Lives and works in Paris
Solo Exhibitions
2019
Lambda Pictoris, Frac Normandie Rouen
QuasaRites Day, Le 106, Rouen (installation + events curating)
2018
EremitA, Printemps de septembre, Lieu-Commun, Toulouse
2017
2016
Aniline Black, Centre d'art contemporain / Passages, Troyes
Lazarus, Zombie, Elvis, Galerie Lily Robert, Paris
2015
The Oracular Illusion, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d'art contemporain*
2014
Eleventh Walk, Le Quartier, Quimper
Comfort in Being Sad, Standard Deluxe, Lausanne, Switzerland
Epiphyte, Vitrine, FRAC Ile-de-France/ Le Plateau, Paris
2013
Musical Perforation, Galerie Olivier Robert, Paris
2019
Lambda Pictoris, Frac Normandie Rouen
QuasaRites Day, Le 106, Rouen (installation + events curating)
2018
EremitA, Printemps de septembre, Lieu-Commun, Toulouse
2017
Disperări, Galerie L&V, Dijon
2016
Aniline Black, Centre d'art contemporain / Passages, Troyes
Lazarus, Zombie, Elvis, Galerie Lily Robert, Paris
2015
The Oracular Illusion, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d'art contemporain*
2014
Eleventh Walk, Le Quartier, Quimper
Comfort in Being Sad, Standard Deluxe, Lausanne, Switzerland
Epiphyte, Vitrine, FRAC Ile-de-France/ Le Plateau, Paris
2013
Musical Perforation, Galerie Olivier Robert, Paris
2011
Modern Escapism, Galerie Olivier Robert, Paris
Elodie Lesourd, Farah Atassi, Les Eglises, contemporary art center, Chelles, France *
2009
Bend Sinister, Galerie Olivier Robert, Paris
2007
Obituary, Museum of Contemporary Art, MAC/VAL, Vitry sur Seine, France *
POGO, Galerie Alain le Gaillard-Olivier Robert, Paris
Group Exhibitions
2019
Turnaround, Le Carré, Vincennes
Some of Us, Kunstwerk Carlshütten, Büdelsdorf, Germany
Draw me a Flag, with Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Bienalsur, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Tympanrétine, FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême
2018
A Beautiful Elsewhere/Draw me a Flag, with Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Power Station of Art, Shangai, China
Le rouge et le noir (Feros #3), Galerie Hypercorps, Brussel, Belgium
The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore, Le Commun - BAC, Geneva, Switzerland
L, FRAC Ile-de-France, château de Rentilly, Bussy-Saint-Martin
2017
Peindre, dit-elle (chap. 2), Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dole *
Lucifer Rising, Monument Historique Hôtel de Vogüé, Dijon
Summershow#2, Galerie Lily Robert, Paris
Friends & Family, Galerie Eva Hober, Paris*
Playlist, Erratum Galerie, Berlin
Variations [sur un même thème], Le Parvis, Scène Nationale Tarbes Pyrénées
2016
Freux Follets, BBB centre d'art contemporain, Toulouse -curating-
Julian Dashper & Friends, Ps projectspace, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Lucite, Musée départemental d'art contemporain, Rochechouart
2015
(Un mural, des tableaux), FRAC Ile-de-France/Le Plateau, Paris
La vie de château, Musée départemental d'art contemporain, Rochechouart
Il faut maintenant construire le monde, FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême
Furiosité, Galerie Frédéric Lacroix, Paris
Autofiction d'une collection, Galerie Polaris, Paris
Inauguration of The Pleasure Dome, Galerie Olivier Robert, Paris
Peindre, dit-elle, Musée départemental d'art contemporain, Rochechouart
2014
Des choses en moins, des choses en plus, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Avec et sans peinture, MAC/VAL, Vitry sur Seine*
Symphonie Plastique, Le Carré, Vincennes
Mythomania, Le 106, Scène de musiques actuelles, Rouen
2013
Altars of Madness, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg*
The Wall, Galerie Olivier Robert, Paris
Fans Attitudes - Images de l'adoration, Le 106, Scène de musiques actuelles, Rouen
Friends & Family, Galerie Eva Hober, Paris*
The year of the Snake, Galerie Olivier Robert, Paris
Altars of Madness, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers*
2019
Turnaround, Le Carré, Vincennes
Some of Us, Kunstwerk Carlshütten, Büdelsdorf, Germany
Draw me a Flag, with Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Bienalsur, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Tympanrétine, FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême
2018
A Beautiful Elsewhere/Draw me a Flag, with Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Power Station of Art, Shangai, China
