Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster is a French artist, born in 1965 in Strasbourg. Gonzalez-Foerster's practice is restlessly cross-disciplinary, taking cues from film, literature, architecture, philosophy and critical theory. Through immersive installations that include film or are suggestive of filmic tropes, Gonzalez-Foerster uses the medium of experience as a way to question the essences of objects and the meaning of context. Trafficking in a unique type of psychological collage within works and between them, her varied oeuvre has taken myriad forms, including collected fragments of modernist buildings in Brazil, an autobiographical hanging of 40 years of her own wardrobe, and an immersive light and sound environment meant to evoke the chaos, dread, and wonderment of future lives. In her latest works, the Apparitions, Gonzalez-Foerster uses live performance and holographic projections that conflate characters from history, literature and film with their sociological sources and ramifications. Often relying on elliptical texts that place equal weight on fiction, fact, and the pluralism of memory, Gonzalez-Foerster creates heterogeneous worlds that thrive on the tension between finite and infinite, the empirical and the dramaturgical. Gonzalez-Foerster is the recipient of the 2002 Marcel Duchamp Award.
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022 Alienarium 5, Serpentine South Gallery, London, UK
2021 Volcanic Excursion (A Vision), Secession, Vienna, Austria
2017 Pynchon Park, Museum of Art, Architecture, and Technology (MAAT), Lisbon, Portugal
Costumes & Wishes For The 21st Century, Schinkel Pavillion, Berlin, Germany
2016 1887-2058, KunstSammlung, Dusseldorf, Germany
2015 1887-2058, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Temporama 1887-2058, Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2014 euquinimod & costumes, 303 Gallery, New York, NY
SPLENDIDE—HOTEL, Palacio de Christal, Parque del Retiro, organized by the
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
M.2062 (Scarlett), The Museum of Kyoto, Japan
2011 1912, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
2009 chronotopes & dioramas, Dia Art Foundation, New York, NY
2008 TH.2058 The Unilever Series, The Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, UK
2007 Expodrome, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
SELECTED PERFORMANCES AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 M.2062 (la partie de l’opera), Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
Mobile M+: Moving Images, M+, Midtown POP, Hong Kong
1984-1999 La Décennie, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
2014 Gwangju Biennale, South Korea
2013 Stage it! (Part II), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
2009 Making Worlds, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
COLLECTIONS
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
Dia Art Foundation, New York, NY
M+ Museum, Hong Kong
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Tate Modern, London, UK