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Pierre Huyghe

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

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Mind's Eye (FL), 2021
Materialized deep image reconstruction, synthetic and biological material aggregate (sugar, resin, stainless steel), micro-organisms
90 x 74,1 x 165 cm
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Pierre Huyghe
Of Ideal, 2019-ongoing

Deep image reconstructions, real-time generated reconstructions, face recognition, screens, sensors, sound

Installation dimensions and duration variable
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Timekeeper (Serpentine), 2019
Colored pencil on paper
40 x 40 cm (unframed)
53,5 x 53,5 x 3 cm (framed)
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Players, 2010
LED, brass, hand controller
24 x 16 x 15 cm
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Timekeeper (Drill Core), Serpentine, 2019

Paint layers, plasterboard
ø 70 x 3 cm
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Exomind (Deep water), 2017–ongoing

Concrete cast with wax hive, bee colony, orange tree (Daidai), plum tree (Tobiume descendant), plants, sand, stones, calico cat, ants, spider, butterfly, concrete pond with water lilies (Giverny descendant), koi fish, axolotl and insects
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Circadian Dilemma (El Día del Ojo), 2017

Aquarium, Astyanax Mexicanus: eyeless and with eyes, algae, cave scan cast in concrete, black switchable glass, geo-local-ized program
90 x 124,5 x 110 cm (tank), 75 x 138,5 x 124 cm (base), 165 x 138,5 x 124 cm (overall)
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Cerro Indio Muerto, 2016

Photograph
64 x 96 cm (unframed)
70,8 x 102,8 x 3 cm (framed)
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Pierre Huyghe
Role Announcer, 2016

Performance
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Pierre Huyghe
Mating, 2015

Amber dice, flies, 2 programmed LED masks
Dice: 19 x 19 x 19 mm
Mask: 26 x 16 x 15 cm each
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Cambrian Pulse, 2015

Live marine ecosystem (horseshoe and arrow crabs, tube anemones), floating rock, dark grey sand, reverse osmosis water, switchable glass tank, switchable glass hardware and software, stainless steel base, filtration and UV-control systems, pump
178 x 203,5 x 153,5 cm (overall)
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Pierre Huyghe
Untitled (Pavillion For Miss General Idea), 2014

Origami, paper
30 x 30 x 25 cm
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Influenced, 2011

Person, flu virus
A person in a space carrying the flu virus
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Umwelt, 2011

Ants and spiders on wall
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The Host and the Cloud, 2009-2010

HD video, color, sound
2hrs, 1 min, 30 sec
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6 PM, 2000

Carpet, various colors and dimensions

Gallery Exhibitions

Influants Pierre Huyghe

Influants

Pierre Huyghe
A new show of four works by Pierre Huyghe at Esther Schipper gallery in Berlin continues the artist’s inquiry into the way we relate inside and outside of the exhibition context. Arriving...
September 9—October 22, 2011
No Ghost Just a Shell – Episode II: Two Minutes Out of Time Pierre Huyghe

No Ghost Just a Shell – Episode II: Two Minutes Out of Time

Pierre Huyghe
The second episode of the No Ghost Just a Shell project by Philippe Parreno/Pierre Huyghe will be the animated film Two Minutes Out of Time presented by this year's DAAD-stipendiate Pierre Huyghe....
September 2—16, 2000
Vicinato 2 Liam Gillick, Douglas Gordon, Carsten Höller, Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno, Rirkrit Tiravanija

Vicinato 2

Liam Gillick, Douglas Gordon, Carsten Höller, Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno, Rirkrit Tiravanija
Vicinato is a film divided into several chapters. It is based on a conversation between friends, between artists. As time goes on, the directors film a different movie. Four years after Vicinato...
July 8—August 5, 2000

External Exhibitions

Pierre Huyghe

Pierre Huyghe

Punta della Dogana invites Pierre Huyghe to conceive, together with Anne Stenne, a new exhibition featuring a large group of works, including a selection 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

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

With Pierre Huyghe
The exhibition 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.
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Exomind

Pierre Huyghe
November 25, 2017
Shrine Museum, Dazaifu
UGO RONDINONE : I ♥ JOHN GIORNO with Angela Bulloch, Pierre Huyghe, and Ugo Rondinone

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

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
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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

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

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

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

Incerteza Viva

with Pierre Huyghe
September 7—December 11, 2016
32nd Bienal de São Paulo
Orphan Patterns Pierre Huyghe

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

UGO RONDINONE : I ♥ JOHN GIORNO

with Angela Bulloch, Pierre Huyghe, and Ugo Rondinone
October 21, 2015—January 10, 2016
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
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The Roof Garden Commission: Pierre Huyghe

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May 12—November 1, 2015
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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November 23, 2014—February 22, 2015
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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April 11—July 13, 2014
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
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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...
October 23, 2013—January 12, 2014
Centre Pompidou – Galerie Sud, Paris
Untilled Pierre Huyghe

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

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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Simon Fujiwara, Pierre Huyghe and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané featured in CURA. 40 Manifesto
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something in the air, FAHRBEREITSCHAFT With Rodney Graham, Pierre Huyghe, Ari Benjamin Meyers and Anri Sala
FAHRBEREITSCHAFT, Berlin

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
A brush with... Pierre Huyghe The Art Newspaper Podcast
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A brush with... Pierre Huyghe

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In this The Art Newspaper Podcast Ben Luke talks to Pierre Huyghe about his influences—including writers, musicians and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work....
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Pierre Huyghe, Variants
Kistefos

Pierre Huyghe, Variants

Pierre Huyghe Variants Kistefos Samsmoveien 41 Jevnaker From June 12, 2022 www.kistefosmuseum.com Pierre Huyghe, Variants, a new site-specific work will be unveiled at Kistefos from June 12, 2022. Read more
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Pierre Huyghe – Offspring
Kunsten Museum of Modern Art

Pierre Huyghe – Offspring

The exhibition Offspring from Pierre Huyghe at Kunsten Museum of Modern Art connect six key works using, sensors which capture sound, light and movement. Each work perceives and influences each other, the...
May 25 – October 30, 2022
FUTURA. Measuring Time with Ceal Floyer and Pierre Huyghe
Galerie der Gegenwart, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg

FUTURA. Measuring Time with Ceal Floyer and Pierre Huyghe

What is time and how can it be represented and measured artistically? And how can the future be thought? FUTURA. Measuring Time at Hamburger Kunsthalle invites 30 international artists, including Ceal Floyer...
January 14 – April 10, 2022
LUMA Arles
LUMA Arles, Arles

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. Work...
From June 26, 2021
58th October Salon
various locations, Belgrade

58th October Salon

October Salon is a representative manifestation of accomplishments in the field of visual art in Serbia, found and funded by the City of Belgrade. This year, the exhibition titled The Dreamers intends to question not...
June 25 – August 22, 2021
All Access – Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin
Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin

All Access – Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin

All Access is a series of online visits to exhibitions which currently have restricted public access. As museums and galleries around the world are mostly closed, the series takes us into these...
'The Challenge: We are in this together' – Esther Schipper for The New Institute
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"The Challenge: We are in this together" – Esther Schipper for The New Institute

For its December newsletter, titled 'The Challenge: We are in this together', The New Institute asked Esther Schipper – among other thinkers and practitioners – to share her insights and analysis on the current...
IF THE SNAKE
Okayama Art Summit, Okayama

IF THE SNAKE

IF THE SNAKE Artistic Director: Pierre Huyghe Okayama Art Summit, Okayama September 27 – November 24, 2019 with Tino Sehgal among other artist For more information click HERE.
September 27 – November 24, 2019
Simon Fujiwara, Ryan Gander, Liam Gillick, Pierre Huyghe and Anri Sala at MO.CO
MO.CO. – Montpellier Contemporain, Hôtel de Collections, Montpellier

Simon Fujiwara, Ryan Gander, Liam Gillick, Pierre Huyghe and Anri Sala at MO.CO

Coinciding with the inauguration of the Hôtel des Collections on June 29, the MO.CO. unveils the first public presentation of masterpieces from the Ishikawa Collection. This outstanding and relatively recent private collection...
June 29 – September 29, 2019
Pierre Huyghe Named Artistic Director of the 2019 Okayama Art Summit
Ishikawa Foundation, Okayama

Pierre Huyghe Named Artistic Director of the 2019 Okayama Art Summit

Okayama Art Summit 2019, the second iteration of the large-scale international art exhibition, will be held in the fall of 2019. Pierre Huyghe, a participant of the Okayama Art Summit 2016, has...
Fall 2019
Pierre Huyghe: Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017
Eis Palast Münster, Münster

Pierre Huyghe: Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017

June 10 – October 1, 2017
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen

Duet With Artists: with Angela Bulloch, Rodney Graham, Pierre Huyghe, and Tino Sehgal

Through August 27, 2017

Publications

Pierre Huyghe

Pierre Huyghe

'For a decade, Pierre Huyghe has been increasingly concerned with nature. He develops his works on the basis of found spaces and situations. Closed systems of living beings and artefacts, which he...
2014
Pierre Huyghe

Pierre Huyghe

This publication follows the course of the development of Huyghe’s practice in the last ten years. A conversation between Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artist Director of the Serpentine Galleries, and an essay by...
2019