Claire Fontaine
Claire Fontaine is a Paris-based collective, founded in 2004.
Solo exhibitions (show/hide)
2012
Claire Fontaine, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Equivalences, La Douane, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France.
Généralités, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France.
Claire Fontaine, Museion, Bolzano, Italy.
Espace 1414, San Juan.
Claire Fontaine, T293, Rome, Italy.
Ma l'amor mio non muore, Museo Hendrik Christian Andersen, Rome, Italy.
2011
Claire Fontaine, SIZ Gallery, Rijeka, Croatia.
I, Yama, Istanbul, Turkey.
T293, Roma, The road to Contemporary Art Museum, Italy.
Arando en el mar/Ploughing the Sea, Gaga Galería de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico D.F.
Petra, Mexico D.F.,Mexico.
Some instructions for the sharing of private property, Onestar Press, Paris, France.
No Family Life, Air de Paris, Paris, France.
Fighting Gravity, Regina Gallery, London, UK; Moscow, Russia.
Working Together, Metro Pictures, New York, USA.
P.I.G.S., MUSAC Contemporary Art Museum, Castilla y León, Spain.
2010
Kultur ist ein Palast der aus Hundescheiße gebaut ist, MD72, Berlin, Germany.
Economies, MOCA, Miami, USA. 06.10
Please God Make Tomorrow Better, Independent, 548W 22nd Street, NY 10011, New York, USA.
Future Tense, El Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico D.F.
Closed for prayer, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israël.
Unbuilding, Caterina Tognon Arte Contemporanea, Venezia, Italy.
Consumption, Helena Papadopoulos Gallery, Athens, Greece.
Etrangers partout, (QDM), Nuit Blanche, Belleville, Paris, France.
2009
After Marx April After Mao June, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, USA.
The exhibition formely known as passanger, CCA Wattis Institute for Conteporary Arts, San Francisco, U.S.A.
Inhibitions, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, USA.
Defend Yourself, curated by Jens Hoffman, Art Perform, Art Basel, Miami, USA.
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Franscisco, USA.
Recessions, Galerie Gabriele Senn, Vienna, Austria.
Tamed, "Perché Napoli ? ", T293, Piaza Amendola, Napoli, Italy.
Changement de Propriétaire, Sorry We’re Closed, Brussels, Belgium.
Call + 972 2 5 839 749, Andres Janacu / Galería Perdida at Project Row House, Texas, USA.
Interior Design For Bastards, T293, Napoli, Italy.
Destroy and Rejuvenate, Regina Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
2008
Feux de détresse, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France.
Is Freedom Therapeutic ? , T293, Art Positions, Art Basel, Miami Beach, Florida, U.S.A.
They Hate Us For Our Freedom, Contemporary Museum St Louis – The Front Room, USA.
Lucky in the misfortune, Maison Descartes, Institut Français des Pays-Bas, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Kubus Outside_In, Arbeit Macht Kapital, Kubus, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich, Germany.
Asleep, DVIR Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Tragitti perferici, Facolta di Architettura di Siracusa, Universita degli studi di Catania, Sicily, Italy.
Closed for prayers, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany.
Change, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany.
Counterpoison, Komplot Brussels, Belgium.
Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Instructions for the sharing of private property, project space, The Kitchen, New York, U.S.A.
Capitalism is not working, Gaga Galería de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico D.F. Mexico.
2007
Équivalences, Le Centre d’Art Villa Arson, Nice, France.
Utlendinger Overalt, curated by Will Bradley, The White Tube, Oslo, Norway.
Get Lost, Module, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France.
How to cook a wolf / How to ?, Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland.
Taccuini di Guerra Incivile, T293, Napoli, Italy.
Téléphone Arabe, Air de Paris, Paris, France.
Footnotes on the state of exception, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, U.S.A.
2006
Siamo tutti singolarità qualunque, Il piccolo Museion, progetto Garutti, Museion Bolzano, Bozen, Italy.
Couvrir Les Feux, Zoo Galerie, Nantes, France.