Le rouge et le noir (Feros #3), Galerie Hypercorps, Brussel, Belgium
The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore, Le Commun - BAC, Geneva, Switzerland
L, FRAC Ile-de-France, château de Rentilly, Bussy-Saint-Martin
2017
Peindre, dit-elle (chap. 2), Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dole *
Lucifer Rising, Monument Historique Hôtel de Vogüé, Dijon
Summershow#2, Galerie Lily Robert, Paris
Friends & Family, Galerie Eva Hober, Paris*
Playlist, Erratum Galerie, Berlin
Variations [sur un même thème], Le Parvis, Scène Nationale Tarbes Pyrénées
2016
Freux Follets, BBB centre d'art contemporain, Toulouse -curating-
Julian Dashper & Friends, Ps projectspace, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Lucite, Musée départemental d'art contemporain, Rochechouart
2015
(Un mural, des tableaux), FRAC Ile-de-France/Le Plateau, Paris
La vie de château, Musée départemental d'art contemporain, Rochechouart
Il faut maintenant construire le monde, FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême
Furiosité, Galerie Frédéric Lacroix, Paris
Autofiction d'une collection, Galerie Polaris, Paris
Inauguration of The Pleasure Dome, Galerie Olivier Robert, Paris
Peindre, dit-elle, Musée départemental d'art contemporain, Rochechouart
2014
Des choses en moins, des choses en plus, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Avec et sans peinture, MAC/VAL, Vitry sur Seine*
Symphonie Plastique, Le Carré, Vincennes
Mythomania, Le 106, Scène de musiques actuelles, Rouen
2013
Altars of Madness, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg*
The Wall, Galerie Olivier Robert, Paris
Fans Attitudes - Images de l'adoration, Le 106, Scène de musiques actuelles, Rouen
Friends & Family, Galerie Eva Hober, Paris*
The year of the Snake, Galerie Olivier Robert, Paris
Altars of Madness, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers*
2012
Les bruits du dehors, Biennale of contemporary art, Musée Maritime et Portuaire, Le Havre
Beautiful Painting is Behind Us, Umetnostna galerija, Maribor, Slovenia*
Donatello parmi les fauves, Galerie Olivier Robert, Paris
Death can Dance, Townhouse, Zurich, Switzerland*
Black Thorns in the White Cube, Western Exhibition, Chicago, USA*
La belle peinture est derrière nous, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France*
Black Thorns in the White Cube, Paragraph Gallery, Kansas City, USA*
2011
Genealogie, Galerie Olivier Robert, Paris
Les bruits du dehors, Biennale of contemporary art, Musée Maritime et Portuaire, Le Havre
Beautiful Painting is Behind Us, Umetnostna galerija, Maribor, Slovenia*
Donatello parmi les fauves, Galerie Olivier Robert, Paris
Death can Dance, Townhouse, Zurich, Switzerland*
Black Thorns in the White Cube, Western Exhibition, Chicago, USA*
La belle peinture est derrière nous, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France*
Black Thorns in the White Cube, Paragraph Gallery, Kansas City, USA*
2011
Genealogie, Galerie Olivier Robert, Paris
Beautiful Painting is Behind Us, CER Modern, Ankara, Turkey*
After, Zerofold, Cologne, Germany
N. Darrot, A. Duchene, E.Lesourd, A.Pahlavi, Y. Vey, Galerie Eva Hober, Paris
Do you think that would have made it magic?, Gisèle Vienne & Elodie Lesourd, Galerie Olivier Robert, Paris -curating-
2010
Beautiful Painting is Behind Us, French Institut, Antrepo n°5, Istanbul, Turkey*
It is life, Minus Space, New York, USA *
Black Mirror, Arsenic, Center for Contemporary Art, Lausanne, Switzerland*
Rock, Bonnat Museum, Bayonne, France
Collection 3, Claudine and Jean Marc Salomon Foundation, Alex, France*
Rock, Sala de Armas, La Ciudadela, Pamplona, Spain
Fake!, Stedelijk Museum, Aalst, Belgium
2009
Noli me tangere, Galerie Olivier Robert, Paris
Rendez-vous, Institut d'art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France *
Art-o-rama, Friche de la Belle de Mai, Marseilles, France
Faux Frères, In Situ Gallery, Aalst, Belgium
Parcours art contemporain, Library, Vincennes, France
2008
La marque jeune, Museum of Ethnography, Neuchatel, Switzerland *
Bijoux de famille, CAN, Center for Contemporary Art, Neuchatel,
Série Noire, Villa Bernasconi, Geneva,
2007
Svarte Sirkel, la Louisiane Hotel, Paris -curating-
Rock’n’Vidéo, Museum of Contemporary Art, MAC/VAL, Vitry sur seine, France
2005
J’en rêve, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris *
Diabolo Nantes, le Lieu Unique, Center for Contemporary Creation, Nantes, France
