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Pierre Bismuth
Pierre Bismuth (6 June 1963) is a French artist and filmmaker based in Brussels. His practice can be placed in the tradition of conceptual art and appropriation art. His work uses a variety of media and materials, including painting, sculpture, collage, video, architecture, performance, music, and film. He is best known for being among the authors of the story for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay alongside Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman. Bismuth made his directorial debut with the 2016 feature film Where is Rocky II?. Early lifePierre Bismuth was originally a visual communication student at les Arts Décoratifs. He met François Miehe there, one of his teachers, with whom he subsequently collaborated on several projects.[1] In the 1980s Pierre Bismuth moved to Berlin where he attended Georg Baselitz's class of the Hochschule der Kunst. When he returned to France, he settled in Paris where he shared a studio with Xavier Veilhan and Pierre Huyghe.[1] At the beginning of the 1990s, he settled in Brussels where he gave the opening show of Jan Mot's new gallery on the rue Dansaert.[2] In 2000, he moved to London, prompted by the Lisson Gallery, where he has had several exhibitions since then.[1] In 2005, after having settled in Brussels again, he was awarded, along with director Michel Gondry and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), which many critics consider one of the best films of the 2000s. Since then, his work has continued to be shown all over Europe and America. Work Through efficient and often humorous gestures, Bismuth interrupts pre-established codes of reading the images and objects that pervade daily life, from headline stories in newspapers to magazine clippings from gentlemen's magazines, to even the color of the walls. In his series From Red to Nothing and From Green to Something Else, Bismuth reproduces a painted wall in each exhibition, subtly altering the color by the addition of a small amount of white or colored paint to the original color. Another series Something less, Something More (2002–2006) consists of thin partitions out of which Bismuth removes circles until as little material as possible remained, while the circles removed from the partitions accumulate on the floor. In Replaced by the Same (2003), Bismuth plays on the idea of substituting one thing by its double: for each photograph in this series, elements taken from duplicates are glued on exactly the same place as they were on the originals.[3] Bismuth often plays with the film industry imagery, as in his Jungle Book Project where he uses the different translations of the famous Disney film to create a new Babel like environnement. He is also known for following the movement of actors and actresses hands during a full movie and reproducing these as drawings. Moreover, the re-use of the famous words "The End" or "Coming Soon" featured in movies or trailers is also a recurrent work. "Coming Soon" is featured as a permanent public luminous art work in Geneva.[4] CollaborationsA striking aspect of Bismuth's artistic practice consists in his collaborations with other artists from the most various fields. He notably collaborated with Michel Gondry,[5] Jerome Bel, Jonathan Monk,[6] Dessislava Dimova, Diego Perone, Barbara Visser, Angus Fairhurst, Cory Arcangel, Cyprien Gaillard,[7][8] Mathias Faldbakken or Joe Strummer.[9][10] Exhibitions (selection)Solo shows
In Advance of Unpredictable Usage Conditions, D&A-Lab, Brussels Cory Arcangel vs. Pierre Bismuth, Team Gallery, New York (with Cory Arcangel) An Ocean of Lemonade – or the Trouble with Living in Times of Fulfilled Utopias, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam
Le versant de l’Analyse, Jan Mot, Brussels La galerie est heureuse de vous inviter à la nouvelle exposition de Pierre Bismuth, Bugada & Cargnel, Paris Le psy, l'artiste et le cuisinier, Nuit Blanche, Musée d'art et d'histoire du judaïsme, Paris Flip Side of the Same, Art Unlimited Basel, Team Gallery, New York Pierre Bismuth, Fremantle Art Center, Perth
Objects That Should Have Changed Your Life, Base Progetti per l'Arte, Florence Pierre Bismuth, Following the Right Hand Of..., Team Gallery, New York Neon, Mirror and Gold, Galleria Sonia Rosso, Turin
