MATHIEU BRIAND, BIO & CV
Mathieu Briand is a Melbourne-based artist born in Marseille, France.
Briand works in various installation forms with computers, electronic music, robots, video technology and sculpture to explore systems of simulation, play and perception. His use of new technologies requires active participation and engagement, playing with the viewer’s point of view and questioning the reality of his/her perceptions.
Briand’s work is situated somewhere between perceptive reality and a displacement of the imagination. He uses sound, physical forms, sensory environments and mixed media to create diverse and highly innovative artworks that invite the spectator into new zones of spatial and temporal perceptions.
Briand leads us into his private world — a world made up of personal references, either experienced or dreamed up —and the tricks he uses are material objects and visual events alike. These references are brought together and distanced again, with multiple entrances and no known frontiers.
After holding a large-scale solo exhibition in two parts at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, in 2004, he moved on to experience-type installations—with a project named Ubïq: A Mental Odyssey. This ambitious time-space project was mounted for the first time in 2006 at the Los Angeles REDCAT, and later at MIT List Visual Arts Center, the TATE Modern Turbine Hall, Art Basel Unlimited and, finally, at TEA on the Spanish island of Tenerife in 2009.
For seven years Mathieu worked on a project called Et In Libertalia Ego, which was based on the idea of the pirate’s utopia of ‘Libertalia’. The first volume of the project was shown in La Maison Rouge in Paris in 2015, while the second, Et In Libertalia Ego Vol. II was presented at MONA, in Hobart in 2016.
Briand has participated in international group and solo exhibitions in major museums such as Centre Pompidou-
Paris/France, Bloomberg Space-London/UK, Jumex Founation-Mexico city/Mexico, Walker Art CenterMinneapolis/USA, Sharjah Art Foundation-Sharjah/UAE, ICC-Tokyo/Japan, Moca-Tapei/Taiwan, SiteSantafeSantafe/USA and Macba- Barcelone/Spain, CCP-Melbourne, Carriageworks-Sydney, MONA-Tasmania.
He has created permanent installations including Eternal Garden, Back to Zhong Guo – Fools Move Mountains Nanling, China (2005), and SYS*017.ReR*06/PiG-EqN\15*25, for the 21st Century Contemporary Art Museum, Kanazawa, Japan (2004).
Mathieu Briand (1972-Marseille, France) lives in Melbourne, Australia
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 A-droyx, Untilthen Gallery, Paris
2018 Unheimlich, Gertrude Glasshouse, Melbourne
2018 A-droyx, National Design centre, Singapore
2016 Et In Libertalia Ego II, MONA, Tasmania, Australia
2015 Et In Libertalia Ego, La Maison Rouge/Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris
2014 Spring 1883, ARNDT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2011 Funerales, Gallery Caja Blanca, Mexico
2010 FIAC, Cour carrée du Louvre, galerieofmarseille, Paris, France.
2010 Bâtons de Légendes, Nathalie Seroussi - Carlier | Gebauer.Paris/Berlin.
2009 Bad Trip, galerieofmarseille, Marseille, France
2009 In memorial of Albert Hofmann 1906 - 2008, ANNE+, Ivry-sur-Seine, France
2007 The Spiral AKA SYS*11, The Long Week-End, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern,UK
2007 UBÏQ : A Mental Odyssey, one year in 10 chapters, Galerie Maisonneuve, Paris
2007 UBÏQ : Un Monde Flottant, Fondation Claude Verdan, Lausanne, Switzerland
2007 UBÏQ : A Mental Odyssey, Art Unlimited, Art 38 Basel, Galerie Maisonneuve, Switzerland
2006 UBÏQ : A Mental Odyssey, Red Cat Theater, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2004 Derrière le Monde Flottant, M.A.C, Lyon, France
2005 Eternal Garden, Back to Zhong Guo - Fools Move Mountains , Nanling, China (Permanent work)
2004 SYS*017.ReR*06/PiG-EqN\15*25, 21st Century Contemporary Art Museum, Kanasawa, Japon (Permanent work)
2003 Le Monde Flottant, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2001 SYS*017.ReE.06/PiG-EqN\5*8, Ateliers d’artistes de la Ville de Marseille, France
1999 SYS*07.ReE*02/DeN ThE*01, Musée Fesch, Ajaccio, France
1999 SYS*06.RefN*02/Gre*02\Ros-3, ARCO-project room-gal. Roger Pailhas, Madrid, Spain
