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Bio




Lives and works in Paris


Solo Exhibitions

 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

 2018
A Beautiful Elsewhere/Draw me a Flag, specific projet 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

 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
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, Switzerland
Série Noire, Villa Bernasconi, Geneva, Switzerland

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

2017
MMoS* (Ołdyb), concert-performance for 2 guitarists and 2 exhibitions, FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon
2015
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
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                   
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
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
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

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, March
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


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

2018
Féros #3, Clément Gagliano, ed. Les presses du réel
Revue Critique d'art, Claire Astier, "Elodie Lesourd : Gracula Religiosa"
A bas la musique, fanzine by Géraud Bornet, n°1
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, Judicael 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, Judicael 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
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


* Denotes that a catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibitions


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