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    Céleste Bousier Mougenot

    Nice (France) • 1961
    Céleste Bousier Mougenot © Céleste Bousier Mougenot
    The art installations of Bousier-Mougenot are investigations into sound-space and presence, often using altered perceptual states of affective suspension and lateral comprehension. While trained formally as a composer-musician he worked ten years in composition within the contemporary dance world. He has become subsequently a major international artist who has a developed a uniquely individual view of the relationship and possibilities that pertain between sound and objects. In using domestic materials, sound equipment, and musical instruments as objects (things in the world), as well as video loops, he has created sound installations that he calls hiscorps sonore (sonic body) works, which lead the viewer towards a unique set of individual sensory installation experiences. Representative artist for the french pavillon at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015 and past Marcel Duchamp Prize finalist, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot presented his work in major exhibitions by leading museums and galleries internationally, including solo exhibitions at the Barbican Centre (London),Hangar Bicocca (Milan), La Maison Rouge (Paris), Pinacoteca do Estado (Sao Paulo), FRAC (Reims), Chagall Museum (Nice), and a group exhibitions including Art & Music: Search for New Synethesia, Museum od contemporary art, Tokyo, 2012; French art Today, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, 2011; My Paris - Collection Antoine de Galbert/ The French Scene, me collectors room, Berlin, 2011; 21st Century: Art in the First Decade, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2010; and the 3rd Moscow Biennale, Moscow, 2009. His works are presented in important collections such as MONA FOMA (Australia), The Marieluise Hessel Collection (USA), Domaine de Chamarande, (France), Collection agnès b., (France), Centre Georges Pompidou, (France), The Museum of Old and New Art, (Australia), The Israel Museum (Jerusalem), The San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, (USA), The Fonds National d’Art Contemporain (France), FRAC Lorraine, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, La Maison Rouge (Antoine de Galbert), (France), Collezione Finstral, Bozen (Italy), Collection Gilles et Marie- François Fuchs, Bourg-en-Bresse and Caldic Collection, Wassenaar (Netherland).
    Lives and works in Sète, France.

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    SOLO EXHIBITIONS - Selection

    2018

    Fluides, HAB Galerie, Nantes, FR

    Ceramics Museum Princessehof, Leeuwarden, NL

    2017

    Minsheng Art Museum, Shangai, PRC

    Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, from here to ear v. 22, CACY, Centre d'art contemporain, Yverdon-Les-Bains, CH

    R&Art, Vercorin, CH.

    Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Solidvideo, Galerie Xippas, Genève, CH.

    Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, from here to ear v. 21, Copenhagen Contemporary, DK.

    2016

    Céleste Boursier-Mougenot – from here to ear v. 20, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh,

    Scotland, UK

    Céleste Boursier-Mougenot – from here to ear v. 13, QAGOMA (Queensland Art

    Gallery, Brisbane, AU

     

    2015

    Céleste Boursier-Mougenot – from here to ear v.19, Musée des Beaux-Arts de

    Montréal, Montreal, CDN

    Céleste Boursier-Mougenot – acquaalta, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, F

    Céleste Boursier-Mougenot – clinamen v.2, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, F

    Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Schaefer International Gallery, Kahulul, HI

    Céleste Boursier-Mougenot – revolutions, curator: Emma Lavigne, French Pavilion,

    56th Venice Biennale, Venice, I

     

    2014

    Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Aubette 1928, Strasbourg, F

    from here to ear, Le Parvis, scène nationale, Tarbes, F

    Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, perturbations, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, F

    FreePort [No. 007]: Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Peabody-Essex Museum, Salem, MA

     

    2013

    Céleste Boursier-Mougenot: presences, Galerie Mario Mazzoli, Berlin, DE

    Céleste Boursier-Mougenot: clinamen, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AU

     

    2012

    Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Museum of Contemporary Art, University of

    Massachusetts, US

    Céleste Boursier-Mougenot: portraits, presented as part of Crossing the Line Fall

    Festival 2012, French Institute Alliance Française, New York, NY, US

    Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Galerie Xippas, Paris, F

    Céleste Boursier-Mougenot: videodrones, Collège des Bernardins, Paris, F

     

    2011

    From here to ear (v.15), Hangar Bicocca, Milan, I

    Index (v.5), Le dojo, Nice, F

    Fisheyedrones, Le Lavoir, Mougins, F

    Céleste Boursier-Mougenot: Untitled, Galerie Sintitulo, Mougins, F

    Céleste Boursier-Mougenot: Untitled (Series #3), index (v.4) for two pianos, Empac

    Rensselaer,Troy, NY, US

    From here to ear (v.14), Galerie Iconoscope, Montpellier, F

     

