Rebecca Bournigault
lives and works in Paris
Rebecca Bournigault (*1970 in Colmar, lives and works in Paris) is a contemporary portraitist who works mainly in video, but also uses drawing, painting and photography. Her pieces alternate between realistic depiction and the more fictive mode of the icon. Capturing moments of intensity or tension, she reveals a complexity in identity that cannot be reduced to the stereotypical discourse used in TV reality shows and talk shows.
Often, pornographic films serve the Bournigault as a model for her sexually explicit watercolours, in which she portrays women – released from the original film setting – and thus stimulates reflection on the exploitation of the female body today.
Biography
| 1970 | born in Colmar |
| 1993 | Graduated from the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Bourges, D.N.A.P. / D.N.S.E.P |
| 1999 | Nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize, Paris |
| 2002 | Nominated for the Jalouse Prize, Paris |
| 2005 | Winner of the Belluard Award, Fribourg, Switzerland Professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in Annecy |
Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions
| 2019 | Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne (G) |
| 2018 | 18th Art Center, Los Angeles (S) Galerie Eva Hober, Paris (S) Galerie de la Voute, Paris (G) Casa Victor Hugo, Cuba (G) |
| 2017 | La Criée - Théâtre national de Marseille (S) Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris (S) Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne (G) |
| 2016 | Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne (G) Galerie Dominique Fiat, Paris (G) |
| 2015 | Église Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul, Villenauxe-la-Grande (S) Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne (G) Institut francais Düsseldorf (S) 18th Art Center, Los Angeles (S) |
| 2014 | Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne (S) Institut francais Cologne (S) |
| 2013 | Palais de Tokyo, Paris (G) Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne (G) Galerie d'Exposition du Théâtre, Privas (S) Galerie Dominique Fiat, Paris (S) Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne (G) Galerie Dominique Fiat, Paris (G) |
| 2012 | Espace Saint Séverin, Paris (S) Galerie Patricia Dorfmann (S) Carrousel du Louvre, Paris (G) |
| 2011 | CAN, Neuchâtel (S) Galerie Patricia Dorfmann, Paris (G) Abbaye Saint-André, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Meymac (G) L’Onde Centre d’Art, Vélizy-Villacoublay (G) |
| 2010 | Centre Pompidou, Paris (S) Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Straßburg (G) MAC/Val, Vitry-sur-Seine (G) Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris (G) |
| 2009 | Galerie Desimpel, Brussels (S) |
| 2008 | Galerie Von Bartha, Basel (S) Galerie Frédéric Giroux, Paris (S) |
| 2007 | Galerie Frédéric Giroux, Paris (S) Galerie Desimpel, Brussels (S) Atelier Neess, Paris (S) |
| 2005 | Palais de Tokyo, Paris (S) Centre Culturel Français, Mailand (S) Espace Frédéric Sanchez, Paris (S) Galerie Almine Rech, Paris (S) |
| 2001 | Le studio Yvon Lambert, Paris (S) Galerie Almine Rech, Paris (S) |
| 2000 | Espai Lucas, Valence (S) |
| 1999 | Galerie Almine Rech, Paris (S) Galerie Marta Cervera, Madrid (S) Les Beaux-Arts de Pau (S) |
| 1998 | Galerie Deux, Tokyo (S) |
| 1997 | Galerie Almine Rech, Paris (S) Kunstmuseum UWM, Milwaukee (S) |
| 1996 | Galerie Paolo Vitolo, Milan (S) |
| 1994 | Centre d'Art Contemporain, Parc St.-Léger, Pougues les Eaux (S) |
Selected Public and Private Collections
- Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
- Maison Européenne de la Photographie de la Ville de Paris
- Fonds National d’Art Contemporain
- FRAC Limousin
- Bibliothèque Municipale de la Ville de Lyon
- Collection Francois Pinault
- Sammlung Bruno Bischofberger
- Braunsfelder Family Collection
- Sammlung Stéphane Biesenbach
