Pauline Curnier Jardin 1980
Lives in Rome en Berlijn. Works in Rome en Berlijn.
Represented by:
Ellen de Bruijne Projects
Through drawing, performance, music, installation, and film, Pauline Curnier Jardin (b. 1980, Pertuis, France) crafts fictional adventures full of chance occurrences and wonders that nonetheless carry with them the potential for mishap or misfortune. Through lighting, color, texture, costume, soundtrack, and props, she creates transgressive, funny, and highly stylized visual settings that owe more to theater than to conventional narrative cinema. Curnier Jardin's stories reveal a fascination with monsters, decorative objects, and animals, although her work expresses a particular awareness of the roles women have played in mythology, folklore, and conventional narrative cinema, roles that are commonly stereotyped as saint, witch, mother, or mystic. Curnier Jardin supports a generous, intelligent, non-systematic vision of continuity between human and nonhuman bodies — humans consume dirt, cave walls dance, a pear is covered with hair. While humans take on animal qualities, things take on human traits, such as love and longing. Usually associated with femininity and passivity, she looks to passion—traditionally opposed to "masculine" reason—as primary to sensations, perceptions, and the subject's—or object's—potential for action. More broadly, her work confounds the logic that divides human and nonhuman, rationality and emotion, sacred and profane, ally and enemy, masculine and feminine, showing instead how each is capable of interacting and combining. By blending the sound and meaning of distinct words and mixing disparate ideas, characters, and environments, her work serves as a receptacle for new kinds of speech, new ways of using language, and new kinds of meaning. Her expansive "portmanteau" approach opens up possibilities for an alternative realm in which speaking is a fundamental fact about rocks and plants, animals and things, and where otherwise marginalized human voices, ethnicities, and desires have, in the words of filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger, "alternatives, possibilities, and the freedom to do wonderful things."
Text by Alise Upitis, MIT List Visual Center, February 2014
Text by Alise Upitis, MIT List Visual Center, February 2014
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NN Group Art Award 2018
Jury NN Group Art Award 2018
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In museum collection:
Centraal Museum Utrecht
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Frac-Ile-de-France-Le Plateau, Paris
Frans Hals Museum
FRAC du Limousin
The Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris
FRAC Bourgogne
FRAC Champagne - Ardenne / Le Collège
Centre National des Arts Plastiques
FRAC Provence - Alpes - Côte d'Azur
In corporate collection:
NN Group
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Pertuis, France, 1980
Lives and works in Amsterdam and Berlin
Solo shows
2019
Parties sans éteindre les lumières, Pauline Curnier Jardin & Marie Losier, Fondation Ricard pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris, FR
If I Can’t Dance I don’t want to be part of Your Revolution (feature film), Amsterdam NL
I still send you a lot of affection and I kiss you through my denture, 1646, The Hague, NL
2018
You think you are within me now, KRIEG, Hasselt, BE
Grotta Profunda, DenFrie, Copenhagen, DK
Sebastiano Blu, Thomaskerk Kunsten Program, curated by Dorothée Orczyk, NL
2017
Confort Moderne, Poitiers, FR
Ellen de Bruijne Projects Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2016
Le Granit, Scène Nationale de Belfort, FR
Theâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, Nanterre, FR
Dolores, Ellen de Bruijne Projects Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2015
“The Resurrection Plot” Performa Commission, Biennal Performa15, Pioneer Works, New-York, US
“Parade-bain-de-sang”, Soirées Nomades de la Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, FR
2014
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, US
Kulturtage festival & ZKM, Commission for the city of Karlsruhe, DE
Viola Melon, Baiser Melocoton 2, Galerie Edouard Manet, Gennevilliers, FR
2013
Viola Melon, Baiser Melocoton, PSM Gallery, Berlin, DE
Group shows, Screenings & Performances
2019
Hamburger Bahnhof, presentation nomineés for the Prize der National Galerie, Berlin, DE