2005
Foreigners Everywhere, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, U.S.A.
Requiem for Jean-Charles de Menezes, Tratari, Graz, Austria.
Etrangers Partout, 21 rue Ste Marthe, Paris, France.
Claire Fontaine, Galerie Meerrettich im Glaspavillon an der Volksbühne, Berlin, Germany.
Collective exhibitions & projects (show/hide)
2012
An incomplete history of incomplete works, curated by Adam Carr, Galeria Francesca Minini, Milan, Italy.
2011
1st Schattendorf Biennale, Schattendorf, Germany.
Thomas Olbricht's collection, Maison Rouge, Paris, France.
3rd Athens Biennale, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud & XYZ, Athens, Greece.
Lumiere, Festival of Light, curated by Artichoke, Durham, U.K.
Art in the City, curated by Cecilia Canziani @ Ilaria Gianni, Teatro di Roma, Nomas Foundation, Roma, Italy.
TBA:11, Time-Based Art Festival, TBA On Sight, curated by Kristan Kennedy, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, U.S.A.
Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, curated by Peter Weibel, Moscow, Russia.
Para doxa, hétérodoxies de l'événement, Galerie Villa des Tourelles, Nanterre, France.
Istanbul Biennal, Istanbul, Turkey.
Collector - oeuvres du centre national des arts plastiques, Tripostal, Lille, France.
How to Disappear, Luminary Center for the Arts, Saint Louis, USA.
The Uncertain Spectator, EMPAC, Troy, New York, USA.
Wishing and Praying, CRG Gallery, New York, USA.
Where Do We Migrate To?, curated by Niels Van Tomme, Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, Baltimore, USA.
PhotoMonth, Bunker Stuzki Contemporary Art Gallery, Krakow, Poland.
Seeing the Capital, curated by Jeanne Gillard, Nicolas Rivet and Laurence Schmidlin, Perla Mode, Zürich, Switzerland.
Volume Collection, curated by Nemanja Cvijanovic, MMSU, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka, Rijeka Croatia.
Radionica Lazareti, Dubrovnik; Multimetijalni, Kulturni Centar, Split, Croatia.
Involuntary, curated by Neville Wakefield, Ford Projects, New York, USA.
Bartleby the Scrivener, with Etienne Chambaud, Etc. galerie, Prague, Czech Republic.
Inerloqui, curated by Grainne Sweeney, Caterina Tognon Arte Contemporanea, Venice, Italy.
Big Brother, curated by Ashok Adicéam, Palais des arts et du Festival de Dinard, Dinard, France.Network, curated by Mehdi Hadj Khalifa, Mastermind, Casablanca, Morocco.
The Normal Condition of Any Communication, curated by Cheyanne Turions, TPW Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
Interloqui, curated by Grainne Sweeney, Caterina Tognon Arte Contemporanea, Venice, Italy.To the Arts, Citizens!, Serralves Foundation, Porto, Portugal.
Investigations of a Dog, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden.
Investigations of a Dog, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece.
Please close your eyes, curated by Martha Kirszenbaum, Congrès européen de la Culture, Wroclaw, Poland.
Terrible Beauty - Art, Crisis, Change @ the Office of Non Compliance, Dublin Contemporary 2011, Ireland.
Measure the city with the body, an itinerant Physics Room project, curated by Stephan Cleland, St Pauls St Gallery, Auckland, New-Zealand.
Beziehungsarbeit - Kunst und Institution, curated by Martin Fritz, Kunstlerhaus Wien, Vienna, Austria.
The pavement ans the beach, Paradise Row, London.
The Interpreter, Artist Projects, curated by Mousse Magazine, Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.
Un Altro Mondo E Ancora Possibile ? , curated by Francesca Guerisoli and Stefano Taccone, Contemporary Art Association, Sala Dogana, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy.
PERROS NEGROS, presents PERROS NEGROS, Adrianna Lara, Perros Negros, Mexico D.F, Mexico.
2010
La nuit Blanche, Paris, France.
La règle du Jeu, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France.
