Pauline Curnier Jardin

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Pauline Curnier Jardin (born 1980, Marseille, France) is a visual artist working mainly in film, installation, performance and drawing. She lives in Rome and Berlin. In her work, Curnier Jardin has revisited Joan of Arc, Bernadette Soubirous, the Goddess Demeter, the birth of Jesus and his saint Family, the Anatomical theatre of the Renaissance, as well as pagan and catholic rites in Central and Southern Europe. In 2019 she was awarded the {{ill|Preis der Nationalgalerie|de}}.{{Cite web|last=Ruthe|first=Ingeborg|title=Pauline Jardin: ritual and ecstasy|url=https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/en/ritual-and-ecstasy-pauline-curnier-jardin-at-hamburger-bahnhof-li.152367|access-date=2021-08-25|website=Berliner Zeitung|date=13 April 2021 |language=en|archive-date=2021-08-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210825093430/https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/en/ritual-and-ecstasy-pauline-curnier-jardin-at-hamburger-bahnhof-li.152367|url-status=live}}

Early life and education

Curnier Jardin studied fine art at École Nationale des Beaux Arts de Paris-Cergy and film studies at École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, Paris. Together with Maeva Cunci,{{Cite web|url=https://www.lephare-ccn.fr/fr/collaborateurs/maeva-cunci/|title=Le Phare » Maeva Cunci|website=www.lephare-ccn.fr|access-date=2021-09-09|archive-date=2021-09-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210909170833/https://www.lephare-ccn.fr/fr/collaborateurs/maeva-cunci/|url-status=live}} Virginie Thomas et Aude Lachaise she founded the dada-femme Cabaret group "Les Vraoums".Conversation with Pauline Curnier Jardin & Charles Aubin https://frenchculture.org/performing-arts/2881-interview-pauline-jardin-charles-aubin {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210801165626/https://frenchculture.org/performing-arts/2881-interview-pauline-jardin-charles-aubin |date=2021-08-01 }}

Career

She was a visiting tutor at Kunsthochschule Kassel and at the Dutch Art Institute{{Cite web|url=http://dutchartinstitute.eu/|title=Home ~ Dutch Art Institute|first=Dutch Art|last=Institute|website=dai|access-date=2021-08-25|archive-date=2021-08-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210817063654/https://dutchartinstitute.eu/|url-status=live}} where she led the seminar "Opera Corruption" together with the art organization If I can't Dance, I Cannot be a Part of your Revolution{{Cite web|url=https://ificantdance.org/|title=IF I CAN'T DANCE|website=ificantdance.org|access-date=2021-08-24|archive-date=2021-04-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422230210/https://ificantdance.org/|url-status=live}} and curator Sara Giannini.{{Cite web|url=http://dutchartinstitute.eu/page/10171/sara-giannini|title=Sara Giannini|first=Dutch Art|last=Institute|website=dai|access-date=2021-09-12|archive-date=2021-08-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210801165616/https://dutchartinstitute.eu/page/10171/sara-giannini|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|last=Institute|first=Dutch Art|title=2017-2018 COOP study group: OPERA CORRUPTION. On Tricks, Tricksters and Charms ~ Frederique Bergholtz, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Sara Giannini ~ Partner: If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution|url=http://dutchartinstitute.eu/page/10205/2017-2018-coop-study-group-opera-corruption.-on-tricks-tricksters-and|access-date=2021-08-25|website=dai|language=en|archive-date=2021-05-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506002004/https://dutchartinstitute.eu/page/10205/2017-2018-coop-study-group-opera-corruption.-on-tricks-tricksters-and|url-status=live}} Since 2020 Curnier Jardin has been tutor at De Ateliers in Amsterdam.

