Benoît Maire

Benoît Maire
Born	(1978-10-22) October 22, 1978 (age 46) Pessac, France
Nationality	French
Education	Palais de Tokyo, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Villa Arson, Nice, Pavillon, and Michel de Montaigne University Bordeaux 3.
Known for	Film, sculpture, painting, photography, collage, performance
Movement	Conceptual

Benoît Maire (born 22 October 1978 in Pessac)[1] is a French visual artist who works in film, sculpture, painting, photography, collage, and performance art. He is known for treating theory as an art form in its own right.[2]

Biography

Benoît Maire studied visual art and philosophy at Michel de Montaigne University Bordeaux 3, at the Villa Arson in Nice, and at the Sorbonne where he began doctoral studies in philosophy, which he subsequently abandoned in 2006.[3] He also did graduate work at Le Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo in Paris.[4] He was a resident at the Villa Medici in Rome in 2021-2022[5]

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• Spiaggia di Menzogne, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, 2013[6]
• Weapon, Roberts Institute of Art, London, 2013[7]
• Soon the metal between us will turn into gold, Kunsthalle Mulhouse, 2011[8]
• Castling the Queen, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, 2016.
• Thebes, Spike Island, Bristol, UK, 2018.[9]

Public collections (selection)

Maire's work is included in public collections such as:

• Centre Georges Pompidou – Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris[10]
• FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux[11]
• Kadist Art Fondation, Paris[12]
• Nomas Fondation, Rome
• FRAC Île-de-France, Le Plateau, Paris
• David Roberts Art Foundation, London
• NMNM, Nouveau Musée National, Monaco
• Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver

Films (selection)

• Le Berger (The Shepherd), 2011[13]
• L'Île de la répétition (Repetition Island), 2010[14]

See also

• Conceptual art
• Aesthetics

References

1. Benoît Maire on the Centre Georges Pompidou website
2. Maire's exhibit catalog Archived January 16, 2014, at the Wayback Machine for the exhibit The Object of Criticism
3. An interview with Maire on Flash Art Online Archived May 3, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
4. The artist's biography on the website of his French gallery, Cortex Athletico
5. https://www.villamedici.it/fr/residences/benoit-maire/
6. Maire's solo exhibit announcement on the Giuliani Foundation website
7. A list of exhibits on the Hollybush Gardens Gallery website
8. Maire's Kunsthalle Mulhouse exhibit announcement Archived 2014-01-16 at the Wayback Machine
9. https://www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/benoit-maire-thebes-spike-island-bristol-2018/
10. Benoît Maire's profile on ArtFacts.net
11. A review of Maire's solo show at the FRAC Aquitaine on zerodeux.fr
12. Maire talks about his works featured at the Kadist Art Foundation in a video on the Foundation's website Archived 2014-02-08 at the Wayback Machine
13. An excerpt of Le Berger on Youtube
14. L'Île de la répétition in Les inRocks Magazine

External links

• Benoît Maire interviewed by Hans Ulrich Obrist.
• A review of Maire's work by Dan Fox in Frieze Magazine.
• The artist's page on his German gallery's website, Croy Nielsen.
• Benoît Maire + Falke Pisano by Anthony Huberman, Blouin ARTINFO, 4 January 2009.
• Benoît Maire Artist Profile by Marie D'Elbée, This Is Tomorrow, 29 November 2011.
• An interview with Benoît Maire in Paris Art Magazine, 2 December 2010.