Clément Cogitore Biography

Born 1983, in Colmar

2006-2008
Post – graduate degree at “Le Fresnoy” National studio of contemporary – Tourcoing

2006
Bachelor Degree – With first-class honors – Fine Arts National School – ESAD Strasbourg

2004
Undergraduate Degree- With first-class honors – Fine Arts National School – ESAD Strasbourg

SELECTED SOLO SHOWS

2020

Clément Cogitore – Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney
Clément Cogitore – The Pushkin Museum (RU) – Curators : Olga Shishko and Julia Grachikova
Darkroom Clément Cogitore – Turku Art Museum (FI) – Curator : Annina Sirén

2019
The Evil Eye – Galerie Reinhard Hauff – Stuttgart (DE)
Clément Cogitore – Bordeaux Submarine Base (FR) – Curator : Anne-Sophie Dinant
Clément Cogitore (Part I and II) – Kunsthaus Baselland (CH) – Curator : Ines Goldbach
Clément Cogitore – Chagall Museum – Nice (FR) – Curators : Anne Dopffer and Gaïdig Lemarié

2018
Pale nights – Cinéma Galeries – Bruxelles (BE) – Curator : Dominique Païni
Installations – Lux, Scène nationale de Valence (FR) – Curator : Catherine Rossi-Batôt
Assange Dancing – Ikon Gallery Birmingham (UK) – Curator : Jonathan Watkins
Les Indes Galantes – Tabakalera, International Centre for Contemporary Culture – San Sebastian (ESP) – Curator : Víctor Iriarte
Braguino ou la communauté impossible – Fotografia Europea – Reggio Emilia (IT)
Reste l’air et les formes – FRAC Auvergne – Clermont Ferrand (FR) – Curator : Jean-Charles Vergne

2017
Parmis nous, new display thanks to Fondation d’entreprise Ricard award – Centre Georges Pompidou, National Museum of
Modern Arts – Paris (FR) – Curator : Christine Macel
Braguino ou la communauté impossible – Le BAL – Paris (FR) – Curators: Léa Bismuth et Diane Dufour
Uchronies – Eva Hober Gallery – Paris (FR)
L’intervalle de résonance – Reinhard Hauff Gallery – Stuttgart (DE)

2016
L’intervalle de résonance – Palais de Tokyo – Paris (FR) – Curator : Daria de Beauvais
Ni le ciel ni la terre – Reinhard Hauff Gallery – Stuttgart (DE)

2015
Digital Desert – Whiteproject Gallery – Paris (FR)

2014
Fictions – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Arts of Strasbourg (FR) – Curator : Estelle Pietrzyck
Visions – Centre européen d’actions artistiques contemporaines – Strasbourg (FR)
Rumeurs – Whiteproject Gallery- Paris (FR)

2013
Clément Cogitore : Fotografien – French Institut – Stuttgart (DE)

2012
Rondes de Nuit – Whiteproject Gallery – Paris (FR)

2011
Un archipel – Module – Palais de Tokyo – Paris (FR) – Curator : Daria de Beauvais
Angelu(s)x – Saint-Séverin Gallery – Paris (FR)

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris – National Museum of Modern Art
Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
MAC VAL, Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine – Museum of Contemporary Art
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris – National collection of Contemporary Art
Fonds Municipal d’Art Contemporain, Paris – Regional collection of Contemporary Art
FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux – Regional collection of Contemporary Art
FRAC Alsace, Sélestat – Regional collection of Contemporary Art
FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand – Regional collection of Contemporary Art

2018

Marcel Duchamp Prize 2018 – France – Rapporteur : Jean-Charles Vergne
Grand Prize UniFrance for short film – Festival de Cannes
Special Mention – BAFICI, Buenos Aires festival international de cine independiete – Argentina
Special Mention, documentary award – DokerFest – Moscow – Russia

2017

Grand Prize (Special Mention) – Marseille International Film Festival – France
Grand Prize Kino der Kunst, Film festival – Artist under 35 – Munich – Germany
Grand Prize – Les écrans documentaires – La Rochelle – France
Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award – San Sebastian Film Festival – Spain
Jury Special Mention -Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia- Chile

2016

18TH Fondation d’entreprise Ricard award – Paris – France
Sciences Po Award for Contemporary Art – Paris – France
Best First Film Award – Colcoa Film Festival Los Angeles – USA
Jury’s Prize – Sarasota International Film Festival – USA
Grand Prize – Henri Langlois awards – France

