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Biography

Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz

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Solo exhibitions

2023
Kunstnernes Hus,
Oslo, NO, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz
Tensta Konsthall,
Stockolm, SE, Portrait of a Movement

2022
Museo Reina Sofia, Palacio de Cristal
, Madrid, ES, El cristal es mi piel
CA2M,
Madrid, ES, Portrait of a Movement

2021
Kunstraum Innsbruck, AT, Silent Manifesto

FRAC Bretagne, Rennes, FR, (No)Time
Marcelle Alix, Paris, FR, Future Traces

2020
Plato, Ostrava, CZ, Queer Time
n.b.k, Berlin, DE, The Right to Have Rights
Ellen de Bruijne
, Amsterdam, NL, Staying with the trouble

2019

Joan, Los Angeles, California, USA, MOVING BACKWARDS
Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin, DE, ongoing experiments with strangeness
58th Venice Biennale - Swiss Pavilion (national representation),
IT (cur. Charlotte Laubard)

2018
Centre culturel suisse, Paris, FR, Improvisation télépathique
The High Line Art, New-York, US, Silent

2017
Marcelle Alix, Paris, FR, Silent
Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, US, Everybody talks about the weather... we don't
Participant
, New-York, US, Everybody talks about the weather... we don't
Galerie de l'UQAM, Montreal, CA, Silent

2016
Asakusa, Tokyo, JP, The Right to Opacity
Van
Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, NL
La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse
,
Montreal, CA, To Valerie Solanas

2015

Kunsthalle Wien,
Vienna, AT, Loving, Repeating
Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, CH, Portrait of an Eye
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK, In Memoriam of Identity
Frac Franche-Comté, Besançon, FR, To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of their Desperation
Ellen de Bruijne, Amsterdam, NL, Opaque
BF15
, Ly
on, FR, Opaque

2014
Marcelle Alix,
Paris, FR, Journal Notes from Backstage

2013
Les Complices,
Zurich, CH, To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of their Desperation
Fort Worth Contemporary Arts,
USA, Normal work
Badischer Kunstverein,
Karlsruhe, DE, Patriarchal Poetry (cur. Anja Casser)
CAPC,
Bordeaux, FR, Aftershow

2012
Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers
,FR, Toxic
South London Gallery, UK,A Toxic Play in Two Acts
Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, NL, Toxic

2011
Marcelle Alix,
Paris, FR, Salomania
Art Basel, CH, Statements, No Past   

2010   
Les Complices, Zurich, CH, Charming for the Revolution    
Centre d'Art, Geneva, CH, Contagieux! Rapports contre la normalité
       
Ellen de Bruijne Projects
, Amsterdam, NL, Salomania

2009 
Swiss Institute, New York, USA, N.O.Body    
         
Les Complices
, Zurich, CH, Salomania  
O.T, Luzern, CH, Salomania

2008    
Galerie Arquebuse, Geneva, CH, Normal Work  
Galerie 44, Toronto, CA, Normal Work    
Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, NL, Normal Work    
Les Complices, Zurich, CH, Normal Work   
Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt, AT, Normal Work

Group exhibitions

2024
Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, KR, A Portrait
La Capella Barcelona, ES, A Different Disorder
Shimmer,
Rotterdam, NL, Always Thinking Like A Scrim
Tlön Projects, Amsterdam, NL, Taken Apart and Put Back Together
Frac MECA, Bordeaux, FR, Parler avec elles


2023

Musée des Beaux-Arts Angers, FR, I’ve got a feeling, the 5 senses in contemporary art
Kunstverein Braunschweig, DE, Words Don’t Go There
Frac Franche-Comté, Besançon, FR, Les Figures du Vide
Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR, Over the Rainbow
Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, DE, Looking for humanity
Jester, Genk, BE, Charming for the revolution
Sao Paulo Biennale, BR, Choreographies Of The Impossible
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL, Delinking and Relinking
Coreanna Museum of Art, Séoul, KR, Step X Step

2022
Whitechapel Gallery, London
, UK, Moving Bodies, Moving Images
Opéra de Rennes, FR, Les Fantômes de l'Opéra
National Gallery of Victoria,
Melbourne, AUS, Queer
Muzeum Sztucki,
Lodz, PL, Time Out of Joint
Van Abbemuseum,
Eindhoven, NL, A Lasting Truth Is Change
Le crédac, Ivry,
FR, La fugitive
NS-Dokumentationszentrum,
München, DE, To be seen, Queer Lives 1900-1950
Queer Arts Festival,
Vancouver, CA, Vanishing Act
IAC Villeurbanne,
FR, Des voix traversées


