PAUL MAHEKE
Born in 1985
Lives & works in Montpellier
Across various forms and artistic disciplines, Paul Maheke has sustained a longterm exploration into the ways that marginalised bodies, narratives and histories are made visible and invisible. Resisting a probing of identity that sits solely within the framework of identity politics, Maheke’s trajectory has continuously been channelled through spectral sensations. The artist has called in ghosts, spirits and non-human beings into his works to invite a re-orientation to the way that we, the audience, are able to perceive; which is to say, to reframe the way that we are able to see, feel and listen.
In reconfiguring the sensible, Maheke seeks to shift the dominant systems of discourse production and understanding that heavily depend on representation, visibility and legibility as the ultimate forms of truth, value and/or power. Instead, the artist nurtures the formation of a self through a state of in-betweenness; one where esoteric, spiritual, queer and embodied knowledge(s) help Maheke garner the potential for prophecy. Eliel Jones
À travers sa pratique du dessin, de la vidéo, du son et de la danse, Paul Maheke poursuit une recherche sur la manière dont les corps, les récits et les histoires marginalisés sont rendus tour à tour visibles et invisibles. Résistant à la notion d’identité comme définie par les politiques identitaires, la trajectoire de Paul Maheke s’est construite autour de présences spectrales. L’artiste invoque des fantômes, des esprits et des êtres non-humains pour réorioenter notre perception, à savoir la manière dont nous pouvons voir, ressentir et écouter.
En reconfigurant le sensible, Maheke cherche à renverser les systèmes hégémoniques de production du savoir. Ces systèmes font de la représentation, la visibilité et la lisibilité les formes ultimes de la vérité, de la valeur et du pouvoir. L’artiste cultive à la place l’idée d’un moi qui se formerait dans un état d’entre-deux, état dans lequel les savoirs ésotériques, queers et incarnés permettent de rassembler les potentiels pour de nouveaux futurs.
In spite of my own desire to see you disappear
28 September—30 November 2024
Mercer Union, Toronto, CA
© Vuk Dragojevic.
All the messages are emotional
25th Ricard Prize, 2024
Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris, France
To be blindly hopeful
23 March 2024 - 29 June 2024
MOSTYN Contemporary gallery and visuals art Center - Llandudno, Wales, UK
The Purple Chamber
ICA Milano
26/10 — 10/12/2023
© Andrea Rossetti & Tiziano Ercoli
L’Origine de la mort
Lafayette Anticipations, Paris
September 16 - 17, 2023
© Martin Argyroglo
Performance The Origin of Death
Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
June 2023
© Jan Khür / Abrakadabra
Un lac inconnu
Bally foundation, Lugano, CH
2023
© Andrea Rossetti
The Origin of death, Performance, 2023
Shifted Realities, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, CZ
16/03/2023 - 11/06/2023
© Libor Galia
Shifted Realities
Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, CZ
16/03/2023 - 11/06/2023
We took a sip from the devil's cup
Project Art Centre Dublin, Ireland
2022
YOU & I
Kunsthalle Bratislava, Slovakia
© Martin Polák
AS THE DAYS MOVE INTO NIGHTS, 2022
Diagonale, Montréal, Canada
Temporary Atlas: Mapping the Self in the Art of Today
MOSTYN, Llandudno, UK
June 25 - September 25, 2022
Breaking Waters
CAC, Cincinnati, USA
May 6 - August 14, 2022
© Wes Battoclette
British Art Show 9
Aberdeen /Wolverhampton, UK
2021/2022
© Mike Davidson
© Stuart Whipps
FIAC
Grand Palais Ephémère
October 2021, Paris, France
© Aurélien Mole
Futur Generation Art Prize
Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine
October 2021 - January 2022
© PinchukArtCentre & Maksym Bilousov
Screenshots from "Mauve, Jim and John", 28 : 05 min, 2021
Produced by Artangel
Taboo Durag
Performance at Goodman Gallery, London
9th July 2021.