“...” , Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany.
Investigations of a Dog, Ellipse Foudation, Cascais, Portugal, Magasin 3, Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece.
In Print, curated by Adam Carr, e-flux reading-room, New York, U.S.A.
Image at Work, Xposeptember 2010, Iaspis and Index, Stockholm, Sweden.
Res Publica, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, MMOMA, Moscow, Russia.
To the Arts, Citizens !, Serralves Foundation, Porto, Portugal.
Pre-Specifics, Onomatopee, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
La Fin du Monde tel que nous le connaissons, La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, Mulhouse, France.
Xposeptember 2010, Iaspis and Index, Stockholm, Sweden.
Exhibitions with Pierre Bismuth, Nuit Blanche, Centre Pompidou, Metz, France.
Concrete Garden, Nuit Blanche, curated by Chiara Parisi, Metz
The Right to Protest, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel.
Uncertain Spectator, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Troy, New York, USA.
Nomad-Ness Hangar à bananes, Nantes, France.
Exhibition, Exhibition, Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy.
Nevermore, Souvenir, souvenir, que me veux-tu?, MAC/VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, France.
Fragments of Machine, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany & IMO projects, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Perpetual Battles, Baibakov Art Projects, Moscow, Russia.
Fax, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance CA, USA.
La Suite (Reset), Air de Paris, Paris, France.
A Vernacular of Violence, Invisible-Exports, New York, U.S.A.
The nice thing about Castillo/Corrales, Castillo / Corrales, Paris, France.
Les recherches d’un chien, La maison rouge – Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France.
National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Nizhny Novgorod, Moscow, Russia.
Arte Y Politica : Conflictos Y Disyuntivas, Museo de Arte de Culiacán, Culiacán, Mexico.
Hyper Real, MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria.
It is written, an audio project curated by Adam Vackar, Centre Pompidou Metz, Metz, France.
Volume Collection, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa di Venezia, Venice, Italy.
In Print, curated by Adam Carr, e-flux reading room, New York, USA.
Seconde main, Musée d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris / ARC, Paris, France.
Rip It Up And Start Again, Phillipe Thomas co-curated with Stefan Kalmár, Artists space, New York, USA.
Try different keywords, Galerie Estrany de la Mota, Barcelona, Spain.
It is It, Espacio 1414, Santurce, Puerto Rico.
Fax, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong.
Foreigners Everywhere, curated by Claire Fontaine, T293, Napoli, Italy.
Contemplating the Void : Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA.*
Geography of Trans-territories, curated by Hou Hanru, San Fransisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA / Site Art Space, Hong Kong.
Somewhere / Nowhere Algún lugar / Ningún lugar, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo – MUAC, Mexico City, Mexico.
The Traveling Show, curated by Adriano Pedrosa, La Colección Jumex, México D.F., Mexico.
El Gabinete Blanco, curated by Adriano Pedrosa, La Colección Jumex,
Efecto Drácula/comunidades en transformación, Museo Universitario del Chopo, México D.F., Mexico.
Di Goldene Keyt, Hangar 2, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israël.
Languages and Experimentations, Mart - Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy.
Lovelace, IMO projects, Copenhagen, Danemark.
Investigations of a Dog, Ellipse Foundation, Cascais, Portugal.
Gallery, Galerie, Galleria, curated by Adam Carr, Norma Mangione Gallery, Torino, Italy.
Charles Fourier ou l’Attraction passionnée, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Archéologie, Besançon, France.
Where Do We Go From Here? Selections from La Colección Jumex, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA.
Hyper Real, MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria.
2009
BAROCK, curated by Mario Codognato, MADRE, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea DonnaREgina, Napoli, Italy.
That’s all Folks, Stadthallen, Bruges, Belgium.
Where Do We Go From Here? Selections from La Colección Jumex, Bass Museum, Miami Beach, USA.
Poétique du Chantier, Musée-château, Annecy, France.*
Investigations of a Dog, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy.
