Artist

Philippe Parreno

Born in Oran, 1964 and lives in Paris

Philippe Parreno creates artworks that question the boundaries between reality and fiction, exploring the nebulous realm in which the real and the imagined blur and combine. Working in a diverse range of media including sculpture, drawing, film, and performance the internationally acclaimed French artist seeks to expand our understanding of duration, inviting us to radically re-evaluate the nature of reality, memory, and the passage of time. Central to Parreno’s practice is his quest for an ultimate form of communication capable of transcending language.
Taking the exhibition as a medium, Parreno has radically redefined the exhibition experience by exploring its possibilities as a coherent “object” rather than as a collection of individual works. To this end, he conceives his shows as a scripted space where a series of events unfolds. The visitor is guided through the galleries by the orchestration of sound and image, which heightens their sensory experience. This is a question of creating, in a given volume, as much space and time as possible by folding and unfolding the space onto itself.

Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Philippe Parreno: Voices
Leeum Museum of Art presents VOICES, the first solo exhibition of the internationally renowned French...
28 Feb 2024 - 07 Jul 2024
Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art
South Korea
Exhibitions
Philippe Parreno
Philippe Parreno reflects on thirty years of his exhibition practice through pairs of rarely seen images that reveal connections and motifs in his work.
18 Oct 2023 - 18 Oct 2023
Cahiers d’Art
Paris
Exhibitions
Une seconde d’éternité
Artists are displayed throughout the Bourse de Commerce spaces, composing a landscape that enters into...
27 Jun 2022 - 09 Jan 2023
Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection
Paris
Exhibitions
Age of You
On view at Jameel Arts Centre, the exhibition explores the perception of self in the 21st century
29 Jan 2021 - 14 Aug 2021
Jameel Arts Centre
Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi
Exhibitions
Daniel Buren and Philippe Parreno: Simultanément, travaux in situ et en mouvement
The exhibition celebrates the opening of a new Kamel Mennour gallery space at number 5 Rue du Pont de Lodi in Paris
05 Dec 2020 - 27 Feb 2021
Kamel Mennour – Matignon
Paris
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