© Damian Griffiths
(in)visible
Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden
June 2021 - January 2022
Taboo Durag, A light barrel in a river’s mouth
Glasgow International, Glasgow, UK, 2021
© Eoin Carey
The Mauve Hour
Sultana Summer Set, Arles, FR
May - July 2021
© François Deladerrière
Vanille Bleue, Goodman Gallery Johannesburg, South Africa, April - May 2021
Vanille Bleue, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, April - May 2021
An apology, a pill, a ritual, a resistance
Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada
March - August 2021
© Blaine Campbell
La Clinique du Queer
Maison Populaire de Montreuil
September 2020 - February 2021
© Aurélien Mole
Possédé.e.s
MOCO, Montpellier, FR
September 2020 - May 2021
© François Deladerrière
The Spectral Forest
Nida Art Colony, Nida, Lituania
August - November 2020
© Ansis Starks
La Pleine lune dort la nuit, Musée d’art contemporain de la Haute Vienne, Rochechouart, France, February - September 2020
HERE AND NOW - Transcorporealities
Museum Ludwig, Köln, DE, 2019
© Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln / Nina Siefke
OOLOI
Triangle France - Astérides, Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, 2019
© Aurélien Mole
Levant, Ludlow 38, New York, USA, 2019
© Carter Seddon / Goethe-Institut, New York
21e Prix Fondation d’entreprise Ricard : Le fil d’alerte, Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, Paris, France, 2019
© Aurélien Mole / Fondation d’entreprise Ricard
Seeking After the Fully Grown Dancer Deep Within, Performance part of Meetings on Art, 58th Venice Biennale, 2019
© Riccardo Banfi / Courtesy Delfina Foundation and Arts Council England.
A fire circle for a public hearing, Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art, Netherlands, 2019
© Gunnar Meier
Diable Blanc, Sultana, Paris, France, 2019
© Aurélien Mole
Dans l’éther, là, ou l’eau, À Cris Ouverts - 6th édition des Ateliers de Rennes - Biennale d’art contemporain, Rennes, France, 2018 © Aurélien Mole
Letter to a Barn Owl, Kevin Space, Vienna, Austria, 2018
© Maximilian Anelli-Monti.
Give Up the Ghost: Baltic Triennial 13, Lithuania, 2018
Le centre ne peut tenir, Lafayette Anticipations – Fondation d’entreprise Galeries Lafayette, Paris, France, 2018
©Pierre Antoine - ©ADAGP
The Distance is Nowhere
Manifesta, Palermo, Italia, 2018
© Paul Maheke, Sophie Mallett, Stella Sideli, GAM Palermo and Overalls Adv
Familiar familial place of confusion (channel), Performance in collaboration with Simon and Alix Maheke, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 2018
© Hervé Veronese
A fire circle for a public hearing, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK, 2018
Produced by Chisenhale Gallery, London. Commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery and Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art, Middelburg © Mark Blower
Habits of care, Blackwood Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 2017
© Henry Chan © Toni Hafkenscheid
Acqua Alta, Galerie Sultana, Paris, France, 2017
© Aurélien Mole
The dance floor could never be a story with one voice. The dance floor is packed with stories all pulsating with their own experiences and needs, DRAF, 2017
© Tim Bowditch
Mbu, as part of BMW Live Exhibition: Ten Days Six Nights, Tate Modern, 2017
© Tate 2017, image: Brotherton-Lock
In the Watery Core of those Stories, as part of the Diaspora Pavilion, Venice, Italia, 2017
Courtesy of ICF, Galerie Sultana and the artist
© Francesco Allegretto and Paul Maheke
What Flows Through and Across, Assembly Point, London, United Kingdom, 2017
In Me Everything is Already Flowing, Center, Berlin, Germany, 2016
I Lost Track of the Swarm, South London Gallery, London, UK, 2016
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Group Show Vert pétri d'eau The Mauve Hour, Sultana Summer Set Arles YESN'T II YESN'T |
FAIRS: |
Art Basel Miami Beach. Miami Beach, USA Frieze London 2021. London, United Kingdom FIAC 2021. Paris, France Liste Art Fair 2023. Basel, Swistzerland Paris+ by Art Basel. Paris, France Frieze London 2024. London, England |
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Solo presentations of his work include Mercer Union, Toronto (2024), Mostyn, Wales (2024); Kunsthalle Bratislava, Slovakia (2023); High Line Art, New York (2022), The Renaissance Society, Chicago (2021); Collection Pinault, Paris (2021) and Chisenhale Gallery, London (2019). Group exhibitions and festivals include Tate Modern, London (2024); Fondation d’Entreprise Pernod Ricard (2024), Rudolfinum, Prague (2023); ICA Miami (2019) and Centre Pompidou, Paris (2018). He has been featured in major international exhibitions including Biennale du Congo (2022); Glasgow International, Scotland (2021); 58th Venice Biennale (2019); Performa, New York (2019); Baltic Triennial 13, Estonia (2018) and Manifesta 12, Italy (2018). |
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