Jean-Pascal Flavien Jean-Pascal Flavien

Jean-Pascal Flavien

Born 1971 in Le Mans, France. Lives and works in Berlin.
Description Of A Struggle 01
Jpf Es 2017 03
2018 Jpf Kunstverein Heidelberg 01
Jpf081 Dancerssleepinginsideabuilding
Folding House 02
Jpf Nouveau Muse E National De Monaco 2015 2
Jpf Statement House Rca London 2015 09
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Jean-Pascal Flavien, Description of a Struggle, 2020. Exhibition view: HOW TO SURVIVE / Art as Survival Strategy, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, 2021. Photo © studioflavien

Introduction

Jean-Pascal Flavien’s practice combines elements from architecture, sculpture, and the performative, to create works that are both precise and concrete but also poetic and evocative.

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Selected works

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Description of a Struggle, 2020
Wood, drywall, rebars, plastic mesh
3,85 x 9,9 x 4,5 m
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Jean-Pascal Flavien
Heavy Metal Chair / The consumer of depravity will collapse, 2020
Carbon fibre, resin, paper
69 x 63 x 50 cm
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Model / Mask 6, 2019

Painted cast aluminum
11 x 43 x 50 cm
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greenhouse, 2019

Painted cast aluminum, pushpins
73 x 53 x 19 cm
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Jean-Pascal Flavien
entangled chair (2), 2018

Painted steel
60 x 150 x 80 cm
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Jean-Pascal Flavien
cul-de-sac, 2017
3D printed lamp, LED light
20 x 25 x 20 cm
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ballardian four, 2015-2017
Plasterboard, glass, metal (house)
Shower curtain, metal rod, camp bed, soft PVC foil, Plexiglas, velcro (inside the house)
Freckle stones, white sand (outside the house)
380 x 1270 x 1360 cm overall
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ballardian two (what will you do with your time?), 2015

Model, 3D rendering, 3 architectural plans at 1/100 scale, construction protocol
20 x 75 x 30 cm
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projection house (house with another idea of itself), 2015

Model, projector, 3D rendering, 4 architectural plans at 1/100 scale, construction protocol
35 x 57,5 x 95 cm
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Jean-Pascal Flavien
Short story house: House with things outside, 2014
Painted wood, leather, yarn spool (house model), offset on paper (book), cast aluminum (shelf)
Holz, Leder, Garnspule (Modell), Offset auf Papier (Buch), Aluminiumguss (Regal)
3 parts
8 x 45 x 24 cm (house model), 21 x 13,15 x 1,2 cm (book), 61 x 69 x 35 cm (shelf)
Dreiteilig
8 x 45 x 24 cm (Modell), 21 x 13,15 x 1,2 cm (Buch), 61 x 69 x 35 cm (Regal)
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Sequence (chair, table, chair, table, chair), 2014

PU paint on metal, wool fabric
5 parts, 78 x 420 x 81 cm overall
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The house was not planned that way, 2014

Painted aluminum, metal, wood
120 x 120 x 17 cm
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Jean-Pascal Flavien
Outlet (XII), 2014
Electrical outlet, vacuumed blue plastic, Plexiglas, screws
10 x 10 x 5 cm
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The Grass, 2009

Red pencil on paper
24,6 x 33,4 cm (unframed)
37,5 x 45,5 x 2,5 (framed)

Gallery Exhibitions

En la casa de Marquès Esther Schipper Mallorca

En la casa de Marquès

Esther Schipper Mallorca
Visit us this summer for a special exhibition entitled Inside Marquès House in Palma de Mallorca held at the former residence of Martí Marquès Marquès, a historic house dating back to the...
July 12—31, 2021
Casa Museo Can Marquès, Palma de Mallorca
Ballardian House Jean-Pascal Flavien

Ballardian House

Jean-Pascal Flavien
Esther Schipper is pleased to announce Ballardian House, Jean-Pascal Flavien's second solo exhibition with the gallery. Jean-Pascal Flavien has constructed a life-sized house within the exhibition space. Set in the midst of...
September 8—October 21, 2017
Esther Schipper, Berlin
days, between placing and displacing Jean-Pascal Flavien

days, between placing and displacing

Jean-Pascal Flavien
Esther Schipper is pleased to present days, between placing and displacing, Jean-Pascal Flavien’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Flavien has introduced objects usually found in domestic settings, turning the exhibition, in...
September 19—October 25, 2014
The Stars Are So Big, the Earth Is So Small... Stay As You Are (Part I) Curated by Robert Meijer...