Many swallows make a Summer (by Vdrome), Palazzo Grassi, Venice, IT
The emotional exhibition, Momentum Biennale, Moss, NO
Quetzal Art Centre, Quinta do Quetzal, Vidigueira, Portugal
2018
She Is The Future - An exhibition ignited by Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Kunstverein Langenhagen, D
Restless Matter, The Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, NL
Shelter. A contemporary intervention, Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht, NL
Double Feature, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, DE
Tattoo Sospir, Villa Santo Sospir, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, FR
Gaia in the Anthropocene, Garage Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL
Videoart at midnight, Berlin, DE
The fleshly school of poetry, Kunstraum D21, Leipzig, DE
Affinities or The Weight of Cinema, National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, Washington DC, US
2017
IFFR, Rotterdam, NL
Tate Modern, film screening, London, GB
Viva Arte Viva, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, IT
IDFA, film screening, Amsterdam, NL
2016
FIAC 2016 Film Program, Paris, FR
RijksOpen studio 2016, Rijksakademie Van Bilden den Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
Festival 100%, La Villette, Paris, FR
Ein Schelm, wer Böses dabei denkt, Künstlerhaus Bremen, DE
Art Köln, PSM Gallery, Cologne, DE
L’amiral cherche une maison à louer, MNAC, Bucarest, RO
Welcome to Caveland, Le Parvis, Tarbes, FR
Salon de Montrouge, performance program by Ami Barak for the Cabaret Voltaire’s birthday, Montrouge, FR
Knot-Knot, Flat deux. London, GB
2015
“The Blue Grey Wall” curated by Barbara Siriex, The Physics Room, Christchurch, NZ
l’Adresse, Printemps de Septembre à Toulouse, Toulouse, FR
“Unfold" The Volume Project curated by Sara Giannini, Amsterdam, NL
“Bataille” Far°/ Festival des arts vivants 2015, Nyon, CH
“Radical Software”, Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris, FR
Mexico film festival 2014, Mexico, MX
“Alfred Jarry Archipelago: La valse des pantins - acte I”, Le Quartier, centre d’art contemporain, Quimper, FR
Code Magazine, Episode 16, Middlemarch gallery, Brussels, BE
2014
Puerta, Bilbao, SP
Volume Project, 98 weeks gallery and Assabil Association, Beirut, LB
Museum of Modern Art of Sao-Paolo/Ouunpo, BR
Festival WAOPA, .perf, Piano Nobile, Geneva, CH
Mexico film festival 2014, Mexico, MX
«Des nouvelles de la Kula», Centre d’art de St-Fons, FR
«Orange Rouge» Espace Khiasma, Les Lilas, FR
«Outline_Volume», Comissioned by Sara Gianini&Vision Forum, 98 weeks gallery & Assabil Association, Beirut, LB
2013
screening at Vdrome, 10- 19 oct, www.vdrome.org
«the B’s», Anne Barrault Gallery & Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
«Vanished», Christophe Gaillard Gallery, Paris, FR
«Excquisite Corpses», GP&N Vallois gallery, Paris, FR
«Once upon a time there were two knights», Gallery Nettie Horn, London, GB
Collections
Fond de Donnation Moulin, Galeries Lafayette, FR
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, FR
FMAC Genneviliers, FR
FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, FR
Fellowships/grants/stipends
2013
Aide à l’installation CNAP Ile-de-France, FR
Teaching, Lectures, Work-shops(selection)
Teaching/Jury:
2017
Jury DNSEP, Ecole Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Besançon, FR
Jury DNSEP, Ecole Enseignement Supérieur d’Arts de Bordeaux, FR
2016
Jury DNSEP, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Lyon, FR
Instructor at the Fine Art Department at Paris College of Art, Paris, FR (second semester 2013)
2015
Serie of workshops, Charivari/Centre d’Art La Ferme du Buisson CP/CE1, FR
Dirty Art Departement, Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam, NL
2014
HEAD Geneve, University of Art and Design of Geneva, CH
M.I.T- Massatschusset Institutre of Technologies, Cambridge, US
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’art de Nice, Villa Arson, FR
2012-2013
Serie of work-shops with distabled children(40h), Collège Jean Villar de Villetanneuse, L’Orange Rouge, FR
Serie of work-shops PAC (25h), Lycée Théodore Monod & La Galerie, Centre d’art contemporain de Noisy-le-sec, FR
Lectures
2016
Club Solo, Breda, NL
2015
Paradiso - Performa Institute - NYU, US
Matserclass for Performa Biennial, US
2014