Ruled by Extravagant Expectations, Galerie Christine König, Wien The All Seeing Eye (The Hardcore Techno Version), British Film Institute, London The Beauty and the Beast, Galerie Christine König, Wien Coming Soon, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Coming Soon, Bugada & Cargnel, Paris One Man's Mess is Another Man Masterpiece, Jan Mot, Brussels One Size Fits All, Mary Boone Gallery, Uptown New York One Size Fits All, Mary Boone Gallery, Chelsea New York One Size Fits All, Team Gallery, New York
Siamo sulla Buona Strada, Villa Arson, Nice (curated by Thierry Davila) Coming Soon, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica Most Wanted Men, Erna Hecey, Brussels Most Wanted Men, Jan Mot, Brussels
Pierre Bismuth – Pantone 192 e altri colori, Galleria Sonia Rosso, Turin The All Seeing Eye, Bugada & Cargnel, Paris (with Michel Gondry) Tout ce qui n'est pas interdit est obligatoire, Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun In the framework of the Nuit Blanche Festival, Galerie SAS, Montreal Points de vue, Ville de Nancy, Nancy Following the Right Hand of Kim Novak in – Kiss Me Stupid, Art Unlimited Basel, Lisson Gallery, London
Something Less Something More, Galerie Christine König, Wien Something Less, Something More – Le Trous de Bale, Art Unlimited Basel, Jan Mot, Brussels Nel nome del padre (Works After Daniel Buren), Galleria Sonia Rosso, Turin
Presque identique, très légèrement différent, Bugada & Cargnel, Paris Collages fit for General Audiences, Lisson Gallery, London Pierre Bismuth, Art gallery of York University, Toronto I Agree - the Idea of Cloning Humans is Disgusting, Jan Mot, Brussels Arte per tutti, ma capita solo da te, Galleria Sonia Rosso, Torino
Quelque chose en moins, quelque chose en plus, Erna Hecey gallery, Luxembourg The Party, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover
Alternance, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel Our Trip Out West, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania (in association with Jonathan Monk) Pierre Bismuth, Centre d'Art Contemporain de Brétigny, Brétigny Pierre Bismuth, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv Closed, Diana Stigter Gallery, Amsterdam
Collages, Mot & Van Den Boogaard, Brussels
Alternances d'éclaircies et de passages nuageux l'après-midi, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris Quelques comédiens au milieu de quelques acteurs, MAMCO, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva Pierre Bismuth, MK2 Project-Café, Paris
The Party, The Showroom, London Galerie Mot & Van den Boogaard, Brussels
Box, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels Plus Min, Renesse, Pierre Bismuth, Witte de With, Rotterdam Kunsthalle, Wien Arborétum, projet public pour la DRAC d'Orléans Listening Me Watching Them/Humming/Synonymes, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris
Most Wanted Men, Mot & Van den Boogaard, Brussels Le bruit du son, Lisson Gallery, London The Blind Film, Tramway, Glasgow
Pierre Bismuth, CCC Centre de Création Contemporaine, Tours Pierre Bismuth, FRAC Languedoc Roussillon, Montpellier
La Piéce de Chateauroux, Marcel Duchamp, Châteauroux Pierre Bismuth, One Five Gallery, Antwerp Group Shows
Une terrible beauté est née, 11e Biennale de Lyon, Lyon Fluiten in het donker, De Appel, Amsterdam The End Of Money, Witte de With, Rotterdam Bild für Bild – Film und zeitgenossische Kunst, aus der Sammlung des Centre Georges Pompidou, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund Lonely at the top: Graphology, Chapter I, M HKA, Antwerp
Prospective XXIe siècle, FRAC Ile-de-France, Le Plateau, Paris De leur temps 3, 10 ans de création en France/le prix Marcel Duchamp, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, Strasbourg The Last Newspaper, New Museum, New York (curated by Richard Flood and Benjamin Godsill) ABC Art Belge Contemporain, Studio National des Arts Contemporain Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing (curated by Dominique Païni) Exhibition, exhibition / Mostra, Castello di Rivoli, Turin (curated by Adam Carr) Repetition Island, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (curated by Raimundas Malasauskas) Chefs d'oeuvre, Centre Pompidou Metz, Metz Seconde main, ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris FAX, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong DOUBLE BIND / Arrêtez d’essayer de mo comprendre !, Villa Arson, Nice