2021

ARKO Art Center,
Seoul, SK, The Middle Land : When Time Unfolds into Land (cur. Zoe Chun)
Mediacity Biennale,
Seoul, SK, 1 escape at a Time
Sofia Art Projects,
Sofia, BG, Intimacy and spectacle in the age of social media
Mudam,
Luxembourg, LU, The Illusion of the End
Centre Pompidou,
Paris, FR, Move Festival
Istituto Svizzero, Rome, IT, Do you hear us?
Hammer Museum, Los angeles, US, Witch Hunt
Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, MC, Tremblements
BAK, Utrecht, NL, No linear fucking time
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AU, Queer

2020
CAC, Brétigny, FR, Sâr Dubnotal (cur. Damien Delille et Céline Poulin)
Le Commun, Geneva, CH, Dance first. Think later (cur. Olivier Kaeser)
LACE, Los Angeles, US, Sound Off (cur. Abigail Raphael Collins)
MGK, Siegen, DE, Our Present
Kunsthal 44 Moen, Askeby, DK, Freedom Is Outside the Skin (cur. South into North)
MOCA, Skopje, MK, Brokenness
Kadist, San Francisco, US, Online Projects, A River Waits Reply
Matter of Art Bienniale,
Prague, CZ, Come Closer (cur. Tereza Stejskalovà & Vit Havrànek)

2019
LACE, LA, USA, Sound off
le Delta, Namur, BE, This Is My Body, My Body Is Your Body, My Body Is the Body of the Word
Galerie Marcelle Alix
,Paris, FR, Marcelle Alix ouverte
Bienala Art Encounters, Timisoara, RO

Owens art gallery, Sackville, CA, Automatisme, ambulatoire: Histeria, imitation, performance
Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Saarbruücken, DE,
Starke Stücke - Feminismen und Geographien

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA, Political Presence
Hayward Gallery, London, UK, Kiss My Gender
Schinkel Pavillon,
Berlin, DE, Straying from the Line
Galerie Marcelle Alix, Paris, FR, de l'amitié

2018

Tranzit.sk, Bratislava, SK, Queer Stories
ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives,
Los Angeles, USA, Grammar Built With Rocks
Fundacion Jumex, Mexico, MX, Could be (an arrow)
Le plateau, Paris, FR, A Study in Scarlet
Espace Le Commun, Geneve, CH, Essayer encore, rater encore, rater mieux
La Box,
Bourges, FR, Flâneuses ?
Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, RU, General Rehearsal
Coreanna Museum of Art
, Seoul, KR, Hidden Workers Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, DE, Kathy Acker, get ride of Meaning
Tensta konsthall,
Spãnga, SWE, Soon enought: Art in Action 20ème video ex film festival, Zürich, CH
Museo d'Arte Moderna et Contemporanea di Bolzano, Bolzano, IT, Somatechnics Transparent travelers and obscure nobodies
Les ateliers de Rennes, Rennes, FR, A cris ouverts
Triangle France - Astérides, Marseille, FR, Vos désirs sont les nôtres
Nottingham Contemporary
, Nottingham, EN, Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender Resistance
Bielfelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, DE, Script

2017
Tent, Rotterdam, NL, Among other things I?ve taken up smoking
New Museum
, New York, US, A Trigger: Gender as Tool as Weapon
La Box
, Bourges, FR, Flâneuses ?
Nuit Blanche, Paris, FR
Biennale of Moving Image
, Faena Art, Miami, USA
Biennale of Moving Image
, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, IT
Walker Art Gallery
, Liverpool, UK, Coming out
Garage, Rotterdam, NL, Nora
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, US, New Aquisitions
Schwules Museum
, Berlin, DE, Odarodle - Sittengeschichte eines Naturmysteriums

2016

Gwangju biennale, Gwangju, KR
Rencontres de la photographi
e,
Arles, FR, Il y a de l'autre

