Elsa Werth

Elsa Werth (born 1985) is a French artist who lives and works in Paris.[1]

Elsa Werth
Born1985 (1985)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
EducationÉcole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts
Known forVisual art
Websiteelsawerth.net

Biography

Elsa Werth was born in 1985 in Paris, France. She graduated from both the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs where she studied film animation and École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.[2] She was awarded the price Humankind Leo Burnet in 2013.[3]

Work

Elsa Werth practice includes installation, sculpture, video, artist's books, and sound pieces. She has exhibited since 2013 in France, U.S., China, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg and Switzerland.[4]

Her work focuses on the use of common objects and gestures, systems, language, traditional and contemporary rituals. The interpretation of information and commodity production, their relations to the social circles, are the key approaches to her projects.[5] She uses alternative modes of exchange and expression to contredict a world she considers subject to the cult of material values. Her works are always made with simple means to escape spectacular effects.[6]

In 2014 she has curated with Muriel Leray inside a storage unit in Paris Plus une pièce. Since 2016 she curates Potential Visual Evocations,[7] an ongoing outdoor traveling exhibition that took place in Paris, Clichy, Shanghai, Montreal, La Louvière and Seoul. Participating artists include Claude Closky, Seulgi Lee and Marylène Negro among others.[8]

Selected Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions
  • Blow: Elsa Werth, Bloom, Düsseldorf, 2020[9]
  • A Land, mfc - Michèle Didier, Paris, 2020[10]
  • Anywayland, Interface, Dijon, 2019[11][12]
  • Temps Partiel [Part-Time], Onde Art Center, Vélizy-Villacoublay, 2019[13]
  • L'action cesse, Duplex Walden, Geneva, 2018[14]
  • Temporary Perspectives, Martine Aboucaya Gallery, Paris[15]
  • Title One for Multiple Use, Bazaar Compatible Program, Shanghai, 2016[16]
  • Title One for Multiple Use, Martine Aboucaya Gallery, Paris, 2016[17]
  • Elsa Werth, Primo Piano, Paris, 2014[18]

Group Exhibitions
  • Some of Us, NordArt - Kunst in der Carlshütte, Büdelsdorf, curated by Jérôme Cotinet-Alphaize and Marianne Derrien, 2019
  • Pourquoi faire, pour quoi faire, Été 78, Brussels, curated by Renato Casciani, 2019
  • Calculated Chance, The Société, Brussels, curated by Manuel Abendroth et Els Vermang, 2019[19][20]
  • ShipShape, Biennale de Coimbra, curated by Tomas Cunha Ferreira, 2019
  • Tilt Horizon 偏见, AMNUA, Nanjing, curated by Wang Yamin, 2019[21]
  • 26 x Bauhaus, Institut Français, Berlin, 2019, curated by Marjolaine Lévy and Thibaut de Ruyter, 2019[22][23]
  • One Minute One Hour One Month... One Million Years, The Island Club Limassol, curated by Christodoulos Panayiotou, 2019[24]
  • Le génie du lieu, Le Creux de l’Enfer, Thiers, curated by Sophie Auger-Grappin, 2018[25]
  • Potential Visual Evocations, Darling Foundry, Montreal, 2018[26]
  • Phantoms, Wonder/Liebert, Bagnolet, curated by Karin Schlageter, 2018
  • Artist-fun space, Art Center André Malraux, Douarnenez, curated by Julien Nédélec, 2018
  • Flatland / Abstractions Narratives, Mudam, Luxembourg, 2017[27]
  • Sentimental Summer, Centre d’Art Bastille (CAB), Grenoble, 2017[28]
  • La vie mode d’emploi, CAC Chanot, Clamart, curated by Madeleine Mathé and Karin Schlageter, 2017
  • Off Pac, Marseille, curated by The Collecteve, 2017
  • Do Disturb, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2017
  • Rob is a Robe, Doc, Paris, 2016
  • 60ème Salon de Montrouge, Montrouge, 2015[29]
  • Bazar, Primo Piano, Paris, curated by Lucia Schreyer, 2015
  • Cocktail Games, La Ludothèque éphémère, Paris, curated by Florencia Chernajovsky and Clément Dirié, 2015[30]
  • Châteaux de cartes, Florence Loewy...by artists, Paris, curated by Camille Azaïs, 2015
  • Intertidal, Galerie Eva Meyer, Paris, curated by MBDTCurators, 2015
  • Modifications, Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (ZK/U), Berlin, 2014[31]
  • Toujours +, Florence Loewy...by artists, Paris, 2014
  • 5/5, Fondation Rosenblum, Paris, curated by Clément Dirié, 2013
  • Marler Media Art Award, Museum of Sculpture Glaskasten, Marl, curated by Georg Elben, 2013