2015

Grand Prize Gan Foundation – Cannes Festival – Semaine de la Critique – France
Bal Award for young artist with ADAGP – Paris- France
Best first featured film Prize – Syndicat de la Critique – France
Nomination Salomon Foundation Award For Contemporary Art – New-York – USA
Nomination César Best first featured film – César awards – France
Nomination “Caméra d’Or” (best first featured film) – Cannes festival – France
2 Nominations Magritte Prize – France
3 Nominations Lumière Prize – France
Best first featured film Prize – Obrero International Film Festival – Sweden
Best first featured film Prize – Motovun International Film Festival – Croatia
Best film Prize – Festival International du Film D’Aubagne – France
Prix Découverte – Festival du Film Francophone de Namur – Belguim

2014

National Foundation for Contemporary Art (FNAGP) Award – Paris – France
Nomination Prix Arte for Contemporary Art – France
Nomination Audi Talents Award – Paris – France

2012/2014

Nomination Sam Art projects Award – France

2012/2013

French Academy Residency Award – Villa Médicis – Italy

2012

Foundation Beaumarchais Award – SACD – Paris (short film) – France
Best cinematography award – Lucania International film festival – Italy

2011

Grand prize of salon de Montrouge – 56° Salon de Montrouge – France
Best Film Award – International film festival Belo Horizonte – Brazil

2010

European First Film Award– Foundation Vevey – Switzerland
FIDLAB Award – Marseille International Film Festival – France
Special experimentation award – FESANCOR – International film festival Santiago – Chile

2007

Jury’s awards – Vendôme International Film Festival – France
Best photography Award – International student film festival – Belgrade – Serbia

2006

Grand Prize (Special Mention) – Festival «Entrevues» – Belfort – France
Award of centre des écritures cinématographiques – Ecrans documentaires – Arcueil – France

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2020
Me Family – MUDAM (LUX) – Curators : Francesco Bonami, Emmanuela Mazzonis and Clément Minighetti (upcoming)
Kunsthalle Mannheim (DE) – Curator : Johan Holten (upcoming)
Lecture – Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. (USA) (upcoming)

2019
In the spotlight of the night – Life in the gloom – Marta Herford Museum (DE) – Curator : Friederike Fast
An Opera for Animals – Rockbund Art Museum (CN) – Curator : Hsieh Feng-Rong
Alienations – Zacheta National Gallery of Art – Warsaw (PL) – Curator : Maria Brewinska
Toi qui chemines il n’y a pas de chemin – Red Brick Art Museum – Beijing / Minsheng Art Museum – Shanghai (CN)- Curator : Annabelle Ténèze
Bienalsur – Musée National des Arts Décoratifs – Buenos Aires (AR) – Commissaire : Diana Wechsler
L’Art dans les Chapelles – Pontivy (FR) – Curator : Eric Suchère
Syncopes et Extases. Vertiges du Temps – FRAC Franche-Comté – Besançon (FR) – Curator : Stéphanie Jamet
Le 4eme Mur – Memento Espace départemental d’art contemporain – Auch – France – Curator : Karine Mathieu
Macro_asilo – MACRO – Rome (IT) – Curator : Giorgio de Finis and Maria-Laura Cavaliere
On danse ? – MUCEM – Marseille (FR) – Curator : Emilie Girard

2018
Marcel Duchamp Prize 2018 – Centre Georges Pompidou, National Museum of Modern Art – Paris (FR) – Curator : Marcella Lista
Evoking Reality – Dailmer Contemporary – Berlin (DE) – Curators : Renate Wiehager and Nadine Isabelle Henrich
Telluride Film Festival – Telluride (USA) – Official Selection
Persona Grata – Mac Val, Museum of Contemporary Arts – Vitry sur Seine (FR) – Curator : Ingrid Jurzak
Braguino, In formation III – ICA, Institute of Contemporary Arts – London (UK) – Curator : Nico Marzano
ENFANCE, Encore un jour banane pour le poisson-rêve – Palais de Tokyo – Paris (FR) – Curators : Jean de Loisy, Yoann Gourmel and Sandra Adam
Frame freely – Daegu Photo Biennale (KOR) – Commissaire : Ami Barak
Opéra National de Paris, 3ème Scène – Les Rencontres de Photographies d’Arles (FR)
Respire : vidéos art de la collection Lemaitre – Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art – Tel Aviv (ISR) – Curator : Marie Shek
The art of real – Lincoln Center – New-York (USA) – Curator : Dennis Limm
Alliance Française Film Festival – Sydney / Melbourne (AUS)
Frames of representation – Institute of contemporary arts – London (UK) – Curator : Nico Marzano
OVNi at 2018 MOCA International Video Art Festival – Taipei Museum of Contemporary Arts (TWN) – Curator : Haily Grenet
OHLO, Art Cinema festival – Rio de Janeiro / Sao Paulo – Brazil – Curator : Alessandra Bergamaschi and Vanina Saracino
Crossing Europe film festival – Linz (AUT) – Official Selection
Festival International du court métrage de Clermont Ferrand (FR) – Official Selection