Random, ERBA Nantes, France
2004
Festival Vidéo, Regional Center of Contemporary Art, Valence, France
2003
Machin-Machine, University, Lyons, France *
Marathon Vidéo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyons, France
Performances
2019
D.C. RØ.C., concert-performance for 3 guitarists, FRAC Normandie Rouen
2018
Diminished Finlucier, concert-performance for 3 musicians, Printemps de septembre, Lieu-Commun, Toulouse
2017
Seven Third Eye, concert-performance for 7 guitarists and visitors, Casino Luxembourg, LU
MMoS* (Olletsac), concert-performance for 2 guitarists and an exhibition, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL
MMoS* (Sumong), concert-performance for 2 guitarists and an exhibition, FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême
Triade Noire, concert-performance for 2 guitarists, (with Frac Ile-de-France), National Dramatic Center, Nanterre-Amandiers
2014
RE†FA, concert-performance for 4 guitarists, (with Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton), Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Naxäh, concert-performance for 2 guitarists, Le Quartier, Quimper
2011
D.C. RØ.C., concert-performance for 3 guitarists, FRAC Normandie Rouen
2018
Diminished Finlucier, concert-performance for 3 musicians, Printemps de septembre, Lieu-Commun, Toulouse
2017
MMoS* (Ołdyb), concert-performance for 2 guitarists and 2 exhibitions, FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon
2015Seven Third Eye, concert-performance for 7 guitarists and visitors, Casino Luxembourg, LU
MMoS* (Olletsac), concert-performance for 2 guitarists and an exhibition, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL
MMoS* (Sumong), concert-performance for 2 guitarists and an exhibition, FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême
Triade Noire, concert-performance for 2 guitarists, (with Frac Ile-de-France), National Dramatic Center, Nanterre-Amandiers
2014
RE†FA, concert-performance for 4 guitarists, (with Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton), Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Naxäh, concert-performance for 2 guitarists, Le Quartier, Quimper
2011
37 notes to Herostratus, concert-performance for 2 guitarists and a teenager, les Eglises, contemporary art center, Chelles
2009
Morton Feldman en chemise à carreaux, concert-performance for 3 guitarists, galerie Olivier Robert, Paris
2007
I ONE I X HE/DIE, concert-performance on the roof of the museum, MAC/VAL, Vitry sur Seine
2006
2006
Hunky Dory : compression, concert-performance for 11 guitarists, Auditorium, MAC/VAL, Vitry sur Seine
2005
Variations Osterberg concert-performance, Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, Paris
2003
KFK-MDL-PSR 225, Experimental Music Festival, Lyons
Bowie/Bauhaus, Dubbing S.P., Le Magasin, National Center of Contemporary Art, Grenoble
Collections
FNAC, Paris
FNAC, Paris
FRAC Ile-de-France/Le Plateau, Paris
FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême
FMAC, Vincennes
MAC/VAL, Vitry sur Seine
Musée départemental d'art contemporain, Rochechouart
Claudine and Jean-Marc Salomon Foundation, Annecy
FMAC, Vincennes
MAC/VAL, Vitry sur Seine
Musée départemental d'art contemporain, Rochechouart
Claudine and Jean-Marc Salomon Foundation, Annecy
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris
Education, scholarship and prizes
2009 Individual grant, Regional Direction for Contemporary Art, Paris
2005 Post Graduate, Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France
2004 Charles Dufraine Prize
2004 DNSEP, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France
Writings and Conferences
2019
"IHMAIWTD - Défaire la peinture d’elle-même" published in La peinture sans titre, edited by Christophe Viart, EESAB
"Discussion entre l'historien et l'artiste", talk with Pascal Rousseau, FRAC Normandie Rouen, February 28th
"Ecoute l'artiste : Elodie Lesourd", conference at Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, January 31th
2018
"Peindre dit-elle, et après ?", artists talk with Nina Childress and Béatrice Cussol, Musée Les Abattoirs, Toulouse,
2017
"Conversation : Agnès Gayraud & Elodie Lesourd", Le Parvis, Scène Nationale Tarbes Pyrénées, September 15th
"Dead, or the Fulfillment of Disaster (contemporary artists dealing with the figure of Per Yngve Ohlin of Mayhem)", published in Bad to the Bone magazine, issue #10, March.
