Born 1965 in Strasbourg, France.
Lives and works in Paris.
Education |
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| 1988–1989 | Institut des Hautes Études en Arts Plastiques, Paris |
| 1987–1988 | L’École du Magasin, Le Magasin, Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble |
| 1982–1987 | École des Beaux Arts, Grenoble |
Awards |
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| 2002 | Marcel Duchamp Award, France |
| 1996–1997 | Mies van der Rohe Award, Germany |
| Five months artist residency, Villa Kujoyama, Japan | |
| 1994 | One month artist residency, ARCUS-Project Moriya, Japan |
| 1986 | Scholarship at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany |
Solo Exhibitions (selection) |
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| 2018 | Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster: Tales of the 21st Century, Galerie for Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig |
| 2016 | Pynchon Park, MAAT Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon |
| Opera-House, Huis Sonneveld, Rotterdam | |
| Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. 1887–2058, K20, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf | |
| Costumes and Wishes for the 21st Century, Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin | |
| 2015 | Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. 1887–2058, Centre Pompidou, Paris |
| Temporama, Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro | |
| 2014 | SPLENDIDE – HOTEL, Palacio de Cristal, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid |
| 2013 | M.2062 (Scarlett), The Museum of Kyoto |
| Stage it! (Part 2), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam | |
| 2010 | Screening of De Novo, Tate Modern, London |
| 2009 | chronotopes & dioramas, Dia Art Foundation, New York, NY |
| 2008 | TH.2058 The Unilever Series, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London |
| Nocturama, MUSAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León | |
| 2007 | Expodrome, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris / ARC, Paris |
Group Exhibitions (selection) |
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| 2019 | May You Live in Interesting Times, 58th Venice Biennale, Venice |
| Luogo e Segni, Palazzo Grassi–Punta della Dogana, Venice | |
| Cabinet d’amateur, an oblique novel, Whitechapel Gallery, London | |
| 2018 | Generations Part 3, Sammlung Goetz, Munich |
| Welt ohne Außen, Gropius Bau, Berlin | |
| Kunsthalle for Music, Witte de With, Rotterdam | |
| 38th EVA International – Ireland's Biennial of Contemporary Art, Limerick | |
| In Tune With the World, Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris | |
| 2017 | Jardin infini. De Giverny à l’Amazonie, Centre Pompidou-Metz |
| Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist, Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle, Berlin | |
| The Hot Wire, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl (in collaboration with Skulptur Projekte Münster), Marl | |
| Poïpoï, une Collection Privée à Monaco, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco | |
| 2016 | Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY |
| Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016, Whitney Museum, New York, NY | |
| The Infinite Mix, Hayward Gallery (Offsite), The Store, London | |
| Decor, Villa Empain – Boghossian Foundation, Brussels | |
| Where Text is Broken by a Building..., Arario Museum, Seoul | |
| 2015 | 1984–1999 The Decade, Centre Pompidou-Metz |
| Parasophia, Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture, Kyoto | |
| 2014 | Manifesta 10, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg |
| 2014 | Solaris Chronicles, Parc des Ateliers, Luma Foundation, Arles |
| 2013 | M.2062 (Edgar Allan Poe), Promenade dans la salle des marquees, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (as part of her contribution to Phillipe Parreno’s solo exhibition) |
| Stage it! (Part II), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam | |
| 2012 | To the moon via the beach, organized by Liam Gillick and Philippe Parreno, LUMA Foundation, Arles |
| 2009 | Performa 09, New York, NY |
| Venice Biennale | |
| 2003 | Venice Biennale |
| 2002 | Documenta11, Kassel |
| 1999 | Venice Biennale |
| 1993 | Venice Biennale |
| 1990 | Venice Biennale |
An experimental artist, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster has been exploring since 1990 the different modalities of sensory and cognitive relationship between bodies and spaces, real or fictitious, up to the point of questioning the distance between organic life and work. Metabolizing literary and cinematographic, architectural and musical, scientific and pop references, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster creates "chambres" and "interiors", "gardens", "attractions" and "planets", with respect to the multiple meanings that these terms take on in the works of Virginia Woolf or Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Brontë sisters or Thomas Pynchon, Joanna Russ or Philip K. Dick. This investigation of spaces extends to a questioning of the implicit neutrality of practices and exhibition spaces. Her "mises en espace", "anticipations" and "apparitions" seek to invade the sensory domain of the viewers in order to operate intentional changes in their memory and imagination. Haunted by history and future, Gonzalez-Foerster’s works become containers where the artist incubates a form of subjectivity that does not yet exist. Through multiple international exhibitions, short films, productions and concerts, Gonzalez-Foerster’s mutant work contributes to the invention of new technologies of consciousness.