    2010

    From here to ear, STUK Arts Center, Leuven, B

    Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, curated by Elizabeth Brown, Henry Art Gallery, University

    of Washington, Seattle, WA, US

    Céleste Boursier-Mougenot: New Commission for The Curve, Barbican Art Gallery,

    London, UK

    Céleste Boursier-Mougenot: transcom 1, La Maison Rouge, Fondation Antoine de

    Galbert Paris, F

    Céleste Boursier-Mougenot: harmonichaos, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY, US

     

    2009

    Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Estuaire Nantes Saint Nazaire 2009, Les halles, place du

    Bouffay, Nantes, F

    Index, virus, solidvideo, detail, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY, US

    Variation, Pinacothèque, Sao Paulo, BR

    Videodrones (version 6), Musée Chagall, Nice, F

    World Financial Center, New York Electronic Festival, New York, NY, US

     

    2008

    Index, Théâtre de Gennevilliers – Centre Dramatique National, Gennevilliers, F

    From here to ear, recycle, zombiedrones, Galerie Xippas, Paris, F

     

    2006

    Harmonichaos & flamByFrame, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY, US

    états seconds, FRAC Champagne – Ardenne, Reims, F

     

    2004

    Forum itinérant – Le Maillon, Théâtre de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, F

     

    2003

    Cerca Series – Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego,

    CA, US

     

    2002

    Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain (CRAC) Sète, F

    Parcours Saint Germain 2002, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, F

    Vidéodrones and harmonichaos, CRAC St. Nazaire (Le Grand Café), F

     

    2001

    Untitled – a Sound Installation, Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX, US

    Vidéodrones, la Synagogue de Delme, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Delme, F

    Untitled (Series #3), Church of the Trinity, FRAC Lorraine, Metz, F

    :Videodrones, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY, US

    Untitled (Series #3), Ezra and Cecilia Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, CT, US

    Untitled (Series #3), Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya, IL

     

    2000

    From Here to Ear & Untitled (Series #3), Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH, US

    Harmonichaos, Chapelle du Genêteil, Château-Gontier, F

    Vidéodrones, La Criée, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Rennes, F

     

    1999

    Untitled (Series #2), Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY, US

    Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA, US

     

    1998

    Untitled (Series #1), Sound environment installed in a tunnel in Central Park, New

    York, NY, US

     

    1997

    Untitled (Series #1), Galerie du CAPC Musée de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, F

     

    1996

    Cadre & Cut-Up, Galerie chez Valentin, Paris, F

     

    1995

    Performance for Seven Dogs and Record Players in the Street, Galerie chez Valentin,

    Paris, F

     



    GROUP EXHIBITIONS - Selection

    2018

    Zeitgenössische Kunstsammlung Finstral, Temporary Gallery in Finstral Studio Friedberg, DE

    En avant la musique, Galerie Roger Bellemare, Montreal, CDN

     

    2017

    Synthesize: Art + Music, MOCA Jacksonville, Jacksonville, US

    Audubon: Drawn to Nature, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, US

    Socle du Monde Biennale 2017: to challenge the Earth and the Moon, the Sun & the Stars, curated by Olivier Varenne, Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, DK

    Soundtracks, curated by Rudolf Frieling, SFMOMA, San Francisco, US Lyon Biennale, Lyon, FR

     

    2016

    Random X, Xippas Gallery, Punta del Este, ROU.

    Sugar Spin: You, Me, Art, and Everything, Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Brisbane, AUS

     

    2015

    La Vie Moderne, Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, F

     

    2014

    I was a double, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY, US

    Laisser les sons aller où ils vont, Frac Franche-Comté & Centre national des arts

    plastiques,Paris, F

     

    2013

    veille, Nuage, Musée Réattu, Arles, F

    Vertigo, Galerie Xippas, Geneva, CH

    2012

    Search for a New Synesthesia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, J

    El Gran Sur, First Montevideo Biennale, Montevideo, ROU

    Par nature exposition collective, Le Centquatre, Paris, F

    UNNATURAL, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL, US

    Notations: The Cage Effect Today, Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY, US

    Célébration Rêve de nature, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valence, Valence, F

     

    2011

    Bêtes off, Centre des Monuments Nationaux, Conciergerie, Paris, F

    My Paris – Antoine de Galbert Collection, me Collectors Room, Berlin, DE

    French Art Today, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, ROK

    La Sculpture Autrement, Eco Parc, Mourgins, F

    Si loin, si proche… Bêtes et hommes, Domaine du château d’Avignon, F

    Collectionneurs “en situation”, l’Espace de l’Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux, F

    L’art contemporain et la côte d’azur : un territoire pour l’expérimentation 1951–

