Pierre Huyghe

Born 1962 in Paris, France. Lives and works in Santiago, Chile.

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Exhibition view: Pierre Huyghe, Liminals, LAS Art Foundation, Halle am Berghain, Berlin, 2026. Photo: Andrea Rossetti © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2026.

Introduction

For Pierre Huyghe the exhibition ritual is an encounter with a sentient milieu that generates new possibilities of co-dependence between events or elements that unfold. The exhibition is an entity whose time and space, in which it appears, are constituents of its manifestation.

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Gallery Exhibitions

External Exhibitions

Liminals

Pierre Huyghe

Liminals is a new commission by artist Pierre Huyghe presented by LAS Art Foundation at Halle am Berghain.

January 23—March 8, 2026

LAS Art Foundation, Berlin

1+1 – The relational years

With Pierre Huyghe, Anri Sala, Julia Scher, Angela Bulloch, Philippe Parreno, Liam Gillick and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster

A dynamic itinerary transforms the MAXXI into a hub of relationships, conviviality, and interactions. 1+1 The relational years is the first major retrospective dedicated to the Relational Art movement—three decades after its...

October 29, 2025—March 1, 2026

MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome

Dance with Daemons | Cloud Chronicles | The One With Two Eyes

With Angela Bulloch, Ryan Gander, Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno, Ugo Rondinone and Tino Sehgal

Dance with Daemons is a major experimental exhibition at LUMA Arles that explores the interconnections between art and reality and the ways in which artists' works relate to each other. The exhibition...

May 1—November 2, 2025

LUMA Arles

Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Film, Video, Sound. Ringier Collection 1995 – 2025

From April 13 to October 5, 2025, the Langen Foundation in Neuss will present an extensive selection of works from the Swiss Ringier Collection, marking its first major exhibition in Germany. Curated...

April 13—October 5, 2025

Langen Foundation, Neuss

Liminal

Pierre Huyghe

Leeum Museum of Art will present a solo exhibition of the world-renowned artist Pierre Huyghe. Pierre Huyghe transforms the exhibition into a dynamic, constantly evolving milieu, inhabited by hybrid creatures. He creates...

February 27—July 6, 2025

Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul

LIMINAL

Pierre Huyghe

Liminal, an exhibition created by Pierre Huyghe in close collaboration with curator Anne Stenne, presents major new creations alongside works from the last ten years, particularly from the Pinault Collection.

March 17—November 24, 2024

Punta della Dogana, Venice

A Drawing for Morocco

With Etienne Chambaud, Liam Gillick, Pierre Huyghe and Anri Sala

An exhibition and sale of contemporary artworks created by nearly one hundred and twenty international artists, entitled A Drawing for Morocco, will take place in the Paris Internationale art fair.

October 17—22, 2023

Paris Internationale

THE MIND’S EYE. Images of Nature from Claude Monet to Otobong Nkanga

With Pierre Huyghe

The title THE MIND’S EYE refers to the eponymous sculpture by artist Pierre Huyghe, which will go on view at the museum for the first time, and is used here to describe...

June 10—August 27, 2023

Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel

Avant l'orage

with works by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pierre Huyghe, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané and Anicka Yi

Avant l’orage invites visitors on a journey from shadow to light, through installations and works, some iconic, others new, by some fifteen artists, throughout the spaces of the Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection. With works by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pierre...

February 8—September 18, 2023

Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Paris

Natasha.

7th Singapore Biennial

SB2022 features works from the collaborative project No Ghost Just a Shell by Angela Bulloch & Imke Wagener, Liam Gillick, Pierre Huyghe, Richard Phillips, Rirkrit Tiravanija, M/M (Paris), and Philippe Parreno.

October 16, 2022—March 19, 2023

Tanjong Pagar Distripark and various locations, Singapore

a chair, a record player. a record sleeve with a mans face on it.

something in the air

Rodney Graham, Pierre Huyghe, Anri Sala | Summer Festival with Ari Benjamin Meyers

In September and October, FAHRBEREITSCHAFT in Berlin-Lichtenberg host the event series entitled something in the air.

September 2—October 29, 2022

FAHRBEREITSCHAFT, Berlin

Une seconde d’éternité

With Ryan Gander, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno, Anri Sala and Tino Sehgal

The exhibition Une seconde d'éternité is gradually taking over all the spaces of the Bourse de Commerce. It brings together the works of some twenty artists including Ryan Gander, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno, Anri Sala and Tino...

June 22, 2022—January 9, 2023

Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection

Variants

Pierre Huyghe

Pierre Huyghe, Variants, a new site-specific work will be unveiled at Kistefos from June 12, 2022.

June 12, 2022

Kistefos Museum

Offspring

Pierre Huyghe

The exhibition Offspring from Pierre Huyghe at Kunsten Museum of Modern Art connect six key works using, sensors which capture sound, light and movement.

May 25—October 30, 2022

Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg

FUTURA. Measuring Time

Ceal Floyer and Pierre Huyghe

FUTURA. Measuring Time at Hamburger Kunsthalle invites 30 international artists, including Ceal Floyer and Pierre Huyghe, to address fundamental questions about temporality, sustainability and visions.

January 14—April 10, 2022

Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg

NOTHINGTOSEENESS – Void/White/Silence

With Rosa Barba, Ceal Floyer, Pierre Huyghe and Karin Sander

John Cage described the equivalent of silence in the visual arts as “nothingtoseeness” and circumscribes nothingness through seeing and feeling. The NOTHINGTOSEENESS - Void/White/Silence exhibition is dedicated to this experience of seeing...

September 15—December 12, 2021

Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, Berlin

LUMA Arles

With Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno, Anri Sala, and Tino Sehgal

LUMA Arles, a 27-acre creative campus at the Parc des Ateliers in the city of Arles, opened to the public on June 26.

From June 26, 2021

LUMA Arles

Sun Rise | Sun Set

Pierre Huyghe – Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin

Sun Rise | Sun Set brings together contemporary and 20th century artists to form a multi-layered response to the fast unfolding ecocatastrophe. The selected works permeate one another, creating small organisms and...

February 27—July 25, 2021

Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin

IF THE SNAKE

with Etienne Chambaud, Pierre Huyghe and Tino Sehgal

Under the artistic direction of Pierre Huyghe, the Okayama Art Summit 2019 will take place in various historical and cultural sites near Okayama Castle and Okayama Korakuen Garden. Titled IF THE SNAKE,...

September 27—November 24, 2019

Okayama Art Summit 2019

Intimate distance. Masterpieces from the Ishikawa Collection

with Simon Fujiwara, Ryan Gander, Liam Gillick, Pierre Huyghe and Anri Sala

Coinciding with the inauguration of the Hôtel des Collections on June 29, 2019, the MO.CO. unveils the first public presentation of masterpieces from the Ishikawa Collection. This outstanding and relatively recent private...

June 29—September 29, 2019

MO.CO. – Montpellier Contemporain, Hôtel des Collections, Montpellier

UUmwelt

Pierre Huyghe

‘I don’t want to exhibit something to someone, but rather the reverse: to exhibit someone to something.’ Pierre Huyghe Although Huyghe intentionally alters the sites in which he works, events and growth...

October 3, 2018—February 10, 2019

Serpentine Gallery, London

Exomind

Pierre Huyghe

November 25, 2017

Shrine Museum, Dazaifu

UGO RONDINONE : I ♥ JOHN GIORNO

with Angela Bulloch, Pierre Huyghe, and Ugo Rondinone

June 21—September 3, 2017

New Museum, New York

After ALife Ahead

Pierre Huyghe

For the 2017 Skuptur Projekte in Münster, the historic exhibition of sculpture organized every 10 years, Pierre Huyghe has built a major new work. In an unused ice rink complex, the floor...

June 10—October 1, 2017

Skulptur Projekte Münster

Pierre Huyghe

Espace Louis Vuitton Venice presents a solo exhibition featuring the work by the artist Pierre Huyghe: an official collateral event of the 57th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia. The show...

May 10—November 26, 2017

Espace Louis Vuitton, Venice

Untitled (Human Mask)

Pierre Huyghe

March 30—July 16, 2017

Guggenheim Bilbao

Infinite Garden, from Giverny to Amazonia

with Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno, and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

The exhibition Infinite Garden, From Giverny to Amazonia depicts nature in the perspective of a metaphorical spring. Germination, blossoming and degeneration suggest the cycles of Earth, where the winter stop is the...

March 18—August 28, 2017

Centre Pompidou-Metz

Carte blanche to Tino Sehgal

with Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno

Palais de Tokyo presents an exhibition conceived by Tino Sehgal, the second of a series of “carte blanche” shows – interventions by artists covering the entirety of the 13,000m² exhibition space of...