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’art de Nice, FR
2013
Collège de France, 2013, FR
Collaborations
Les Vraoums font le 14 juillet - 3bisF Centre d’art contemporain -Aix-en-Provence 2014 Marie Déménage - Soirée Nomades -Fondation Cartier - Paris (FR) 2013
Publications (work, texts published (selection))
Big Red & Shiny: Pauline Curnier Jardin’s “Coeurs de Silex”: A Response in 80 Phrases By Andi Sutton
Code 02, Les artistes animistes, Thomas Golsenne, FR
Inrockuptibles, Pedro Morais, FR
The Global Contemporary, catalog, ZKM, DE
Thinking contemporary curating, Terry Smith, ICI, US
The Drawer#6 Funny Games, presse du réel, FR
Education
2003-2006 Diplôme avec félicitations du jury, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris (ENSAD), FR
2001-2006 Diplômes (DNAP & DNSEP) avec félicitations du jury, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Cergy ENSAPC), FR
2007-2011 M.A art & technologies, Linköping Swedish University, SE
Residencies
2015-2016 Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
2014 La Villa Arson, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Nice, FR
2013 La Cité des Arts, Paris, FR
2011 2012 La Galerie, Centre d’art contemporain de Noisy-le-sec, FR
2011 Caza d’Oro, Mas d’Azil, FR
2009 Watermill Center, Robert Wilson’s Fondation, New-York, US
2008 Gallery 300m3, Göteborg, SE
2007 Sotka - Kankaanpään Taidekoulu, FI / Artist in-context, Raumars, Pépinières de jeunes artistes européens, Rauma, FI
Lives and works in Amsterdam and Berlin
Solo shows
2019
Parties sans éteindre les lumières, Pauline Curnier Jardin & Marie Losier, Fondation Ricard pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris, FR
If I Can’t Dance I don’t want to be part of Your Revolution (feature film), Amsterdam NL
I still send you a lot of affection and I kiss you through my denture, 1646, The Hague, NL
2018
You think you are within me now, KRIEG, Hasselt, BE
Grotta Profunda, DenFrie, Copenhagen, DK
Sebastiano Blu, Thomaskerk Kunsten Program, curated by Dorothée Orczyk, NL
2017
Confort Moderne, Poitiers, FR
Ellen de Bruijne Projects Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2016
Le Granit, Scène Nationale de Belfort, FR
Theâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, Nanterre, FR
Dolores, Ellen de Bruijne Projects Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2015
“The Resurrection Plot” Performa Commission, Biennal Performa15, Pioneer Works, New-York, US
“Parade-bain-de-sang”, Soirées Nomades de la Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, FR
2014
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, US
Kulturtage festival & ZKM, Commission for the city of Karlsruhe, DE
Viola Melon, Baiser Melocoton 2, Galerie Edouard Manet, Gennevilliers, FR
2013
Viola Melon, Baiser Melocoton, PSM Gallery, Berlin, DE
Group shows, Screenings & Performances
2019
Hamburger Bahnhof, presentation nomineés for the Prize der National Galerie, Berlin, DE
Many swallows make a Summer (by Vdrome), Palazzo Grassi, Venice, IT
The emotional exhibition, Momentum Biennale, Moss, NO
Quetzal Art Centre, Quinta do Quetzal, Vidigueira, Portugal
2018
She Is The Future - An exhibition ignited by Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Kunstverein Langenhagen, D
Restless Matter, The Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, NL
Shelter. A contemporary intervention, Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht, NL
Double Feature, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, DE
Tattoo Sospir, Villa Santo Sospir, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, FR
Gaia in the Anthropocene, Garage Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL
Videoart at midnight, Berlin, DE
The fleshly school of poetry, Kunstraum D21, Leipzig, DE
Affinities or The Weight of Cinema, National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, Washington DC, US
2017
IFFR, Rotterdam, NL
Tate Modern, film screening, London, GB
Viva Arte Viva, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, IT
IDFA, film screening, Amsterdam, NL
2016
FIAC 2016 Film Program, Paris, FR
RijksOpen studio 2016, Rijksakademie Van Bilden den Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
Festival 100%, La Villette, Paris, FR
Ein Schelm, wer Böses dabei denkt, Künstlerhaus Bremen, DE
Art Köln, PSM Gallery, Cologne, DE
L’amiral cherche une maison à louer, MNAC, Bucarest, RO
