Born in 1967, Paris, France
Lives and works in Paris and Brussels
Solo Exhibitions
2021
“Mega Mug & Bike-plugged”, Keramis – Centre de la céramique, La Louvière, Belgium
“Cheval Vapeur”, DrooM, Vercheny, France
2020
“Broken English”
Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
2018
“Crésus & Crusoé”, MAC’s, Le Grand Hornu, Hornu, Belgium
2016
“Ambassade”, NICC, Bruxelles, Belgium
“CAM CURLET”, VRAC – Vitrine Régionale d’Art Contemporain, Beffroi, France
59PM, Bruxelles, Belgium
“Frozen Feng Shui”, Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany
“Frozen Feng Shui”, Air de Paris, Paris, France
2014
“Choco-Loco”, Piacé Le Radieux, Piacée, France
“Country Clic” (with Jef Geys), Les Bains-Douches, Alençon, France
2013
“Blue calamity jeans (with Antonio Ortega), Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
“Leader Pocket, Room Service” (cur. Cyril Putman), Arles, France
“Fugu”, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2012
“Vintage Discounter”, Galerie Micheline Swajcer, Antwerpen, Belgium
“Sauce Cafard”, Galerie 9, Fabien Delbarre, Lille, France
2011
“Museum Show”, Arnolfini, Bristol, United-Kingdom
“Maratoon’s, mini-show by François Curlet”, Brussels, Belgium
2010
“Intuitive Gallery Legitime”, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
“Chanter l’enfer”, Etablissement d’En Face Projects, Brussels, Belgium
2009
“Architecture fainéante”, Galerie APVD, Paris, France
2008
“Curiosität”, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
“Peptember”, Air de Paris, Paris, France
2007
“Architecture fainéante”, Centre Culturel Français, Turin, Italy
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
“Le Plateau”, FRAC Ile-de-France, Paris, France
“François Curlet”, Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
2006
“Le géant vert” (avec Françoise Doléac), Chapelle du Genêteil, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Château-Gontier, France
2005
“Spotless” (en collaboration avec Donuts), La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
“Coconutour”, Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
2004
“Papillon minute”, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
2003
“Electricität”, Air de Paris, Paris, France
“Prints ‘toc-toc’”, Roger Vandaele Editie, Antwerp, Belgium
“Chaquarium” (with Janaina Tschâpe), Cimaise et Portique, Albi, France
2002
“Coconutour”, Blac, Brussels, Belgium
“Whassup!”, Le Spot, Le Havre, France
“François Curlet and Jean Bernard Koeman”, CC Strombeek, Strombeek, Belgium
2001
“Interludes, interventions and performances in the exhibition programme of la Caisse des Dépots et Consignations”, Paris, France
“Régiß und Franßois” (with Régis Pinault), Stuttgarter Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
“Commercial Break, CNEAI, Chatou, France (cat.)
2000
“Rorschach Saloon”, Galerie le Sous-Sol à Public, Paris, France
Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain, Sète, France (with Didier Marcel)
1999
“Rorschach Saloon”, Le spot, Le Havre, France
“Pop-Corn Project”, commissioned for the event ‘Brussels 2000’, Brussels, Belgium
Launch of Editions Small Noise (with A. Magnin, F. Mary and C. Vermeulen)
1998
Montage de la collection PeopleDay(r) des éditions et multiples de Robert Filliou
“Still Life with Price”, internet project, DAP, Ministère de La Culture, France (www.culture.fr/entreelibre)
“Has-Been & Bacon, NICC, Antwerp, Belgium (with Manfred Jade and Bureau Augmenté)
1997
“No Commenta”, FRAC Champagne-Ardennes, Reims, France (cat.)
1996
Galerie Fortlaan 17, Ghent, Belgium (with Michel François)
“People Day(®)”, creation and patent application of new brand name
1995
“Handcraft”, One Five, Brussels, Belgium
1994
“Index”, Edition Mary & Van Lierde, Brussels, Belgium (book project)
1993
“Studio” (with Franck Scurti), Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (cat.)
