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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Shimmer, Dreaming the Post-Human, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, US
White Cube at Claydon, Claydon House, Buckinghamshire, UK
Extraction, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, UK
Timeline, Kodl Contemporary, Prague, CZ
Double Vision: A Conversation between The Rachofsky Collection and the Hartland & Mackie / Labora Collection, The Warehouse, Dallas, US
I Sought My Soul, St. Elisabeth Church, Berlin, DE
Each Place its Own Mind, Edel Assanti, London, UK
Soil, Somerset House, London, UK
Double Agent, Ljubljana Biennale, SI
Lines - aligning consciousness with the flow, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, JP
15th Gwangju Biennial, KR
Coming Soon, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, FR
When Forms Come Alive, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
The Irreplaceable Human, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, DK
Au bout de mes rêves: The Vanhaerents Art Collection, Tripostal, Lille, FR
The Embodied Spirit, White Cube Seoul, KR
Feels Like Memeplex™, KARST, Plymouth, UK
A Gateway to Possible Worlds: Art & Science-Fiction, Centre Pompidou-Metz, FR
Earthseed: Julie Curtiss, Loie Hollowell, Marguerite Humeau, White Cube Paris, FR
White Cube at Arley Hall & Gardens, Cheshire, UK
BREATHLESS, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, CA
British Art Show 9, HOME; Manchester Art Gallery; Castlefield Gallery; Whitworth Art Gallery; the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA), UK
British Art Show 9, KARST; The Levinsky Gallery, University of Plymouth; The Box, Plymouth; and The Gallery, Plymouth College of Art, UK
The Milk of Dreams, 59th Venice Biennale, IT
Among the Machines, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
rīvus, 23rd Biennale of Sydney, AU
INFORMATION (Today), Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, NO
Who Speaks for the Oceans?, Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, City University of New York, US
The Dreamers, 58th OCTOBER SALON, Belgrade Biennale, Serbia, RS
Tense Condition, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, DE
Superamas, CLEARING, Brussels, BE
Grand Ménage, CLEARING, Rue de l’Université, Paris INFORMATION (Today), Kunsthalle Basel, CH
Beaufort 21, Art Triennial by the Sea, Blankenberge, BE
Into Nature, Art Expedition, Drenthe, NL
British Art Show 9, Aberdeen Art Gallery, UK
Blanc Art, CLEARING, Room 818-007. Building1, Beijing, CH
THE SECRET LIFE OF LOBSTERS, CLEARING, Knokke-Heist, BE
Mythologies, The Beginning and End of Civilisations, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, DK
RIBOCA2, and suddenly it all blossoms, Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, LV
All of Them Witches, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, US
16th Istanbul Biennial, The Seventh Continent, Istanbul, TR
Future Generation Art Prize 2019, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv and Palazzo Ca’Tron, Venice, IT
Prehistory, a modern enigma, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
Prix Marcel Duchamp 2019, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
You, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, FR
The Drowned World, Toronto Biennial of Art, CA
TWIN EARTH, Marguerite Humeau and Julian Charrière, SALTS, Basel, CH
14th Fellbach Triennial for Small Sculpture, Fellbach, DE
L’âge de raison, CLEARING, Brussels, BE
Adapt to Survive, Notes from the Future, HENI project Space, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Animals & Us, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
Blind Faith, Between the Visceral and the Cognitive in Contemporary Art, Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE
The Marvellous Cacophony, 57th October Salon, The Belgrade Biennial, Serbia, RS
Adapt to Survive: Notes from the Future, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, AE
Mutations, High Line, New York, US
Voyage d'hiver, Bosquet de l’Arc de Triomphe, Château de Versailles, FR
Le Drap dans l’Halogène, Paris, FR
What happened?, I-D in partnership with CHANEL (online project)
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Friend ? ?, Maria Bernheim Gallery, Zürich, CH
Welcome Too Late, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
What People do for Money, Some Joint Ventures, Manifesta 11, Zürich, CH
SeMA Biennale: Mediacity Seoul 2016, Seoul Museum of Art, KR
Cycle, Gerðarsafn Museum, Kópavogur, IS
Kosmo, Kevinspace, Vienna, AT
Deep Inside, 5th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Trekhgornaya Factory, RU (First Prize)
Fritto Misto, CLEARING, New York, US
Nuit Blanche Monaco, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out, Monaco, MC
Beneath the moon, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, SG
(co-produced by Palais de Tokyo) Anagramma, Basement Roma, Rome, IT
The Work of Wind, Nuit Blanche and Blackwood Gallery, Toronto, CA
Days of Future Just Past, Charim Galerie, Vienna
Vom Grossen und Ganzen (Generally Speaking), Die Sammlung Haus N, Neumünster, Germany
Rare Earth, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21), Vienna, AT
Extinction Marathon: Visions of the Future, Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London, UK
Royal British Society of Sculptors, Bursary Awards, London, UK
The Things? — Part 2, London Design Festival, Victoria and Albert Museum, Sculpture Gallery, London, UK
The House in the Sky, Artists Reflect on Concrete Utopias, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
The Opera of Prehistoric Creatures, live performance at V&A Friday Late, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
A Collection of Ideas, MoMA, New York, US
TAR Magazine, The Things?, Collector's Edition Box Set (Digital Version), designed for TAR, curated by Alexandra Midal
The Prehistory of the Image, Artefact festival, Leuven, BE
The Things?, Soundtrack for a Ghost Film, Screening and Live performance, Victoria and Albert Museum, Sculpture Gallery, London, UK
The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things, Hayward Gallery, London, UK. Touring Programme; The Bluecoat in Liverpool; Nottingham Contemporary; De la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, UK
Politique Fiction, Cité du Design, Saint Etienne, FR
Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects, MoMA, New York, US
RCA Show 2011, Royal College of Art, London, UK
New Talents Event, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK