Mimosa Echard is a French visual artist who lives and works in Paris.

Biography

Echard was born in 1986 in

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, France. She grew up with her sisters in a

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community in the

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. She studied at the

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in Paris, from which she graduated in 2010. In 2019, she was a resident at Villa Kujoyama in

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. Since 2021, she has been the head of a painting workshop at the

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. Echard is the winner of the 2022 edition of the

Marcel Duchamp Prize The Marcel Duchamp Prize (in French : ''Prix Marcel Duchamp'') is an annual award given to a young artist by the Association pour la Diffusion Internationale de l'Art Français (ADIAF). The winner receives €35,000 personally and up to €30,000 ...

. She is represented by the galleries Chantal Crousel (Paris) and Martina Simeti (Milan).

Work

Echard's artistic research explores the boundaries between nature and pop culture. Thanks to a

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practice that ranges from painting, to sculpture, to video and digital, she creates fictional worlds with psychedelic traits through the accumulation and assemblage of objects, images as well as botanical references from the

(her native region), a region with a long history of counter-cultural and community experiments initiated in the 1970s. Collaboration is important in reading her work: ”Collaborations are always a way of creating collective events and experiences outside of the validation system of art and institutions”. One example is the "open-source experimental exploration game" proposed by Echard as part of her exhibition at

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in 2022, accessible only online. Designed in collaboration with a software developer, musicians and actors, the “scenario imagines an engaging and humorous approach to interspecies relations”. Her work has been the subject of several solo exhibitions, including ''Sporal'', at

in 2022, or ''Sluggy Me'' at the

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, in Avignon in 2021, but also in various galleries including the Samy Abraham gallery in Paris

Solo exhibitions (selection)

* 2010: ''Pour changer de forme'', diploma,

, Paris * 2012: ''Booster'', Modules Pierre-Bergé – Yves-Saint-Laurent Foundation, curated by Daria de Beauvais,

, Paris * 2012: ''Oiseau / hasard'', Bernard-Anthonioz Art House, Nogent-sur-Marne * 2014: ''Destroy the Image and You Will Break the Enemy'', Project room, Chez Valentin Gallery, Paris * 2015: ''Asterico Mariposa'', Fire Place, Barcelona * 2015: ''Dead is the New Life'', Le Plateau (center of contemporary art) / Frac, Île-de-France * 2015: ''Mithril'', with Jonathan Martin, Circonstance Gallery, Nice * 2015: ''Une robe profonde d'empathie'', with Jean-Marie Perdrix, Samy Abraham Gallery, Paris * 2016: ''iDeath'', Samy Abraham Gallery, Paris * 2017: ''Friends'', Samy Abraham Gallery, Paris * 2017: ''Pulsion Potion'', Cell Project Space Gallery, London * 2018: ''Mauve Dose'', Maternity Ward of the Geneva HUG, Geneva * 2019: ''Pulpe'', with Shanta Rao, curated by Raphaël Brunet, Ecole municipale des beaux-arts, Édouard-Manet Gallery, Gennevilliers * 2019: ''Luca'', with Michel Blazy, Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund * 2019: ''Cracher une image de toi/ Spitting an image of you'', with Ryan Foerster and Hannah Buonaguro, VNH Gallery, Paris * 2020 ''Un bout de toi, Salomon'', Martina Simeti, Milan, Italy * 2021 ''Numbs'', Chantal Crousel Gallery, Paris, France * 2021 ''Sluggy Me'', Lambert Collection, Avignon, France * 2022 ''Sporal'',

, Paris, France

Awards and selections

* 2015 Finalist, Le Meurice Prize for Contemporary Art, Paris, France * 2018 Finalist, BFSP Sculpture Prize, Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, Milan, Italy * 2021 Acquisition of the Marval Collection Fund, Italy * 2021 Ettore and Ines Fico Prize, Turin, Italy * 2022:

, Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris

Residencies

* 2011: Thailywood artist residency,

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(Thailand) * 2014 Lafayette Anticipations, Corporate Foundation of the Lafayette Galleries, Paris, France * 2014:

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, Nice * 2014/15:

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, Paris * 2019: Villa Kujoyama, Kyoto * 2022 Villa Albertine, Miami, US

Collections

Her works are part of public and private collections including: the

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, the

Louis Vuitton Foundation The Louis Vuitton Foundation ( French: ''Fondation d'entreprise Louis-Vuitton''), previously Louis Vuitton Foundation for Creation (''Fondation Louis-Vuitton pour la création''), is a French art museum and cultural center sponsored by the group L ...

, the

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, the National Centre of Plastic Arts in Paris, the Corporate Foundation of the Lafayette Galleries in France, the Ettore Fico Museum in Turin, Italy; and the

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, in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Notes and references

Bibliography

* Daria de Beauvais and Frédéric Grossi (eds.) (texts by Pip Wallis, Mimosa Echard, Daria de Beauvais), ''Sporal'', Les Presses du réel, 2022 (French/English)

Press

* Matthieu Jacquet, "Dans l'incroyable atelier de Mimosa Echard, l’enchanteresse qui transforme l'art et la nature", ''

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'', 9 April 2021 * Lise Guéhenneux, "Mimosa Echard", ''

Crash Magazine ''Crash Magazine'' is a French independent magazine published biannually that features articles on women's fashion and cinema. History and profile ''Crash Magazine'' was founded in 1998 by Frank Perrin and Armelle Leturcq; art critics before ...

'', Edition 93, March 2021, p. 60–71 * Charles Aubin, "Horn of Plenty: Mimosa Echard", ''Mousse Magazine'', October 2020 * Roxana Azimi, "Jeune pousse. Mimosa Echard, naturel butineur”, ''

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'', January 2017

External links

video game website
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