Xavier Veilhan

Overview
Xavier Veilhan, La Roulotte, 2018. ©ADAGP/Xavier veilhan
Xavier Veilhan, La Roulotte, 2018. ©ADAGP/Xavier veilhan

Xavier Veilhan is arguably one of his generation’s most important artists. His work is multifaceted; encompassing sculpture, installation, painting, photography as well as hybrids of all of these, and he is also engaged in performance work and filmmaking. He plays with the notions of the generic, of the industrially produced object and of universal representation, creating objects at once ambivalent and stark. Concerned with the scenography of a dedicated presentation, Veilhan addresses issues of perception as well as the physical and temporal relationships created within the context of the exhibition format.

 

Veilhan’s ongoing formal research into figuration and abstraction, as well as his interest in works that investigate both the second and third dimension, has led him to explore well-known categories such as portraiture, statuary and mobiles.

 

Xavier Veilhan (b. 1963, France) lives and works in Paris. His work has been exhibited worldwide in acclaimed institutions such as the Château de Versailles, the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Strasbourg, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Geneva and in 2017 at the 57th Venice Biennale, for which he transformed the French Pavilion into Studio Venezia.

 

Veilhan also frequently works in the public space. Inaugurated in the autumn of 2020, Vårbergs Jättar is Sweden’s largest public commission to date. Other large permanent works have been installed recently in the cities of Lille (Romy, 2019) and Lausanne (La Crocodile, 2019, with Olivier Mosset).

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Exhibitions
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  • Aure
    Xavier Veilhan
    Aure, 2024
  • Coral Gables
    Xavier Veilhan
    Coral Gables, 2023
  • Sandra n°1
    Xavier Veilhan
    Sandra n°1, 2023
  • Mickael n°1
    Xavier Veilhan
    Mickael n°1, 2023
  • Landscape n°1 (Finistère)
    Xavier Veilhan
    Landscape n°1 (Finistère), 2023
  • Landscape n°2 (Getaria)
    Xavier Veilhan
    Landscape n°2 (Getaria), 2023
  • Stephen (Crop top)
    Xavier Veilhan
    Stephen (Crop top), 2023
  • Constance n°2
    Xavier Veilhan
    Constance n°2, 2023
  • Jana
    Xavier Veilhan
    Jana, 2023
  • Xavier
    Xavier Veilhan
    Xavier, 2023
  • Constance, Natasa and Marc
    Xavier Veilhan
    Constance, Natasa and Marc, 2023
  • François
    Xavier Veilhan
    François, 2023
  • Siraba n°1
    Xavier Veilhan
    Siraba n°1, 2023
  • Siraba n°2
    Xavier Veilhan
    Siraba n°2, 2023
  • Le Mobile n°1
    Xavier Veilhan
    Le Mobile n°1, 2022
  • Renzo n°3
    Xavier Veilhan
    Renzo n°3, 2022
  • When Days are Getting Longer
    Xavier Veilhan
    When Days are Getting Longer, 2021
  • Occam
    Xavier Veilhan
    Occam, 2021
  • Vault
    Xavier Veilhan
    Vault, 2021
  • Champ
    Xavier Veilhan
    Champ, 2021
  • Drizzle
    Xavier Veilhan
    Drizzle, 2021
  • Magnifier
    Xavier Veilhan
    Magnifier, 2021
  • Mall
    Xavier Veilhan
    Mall, 2021
  • Wired
    Xavier Veilhan
    Wired, 2021
  • Profiler
    Xavier Veilhan
    Profiler, 2020
  • Windows
    Xavier Veilhan
    Windows, 2020
  • Réseaux
    Xavier Veilhan
    Réseaux, 2020
  • Black Dot
    Xavier Veilhan
    Black Dot, 2020
  • Romy
    Xavier Veilhan
    Romy, 2019
  • Jordan
    Xavier Veilhan
    Jordan, 2019
  • Le Mobile n°10
    Xavier Veilhan
    Le Mobile n°10, 2019
  • Instrument n°6
    Xavier Veilhan
    Instrument n°6, 2019
  • Le Rhinocéros
    Xavier Veilhan
    Le Rhinocéros, 2019
  • Le Chien nr. 2 / Dog nr. 2
    Xavier Veilhan
    Le Chien nr. 2 / Dog nr. 2, 2019
  • Dog n°3
    Xavier Veilhan
    Dog n°3, 2019
  • Dog n°4
    Xavier Veilhan
    Dog n°4, 2019
  • Debora (To be produced)
    Xavier Veilhan
    Debora (To be produced), 2018
  • Mobile n°6
    Xavier Veilhan
    Mobile n°6, 2018
  • Les Rayons n°3 (Paris)
    Xavier Veilhan
    Les Rayons n°3 (Paris), 2017
  • Nuit mexicaine n°1
    Xavier Veilhan
    Nuit mexicaine n°1, 2016-2019
  • Monolith
    Xavier Veilhan
    Monolith, 2016
  • Mobile n°2
    Xavier Veilhan
    Mobile n°2, 2016
  • Installation
    Xavier Veilhan
    Installation, 2016
  • Lyllie
    Xavier Veilhan
    Lyllie, 2016
  • Florian
    Xavier Veilhan
    Florian, 2016
  • Chien n°1 / Dog n°1
    Xavier Veilhan
    Chien n°1 / Dog n°1, 2015
  • Mobile n°41
    Xavier Veilhan
    Mobile n°41, 2015
  • Mobile n°40
    Xavier Veilhan
    Mobile n°40, 2015
  • Cedar
    Xavier Veilhan
    Cedar, 2015
  • Vent Moderne
    Xavier Veilhan
    Vent Moderne, 2015
  • Jean Marc
    Xavier Veilhan
    Jean Marc, 2014
  • Mobile no 6
    Xavier Veilhan
    Mobile no 6, 2012
  • Pendule Dripping no 15
    Xavier Veilhan
    Pendule Dripping no 15, 2012
  • Mobile (Conservera)
    Xavier Veilhan
    Mobile (Conservera), 2012
  • Julian
    Xavier Veilhan
    Julian, 2012
  • Debora
    Xavier Veilhan
    Debora, 2012
  • Regulator - Tokyo
    Xavier Veilhan
    Regulator - Tokyo, 2011
  • Pendule Dripping no 6
    Xavier Veilhan
    Pendule Dripping no 6, 2011
  • Vibration 2
    Xavier Veilhan
    Vibration 2, 2010
  • Le Gisant, Youri Gagarine
    Xavier Veilhan
    Le Gisant, Youri Gagarine, 2009
  • Femme nue
    Xavier Veilhan
    Femme nue, 2009
  • Baseball Bat
    Xavier Veilhan
    Baseball Bat, 2008
  • Michael
    Xavier Veilhan
    Michael, 2007
  • Podenco
    Xavier Veilhan
    Podenco, 2007
  • Le Coucou
    Xavier Veilhan
    Le Coucou, 2007
  • Cruiser
    Xavier Veilhan
    Cruiser, 2005
  • Mobile Edition
    Xavier Veilhan
    Mobile Edition, 2005
  • Le Grand Mobile
    Xavier Veilhan
    Le Grand Mobile, 2004-2006
  • Les lutteurs (Series of Naked Men)
    Xavier Veilhan
    Les lutteurs (Series of Naked Men), 2000
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