Born 1963 in Paris, France. Lives and works in Brussels.
Selected solo exhibitions include Le versant de l’analyse, Jan Mot, Brussels; Le psy, l’artiste et le cuisinier, Nuit Blanche, Musée d’art et d’histoire du judaïsme, Paris; Pierre Bismuth, Fremantle Arts Center, Fremantle; and La galerie est heureuse de vous inviter à la nouvelle exposition de Pierre Bismuth, Galerie Bugada & Cargnel, Paris (all 2010); Objects That Should Have Changed Your Life, Base Progetti per l’Arte, Florence; Following the Right Hand of…, Team Gallery, New York (both 2009); The All Seeing Eye (The Hardcore Techno Version), British Film Institute, London; Ruled by Extravagant Expectations, Galerie Christine König, Vienna (both 2008); One Size Fits All, Mary Boone Gallery, New York (2007); and Coming Soon, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica (2006). Recent group exhibitions include 21st Century: Art in the First Decade, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; Bild für Bild, Film und zeitgenössische Kunst, Museum Ostwall im Dortmunder U, Dortmund; The Last Newspaper, New Museum, New York; Une forme pour toute action, Le Printemps de Septembre, Musée les Abattoirs, Toulouse; Yesterday Will Be Better, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau; Chef d’oeuvre, Centre Pompidou, Metz; Seconde Main, ARC, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris; Exhibition, exhibition / Mostra, mostra, Castello di Rivoli, Turin; and Repetition Island, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (all 2010). In 2005, Bismuth won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay along with Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman for the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
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Pierre Bismuth’s work explores the multiple manifestations and products of knowledge and culture. Through a practice of inversion, proliferation and repetition, Bismuth challenges any logic of efficiency and usefulness, and gives a critical look at our contemporary condition.Read more
Witte de With’s Melanchotopia is an exhibition that invites more than forty international artists to work with different venues in the city-center of Rotterdam – places where people live and work – and to activate their potential as spaces for ideas, discourse and invention.Read more
Central to the work of French artist Pierre Bismuth (1963) are perception and how perception relates to our choices and commitments. Memory and interpretations – and hence subjectivity – play a major role here. The compressed, mediated and channeled information …Read more
Witte de With and de Appel arts centre (Amsterdam) jointly present Two in One, a benefit auction of 100 works by internationally acclaimed contemporary artists to benefit new projects. You are invited to participate in this fundraising adventure, to be held …Read more
The End of Money is a group exhibition about time and value. Bringing together works by a host of international artists, this exhibition and its parallel publication reflect upon the fears, hopes, and expectations associated with the end of money and its ominous consequence: the dissolution of an absolute standard of value.Read more
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