BENOÎT PIÉRON
Né en 1983
Vit et travaille à Paris

Benoît Piéron a passé une grande partie de son enfance à l'hôpital, un lieu qu'il doit encore fréquenter aujourd'hui. À 40 ans, Benoît Piéron a transformé une maladie apprivoisée en potentiel d'action. Artiste résident de la Collection Pinault à Lens, de la Fondation Hermès et de la Casa de Velazquez, il a exposé au Palais de Tokyo et à la Chisenhale Gallery de Londres, et a été nominé pour le prix Ricard. Dans ses sculptures, patchworks et installations, qui empruntent souvent leurs couleurs pastel au linge hospitalier, il développe une œuvre où l'univers médical se transforme en une rêverie intime, une réflexion sur l'attente, le jardin et la sensualité. Il en résulte un voyage intérieur halluciné et incertain.


BENOÎT PIÉRON
Born in 1983
Lives & works in Paris

Piéron spent a large part of his childhood in the hospital, a place he still has to visit today. At the age of 40, Benoît Piéron has transformed a tamed illness into a potential for action. He has been resident artist at the Pinault Collection in Lens, the Fondation Hermès and the Casa de Velazquez, and has exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo and the Chisenhale Gallery in London, and has been nominated for the Ricard prize. In his sculptures, patchworks and installations, which often borrow their pastel colours from hospital linen, he has developed a body of work in which the medical world is transformed into an intimate reverie, a reflection on waiting, the garden and sensuality. The result is a hallucinatory and uncertain inner journey.

Étoiles ou Tempêtes
CNAC,Grenoble, France
June 2 -October 20, 2024.
©Magasin CNAC, Courtesy of the artist.
Photo: Grégory Copitet

The Myth of Normal : Chronic Contradictions
Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Autriche.
May 8 - June 30, 2024.
© kunst-dokumentation

Rayon Jouets
Hangar Y, Meudon, France.
May 18 - September 29, 2024.

Poudre de riz
Sultana, Paris, France.
March 02 - April 27, 2024.
© Tadzio

COMING SOON
En attendant demain
Lafayette Anticipations, Paris
28 février-12 mai 2024

Monstera Deliciosa
MUMOK, Vienne
26.10.2023 – 07.01.2024

In his first solo museum exhibition, French artist Benoît Piéron invites us into the kind of a waiting room we are all familiar with from doctors’ offices and hospitals. Piéron’s waiting room is not a place to “kill” time, however, but a site of metamorphosis into which the outside world intrudes in the form of enigmatic objects and images. Snow globes, a chromatic cloudy sky, the play of light and shadow, a water leak, and the figure of a bat turn a forlorn space into a vibrant and lyrical setting.
Curated by Manuela Ammer


© mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, photo: Georg Petermichl

Slumber Party
15/07 - 12/11/2023
Chisenhale Gallery
London, UK.

Slumber Party – Piéron’s first solo exhibition in the UK – applies a vital softness to the harsh uncertainties of life and death, and supplants the often distressing, stale and clinical atmosphere of hospitals with a sense of possibility and renewed imagination.

Cotton sheets that once lined hospital beds in the UK and France are stitched together to create an expansive patchwork canopy. Traces of hospitalised bodies – faded secretions and stains – stretch across the gallery, crafting a collective corpus of matter and memories, and revealing beauty in the discarded.

Anchored by a giant wooden table leg and topped with an oversized pin cushion, the installation plays with scale to evoke the proportions of a domestic den. Linked to the times Piéron has spent in hospitals, throughout his childhood and later life, the space simultaneously becomes a refuge and a portal through which to journey into other realities – a dreamscape that is also a means of survival.

Der Pinkelnde Tod Or What The Dead Do.
Kunstverein Bielefeld
09 septembre - 29 octobre 2023

Liverpool Biennial
uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost Things
10/06 – 17/09/2023

The 12th edition of Liverpool Biennial ‘uMoya: The sacred Return of Lost Things’ addresses the history and temperament of the city of Liverpool and is a call for ancestral and indigenous forms of knowledge, wisdom and healing. In the isiZulu language, ‘uMoya’ means spirit, breath, air, climate and wind.

"Exposé.es", Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2023

Paris + par Art Basel, Paris, Oct 2022, © Gregory Copitet

"Horizones", Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris, 2022

↑ Vue d'exposition, Illness shower, Sultana Summer set, Arles, France, 2022
© François Deladerriere

"Cottagecore", Galerie Sultana, Paris, 2022

Benoît Piéron, "[random]", Les Tanneries, Amilly, France, 2018

Le Lit, Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, 2011

"La Cabane", 2017