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Elsa Werth (born 1985) is a French artist who lives and works in Paris.




Biography


Elsa Werth was born in 1985 in Paris, France. She graduated from both the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs where she studied film animation and École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. She was awarded the price Humankind Leo Burnet in 2013 and the 23rd Pernod Ricard Foundation Prize for contemporary art in 2022.




Work


Elsa Werth practice includes installation, sculpture, video, artist's books, and sound pieces. She has exhibited since 2013 in France, U.S., China, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg and Switzerland.
Her work focuses on the use of common objects and gestures, systems, language, traditional and contemporary rituals. The interpretation of information and commodity production, their relations to the social circles, are the key approaches to her projects. She uses alternative modes of exchange and expression to contradict a world she considers subject to the cult of material values. Her works are always made with simple means to escape spectacular effects.
In 2014 she has curated with Muriel Leray inside a storage unit in Paris Plus une pièce. Since 2016 she curates Potential Visual Evocations, an ongoing outdoor traveling exhibition that took place in Paris, Clichy, Shanghai, Montreal, La Louvière and Seoul. Participating artists include Claude Closky, Seulgi Lee and Marylène Negro among others.




Collections


Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Centre Pompidou, Kadist Art Foundation, Les Abattoirs, Fonds régional d'art contemporain de Normandie-Caen, the Frac des Pays de la Loires, the Frac Franche-Comté, the Centre national des arts plastiques, the Rennes 2 University Cabinet du livre d'artistes.




Selected exhibitions






= Solo exhibitions

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24/7, B09K, Changsha, China, 2023
Titre un à usages multiples, Lendroit, Rennes, 2022
Give and Take, Bloom, Düsseldorf, 2022
Parties de cartes, CDLA, Saint-Yriex-la-Perche, 2021
Blow: Elsa Werth, Bloom, Düsseldorf, 2020
A Land, mfc – Michèle Didier, Paris, 2020
Anywayland, Interface, Dijon, 2019
Temps Partiel [Part-Time], Onde Art Center, Vélizy-Villacoublay, 2019
L'action cesse, Duplex Walden, Geneva, 2018
Temporary Perspectives, Martine Aboucaya Gallery, Paris
Title One for Multiple Use, Bazaar Compatible Program, Shanghai, 2016
Title One for Multiple Use, Martine Aboucaya Gallery, Paris, 2016
Elsa Werth, Primo Piano, Paris, 2014




= Group exhibitions

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Contemporary art collection, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2023
Janelas, BPS22, Charleroi, 2023
The Seashore of Endless Worlds, Le Commun, Geneva, 2023
P,Oe?ie!, TOPO?, Brussels, 2023
De toi à moi, Fondation FIMINCO, Romainville, France, 2022
Horizones, Fondation d'entreprise Pernod Ricard, curated by Clément Dirié, 2022
3 Collectionneurs #8, Été 78, Brussels, 2021
Helix, Bloom, Düsseldorf, curated by Ji Sue Byun, 2021
Nous irons tous au paradis, Frac Normandie – Caen, curated by Anne Cartel, 2021
Tout un film!, Drawing Lab, Paris, curated by Joana P.R. Neves, 2021
X, Frac Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, curated by Claude Closky, 2020
Some of Us, NordArt – Kunst in der Carlshütte, Büdelsdorf, curated by Jérôme Cotinet-Alphaize and Marianne Derrien, 2019
Pourquoi faire, pour quoi faire, Été 78, Brussels, curated by Renato Casciani, 2019
Calculated Chance, The Société, Brussels, curated by Manuel Abendroth et Els Vermang, 2019
ShipShape, Biennale de Coimbra, curated by Tomas Cunha Ferreira, 2019
Tilt Horizon 偏见, AMNUA, Nanjing, curated by Wang Yamin, 2019
26 x Bauhaus, Institut Français, Berlin, 2019, curated by Marjolaine Lévy and Thibaut de Ruyter, 2019
One Minute One Hour One Month... One Million Years, The Island Club Limassol, curated by Christodoulos Panayiotou, 2019
Le génie du lieu, Le Creux de l’Enfer, Thiers, curated by Sophie Auger-Grappin, 2018
Potential Visual Evocations, Darling Foundry, Montreal, 2018
Phantoms, Wonder/Liebert, Bagnolet, curated by Karin Schlageter, 2018
Artist-fun space, Art Center André Malraux, Douarnenez, curated by Julien Nédélec, 2018
Flatland / Abstractions Narratives, Mudam, Luxembourg, 2017
Sentimental Summer, Centre d’Art Bastille (CAB), Grenoble, 2017
La vie mode d’emploi, CAC Chanot, Clamart, curated by Madeleine Mathé and Karin Schlageter, 2017
Do Disturb, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2017
Rob is a Robe, Doc, Paris, 2016
60ème Salon de Montrouge, Montrouge, 2015
Bazar, Primo Piano, Paris, curated by Lucia Schreyer, 2015
Cocktail Games, La Ludothèque éphémère, Paris, curated by Florencia Chernajovsky and Clément Dirié, 2015
Châteaux de cartes, Florence Loewy...by artists, Paris, curated by Camille Azaïs, 2015
Intertidal, Galerie Eva Meyer, Paris, curated by MBDTCurators, 2015
Modifications, Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (ZK/U), Berlin, 2014
Toujours +, Florence Loewy...by artists, Paris, 2014
5/5, Fondation Rosenblum, Paris, curated by Clément Dirié, 2013
Marler Media Art Award, Museum of Sculpture Glaskasten, Marl, curated by Georg Elben, 2013




Selected books


Plus une pièce, Plus un multiple, 2014, ISBN 978-2-9550024-0-7
Sparkless, 2015, ISBN 979-10-94645-00-0
Original soldé, 2018, ISBN 979-10-94645-01-7
Formule de politesse, 2019, ISBN 9791094645024
2020, 2020, ISBN 979-10-94645-03-1
Politeness, 2020, ISBN 979-10-94645-05-5
Un jour dans Le Monde (4 octobre 2019), 2020, ISBN 978-2-917393-11-6
Negociation, 2021, ISBN 979-10-94645-08-6
Meeting Point, 2022, ISBN 979-10-94645-08-6
Abracadabra, 2022, ISBN 978-2-9602786-1-3
Global Warming Coloring Book, 2023 ISBN 979-10-94645-11-6




References






External links


Potential Visual Evocations website
Elsa Werth, Artext

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Beaux-Arts de Paris
• Elsa Werth
• List of contemporary artists
• Prix Fondation d'entreprise Ricard
• Beaux-Arts de Paris
• Centre des livres d'artistes
• MUDAM
• Fabien Danesi
• Camila Oliveira Fairclough
• ABC Artists' Books Cooperative
• FRAC des Pays de la Loire