Laure Catugier

To explore the relationships between
space, image & sound

To question /
the occupation of space
the occupation of emptiness
the occupation of whiteness

To put oneself in an architect ́s skin /
to measure, draw, create, build

To erect abstract forms that are /
geometric (2D)
spatially volumetric (3D)
acoustically volumetric (4D)

To play /
with the viewing angles: plan, elevation,
axonometric, and isometric projection
with the spatial orientation benchmarks: X, Y, Z
with the limits of the frame: ceiling, walls, floor

To investigate /
the cityscape
the sound landscape
the mental landscape


Coming from an architecture background my work is based on its codes that I misappropriate, with the aim of bringing a new focus on the norms of measurement. My practice consists mostly of photography, video, sculpture, and sound performance in which I experiment with the geometry in space. Echos in a space, shadows on a facade, melodies produced by construction elements: the resulting forms I obtain give shape to the immaterial.

2021-22: Post-master "Decolonizing architecture" at Royal Art Institute, Stockholm SE
2007: MA of Art and Design, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Toulouse, France
2004: BA of Architecture, École Nationale Supérieure d´Architecture de Toulouse, France


Public Art

2025: Shortlisted at the Alice Salomon Hochschule, Berlin
2022: Shortlisted at the Rosa-Luxemburg-Gymnasium, Berlin
2021:
Shortlisted at the future Archäologischen Haus am Petriplatz, Berlin
Winner at future subway station "Jean Maga"; Line 3, Toulouse, FR (planned for 2029)
Winner at the Beaux-Arts de Châteauroux EMBAC, FR


Awards & Grants

2025:
Research grant, Berliner Senat, Berlin
Preselected for the Bob Calle Prize 2025 (artist book), Paris, FR
Catalog grant, Berliner Senat, Berlin
2024:
Publication grant, "Publish Now", KAI10 Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf
Video Prize 16th IN OUT FESTIVAL, Laznia Contemporary art center, Gdansk, PL
2023:
Urban Space Film Prize, Hans-Peter Zimmer Stiftung, Düsseldorf
Funding from: Institut Für Auslandsbeziehungen, DE ; Wüstenrot Stiftung ; Berlin-Lichtenberg City Council
2022:
Shortlisted for the international Allegro Prize, Contemporary Lynx Magazine
Nominated for the 7e Prix Révélation Livre d’artiste ADAGP, Paris FR
Draussenstadt (duo project), Berliner Projektfonds Urbane Praxis
Neustart-Kultur grant, Kunstfonds Bonn
Funding for an exhibition, Institut Français Tel Aviv, IL
Funding from Bureau des Arts Plastiques, Institut Français Berlin
2021:
"Modul D Digital" grant, Neustart Kultur, Deutscher Künstlerbund
Finalist for a residency at Villa Medicis, Rome, in the framework of the Prix Occitanie, FR
Residency grant, Kiosko, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, BO
Residency grant, PAIR artist-in-residence, Kaohshiung, TW
2020:
Villa Champollion residency grant, Institut Français Egypte & B'Sarya art center, Alexandria, EG
Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn, working grant
Funding from Goethe Institut Alexandria, Egypt
2019:
Cultural scolarship, Pilecki Institute, Warsaw, PL
Funding from Berlin-Steglitz City Council
Residency grant, Offcity AIR, Pardubice, CZ
Residency grant, KARA Kooshk Residency, Tehran, Iran
Residency grant, National Center for Contemporary Arts, St Petersburg, Russia
2018:
"Jeune Création" Prize for a residency grant at Palais des Paris in Takasaki, Japan
2017: Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt, Berlin
2016: Winner of the international Celeste Prize, category video, GB
2015:
Residency grant, Salzamt, Kulturamt Linz, AU
Residency grant, Kulturamt Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf


Solo exhibitions

2023:
Architecture Is Frozen Music, The Reference, Seoul, KR
Ornament und Verbrechen, duo show, Lage Egal, Berlin
A never-ending stone, Roam project space, Berlin
2022:
Architecture Is Frozen Music #8, White City Center, Tel Aviv, IL
Monography, EinBuchHaus gallery, Berlin
2021: Bautoleranz, Loop-Raum für aktuelle Kunst, Berlin
2020:
Architecture Is Frozen Music #7, B'sarya for Arts, Alexandria EG
Askese der Schatten, Galerie Weisser Elefant, Berlin
Vis-a-vis, Weekend Architektury, Gdynia, PL
2018:
Element.A project, Berlin Art Week
Laure Catugier, Idiom, Takasaki, JP
Things Get Heavy, Sonntag, Berlin
Bedroom n°35, Hôtel des Beaux Arts de Toulouse, FR
2016: Schlagschatten / Ombre Portée, Institut Français, Düsseldorf
2015: Found Footage, Fenster 61, Berlin
2014: Blind Spot, Epicentro artspace, Berlin
2013: Cyclorama, Paolo Erbetta Gallery, Berlin


Group exhibitions (selection)