1992
Gallery One Five, Antwerp, Belgium
1991
“Welkom te Antwerpen” (with Franck Scurti), Galerie Inexistent, Antwerp, Belgium
Group Exhibitions
2019
“Jos De Gruyter & Harald Thys, Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Koenraad Dedobbeleer, François Curlet”, Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
2018
“Roc”, Intermédiathèque, Tokyo, Japan
Galerie Double V, Marseille, France
“Unexchangeable”, WIELS, Bruxelles, Belgium
“Pinault Collection”, Couvent des Jacobins – Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes, France
“A bonne enseigne”, Galerie Raymond Hains, Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Saint Brieuc, Saint-Brieuc, France
2017
“La Tempête”, Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain Occitanie Pyrénées-Méditerranée; Sète Triennale Valais, Wallis 2017, A9 Relais du Saint Bernard, Martigny, France
“Edited by the CEC!”, Centre d’Edition Contemporaine, Genève, Switzerland
“L’islam, c’est aussi notre histoire!”, Tempora, Bruxelles, Belgium
“Le Son Entre”, FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France
2016
“Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art 1905-2016”, Whitney Museum, New York, USA
“Conversations pressantes: Athènes – Anvers, EMST, Athènes Instructions, 40m cube Hub Hug, Liffré, France
“Made in Japan”, Cultuurcentrum Strombeek, Strombeek-Bever, Belgium
“Quoi que tu fasses, fais autre chose”, HAB Galerie, Nantes, France
“Daniel Buren, Une fresque” (cur. Joël Benzaken), BOZAR, Bruxelles Lodgers #5: Le Salon, MUHKA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
2015
“Some bizzare”, Tamanoir, Bruxelles, Belgium
“Le Grand Large, Territoire de la pensée”, Mons 2015, Magasin de Papier, Mons, Belgium
“En attendant… Collection #6” (Presentation de la collection de Bertrand Godot), Le Quartier, Quimper Sneakers!, Médiatine, Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, Belgium
“ROC”, Galerie du Jour agnès b, Paris, France
2014
“Collection à l’étude à Villeurbanne”, Expériences de l’œuvre, IAC, Villeurbanne, France
“L’Archipel” (cur. Jonathan Chauveau), CRAC Sète, Sète, France
“Play Time”, Les Ateliers de Rennes, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, Rennes, France
“Gogolf échelle 1” (cur. Francois Curlet), Les Ateliers de Rennes, Halle de la Courrouze, Rennes, France
“The Crime Was Almost Perfect”, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
“Dernières nouvelles de l’éther”, La Panacée, Montpellier, France
“Exhibition copy”, cycle Credit to the Edit par MORE Publishers, CNEAI, Chatou, France
“Memory Palaces”, Carlier Gebauer, Berlin, Germany
2013
“Sous Influences”, arts plastiques et psychotropes, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
“Inside 15”, Brussels, Belgium
“The Enormous Speed of Change, Call of the Mall”, Hoog Catharijne, Utrecht, The Netherlands
“De belles sculptures contemporaines”, Hab Galerie, Nantes, France
“Midpoint”, Bruxelles, Belgium
“So this is Christmas”, Galerie de Multiples, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
“Collection N. 12”, Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
“Capitale(s)”, Galerie Gourvennec Ogor, Marseille, France
“Poétiques d’Objets”, Musées des Beaux-Arts de Dunkerque, Dunkerque, France
2012
“Voyages en trois dimensions”, Le Carré, Vincennes, France
“On the beach”, Galerie Commune de l’ESA, Tourcoing, France
“Glissement de terrain”, Musée Lanchelevici, La Louvière, Belgium
“Le blues du chien”, Frac Basse-Normandie, Caen, France
“S.F.[Art, science & fiction]”, Musée des Arts Contemporains, Site du Grand-Hornu, Belgium
“Air de Paris-Summer Show”, Galerie Art & Rapy, Monaco
“Objets Vifs”, Espace Diamant, Corsica
“The Flesh” (cur. Damien Mazières, Yann Géraud), Lage Egal, Berlin, Germany; (Entre)ouverture, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
“Georges Brecht, commissaire Curlet”, Moulin du Blaireau, Piacé, France; Air de Paris, Paris, France
“Sur un pied”, Galerie Sémiose, Paris, France
2011
Blabla et Chichi sur un bateau, galerie Hussenot, Paris, France (cur. Assume Vivid Astro Focus)
Ne cherchez pas, Trois Rois, Bruxelles, Belgium
Passe Present N°3, Château-Musée, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
Erre, variations labyrinthiques (with Guy de Cointet, and Joseph Grigely), Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