GAGARIN The Artists in their Own Words, SMAK, Gent Editions Vs Objects, CECCH – Centre d’édition contemporaine, Genève Mille e tre, Le Louvre, Paris (curated by Marie-Laure Bernadac) White Noise III, Pandora's Sound Box, White Box, New York (curated by Lara Pan) Mise à l'échelle, Regard sur la collection d'art contemporain au Grand-Hornu, MAC's, Grand-Hornu IV Bienal de Jafre, Bienal de Jafre, Jafre Richard Prince and the revolution, Projectesd, Barcelona Jonathan Monk on Richard Prince, Projecte SD, Barcelona Following the Right Hand of - Sigmund Freud, Art Basel Film, Basel Höhenrausch – Art on the Rooftops of Linz, OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz V.O.S.T. OV/OT, iMal, Bruxelles Talk Show, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London FAX, Drawing Center, New York Lille 3000, Liquid Frontiers, Tri Postal, Lille
The All-Seeing Eye (The Hardcore-Techno Version), British Film Institute, Southbank Gallery, London No Leftover, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern Anna Kournikova Deleted By Memeright Trusted System, HHMKV, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund One of These Things Is Not Like the Other Things, Uno su Nove Art contemporanea, Roma Yours, Mine Ours, Appropriation in Contemporary Art, University of Essex Gallery, Colchester Beneath the Surface, Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenhague Collateral II, SESC, Avenida Paulista, São Paulo
......... Without........., Yvon Lambert gallery, Paris (curated by Adam Carr) ReadyMedia, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Belgrade Group show, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv Shallow – Pierre Bismuth, Stefan Brügemann, Martin Creed, Miltos Manetas and Malcolm McLaren, I-20, New York (curated by Stefan Brügemann) …And Dreams are Dreams, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul ISCP Open Studios, ISCP, New York Following the Right Hand of Britney Spears in – Toxic (1 min, 2 min, 3 min), Sadler's Wells, London Airs de Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (curated by Christine Macel and Daniel Birnbaum) L'emprise du lieu, Domaine Pommery, Reims (curated by Daniel Buren) Vilnius is Burning, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin Re-trait, Fondation d'entreprise RicardlFondation Ricard, Paris (curated by Claire Staebler) Ready Media, Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, Amsterdam Entre fronteras, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Vigo
Sudden Impact, nouvelles acquisitions, Le Plateau, Paris Being in Brussels, Argos, Bruxelles Le mouvement des images, présentation thématique des collections du Musée National d'Art Moderne (nouvel accrochage), Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (curated by Philippe-Alain Michaud) Peintures/Malerei, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (curated by Laurent Le Bon) Figures de l'acteur, Le paradoxe du comédien, Collection Lambert, Avignon People. Volti, corpi e segni contemporanei dalla collezione di Ernesto Esposito, MADRE – Museo d'arte Donna Regina, Naples (curated by Edoardo Cicelyn et Mario Codognato) La force de l'art, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (Paris)lGrand Palais, Paris Somewhere Else, M HKA, Antwerp I Love My Scene: Scene 3, Mary Boone Gallery, New York Message personnel, Yvon Lambert gallery, Paris Curating the Campus, deSingel, Antwerp Play Station, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover The Satellite of Love, Witte de With Museum and Tent, Rotterdam
VideoDictionnary, La Casa Encendida, Madrid Mouvement des deux côtés du Rhin, Ludwig Museum, Köln Shortcuts, Between Reality and Fiction: Video, Installations and Painting from le Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Loud & Clear TOO, Ludwig Museum, Budapest Post Notes, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London Just do it! The Subversion of Signs from Marcel Duchamp to Prada Meinhof, Lentos Art Museum Linz Group Show, Galerie Roger Pailhas, Marseille
