BIOGRAPHY >> go to: [top][biography][contact][current projects][downloads][mailinglist][press & images request] 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).
In 2003 he received the Ricard Prize for the most representative artist under 40 y.o. within the French scene. (more)
Group show with Neil Beloufa, Chus Burés, Stéphane Calais, Julien Carreyn, Viriya Chotpanyavisut, Claude Closky, Florence Doléac, Peter Downsbrough, Jean-Pascal Flavien, Nicolas Floc'h, Sarah Garbarg, Christophe Herreros, Armand Jalut, Véronique Joumard, Alix Lambert, Matthieu Laurette, Guillaume Paris, Jack Pierson, Jérôme Poret, Richard Prince, Loic Raguénès, Maxime Rossi, Joe Scanlan, Alain Séchas, Robert Stadler, Vincent Szarek.
Curated by Gilles Drouault
GDM… Galerie de multiples
17, rue Saint - Gilles, 75003 Paris, France
group show with Octavi Comeron in dialogue with works by Marcel Broodthaers, C.A.S.I.T.A., El Sueño Colectivo, Yolanda Domínguez, Oriol Font, Rodney Graham, Hans Haacke, Matthieu Laurette, Gordon Matta-Clark, Roc Parés, Santiago Sierra, Isidoro Valcárcel-Medina, Carey Young.
And the participation of :
Martí Anson, Quim Badia, Tere Badia, Pilar Bonet, Lúa Coderch, Bernat Daviu, Carles Guerra, Rubén Martínez, Gabriela Moragas, Roc Parés, Martí Peran, Laurence Rassel, Xavier Ribas, Valentín Roma, Montse Romaní, Mireia Sallarès, Miguel Ángel Sánchez.
Curated by Jorge Luis Marzo and Joana Masó.
Sales d’exposicions de Can Palauet
C. d’en Palau, 32
Mataró, Catalunya, Spain.
7 March - 30 August 2015
preview Friday 6 mars 2015
Group show with Brice Dellsperger, Jakob Gautel, 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)
BIOGRAPHY >> go to: [top][biography][contact][current projects][downloads][mailinglist][press & images request]
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).
PDF File size : 16,6 mo (High resolution)