In 2020, together with Alexandra Lopez and Serena Olcuire, she initiated the Feel Good Cooperative, a cooperative of sex-workers in Rome.{{Cite web|last=Dreyer|first=Inga|title=Exzess in Blut, Fett und Gold (neues deutschland)|url=https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1152617.exzess-in-blut-fett-und-gold.html|access-date=2021-09-13|website=www.nd-aktuell.de|language=de}}

In the film-work Grotta Profunda, les humeurs de gouffre, the moody chasm (2011) Curnier Jardin explores the life of Bernadette Soubirous (Maria Bernada Sobeirons), the Pyrenean visionary, who on 11 February 1858 claimed she saw a young girl in a cave at Massabielle.

Her subsequent film Grotta Profunda, les humeurs du gouffre was exhibited as part of the installation Grotta Profunda Approfundita{{Cite web|title=Grotta Profunda Approfundita de Pauline Curnier Jardin, au cœur du corps|url=https://www.troiscouleurs.fr/article/grotta-profunda-approfundita-de-pauline-curnier-jardin-au-coeur-du-corps|access-date=2021-09-11|website=www.troiscouleurs.fr|language=fr-fr|archive-date=2021-09-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210912071930/https://www.troiscouleurs.fr/article/grotta-profunda-approfundita-de-pauline-curnier-jardin-au-coeur-du-corps|url-status=live}} at the 57th Venice Biennale.

Her film Qu'un Sang Impur, a loose remake of Jean Genet's "Un Chant d'Amour", was commissioned for the Bergen Assembly Triennal{{Cite web|url=https://bergenassembly.no/|title=Bergen Assembly|website=bergenassembly.no|access-date=2021-09-11|archive-date=2021-08-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210816004913/https://bergenassembly.no/|url-status=live}} and later exhibited at the Hamburger Bahnhof, installed in the Hot Flashes Forest, an immersive installation thought to combine a multiple of works that deal with reproductive idea of the woman's body.{{cite web|last=Aubin|first=Charles|date=25 January 2021|title=Attack of the Killer Grannies: Pauline Curnier Jardin — Mousse Magazine|url=https://www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/pauline-curnier-jardin-charles-aubin-2021|url-status=live|access-date=2021-09-11|website=www.moussemagazine.it|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-08-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210801171617/https://www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/pauline-curnier-jardin-charles-aubin-2021/}}

As the winner of the Preis der Nationalgalerie 2019,{{Cite web|title=Preis der Nationalgalerie 2019 – Preis der Nationalgalerie|url=https://preisdernationalgalerie.de/en/preis-der-nationalgalerie-2019/|access-date=2021-09-11|website=preisdernationalgalerie.de|archive-date=2021-08-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210801194020/https://preisdernationalgalerie.de/en/preis-der-nationalgalerie-2019/|url-status=live}} Curnier Jardin presented the extensive video installation Fat to Ashes{{Cite web|last=Ruthe|first=Ingeborg|title=Pauline Jardin: ritual and ecstasy|url=https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/en/ritual-and-ecstasy-pauline-curnier-jardin-at-hamburger-bahnhof-li.152367|access-date=2021-09-11|website=Berliner Zeitung|date=13 April 2021 |language=en|archive-date=2021-08-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210825093430/https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/en/ritual-and-ecstasy-pauline-curnier-jardin-at-hamburger-bahnhof-li.152367|url-status=live}} at Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, in 2021. The exhibition was centred on the filmic work «Fat to Ashes» which combines 3 storylines: a religious festival in honour of St. Agatha, the slaughter of a pig, and the carnival in Cologne.