Beirut Art Center, Beyrouth, LB, Sound Fields
Campbelltown Art Center, Sydney, AU, Video
Tranzit, FKSE Studio Gallery, Budapest, HU, Our heart is a foreign country (Friendship as an alternative in a normal world)
Kunstverein Leipzig, Leipzig, DE, 1-3 Person Singular
Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid, ES, Collection. Territories and Fictions, Thinking a New Way of the World
Centre d'art contemporain, Geneva, CH, Biennale of Moving Image
Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, USA, Feminism is Politics!
Galeria Macchina, Santiago de Chile, CL, Islas Nuevas
Video Art Centre, Verona, IT, Cosi Fan Tutte


2015
La Tôler
ie, Clermont-Ferrand, FR, La vérité des apparences
41 Cooper Galle New york and The Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, USA, Bring Your Own Body: Transgender Between Archives and Aesthetics
Museum Sztuki- MS2,
Lodz, PL, All Men Become Sisters
Le Quartier - Centre d'art contemporain de Quimper,
FR, Alfred Jarry Archipelago: La Valse des pantins acte I

Berlinale, Akademie der Künste,  Berlin, DE, Forum Expanded
Ashkal Alwan, Beiruth, LB, Manufacturing of rights
5th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, State Museum of Contemporary Art,
Thessaloniki, GR 
Videonale, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, DE 
Waterside contemporary, London, UK, Nascent States
TIFF Lightbox, Toronto, CA, Andy Warhol, stars of the silver screen
Cinematico Capitolio, Porto Alegre, BR, Cine Esquema Novo Expandido
Museum Langmatt, Baden, CH, Feminine Futures - The Membrane of the Dream & the Membrane of the Real
Ark Kültür, Istambul, TR, Gelecek Queer
Parse Gallery, New-Orleans, USA, Pauline Bourdy/Renate Laurenz, Melanie Bonajo, Terence Nance
Firstdraft, Sydney, AU, Haunting
Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, NI, She Devil

2014
CAC Vilnius, Vilnius, LT, The Other Sight

La Ferme du Buisson, Marne-la-Valée, FR, The Yvonne Rainer Project Lives of Performers
Galerie Patrick Ebensperger,
Berlin, DE, 8. Tanznacht Berlin
Kunstverein Wegenhallen,
Stuttgart, DE, About glass ceilings and sticky floors
Fondation d'entreprise Ricard,
Paris, FR, humainnonhumain
Atelier Estienne - Centre d'Art Contemporain,
Pont-Scorff, FR, L'art Chemin faisant... Le rire, un parcours jaune
Carroll/ Fletcher
, London, UK, Now Showing      
Hollybush Garden, London, UK, You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows

CAFAM Biennial, Beijing, CN, The Missing Stories   
       
Centre for Contemporary Art, Derry-Londonderry, NI, Of Other Stories
Center for Curating the Archive at Michaelis School of Fine Arts, Cape Town, ZA, Sequins, Self and Struggle

2013
Petach Tikva Museum of Art
, Petah Tikva, IL, See under: actor
Castello di Rivoli, Turin, IT, Disobedience Archive (The Republic)
Trondheim Museum, Trondheim, NO, Lips painted red

Centre for Contemporary Art,
Derry-Londonderry, NI, The Grand Domestic Revolution
City of Women Festival, Ljubljana, SI, The Grand Domestic Revolution GOES ON
Frankfurter Kunstverein
, Per Speculum Me Video  
Beursschouwburg,
Brussels, BE, Make-up, at Antonia Baehr and Werner Hirsh's table
Stills,
Edinburgh, UK, Economy
Théâtre Saint Gervais,
Geneva, CH, Désirs sans destin
Künstlerhaus Graz
, "The only performances that make it all the way..."
Institut de Cultura de Barcelona, La Capella,
A museum of gesture
DOX Centre for Comtemporary Art,
Prague, CZ, Disabled by Normality
National Museum of Contemporary Art,
Bucharest, RO, Good Girls-Mermory, Desire, Power
FRAC Lorraine,
Metz, FR, Bad Girls - Une collection en action
Bétonsalon,
Paris, FR, Fais un effort pour te souvenir. Ou, à défaut, invente (cur. Le peuple qui manque)