1998 CYC.01/M-02/SYS.E/R-23, Galerie Roger Pailhas, Paris, France
1997 L.E.P.3, Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, Paris, France
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Souvenirs de Voyage, collection Antoine De Galbert, Grenoble, France
2018 Heimat, 2018 Guang'an Art Biennale, China
2018 Gertrude Studios 2018, Melbourne, Australia
2017 Mondes Flottant, 14 Biennale de Lyon, France
2017 Gertrude Studios 2018, Melbourne, Australia
2013 Sous Influence, La Maison Rouge, Paris
2013 Outsider, Centre d’Art Bastille, Grenoble, France
2013 Beam in Thine Own eye, Mona, Tasmania, Australia
2013 Glow, Los Angeles, USA
2013 I Look To You And I See Nothing, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
2012 Migration, ARNDT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2011 Star Voyager: Exploring Space on Screen , ACMI, Melbourne, Australia
2010 Event Horizon, Center for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia
2009 Incarnational Aesthetics,NYCAMS, NY, USA
2009 Les enfants terribles, Fundación / Colección Jumex, México
2008 Cosmos: en busca de los orígenes. De Kupka a Kubrick, TEA, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
2008 Les mondes disparus, CAB - Centre d’Art Bastille, Grenoble, France
2008 In Memoriam Albert Hofmann, Museo Laberinto de Artes y Ciencias, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
2007 FIAC,G Galerie Maisonneuve, Cour carrée du Louvre, Paris, France
2007 Three Degrees, with Bill Albertini and Curtis Mitchell, Martos Gallery, N, USA
2007 La Tentation de l’espace, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
2006 Sensorium: Embodied Experience, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Boston, Boston, USA
2006 Roger Pailhas, l’art d’une vie, MAC, Marseille, France
2006 Dual Realities, 4th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul, South Korea
2006 Esquiador en el fondo de un pozo, Jumex collection, Mexico City, Mexico
2006 La Force de l’Art, Entre les lignes, Grand Palais, Paris, France
2005 Singuliers, Guangdong Museum of Art, China
2005 Emergency Biennale, Chechnya, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2004 Reactivity, ICC, Tokyo, Japan
2004 Digiscape, Seoul, South Korea
2004 Digital Sublime, Moca Tapei, Taiwan
2003 Microwavee, Exhibition Hall, Hong Kong City, China.
2003 Artists in Town, Maktab Anbar, Damas, Syria
2003 Darat Al Funun, Amman, Jordania
2003 Our mutual friend, Bloomberg Space, Londres, UK
2003 10 New York Digital Saloon, New York, USA
2003 Uneasyspace, SiteSantafe, Santafe, USA
2002 Sonic-Process, Macba, Barcelone, Spain / Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
2001 Egofugal, 7 Istanbul Bienal, Istanbul, Turkey
2001 Connivence, 6 Biennale, Lyon, France
2000 Vision machine, Musée des Beaux Arts, Nantes, France
2000 Less Aesthetics More Ethics, 7th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice, Italy
2000 Au-délà du spectacle, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2000 Let’s Entertain, Walker Art Center-Minneapolis, M.A.C Miami, USA, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg,
2000 Version 2000, Centre pour l’image contemporaine, Genève, Sweden
2000 Big, 1 Biennale, Turin, Italy
1998 Les jambes de Grand-mère, Arca, Marseille, France
1996 Collections, Dons et Dépôts, MAC, Marseille, France
PERFORMANCES
2007 Did you ever want to be someone else?, in collaboration with Prue Lang,
2007 Turbine Hall - Tate Modern, London, UK
2006 La Fleur de peau, de Prue Lang et Mathieu Briand , Transart06, Franzensfeste Fortezza, Italy
2006 Esquiador en el fondo de un pozo, Jumex collection, Mexico City, Mexico
2005 La Fleur de peau, de Prue Lang et Mathieu Briand, Temps d’Images, la ferme du buisson, Paris, France
2000 Accès(s), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau, France
1998 FREE, 23 Octobre, MAC, Marseille, France
1997 L.E.P 3, galerie Caisse des dépôts et Consignations , Paris, France
1997 L.E.P 3, Art Dealer 2, Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
1995 APP*01.MiE ReU/CyEHoS LiS, Mise en réseau, CyberC.A.F.E Hors Limites, Marseille, France
AWARDS
7th Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey, 2000