A large-scale amphitheatre encompasses the film installation as the centre of the spectacle, and thus transformations, processions, and practised performance in ritualised excess are the content and formal attributes of Curnier Jardin's Fat to Ashes.Hamburger Bahnhof museum https://www.smb.museum/en/exhibitions/detail/pauline-curnier-jardin/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210801165616/https://www.smb.museum/en/exhibitions/detail/pauline-curnier-jardin/ |date=2021-08-01 }}

Awards and residencies (selection)

  • 2018 Dutch prize NN Award{{Cite web|date=2018-02-07|title=Pauline Curnier Jardin wins NN Group Art Award 2018|url=https://www.nn-group.com/article/pauline-curnier-jardin-wins-nn-group-art-award-2018.htm|access-date=2021-09-11|website=www.nn-group.com|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-09-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210912072149/https://www.nn-group.com/article/pauline-curnier-jardin-wins-nn-group-art-award-2018.htm|url-status=live}}
  • 2017 laureate of the Prix Fondation d'Entreprise Ricard{{Cite web |url=https://www.fondation-pernod-ricard.com/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=2021-09-11 |archive-date=2021-09-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906172010/https://www.fondation-pernod-ricard.com/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web|title=Artistes Pauline Curnier Jardin|url=http://fondation-pernod-ricard.com/|access-date=2021-09-11|website=Fondation d'entreprise Pernod Ricard|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-09-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906172010/https://www.fondation-pernod-ricard.com/|url-status=live}}
  • 2019 Preis der Nationalgalerie{{Cite web|title=Preis der Nationalgalerie 2019 – Preis der Nationalgalerie|url=https://preisdernationalgalerie.de/en/preis-der-nationalgalerie-2019/|access-date=2021-09-13|website=preisdernationalgalerie.de}}

Collections (selection)

  • National Gallery Berlin – Collection for contemporary art{{Cite web|title=Fat to Ashes, 2021 – Freunde der Nationalgalerie|url=https://freunde-der-nationalgalerie.de/erwerbung/pauline-curnier-jardin-2/|access-date=2021-09-20|language=de-DE}}
  • Fonds régional d'art contemporain Limousin{{cite web |title=FRAC-Artothèque Nouvelle-Aquitaine - Acquisitions récentes |url=https://fracartothequelimousin.fr/index.php/les-collections/collection-frac/acquisitions-recentes |website=fracartothequelimousin.fr}}
  • Centraal Museum Utrecht{{cite web |title=Pauline Curnier Jardin |url=https://www.centraalmuseum.nl/en/creator/pauline-curnier-jardin |website=Pauline Curnier Jardin — Centraal Museum Utrecht |language=en}}
  • La collection du Musée national d'art moderne – Centre Pompidou{{Cite web|last=Pompidou|first=Musée national d’art moderne-Centre|date=2021-09-08|title=Musée national d'art moderne – Centre Pompidou|url=https://collection.centrepompidou.fr/artwork/150000002022473|access-date=2021-09-13|website=Navigart.fr|language=fr}}