Yes we don’t, cur. Nathalie Ergino et Joël Benzakin, IAC Villeurbanne, France
Bob and Breakfast – Robert Filliou et ses invités par François Curlet, Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris, France
2010
Courant d’art au rayon de la quincaillerie paresseuse, BHV, Paris, France
En attendant gogolf, curated by François Curlet, Chapelle du Genêteil, Château-Gontier, France
La Quinzaine Radieuse, Moulin de Blaireau, Piacé, France
No Soul for Sale, Tate Modern, London (cur. Cecilia Alemani, Massimiliano Gioni and Maurizio Cattelan)
Group Show, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerpen, Belgium
La Quinzaine Radieuse, Moulin de Blaireau, Piacé, France
Les Elixirs du Palais, Palais Bénédictine, Fécamp, France (cur. Ami Barak)
Une histoire de fil, Festival Les Inattendus, Maison de la science, Sainte Savine, France
Le fabuleux destin du quotidien, Musée des Arts Contemporains, Grand Hornu, Belgium
Double Bind / Arrëtez d’essayer de me comprendre!, Villa Arson, Nice, France
Chassé croisé, Frac Languedoc Roussillon, Montpellier, France
2009
“Faux Jumeaux”, SMAK, Ghent, Belgium (cur. Michel François)
“Editions vs objets”, Centre d’Edition Contemporaine, Genève, Switzerland
“Elèves à l’oeuvre”, Collège Roger Salengro, Houplines, France
“Who’s afraid of design?”, Cité du Design, Saint Etienne, France
“Let’s pick the cherries first”, galerie Elisa Platteau, Brussels Belgium
“Mes Dalton”, Chapelle du Genêteil, Château-Gontier, France
“A House is not a Home”, La Calmeterie, Nazelles Négron, France
Stassart Moderne, Brussels, Belgium
“Tilt”, Ecomusée de la Brenne, Blanc, France
“La Quinzaine Radieuse”, Moulin de Blaireau, Piacé, France
“Don’t sit down”, Lycée Galilée, Cergy Saint-Christophe, France
“Sound of Music”, Turner Contemporary Project Space, Margate, United Kingdom
“Jeppe Hein Invisible Labyrinth + Frac Ile-de-France”, Théatre National de Chaillot, Paris, France
“Return to Function”, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin and Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, US
“N’importe quoi”, MAC, Lyon, France
“Délibérations”, Collection du Frac Aquitaine, Ecole Nationale de la Magistrature, Bordeaux, France
2008
“Go Golf (after Tron), curated by François Curlet”, Galerie Commune, Tourcoing, France
“Pièces à conviction”, Pollen, Montflanquin, France
“Lʼentrée”, CRAC Languedoc Roussillon, Sète, France
“Un-Scene”, Wiels, Brussels, Belgium
“Hantologie Contemporaine”, Parc Culturel de Rentilly, Bussy-Saint-Martin, France
“Curiosität, curated by François Curlet”, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
“Business is business #1/2”, Les Chiroux, Liège, Belgium
“Less is less, more is more, thatʼs all”, CAPC, Bordeaux, France
“Toute la collection du FRAC Ile-de-France (ou presque)”, MACVAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
“Comme le verre à travers le soleil, autour de Raymond Hains”, FRAC Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France
“Les Mondes parallèles” (cur. Hugues Reip), MOT Museum, Tokyo, Japan
“Mondo E Terra”, Museo dʼArte, Nuoro, Italy
“Nouvelles Acquisitions 2007”, FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France
“Jean-Pierre Timbaud, Galilée, Antoine de St-Exupéry, Jean Jaurès, Théodore Monod”, FRAC Île- de-France, Paris, France
“The Freak Show”, Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France
“Pivot Points (Part 1)”, MOCA, Miami, US
“Collection(s) 08”, IAC, Villeurbanne, France
“Des constructeurs éclectiques”, CRAC, Sète, France
“Sound of Music”, Marres, Maastricht, Netherlands
“Editions récentes”, Centre dʼ Edition Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland
2007
“Hors commerce”, first edition, CNEAI, Chatou, France
“Who’s got the big picture?”, MUHKA, Antwerpen, Belgium
“Out of Place, performing the everyday”, Argos, Brussels, Belgium
“No future”, Bloomberg Space, London, UK
“La Ricarda”, Cultuurcentrum Mechelen, Mechelen, Belgium
“A moitié carré à moitié fou”, Villa Arson, Nice, France
“Airs de Paris”, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
2006
“Nouvelles fabriques d’images et de sons”, FRAC Limousin, Limoges, France
“Eldorado”, MUDAM, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
“Une seconde année”, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
“Empieza el juego”, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
