Nicolas Grospierre

  • Nicolas Grospierre
    The never ending corridor of-books
    2006, Lambda D-print mounted on wood, 80 x 80 cm
  • The never ending corridor of-books
    2006, Lambda D-print mounted on wood, 80 x 80 cm
  • Heliografia (Green)
    2016, Wooden Board, Velvet, 100 x 90 cm
  • ABSTRACT DECORATIONS
    2021, Lambda D-print mounted on wood, 80 x 80 cm
  • Heliografia (Scarlett)
    2016, Wooden Board, Velvet, 100 x 90 cm
  • CIRCULAR CEILING APERTURES
    2021, Lambda D-Print mounted on wood, 60 x 80 cm
  • Hydroklinika
    2004, Lambda D-Print mounted on wood, each 50 x 50 cm

Biography

Nicolas Grospierre was born in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1975. He works in the extended field of photography with a pronounced interest in architecture. Grospierre's use of photography ranges from classic documentary photography to photo montages to video and room installations. His work deals with architectural complexes of political and social ideologies using modern public facilities. Grospierre follows the tradition of photographic typologies of conceptual artists such as Ed Ruscha, Dan Graham, Allan Sekula or the Bechers in the 1960s-70s. As a graduate of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (1998) and the London School of Economics (1999), he made his debut as a photographer in 2001. Grospierre was awarded the Golden Lion at the 11th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2008. In 2012 he received the Polityka Passport Award - Poland's most prestigious art prize and in 2014 an individual grant from the Graham Foundation (Chicago, USA). His monograph, Open-End, will be published in 2013 by Jovis Verlag, Berlin; his works can be found in many public and private collections around the world, including the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, FL, and the National Museum, Warsaw, Poland. Nicolas Grospierre has lived and worked in Warsaw, Poland since 1999.

Grospierre shows moments of breathless silence that can break down any second, and draws attention to the fact that even apparently stable things can always be subject to change and are always in a precarious position.

Nicolas Grospierre, 2011 ©Photo, Polityka 2011; Quotation, Dr Gerhard Charles Rump, 2015

Museum and single exhibitions (selection)

2024

PHOTOGRAPHY DEGROWTH - Photography by Nicolas Grospierre - Polish Institute Düsseldorf

2022

Lapis Mundi, Museum of the Earth, Warsaw

2021

LCAXN, Le Corbusier Foundation, Paris

2018
The City which does not exist, Peresvetov Pereulok Gallery, Moscow

2017
Heliosophia, Alarcon Criado Gallery, Seville
Krystian Jarnuszkiewicz - To my dearest Mikołaj, Pola Magnetyczne Gallery, Warsaw
Modern Forms. A Subjective Atlas of 20th Century Architecture, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

2016
Modern Forms. A Subjective Atlas of 20th Century Architecture, Architecture Association, London
Todo Palidece Ante el Libro, Centro de Arte Alcobendas, Madrid

2015
SłupskViewfinder, Signum Foundation, Poznan

2014
A glass shard in the eye (with Olga Mokrzycka) BWA Warszawa, Warsaw
The Oval Offices, Maison de la Photographie, Lille

2013
The Oval Offices, Presidential Palace, Warsaw
The Bank, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev
The city which does not exist, Bunkier Sztuki, Cracow

2011
Lost in Architecture, 1000 Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu
Modern Tales, Polish Cultural Institute
FotoEspana 2011, Madrid
One Thousand Doors, No Exit, Graham Foundation, Chicago
Paper Planes, Phase 2, ARUP, London
The Bank, BWA Warszawa, Warsaw
The picture, which grows, Fundacja Archeologia Fotografii, Warsaw

2010
T A T T A R R A T T A T, Signum Foundation, Venice

2009
Kunstkamera, CCA, Warsaw
The Bank, Location 1, NYC
The Self–FulfillingImage, Cueto Project, NYC