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2021
  • Fat to Ashes, Preis Der Nationalgalerie - Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, DE
  • CRAC Occitanie/Pyrénnées - Méditerannée,{{Cite web|url=http://crac.laregion.fr/|title=Centre Régional d'Art Contemporain à Sète - Centre Régional d'Art Contemporain OCCITANIE / Pyrénées-Méditerranée|website=crac.laregion.fr|access-date=2021-09-11|archive-date=2017-11-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171116041750/http://crac.laregion.fr/|url-status=live}} Sète, FR
  • Index Stockholm, SE{{Cite web|title=Pauline Curnier Jardin: WAITING FOR AGATHA, SEBASTIAN AND THE REST OF THE HOLY CHILDREN — UNFOLDING A FILMIC RESEARCH|url=http://indexfoundation.se/exhibitions/pauline-curnier-jardin|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210911193208/http://indexfoundation.se/exhibitions/pauline-curnier-jardin|archive-date=2021-09-11|access-date=2021-09-11|website=indexfoundation.se}}
  • 2019
  • I still send you a lot of affection and I kiss you through my denture, 1646, The Hague, NL{{Cite web|title=I Still Send You A Lot Of Affection And I Kiss You Through My Denture – 1646|url=https://1646.nl/program/i-still-send-you-a-lot-of-affection-and-i-kiss-you-through-my-denture/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-09-11|website=1646 Experimental Art Space|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-01-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120140253/https://www.1646.nl/program/i-still-send-you-a-lot-of-affection-and-i-kiss-you-through-my-denture/}}{{Cite web|last=van den Eijkel|first=Wouter|date=28 March 2019|title=Pauline Curnier Jardin - I still send you a lot of affection and I kiss you through my dentures|url=https://galleryviewer.com/en/article/99/pauline-curnier-jardin-i-still-send-you-a-lot-of-|url-status=live|access-date=2021-09-11|website=galleryviewer.com|language=EN|archive-date=2021-09-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210911213717/https://galleryviewer.com/en/article/99/pauline-curnier-jardin-i-still-send-you-a-lot-of-}}
  • Parties sans éteindre les lumières, Fondation Ricard pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris, FR{{Cite web|last=De La Fresnaye|first=Marie-Elisabeth|date=2019-06-10|title=Parties sans éteindre la lumière… Fondation d'entreprise Ricard|url=https://www.9lives-magazine.com/53698/2019/06/10/parties-eteindre-lumiere-fondation-dentreprise-ricard/|access-date=2021-09-14|website=9 Lives Magazine|language=fr-FR}}
  • 2018
  • Sebastiano Blu,{{Cite web|url=https://evenementen.amsterdam.nl/evenementen/2018/11/performance/|title=Performance Sebastiano Blu | Pauline Curnier Jardin|website=Evenementen in Amsterdam|access-date=2021-09-11|archive-date=2021-09-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210912072149/https://evenementen.amsterdam.nl/evenementen/2018/11/performance/|url-status=live}} Tomaskerk, Amsterdam, NL (performance)
  • Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art,{{Cite web|url=https://denfrie.dk/en/|title=Forside|website=Den Frie English|access-date=2021-09-11|archive-date=2021-08-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210812001029/https://denfrie.dk/en/|url-status=live}} Copenhagen, DK
  • You think you are within in me now, KRIEG, Hasselt, BE
  • 2017
  • Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, NL{{Cite web |url=https://www.edbprojects.com/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=2021-08-24 |archive-date=2021-06-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210609121842/http://edbprojects.com/ |url-status=live }} Amsterdam.
  • 2016
  • Le Granit, Scène Nationale de Belfort,{{Cite web|url=https://www.scenes-nationales.fr/scene_nationale/le-grrranit-scene-nationale-belfort/|title=LE GRANIT, SCÈNE NATIONALE BELFORT | Association des Scènes Nationales|access-date=2021-09-11|archive-date=2021-09-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210911195907/https://www.scenes-nationales.fr/scene_nationale/le-grrranit-scene-nationale-belfort/|url-status=live}} Belfort, FR
  • The Shower of Sister Bondage, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, NL{{Cite web|title=THE SHOWER OF SISTER BONDAGE|url=http://www.edbprojects.com/artists/pauline-curnier-jardin/pauline-curnier-jardin-work/the-shower-of-sister-bondage/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-09-11|website=www.edbprojects.com|archive-date=2021-09-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210912071936/https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Archivo+Black%7CQuicksand%7CVollkorn%3A400%2C700%2C700italic}}