2017
L’art de la joie – Biennale de Québec – National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec – Montréal (CAN) – Curator : Alexia Fabre
The Opposing shore – 7th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art – Moscow (RUS) – Curators : Sasha Pevak and Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou
Vision on vision, the Lemaitre video collection – SeMA Bunker – Seoul (KOR) – Curator : Hyunjin Kim
Busan International Film festival (KOR) – Official Selection
Montreal International Documentary Festival (CAN) – Official Selection
Torino international film festival – Turino (IT) – Official Selection
DocPoint Helsinki Film Festival (FIN) – Official Selection
Intériorités – LaBanque – Béthune (FR) – Curator : Léa Bismuth
Un monde in-tranquille – Centre d’art Contemporain – Meymac (FR)
Plein écran – La Station – Nice (FR) – Curators : Mathilde Roman and Benjamin Laugier
Entrevues – International film festival of Belfort (FR) – Official Selection
Transcinema Festival – Lima (PER) – Official Selection
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (NL) – Official Selection
Muestra de Cine – Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ESP) – Official Selection
Brouhaha – Galerie du Granit, scène Nationale – Belfort (FR) – Curator : Mickaël Roy
Filmer à tout prix – Bruxelles (BE) – Official Selection

2016
New directors, new films – MOMA, Museum Of Modern Art – New York (USA) – Curator : Josh Siegel
18TH Fondation d’entreprise Ricard award – Paris (FR) – Curator : Isabelle Cornaro
59th San Francisco international film festival (USA) – Official Selection
Colcoa, Los Angeles French film festival (USA) – Official Selection
Dépenses – LaBanque – Béthune (FR) – Curator : Léa Bismuth
Une seule larme peut éteindre l’enfer – Eva Hober Gallery – Paris (FR)
One is almost never present – NEST Gallery – The Hague (NL) – Curator : Ginta Vasermane, Maciej Madracki
D’autres possibles – Pavillon Vendôme – Clichy (FR) – Curator : Thomas Fort
Moving Images Art Fair – Reinhard Hauff Gallery – New York (USA)
9th Lichter International film festival Frankfurt (DE) – Official Selection
La ville au corps – Carreau du Temple – Paris (FR) – Curator : Jessica Castex
Sarasota International film festival (USA) – Official Selection
La Ciotat International film festival (FR) – Official Selection

2015
Cannes Festival – Semaine de la critique – Cannes (FR)
Le Fresnoy, Mémoire de l’imagination – BNF, Bibliothèque Nationale de France – Paris (FR) – Curator : Julien Farenc
The Twinckle World – Daegu Artfair (KOR) – Curator : Hyo Yeun Kang
Dirty Windows – Label201 – Rome (IT) – Curator : Abbiatici Levy
Après l’image – FRAC Alsace – Sélestat (FR) – Curator : Olivier Grasser
Torino international film festival – Torino (IT) – Official Selection
28th Helsinki International film festival (FIN) – Official Selection
Festival international du film sur l’art – Montréal (CAN) – Official Selection
Miroir ô mon miroir – Pavillon Carré Baudoin – Paris (FR) – Curators : Thomas Fort, Nathalie Desmet and Rosario Caltabiano
A to Z – White Project Gallery – Paris (FR) – Curator : Jeremy Planchon
48th Sitges International film festival (ESP) – Official Selection
Namur International film festival (BE) – Official Selection
19th Motovun International film festival (HRV) – Official Selection
Cinemania International film festival – Montréal (CAN) – Official Selection
13th Moreila International film festival – Mexico city (MEX) – Official Selection
6th Jagran International film festival (IND) – Official Selection
42nd Gent International film festival (BE) – Official Selection
31st Warsaw International film festival (PL) – Official Selection
25th Fancine International film festival (ESP) – Official Selection

2014
FIAC, Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain – Paris (FR) – Curator : FMAC, Fond Municipal d’Art Contemporain
Is it yours ? – Museum Baerengasse – Zürich (CH) – Curators : Damian Jurt and Dorothée Richter
Wilkommen in Paradies – Landesgalerie Burgenland – Eisenstadt (AUT) – Curator : Künstlergruppe Burgenland
Pièces montrées, 30 ans des FRAC – Frac Alsace – Sélestat (FR) – Curators : Olivier Grasser and Roland Recht
Torino international film festival – Torino (IT) – Official Selection
International festival Cervantino Festival – Mexico city (MEX) – Official Selection
Blue Movie – Galerie Eva Hober – Paris (FR) – Curator : Eva Hober and Meriam Korichi
Slick Attitude, Art Fair – Galerie Whiteproject – Paris (FR)
Pour frontière un sommeil – L’Arteppes, centre d’art – Annecy (FR)

