I. I. I. I.
International Institute for Important Items
Louise Hervé & Clovis Maillet


SOLO SHOWS
 
2018
Galerie Marcelle Alix, (Paris, FR) No more human voices, only the voice of birds
Credac, (Ivry, FR), Iguana
2017
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Torino, IT), The Waterway
2016
Kunsthal Aarhus (DK) Spectacles without Objects
Rond-point projects (Marseille, FR)
Cneai (Chatou, FR)
2014
Passerelle (Brest, FR), The Waterway
Galerie Marcelle Alix (Paris, FR), Nadine, Michel & Michel
2013
Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery (CAN) : Scholar’s rock
2012
Kunsthaus Glarus (CH) : The Exoteric Wall
Synagogue de Delme (FR), Strange Attraction, catalogue
Kunstverein Braunschweig (DEU) : Pythagoras and the monsters
2011
FRAC Champagne-Ardenne (Reims, FR) : In which the diorama is set on fire
2010
Galerie Marcelle Alix (Paris, FR): The dragon’s cave or the burying

 
GROUP SHOWS (selection)
2020
IAC (Villeurbanne, FR) Rituel·le·s (cur. Pauline Creuteur, Nathalie Ergino, Eli Humbert)
Museum of Contemporary Art Busan (Busan Biennal, KR) Words at an Exhibition – an Exhibition in Ten Chapters and Five Poems (cur. Jacob Fabricius)
Musée Maillol (Paris, FR), Esprit es-t-u là? (cur.Savine Faupin)
Cahn Contemporary (Bagnolet, FR), Parti·es hier (cur. Cécilia Becanovic)
2019
Galerie Marcelle Alix (Paris, FR), Marcelle Alix ouverte
Musée National de l’Education (Rouen, FR), La bonne Education : regards contemporains sur l’école
LaM (Villeneuve d’Ascq, FR), Lesage, Simon, Crépin, peintres spirites et guérisseurs
Musée Camille Claudel (Nogent-sur-Seine, FR), A rebrousse-temps
Nordart(Büdelsdorf, DEU)Talk Show FestivalSome of us, an overview on the French Art Scene
2018
Les Abattoirs, Musée Frac (Occitanie Toulouse, FR),Sons et visions, 100 vinyles de la
Bibliothèque des Abattoirs
La Panacée, MoCo (Montpellier, FR), Talk Show Festival (cur. Nicolas Bourriaud)
Villa Santo Sospir (Saint-Jean-Cap Ferrat, FR), Tattoo Sospir (cur. Eric mangion)
2017
Kunsthalle Wien(Vienna Biennial, AT) Work it Feel it (cur. Anne Faucheret)
Fundação Eugénio de Almeida (Evora, PT)
National Gallery (Sofia, BG), Potemkin palace (cur. Emile Ouroumov)
Les Tanneries(Amilly, FR) L’éternité par les astres (cur. Léa Bismuth)
Pavilion, Leeds (UK), The Unnamed room (performance)
2016
Printemps de septembre (Toulouse, FR), Je l’offre à Lafayette, performance (cur. Christian Bernard)
Salon de Montrouge (FR), La danseuse barbue, performance (cur. Ami Barak)
Chapelle du Quartier Haut (Sète, FR), L’influence des parages (cur. Marine Lang)
2015
Musée Picasso (Paris, FR), Le médium, l’artiste et le somnambule, performance (cur. Emilie Bouvard)
Physics Room (Christchurch, NZ), The Blue grey wall (cur. Barbara Sirieix)
St James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, (Valletta, MLT), The Culture of Ageing (cur. Mare van Koningsveld & Lennard Dost)

 
BOOKS & RECORDS
Iguana, ThalieLab Brussels, Thalie Foundation, 2018
Spectacles without Objects, vinyl record, Kunsthal Aarhus/Pork Salad Press, 2016
Spectacles without Objects, Kunsthal Aarhus/Pork Salad Press, 2016
Spectacles sans objets, Editions P, 2016 (in French)
Strange attraction, with Stéphane Bérard, Céline Minard, Emmanuelle Pireyre, JRP Ringier, 2013

