Laurent Pernot

I often work on the basis of philosophical and historical research rooted in existential concerns and personal feelings, which I will then try to translate into a contemplative and poetic experience. Because poetry has no homeland, no language, no borders. Because there is no human without the ability to feel poetry.

— Laurent Pernot

Graduated from Le Fresnoy national studio of contemporary arts, Laurent Pernot has developed a polymorphous practice that explores human nature through the experience of time and memory. Contemplative and universal, discreet or sometimes spectacular, his artworks allude to a sense of timelessness through intricacies between the past, the contemporary and the future. His research draws as much from history and philosophy as from references to literature and poetry. The interactions between man and nature, memory and oblivion, the ephemeral and the eternal, or more recently human history and love, are among his major themes.

Pernot's work has notably been exhibited at the Miro Foundation in Barcelona, Château du Rivau in Leméré, Domaine National de Saint-Cloud in Saint-Cloud, the Sketch Gallery in London, Louvre-Lens Museum in Lens, Le Grenier à Sel in Avignon, the Long Museum in Shanghai, the MMOMA in Moscow, the São Paulo Biennial, and in France at the Louis Vuitton Cultural space, the Palais de Tokyo, the Maison Rouge, the Georges Pompidou Center, the Delacroix museum, the MAC VAL, the Pommery domain, and the Voyage à Nantes, among others. Laurent Pernot has been commissioned for several public works and received the prestigious SAM Prize for Contemporary Art in 2010. He is represented in museums, foundations and private collections around the world.

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Born 1980 in France. Lives and works in Paris, France.

Education

2004	Le Fresnoy National Studio for Contemporary Arts, Tourcoing
2002	Master’s Degree in Photography & Multimedia, University Paris VIII

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023	Domaine National de Saint-Cloud, Je me souviens, Saint-Cloud, France
2022	Galerie Marguo, We are miserable, but love, suddenly, saves us, Paris, France Château Malromé, The Moment of a lifetime, Saint-André-du-Bois, France
2021	Jardin Beltrame & Galerie Marguo, Antinoüs, Antinoüs Paris, France RX Gallery, 4+4 project, Compared with one moment of love, Paris, France
2020	Pavillon Vendôme, I am looking for a place where nobody ever dies, Aix-en-Provence, France
2019	Espace 36, Titans, Saint-Omer, France
2017	Le Point Commun, On Earth, Annecy, France
	Place Royale, Le Voyage à Nantes, The land where the trees dream, Nantes, France
	Passage Sainte Croix, No rose for the infinite, Nantes, France
2016	Odile Ouizeman Gallery, The Hope that still remains, Paris, France
2015	MMOMA Moscow Museum of Modern Art, A Fraction of infinity, Moscow, Russia
2014	Centre Pompidou, space 13/16, In the spotlights, Paris, France
2013	La Filature, Light Year, Mulhouse, France
	Palace Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef, Fez, Morocco
2012	Centre d’Art Bastille, Where the ghosts are born, Grenoble, France
	Mandet Museum, Intermittent memory, Riom, France
	Palais Jacques Coeur, Phenomena, Bourges, France
	Galerie Odile Ouizeman, Le Procès du Singe, Paris, France
2011	Palais de Tokyo, Rush to perdition, Paris, France
	National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Is There No Longer a Miraculous in this World, Kaliningrad, Russia
	Krasnoïé Znamia, Lux, St Petersbourg, Russia
2010	Lux Scène Nationale, The survival of fireflies, Valence, France
	Attrape-couleurs, Dark matter, Lyon, France
2009	Palacio das Artes, The uncertainty of stars, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2008	Odile Ouizeman Gallery, The skys turned black, Paris, France
2007	Sketch Gallery, Still Alive, London, UK
	1aspace, Beyond miracles, Hong Kong, China
2006	Alvar Aalto Museum, Particles, Jyväskylä, Finland
2005	Miro Foundation, Espai 13, Once upon a time, Barcelona, Spain
2004	Interxcross Creative Center, Dont close your eyes, Sapporo, Japan

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024	Galerie Marguo, KIAF Seoul 2024 (Upcoming)
	Galerie Claire Gastaud, COLLECTION 9, Clermont-Ferrand, France (Upcoming)
	Galerie Marguo, It's beautiful you would've seen - and it's all around, Art Paris 2024, France
2023	Musée de l’Abbaye,Paysages gelés, Saint-Claude, France
	Louvre-Lens Museum, Paysage, Lens, France
	Château du Rivau, Enchanter la Terre, Leméré, France
	Vranken Pommery Domain, Expérience Pommery, Reims, France
	Fondation Villa Datris, Mouvement et Lumière, L’isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France
	Île Nancy, Sculptures en l’île, Andrésy, France
	Le Grenier à sel, Ce que disent les plantes, Avignon, France
2022	Galerie Marguo, ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, Shanghai, China
	MRAC Sérignan, Un musée à soi, Sérignan, France
	Musée Mandet, Le Grand Tour, Riom, France
	Fondation La Ruche-Seydoux, Laniakea, Paris, France
	Musée-Château, Le Temps Suspendu, Annecy, France
	Private Choice, Paris, France
2021	MAC VAL, Le vent se lève, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
	Anglet Biennale, Anglet, France
	Malbuisson Quadriennale, Summer pieces, Malbuisson, France
	Domaine Pommery, Blooming, Reims, France
	Château du Rivau, The Taste of art – Part II, Lémeré, France
	Espace 16K, Lecho du silence, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
	Private Choice, Paris, France
2020	MAC VAL, Le vent se lève, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
	Maison des Arts, Metamorphoses, Chevilly-Larue, France
	Le Point Commun, 10 years!, Annecy, France
	Château du Rivau, The Taste of art, Lémeré, France