Selected books
  • Plus une pièce, Plus un multiple, 2014, ISBN 978-2-9550024-0-7
  • Sparkless, 2015, ISBN 979-10-94645-00-0[32]
  • Original soldé, 2018, ISBN 979-10-94645-01-7[33]
  • Formule de politesse, ISBN 9791094645024[34]
  • 2020, 2020, ISBN 979-10-94645-03-1
  • Politeness, 2020, ISBN 979-10-94645-05-5
  • Un jour dans Le Monde (4 octobre 2019), 2020, ISBN 978-2-917393-11-6[35]

References
  1. Elsa Werth, Paris Art
  2. Elsa Werth, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin
  3. Semeteys, Romain. "Exposition du prix des amis de l'ENSBA 2013 – Lechassis" (in French). Retrieved 2020-08-19.
  4. ArtFacts. "Elsa Werth | Artist". ArtFacts. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
  5. "Exposition ELSA WERTH A LAND". Fondation d'entreprise Ricard. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
  6. Miquelot, Géraldine. "Elsa Werth — Temps partiel — Micro Onde — Centre d'art contemporain de l'Onde — Exhibition". Slash Paris. Retrieved 2020-11-04.
  7. Urfalino, Mathilde (2016-09-11). "This week's 5 must see exhibitions". Les Inrockuptibles (in French). Retrieved 2020-10-22.
  8. Potential Visual Evocations, Darling Foundry
  9. "Blow / Elsa Werth". Info (in German). Retrieved 2020-08-02.
  10. "Exposition ELSA WERTH A LAND". Fondation d'entreprise Ricard. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
  11. Petillat, Siloé. "Elsa Werth - Anywayland". www.dijonart.com. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
  12. Rouillé, Jean-Yves. "Exposition : aux frontières de pays imaginaires". www.bienpublic.com (in French). Retrieved 2020-08-09.
  13. Temps Partiel, d.c.a / Association française de développement des centres d’art contemporain
  14. "Aduplex" (in French). Retrieved 2020-08-02.
  15. Morais, Pedro (24 March 2017). "Jeune artiste : Elsa Werth". Le Quotidien de l'Art (in French). Retrieved 2020-08-02.
  16. Title One for Multiple Use at Bazaar Compatible Program, 1mm3d1at3.org
  17. Blanchard, Benoît. "Elsa Werth – Titre un à usage multiple – Galerie Martine Aboucaya | œuvres" (in French). Retrieved 2020-11-04.
  18. Fontaine, Sylvie (2015-01-22). "Espace Primo Piano". Artais Artcontemporain (in French). Retrieved 2020-10-13.
  19. Calculated Chance, review in Sister Art
  20. "Calculated Chance - Exhibition at Société d'Electricité Review". ArtRabbit. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
  21. "南艺美术馆". nuamuseum.lmyingxiao.cn. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
  22. Wengorz, Kristina. "26 x Bauhaus Review" (in German). Retrieved 2020-08-09.
  23. de Ruyter, Thibaut. "26 x bauhaus". www.thibautderuyter.com. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
  24. ""One Minute, One Hour, One Month... One Million Years" Review". Mousse Magazine (in Italian). 2019-03-26. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
  25. Alkema, Hanna. "La belle revue - Le Génie du lieu at Creux de l'enfer". www.labellerevue.org. Retrieved 2020-08-19.
  26. Bolduc, Éric (2018-06-08). "GROUPE@ fonderie darling". rats de ville. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
  27. Flatland / Abstractions Narratives, Arts Hebdo Medias
  28. Corubolo, Charline. "Sentimental Summer : séduisant chassé-croisé estival et artistique au Centre d'art Bastille". www.petit-bulletin.fr (in French). Retrieved 2020-11-04.
  29. Luquet-Gad, Ingrid (2015-05-19). "Elsa Werth, l'artiste qui détourne nos objet du quotidien". Les Inrockuptibles (in French). Retrieved 2020-08-02.
  30. "Cocktail Games". TBCS. 2016-09-16. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
  31. "Modifications - ZK/U Berlin". www.zku-berlin.org. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
  32. Cabinet du livre d'artiste. "Sans éclat". www.sites.univ-rennes2.fr (in French). Retrieved 2020-08-09.
  33. Original soldé, Artext
  34. Formule de politesse, Artext
  35. Un jour dans Le Monde, Artext
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