Now & next
Lunar Practices , B09k, China
Nuit Blanche , Le Bal, Paris
90 seconds to midnight , Non-Étoile, Montreuil
Recently
A feature, not a bug , Fonds de Dotation Weiss, Paris
Sur l’envers , Orange Rouge, Paris
Fictions Instables, UBB Central, Cluj, Romania
Host, Voyages à Nantes, Nantes
You wouldn’t believe, 2024 inkjet print on canvas
Titled Objects, 2024 UV resin, recycled materials
Take Shelter, 2024 Ants colony, plexiglass, 3D printings
Indistinct Chatter, 2024 HD video, 5min, ST
Prequel, 2024 HD Video, ST, 9min
Je deviens, 2023 LED panel, script python, variable dimensions
Pile je gagne, Face tu perds, 2023 vidéo HD, 1’43’’ loop, two laptop computers
Les Indésirables, 2023 Laser printer, A4 paper, Javascript
Mug Phenomena, 2022 HD video, 3D printed mugs, 12’02’’, 16:9, ST, 3D animation, fiverr.com
Noon, 2021 HD Film, 15’00’’, 4:3, Binaural Mix, Blender 3D,Frosted plexiglass, 165x124cm, Halyard, Various knots Production Le Fresnoy - Studio National des Arts Contemporains
FOMO, 2021, Androids Phones, Flexible supports, Php code, Twitter API Curator Yue Yuan
10:10, 2020 Film 4K, 19’00'', 65inch TV, Swiss Balls, Audio Headphones Production Le Fresnoy - Studio National des Arts Contemporains
10¢ collective attempts, 2019 Sound Installation, ∞ loop, Raspberry Pi, Python Coding, laser prints, plexiglas supports
Playtime (suggested title), 2019 HD, 11'28'', 16:9, ST, Ikea Vittsjö tables, screenprinting
Caption Art Bot, 2019 Collection of 356 images, 1 image per day, Tablet, diaporama Complete collection here
Alice & John, 2017 Film HD, 5’24'', 16:9, ST, Tablets, loop
What's left to be seen, 2016 HD, 23'03'', 16:9, ST
Olivier Bémer is a visual artist based in Paris. Through films, installations, objects and prints, his work explores our relationship to technology as a mean of representation, and depict an adulterated reality in which archetypes simulate but fail to represent. Function is then diverted from form and machine from learning.
Education | |
2019 - 2021 | Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains |
2016 - 2018 | Beaux-Arts de Paris, Master of fine arts with honors |
2010 - 2013 | ECAL, Switzerland, Bachelor in Photography |
Distinctions | |
2023 | Grant from Création en cours, Atelier Medicis |
Prix De Pourquoy, Host, Nantes | |
2022 | Prix Orange Rouge, Festival Jeune création 72 |
2021 | Les Amis des Beaux Arts de Paris grant award |
Nomination, Prix ADAGP Arts Vidéo — Le Fresnoy | |
2020 | Finalist of the SIEMENS price for digital art |
Production grant, Les Amis des Beaux-Arts de Paris | |
2019 | Selection of Emerige Revelations 2019 |
2018 | Video prize - Félicita 19 |
Film Festivals | |
2023 | PIAFF, Paris, France |
2022 | Bogoshorts Festival, Bogotà, Colombie |
Annecy Festival International du film d’animation | |
Athens Digital Arts Festival | |
2020 | Projection Grrranit, Belfort |
2018 | Chalon Tout Court, Festival de court-métrage, Chalon-sur-Saône |
Binary Sunrise, Chapelle des Petits-Augustins | |
2017 | Les Yeux Ouverts, La générale Nord-Est, Paris |
2016 | Fstvl Dcmtr, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris |
Bon Esprit, Nuit Blanche, La Rotonde, Paris | |
2013 | La Nuit des Images, Musée de l’Élysée, Lausanne, Suisse |
Performances | |
2019 | Omniprésent, Live 006, 104 Factory, le 104, Paris |
2018 | Omniprésent, Live 005, Mirage Festival, Lyon |
Omniprésent, Live 004, Silicon Malley, Lausanne, Suisse | |
Omniprésent, Live 003, Electrons Libres, Stereolux, Nantes | |
Binary Sunrise, Chapelle des Petits-Augustins | |
2017 | Omniprésent, Live 002, Les Grands Voisins, Paris |
Omniprésent, Live 001, Les Petites Serres, Paris |
Publications | |
2021 | Par le rêve..., Panorama 23, Le Fresnoy éditions |
2020 | Les Sentinelles, Panorama 22, Le Fresnoy éditions |
2019 | Felicità, Beaux-Arts de Paris éditions |
L’Effet Falaise, Emerige | |
2018 | Finale, Beaux-Arts de Paris éditions |
2014 | Entwürfe #77, Agglo |
2013 | Round and Around, Aaluägä Books |
Ecal photography, Hatje Cantz |
Texts - Itw - Critics | |
2023 | Clare Mary Puyfoulhoux |
2022 | Beaux Arts Magazine |
animacionparaadultos.es | |
Fomo-Vox / 9–Lives | |
2020 | DIAS Kunsthal |
2019 | Marion Zilio |
Exhibitions | |
2024 | A feature, not a bug, Fond de Dotations Weiss, Paris Solo show curated by Louis Verret | Sur l’envers , Orange Rouge, Paris Curated by Andréanne Béguin |
2023 | Block Universe, Myce x Zora, Atelier Éphémère, Paris | Host, Voyages à Nantes, Nantes |
Regards Croisés, Le Bal, Paris | |
Art au centre, Liège, Belgique | |
Interlacing, Galerie de Pourquoy, Nantes | |
2022 | Narrations des Ordinaires (3), Poush, Aubervilliers Curated by Adrien Van Melle |
Ciné-Club Horizones, Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris Curated by Clément Dirié & Elsa Werth | |
Voci Umane, Tender Fluid, Village Reille, Paris Curated by Marie Gayet et Pascal Mouisset | |
Prix des Amis des Beaux-Arts, Chapelle des Petits-Augustins | |
La Croisière, Expositions des ateliers de Montreuil, Montreuil | |
Jeune Création 72, Fondation Fiminco, Romainville | |
2021 | Par le rève, Panorama 23, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing Curated by Olivier Kappelin |
100%, La Villette, Paris | |
Muses Algorithmiques, Le Granit, Belfort | |
FOMO, Galerie Grand Verre, Paris 3 Curated by Yue Yuan | |
M'entendez-vous, Galerie Commune Curated by Clémence Canet | |
2020 | Les Sentinelles, Panorama 22, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing Curated by Louise Déry |
Ingenious, Prix Siemens, Centre Pompidou | |
Benefit #2, Le Doc, Paris | |
DIAS kunsthal, Vallensbæk Station, Denmark | |
30 ans pile!, Galerie Papillon, Paris | |
2019 | l’Effet Falaise, Prix Emerige 2019, Voltaire, Paris Curated by Gaël Charbau |
Felicità, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Paris | |
Labo_Demo#1/Stand, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris | |
Finale, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris | |
+333, Folle Béton, Paris | |
2017 | Prix suisse de musique : immersion, Centre culturel Suisse, Paris |
Le tout est toujours plus petit que ses parties, Béton Salon, Paris | |
2015 | ECAL Photography, Display Gallery, Londres |
2014 | ECAL Photography, 10 Corso Como, Shanghai, Chine |
ECAL Photography, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan | |
2013 | PhotoForum Pasquart, Bienne, Suisse |
ECAL Photography, Galerie Azzedine Alaïa, Paris | |
Half-Time, Espace Lausannois d’Art Contemporain, Lausanne |