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), I AM AN ARTIST (1998-ongoing), THINGS: Purchased With Funds Provided By (2010 – 2020) and Tropicalize Me! (2011-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 ICA-Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (1999 & 2003), de Appel, Amsterdam (2000 & 2013); 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), MoMA-Museum of Modern Art, New York (2007); MNAM-Centre Pompidou, Paris, (1997, 2000, 2004, 2007 & 2009); Z33, Hasselt (2012); Mac/Val - Musée d'art contemporain du Val de Marne, Vitry-sur Seine (2012, 2015); Museo La Tertulia, Cali (2013), Parallel, Oaxaca (2014), Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2015).
In 2003 he was awarded the Fondation d'Entreprise Ricard Prize. (more)
CLOSE READING SETH SIEGELAUB : HOW ART HISTORY IS MADE
19 February 2016, 4pm
Artist lecture & group reading
Following the exhibition Seth Siegelaub: Beyond Conceptual Art (Dec. 12, 2015 – Apr. 17, 2016) the Stedelijk Museum organizes a public program with lectures and debates for critical theory and renewed interpretations of the work of Seth Siegelaub. There are two theory-based forum programs: one forum program in the form of a series of reading groups about some of Siegelaub’s key projects such as How To Read Donald Duck? The second is in the form of a one-day lecture program on The Artist Contract.
> STEDELIJK MUSEUM AMSTERDAM
Museumplein 10
1071 DJ Amsterdam www.stedelijk.nl/en
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ONLY LOVERS
3 - 21 February 2016
Group show with Guillaume Airiaud, Remi Amiot, Heddy-John Appeldoorn, Annabelle Arlie, Ruth Barabash, Raphaël Barontini, Vincent Beaurin, Sarah Bedford, Yannick Bernede, Davide Bertocchi, Karina Bisch, Charlie Boisson, Elvire Bonduelle, Fred Bott, Barbara Breitenfellner, Guillaume Bruère, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Christophe Brunnquell, Florian Bézu, Damien Cadio, Guillermo Caivano, Nicolas Chardon, Mathieu Cherkit, Claude Closky, Philippe Cognée, Dennis Congdon, Guillaume Constantin, Anne-Lise Coste, François-Xavier Courrèges, Paul Cowan, Thomas Cristiani & Antoine Roux, Andy Cross, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Franck David, Stephen Dean, Plamen Dejanoff, Edith Dekyndt, Emilie Ding, Florence Doléac, Valentin Dommanget, Kaye Donachie, Antoine Dorotte, Luke Dowd, Thomas Dozol, Arthur Dreyfus, Melissa Dubbin & Aaron S. Davidson, Florent Dubois, Chloé Dugit-Gros, Kenny Dunkan, Lisa Duroux, Aymeric Ebrard, Charlotte El Moussaed, Antoine Espinasseau, Camila Oliveira Fairclough, Sylvie Fanchon, Didier Faustino, Ivan Fayard, Olivier Filippi, Ed Fornieles, Samuel François, Erwan Frotin, Galeria Perdida, Thomas Galler, Ryan Gander, Hélène Garcia & Emile Degorce-Dumas, Christophe Gaudard & Hugo Shüwer-Boss, Yves-Noël Genod, Paul-Armand Gette, Paolo Giardi, Nicolas Giraud, Geraldine Gliubislavich, Chad Gordon, Antoine Grulier & Pierre Pauselli, Nils Guadagnin, Andrew Guenther, Neil Haas, Chris Hammerlein, Sebastian Hammwöhner, Swetlana Heger, Lothar Hempel, Uwe Henneken, Kent Henriksen, Christophe Herreros, Patrick Hill, Thomas Hirschhorn, Karl Holmqvist, Christophe Honoré, Nicolas Hosteing, Frédéric Houvert, Pearl C. Hsiung, Nadira Husain, Marcel Hüppauff, Armand Jalut, Charles Jeffery, Scott King, Tarik Kiswanson, Vincent Kohler, Gabriel Kuri, Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux, Clément Laigle, Johan Larnouhet, Matthieu Laurette, Laurent Le Deunff, Mads Lindberg, Brett Lund, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Benjamin Magot, David Malek, Natacha Mankowski, Josh Mannis, Barry Marre, Richard Marti-Vives, Leonard Martin, Max Maslansky, Yom Massaloux, Eva & Franco Mattes, Philippe Mayaux, Côme Di Meglio & Elliott Paquett, Keegan McHargue, Taylor McKimens, Charles de Meaux, Emo de Medeiros, Justin Meekel, Mathieu Mercier, Nicolas Momein, Jonathan Monk, Justin Morin, Christian Newby, Cécile Noguès, Vincent Olinet, Tony Oursler, Guillaume Paris, Aurora Passero, Bruno Peinado, Mai-Thu Perret, Gerald Petit, Matt Phillips, Benoit Platéus, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Justine Ponthieux, Chloé Quenum, Loïc Raguénès, Brian Rattiner, Werner Reiterer, Muriel Rodolosse, Maxime Rossi, Sylvain Rousseau, Florent Routoulp, Gabriele de Santis, Christophe Sarlin, Hank Schmidt in der Beek, Michaël Sellam, Davina Semo, David Shrigley, Bret Slater, Lise Stoufflet, Veit Stratmann, Jonathan Sullam, Catherine Sullivan, Philippe Terrier-Hermann, Zefrey Throwell, Betty Tompkins,Wilson Trouvé, Morgane Tschiember, Florian Viel, Camille Vivier, Gary Webb, Christoph Weber, Marnie Weber, Cyrille Weiner, Lawrence Weiner, Wendy White, Stephen Wilks, Graeme Williams, Eric Winarto, Guy Yanai, Jason Yates...
curated by Timothée Chaillou.
