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Mimosa Echard

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Mimosa Echard is a French visual artist who lives and works in Paris. 

Biography

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Born in 1986 in Alès, France,[1][2] She grew up with her sisters in a hippy community in the Cévennes.[3] She studied at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris, from which she graduated in 2010.[1]

In 2019, she was a resident at Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto.[4] Since 2021, she has been the head of a painting workshop at the Beaux-Arts de Paris.

Echard is the winner of the 2022 edition of the Marcel Duchamp Prize.[1]

She is represented by the galleries Chantal Crousel (Paris) and Martina Simeti (Milan).[1]

Work

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Echard's artistic research explores the boundaries between nature and pop culture. Thanks to a multidisciplinary practice that ranges from painting, to sculpture, to video and digital,[5] she creates fictional worlds with psychedelic traits through the accumulation and assemblage of objects, images as well as botanical references from the Cévennes (her native region), a region with a long history of counter-cultural and community experiments initiated in the 1970s.[6]

Collaboration is important in reading her work: ”Collaborations are always a way of creating collective events and experiences outside of the validation system of art and institutions”.[7] One example is the "open-source experimental exploration game" proposed by Echard as part of her exhibition at Palais de Tokyo in 2022, accessible only online. Designed in collaboration with a software developer, musicians and actors, the “scenario imagines an engaging and humorous approach to interspecies relations”.[8]

Her work has been the subject of several solo exhibitions, including Sporal, at Palais de Tokyo in 2022, or Sluggy Me at the Collection Lambert, in Avignon in 2021,[1] but also in various galleries including the Samy Abraham gallery in Paris[9]

Solo exhibitions (selection)

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  • 2010: Pour changer de forme, diploma, École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, Paris[citation needed]
  • 2012: Booster, Modules Pierre-Bergé – Yves-Saint-Laurent Foundation, curated by Daria de Beauvais, Palais de Tokyo, Paris[citation needed]
  • 2012: Oiseau / hasard, Bernard-Anthonioz Art House, Nogent-sur-Marne[citation needed]
  • 2014: Destroy the Image and You Will Break the Enemy, Project room, Chez Valentin Gallery, Paris[citation needed]
  • 2015: Asterico Mariposa, Fire Place, Barcelona[citation needed]
  • 2015: Dead is the New Life, Le Plateau (center of contemporary art) / Frac, Île-de-France[citation needed]
  • 2015: Mithril, with Jonathan Martin, Circonstance Gallery, Nice[citation needed]
  • 2015: Une robe profonde d'empathie, with Jean-Marie Perdrix, Samy Abraham Gallery, Paris[citation needed]
  • 2016: iDeath, Samy Abraham Gallery, Paris[citation needed]
  • 2017: Friends, Samy Abraham Gallery, Paris[citation needed]
  • 2017: Pulsion Potion, Cell Project Space Gallery, London[citation needed]
  • 2018: Mauve Dose, Maternity Ward of the Geneva HUG, Geneva[citation needed]
  • 2019: Pulpe, with Shanta Rao, curated by Raphaël Brunet, Ecole municipale des beaux-arts, Édouard-Manet Gallery, Gennevilliers[citation needed]
  • 2019: Luca, with Michel Blazy, Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund[citation needed]
  • 2019: Cracher une image de toi/ Spitting an image of you, with Ryan Foerster and Hannah Buonaguro, VNH Gallery, Paris[citation needed]
  • 2020 Un bout de toi, Salomon, Martina Simeti, Milan, Italy[10]
  • 2021 Numbs, Chantal Crousel Gallery, Paris, France[11]
  • 2021 Sluggy Me, Lambert Collection, Avignon, France[12]
  • 2022 Sporal, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France[13]

Awards and selections

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  • 2015 Finalist, Le Meurice Prize for Contemporary Art, Paris, France[14]
  • 2018 Finalist, BFSP Sculpture Prize, Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, Milan, Italy[15]
  • 2021 Acquisition of the Marval Collection Fund, Italy[16]
  • 2021 Ettore and Ines Fico Prize, Turin, Italy[17]
  • 2022: Marcel Duchamp Prize, Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris[1]