The Malady of Writing, MACBA, The Museu d’Art Contemporani De Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Foreigners Everywhere, curated by and including Claire Fontaine, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israël.
Dance in My Experience, co-curated by Vanessa Joan Müller and Cristina Ricupero, Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Germany.
La Suite, Air de Paris, Paris, France.
Rip It Up And Start Again, Phillipe Thomas co-curated with Stefan Kalmár, Kunstverein München, Germany.
Reciprocidad, Centro Cultural de España en Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Going to Market, curated by Caroline Ugelstad, Henie Onstad Art Centre, Oslo, Norway.
Delocalisation, curated by Fatos Ustek, Press to Exit project Space, Skopje *
Mamoyguara opa mamo pupé, curated by Adriano Pedrosa, Museu de Moderna Arte de Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Pivot Points 3, MOCA, Museum Of Contemporary Art, North Miami, USA.
Second Show- Contemporary Art from The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, curated by Suzanne Landau & Amitai Mendelson, Beit Mani House, Tel Aviv, Israël.
Carpet and Friends, MD72, Berlin, Germany.
Eppur Si Muove, curated by Ilaria Bonacossa, Palazzo Ducale, Loggia degli Abati, Genoa, Italy.
Descent to Revolution, curated by James Voorhies, Bureau for Open Culture, Columbus College of Art & Design, Colombus, USA.
Depression, Marres Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, Netherlands.
Utopics, curated by Simon Lamunière, 11th Swiss Sculpture Exhibitions, Biel/Bienne, Switzeland.*
Eternal Tour 2009, curated by Donatella Bernardi, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.*
Return to Function, curated by Jane Simon, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin, USA.
Marriage Equality Now, curated by Karl Homqvist, Giti Nourbakhsch Project Space, Berlin, Germany.
No Solid Crystal, Remap KM2, Kerameikos Metaxourgeio, Athens, Greece.
It won’t stop until we talk, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israël.
FID de Marseille, 20ème Edition, Marseille, France.
Etrange familiarité, familière étrangeté, La galerie Montgrand – Ecole Supérieure des Beaux Arts, FID Marseille, Marseille, France.
Audio, Video, Disco, curated by David Bussel, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Living Together curated by Xabier Arakistain & Emma Dexter, Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kulturunea, Vitoria-Gasteiz Spain.*
Blind chance and possible futures, Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem, Netherlands.
No More Reality, curated by Claire Staebler & Jelena Vesic, The Depot, Istanbul, Turkey.
The Real Thing, curated by Oliver Laric, MU Eindhoven, Netherlands.
Fragile Currency, curated by Ilaria Gianni, Klemm’s, Berlin, Germany.
Problem Solving, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
Shifting Identities, CAC (Contemporary Art Center), Vilnius, Lithuania.*
Fax, curated by Joao Ribas, The Drawing Center, New York, USA.
Pseudonymos, Gods of Deception, Rauhfaser, Berlin, Germany.
A shell for Identities, curated by Fanny Gonella, Kurator, Alte Fabrik Rapperswil, Switzerland.
After October, curated by Tim Saltarelli, Gallery TPW, Toronto, Canada.
Getting even, oppositions + dialogues in contemporary art, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany.
From A Position, curated by Maxwell G. Graham, Evanston Art Center, Illinois, USA.
The Making of Art, The Art World and It’s Players, curated by Martina Weinhart, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany.
Untitled (Take the Money and Run), De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2008
Mutual, On collaboration, Samson Projects, Boston, USA.
The Possibility of an Island, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, U.S.A.
Getting even, oppositions + dialogues in contemporary art, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
Over the rainbow, curated by Benoit Villain with rca5600.be, Galerie de l´Erban, Nantes, France. *
Moments, MD72, Berlin, Germany.
Salon of the Revolution, 29th Youth Salon Zagreb, curated Ivana Bago & Antonia Majaca, House of Artists, Zagreb, Croatia.
The last days of the current time, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Review, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany.
All’s Fair in Art and War : Envisioning Conflict, 21c Museum, Louisville, USA.
