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Bernar Venet

(French, born 1941)

position of three undetermined lines by bernar venet

Bernar Venet

Position of Three Undetermined Lines, 1984

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Biography

Timeline

1941
Born in Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban, France
1955 - 1958
Studied at the Ecole Libre and Groupe Scolaire Paul Lapie, Saint-Aubon, France
1958 - 1959
Studied art at La Villa Thiole, Nice, France
1959 - 1961
Worked as stage-director, Opera de Nice, France
1961 - 1962
Military Service, French Army, Algeria
1966
Moved to New York, USA
1988
Design Award for Sculpture, Norfolk, USA
1990
Grand Prix des Arts de La Ville de Paris, France
1991
Creates several musical compositions including Random Sound and Resonance, a made in collaboration with the army at the 4th RIMA, Fréjus, France
1996
Master in Residence at Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, USA

Exhibitions

2017
Bernar Venet Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Looking Forward: 1961-1984, Blain Southern, London, England (solo exhibition)
Bernar Venet: Arcs, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
RAW: Portraits d’artists, French Cultural Center, Boston, MA (solo exhibition)
2016
Bernar Venet Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Bernar Venet: Angles, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
RAW: Portraits d’artists, Galerie Rue Visconti, Paris, France (solo exhibition)
Bernar Venet: Les Origines 1961-1966, L’Espace de l’art concret, Mouans-Sartoux, France (solo exhibition)
Bernar Venet, Custot Gallery Dubai, Dubai, U.A.E. (solo exhibition)
Bernar Venet, Galería Cayón, Madrid, Spain (solo exhibition)
Art on Board, Mathematische Fachbibliothek der TU Berlin, Germany
Focus on Sculpture in the Würth Collection, Würth Haus Rorschach, Switzerland
Arte alle Corti, Palazzo Cisterna, Turin, Italy
Opening of the New Jakobshallen Exhibition Rooms, Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg, Germany
The World Meets Here, Custot Gallery Dubai, Dubai, U.A.E.
Quand la matière deviant forme, Centre d’art contemporain intercommunal, Istres, France
2015
Bernar Venet Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Bernar Venet, Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Luxembourgh (solo exhibition)
Bernar Venet: metametria, Vass Collection, Budapest, Hungary (solo exhibition)
Bernar Venet, Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti, Venice, Italy (installation coinciding with the Venice Biennale) (solo exhibition)
Il caos come principio sottovalutato dell’ordine (Chaos as an underestimated principle of order), Giorgio Persano, Turin, Italy (solo exhibition)
Mathematica, Michael Fuchs Galerie, Berlin, Germany (solo exhibition)
A Five Month continuous Exhibition, Woolloomooloo Wharf, Sydney, Australia
More Konzeption Conception Now, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
’La Prom’ comme atelier, Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain de Nice (MAMAC), Nice, France
Bernar Venet – Sculptures, Pilane Heritage Museum, Klövedalk, Sweden
2014
Bernar Venet Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Hypothèse du point, Espace Jacques Villiglé de Saint Gratien, Saint Gratien, France (solo exhibition)
Bernar Venet, L’hypothèse de l’arc, von Bartha Garage, Basel, Switzerland (solo exhibition)
Bernar Venet, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, South Korea (solo exhibition)
Bernar Venet / Maquettes, Strandverket Art Museum, Marstrand, Sweden (solo exhibition)
Homage to Kurt Gödel, A tribute to abstract thinking, Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg, Germany (solo exhibition)
Art by Telephone…Recalled, La Panacée, Montpellier, France
Face à l’œuvre, Fondation Maegt, Saint-Paul de Vence, France
Love Story – Anne & Wolfgang Titze Collection, Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria
2013
Bernar Venet at Meijer Gardens, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, USA
Premio Internacional Julio González. Bernar Venet, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
2012
Bernar Venet: Maquettes, Grafik, Unikate, 5 Jahre Galerie im Venet-Haus in Neu-Ulm 2007 – 2012, Fischerplatz Galerie, Ulm, Germany
Bernar Venet, 5 Jahre Galerie im Venet-Haus in Neu-Ulm, Galerie im Venet-Haus Neu-Ulm, Neu-Ulm, Germany
Bernar Venet, Art Plural Gallery Pte Ltd, Singapore
Bernar Venet Paintings:1967-2010, de Sarthe Gallery, Paradise Valley, USA
2011
Bernar Venet at the Palace Gardens, Versailles, France
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea (solo)
Bernar Venet, von Bartha Collection, Basel, Switzerland
Bernar Venet Sculpture Garden at Oyster Creek Park in Sugar Land, McClain Gallery, Houston, USA
2010
Hermann Park, Houston, USA, in collaboration with Robert McClain Gallery (solo)
Galerie Pièce Unique, Paris, France (solo)
Institut Valencia d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain (solo)
Bernar Venet: Homage to Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria (solo)
Le monde de Bernar Venet, Venet in context, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France (solo)
Form in Transition: Sculptors Making Prints and Drawings, Saint Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, USA
Sculptors Celebrate the Legacy of Frederik and Lena Meijer, Frederik Meijer Gardens, Grand Rapids Charter Township, USA
2009
L'arte è una parola, Galleria Il Ponte Firenze, Florence, Italy
Vivre l'art: Collection Venet, Espace de l'art concret, Mouans-Sartoux, France
Blickachsen 7, Bad Homburg Kurpark and Castle Gardens, Germany
Von Arman bis Andy Warhol: Die Neuen Meisterwerke im Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
Museum im Deutschherrenhaus, Koblenz, Germany
TILT, Musée de l'hospice Saint-Roch, Issoudun, France
Encuentros de Pamplona 72: Fin de fiesta del arte experimental, Museuo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Im kleinen Format, Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg, Germany
Schinkel Pavillon, in collaboration with Galerie Haas & Fuchs, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Palais des Beaux-Arts (BOZAR), Brussels, Belgium (solo)
Arsenale Novissimo, 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (solo)
Galerie Guy Pieters, Knokke-Heist, Belgium (solo)
2008
Bernar Venet: Sotheby's at Isleworth, Isleworth Country Club, Orlando, USA (solo)
Eaton Fine Art, West Palm Beach, USA (solo)
Galerie von Bartha, S-Chanf, Switzerland (solo)
Forsblom Galerie, Helsinki, Finland (solo)
Bernar Venet in San Diego, USA (solo)
Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA (solo)

Public Collections

Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland
Espace de l'Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux, France
Esplanade de Uni Mail, Geneva, Switzerland
Esquire Company, Seoul, Korea
First National Bank, Seattle, Washington, USA
Fondation Looser, Zürich, Switzerland
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland
Foundation Domnick, Nürtingen, Germany
Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Gateway Foundation, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Literature

2004
Bernar Venet – Lignes Indéterminées – L’Espace de la Perturbation. Paris: Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, 2004
2003
Kuspit, Donald. Bernar Venet : Le Sublime par les mathématiques, monographie. Paris, France: L’Yeuse, , 2003
2002
Mc Evilley, Thomas. Bernar Venet, monographie. Switzerland: Benteli Verlag; Paris: Artha, 2002
2000
Pierre, Arnauld. Bernar Venet « Le Discours et la méthode », monographie. Milan: Prearo Editore, 2000
English (US)

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