Guillaume Leblon

Leblon makes installations, objects, photographs or films that transform the function and perception of space. Through simple interventions, he establishes an emotional relation with interior spaces and the domestic environment, creating feelings of uneasiness and imperceptible tension in the viewer. Reflections around dual concepts such as inside and outside, surface and volume, model and object, movement and stagnancy, use and lack of function, form and content are found in his works. In the confrontation with form and its meaning, Guillaume Leblon mostly draws on abstraction, thus preventing simple classification. His objects and installations are paradoxical reconstructions from life and art, that contain inherent references that are never clearly articulated.

GUILLAUME LEBLON

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Born in Lille, 1971. Lives and works in Paris

EDUCATION

2008 Residency at International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York
2005 Prix Altadis, Paris & Madrid
2005 Bourse d’art monumental d’Ivry
2000 Rijksakademie (International Residency), Amsterdam, Netherlands
1999 ART 3 Residency, Sabadell-Barcelona, Spain
1997 D.N.S.E.P (with Jury’s congratulations) Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, France

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010 Strange Form Of Life. ProjecteSD, Barcelona, Spain.
Someone Knows Better Than Me, Le Grand Café-Saint Nazaire. Centre d’Art Contemporain. Saint Nazaire, France.
2009 Replique de la chose absente, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris, France
The Suburban, Chicago, USA
Site of Confluence, MUDAM, Luxembourg
2008 National Monument, Fundação Caixa Geral Depositos, Culturgest, Porto, Portugal
Aumento & Dispersão, Fundação Caixa Geral Depositos, Culturgest, Porto, Portugal
Parallel Walk, CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
The extra ordinary, ProjecteSD, Barcelona
Four Ladders, STUK, Leuven, Belgium
Maisons Sommaires, Centre d´art Contemporain, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, France
2007 Ruptures des Correspondances, Galerie Wolff, Paris
Art Unlimited, Galerie Wolff and Galerie Kamm, Art Basel, Switzerland
Après la pluie, Musée de Rochechouart, France
The personal effects of Suryavarman VII, Galerie Kamm, Berlin
2006 Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
National Monument, Centre d’art contemporain (CREDAC), Ivry/seine, France
Galerie Commune, Tourcoing, France
2005 LE, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris
2005 Only Pictures are colourful, Galeria ProjecteSD, Barcelona, Spain
2005 Le paradoxe du bord, Irmavep Lab, Châtillon-sur-Marne, France
2004 vue depuis l’entrée vers l’escalier, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris
2004 AZIMUT, FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France
2002 April street, Studio Massimo de Carlo Gallery, Milan, Italy
2001 Aménagements intérieurs : équipement, Public, Paris
2000 H.E.R.E, W139 galerie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2000 Silent zones, El despacho, Mexico city, Mexico
1999 T’estimo tot el dia, Museu d’art, Sabadell, Spain

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011 The Way it Wasn’t (Celebrating ten years of castillo/corrales, Paris). Culturgest, Porto. Portugal.
2010 The Unknown Group. FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France. Curated by Eva González-Sancho.
Les sculptures meurent aussi. Kunsthalle Mulhouse, France. Curated by Lorenzo Benedetti
2 ½ Dimensional: Film Featuring Architecture, deSingel, Antwerp, Belgium
2009 Reception: Pieter Vermeersch hosts…ProjecteSD, Barcelona, Spain
El mal de escritura. Un proyecto sobre texto e imaginación especulativa. Centre d’Estudis i Documentació, MACBA,
Barcelona, Spain. Curated by Chus Martinez
The Eventual, Futura-Center for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czeck Republic
Été 2009, galerie Jocelynn Wolff, Paris, France
Space Revised, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst Bremen, Germany
Constellation, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Frnce
Off Off, 186 Orchard Gallery, New York, USA
La force de l’Art, Paris, France
Slow movement or: Half and Whole. Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland. Curators: Pilippe Pirotte and Elfriede Schalit
Pragmatismus & Romantismus, Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard, Paris, France. Curator: Anne Bonnin
Le travail de rivière, CREDAC, Ivry sur Seine, France. Curated by: Claire le Restif
Of other spaces, Columbus college of Art & design, Columbus, Ohio, United States
Science versus fiction, Bétonsalon, Paris
Modern©ité#I, Grand Café centre d’art contemporain, Saint Nazaire
2008 () neutre intense, Carl Freedman gallery, London, curator : Christophe Gallois
A minima, Astérides, Friche Belle de Mai, curator : Estelle Nabeyrat
Centre d’art contemporain Culturgest, Porto, Portugal
Fabricateurs d’espaces, Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne

Modern Ruin, Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, Australia
group show with Robert Filliou, Guillaume Leblon and Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, France
A Town (Not a City), Kunsthalle Saint-Gall, curators: Giovanni Carmine and Thomas Boutoux
Ready/Made, galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Translation, centre culturel français, Moscow, Russia, curator: Olivier Michelon
Martial Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Centre, London, UK. Curators: Francesco Manacorda, Lydia Yee
() neutre intense, centre d’art Mira Phalaina, Maison Populaire, Montreuil, France. curator: Christophe Gallois
Power, Foxyproduction, New York, USA curator: Bill Cournoyer
If on a Winter’s night a traveller, Museum MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany, curator: Lorenzo Benedetti
2007 French Kissing in the USA, The Moore Space, Miami, USA
The re-conquest of space, Overgarden, Copenhagen, Denmark
Lost, Ateliers des Arques, Cahors, France
De leur temps 2, collections privées et art contemporain en France, Musée des Beaux-arts, Grenoble, France
Biennale di Venezia, Slovenian Pavilion
Les roses de Jéricho, CREDAC, Ivry/seine, France
Logique du rêve éveillé, Les Instants Chavirés, Montreuil, France
Une Histoire à soi, La Galérie Contemporary art center, Noisy-Le-sec, France
Après la pluie, Musée départemental d´art contemporain de Rochechouart
Airs de Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art Moderne, Paris. Curators: Daniel Birnbaum, Christine Macel,
& Valérie Guillaume
Archaîsmes, Attitudes, Genève, Switzerland
2006 Incipit, Prix Paul Ricard, Espace Paul Ricard, Paris
Prospective Sites, Rolling boards, Vienna, Austria
Super Nova - Expérience Pommery #3 Domaine Pommery – Reims, France.Judicaël Lavrador
Prix Altadis, Madrid, Paris
2005 Centre d´art contemporain, Brétigny-sur-Orge, France
Pursuit of happiness, Beyond, Utrecht, Netherlands
BAM, Centre d’art contemporain, Ivry/seine, France
Le principe d’incertitude, Public, Paris. Curator: Marianne Lannavère
Lasst Blumen sprechen, Galerie de Multiples, Paris. Curator: Aurélie Voltz
2004 Schöner Whonen, BE-PART, Platform voor actuele kunst,Waregem, Belgium. Curator: Moritz Küng
2003 Portal, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany. Curator: Susanne Van de Ven
Suspendu, galerie fa projects, London, England. Curators: Marianne Lanavère and Caroline Ferrara
Le parc, Contemporary art center, Vilnius, Lithuania. Curator: Marianne Lanavère
Armour, the fort Asperen Foundation, Asperen, Netherlands
2002 Rendez-vous, MAC (Museum of contemporary art), Lyon, France
Polyphonix Film Festival, projection film Villa Cavroix,Georges-Pompidou/ Beaubourg, Paris
Lost past, Merghelynck Museum, Ypres, Belgium with C. Wyn Evans, G. Schneider, R. Dijkstra,
Curator: Moritz Küng
not I, Arti museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ghost, Outline gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2001 il y a toujours quelqu'un qui veut quelque chose, Galerie Agnès b, Paris
Strategy against architecture, Foundation Teseco, Pise, Italy
With Liam Gillick, Mathieu Mercier, Mandfred Pernice. Curator: Luca Cerriza
Sonsbeek 9, locus/focus, Arnhem, Netherlands. Curator: Jan Hoet
my wallpaper is cracking, SparwasserHQ gallery, Berlin, Germany. With Italo Zuffi
Ferveur, proposition collective, Les subsistances, Lyon, France
2000 Open studio 2, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1999 Open studio 1, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Manager de l'immaturité, Le magasin, Grenoble, France

PROJECTS

Curating the Library, De Singel, Antwerpen, Belgium. Curator: Moritz Kung
L’Entretien, theater play, written by Thomas Boutoux & Guillaume Leblon, based on a conversation
between an artist & a curator, circa minutes, three public presentations:
Domaine de Kerguéhennec, France, March 2008
Galerie Commune, Tourcoing, France, December 2006
Credac, Ivry-sur-Seine, France, January 2007
LE TEASER, visual storyline for one of the sixth edition of LE TEASER, with texts by Tom Gidley,
Phyllis Kiehl, Samon Takahashi, Tom McCarthy, Metronom Press, Paris, 2005