This is not a void, curated by Jens Hoffman, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brasil.
Interstitial Zones - Historical Facts, Archaeologies of the Present and Dialectics of Seeing, Argos, Brussel, Belgium.
Over the rainbow, curated by Benoit Villain with rca5600.be, l’Espace le Carré, Halle aux Sucres, Lille, France.
The Great Transformation – Art and Tactical Magic, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain.
Occupancy by More than 6’682’685’387 Persons is Dangerous and Unlawful, collaborations with Pierre Bismuth, Cosmic Gallery, Paris
Letters from a Front, Action Field Kodra 2008, Kalamaria, Thessaloniki, Greece.
abc art berlin contemporary - Alter Postbahnhof am Gleisdreieck, Berlin, Germany.
An Unruly History of the Readymade, curated by Jessica Morgan, Fundacíon Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico*.
Zapping Unit, A project by Marie Auvity and Keren Detton, Centre d’art contemporain de la Ferme du Buisson, Marne-la-Vallée, France.
Artfocus 2008, curated by Ami Barak & Bernard Blistène, The Jerusalem Foundation, Israël.
Constructs for Illumination, Allsopp Contemporary, London, U.K.
Perception of Ideas Leads to New Ideas, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Fair Market, Rental Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Principle Hope, Manifesta 7, curated by Adam Budak, Rovereto, Trentino, Italy*.
A Modest Proposal, curated by Alistair Robinson, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland, U.K.
One Season in Hell, MD 72, Berlin, Germany.
One or two things, ‘Live’ work/presentations’, curated by Anne-Sophie Dinant, South London Gallery, London, U.K.
Faites vos je, Sextant et plus, La friche la belle de mai, Marseille, France.
Perplexed in Public, Lisson Gallery, London, U.K.
Industrial Lies: dystopian visions of the human developement in the era of the immaterial, curated by Giovanni De Donà, Disparie Dispari, Reggio Emilia, Italy.
Less is less and more is more, Musée d’Art Contemporain CAPC, Bordeaux, France.
Revolutions - Forms That Turn, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, 16th Biennale of Sydney, Sidney, Australia*.
The Great Transformation – Kunst und Taktische Magic, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany.
L’argent, curated by Elisabeth Lebovici and Caroline Bourgeois, Le Plateau, FRAC ile de France, Paris, France.
Jenseits von Eden – Eine Gartenschau: Lost Paradise – Der Blick des Engels, curated by Juri Steiner, Zentrum Paul Klee, Berne, Switzerland.
Peripheral Vision and Collective Body, Museion, Bolzano, Italy*.
Muliversity, S.A.L.E., Magazzini del Sale; Venece, Italy.
La chute d’eau, l’espace d’art Circuit, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Valeurs Croisées, Les Ateliers de Rennes – Biennale d’art contemporain, Rennes, France.*
The Store, curated by Adam Carr, Tulips & Roses, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Bouncing Balls, Werke aus der Sammlung Schröder, MD72, Berlin, Germany.
Records played backward, curated by Daniel Baumann, Glasgow International, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, U.K.
Where the lions are, curated by Francois Piron, Sheung Wan Civic Centre, Hong Kong.
Etcétera..., curated by Claire Fontaine, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, France.
Italia Italie Italien Italy Wlochy, curated by G. Del Vecchio, A. Rabottini, E.L. Scipioni, A. Viliani, ARCOS Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Sannio, Benevento, Italy.*
Contrapolis; or, Creativity and Enclosure in the Cities, Nai, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Prêt-à-porter, curated by KunstBüroBerlin for The Kasseler Kunstverein, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany.*
Porte-Parole, Théâtre Universitaire de Nantes Bâtiments Censive et Tertre Pôle Étudiant, Nantes, France.
Unfair fair, curated by Cecilia Canziani and Vincent Honoré, Loto Arte, Rome, Italy.*
Fate Presto, Chiesa dell’Addolorata, Salerno, Italy.*
Ghost in the Machine, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway.*
The Artist’s Library, curated by Carrie Pilto, Le Centre international d’art et du paysage de l’île de Vassivière, France.