"Witness of a Crime : From Hyperrockalism to Geometric Abstraction", conference at Ecole Européenne Supérieure d'art de Bretagne, Rennes, November 8th
"Infinite Sustain", conference at Science Po - Reims, with Frac Champagne-Ardenne, November 16th
2015
2012
Workshop at Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Toulouse, October 3-4/10-11
2011
"IHMAIWTD - Défaire la peinture d’elle-même" published in La peinture sans titre, edited by Christophe Viart, EESAB
"Discussion entre l'historien et l'artiste", talk with Pascal Rousseau, FRAC Normandie Rouen, February 28th
"Ecoute l'artiste : Elodie Lesourd", conference at Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, January 31th
2018
"Peindre dit-elle, et après ?", artists talk with Nina Childress and Béatrice Cussol, Musée Les Abattoirs, Toulouse,
2017
"Conversation : Agnès Gayraud & Elodie Lesourd", Le Parvis, Scène Nationale Tarbes Pyrénées, September 15th
"Dead, or the Fulfillment of Disaster (contemporary artists dealing with the figure of Per Yngve Ohlin of Mayhem)", published in Bad to the Bone magazine, issue #10, March.
"A Fire Without Light (Black Metal through Contemporary Art)" published in Bad to the Bone magazine, issue #10, March.
2016"Witness of a Crime : From Hyperrockalism to Geometric Abstraction", conference at Ecole Européenne Supérieure d'art de Bretagne, Rennes, November 8th
"Infinite Sustain", conference at Science Po - Reims, with Frac Champagne-Ardenne, November 16th
2015
"Eccentricities and Disorientations: Experiencing Geometricies in Black Metal", co-written with Amelia Ishmael, Helvete Journal, New York, USA, May
2013
"Baptism or Death : Black Metal in Contemporary Art, Birth of a New Aesthetic Category", published in Helvete Journal, New York, USA, March2013
2012
Workshop at Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Toulouse, October 3-4/10-11
2011
"Aesthetic of the Necrophagous Gesture", conference at Foundation Salomon, Annecy, September
2010
"Bruce Russell : Metalchimist of Sound", published in Revue Hippocampe, October
"When I Look to The West, My Spirit Is Crying For Leaving", conference at Ecole d'Art de Bayonne, March
"Modernism 'Rhythm Keeping' For The Culture", published in Reading Room, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand, February
2010
"Bruce Russell : Metalchimist of Sound", published in Revue Hippocampe, October
"When I Look to The West, My Spirit Is Crying For Leaving", conference at Ecole d'Art de Bayonne, March
"Modernism 'Rhythm Keeping' For The Culture", published in Reading Room, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand, February
Monographic catalogues
Gracula Religiosa, Diedrich Diederichsen, Santiago Espinosa, Seldon Hunt, Kevin Muhlen, Casino Luxembourg ed., 2016
Werther Effect, Marco Costantini, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, Thibaut de Ruyter, Dilecta ed., 2012
Obituary, Frank Lamy, Julien Blanpied, Mac/Val ed., 2007
Publications
Gracula Religiosa, Diedrich Diederichsen, Santiago Espinosa, Seldon Hunt, Kevin Muhlen, Casino Luxembourg ed., 2016
Werther Effect, Marco Costantini, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, Thibaut de Ruyter, Dilecta ed., 2012
Obituary, Frank Lamy, Julien Blanpied, Mac/Val ed., 2007
Publications
2019
Volume !, Catherine Guesde et Gérôme Guibert, interview "Elodie Lesourd, black metal et art contemporain : pour une migration des symboles", n° 15-2