    2011, Lasculpture autrement, Éco’parc, Mougins, F

    French Window: Looking at Contemporary Art through the Marcel Duchamp Prize, Mori

    Art Museum, Tokyo, J

    The Birds and the Bees, Marnie Fleming, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON, CDN

     

    2010

    21st Century: Art in the First Decade, Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), Brisbane,

    Queensland, AU

    On & On, curated by Olivier Varenne, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, S

    harmonichaos, Hôtel de Lauzun, Paris, F

    Glow 2010, Santa Monica, CA, US

    Prix Marcel Duchamp, Fiac, Cour Carrée du Louvre, Paris, F

    De leur temps 3, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg, F

    I am a cliché, Rencontres photographiques d’Arles, curated by Emma Lavigne, Grande

    Halle, Parc des Ateliers, Arles, F

    Update 3: Body Sound, Collection of Centre Pompidou, Zebrastraat, Ghent, B

    Diagonales: feedback – vibrations aller-retour, Galerie La Box, Bourges, F

     

    2009

    Third Moscow Biennale: Against Exclusion, curated by Jean-Hubert Martin, RU

    La confusion des sens, curated by Fabienne Fulchéri, Espace culturel Louis Vuitton,

    Paris, F

    Voyage sentimental 3, Fonds régionaux d’art contemporain Provence-Alpes-Côte

    d’Azur (FRAC PACA), organized by Platform, Marseille, F

    The New York Electronic Art Festival Exhibition, World Financial Center Courtyard

    Gallery, New York, NY, US

    L’esprit des Lieux, oeuvres du FDAC de l’Essonne, Domaine départemental de

    Chamarande, F

    Assises, Galerie Xippas, Paris, F

    Mutisme(s), Le Lieu Commun, Toulouse, F

    Vernissage de l’exposition des oeuvres des Artistes Nominés aux Prix des David 2009,

    2009 award winner, Paris, F

    Invasion of Sound: Music and the Visual Arts Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw,

    PL

    Exposition des nominés, Prix Meurice, Hôtel Meurice, Paris, F

    From Here to Ear, Festival du MONA FOMA, The Long Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania, AU

    Estuaire Nantes Saint Nazaire 2009, Les Halles, Place du Bouffay, Nantes, F

    Les David pour l’Art Contemporain, Espace Pierre Cardin, Galeries Pierre Cardin, Paris, F

    harmonichaos, Inauguration The Children’s Museum/Museo de los Niños, San Diego,

    California, US

     

    2008

    Le Renouveau du Temps, Maison Guerlain, Paris, F

    From Ear to Hear, L’art contemporain en Europe – L’Expérience Pommery #5 Domaine

    de Pommery, Reims, F

    Festival Indisciplines, Le Dojo, Nice, F

    Inauguration of The Children’s Museum, San Diego, CA, US

    Untitled (Series IV), Fragilités, Le FRAC Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-Lès-Rouen, F

    Nouvelles du Mont Analogue, Musée départemental d’art contemporain de

    Rochechouart, Rochechouart, F

    Private Life: The Collection of Josep Civit, Centro de Arte y Naturaliza, Fundacion

    Beulas, Huesca, S

    Du Machinique et du Vivant, curated by Régis Durand, La Réserve, Pacy-sur-Eure, F

    Nuit Contemporaine (performance), Arsenal – Metz and 49 Nord 6 Est, FRAC Lorraine,

    Metz, F

    Ensemble, curated by Christian Marclay, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia,

    PA, US

    Soundwaves: The Art of Sampling, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San

    Diego, CA, US

    Arnhem Fashion Biennale, Arnhem, NL

    Futuresystems: Rare Moment, Lentos Museum of Modern Art, Linz, A

     

    2006

    A Tale of Two Cities, Busan Biennale, Busan, ROK

    Accords Excentriques, Château de Chamarande, Chamarande, F

     

    2005

    Ambiance, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhcin-Westfalen, DE

    Radio Kills the Video Stars – Side A, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, F

    AudioFiles, Contemporary Art Museum: Institute for Research in Art, University of

    South Florida, Tampa, FL, US

    In-Formation, Galéria Jána Koniarka, Trnava, SLO

    Synesthésies, Chapelle des pénitents, Aniane, F

    Vanishing Point - Hidden Beauty in Contemporary Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IL

    N’y voir que du bleu Musée du pays de Sarrebourg, Sarrebourg, F

    O estado das cousas- O obxecto na arte contemporánea 1960 – 2000, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, S

    In Extremis; Printemps de septembre in Toulouse Festival of Contemporary Images, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, F

    La mer qu’on voit danser… Musée Barrois de Bar-le-Duc. F

    Dike Blair, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot and Rob Fischer, Mary Goldman Gallery, Los