 
RADIO
Restauration totale, Atelier de création radiophonique, France Culture, 30’, 2011
Scudo, Atelier de création radiophonique, France Culture, with le Pavillon/ Palais de Tokyo, 80’, 2009

 
FILMOGRAPHY
Iguana, HD video, 15′, 2018
Kiki e manu, HD video and super 8 film, 15′, 2018
Spectacles without Objects, 35min slides, super 8 and video transferred to HD, 33′, 2016
Hors-Pistes Festival (Centre G.Pompidou) 2016
The Waterway, HD video, 23′, 2014
Festival Les Inattendus Lyon 2016
Festival international du film d’environnement, Paris, 2014
Festival Première fois, Aix-en-Provence, 2014
Fronteira Festival Internacional do Filme Documentário e Experimental, 2014
Festival International du film de la Roche sur Yon, 2014

A Treatise on Baths, 35mm slideshow, 9′, 2013
The Wall that Bleeds, 16mm, 5′, 2012
Pythagoras and the Monsters, s8mm, 4’40 », 2012
A Recess and a Reconstruction, s8mm film transferred to Digibeta, 19′, 2011
Entrevues, Belfort international film festival, 2011
Moscow Biennial, 2011
Entr’acte (Galerie Arko, Nevers), 2011
Prospectif cinema (centre G. Pompidou) 2011

An Important Project, s16mm film and Hdcam transferred to HDcam, 38′, 2009
Hors-Pistes -Festival (Centre G. Pompidou) 2010
Entrevues, Belfort international film festival 2009
Bandits-mages Festival (Bourges) 2009
Nemo Festival 2009
Forum de l’image Festival (Toulouse) 2009

The Things We Know…, s16mm film transferred to digital beta, 44′, 2007
Nemo Festival 2007
Annonay Festival 2007

 
EDUCATION
2008-2009 – Le Pavillon, Laboratoire de création Palais de Tokyo
Louise Hervé
2018-2022 – Doctorate fellowship, Université de Cergy
2005 – MA Ecole Nationale d’Arts de Cergy, France.
2003 – BA History of art, Université Paris X.
Clovis Maillet
2015 – Post-doctorate, Quai Branly museum, Paris
2010 – Doctorate, Anthropological history, EHESS, Paris.

 
GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
2022 – Villa Koujoiama, Kyoto
2018 – Fondation Thalie residency, Brussels
2016 – Te Whare Hera residency, Wellington, New Zealand
2014 – Per4m Artissima Fair Award, Torino
2013 – Résidency La Cité des arts, Paris
2012 – Prix Ricard, shortlisted
2012 – Emdash Award, shortlisted
2011 – Residency Frac Champagne Ardenne, France
2010 – Residency Raven Row, London
2008 – Residency Le Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

 
WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The New Stone Festival, performance protocol, CNAP Collection, 2022
Iguana, Paintings, video and performance, FRAC Lorraine, 2018
The Day of the Cosmos,performance and publication, dispositif Nouveaux Commanditaires, Observatoire de l’Université de Lille and Jardin des Plantes de Lille, 2018
The Engineer Who Transported Rocks, FRAC Aquitaine MECA, 2013-2017
Le Passeur, performance, Musée de l’Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les Sables d’Olonne, 2015
Un Passage d’eau, film, Musée de l’Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les Sables d’Olonne, 2015
Le Grand Escamotage, performance, CNAP Collection, 2011
Une Reconstitution et un Souterrain, film, CNAP Collection, 2010
Francis, installation, CNAP Collection, 2010

Louise Hervé
& Clovis Maillet

Born 1981, in France.
Live and work in Paris.
Represented by Marcelle Alix Gallery

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