Bad Moon Rising, curated by Jan Van Woensel, Silverman Gallery, San Fransisco, U.S.A.
The object is the mirror, curated by Max Henry, Wilkinson gallery, London, U.K.
Trouble Makers, A curi di Marco Baravalle, S.A.L.E., Magazzini del Sale; Venece, Italy.
After Spinoza, how to enter the machine, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Ice Cream Party, Sébastien & Rodolphe Janssen project space, Brussels, Belgium.
2007
French Kissing in the U.S.A, The Moore Space, Miami, U.S.A.*
Terrible Video, How to cook a wolf, Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland.*
Unmonumental - the art object in the 21st century, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, U.S.A.
Pawnshop, e-flux, New York, U.S.A.
EMERGING WOR(L)DS, Tina B, the Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague, Czech Republic.*
The Irresistible Force, Tate Modern, London, U.K.
White light/Write it. La Théorie Ondulante, Lieu-Commun, Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France.
Poetical Political, curated by David Thorp, Simon Lee Gallery, London, U.K.
00’s, The history of a decade that has not yet been named, Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon 2007, Musée d’art contemporain, Lyon & Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France.*
Not Only Possible, But Also Necessary-Optimism in the age of global war, curated by Hou Hanru, 10th International Istanbul Biennal, Istanbul, Turkey.
The Great Society, curated by Daniel Fuller, Esther M. Klein Art Gallery, Philadelphia, U.S.A.
Belgrade Summer Festival, curated by Miroslav Karic and Maja Ciric, Belgrade, Serbia.*
Hello, Goodbye, Thankyou, curated by Anthony Huberman, galerie Castillo/Corrales, Paris, France.
Someone else with my fingerprints, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France.
Unlimited, with Air de Paris, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris and Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York.
Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Otra de Vaqueros, a project by Eva Svennung, au Bac, Bâtiment d’art contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland.
Subversion, curated by Estelle Nabeyrat & Frédéric Maufras, La box, Ecole nationale supérieure d’art de Bourges, Bourges, France.
Some proposals for the next future, PSG Gallery, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
A Theory-Fiction between the Real and the Possible, Beijing Center for Creativity, Yonghe Museum, Beijing, China.
The Backroom, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France.
Power Play, Artpace, San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A.
Laws of relativity, Fondazione Sandretto Arte Contemporanea, Torino, Italy.
The importance of not being seen, curated by Luca Cerizza, Berlin Weekend, Café Moskau, Berlin, Germany.
Beneath the Underdog, Gagosian Gallery, Madison Avenue, New York, U.S.A.
Multiplyplex. A Pedestrian Cinema Production, with Bernadette Corporation and Reena Spaulings, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.
Otra de Vaqueros, a project by Eva Svennung, Perros Negros, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico.*
Radio Danièle, radio program curated by Christopher Williams and John Kelsey (in conjunction with William’s exhibition at GAM/Bologna), Bologna, Italy.
Quotidian, curated by Tom Duncan, Buia Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Inky Toy Infinitas, curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Cereal Art, Philadelphia, U.S.A.
Mount Analogue Academy, curated by Gareth James and John Kelsey, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany.
For the people of Paris, Group show, c/o Ghislaine Hussenot, Sutton Lane, Paris, France.*
Footnotes on the State of Exception, Renna Spaulings Fine Art, New York, U.S.A.
2006
Drapeaux Gris, Musée d’Art Contemporain CAPC, Bordeaux, France.*
Domino, Air de Paris, Paris, France.
ANONYM, In the Future no one will be famous, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany.
Incipit, Espace Paul Ricard, Paris, France.
The Look of Law, University of California, Irvine, U.S.A.
Starship, Der deutsche Kunstlerbund, Berlin, Germany.
The Three Cities 2, The Factory Hall, Milan, Italy.
Group Therapy, Museo d’arte moderna e contemporanea Bolzano, Italy.