    Angeles, CA, F

    collection agnès b. Les Abattoirs,Toulouse, F

    Cachez ce quotidien que je ne saurais voir!, Fonds régional d’art contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, F

     

    2003

    L’endroit du regard, Centre régional d’art contemporain (CRAC) Languedoc-Roussillon,

    Sète, F

    SAFN Arason Collection, Rykjavik, Iceland, IS

    Projet Grand Est, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporeanea, Turin, I

    Objets? Objets!, CAPC-Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, F

    Paradoxe, Le Trait d’Union, Neufchâteau, F

     

    2002

    Art Unlimited, ArT13 Basel, Basel, CH

    Digression à la frontière/Übergänge im Grenzbereich, Stadtgalerie-Frac Lorraine,

    Sarrebruck, DE

    From Here to Ear: Parcours Saint-Germain, Beaux-Arts de Paris, F

    Estudio Abierto, Buenos Aires, RA

    Dialogue, CRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Sète, F

     

    2001

    Marzona Villa Manin: a private collection, Villa Manin, Passariano, IT

    Ondes, CAPC-Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, F

    Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, US

     

    2000

    New Media New Face New York, NTT Inter Communication Center, Tokyo, J

    Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Tony Feher, Hans Haacke, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York,

    NY, US

    Mettre en Scène Festival, La Criée, Rennes, F

     

    1999

    1999 National and International Studio Program, P.S.1 Institute for Contemporary Art,

    Long Island City, NY, US

    Echo-System, Le Grand Café, Saint-Nazaire, F

    East Coast, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA, US

     

    1998

    A Movable Feast, Luc Queyrel Gallery, Paris, FR, curated by Patrick Amine

    Artists Respond to 2001: A Space Odyssey, Williamsburg Art and Historical Society,

    Brooklyn, NY, US

    9th Symposium on Plastic Arts, Périgueux, F

     

    1998

    Untitled (Series #1), Sound environment installed in a tunnel in Central Park, New

    York, NY, US

     

    1997

    Untitled (Series #1), Galerie du CAPC Musée de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, F

     

    1996

    Cadre & Cut-Up, Galerie chez Valentin, Paris, F

     

    1995

    Performance for Seven Dogs and Record Players in the Street, Galerie chez Valentin,

    Paris, F




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    SELECTED WORKS
    Céleste Bousier Mougenot
  • TransHumUs. Projet revolutions. French Pavillon, 56th Biennale di Venezia, 2015
    Scotch pine, earth ball (soil, clay, natural aggregate, roots, rock)
  • Céleste Bousier Mougenot
  • From here to ear v.8, 2018
    'Fluides', exibition view at HAB GALERIE, Nantes, France, 2018.
    Ph. © by Laurent Lecat
  • Céleste Bousier Mougenot
  • From here to ear v.8, 2018
    'Fluides', exibition view at HAB GALERIE, Nantes, France, 2018.
    Ph. © by Laurent Lecat
  • Céleste Bousier Mougenot
  • Aura, 2015
    'Fluides', Exibition view at HAB GALERIE, Nantes, France, 2018.
    Ph. © Laurent Lecat (3)
  • Céleste Bousier Mougenot
  • Aura, 2015
    'Fluides', Exibition view at HAB GALERIE, Nantes, France, 2018.
    Ph. © Laurent Lecat (3)
  • Céleste Bousier Mougenot
  • KARAMBOLAGE, 2013
    Grand Piano Érard, billiards slate, curved bands, clothe, 2 hanging lamps, 4 queues, 3 balls.
    Ph. © by Philine von Dueszeln
  • Céleste Bousier Mougenot
  • Persistance, 2018
    Sculpture, mixed technique, air pump, tank, surface-active solution, relay system controlled by sound meter, microphones, wooden
  • Céleste Bousier Mougenot
  • Untitled, 2013
    Mdf, pvc liner, water, porcelain bowls, site specific installation at GMM Berlin 3m Ø pool.
    Ph. © by Philine von Dueszeln
  • Céleste Bousier Mougenot
  • Untitled, 2013
    Mdf, pvc liner, water, porcelain bowls, site specific installation at GMM Berlin 3m Ø pool
    Ph. © by Philine von Dueszeln
  • Céleste Bousier Mougenot
  • PLEX, 2013
    Monica Alloy, Enza Alloy and Carla Alloy sofas by smarin, fabric made by Kvadrat, foam, 3 integrated loudspeakers, video projectors.
  • Céleste Bousier Mougenot
  • Untitled, 2013
    2 flying mylar baloons, Ø 60 cm each.
    Ph. © by Philine von Dueszeln
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