XAVIER VEILHAN [ARTIST]

Born 1963 in Lyon, France
Lives and works in Paris,
France

Webiste:
www.veilhan.net

Solo exhibitions / Public Projects:    
2010
Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea.
The Mount, Massachusets, USA.
Xavier Veilhan, Muscarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary.  
Sorry We are closed, Galerie Janssen, Bryssels, Belgium.
Veilhan-Versailles, Le château de Versailles, France.
2008
Furtivo, 20 minute silent film with music by Sébastien Tellier, 2008 
Furtivo, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
Furtivo, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Torino
Sophie, work in situ, for the Costes Restaurant L’Arbuci, Paris
2007        
Metric, Gering & López Gallery, New York
Andrehn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm
2006    
Les Habitants, Palais des Congrès de la Communauté Urbaine de Lyon (with Renzo Piano Building Workshop), Lyon (public project)
Miami Snowflakes, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami
Sculptures automatiques, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
2005
Le Plein emploi, MAMC, Strasbourg
Le Projet Hyperréaliste, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham ;
traveling to National Academy Museum, New York
People as Volume, Andrehn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm
Fantome, Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos, Burgos
Mobile, Pinksummer, Genova
Éléments célestes, artistic conception, Chanel Jewelry ; traveling to Taïwan, Paris, New York, Hong Kong, Tokyo
Le Lion, Place Stalingrad, Bordeaux (public project)
2004        
Vanishing Point, Espace 315, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Light Machines, Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence; traveling to Ecuries de Saint-Hugues, Cluny
Keep the Brown, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid
Big Mobile, Forum, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Le Monstre, Place du Marché, Tours (public project)
2003
Keep The Brown, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
2002        
Barbican Art Gallery, London
Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid
Installation from the workshop, Center for Contemporary Art, CCA Kitakyushu, Japan
Konsthallen, Göteborg
2001        
Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
Fundació Joan Miró, Centre d’Estudis d’arte contemporani, Barcelona
Pinksummer, Genova
Andrehn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm
2000    
Le Magasin, Grenoble; curated by Yves Aupetitallot and Lionel Bovier
La Ford T, 5th floor terrace, Centre Pompidou, Paris; curated by Lionel Bovier
Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
The Rhinoceros, Yves St. Laurent, New York
1999        
La Fôret, Le Consortium, Dijon
La Ford T, MAMCO, Geneva
Galerie du Stadt, Schwaz
Galerie Gio Marconi, Milano
1998        
Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid
Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris
CCA of Kitakyushu, Japan; curated by Akiko Miyake and Nobuo Nakamura
Centre d’Art de Brétigny-sur-Orge; curated by Xavier Franchesci
1997        
Sandra Gering Gallery, New York

