KiöR Künstler*innen

Laure Catugier

laurecatugier.com/

Architektur, Fotografie, Konzeptkunst, Medienkunst, Performance / Aktionskunst

* 29.10.1982
Bildung:Bachelor in Architecture + Master in Art


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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.

Vita

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

2021:
Shortlisted at the Rosa-Luxemburg-Gymnasium, Berlin (in process)
Shortlisted at the future Archäologischen Haus am Petriplatz, Berlin
Winner at future subway station "Jean Maga"; Line 3, Toulouse, FR (planned for 2028)
Winner at the Beaux-Arts de Châteauroux EMBAC, FR


Awards & Grants
2022: Funding from Bureau des Arts Plastiques, Institut Français Berlin, DE
2021:
"Modul D Digital" grant, Neustart Kultur, Deutscher Künstlerbund DE
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, DE
Funding from Goethe Institut Alexandria, Egypt
2019:
Cultural scolarship, Pilecki Institute, Warsaw, PL
Funding from Berlin-Steglitz City Council, DE
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, DE
2016: Winner of the international Celeste Prize, category video, GB
2015:
Residency grant, Salzamt, Kulturamt Linz, AU
Residency grant, Kulturamt Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf, DE


Solo exhibitions (C): catalog

2022:
Architecture Is Frozen Music #8, White City Center, Tel Aviv, IL
Monography, EinBuchHaus gallery, Berlin DE
2021: Bautoleranz, Loop-Raum für aktuelle Kunst, Berlin DE
2020:
Architecture Is Frozen Music #7, B'sarya for Arts, Alexandria EG
Askese der Schatten, Galerie Weisser Elefant, Berlin, DE
Vis-a-vis, Weekend Architektury, Gdynia, PL (C)
2018:
Element.A project, Berlin Art Week, DE (C)
Laure Catugier, Idiom, Takasaki, JP (C)
Things Get Heavy, Sonntag, Berlin, DE (C)
Bedroom n°35, Hôtel des Beaux Arts de Toulouse, FR
2016: Schlagschatten / Ombre Portée, Institut Français, Düsseldorf, DE (C)
2015: Found Footage, Fenster 61, Berlin, DE
2014: Blind Spot, Epicentro artspace, Berlin, DE
2013: Cyclorama, Paolo Erbetta Gallery, Berlin, DE


Group exhibitions (selection)

2021:
Oscillations, Lavitrine, Limoges, FR (C)
FIVAC, Video Art Festival of Camagüey, Cuba
Heimat, Galerie Bernau, Bernau bei Berlin, DE
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, DE
Partie de Campagne, Journée performance, galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris, FR
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, DE
2018
Facing North Korea, koreanisches Kulturzentrum, Berlin, DE (C)
Off the Wall, Arts + Literature Laboratory,Madison, US
Festival des Artes Binnar, Vila Nova de Famalicão, PT
Festival Oodaaq, Maison des Associations, Rennes, FR (C)
2017:
Soft Edges, Tête, Berlin, DE
Mind the space, in the framework of Berlin Art Week Prize Award, Kunstpunkt, DE (C)
Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt exhibition, Studio 1 Bethanien, Berlin, DE (C)
A Hard Place, Centraltrak gallery, Dallas, US
Ultra Topos, FABRIKculture, Basel, CH
Jeune Création 67° édition, Thaddeus Ropac, gallery Paris, FR (C)
Kunstbrücken, Rosengarten, Forst (Lausitz), DE (C)
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, DE
Volume, Onomato Künstlerverein, Düsseldorf, DE
2015:
Inordinate | Démesuré | Unmässig, Atelier am Eck, Düsseldorf, DE
Blank, Asia contemporary art platform Non-Berlin, Berlin, DE
2014:
Wi(e)dersehen, Month of photography OFF Berlin, L´espace de l´espèce, Berlin, DE (C)
Berlin Unlimited, Festival for art, architecture & urbanistics, Zentrum für Kunst & Urbanistik Berlin? DE (C)


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, DE
2020 Matthias Reichelt: Kunst & Markt, in newspaper Tagesspiegel, 17 oct, p.22, DE
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, DE
2016 Der Greif, online photo magazine, march, DE
2015 “Ewig übersehen”, in Die Welt kompakt, 24 september, p.16., DE
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
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
Permanent art collection of Artefiera Bologna, IT
Cultural Pilecki Institute, Warsaw, PL
Kulturamt Düsseldorf, DE
Institut Français Düsseldorf, DE
Collection FRAC PACA, fonds Livres, Editions et Multiples d´artistes, Marseille, FR
Fonds de dotation vidéo Marc Fassiaty, Paris, FR
Takenaka Fundation, JP
Japanisch-Deutsches Zentrum Berlin , DE
Collection Regard, Berlin, DE