MATHIEU BRIAND, BIO & CV

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Mathieu Briand is a Melbourne-based artist born in Marseille, France. 

Briand works in various installation forms with computers, electronic music, robots, video technology and sculpture to explore systems of simulation, play and perception. His use of new technologies requires active participation and engagement, playing with the viewer’s point of view and questioning the reality of his/her perceptions. 

Briand’s work is situated somewhere between perceptive reality and a displacement of the imagination. He uses sound, physical forms, sensory environments and mixed media to create diverse and highly innovative artworks that invite the spectator into new zones of spatial and temporal perceptions. 

Briand leads us into his private world — a world made up of personal references, either experienced or dreamed up —and the tricks he uses are material objects and visual events alike. These references are brought together and distanced again, with multiple entrances and no known frontiers. 

After holding a large-scale solo exhibition in two parts at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, in 2004, he moved on to experience-type installations—with a project named Ubïq: A Mental Odyssey. This ambitious time-space project was mounted for the first time in 2006 at the Los Angeles REDCAT, and later at MIT List Visual Arts Center, the TATE Modern Turbine Hall, Art Basel Unlimited and, finally, at TEA on the Spanish island of Tenerife in 2009. 

For seven years Mathieu worked on a project called Et In Libertalia Ego, which was based on the idea of the pirate’s utopia of ‘Libertalia’. The first volume of the project was shown in La Maison Rouge in Paris in 2015, while the second, Et In Libertalia Ego Vol. II was presented at MONA, in Hobart in 2016. 

Briand has participated in international group and solo exhibitions in major museums such as Centre Pompidou- 

Paris/France, Bloomberg Space-London/UK, Jumex Founation-Mexico city/Mexico, Walker Art CenterMinneapolis/USA, Sharjah Art Foundation-Sharjah/UAE, ICC-Tokyo/Japan, Moca-Tapei/Taiwan, SiteSantafeSantafe/USA and Macba- Barcelone/Spain, CCP-Melbourne, Carriageworks-Sydney, MONA-Tasmania. 

He has created permanent installations including Eternal Garden, Back to Zhong Guo – Fools Move Mountains Nanling, China (2005), and SYS*017.ReR*06/PiG-EqN\15*25, for the 21st Century Contemporary Art Museum, Kanazawa, Japan (2004). 

Mathieu Briand (1972-Marseille, France) lives in Melbourne, Australia

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018   A-droyx, Untilthen Gallery, Paris

2018   Unheimlich, Gertrude Glasshouse, Melbourne

2018   A-droyx, National Design centre, Singapore

2016   Et In Libertalia Ego II, MONA, Tasmania, Australia

2015   Et In Libertalia Ego, La Maison Rouge/Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris

2014   Spring 1883, ARNDT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2011 Funerales, Gallery Caja Blanca, Mexico

2010 FIAC, Cour carrée du Louvre, galerieofmarseille, Paris, France.

2010 Bâtons de Légendes, Nathalie Seroussi - Carlier | Gebauer.Paris/Berlin.

2009 Bad Trip, galerieofmarseille, Marseille, France

2009 In memorial of Albert Hofmann 1906 - 2008, ANNE+, Ivry-sur-Seine, France

2007 The Spiral AKA SYS*11, The Long Week-End, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern,UK 

2007 UBÏQ : A Mental Odyssey, one year in 10 chapters, Galerie Maisonneuve, Paris

2007 UBÏQ : Un Monde Flottant, Fondation Claude Verdan, Lausanne, Switzerland

2007 UBÏQ : A Mental Odyssey, Art Unlimited, Art 38 Basel, Galerie Maisonneuve, Switzerland

2006 UBÏQ : A Mental Odyssey, Red Cat Theater, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2004   Derrière le Monde Flottant, M.A.C, Lyon, France

2005   Eternal Garden, Back to Zhong Guo - Fools Move Mountains , Nanling, China (Permanent work)

2004   SYS*017.ReR*06/PiG-EqN\15*25, 21st Century Contemporary Art Museum, Kanasawa, Japon (Permanent work)

2003  Le Monde Flottant, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

2001 SYS*017.ReE.06/PiG-EqN\5*8, Ateliers d’artistes de la Ville de Marseille, France

1999 SYS*07.ReE*02/DeN ThE*01, Musée Fesch, Ajaccio, France

1999 SYS*06.RefN*02/Gre*02\Ros-3, ARCO-project room-gal. Roger Pailhas, Madrid, Spain

1998 CYC.01/M-02/SYS.E/R-23, Galerie Roger Pailhas, Paris, France

1997 L.E.P.3, Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, Paris, France

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019    Souvenirs de Voyage, collection Antoine De Galbert, Grenoble, France