Selected group exhibitions
2010
Le Mont Analogue, EAC (Espacio de Arte Contemporaneo), Montevideo, Uruguay.
Les Elixirs de Pancée, Palais Bénédictine, Fécamp, France.
Chefs d´oeuvres ?, Centre Pompidou. Metz, France.
Catch Me! Grasping Speed, Kunsthalle Graz, Austria.
World Expo 2010, Shanghai, China.
Centre Pompidou Metz, Paris, France.
Claude Parent, Cité de l´architecture & du patrimoine, Paris, France.
2009 
Mejan Labs Art Exhibition, Stockholm, Sweden.
Tati 2 Temps 3 Mouvements, Cinématèque francaise, Paris, France.
Dream Time, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France.
N´importe Quoi, Musée d´Art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France. Le sort probable de l´homme qui avait avalé le fantome, Conciergerie, Paris, France.
2008 
Prospect.1 New Orleans, New Orleans, USA.       
Everything else, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, USA.
Destruction Party, Royal Monceau Palace Hotel, Paris, France. 
Allsopp Contemporary, London, UK.
The Incomplete, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA.
2007        
The Incomplete, Chelsea Art Museum, New York , USA.
Intrusions au Petit Palais (works from the Fonds Municipal d’Art Contemporain), Petit Palais, Paris, France. 
Airs de Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris (La Cabane Éclatée aux Paysages Fantômes, a project with Daniel Buren; Aérolite, a musical show with Air)
Galerie Rüdiger, Schöttle, Munich, Germany.
2006        
Kit O’Parts, CAN, Neuchâtel
La force de l’art / Grand Palais 2006, Paris
Supernova : Experience Pommery # 3, Domaine Pommery, Reims
Thank you for the music, Simon Lee Gallery, London
Collection and new acquisitions, Viktor Pinchuk Foundation, Kiev
Boucle, place du Trocadéro; Ville Nouvelle, Cour de l’Hôtel de Ville, Nuit Blanche, Paris
InTRANSIT from Object to Site, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence
2005    
Water (Without You I’m not)-Thoughts of a fish in a deep sea, 3rd Biennial of Contemporary Art of Valencia, Valencia
Fundacion La Caixa Collection, 20 years with Contemporary Art: New Acquisitions, Caixa Forum, Barcelona
De lo Real y lo Ficticio: Arte contemporaneo de Francia, Museo de Arte Moderno de Mexico, Mexico City; traveling to Bass Museum, Miami
2004        
None of the Above, Swiss Institute – Contemporary Art, New York
Genesis Sculpture: Experience Pommery #2, Domaine Pommery, Reims
L’Eblouissement, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris
Contrepoint, Musée du Louvre, Paris
2003    
It Happened Tomorrow, 7th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, curated by Le Consortium, Lyon
Split, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
JRP Editions Selected Multiples, Galerie Edward Mitterand, Geneva ; traveling to Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid ; Raum Aktueller Kunst, Martin Janda, Vienna
No.5: Une partie de pétanque, Galerie de multiples, Paris
Coollustre, Collection Lambert, Avignon, curated by Eric Troncy
25th edition of International Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia, curated
by Christophe Chérix and Lionel Bovier
Glass Wall, device conceived for Faits et Gestes, Atelier de mécanique, Parc des
ateliers SNCF, Arles
2002               
Audiolab 2, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Collections croisées, CAPC, Bordeaux
La Part de l’autre, Carré d’art, Nîmes
Les animaux sortent de leur réserve, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Sculpture Now, Palm Beach Institute for Contemporary Art, Palm Beach
The Speed Art Museum, Louisville
Optical Optimism, Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans
 Light X Eight, Jewish Museum, New York
 2002 Taipei Biennial: Great Theatre Of The World, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
2001        
A New Domestic Landscape, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid
Métamorphoses et Clonage, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal
Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
2000        
Jour de fête, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris
Xn00, Espace des Arts, Chalon-sur-Saone; curated by L. Bovier in collaboration with E. Lebovici, JC Masséra, S. Moisdon Trembley, H.U. Obrist, assisted by Nicolas Trembley
Over the Edges, S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium
The Collective Works, Centre d’art Contemporain de Toulouse, Toulouse
Art Unlimited, Art’31, Basel
L’oeuvre collective, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse; curated by Pascal Pique
Vivre sa vie, Tramway, Glasgow; curated by Tanya Leighton
1999        
Abracadabra, Tate Gallery, London; curated by Catherine Grenier
La Fôret, MAMCO, Geneva
Côté Sud…Entschuldigong, La Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel; traveling to
Nouveau Musée, Contemporary Art Institute, Villeurbanne, curated by Jean-Louis Maubant
Bu!, Palazzo del Papesse, Sienna
1998        
Premises, Guggenheim Museum, New York
La Ville, Le Jardin, La Mémoire, Villa Medicis, Roma; curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Carolyn Christov Bakargiev, Laurence Bossé
Freie Sicht An Der Mittelmeer, Kunsthaus, Zurich; curated by Bice Curiger
1997        
Selections from the Collection, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
Créer, Produire, Collectionner: Works from the Collection of the Caisse des Dépots et Consignations, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris
Xavier Veilhan and Matthew McCaslin: Places from the Morton J. Neumann
Collection, French Cultural Services, New York
Artists and Photographs, Museum fur Litteratur, Karlsruhe
504, Braunschweig,
Need for Speed, Kunsthalle, Graz
Bienal Cetijne, Montenegro
Coïncidences, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris

Selected bibliography

Monography and solo exhibition catalogues
Xavier Veilhan. Un peu de biologie, with an interview by Nicolas Bourriaud (in Italian and in English), exhibition catalogue, Galleria Fac-Simile, Milano, 1990

Un centimètre égal un mètre, with texts by Eric Troncy, Liam Gillick (in French and in English), exhibition catalogue, A.P.A.C., Centre d’Art Contemporain, Nevers & Paris, 1991

Xavier Veilhan, artist book, Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, 1992

Xavier Veilhan, Centre de Création Contemporaine, Tours; FRAC Languedoc Roussillon, Montpellier; Consortium, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Dijon; Editions JRP, Geneva; 1995

Tableaux, 1997-1998, Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, 1999

Xavier Veilhan, with texts by Dan Cameron, Liam Gillick, Alison Gingeras, John Miller, Le Magasin, Grenoble, 2000

Vanishing Point, with texts by Alison Gingeras and Christine Macel, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2004

Xavier Veilhan, with text by David Perreau, Editions Hazan, Paris, 2004.

Fantome, with text by Fernandeo Casto Florez, Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos, Burgos, Spain, 2005

Le Plein emploi, with texts by Michel Gauthier, Patrick Javault, Hakan Nilsson and John Welchman (in French and English), exhibition catalogue, Musée d’Art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg, 2005

Light Machines, edited by Les Presses du Réel, 2007

Exhibition Catalogues
French Kiss. A Talk Show, with texts by Nicolas Bourriaud, Eric Troncy, Ijsbrand van Veelen (in French), Halle Sud, Genève, 1990

No Man’s Time, with texts by Christian Bernard, Nicolas Bourriaud, Jean-Yves Jouannais, Eric Troncy, Dominique Gonzales-Foerster, Pierre Ménard, Pierre Joseph, Aimee Rankin & Ashley Bickerton, Johan Muyle, Philippe Parreno, Jim Shaw, Lily van der Stokker, Xavier Veilhan & Liam Gillick, Sylvie Fleury, Jean-Philippe Vienne (in French), Angela Bulloch, Henry Bond & Liam Gillick (in English), Villa Arson, Nice, 1991

