Mikaël Monchicourt
Born in 1986 in Paris. Lives in Paris and works in La Courneuve.
Member of the artists' collective studio Le Houloc since 2016.
Formerly represented by Galerie Isabelle Gounod, Paris (2021 – 2025).
Education
| 2014 | DNSAP, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris |
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| 2013 | Study exchange, Tokyo Geidai University of the Arts, Tokyo |
| 2010 | BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London |
Grant
| 2021 | Exhibition grant from the Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap) |
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Solo exhibitions
| 2024 | n t r m rt, Galerie Isabelle Gounod, Paris |
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| 2021 | Galerie Isabelle Gounod, Paris |
| 2019 | L'intérieur du liquide, virtual exhibition at the Virtual Dream Center, curated by Jean-Baptiste Lenglet Entre les ondes, private space, Paris |
| 2014 | Le Bureau du statisticien, DNSAP graduation show, ENSBA, Paris |
| 2013 | Motifs for a Web revolution, Tokyo Geidai University, Tokyo |
Group exhibitions
| 2026 | Pour l'amour de l'art, opening exhibition of Le Houloc's new space (Nuit Blanche), curated by Nous sommes au regret (Jeanne Mathas and Laure Saffroy-Lepesqueur), Le Houloc, La Courneuve |
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| 2025 | Nymphs just wanna have fun, curated by Salomé Fau, Le Houloc, Aubervilliers |
| 2022 | Traverser les silences, curated by Thomas Fort, Galerie Dilecta, Paris Partir du lieu, Maison des arts de Malakoff |
| 2021 | La porte me flaire, elle hésite, curated by the Diamètre collective, Le Houloc, Aubervilliers |
| 2020 | Des échos dans un jardin de pierre, curated by Thomas Fort, Le Houloc, Aubervilliers |
| 2019 | Thundercage, curated by Romain Vicari, Canal d'Aubervilliers Clôture, Espace Arondit, Paris |
| 2018 | Ces formes qui pensent, Espace Arondit, Paris |
| 2016 | OLA KALA !, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Saint-Restitut |
| 2014 | La fabrique des illusions, Galeries des Beaux-Arts de Paris Moment Grec, Historical and Folklore Museum of Aegina, Greece |
Publications
| 2022 | Le Houloc, portrait.s d'atelier.s, edited by Thomas Fort |
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| 2021 | Point contemporain magazine, no. 22, September 2021 Almanach Ides de Mars, edited by Emmanuel Saulnier |
| 2016 | Moment Grec, Édition du regard |
| 2014 | Boat People, Récit éditions |
Texts
Thomas Fort · 2021NegotiationsThomas Fort, “Negotiations”, in Le Houloc, portrait.s d'atelier.s, edited by Thomas Fort, 2022 (text written in 2021).A surface like a faux terrain on which a battle has just been brought to a close: such might be our first impression before the recent works of Mikaël Monchicourt. Yet the struggle that played out here is not to be sought in the…
Point contemporain magazine · September 2021Artist portrait“Artist portrait: Mikaël Monchicourt”, Point contemporain magazine, no. 22, September 2021, pp. 7-9.Amalgamated, atomised or liquefied, the image is subjected by Mikaël Monchicourt to multiple interventions until it becomes “something else”. Starting from source material often drawn from Google Images, he ceaselessly questions…
Myriam Boutry · June 2021Introductory text for the exhibition at Galerie Isabelle GounodIntroductory text for Mikaël Monchicourt's solo exhibition, Galerie Isabelle Gounod, Paris, 4 September – 16 October 2021.Galerie Isabelle Gounod is pleased to present the first exhibition of the artist Mikaël Monchicourt. A body of work made of detours, gropings and questionings, whose resolution is to be sought in some labyrinthine recess of the…
Ingrid Luquet-Gad · 2014Le Bureau du statisticienCatalogue of the 2014 graduates of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Emmanuel Saulnier's studio, p. 160.“There are no facts,” Nietzsche wrote, “only interpretations.” Today one might add: there are no data, only visualizations. The two statements would be more or less equivalent: as the quantity of data collected by statistics…