2018    Heimat, 2018 Guang'an Art Biennale, China

2018    Gertrude Studios 2018, Melbourne, Australia

2017 Mondes Flottant, 14 Biennale de Lyon, France

2017 Gertrude Studios 2018, Melbourne, Australia

2013 Sous Influence, La Maison Rouge, Paris

2013 Outsider, Centre d’Art Bastille, Grenoble, France

2013 Beam in Thine Own eye, Mona, Tasmania, Australia

2013 Glow, Los Angeles, USA

2013 I Look To You And I See Nothing, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE 

2012 Migration, ARNDT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

2011 Star Voyager: Exploring Space on Screen , ACMI, Melbourne, Australia

2010 Event Horizon, Center for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia

2009 Incarnational Aesthetics,NYCAMS, NY, USA

2009 Les enfants terribles, Fundación / Colección Jumex, México

2008 Cosmos: en busca de los orígenes. De Kupka a Kubrick, TEA,  Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain

2008 Les mondes disparus, CAB - Centre d’Art Bastille, Grenoble, France

2008 In Memoriam Albert Hofmann, Museo Laberinto de Artes y Ciencias, San Luis Potosi, Mexico

2007 FIAC,G Galerie Maisonneuve, Cour carrée du Louvre, Paris, France

2007 Three Degrees, with Bill Albertini and Curtis Mitchell, Martos Gallery, N, USA

2007 La Tentation de l’espace, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris, France

2006 Sensorium: Embodied Experience, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Boston, Boston, USA

2006 Roger Pailhas, l’art d’une vie, MAC, Marseille, France

2006 Dual Realities, 4th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul, South Korea

2006 Esquiador en el fondo de un pozo, Jumex collection, Mexico City, Mexico

2006 La Force de l’Art, Entre les lignes, Grand Palais, Paris, France

2005 Singuliers, Guangdong Museum of Art, China

2005 Emergency Biennale, Chechnya, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

2004 Reactivity, ICC, Tokyo, Japan

2004 Digiscape, Seoul, South Korea

2004 Digital Sublime, Moca Tapei, Taiwan

2003 Microwavee, Exhibition Hall, Hong Kong City, China.

2003 Artists in Town, Maktab Anbar, Damas, Syria

2003 Darat Al Funun, Amman, Jordania

2003 Our mutual friend, Bloomberg Space, Londres, UK

2003 10 New York Digital Saloon, New York, USA

2003 Uneasyspace, SiteSantafe, Santafe, USA

2002 Sonic-Process, Macba, Barcelone, Spain / Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

2001 Egofugal, 7 Istanbul Bienal, Istanbul, Turkey

2001 Connivence, 6 Biennale, Lyon, France

2000 Vision machine, Musée des Beaux Arts, Nantes, France

2000 Less Aesthetics More Ethics, 7th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice, Italy

2000 Au-délà du spectacle, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

2000 Let’s Entertain, Walker Art Center-Minneapolis, M.A.C Miami, USA, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 

2000 Version 2000, Centre pour l’image contemporaine, Genève, Sweden

2000 Big, 1 Biennale, Turin, Italy

1998 Les jambes de Grand-mère, Arca, Marseille, France

1996 Collections, Dons et Dépôts, MAC, Marseille, France

PERFORMANCES

2007 Did you ever want to be someone else?, in collaboration with Prue Lang, 

2007 Turbine Hall - Tate Modern, London, UK

2006 La Fleur de peau, de Prue Lang et Mathieu Briand , Transart06, Franzensfeste Fortezza, Italy

2006 Esquiador en el fondo de un pozo, Jumex collection, Mexico City, Mexico

2005 La Fleur de peau, de Prue Lang et Mathieu Briand, Temps d’Images, la ferme du buisson, Paris, France

2000 Accès(s), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau, France

1998 FREE, 23 Octobre, MAC, Marseille, France

1997 L.E.P 3, galerie Caisse des dépôts et Consignations , Paris, France

1997 L.E.P 3, Art Dealer 2, Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, France

1995 APP*01.MiE ReU/CyEHoS LiS, Mise en réseau, CyberC.A.F.E Hors Limites, Marseille, France

AWARDS

7th Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey, 2000