Xavier Veilhan, exhibition catalogue, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1993

Comme rien d’autre que des rencontres / Nothing but encounters as it were, with texts by Florent Bex, Isabelle Vierget, Edith Doove (in Deutch, in French and in English), Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst (MUHKA), Antwerpen, 1993

Beyond the Borders, with texts by Lee Yongwoo, Oh Kwang-su, Kathy Halbreich & Rochelle Steiner, Sung Wan-kyung, Jean de Loisy, Anda Rottenberg, Clive Adams, You Hong-june (in English and in Korean), Kwangju Biennale, 1995

Traffic, with texts by Nicolas Bourriaud, Angela Bulloch & Liam Gillick, Jes Brinch & Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Maurizio Cattelan & Philippe Parreno, Honoré d’O, Liam Gillick, Christine Hill, Carsten Höller, Peter Land, Miltos Manetas, Jason Rhoades, Christopher Sperandino & Simon Grennan, Kenji Yanobe (in French and in English), CAPC, Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, 1996

Coïncidences, with texts by André Magnin, Judith Bartolani & Claude Caillol, Raphaëlle Jeune, Eric Duyckaerts, Franck Scurti, Pierre Huyghe, Jean-Baptiste Bruant, Pierre Bismuth (in French), Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, 1997

La ville, le jardin, la mémoire: 1. La ville, with a discussion between Laurence Bossé, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev & Hans Ulrich-Obrist and statements by the artists (in Italian, French and English), as well as autonomous publications for each artist, Villa Médicis, Roma, 1998

Manifesto Coté Sud… Entschuldigung, with texts by Karine Vonna, Chantal Cusin-Berche, José Lebrero Stals, Jean-Louis Maubant, Sergio Risaliti, Leonel Moura, Jean-Claude Conésa, Miquel Molins, Francisco Jarauta, Marc Jimenez, and interviews by Karinne Vonna with Jordi Colomer, José Maldonado, Eulàlia Valldosera, Pierre Huyghe, Pierre Joseph, Xavier Veilhan, Liliana Moro, Alessandra Tesi, Grazia Toderi, Augusto Alves Da Silva, Miguel Palma, João Tabarra (in French), Nouveau Musée, Institut d’art contemporain, La Ferme du Buisson, Villeurbanne & Noisiel, 1998

Premises. Invested Spaces in Visual Arts, Architecture and Design from France, 1958-1998, with texts by Alison Gingeras, Bernard Blistène, Alain Guiheux, Sylvère Lotringer, Denis Hollier, D.W.Rodowich, Benjamin H.D.Buchloch, Dudley Andrew, Philippe Abaïzar, Joseph Abram, Sophie Tasma-Anargyror (in English), Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York, 1998

Bú!, with texts by Augusto Pieroni, Stefano Chiodi, Maria Perozino, Chiara Bertola (in Italian), Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, 1999

Flashes. Tendências contemporâneas/Contemporary Trends. Colecção/Collection Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, with texts by Véronique Baton, Lionel Bovier, Hervé Chandès, Hélène Kelmachter, Grazia Quaroni, Anne Bertrand, Margarida Veiga (in Portuguese and in English), Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisboa Trouble Spot Painting, with texts by Cyril Jarbon (in French and English), Hans Rudolph Reust (in German and English), Wim Peteers (in Dutch and English), and an interview by Vincent Geyskens with Narcisse Tordoir & Luc Tuymans (in Dutch and English), NICC, Mukha, Antwerpen, 1999

Abracadabra, with texts by Nicholas Serota, Catherine Kinley, Martijn van Niieuwenhuyzen, Catherine Grenier, Tanya Barson, Jemima Montago (in English), Tate Gallery, London, 1999

Jour de fête, with a text by Sophie Duplaix & Catherine Grenier (in French), Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, 2000

Vivre sa vie, curated by Tanya Leighton, Tramway, Glasgow, 2000

Xn 00, with texts by Lionel Bovier, Mai-Thu Perret, Oyvind Fahlström, Michel Foucault, Robert Morris, Michel de Certeau, Vito Acconci, Mary Mc Leod, Beatriz Colomina, Jean-Charles Masséra (in French and in English), Espace des Arts, Châlon-sur-Saône, 2000

Avant and Après, with texts by Xavier Douroux, Franck Gautherot, Robert Nickas, Anne Pontegnie, Eric Troncy, Thierry Raspail, catalogues for the 7th Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, 2003/2004

Agua Sin ti no soy/Water Without You I’m Not, avec des textes de/ with texts by Luigi Settembrini, Franck Gautherot, Seungduk Kim, Hongnam Kim, Anna Maria Torres, Leonardo Santos, Maria Calabuig (in Spanish and English), exhibition catalogue 3rd Biennial of Valencia Charta, Generalitat Valenciana, 2005

Upcoming projects
X.Veilhan Comment ça marche?, edited by Onestar Press, 2009
Monography, edited by JRP Ringier, 2009

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