Benoît Maire (born 22 October 1978 in Pessac)Benoît Maire on the Centre Georges Pompidou website 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.Maire's exhibit catalog for the exhibit The Object of Criticism
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.An interview with Maire on Flash Art Online He also did graduate work at Le Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo in Paris.The artist's biography on the website of his French gallery, Cortex Athletico He was a resident at the Villa Medici in Rome in 2021-2022.https://www.villamedici.it/fr/residences/benoit-maire/
Solo exhibitions (selection) Soon the metal between us will turn into gold, Kunsthalle Mulhouse, 2011Maire's Kunsthalle Mulhouse exhibit announcement Spiaggia di Menzogne, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, 2013Maire's solo exhibit announcement on the Giuliani Foundation website Weapon, Roberts Institute of Art, London, 2013A list of exhibits on the Hollybush Gardens Gallery website Letre, La verrière Hermès, Brussels, 2014 Letter, Western Front, Vancouver, 2014 George Slays the Dragon, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Germany, 2015 Castling the Queen, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, 2016 Thèbes, CapcMusée, Bordeaux, 2018*Thebes, Spike Island, Bristol, UK, 2018.https://www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/benoit-maire-thebes-spike-island-bristol-2018/ Cinque mani Logiche, Fondazione Volume, Roma, 2022 Miss Rankin, galerie Nathalie Obadia, 2020 Without, Croy Nielsen, Vienna 2022 Pierrots, Meessen, Brussels 2024
Public collections (selection) Maire's work is included in public collections such as: Centre Georges Pompidou – Musée National d’Art Moderne, ParisBenoît Maire's profile on ArtFacts.net FRAC Aquitaine, BordeauxA review of Maire's solo show at the FRAC Aquitaine on zerodeux.fr Kadist Art Fondation, ParisMaire talks about his works featured at the Kadist Art Foundation in a video on the Foundation's website Nomas Fondation, Rome FRAC Île-de-France, Le Plateau, Paris David Roberts Art Foundation, London New National Museum of Monaco, Monaco Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Fondazione Giuliani, Rome Mudac, Lausanne
Films (selection) Le Berger (The Shepherd), 2011An excerpt of Le Berger on Youtube L'Île de la répétition (Repetition Island), 2010L'Île de la répétition in Les inRocks Magazine Letre, 2015
See also Conceptual art Aesthetics
References
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.