2025:
Finale, AM Bruno collection, Tate Britain Library & Archive, London, UK
Emersions : Archive vivante, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, FR
2024:
Flat and Square, Het Archief, Rotterdam, NL
MOKA Book Art Collection, Hyundai Museum MOKA, Seoul, KR
(S)pace, Galeria Posibila, Bucharest, Romania, 2024
Taa/she, Femina 8 festival, Cinematheque of Macedonia, MK
2023:
7. Urban Video Walk 2023, Kunstweltzimmer, Düsseldorf
Soft Ground, BHROX Bauhaus-reuse, Berlin
2022:
DA! Art-Award, Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf
Auf der Schwelle, Galerie Kunstbrücke am Wildenbruch, Berlin
I’m One and also Two, MASQ, Sultan Foundation, Cairo, EG
Lines Fiction by Anonymous Drawings, Galerie am Körnerpark, Berlin
2021:
25e rencontres internationales, Traverse Video festival, Toulouse, FR
OFF-GRID photo festival, Vienna, AT
Oscillations, Lavitrine, Limoges, FR
FIVAC, Video Art Festival of Camagüey, Cuba
Heimat, Galerie Bernau, Bernau bei Berlin
2020:
IN OUT Festival, Laznia Contemporary Art Center, Gdansk, PL
In Sonora festival, Aspa Contemporary Gallery, Madrid, ES
Ibrida, Festival delle arti intermediali, Forli, IT
2019:
Transfuges, curated by Le Bail, Voltaire Mécénat Emerige, Paris, FR
Image - Between History & human, Total Museum Seoul, KR
Spagat, JDZB Japanisch-Deutsches Zentrum Berlin
Crossing Boundaries, Artum Foundation Ewa Partum, Warsaw, PL
Objectivity, 24H POZ/BRL project, Museum Night Poznan, PL
Back Of(f) Future, 48h Neukölln, Retramp Gallery, Berlin
2018
Facing North Korea, koreanisches Kulturzentrum, Berlin
Off the Wall, Arts + Literature Laboratory,Madison, US
Festival des Artes Binnar, Vila Nova de Famalicão, PT
Festival Oodaaq, Maison des Associations, Rennes, FR
2017:
Soft Edges, Tête, Berlin, DE
Mind the space, in the framework of Berlin Art Week Prize Award, Kunstpunkt
Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt exhibition, Studio 1 Bethanien, Berlin
A Hard Place, Centraltrak gallery, Dallas, US
Ultra Topos, FABRIKculture, Basel, CH
Jeune Création 67° édition, Thaddeus Ropac, gallery Paris, FR
Kunstbrücken, Rosengarten, Forst (Lausitz)
Printemps de l´Art Contemporain, an invitation by Emmanuel Simon in Astérides, Friche La Belle de Mai, Marseille, FR
2016:
Celeste Prize, Bargehouse at OXO Warf Tower, London, GB (C)
Hotel Europa, Concordia art center, Enschede, NL
Neue Heimat, Weisser Elefant, Kommunale Galerie Mitte, Berlin
Volume, Onomato Künstlerverein, Düsseldorf
2015:
Inordinate | Démesuré | Unmässig, Atelier am Eck, Düsseldorf
Blank, Asia contemporary art platform Non-Berlin, Berlin
2014:
Wi(e)dersehen, Month of photography OFF Berlin, L´espace de l´espèce, Berlin
Berlin Unlimited, Festival for art, architecture & urbanistics, ZKU Berlin


Publications
2021 "Architecture is Frozen Music", Naima Editions (Paris/Berlin), epub
Katrin Bettina Müller: "Ob das eine gute Idee war?" in newspaper TAZ Berlin, 12 january
2020 Matthias Reichelt: Kunst & Markt, in newspaper Tagesspiegel, 17 oct, p.22
2019 Y. Suto & F. Weigel: "le Palais des paris", in Artpress cahier n°468, juillet-août, p.17, FR
Cover picture and interview in newspaper TAZ Berlin, 3 january, DE
2018 Interview with Julien Verhaeghe, revue Possible critique d' art contemporain, september, FR
2018 Openfield, revue ouverte sur le paysage, june, FR
2017 Brennpunkt, Magazin für Fotografie, oct.- dec., p.78-79, Berlin
2016 Der Greif, online photo magazine, march, DE
2015 “Ewig übersehen”, in Die Welt kompakt, 24 september, p.16.
Gauthier Lesturgie: “White squares”, in Inter art Actuel, n°121, automn, p.66, CA
KIOSK n°71, edition DEL´ART, march, DE
2014 Luciano Marucci: ”L´arte della Sopravvivenza”, in : Juliet Art magazine, n°167, April, p.49, IT


Lecture & jury

2023 Advisor and jury member, Bauhaus Universität Weimar (Kunst), DE
2023 Portfolio coaching, Art Up Now Berlin
2023 Jury member and co-curator for Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt, Berlin DE
2022 Seminar Portfolio, BBB centre d'art, Toulouse, FR
2022 Lecture "Stadtbild" at the Weissensee Art School, Berlin DE
2021 Lecture at the Bilkent university (architecture department), Ankara, TR
2020 Jeune Création 69e édition, video selection, Fondation Fiminco, Paris, FR
2018 Jeune Création 68e édition, video selection, Beaux-Arts de Paris, FR


Other participations
2018 In-situ installation at Hötel des Beaux Arts, Toulouse, FR
2014 Artefiera Bologna Art fair, Paolo Erbetta Gallery, Bologna, IT
2013 Flash Art Art fair, Paolo Erbetta Gallery (S), Milan, IT


Collections
Tate Library and Archive ; National Art Library ; Victoria and Albert Museum ;
British Library, London, UK
The New York Public Library, US
Hyundai MOKA museum, Seoul, KR
WMA, WYNG Foundation, Hong Kong
Klingspor Museum, Offenbach am Main, DE
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Réserve des livres rares, Paris, FR
Qatar Foundation, VCUQ library, Doha, Qatar
Permanent art collection of Artefiera Bologna, IT
Collection FRAC PACA, fonds Livres & Editions, Marseille