Philippe Parreno

Philippe Parreno is a French artist who lives and works in Paris, France.

He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Grenoble from 1983 until 1988 and at the Institut des Hautes Etudes en arts plastiques at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris from 1988 until 1989.

A key artist of his generation, Philippe Parreno has gained critical acclaim for his work that spans a diversity of media, including film, sculpture, drawing, and text. He is considered part of a close-knit group of European artists who came of age together in the 1990s — among them Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Liam Gillick, Douglas Gordon and Pierre Huyghe. Taking the exhibition as a medium, Parreno 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, guiding the visitor through the galleries by the orchestration of sound and image. 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.

Parreno used this format in his 2013 exhibition Anywhere, Anywhere Out Of The World [1] where he radically transformed the monumental space of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Given carte blanche by the gallery, Parreno turned the building itself into a living constantly evolving organism using sound, image and performance to guide the visitor on a journey through his works, both old and new. The exhibition was orchestrated along the lines of a dramatic composition where the spectral presence of objects, music, lights, and films guide and manipulated the visitor’s experience transforming this monologue into a polyphony.

In Dancing around the Bride [2] in 2012 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art curated by Carlos Basualdo in collaboration with Erica F. Battle, Parreno acted as a metteur-en-scène (orchestrator), using the artworks of John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Marcel Duchamp to invoke time and motion. At his eponymous 2010 exhibition [3] at the Serpentine Gallery, spectators moved in groups from room to room following a soundtrack.

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