France Culture, Aude Lavigne, Les carnets de la création, "Le grand mix"
L'Œil, Élisabeth Couturier, "La collection de stickers d'Elodie Lesourd", n°721
Point contemporain, Anne Bourrassé, "L'hyperrockalisme d'Elodie Lesourd" - online -
Artpress, Julie Crenn, review "Lambda Pictoris", n°466Artpress, Christophe Le Gac, "Elodie Lesourd ou l'art de la synthèse", interview - online -
2018
Féros #3, Clément Gagliano, ed. Les presses du réel
Revue Critique d'art, Claire Astier, "Elodie Lesourd : Gracula Religiosa"
À bas la musique, fanzine by Géraud Bornet, n°1
Beaux-Arts Magazine, Judicaël Lavrador, "Cinq titres fétiches d'Elodie Lesourd", n°414
2017
C'est pas beau de critiquer, Julie Crenn, "χάοσ γένέτο", ed. MAC/VAL
The Black Book, Faye Dowling, "The Kingdom of Darkness", ed. Laurence King Pubkishing
2016
Numero, Maxime Gasnier, "L'exposition d'Elodie Lesourd met l'art sous acide" -online-
Libération, Judicaël Lavrador, "Rencontre avec Elodie Lesourd"
Noisey, François Vesin, "Le black metal est-il soluble dans l'art contemporain ?", interview -online-
Traces, Agnès Violeau, "L'empire des signes", ed. Casino Luxembourg
Bis repetita placent, Frank Lamy & Julien Blanpied, "Reprises", ed. MAC/VAL
France Culture, Aude Lavigne, Les carnets de la création
2015
Parcours#7, L'effet vertigo, ed. MAC/VAL
Artpress,
Philippe Piguet, "Peindre, dit-elle", n°429
Woxx, Luc
Caregari, "Art conceptuel : Messe noire"
Land,
Florence Thurmes, "L’art comme partition de musique"
Journal
des Arts, Aline Vidal, "La peinture féminine prend de l’élan"
Libération, Judicaël
Lavrador, "Les femmes prennent le pinceau par les cornes"
Becoming the Forest, fanzine by Una Hamilton Helle, Le Bon Accueil
2014
Traces, Jérôme Lefèvre, "God Listens to Slayer", ed. Casino Luxembourg
Fondation Cartier, Trente ans pour l'art contemporain, Fondation Cartier Edition
L'Oeil Rouge, "Altars of Madness", n°01
2013
OpticalSound, Pierre Beloüin, P. Nicolas Ledoux & Pascal Béjean, « Elodie Lesourd », n°01
Artpress, Stéphane Malfettes, "Altars of Madness"
Artpress, Xavier Hug, "A contemporary Art, The Masque of Black Metal"
Mouvement, Stéphane Malfettes, "Autels psychédéliques"
2012
Les Inrocks 2, Stéphane Malfettes, "Art & Heavy"
Bite Magazine, Jason Judd, "Black Metal", issue 4
Bite Magazine, Jason Judd, "Black Metal", issue 4
Black Metal: Beyond the Darkness, Black Dog Publishing, Jérôme Lefèvre, "Pure Fucking Armageddon"
2011
Conservative Shithead journal (by Jérôme Lefèvre & Damien Deroubaix), issue #2 : Elodie Lesourd
Hors d'oeuvre, Julien Blanpied, "D'après", issue 27
Le contrat du dessinateur, Le Gac Press
2010
Artpress, Richard Leydier, “Exporama”
Revue Hippocampe, Gwilherm Perthuis, "Entretien avec Elodie Lesourd"
2009
Artpress, Anne Malherbe, review "Bend Sinister"
2008
Journal Particules, Alain Berland "Entretien/Blind test pop rock avec Elodie Lesourd"
Reality Bag, Puma/Serpentine Gallery, invited by John Armleder
2007
Art 21, Tristan Trémeau, "ZPC"
L’Humanité, "Homo economicus"
2005
Journal Particules, Gael Charbau, "Une toile étonnante"
Le Monde, Philippe Dagen, "Etre artiste à vingt ans"
Le Nouvel Observateur, Bernard Géniès, "Rêves d’artistes"
Magazine Guitare Extrême n°5
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Monographic catalogues - more info here -