Syndicat and Matthieu Laurette present
MATTHIEU: Une rétrospective dérivée, 1993-2015
solo exhibition
27th May – 14th June 2015
> Centre International du Graphisme -
Chaumont Graphique Design
Les Silos – Maison du Livre et de l'Affiche
7/9 avenue Foch
52000 Chaumont
France
T/ +33 (0) 3 25 03 86 80 www.cig-chaumont.com
Download English Press Release (Text by Emily King) here Téléchargez le communiqué de presse en français (Texte : Emily King) ici
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Matthieu Laurette: There was an ongoing discussion with Seth Siegelaub since 2006 4 June 2015, 5pm
Conference
as part of the exhibition "Pliure, Epilogue (La bibliothèque, l’univers)"
A REPUBLIC OF ART
French Regional Collections of Contemporary Art
From the 80's to Today
27 June - 04 October 2015
Group show with Absalon, Agnès Accorsi, Dennis Adams, Lara Almarcegui, Yto Barrada, Bibliothèque Fantastique, Ursula Biemann, Dara Birnbaum, Monica Bonvicini, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Daniel Buren, Sophie Calle, Marta Caradec, Alex Chan, Henri Coldeboeuf, documentation céline duval, documentation céline duval & Hans-Peter Feldmann, Jimmie Durham, Latifa Echakhch, Harun Farocki, Mounir Fatmi, Cao Fei, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Michel François, Claire Fontaine, Meshac Gaba, General Idea, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Renee Green, Subodh Gupta, Hans Haacke, Raymond Hains, Thomas Hirschhorn, Carsten Höller, Douglas Huebler, Pierre Huyghe, Bouchra Khalili, Matthieu Laurette, Louise Lawler, Paul McCarthy, Gustav Metzger, Antoni Muntadas, N55, Jean-Christophe Norman, Boris Ondreicka, ORLAN, Gabriel Orozco, ?ener Özmen/Cengiz Tekin, Philippe Parreno, Yan Pei-Ming, Lili Reynaud Dewar, Gerhard Richter, Jimmy Robert, Bruno Serralogue, Cindy Sherman, Simon Starling, Jessica Stockholder, The Atlas Group/Walid Raad, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Luc Tuymans, Ben Vautier, Huang Yong Ping, Chen Zhen.
Curated by Annie Fletcher and Diana Franssen. Assistant curator: Lena Reisner.
> Van Abbemuseum
Bilderdijklaan 10
5611 NH Eindhoven
The Netherlands
T: +31 40 238 1000 www.vanabbemuseum.nl
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OLD NEWS (AGAIN)
10 ANS DE OLD NEWS
10 March - 27 September 2015
Group show with Jens Haaning, Jakob Kolding, Matthieu Laurette, Jonathan Monk...
Curated by Jacob Fabricius
> CNEAI
2 rue du Bac, Île des Impressionnistes
78400 Chatou
France
T/ +33 (0)1 39 52 45 35 www.cneai.com
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CHERCHER LE GARCON
7 March - 30 August 2015
Group show with Brice Dellsperger, Douglas Gordon, Michel Journiac, Jesper Just, Matthieu Laurette, Robert Mapplethorpe, Yasumasa Morimura, Philippe Ramette, Yan Xing…
Curated by Frank Lamy
> MAC/VAL Musée d’art contemporain du Val de Marne
Vitry-sur-Seine, France
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
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MATTHIEU LAURETTE: THINGS (Purchased with Funds Provided by)
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, Stefan Brüggemann, Miguel Calderón, Francisco Camacho, Adriana Castro, Carolina Caycedo, Aldo Chaparro Winder, Francisco Cordero-Oceguera, Debora Delmar Corp., Arturo Duclos, Jose García, Mario García Torres, Julieta González, Inti Guerrero, Kati Hernandez, Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, Adriana Lara, Andres Roberto Londono, Catalina Lozano, Oliver Martinez Kandt, Beatriz Lopez, Yoshua Okón, Pedro Reyes, Maria Ines Rodriguez, Veronica Romano, Carlos Maria Romero, Hernan Salamanco, Tetine (Bruno Verner & Eli Mejorado), Juan Tessi, Laureana Toledo, Natalia Valencia, Maria Wils…
(List ongoing/in formation)
> Bogota, Mexico, Buenos Aires, Rio, Sao Paulo, Guatemala City...
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 presents 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)
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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), I AM AN ARTIST (1998-ongoing), THINGS: Purchased With Funds Provided By (2010 – 2020) and Tropicalize Me! (2011-ongoing).
Download English Press Release (Text by Emily King) here