David Douard

Language is the very basis of David Douard’s work. The texts and poems he collects on the Internet are manipulated, transformed in order to become a vital flow, feeding into his sculptures. Through language as an ingredient, David Douard redefines space as hybrid and collective by injecting anonymous, chaotic, deviant, ill and frustrating poems in it. As he recreates an infected environment where the real world used to be, the fantasy brought by new digital technologies expands.

David Douard graduated from the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2011. Since 2022, he teaches at the École nationale supérieure d'arts de Paris-Cergy. His work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions organized by international institutions such as UCCA Dune Art Museum, Qinhuangdao (2023); Serralves Museum, Porto (2022); FRAC Île-de-France, Paris (2020); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2019); KURA c/o Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, Milan (2018); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2014 and 2018); Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Paris (2017, 2015); Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig (2016); Fridericianum, Kassel (2015); Sculpture Center, New York (2014); Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo (2014); Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris (2012).

David Douard recently curated exhibitions at institutions such as the Fondation Pernod Ricard (2024) and Basement Roma (2024).

He has also participated in various biennales: Belgrade Biennial (2021); Gwangju Biennial (2018); Taipei Biennial (2014); Lyon Biennial (2013). In 2017-2018, he was a fellow-in-residence at the French Academy in Rome, Villa Medici. Additionally, he received the Fondazione Ettore Fico award in 2017 during the Artissima fair in Turin.

His works are part of the collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai; Collection Pinault, Paris; Serralves Museum, Porto; Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Paris; CNAP, Paris; Lafayette Anticipations, Paris; FRAC Île-de-France, Paris; FRAC Limousin, Limoges; FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims.

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Our exhibitions


David Douard

Permanent Hymns

April 26th — June 4th, 2025


Group exhibition

Je suis la chaise

December 10th, 2022 — February 4th, 2023


David Douard

0’LULABY

June 19th — July 24th, 2021


Group exhibition

DEMAIN EST LA QUESTION

June 27th — July 25th, 2020

External exhibitions


David Douard

Optimized Heart - David Douard

March 26th — June 25th, 2023
UCCA Dune - Center for Contemporary Art - Aranya Gold Coast, Beidaihe — China


David Douard

Biennale de Genève

June 10th — September 30th, 2022
Biennale Genève - Genève — Switzerland


David Douard

O'Ti'Lulabies

May 12th — November 6th, 2022
Fondation Serralves - Porto — Portugal


David Douard

O'Ti'Lulaby

September 27th, 2020 — February 28th, 2021
FRAC Ile-de-France — Le Plateau - Paris — France

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