
Edited by Krist Gruijthuijsen
First published nearly a decade ago, and now translated into English for the first time, The Encyclopedia of Fictional Artists is a project by author and editor Koen Brams, for which he commissioned and compiled an anthology of imaginary biographies based on the numerous artists invented by writers across the centuries, from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the present. The Addition is Krist Gruijthuijsen’s editorial answer to the Encyclopedia, in which he invited more than 20 artists to reflect on the aspirations and ideals of encyclopedias by autonomously deconstructing the notion of fiction.
Over the course of two hours, the audience is invited to book a private meeting with the Encyclopedia’s ‘spokesman’.
6 February 2011
14.00 – 16.00 > AMBASSADE HOTEL
Herengracht 341, Amsterdam, The Netherlands www.kunstverein.nl
ART OF THE LOOM 6 February - 10 April 2011
With Stephan Balkenhol, Sergey Bratkov, Tony Cragg, Jan De Cock, Stefaan Dheedene, Jan Fabre, Günther Förg, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Thomas Lange, Matthieu Laurette, Josef Felix Müller, Panamarenko, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven and Koen Vanmechelen. > DEWEER GALLERY
Tiegemstraat 6
B - 8553 Otegem, Belgium.
T +32 56.644893 www.deweergallery.com www.artoftheloom.com
CITIZENSHIP PROJECT / F.Y.I (For Your Information) as part ofCYCLE ABDELMALEK SAYAD
with Abdelhafid Hammouche and Matthieu Laurette
20 February 2011
2:00 pm
> CENTRE CULTUREL FRANCAIS
112 rue Larbi Ben M’hidi
31009 - Oran, Algeria www.ccf-oran.com
APPARITION: SILENCE ÇA POUSSE - PAS DE PANIQUE CHEZ MATTHIEU, FRANCE 5
Mercredi 19 Janvier 2011, 21h25 / Wednesday 19 January 2011, 9:25 pm (GMT +01:00 - Paris)
Samedi 22 janvier, 10h30 / Saturday 19 January 2011, 10:30 am (GMT +01:00 - Paris)
Dimanche 23 janvier, 7h25 / Sunday 19 January 2011, 7:25 am (GMT +01:00 - Paris)
L'ART AU TAPIS / SPREAD OUT THE CARPET
Group show with rugs by Tony Cragg, Jan De Cock, Jan Fabre, Günter Förg, Matthieu Laurette and Ilya et Emilia Kabakov.
11 January - 29 January 2011
> GALERIE ALINE VIDAL
70 rue Bonaparte 75006 Paris, France www.alinevidal.com
Download here: Matthieu Laurette, COMMODITIES featuring Jeff Koons, Robert Ryman and Andy Warhol.
Exh. cat. 24 pages, colour
2004, ed. Deweer Art Gallery (Otegem). PDF File size : 9,2 mo (High resolution)
Download here: Matthieu Laurette. Free Sample Demix. Essay by Alexis Vaillant; documentation of works 1993-1998; biography; exhibition chronology; bibliography. ed. 1000, not numbered..
Artist publication / Exh. cat. 96 pages, colour / Black & White
1998, ed. Galerie Jousse Seguin (Paris). PDF File size : 45,9 mo (High resolution)
BIOGRAPHY >> go to: [top][biography][contact][represented by][current projects][recent projects][upcoming projects][downloads][mailinglist][press & images request][Global Demix Diary]
Matthieu Laurette (born 1970 in Villeneuve Saint Georges, France) is a media and conceptual contemporary French artist who works in a variety of media, from TV and video to installation and public interventions. Laurette uses various strategies to explore the relationships between conceptual art, Pop art, Institutional Critique, economics and contemporary society. His best known works are Apparitions (1993-ongoing), Money-back Products (Produits remboursés) (1991–2001), Citizenship Project (1996-ongoing), El Gran Trueque (2000) Déjà vu, The International Look-alike Conventions (2000-ongoing) and I AM AN ARTIST (1998-ongoing).
PDF File size : 16,6 mo (High resolution)