  • Blutbad Parade, Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers,{{Cite web|last=Bécourt|first=Julien|title=Saints, sang & stupre, le grotesque selon Pauline Curnier Jardin|url=https://www.switchonpaper.com/portrait/artiste/saints-sang-stupre/|access-date=2021-09-14|website=Switch on paper|language=fr-FR}} Paris, FR.
  • 2015
  • The Resurrection Plot,{{Cite web |url=https://15.performa-arts.org/events/resurrection |title=Pauline Curnier Jardin, the Resurrection Plot - Performa 15 |access-date=2021-09-11 |archive-date=2020-04-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200429074853/http://15.performa-arts.org/events/resurrection |url-status=live }} Performa 15, Pioneer Works,{{Cite web|url=https://pioneerworks.org/|title=Pioneer Works|website=Pioneer Works|access-date=2021-09-11|archive-date=2021-09-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906101411/https://pioneerworks.org/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web |url=https://15.performa-arts.org/ |title=Performa 15 |access-date=2021-09-11 |archive-date=2021-06-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210614020249/https://15.performa-arts.org/ |url-status=live }} New-York, US
  • Parade-Bain-de-Sang, Soirées Nomades, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, FR.{{Cite web|title=Les Soirées Nomades|url=https://www.fondationcartier.com/presse/article/les-soirees-nomades|access-date=2021-09-11|website=Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain|language=fr|archive-date=2021-09-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210912071936/https://www.fondationcartier.com/presse/article/les-soirees-nomades|url-status=live}}
  • 2014
  • Mémoires Perdues, Europäische Kulturtage Karlsruhe,{{Cite web|url=https://www.karlsruhe.de/b1/festivals/ekt/ekt2014.de|title=Karlsruhe: 22. Europäische Kulturtage 2014|website=www.karlsruhe.de|access-date=2021-09-11|archive-date=2021-09-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210911195904/https://www.karlsruhe.de/b1/festivals/ekt/ekt2014.de|url-status=live}} Karlsruhe, DE
  • MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, US{{Cite web|date=2014-04-10|title=List Projects: Pauline Curnier Jardin|url=https://listart.mit.edu/exhibitions/list-projects-pauline-curnier-jardin|access-date=2021-09-14|website=MIT List Visual Arts Center|language=en}}
  • Viola Melon, Baiser Melocoton, Galerie Edouard Manet,{{Cite web|url=https://www.ville-gennevilliers.fr/386/sortir-et-bouger/les-equipements-culturels/ecole-municipale-des-beaux-arts-galerie-edouard-manet.htm,%20https://www.ville-gennevilliers.fr/386/sortir-et-bouger/les-equipements-culturels/ecole-municipale-des-beaux-arts-galerie-edouard-manet.htm|title=Ecole municipale des beaux-arts / galerie Édouard-Manet|first=Ville de|last=Gennevilliers|website=Ville de Gennevilliers|access-date=2021-09-12|archive-date=2021-09-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210912072153/https://www.ville-gennevilliers.fr/386/sortir-et-bouger/les-equipements-culturels/ecole-municipale-des-beaux-arts-galerie-edouard-manet.htm,%20https://www.ville-gennevilliers.fr/386/sortir-et-bouger/les-equipements-culturels/ecole-municipale-des-beaux-arts-galerie-edouard-manet.htm|url-status=live}} Gennevilliers, FR
  • 2013
  • Art Berlin Contemporary (ABC), Berlin, DE{{Cite web|last=Bisshop|first=Ally|date=2013-09-20|title=Opening // abc - art berlin contemporary highlights|url=https://www.berlinartlink.com/2013/09/20/opening-abc-art-berlin-contemporary-highlights/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-09-11|website=Berlin Art Link|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-09-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210911200644/https://www.berlinartlink.com/2013/09/20/opening-abc-art-berlin-contemporary-highlights/}}
  • Viola Melon, Baiser Melocoton, PSM Gallery, Berlin, DE.
  • 2012
  • Crèche Vivante, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, FR;{{Cite web|title=Nomadic Night " Pauline Curnier Jardin et Rachel Garcia Crèche vivante"|url=https://www.fondationcartier.com/en/live-shows/soirees-nomades/pauline-curnier-jardin-et-rachel-garcia|access-date=2021-09-11|website=Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain|language=en|archive-date=2021-09-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210911204420/https://www.fondationcartier.com/en/live-shows/soirees-nomades/pauline-curnier-jardin-et-rachel-garcia|url-status=live}}
  • The Mysteries of Creation without Hands, L'Antenne, FRAC Ile-de-France,{{Cite web|url=https://www.fraciledefrance.com/|title=Accueil|website=frac île-de-france|access-date=2021-09-11|archive-date=2021-06-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628235514/https://www.fraciledefrance.com/|url-status=live}} Paris, FR.

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