Background
Huyghe was born in Paris, France, on September 11, 1962.
2000
Paris, France
Pierre Huyghe, Paris.
2005
New York, United States
Pierre Huyghe, Central Park, New York, October 2005.
31 Rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris, France
École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs.
Huyghe was born in Paris, France, on September 11, 1962.
Pierre Huyghe attended the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris between 1982 and 1985.
Huyghe has become known for his works that examine themes of adventure, pleasure, and celebration. Through his exhibitions, public performances and films, he creates situations that explore the limit between reality and fantasy. His works range from expeditions to Antarctica to model amusement parks, often addressing social topics such as spectacle and mass media and the search for utopia.
Pierre Huyghe's two-channel video The Third Memory (1999) was commissioned by The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago and later exhibited at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. A Journey that Wasn't was commissioned by the Public Art Fund and the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2005. Among his other important films are Streamside Day Follies (2003), The Host and the Cloud (2010), Human Mask (2014).
He has had solo exhibitions at important institutions around the world, including the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1998, the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven in 2001, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm and the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin in 2005, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid and the Art Institute of Chicago in 2010, the Centre Pompidou in Paris between 2013 and 2014, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum Ludwig in Cologne in 2014, etc.
Besides, he has also taken part in a number of international art shows, such as the Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon (1995), the 2nd Johannesburg Biennial (1997), Manifesta 2, Luxembourg (1998), the Istanbul Biennial (1999), documenta XI (2002), XIII (2012).
He currently lives and works between Paris, France, and New York, the United States.
Umwelt
One Year Celebration
Untitled (Made Ecosystem Centre Pompidou)
Untilled (detail)
L’Expédition scintillante, Act III (Black Ice Stage)
La saison des fêtes
La Toison d'Or
I Do Not Own Tate Modern or the Death Star
A smile without a cat
Timekeeper (Drill Core)
Autoroute (triptych)
la Saidon Des Fêtes
The Third Memory
Quotations:
"I have often described the art object as a hysterical thing, an object that needs the gaze of a viewer in order to live."
"The medium between an art object and a subject - a viewer - is a dynamic process, and I'm trying to maintain that as much as I can."
"I don't want to exhibit something to someone anymore. I want to do the reverse: I want to exhibit someone to something."
"Fear comes from the unknown. Once you know, then, whatever."
"I'm not sure that is correct but I love that interpretation - that we artists never go out of self-portrait."
"I had the chance to play with a ghost of the museum. The function and the institution are gone - it's closed - but there is still the building. I was looking for something between an experiment and an extended ritual. I asked 15 actors to be in this museum and take the position of the museum's personnel. I put this small group under certain conditions and influences, interpreted by another group of actors or by real professional performers, like a magician, a psychic, a model, a hypnotist, a singer, a psycho-dramaturge."
"You can go to a psychoanalyst one day and then go the next day and something else will come out. So, yes, there was some preparation. But still, when a person gets hypnotized, you don't really know what the outcome will be."
"When I know who is speaking, I see that there is a commitment. I need to know there is some commitment. I need to find an author. "I" can also be polyphonic, fictional, inhabited by a multitude of characters, be right or wrong or at fault or corrupted. But that's more "the self" than "me, me, me." It's problematic. There are times to say "we.""
"I'm more interested in the diversity of people in New York. I like to be lost. I like to feel like a foreigner. I like not to know everything. I'm trying not to burn the whole city. I try to consume it in slow motion."