Philippe Parreno

Born 1964 in Oran, Algeria.
Lives and works in Paris, France.

All cinemagoers are familiar with the dramatic moment when the curtain swishes back, the projectors begin to turn and the screen flickers into life. When film-maker Philippe Parreno is involved, though, we’d better not settle too comfortably into our seats. Parreno likes to shake up our expectations, finding new and inventive ways to blur the boundaries between fact and fiction, image and reality; and new ways to question the conventions as to where (and how) ‘art’ is presented. His enigmatic work for Liverpool will focus on the mysterious nature of the cinematic image, teasing us with a new twist on Pandora’s box: you can hold it in your hand, you can take it home – but if you open it, what will you be left with?

Selected solo exhibitions

2006
Briannnnnn & Ferryyyyyy/Law and Creativity, with Liam Gillick, Kunsthalle Malmö, Malmö –SW ; Vamiali’s, Athens –G ; Kunsthalle, Zürich -CH
2005
The Boy from Mars, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York –USA
Atlas of clouds, Brian Butler/1301PE, Los Angeles –USA
2004
Fade away, Kunstverein Munich -G
2003
The Sky of Seven Colours, Kitakyushu -J
2002
Alien Seasons, ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris -F*
Anywhere out of the world, Kunstverein Munchen, Munich -G


Selected collaborations

2005
Rirkrit Tiravanija : Une rétrospective (Tomorrow Is Another Fine Day), Couvent des Coedeliers, Paris, France
2003
Sodium Dreams, with D. Gonzales-Foerster & P. Huyghe, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York –USA
2002
No Ghost Just a Shell, Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno, Institute of Visual Culture, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge –UK*


Selected group exhibitions

2006
Cinéma(s), Le Magasin, Grenoble –F
Tate Triennal, Tate Britain, London –UK
2005
Guangzhou Triennial -China
Radio Days, De Appel, Amsterdam -NL
Expérience de la durée, Biennale de Lyon, Lyon –F*
2004
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa -J
Biennale de l’art africain contemporain, Dak’Art 2004, Dakar
2003
Utopia Station, Biennale di Venezia -I
25 International Biennal of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana –Slovenia
No Ghost Just a Shell, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven –NL*
2002
El aire es azul, casa museo Francisco Ramirez, Mexico City -Mexique
(The World May Be) Fantastic, Biennale de Sydney -Australie


Selected videos, films:
STORIES ARE PROPAGANDA, with Rirkrit Tiravanija, 8mn 29s, 2005
BRIANNNNN & FERRYYYYY, with Liam Gillick, animated movie, 30mn, 2004
BOY FROM MARS, 35 mm transféré sur HD, 10mn 39s, 2003

Further reading

Selected artist's writings:

Fantôme de Sitcom, in catalogue Rirkrit Tiravanija, ed. Paris musées, 2005, pp.41-43
The artists’ artists, in Artforum, december 2004
Phonoglutamate, in Domus, n° 875, november 2004, pp. 70-72
Speech Bubbles, ed. Les Presses du Réel, Dijon, 2001


Selected publications:

The Boy from Mars, ed. CCA Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu, 2004

No Ghost Just a Shell, ed. Walter König, Köln, 2002

http://www.airdeparis.com/parreno.htm