Animaux - Des animaux et des hommes, Seedamm Kulturzentrum, Pfaffikon Diffusion per Vidéo, ZKM, Karlsruhe This is not a hom this is a house, L’observatoire Maison grégoire, Bruxelles Duo Track, language and image in audiovisual art from Flanders ans the Netherlands, Argos, Bruxelles Collage, Bloomberg Space, London Soziale Kreaturen, How Bodies Become Art, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover A-Side Film Festival, Side Cinema, Newcastle Loud & Clear, Institut Néerlandais, Paris Mute!, Guild & Greyshkul, New York Paisages Mediatics, Fundacio "La Caixa" Blondel, Lleida
Loud & Clear, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Images of Society, Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun (visa para), Contemporary Art Center Vilnius, Vilnius Loud & Clear, Roseum Universal Studio, Malmo Mouvements de fonds, Acquisitions 2002 du Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, MAC Marseille Falsa Inocencia, Miró Foundation, Barcelone Copyright Europe Exists, MMCH, Thessalonike Plunder, Dundee Contemporary Arts Exhibitions, Dundee The Real McCOY, Institut Français, Istanbul
The Larsen Effect, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d'Art Contemporain, Luxembourg Basics, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern Manifesta 4, European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Frankfurt There Is A Light That Never Goes Out, Villa Galvani, Pordenone Sans commune mesure. Image et texte dans l'art actuel, Studio National des Arts Contemporain Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing Video-Zone, 1st Bienale of video Art, Tel Aviv Invitation, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
Exposition itinérante, Centre d'Art Contemporain de Vilnius, Vilnius Rooseum-Malmö, Malmö Plateau of Humankind, 49ème Biennale de Venise, Venezia (curated by Harald Szeeman) Rendez Vous #2, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon Ingenting, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Sweden Nothing, CAC Vilnius, Vilnius Pierre Bismuth & Jonathan Monk, Our Trip Out West, CAC Vilnius, Vilnius Exploding Cinema, Cinema Without Walls, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam L'Effet Larssen, O.K. Center for Contemporary art, Linz Film/video Works – Lisson Gallery at 9 Keane Street, Lisson Gallery, London
Korean Biennial, Seoul Orbis Terrarum/Ways of Worldmaking, Museum Plantin-Mauretus, Antwerp Rendez Vous #1, Collection Lambert en Avignon Be seeing you, Centre d'art Contemporain de Brétigny, Brétigny
Fourth Wall, National Theatre, London Cinema, Cinema/Contemporary Art and the Cinematic Experience, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven 8ème biennale de l'image en mouvement, Centre pour l'image en mouvement, Geneva Let's Get Lost, Saint Martin School of Art, London
The Cinema Project, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin Happy Hours, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris (with Lawrence Weiner, Douglas Gordon, Marcel Broodthaers, Christian Boltanski) In-Between, Museum Dhont-Dhaenens, Deurle La collection Yvon Lambert, œuvres sur papier et photographies, Yokohama Museum, Yokohama La terre est ronde, nouvelle narration, Musée d'art contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart Speed, Whitechapel Art Gallery and The Photographer's Gallery, London Disrupting The Scene, Darkroom Gallery, Cambridge
Instant donnés, Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC, Paris Jonctions, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels Blueprint, De Appel, Amsterdam At One Remove, The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds Coïncidences, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris International Film Festival, Rotterdam Wish you were here too, 83 Hill St, Glasgow
Wish You Were Here, De Appel, Amsterdam Fabbrica Europa, Stazione Leopoldo, Firenze Perfect, Galerie Mot & Van den Boogaard, Brussels Host, Otto Berchem Projects, Amsterdam Il futuro dello sguardo, Museo Civico, Prato
Ideal Standard Summertime, Lisson Gallery, London Stoppage, Villa Arson, Nice CCC, Tours Watt, Witte de With, Rotterdam Beyond Belief, Lisson Gallery, London GalleriesPierre Bismuth is represented by the following galleries:
He has among others also exhibited at the Galerie Yvon Lambert in Paris, at the Lisson Gallery in London, at Sonia Rosso in Turin, at Roger Pailhas in Marseille and also at Mary Boone in New-York. Notes and references
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