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Agnès Thurnauer


Biography

Franco-swiss artist, born in 1962.
Lives and works in Paris (France)

Through her paintings, sculptures, and installations Agnès Thurnauer focuses her practice around language. Thus, writing is often present in her pictorial praxis leading the viewer to emancipate endlessly of his own reading. This plastic quality of language can be experienced with her three dimensions sculptures made of casts of letters on different scales letting the gaze and the body involved. For Agnès Thurnauer, the relation with artworks induces reciprocity. If artworks reads the world, it is up to everyone to make our own reading. This shared language is at the core of our society and gives art a powerful poetic and political function.


Agnès Thurnauer's work was revealed to the public by a solo show at the Palais de Tokyo in 2003. Since then, she has exhibited at the Centre Pompidou (Paris) ; Angers Museum of Fine Arts ; Unterlinden Museum (Colmar) and at the Château de Montsoreau-Collection Philippe Méaille, among many other venues.
She has also shown her work in Belgium at the SMAK (Ghent) ; in the United States at the Seattle Art Museum and the Edgewood Gallery (Yale), in Brazil at the CCBB (Rio) and in many biennials and art centres: the Lyon Biennale, the Cambridge Biennial, the Kunsthalle Bratislava, and the Yermilov center Kharkiev ...

In 2020, Agnès Thurnauer set up a permanent work, the Matrices Chromatiques, at the Musée de l'Orangerie.
In September 2021, she has installed a major public commission from the French Ministry of Culture in Ivry-sur-Seine.
In 2022, she had 4 monographic exhibitions, including the Lam museum in Villeneuve d'Asq and the Matisse museum in Nice.
And in autumn 2024, her work will be exhibited at the Musée de l'histoire de l'immigration in Paris and at the National Museum of World Writing Systems in South Korea.

A new monograph has just been published by JRP Ringer, with essays by Cécile Debray, Dean Daderko and Elisabeth Lebovici.

Agnès Thurnauer works regularly with writers, philosophers and poets for publications and artist's books (Michèle Cohen-Halimi, Tiphaine Samoyault, Rod Mengham, Anne Portugal, Francis Cohen...)

Her works joined many private and public collections (Centre Georges-Pompidou, Musée des Beaux-arts de Nantes, Musée des Beaux-arts d'Angers, musée d'Unterlinden, FMAC, FRAC (Auvergne, Bretagne, Ile de France...).


Selected works

Tablette #17, Agnès Thurnauer
Tablette #11, Agnès Thurnauer
Figure #4, Agnès Thurnauer
Figure #1, Agnès Thurnauer
Tablette #10, Agnès Thurnauer
Tablette #2, Agnès Thurnauer
Prédelle (not yet #4), Agnès Thurnauer
Prédelle (préface #2), Agnès Thurnauer
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Museum exhibitions

MO.CO, Montpellier, 2024

MO.CO, Montpellier, 2024

MO.CO, Montpellier, 2024

MO.CO, Montpellier, 2024

Centre Pompidou Metz, 2024

Centre Pompidou Metz, 2024

Centre Pompidou Metz, 2024

Centre Pompidou Metz, 2024

Musée d'art moderne de Fontevraud, Fontevraud l'Abbaye, France, 2023

Musée d'art moderne de Fontevraud, Fontevraud l'Abbaye, France, 2023

Musée d'art moderne de Fontevraud, Fontevraud l'Abbaye, France, 2023

Musée d'art moderne de Fontevraud, Fontevraud l'Abbaye, France, 2023

Musée d'art moderne de Fontevraud, Fontevraud l'Abbaye, France, 2023

Musée d'art moderne de Fontevraud, Fontevraud l'Abbaye, France, 2023

Musée Matisse, Nice, France, 2022

Musée Matisse, Nice, France, 2022

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Agnès Thurnauer -

Parade, une scène française. Collection Laurent Dumas MO.CO, Montpellier, 2024


Videos

EXHIBITION

Agnes Thurnauer's exhibition "La traverser", Michel Rein, Paris, 2021

Matisse/Thurnauer #1

Agnès Thurnauer's exhibition « On se retrouve chez toi » at Musée Matisse, Nice, 2022, curated by Claudine Grammont

Matisse/Thurnauer #3

Agnès Thurnauer's exhibition « On se retrouve chez toi » at Musée Matisse, Nice, 2022, curated by Claudine Grammont

Matisse/Thurnauer #5

Agnès Thurnauer's exhibition « On se retrouve chez toi » at Musée Matisse, Nice, 2022, curated by Claudine Grammont

Performance of Anna Chirescu and Alexandra Grimal, Michel Rein, Paris, 2023

CONVERSATION

Conversation with artist Agnès Turnauer, Cécile Debray and Clément dirié, Michel rein, Paris, 2023

INTERVIEW

Interview by Connaissance des arts on the theme "restitute or interpret ? »

Agnès Thurnauer - Aliénor l'Ouragane

Conversation between Agnès Thurnauer and Gatien Du Bois, co-curator of the exhibition Aliénor l'Ouragane at Fontevraud I Le Musée d'art Moderne, 2023.

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Press

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Publications

Agnès Thurnauer

Agnès Thurnauer

Publisher: jrp editions

2023

Agnès Thurnauer, Aliénor l'Ouragane

Agnès Thurnauer, Aliénor l'Ouragane

Publisher: Musée d'Art moderne de Fontevraud et Bernard Chauveau Édition

2023

Cher Henri, correspondances avec Matisse

Cher Henri, correspondances avec Matisse

Publisher: Bernard Chauveau

2022

Préd elles

Préd elles

Publisher: Librairie Métamorphoses

2022

Josefffine n°11

Josefffine n°11

Publisher:

2019

A comme Boa

A comme Boa

Publisher: Thalie Art Foundation

2018

Préfigurer

Préfigurer

Publisher: Galerie Fernand Léger

2016

Journal et autres écrits

Journal et autres écrits

Publisher: Beaux-Arts de Paris

2014

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