Residencies

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Collections

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Her works are part of public and private collections including: the Pompidou Center,[20] the Louis Vuitton Foundation,[21] the Paris Museum of Modern Art,[22] the National Centre of Plastic Arts in Paris,[citation needed] the Corporate Foundation of the Lafayette Galleries in France,[23] the Ettore Fico Museum[24] in Turin, Italy; and the Samdani Art Foundation, in Dhaka, Bangladesh[25]

Notes and references

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Emmanuelle Jardonnet, Mimosa Echard, lauréate du 22e prix Marcel Duchamp, Le Monde, 17 October 2022
  2. ^ "Duponchelle, Découvrez les finalistes du Prix Marcel Duchamp 2022, Le Figaro, 12 January 2022".
  3. ^ "Vignal, Mimosa Échard, l'artiste qui efface les genres". Marie Claire. 24 September 2021.
  4. ^ a b Roxana Azimi|day, Ça palpite d’une vie qui n’est plus: l’art du vivant de la plasticienne Mimosa Echard, Le Monde, 6 August 2021
  5. ^ Pip Walls, Immanence et eau vive, Sporal, Les Presses du réel, 2022 (French/English), p.49
  6. ^ "Aubin, Horn of Plenty: Mimosa Echard, Mousse Magazine, 73, 2020".
  7. ^ À ma seule cellule. Entretiens entre Mimosa Echard et Daria de Beauvais, Sporal, Les Presses du réel, 2022 (French/English), p.89
  8. ^ "Reviews – Artforum International". www.artforum.com.
  9. ^ Philippe Dagen, Sélection galeries : Daisuke Ichiba et Mimosa Echard, Le Monde, 24 November 2017
  10. ^ "AD, Mimosa Echard: la prima personale in Italia dell'artista francese, 2020".
  11. ^ "Mimosa Echard "Numbs" at Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris — Mousse Magazine and Publishing". www.moussemagazine.it. 2 April 2021.
  12. ^ "MIMOSA ECHARD – "SLUGGY ME"". 9 July 2021.
  13. ^ "Palais de Tokyo, Echard, Sporal, 2022".
  14. ^ "Le Quotidien De L'Art, Saâdane Afif et la Galerie Mehdi Chouakri remportent le 8e Prix Meurice pour l'art contemporain, 2015".
  15. ^ "BFSP, Mimosa Echard, 2018".
  16. ^ "Comune di Torino, Report Annuale 2021, 2022, p.82".
  17. ^ "ARTISSIMA 2021: Premio FPT for Sustainable Art, Premio Ettore e Ines Fico & Premio Xiaomi HyperCharge Award". 7 November 2021.
  18. ^ "Lafayette Anticipations, Mimosa Echard, 2022".
  19. ^ "Villa Albertine, Mimosa Echard, 2022".
  20. ^ Centre Pompidou, Mimosa Echard, 2022
  21. ^ "Announcements – e-flux". www.e-flux.com.
  22. ^ "de Tokyo, Mimosa Echard, 2022".
  23. ^ "Anticipations, Mimosa Echard, 2022".
  24. ^ "I dieci premi di Artissima". Il Giornale dell'arte.
  25. ^ "How They Put Bangladesh on the Global Art Map". Larry's List.

Bibliography

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  • Daria de Beauvais and Frédéric Grossi (eds.) (texts by Pip Wallis, Mimosa Echard, Daria de Beauvais), Sporal, Les Presses du réel, 2022 (French/English) ISBN 978-2-37896-320-0

Press

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  • Matthieu Jacquet, "Dans l'incroyable atelier de Mimosa Echard, l’enchanteresse qui transforme l'art et la nature", Numéro, 9 April 2021
  • Lise Guéhenneux, "Mimosa Echard", Crash Magazine, Edition 93, March 2021, p. 60–71 
  • Charles Aubin, "Horn of Plenty: Mimosa Echard", Mousse Magazine, October 2020
  • Roxana Azimi, "Jeune pousse. Mimosa Echard, naturel butineur”, Le Monde, January 2017
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