About
Marguerite Humeau
Born 1986, Loire Valley, FR. Lives and works in London, UK
Marguerite Humeau creates dynamic, speculative worlds that resuscitate prehistoric pasts, summon parallel presents and envision imagined futures to explore the great mysteries of origins and ends. Her distinct treatments of time orbit the same essential question: ‘what lies beyond?’
Grounded in rigorous research and ‘what if?’ scenarios, she works with the silences in knowledge to create new mythologies for our contemporary era. Collaboration is central to her practice; she works with specialists including zoologists, anthropologists, clairvoyants, foragers and geomancers, collapsing hierarchies between different ways of knowing.
Her large-scale installations, at times encompassing entire landscapes, enact rituals of contact and function as living ecosystems. Within the visceral, temporary situations she creates, sculptures and sound elements take on an active, divinatory presence. Through them, she considers how life persists across ecological, psychic and cosmic terrains, and consciousness as shared across all forms of life.
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Turner Prize 2026, MIMA, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, UK (Forthcoming)
scintille, White Cube, New York, US
Torches, Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, FI
Torches, ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art, Ishøj, DK
*sk*/ey-, ICA Miami, Florida, US
DUST, White Cube Seoul, KR
Orisons, curated and produced by Black Cube Nomadic Art Museum, San Luis Valley, Colorado, US
meys, White Cube Bermondsey, London, UK
Promesses, Duo Ouest by Jean Nouvel, Paris, FR
Energy Flows, CLEARING, New York, US
Rise, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene d’Alba, IT
Surface Horizon, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, FR
Weeds, Swiss Church, London, UK
Gisant II, Center Pompidou x West Bund Museum, Shanghai, CN
Futurs d’avant, Musée Jeu de Paume, Paris, FR
Oscillations, MUSEION, Bolzano, IT
MIST, CLEARING, Brussels, BE
Ecstasies, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, DE
Birth Canal, New Museum, New York, US
Birth Canal Drawings, CLEARING, New York, US
35000 A.C, Battaglia Foundry Sculpture Prize, Milan, IT
Echoes, Art Now, Tate Britain, London, UK
Riddles (Final Beats), Zurich Art Prize, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, CH
Riddles, CLEARING, New York, US
Riddles, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, DE
Echo, A Matriarch Engineered to Die, Les Abattoirs, FRAC Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, FR
FOXP2, Nottingham Contemporary FOXP2, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
Visions, CLEARING, Frieze, London, UK
Echoes, DUVE Berlin, Gallery Weekend, Berlin, DE
Horizons, Import Projects, Berlin Art Week Jury Selection, Berlin, DE
The Things?, Trailer Exhibition, HEAD, Geneva, CH