“Glissades in La Force de l’Art”, Grand Palais, Paris, France
“Super”, FRAC Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France
“Bilboard Project”, Wien, Austria
“Writing in Strobe”, Dicksmith Gallery, London, UK
2005
“Premioaltadisdeartesplásticas”, Galeria Oliva Arauna, Madrid, Spain
“Le Tableau des éléments” (with Trisha Donelly, Liam Gillick, Philippe Parreno), Musée des Arts Contemporains, Grand-Hornu, Belgium
Air de Paris, Paris, France
“Voisins Officiels”, Museum of Modern Art, Lille Metropole, France
2004
“Crème de singe, nuit blanche au printemps de la maison”, Air de Paris, Paris, France (with DONUTS)
“Parcours contemporains”, Fontenay-le-Comte, France
“Les Afriques”, mail art project for Lille 2004, France (cat.)
“Five Billion Years”, Swiss Institute, New York, NY, USA
“Amicalement vôtre”, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tourcoing, France (cat.)
2003
“No Ghost Just a Shell”, Rosa de la Cruz, Miami, FL, USA
“Lee 3 (tau ceti central armory show)”, Villa Arson, Nice, France
“Stop & Go (Volet 2)”, FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkirk, France
“Spéciale dédicace” (cur. Saadâne Afif and Mathieu Mercier), Musée d’Art Contemporain, Château de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France
“No Ghost Just a Shell”, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
“Following and to be followed (coming back)”, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
“Somewhere between here and there” (with F. Eon and J. Monk), Le Spot, Le Havre, France
“Le Colloque des chiens” (collection Biennale di Venezia), Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris, France
“Coconutour”, CRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Sète, France
2002
“No Ghost Just a Shell”, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
“Media_city”, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
Galerie Gebauer, Berlin, Germany (with Michel François)
“Sans consentement”, CAN, Neuchatel, Switzerland
“Sub-reel”, MAC, Marseille, France (cat.)
“Image Martyre”, internet project (http://www.mudam.lu/imagemartyre/)
2001
“Economies de Moyens”, Musées de Marseille, Marseille, France
“Blue Dragon”, Air de Paris, Paris, France
“Ambiance Magasin”, CAC, Meymac, France
“La trahison des images – Portraits de scènes”, Palazzo Franchetti, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
“Deux ou trois évenements Bruxellois”, Fondation pour l’Architecture, Brussels, Belgium
2000
“Les Chantiers du Musée”, MAC Grand-Hornu, Le Hornu, Belgium
Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Mares, Maastricht, The Netherlands
“L’œuvre collective”, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Toulouse, France
Kunststromingen in België, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium
Galerie Im Heppächer, Esslingen, Germany
1999
“Museum on the water”, Provinciaal Museum, Hasselt, Belgium
1998
“Bruxelles MINI-FM”, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
1997
“Encore Bruxelles…”, various locations, Brussels, Belgium
“Coïncidences”, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France (cat.)
1996
FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Lille, France
1995
“Welcome to Baltimore – Bienvenue à Montélimar”, Aperto, Le Nouveau Musée, Villeurbanne, France
“9 x 1”, Galerie de Marseille, Marseille, France
“Cosmos”, Le Magasin, Grenoble, France (cat.)
1994
Gallery One Five, Brussels, Belgium
1993
“L’image dans le tapis”, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (cat.)
“Love Again”, Kunstraum Elbschloss, Hamburg, Germany (cat.)
1992
“Homeless is More”, Espace 251 Nord, Liège, Belgium
Miscellaneous
2004
“Epître”, theatre play by Olivier Py, directed by François Orsoni, Corsica, France (scenography)
2003
“Witness Screen (Ann Lee)”, Cinema Eden, Volcan Scene National, Le Havre, France (film projection)
Bibliography
2007
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2006
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2005
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2003
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2002
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1996
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1993
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1992
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