Aakey, Centre de Création Contemporaine (CCC), Tours, France.
Upping the Anti, Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Continuous Project #8, CNEAI, Chatou, France.
IMAGE WAR : Contesting Images of Political Conflict, CUNY Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
La Maman et la Putain, Air de Paris, Paris, France.
Grey Flags, The Sculpture Centre, New York, U.S.A.
Ça s’ouvre ? Ça s’ouvre pas, Ateliers d’Artistes de la Ville de Marseille, Marseille, France.
The Dimes of March, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, U.S.A.
Mafia, or One Unopened Packet of Cigarettes, Standard, Oslo, Norway.
Optik Schröder, Kunstverein Braunscheig eV, Germany.
2005
MARS PAVILION, un laboratorio di resistenza artistica nel cuore della 51° Biennale delle Arti Visive di Venezia, Venice, Italy.
Mots D’ordre, Mots de Passe, Espace Paul Ricard, Paris, France.
Etrangers Partout, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France.
Residencies, research, talks and grants (show/hide)
2012
Wattis Residency, San Francisco, U.S.A.
2011
ISCP Residency, Culture France, New York, USA.
Tableau : painting, photo, objets, with Keynote presentations from Philip Armstrong, Claire Fontaine (Fulvia Carnevale), Jean François Chevrier and Michael Fried, Tate Modern, London, U.K.
Artist talk, Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia.
Artist talk, Evidences of Bricks, PICA (Portland Institute of Contemporary Art), Portland, U.S.A.
Viva Paris !, interview with Jens Hoffman, The Road to Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy.
Symposium on the copy, organized by Stephanie Moisdon, l'ECAL avec les écoles de Genève et de Sierre, ECAL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Claire Fontaine, Bartleby ou la grève humaine, Anna Kubista Radio Praha, Prague, Czech Republic.
Everything is in Everything : From Intellectual Emanicipation to Aesthetic Education, Graduate Studies in Art Department at At Center College of Design, Pasadena, U.S.A.
Artist talk, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Conférence de Claire Fontaine, CNEAI / Air de Paris, Paris, France.
Artist talk and seminar, "To the Arts, Citizens!", Serravles, Porto Portugal.
Artist talk, Tranzit, Tranzitdisplay, Prague, Czech Republic.
Artist talk and Masterclass, Goldsmits College, London, U.K.
Artist talk, Mountain College, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
2010
Artist talk, conservation aux Arts Déco, (Class of Pierre Alferi), Arts Déco, Paris, France.
All the King's Horses, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Artist talk, (Class of George Lappis), Athens School of Art, Athens, Greece.
Artist talk, Pavillon Carré de Baudouin, Biennale de Belleville, Paris, France.
Soirée Seconde main, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France.
Artist talk, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida, U.S.A.
TRAVERSES, Musée d'Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, France.
Video Interview with Cuauhtemoc Medina / Dialogos : Claire Fontaine y Cuaubtemoc Medina, El Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico D.F., Mexico.
Impuissance Politique, Crise de la Singularité. Rencontre avec Claire Fontaine, Université PAris 8, Saint Denis, Paris, France.
The Valand Seminar for Advances Art Theory, Valand School of Fine Arts, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Artist Talk, Master en arts visuels, ECAL, Lausanne Switzerland. 01.10.
Artist Talk, Masterclass, Kunstakademie München, München, Germany.
Artist Talk, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA. 02.10
Panel Discussion/talk, MIT Wasserman Forum at MIT, Boston, USA. 03.10
2009
Defend Yourself, artist talk with Jens Hoffman, Art Lobby, Art Basel Miami, Miami, USA.
Arteypensamiento (artandthinking), organized by Nuria Enguita Mayo, Claire Fontaine with Sean Snyder.
Michael Krebber and Elena Crippa, International University of Andalusia, Seville, Spain.
Libidinal Economy, organized by James Vooorhies, Descent to Revolution, Office of Collective Play, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Peep-hole, panel discussion with Beatrix Ruf, John Miller, Jutta Koether, Falke Pisano and Claire Fontaine, Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland.