October 12—December 18, 2016

Palais de Tokyo, Paris

Incerteza Viva

with Pierre Huyghe

September 7—December 11, 2016

32nd Bienal de São Paulo

Orphan Patterns

Pierre Huyghe

In 2015 Pierre Huyghe was awarded the prestigious Kurt-Schwitters-Prize by the Lower Saxony Sparkassen Foundation. The prize is bestowed biennially to internationally renowned artists whose oeuvre shows clear affinities to the famous...

January 30—April 24, 2016

Sprengel Museum, Hannover

UGO RONDINONE : I ♥ JOHN GIORNO

with Angela Bulloch, Pierre Huyghe, and Ugo Rondinone

October 21, 2015—January 10, 2016

Palais de Tokyo, Paris

The Roof Garden Commission: Pierre Huyghe

Pierre Huyghe

May 12—November 1, 2015

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Pierre Huyghe

November 23, 2014—February 22, 2015

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Pierre Huyghe

April 11—July 13, 2014

Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Pierre Huyghe

The Centre Pompidou is devoting a retrospective exhibition of the work of Pierre Huyghe: a major figure in the contemporary scene in France and on the international stage, presenting some fifty projects...

September 25, 2013—January 6, 2014

Centre Pompidou – Galerie Sud, Paris

Untilled

Pierre Huyghe

The medicinal plants give nourishment to bees; the bees fly out from a beehive in the garden into the wider area of Kassel and pollinate plants both inside and outside the garden....

June 9—September 16, 2012

dOCUMENTA 13, Kassel

La Saison des Fêtes

Pierre Huyghe

The Palacio de Cristal was inaugurated in 1887 with an exhibition of the flora of the Philippines, at that time Spain’s pre-eminent colony. Palm trees and indigenous plants of many kinds were...

March 17—May 31, 2010

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía – Palacio de Cristal, Madrid

Pierre Huyghe. Untilled (Liegender Frauenakt). 2012⁠ Concrete with beehive structure, wax, and live bee colony; figure 75 x 145 x 45 cm, base 30 x 145 x 55 cm, beehive dimensions variable. ⁠ The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Committee on Painting and Sc

YOU ARE HERE* Contemporary Art in the Garden

With Pierre Huyghe

Untilled (Liegender Frauenakt) is a sculptural collaboration between human and insect. The work marries a concrete sculpture of a liegender Frauenakt (reclining female nude) with a self-generating natural system—a living beehive—that progressively covers the figure’s head. Untilled makes sly reference...

Ongoing

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

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Exhibitions

Pierre Huyghe

LAS Art Foundation

Liminals is a new commission by artist Pierre Huyghe presented by LAS Art Foundation at Halle am Berghain, which delves into uncertainty using quantum experiments. It marks the artist’s first solo presentation...

January 23, 2026

Press

What does a quantum computer sound like? This artist and scientist are about to find out

Financial Times

He’s turned a monkey into a waiter and made sculptures out of bees — for his next trick, Pierre Huyghe is entering the quantum realm with physicist Tommaso Calarco

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Press

Pierre Huyghe Is Turning Quantum Uncertainty Into an Immersive Experience

artnet

The artist's first solo institutional show in Berlin will transform the halls of the iconic club Berghain into a speculative ecosystem of sound, light, and film. The industrial halls of Berghain will...

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Press

Edge of Glory: Pierre Huyghe’s “Liminal”

Artforum

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Alternate worlds and end of days: Pierre Huyghe in Venice

Wallpaper

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Nature, humanity and technology collide in Pierre Huyghe show

The Art Newspaper

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Press

Simon Fujiwara, Pierre Huyghe and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané featured in CURA. 40 Manifesto

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We are all tetrafish in Pierre Huyghe's aquarium

Helsingin Sanomat

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Exhibitions

something in the air, FAHRBEREITSCHAFT

With Rodney Graham, Pierre Huyghe, Ari Benjamin Meyers and Anri Sala

In September and October, FAHRBEREITSCHAFT in Berlin-Lichtenberg will host the event series entitled something in the air, with works by Rodney Graham, Pierre Huyghe, Ari Benjamin Meyers and Anri Sala.

September 2 – October 29, 2022