Welcome to Caveland, Le Parvis, Tarbes, FR
Salon de Montrouge, performance program by Ami Barak for the Cabaret Voltaire’s birthday, Montrouge, FR
Knot-Knot, Flat deux. London, GB
2015
“The Blue Grey Wall” curated by Barbara Siriex, The Physics Room, Christchurch, NZ
l’Adresse, Printemps de Septembre à Toulouse, Toulouse, FR
“Unfold" The Volume Project curated by Sara Giannini, Amsterdam, NL
“Bataille” Far°/ Festival des arts vivants 2015, Nyon, CH
“Radical Software”, Galerie Alain Gutharc, Paris, FR
Mexico film festival 2014, Mexico, MX
“Alfred Jarry Archipelago: La valse des pantins - acte I”, Le Quartier, centre d’art contemporain, Quimper, FR
Code Magazine, Episode 16, Middlemarch gallery, Brussels, BE
2014
Puerta, Bilbao, SP
Volume Project, 98 weeks gallery and Assabil Association, Beirut, LB
Museum of Modern Art of Sao-Paolo/Ouunpo, BR
Festival WAOPA, .perf, Piano Nobile, Geneva, CH
Mexico film festival 2014, Mexico, MX
«Des nouvelles de la Kula», Centre d’art de St-Fons, FR
«Orange Rouge» Espace Khiasma, Les Lilas, FR
«Outline_Volume», Comissioned by Sara Gianini&Vision Forum, 98 weeks gallery & Assabil Association, Beirut, LB
2013
screening at Vdrome, 10- 19 oct, www.vdrome.org
«the B’s», Anne Barrault Gallery & Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
«Vanished», Christophe Gaillard Gallery, Paris, FR
«Excquisite Corpses», GP&N Vallois gallery, Paris, FR
«Once upon a time there were two knights», Gallery Nettie Horn, London, GB
Collections
Fond de Donnation Moulin, Galeries Lafayette, FR
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, FR
FMAC Genneviliers, FR
FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, FR
Fellowships/grants/stipends
2013
Aide à l’installation CNAP Ile-de-France, FR
Teaching, Lectures, Work-shops(selection)
Teaching/Jury:
2017
Jury DNSEP, Ecole Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Besançon, FR
Jury DNSEP, Ecole Enseignement Supérieur d’Arts de Bordeaux, FR
2016
Jury DNSEP, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Lyon, FR
Instructor at the Fine Art Department at Paris College of Art, Paris, FR (second semester 2013)
2015
Serie of workshops, Charivari/Centre d’Art La Ferme du Buisson CP/CE1, FR
Dirty Art Departement, Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam, NL
2014
HEAD Geneve, University of Art and Design of Geneva, CH
M.I.T- Massatschusset Institutre of Technologies, Cambridge, US
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’art de Nice, Villa Arson, FR
2012-2013
Serie of work-shops with distabled children(40h), Collège Jean Villar de Villetanneuse, L’Orange Rouge, FR
Serie of work-shops PAC (25h), Lycée Théodore Monod & La Galerie, Centre d’art contemporain de Noisy-le-sec, FR
Lectures
2016
Club Solo, Breda, NL
2015
Paradiso - Performa Institute - NYU, US
Matserclass for Performa Biennial, US
2014
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’art de Nice, FR
2013
Collège de France, 2013, FR
Collaborations
Les Vraoums font le 14 juillet - 3bisF Centre d’art contemporain -Aix-en-Provence 2014 Marie Déménage - Soirée Nomades -Fondation Cartier - Paris (FR) 2013
Publications (work, texts published (selection))
Big Red & Shiny: Pauline Curnier Jardin’s “Coeurs de Silex”: A Response in 80 Phrases By Andi Sutton
Code 02, Les artistes animistes, Thomas Golsenne, FR
Inrockuptibles, Pedro Morais, FR
The Global Contemporary, catalog, ZKM, DE
Thinking contemporary curating, Terry Smith, ICI, US
The Drawer#6 Funny Games, presse du réel, FR
Education
2003-2006 Diplôme avec félicitations du jury, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris (ENSAD), FR
2001-2006 Diplômes (DNAP & DNSEP) avec félicitations du jury, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Cergy ENSAPC), FR
2007-2011 M.A art & technologies, Linköping Swedish University, SE
Residencies
2015-2016 Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
2014 La Villa Arson, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Nice, FR
2013 La Cité des Arts, Paris, FR
2011 2012 La Galerie, Centre d’art contemporain de Noisy-le-sec, FR
2011 Caza d’Oro, Mas d’Azil, FR
2009 Watermill Center, Robert Wilson’s Fondation, New-York, US
2008 Gallery 300m3, Göteborg, SE
2007 Sotka - Kankaanpään Taidekoulu, FI / Artist in-context, Raumars, Pépinières de jeunes artistes européens, Rauma, FI
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