FLORIAN FOUCHÉ
Born in France in 1983
Lives and works in Paris
EDUCATION
2010 / 2012
· Research program La Seine, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris
2006 / 2009
· École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris.
· Novembre 2009 : DNSAP
· Exchange semester at the Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece – January to June 2008
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
· FIN DE PARTIE PRÉLUDE – Centre d’art GwinZegal, Guingamp (FR)
· Social Security Prelude 0 – Passage de l’A.M.E – Atelier des éditions L’Arachnéen, Paris (FR)
2023
· Assisted Manifesto – Curated by Marie Cozette, CRAC Occitanie, Sète (FR)
· Assssisssstance – LISTE Art Fair, Basel (CH)
2022
· Janmari Manifesto – Parliament Gallery, Paris (FR)
2020
· Janmari Manifesto – Atelier des éditions L’Arachnéen, Paris (FR)
2016
· Pierrot – Studio of Eustache Kossakowski, Paris (FR)
2014
· The Antidote Museum – CAC Passerelle, Brest (FR)
· The Montparnasse Tower Was Built on Brancusi’s Studio – Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris (FR)
· Science Po Prize for Contemporary Art – Invited by Zahia Rahmani, Paris (FR)
2009
· Exhibition of Nominees for the “Friends of the Beaux-Arts” Prize – Palais des Études, École nationale
supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris (FR)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
· Anka Ptaszkowska. Case by Case – Curated by Anka Ptaszkowska, Marysia Matuszkiewicz & Sarah
Martinetti, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (PL)
2022
· Anka Ptaszkowska. Case by Case – Curated by Anka Ptaszkowska, Marysia Matuszkiewicz & Sarah
Martinetti, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (PL)
· Anka Case by Case – Curated by Marysia Matuszkiewicz & Sarah Martinetti, CAPC musée d’art
contemporain, Bordeaux (FR)
2021
· Yto Barrada – A Raft Carte Blanche / Virtual Cinema – Curated by Yto Barrada, Lucy Gallun, River
Encalada Bullock, MoMA, New York (US)
· The Body Goes on Strike – Curated by Émilie Renard, Bétonsalon, Paris (FR)
· Folklore – Curated by Jean-Marie Gallais & Marie Charlotte Calafat, MUCEM, Marseille (FR)
2020
· Folklore – Curated by Jean-Marie Gallais & Marie Charlotte Calafat, Centre Pompidou-Metz /
MUCEM, Marseille (FR)
2019
· For Raymond Hains – Curated by Anka Ptaszkowska, François Guinochet, Yves Jamet & Daniel Buren,
Studio of Eustache Kossakowski, Paris (FR)
2018
· Galeristes Art Fair – Stand Common Room, Paris (FR)
· The Spirit of Our Time – Curated by Yannick Miloux, FRAC Limousin, Limoges (FR)
2017
· Ostranénie – Curated by Anne Bonnin and Corinne Digard, Les Grands Voisins, Paris (FR)
· Group Exhibition in Tribute to Antonios Loupassis – Proposed by Marc Pataut, Le Sureau, Pantin (FR)
2016
· To Act, To Contemplate – Curated by Jean-François Chevrier and Élia Pijollet, Musée Unterlinden,
Colmar (FR)
2015
· Biographical Forms – Curated by Jean-François Chevrier and Élia Pijollet, Carré d’art – Musée d’art
contemporain, Nîmes (FR)
2014
· What Is Not Seen – CIAP de Vassivière and Chapel of Tulle (FR)
2013
· The Angel of History – Curated by Kathy Alliou and Nicolas Bourriaud, Palais des beaux-arts, Paris (FR)
· Vitrine – In collaboration with Claire Tenu, Schaufenster, Sélestat (FR)
2012
· The Prairies – Curated by Anne Bonnin, Biennale d’art contemporain de Rennes, Rennes (FR)
2011
· Works – CAC Parc Saint-Léger, Offsite at Collège Le Rimorin, Dornes (FR)
· The Source, the Ditch – CAC Parc Saint-Léger, Offsite at Lycée Maurice Genevoix, Decize (FR)
· August 21, 1899 – The Night After the First Meeting Between Strindberg and Munch – La Seine program, Paris
(FR)
· Unnamable Grotesques – Galerie LMD, Paris (FR)
· Opening – RADO Group Exhibition, Tulle (FR)
· Objects of My Af ection – Sandra Alvarez de Toledo Collection, Le Point du Jour, Cherbourg (FR)
· Debutantes’ Ball – Invited by Le Bureau, Galerie Klemm’s, Berlin (DE)
· Meanders – La Seine program, Paris (FR)
· Salon de Montrouge – Montrouge (FR)
· Silent Signifiance – Galerie LMD, Paris (FR)
· The Goat Sang – RADO Group Exhibition, Galerie Dix9, Paris (FR)
2010
· Low Constellation, Module 2 – Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR)
· Places – Curated by Benjamin Hochart, Galerie Éponyme, Bordeaux (FR)
· Works Produced with the Support of the Friends of Palais de Tokyo – Librairie Mazarine, Paris (FR)
· Hybrid Object – SKC, Belgrade (RS)
· Movement of Atoms, Mobility of Forms – ENSBA exhibition galleries, Paris (FR)
2009
· Fields of Abundance – RADO Group Exhibition, Galerie Dix9, Paris (FR)
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