Ecole de Stéphanie, Utopics, Bienne, Switzerland.
Icones, Question of the Object, organized by Simon Baier and Birgit Pelzer, Graduate Summer School.
University of Basel. Schaulager , Basel, Switzerland.
Artist residency, Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado (FAAP) with the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM) Sept –Nov., Brazil.
Artist Talk, Masion Descartes, Institut Français des Pays-Bas, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Exhibition Walk through and talk, Friends of the Museum of Israel, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France.
Artist Talk, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München, Germany.
2008
Artist Talk, École nationale des beaux-arts de Lyon, Lyon, France.
In/Out the white cube today, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, à l’Audiorium de l’INHA Paris, France.
MULTIVERSITY, ovvero l’arte della sovversione / or the Art of Subversion, S.a.L.E. Docks, Venice, Italy.
Claire Fontaine in discussion with Lars Bang Larsen, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Ping Pang Pong, artist talk, Le Centre international d’art et du paysage de l’île de Vassivière, France.
Porte-Parole, Théâtre Universitaire de Nantes Bâtiments Censive et Tertre Pôle Étudiant, Nantes, France.
2007
Séminaire « politique de l’image / image du politique », Centre d’art passerelle, Brest, France.
Artist Talk, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Mai, Germany.
Strike: Devices, problems and contradictions of Claire Fontaine, Artist Talk, Office for Contemporary Art Norway.
"Planet Claire", Encounter with Claire Fontaine, Art Lobby, Art Basel 38, Basel, Switzeland.
International Studio Program Oslo, Office for Contemporary Art Norway.
Claire Fontaine : interview, Galleria dell’Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli, Napoli, Italy.
Something you shoud know/Artistes et producteurs aujourd’hui, A seminar conceived and organized by Patricia Falguières, Elisabeth Lebovici, Hans-Ulrich Obrist et Natasa Petresin, CESTA/EHESS, Paris, France.
Utopia Station et Making things public, with Molly Nesbit, H.U.Obrist, Bruno Latour, Peter Weibel, l’EHESS, Paris, France.
Localismos residency, Perros Negros curated by Fernando Mesta, Adriana Lara and Agustina Ferreyra, Mexico City, Mexico.
La révolte intime, Donatella Bernardi, collectif Claire Fontaine, Monica Bonvicini, MAPS, l’Ecole cantonale d’art du Valais (ECAV), Sierre, Switzerland.
Philosophie & Art contemporain, with Laurent Jeanpierre, Atelier a la Villa Arson, Nice, France.
Artist talk, L’école des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, France.
Artist talk, École régionale des Beaux-Arts de Valence, Spain.
2006
Group Therapy, Giornata del contemporaneo with Bernadette Corporation, Museo d’arte moderna e contemporanea Bolzano, Italy.
Retour du colonial ?, Colloque organisé par AIRCRIGE (Association internationale de recherche sur les crimes contre l’humanité et les génocides), EHESS, Paris, France.
M.F.A. Glasgow School Of Art, Glasgow, U.K.
Le Lundi c’est théorie, Laurent Jeanpierre, Bruce Begout, Laurent Foulon, Espace Paul Ricard, Paris, France. Journée d’études: “ Art et études féministes : méthodologies plurielles”, Université Rennes 2, France.
Estética e Politica, Encontro Internacional, Sao Paolo, Brazil.
2005
Démocratie à propos, Antonia Birnbaum, Eric Hazan, Alain Joxe, Marie-José Mondzain, Jacques Rancière, Suely Rolnik, La Fonderie, Le Mans, France.
Workshop Waiting International Art Workshop, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Dap research grant for the work in progress ‘Please God MakeTomorrow Better’ (ongoing video archive of interviews on political impotence).
Artist talk, IUAV, Venice, Italy.
2004-2005
Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France.
2004
Seminar with Giorgio Agamben; IUAV, Venice, Italy.
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Selected artist for a proposed monument to Charles Fourier, Mairie de Paris, Paris 08.07
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