2012
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, De nombreuses mains colorées placées côte à côte pour former une rangée de nombreuses mains colorées
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR, La Triennale
Kate Werble Gallery, New York, US, My Bananas
Musée Felicien Rops, Namur, BE, Impulse(s)
Kunsthaus Aarau, La jeunesse est un art
Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul, KR, Masquerade
The Showroom, London, UK, The Grand Domestic Revolution

Musée d'Art, Lausanne, CH, Accrochage
Maison Populaire, Montreuil, Paris, FR, Plus ou moins sorcières
Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Wien, AT, Reality Manifesto

2011   
54th Venice Biennale
, Teatro Fondamenta Nuove, Chewing the Scenery
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, CH, Accrochages  
Gasworks, London, UK, All I Can See is the Management    
The Power Plant, Toronto, Coming after  
Alte Fabrik, Rapperswil Historical Structures 
Kunsthaus
, Zurich, CH, Junge Kunst 
Galerie de la Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, FR, K.Acker : The Office
Galerie Marcelle Alix, Paris, FR, Nothing Personal 
Stuk, Leuven, B, Playground Festival    
Centro Cultural, Re.Act.Feminism #2, a performing archive, 
Vitoria-Gasteiz, Monterhermoso
Casco
, Utrecht, NL, The Grand Domestic Revolution 
Kunsthalle Tallinn
, Untold Stories
  

2010    
Musee des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, CH, Accrochages    
Galerie Michel Journiac, Paris, FR, Gender Blending  

Museum of Contemporary Art,
Belgrade, S, Lecture Performances
Aichi Triennale, Japan, N.O.Body with Antonia Baehr

2009   
Harmannsburg, Bertha von Suttner Revisited    
CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, Everywhere   
Kunstverein Köln, Lecture Performances  
Hayarkon 70, Tel Aviv, IL, Mother Festival   
Basel, CH,Swiss Awards

2008  
Substitut, Berlin, DE, And then we take Berlin...       
Monterhermoso Cultural Center, Monterhermoso, E, Contrasenas

Radialsystem,
Berlin, DE, Femmes'r'us   
       
Studio 44,
Stockholm, S, Make out!
Charité Museum,
Berlin, DE, Sex brennt!
 

2007

Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, CH, Du Nord
Fieldgate Gallery, London, UK, Eau Sauvage
Shedhalle, Zürich, CH, Lost & Found
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE, Normal Love
Kunstverein, München, DE, Oh girl, it's a boy!
Basel, CH, Swiss Awards

2006
Cabinet des Estampes, Genève, CH, Audio
Rudolf-Sharpf-Galerie, Ludwigshafen, DE, Null Problemo
la Criée, Rennes, FR, Revolt she said
Generali Foundation, Wien, AT, und so hat Konzept noch nie Pferd bedeutet

2005
Bath House, Plovdiv, BG, Critique of pure image, between fake and quotation
galerie 5020, Salzburg, AT, Ongoing. Feminism & Activism
Les Complices, Zürich, CH, Sometimes you fight for the world, sometimes you fight for yourself

2004
Kunstverein, München, DE, Atelier Europa
Basel, CH, Swiss Awards
Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Wien, AT, The personal is political, und peinlich

Publications

2022
Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz (dir.), Stages, Leipzig/Madrid, Spector Books/Museo CA2M.

2019
Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz, Moving Backwards, Swiss Pavillion. La Biennale di Venezia, Milan, Skira. (exh. cat.)

2018
Alhena Katsof (dir.), Telepathic Improvisation, Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. (exh. cat.)

2016
Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz (dir.), I Want, Berlin, Sternberg Press. (exh. cat.)

2014
Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz (dir.), Aftershow, Berlin/Karlsruhe, Sternberg Press/ Badischer Kunstverein. (exh. cat.)

2012
Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz, Toxic, Aubervilliers, Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers. (fanzine)

2011    
PaulineBoudry/Renate Lorenz, Temporal Drag, Berlin/Lausanne/Genève, HatjeCantz/Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne/Centre d’art contemporain de Genève. (exh. cat.)

Residencies and fellowships

2018
Senat, Berlin, DE, Residency New York
2016

Canton de Vaud, Residency New York
2013

StiftungKunstfonds, Bonn, DE

2012

Cité des Arts de Paris, FR, Atelier du canton de Vaud

Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers, Paris, FR, residency
2011

Senat, Berlin, DE, Atelier Cité des Arts
2010

Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, CH, Accrochages
Senat