The Stars Are So Big, the Earth Is So Small... Stay As You Are (Part I)

Curated by Robert Meijer & Christophe Wiesner
Boris Achour Heimir Björgúlfsson Nathan Coley Jean-Pascal Flavien Iain Pate Matthew Ronay Thomas Scheibitz I don't want to say anything. Me neither. You should just come and enjoy... ... as if you...
September 10—October 16, 2004

External Exhibitions

make-up house Jean-Pascal Flavien

make-up house

Jean-Pascal Flavien
Jean-Pascal Flavien’s make-up house will to open at San Gimignano Lichtenberg, Arno Brandlhuber’s architectural site.
Finissage: Sunday September 17, 12-1pm
San Gimignano Lichtenberg, Berlin
musical sales Jean-Pascal Flavien

musical sales

Jean-Pascal Flavien
For his participation at Art Basel Parcours 2018, Jean-Pascal Flavien will present vacation house—a musical presentation. Taking place at the offices of a real estate agency, emptied of other staff and filled...
June 16, 2018
Engels & Völkers, Basel
house with things behind Jean-Pascal Flavien

house with things behind

Jean-Pascal Flavien
The house with things behind includes a storage space behind the lightblue facade. In Flavien’s short story, the friends Baku and Alexis live in front and behind the house: one is concerned...
February 24—April 22, 2018
Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg
dancers sleeping inside a building Jean-Pascal Flavien

dancers sleeping inside a building

Jean-Pascal Flavien
The concept of the structure is based on the notion of a house as a form of choreography. From the outside dancers sleeping inside a building recalls an upended opened box: a...
October 1—December 11, 2016
Biennale d'Art Contemporain, Musée de la Danse, Rennes
folding house (to be continued) Jean-Pascal Flavien

folding house (to be continued)

Jean-Pascal Flavien
Jean-Pascal Flavien’s folding house (to be continued) was inaugurated in summer of 2016 in the gardens of Nouveau Musée National de Monaco. folding house (to be continued) is a 'work to live...
July 4, 2016
Nouveau Musée National de Monaco
statement house (temporary title) Jean-Pascal Flavien

statement house (temporary title)

Jean-Pascal Flavien
statement house (temporary title) (2015) was first built in London, as part of a group exhibition at the Royal College of Art. It was occupied by three permanent dwellers who were “writing...
March 6—May 22, 2015
Royal College of Art, London
Construire une Collection with Jean-Pascal Flavien and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

Construire une Collection

with Jean-Pascal Flavien and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
January 22—June 7, 2015
Nouveau Musée National de Monaco
breathing house Jean-Pascal Flavien

breathing house

Jean-Pascal Flavien
Jean-Pascal Flavien's breathing house, built on occasion of the artist’s solo exhibition at Parc Saint Léger, included walls that could be moved to change the interior spaces. The furniture was taken outside...
June 30—December 31, 2012
Parc Saint Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux
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Jean-Pascal Flavien
April 22—June 12, 2012
Kunstverein Langenhagen
two persons house Jean-Pascal Flavien

two persons house

Jean-Pascal Flavien
Jean-Pascal Flavien's two persons house (2010–11), built in collaboration with Capacete and the 29th Bienal de São Paulo, was intended for two people, all of its components were color-coded red or blue...
September 25—December 12, 2010
Bienal de São Paulo / Capacete

Featured stories

Conversation with Felix Utting and Jean-Pascal Flavien
Heidelberger Kunstverein

Conversation with Felix Utting and Jean-Pascal Flavien

Felix Utting is the inhabitant of the house with things behind. The public is invited to meet with him on March 14th at 18:00. He will prepare tea and introduce them to the house.
March 14, 2018, 6pm
Space Edits, with Jean-Pascal Flavien
Beirut Art Center, Beirut

Space Edits, with Jean-Pascal Flavien

April 12 – June 4, 2017
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Publications

Jean-Pascal Flavien Philothée Gaymard, inhabitant of the Rietveld-Schröder house

Jean-Pascal Flavien

Philothée Gaymard, inhabitant of the Rietveld-Schröder house
'Philothée Gaymard was permitted to live in the Rietveld-Schröder House in Utrecht for a few days. She became the new inhabitant of the house. Nobody had lived in the house after Truus...
2018
Jean-Pascal Flavien A sequence or phrase

Jean-Pascal Flavien

A sequence or phrase
Jean-Pascal Flavien‘s work involves the design and conception of houses that produce a particular situation of living. A form of thinking gives rise to a form of living and dwelling, and the...
2013