Born 1971 in Le Mans, France.
Lives and works in Berlin.
Education |
|
| 2000–2001 | Graduate Programme, University of California, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1994–1997 | École de Beaux-Arts, Lorient |
| 1992–1993 | Scuola delle belle arti, Bologna |
| 1991–1994 | École de Beaux-Arts, Rennes |
Solo Exhibitions (selection) |
|
| 2019 | Greenhouse – States of mind, Fabre, Paris |
| 2018 | house with things behind, Kunstverein Heidelberg, Heidelberg |
| 2017 | protocols, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg |
| 2016 | dancers sleeping inside a building, Les Ateliers de Rennes – Biennale d’Art Contemporain, Musée de la Danse, Rennes |
| folding house (to be continued), NMNM Nouveau Musée National de Monaco | |
| 2015 | folding house, NMNM Nouveau Musée National de Monaco |
| statement house (temporary title), RCA, London | |
| 2013 | night house at daytime, textes de nuit, Angle Art Contemporain, Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux |
| 2012 | Cinonema, no drama cinema, South London Gallery, London |
| breathing house, la maison respire, Parc Saint Léger, Centre d’art contemporain, Pougues-les-Eaux | |
| Jean-Pascal Flavien, Kunstverein, Langenhagen | |
| 2011 | PLAY, HEDAH/Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht |
Group Exhibitions (selection) |
|
| 2019 | Préhistoire: une énigme moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris |
| 2017 | Meeting Points 8, Beirut Art Center, Beirut |
| The Way We Perform Now, Ujazdowski Castle – Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw | |
| Variable Dimensions – artists and architecture, MAAT Museum of Art, Architecture, and Technology, Lisbon | |
| 2016 | The House of Dust by Alison Knowles, The James Gallery, New York, NY |
| Jump, CAC Brétigny | |
| De toi à la surface, Le Plateau, Paris | |
| 2015 | La collection des objets que l’on utilise sans les toucher, CNEAI, Chatou |
| 2014 | All that falls, Palais de Tokyo, Paris |
| Was Modelle können, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen | |
| Backdoor Fantasies/Fluchtwege und Hintertüren, KAI 19/ Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf | |
| 2013 | There’s no place like home, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster |
| LA Existential, LACE, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2012 | Devonian Press, La Vitrine, Le Plateau, Paris |
| La vie des formes, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse | |
| 2011 | I was a male Yvonne de Carlo ..., MUSAC, León |
| Melanchotopia, Witte de With, Rotterdam | |
| Anfang gut. Alles gut, KUB Arena, Kunsthaus Bregenz | |
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. The models of houses, for example, are generated from settings imposed by the artist. Like preliminary sketches of large-scale paintings, his models for houses are maquettes for possible scenarios and perhaps views from the past or future of these fictional buildings. His altered domestic objects, such chairs, tables, outlets or blinds draw attention to the way in which design and architecture shape our experience of space but also how they can more fundamentally determine our experience of ourselves and of others.