2022
· Research grant, DRAC Île-de-France: AIC
2019
· Support for an artistic project, CNAP: The Museum-Workshop of Landmark Objects (after Fernand Deligny)
2016
· Research grant, DRAC Île-de-France: AIC
2013
· Science Po Prize for Contemporary Art
· Research grant, FNAGP
2010
· Support from the Friends of the Palais de Tokyo for a research trip to Romania
· Joseph Ebstein Sculpture Prize
2008
· City of Paris grant for the development of an artistic project
2007
· Egide grant, Île-de-France Regional Council, for a four-month study trip to Greece
WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
2016
· How to Stop a Disaster in Slow Motion (2012), FRAC Limousin
2015
· The Punished Little Girl (2013), CNAP
2014
· The Village School, part of The Antidote Museum (2013), Museum of Rural Education of Trégarvan
2013
· Two Pillars of a Peasant House, part of The Antidote Museum (2013), 21st Century Collection, École
nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris
OTHER ARTISTIC ACTIVITIES
2020
· Sculpture teacher, ENSBA Lyon
· Transmission workshop, MacVal
2019
· Conference at the Fontainebleau Festival of Art History
· Workshop Another Museum with Maxence Rifflet, École des beaux-arts de Caen
· Residency at La Métive Art Center (Moutiers d’Ahun) – artistic and educational interventions with a
CM1 class from Ahun
2018
· Cosette Room Meetings, artistic research at Victor Hugo Middle School, Aulnay-sous-Bois – with support
from the Seine-Saint-Denis department’s “Art and Culture in Middle School” program
2017
· Lecture at the Rencontres d’Arles – seminar Workshops Far From Where? Variations on Territory
· Public discussions in various places, including at the bookstore L’Atelier, on the occasion of the release
of Work to Death by Bertrand Ogilvie, L’Arachnéen
2016
· Lecture, ERBA Rennes
· Public Transport (The Class in the Hallway), artistic research project at Joliot-Curie Middle School, Stains –
invited by the Orange Rouge association
2014
· Tadeusz Kantor Workshop, ESAB Brest
2011 / 2014
· Public commission by the RADO group following a project with Peuple et Culture Corrèze, Tulle
2012
· Conference The Antidote Museum, ERBA Rennes – November
· Conference The Antidote Museum, ESAD Orléans – October
· Guided visits at Brancusi’s studio for a sixth-grade class from Michelet Middle School (St Ouen) –
invitation by Claire Tenu as part of an educational project – May
2011
· Six-month residency at the Contemporary Art Center of Parc Saint Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux – artistic
and educational project with CAP students from Lycée Maurice Genevoix, Decize – proposed by Céline
Poulin
2010
· Hybrid Object workshop in Belgrade – collaboration between Serbian and French artists – August to
September
2009 / 2010
· Invited member of the research seminar Constructivism(s), coordinated by Elie During, Laurent
Jeanpierre, Christophe Kihm, and Dork Zabunyan, ENSBA Paris
2005 / 2013
· Regular member of the seminar Territories, coordinated by art historian Jean-François Chevrier, ENSBA
Paris
· Organized several sessions:
· The Antidote Museum – following the presentation at the Rennes Biennale and its connection to the
Romanian Peasant Museum – public interview with ethnologist Marianne Mesnil – December 2012
· Presentation of artistic projects conducted in schools – with Maxence Rifflet and Claire Tenu – January 2012
· Brancusi in Tîrgu Jiu and the Romanian Peasant Museum – with Claire Tenu, after a research trip to Romania 2007
· Film screenings (Stan Brakhage, Philippe Cote) and discussion with Philippe Cote and film historian
Emeric de Lastens – 2006
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
· The Art of Learning, Hélène Meisel, Centre Pompidou-Metz
· The Antidote Museum in Practice, interview between Florian Fouché and Marianne Mesnil, Martor journal,
Bucharest, 2018
· Work to Death, Bertrand Ogilvie, L’Arachnéen, 2017
· Biographical Forms, exhibition catalogue, Jean-François Chevrier, Hazan, 2015
· Work and Activity: The Question of Art, Jean-François Chevrier, L’Arachnéen, 2015
· The Angel of History, includes an interview with Kathy Alliou, ENSBA, Spring 2013
· Science Po Prize for Contemporary Art, catalogue with a text by Zahia Rahmani, Spring 2013
· The Prairies, Rennes Biennale catalogue – texts by Anne Bonnin and Hélène Meisel, Spring 2013
· The Romanian Peasant Museum, An Antidote, article by Florian Fouché, D’A magazine, March 2013
· Interview with Anne Barrault, Salon de Montrouge catalogue, April 2011
· Graduates Honours Catalogue, text by Marc Desgrandchamps, June 2010