2013
Vidéo Dumbo Eyebeam – Art+Technology Center – New-York (USA) – Curators : Caspar Stracke and Gabriela Monroy
Un nouveau festival : Book Machine – Centre Georges Pompidou, National Museum of Modern Arts – Paris (FR) Curators : Bernard Blistène and Patrick Javault
Passeurs – Whiteprojects Gallery / Odile Ouizeman Gallery – Paris (FR)
Paysages intimes – Villa Kier Thossane – Dakar (SEN) – Curator : Younes Baba-Ali
Kino der Kunst, Film Festival – Munich (DE) – Official Selection
Cinemart, International film festival – Rotterdam (NL) – Official Selectio
Il retro del manifesto – Villa Medicis – Rome (IT) – Curator : Laurent Montaron
La Belle Peinture 2 – Palais Pisztory / French Institut Bratislava (SVK) – Curators : Eva Hober and Ivan Jancar
Buongiorno Blinky – ZAC, Cantieri culturali – Palerme (IT) – Curator : Emmanuel Van der Meulen
Limited Acess – Aaran Art Gallery – Teheran (IRN) – Curator : Anahita Heckmat
Videoformes – Film festival International d’Arts Numériques de Clermont-Ferrand (FR) – Official Selection
Carte blanche à Clément Cogitore – Cinéma Odyssée – Strasbourg (FR)
Rencontres internationales Paris-Berlin – Haus der Kulturen der Welt – Berlin (DE)
Universo Video – LaBoral Centro de Arte – Gijon (ESP) – Curator : Alfredo Aracil
Utopie distribuée – Whiteprojects Gallery – Paris (FR)
Zagrebdox – Film festival Zagreb (HRV) – Official Selection

2012
Memento Mori – Création vidéo pour Oratorio – Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord – Paris (FR)
Teatro delle esposizione – Villa Medicis – Rome (IT) – Curator : Alessandro Rabottini
Nuit Blanche – Palais de Tokyo – Paris (FR) – Curator : Daria de Beauvais
Rencontres internationales Paris-Berlin-Madrid – Haus der Kulturen der Welt – Berlin (DE)
Festival international du court-métrage de Clermont-Ferrand (FR) – Official Selection
Human Right Film Festival – Barcelona (ESP) – Official Selection
29° Kassel international documentary film festival – Kassel (DE) – Official Selection
65° International film festival Locarno (IT) – Official Selection
Passeurs – Bäckerstrasse4 Gallery, Künstlerhaus -Vienna (AUT) – Curator : Caroline Messensee
Affinités, attractions et déchirures – FRAC Alsace – Sélestat (FR) – Curator : Olivier Grasser
Video Killed the Radio Star – E. Bannwarth Gallery – Paris (FR) – Curator : Emilie Bannwarth
Reality Terror – Kazi Art Forum – Istanbul (TUR) – Curator : Alper T Ince
Indielisboa – International film festival – Lisbonne (PRT) – Official Selection
Sheffield Doc Film festival (UK) – Official Selection
Orhid French Film Festival (MKD) – Official Selection
Panazorean International film festival – Açores (PRT) – Official Selection
Lucania International film festival – Pisticci (IT) – Official Selection
Torino international film festival – Torino (IT) – Official Selection
Dok Leipzig, Festival international du documentaire – Leipzig (DE) – Official Selection
DokumentArt, International documentary and video art film festival – Neubrandenburg (DE) – Official Selection
L’Alternativa, International video and film festival – Barcelona (ESP) – Official Selection

2011
Quinzaine des réalisateurs – Cannes Festival (FR) – Official Selection
Panorama de la jeune création – 56° Salon de Montrouge (FR) – Curator : Stéphane Corréard
Other French loves – Museum of fine arts – Boston (USA) – Curator : Liz Munsell
Biennale de la jeune création européenne – Montrouge, Geneva, Hamburg, Amarante – Curator : Andrea Ponsini
Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid – Centre Georges Pompidou, National Museum of Modern Arts – Paris (FR)/Haus der Kultur der Welt – Berlin (DE) / Museo Reina Sofia – Madrid (ESP)- Curator : Jean-François Rettig and Nathalie Hénon
Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal (CAN) – Official Selection
Filmwinter, Stuttgart International film festival (DE) – Official Selection
Légère éclaircie – Galerie White Projects – Paris (FR) – Curator : Stéphane Corréard
Curtas, International film festival of Vila do Conde (PRT) – Official Selection
Dok Leipzig, Festival international du documentaire – Leipzig (DE) – Official Selection
La Cabina, International Medium lenght film festival – Valencia (ESP) – Official Selection
Entrevues – International film festival of Belfort (FR) – Official Selection
Ecrans documentaires – Arcueil (FR) – Official Selection
Festival international du film de Belo Horizonte (BRA) – Official Selection
Indielisboa, International festival of independent cinema – Lisbonne (PRT) – Official Selection
D’konschtkëscht – Centre national de l’audiovisuel, Dudelange (LUX)
Traverses vidéo – Chapelle des Carmélites – Toulouse (FR)

2010
Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid – Centre Pompidou, National Museum of Modern Arts – Paris (FR) Curators : Jean-François Rettig and Nathalie Hénon
Regionale 11 – Kunsthaus Baselland – Basel (CH) – Curator : Eric Hattan
Au travers – Kulturwerk T66 – Freiburg (DE) – Curator : Florian Tiedje and Marie Prunier
Nature and Lanscape – Biennale de Casablanca (MAR) – Curator : Mohammed Rachdi
Nuit des musées – Musée de la chasse et de la nature – Paris (FR)
Videomedeja – Museum of modern art Vojvodina – Novi Sad (SRB) – Official Selection
Moving Worlds – Triennale jeune création – Carré Rotondes – Luxembourg (LUX) – Curator : Didier Damiani
Octobre rouge – 5° Prix de la création vidéo – Dudelange (LUX)

2009
French Institut – Tokyo (JPN)
International video art festival – Athens (GRC)
Nuit blanche – Espacio Tangente – Burgos (ESP)
Out of control – 7° Biennale internationale de photographie et d’arts visuels – Museum of Modern Art – Liège (BE) Curator : Marc Wendelski
Proyector – 2° Semana de videoarte international – Espace Menos Uno – Madrid (ESP)
Rendez vous franco-allemand du film court – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Arts of Strasbourg (FR)
Moved, Mutated and disturbed identities – Casino – Forum d’art contemporain – Luxembourg (LUX) – Curator : Paul di Felice and Sylvie Blocher
Loop, Video art fair – Barcelona (ESP)
International short film festival – Dresden (DE)- Official selection
International film and video festival – Bochum (DE) – Official selection

2008
Dans la nuit des images – Grand Palais – Paris (DE) – Curator : Alain Fleischer
Panorama 9/10 – Le Fresnoy-Studio national des arts contemporains – Tourcoing (FR) – Curator : Bernard Blistène
Dérives – Cinémathèque française – Paris (FR)
Temps d’images – Ferme du Buisson – Scène nationale de Marne la Vallée (FR) – Curator : José-M Goncalves
Festival international du film – Vendôme (FR)
7° Biennale de l’image en mouvement – Geneva (CH)

2007
Présumés coupables – Le Fresnoy-Studio national des arts contemporains – Tourcoing (FR) – Curator : Dominique Païni
8° International biennal of video and cinema – Santiago (CHL)
Rencontres internationales Paris-Berlin – Musée du jeu de Paume – Paris (FR)
Cinémathèque Québecoise – Montréal (CAN)
Mirages et désirs – Festival international d’art contemporain d’Izmir (TUR)
60° Locarno International film festival – Locarno (CH)
Wro 07, Biennale de Wroclaw (PL)
Animeux – Teatro Studio Scandicci – Prato (IT)

2006
Carte blanche au GREC – Centre Georges Pompidou, National Museum of Modern Arts – Paris (FR)
Entrevues – Festival international du film de Belfort (FR) – Official selection
16° Festival international du film – Vendôme (FR)
3° Rendez-vous franco-allemand du film court – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Arts of Strasbourg (FR)
Vidéoformes – Clermont Ferrand (FR) – Official selection

PUBLICATIONS

Braguino, DVD, Monography – Blaq out distribution, texts : Eugène Green and Laurent Mauvignier
Braguino ou la communauté impossible (Braguino or the impossible community) – Monography –
Co- Edition Filigranes // LE BAL, texts : Léa Bismuth and Bertrand Schefer, 2017
Ni le ciel Ni la terre (Neither Heaven Nor Earth) – DVD, Monography – Kazak production, 2016
Hypothesis – DVD, Monography – Ecart production, texts : Philippe-Alain Michaud, 2016
Atelier – Monography – Edition Les Presses du Réel, texts : Dominique Païni, Jean Michel Frodon et Anaël Pigeat, 2014


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