Tania Mouraud
Works

From the end of the 1960s, Tania Mouraud’s work explores the relation between art and social connections through various mediums: painting, installation, photo, sound, video, performance, etc. She proposes to add a meditation room to our standard apartments (1968). On 54 billboards in Paris (1977) she declares her disapproval of a society glorifying consumption at the expense of individuals. She investigates the decorative relation between art and war as well as the limitation of perception by creating “mots de forme” (words of shape) (1989). From 1998, she uses photo, sound and video to examine different aspects of History and Life.
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Born in 1942, Paris. Lives and works in Colombiers (FR)
Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur
Chevalier de l’ordre national du Mérite
Officier des arts et des lettres
PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS
‘WYSIWYG’ (1989 – 2007), wall painting, Bibliothèque Publique d’Information, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (FR)
‘La Curée’ (2004), video installation, Château de Chambord (FR)
‘HCYS’ (2005), print on tarp, Collection FRAC Lorraine, Metz (FR)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
‘Da Capo’, MAMCO, Geneva (CH)
2022
‘Flashbacks’, Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris (FR)
2021
‘Mezzo Forte’, Ceysson & Bénétière, Wandhaff (LU)
2020
‘DREAM’, Sorbonne Artgallery, Paris (FR)
2019
‘Tania Mouraud, Ecriture(s)’, Hangar 107, Rouen (FR)
2018
‘Tania Mouraud, everything must have an ending except my love for you’, Salle des Expositions, Tauves (FR) (cat.)
2017
‘Who’s the enemy?’, Lieu d’art La Mouche, Beziers (FR) (cat.)
2016
‘OTNOT’, Gaep (formerly EASTWARDS PROSPECTUS), Bucharest (RO)
2015
‘Tania Mouraud. Une Retrospective’, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz (FR)
‘Tania Mouraud. Une retrospective’, Galerie de l’Arsenal, église Saint-Pierre-aux-Nonnains, chapelle des Templiers, Musée de la Cours d’Or, 49 Nord 6 Est – Frac Lorraine, école supérieure d’art de Lorraine (Ésal) Galerie Lafayette, Galerie Octave Cowbell, Galerie TouTouChic, Faux Mouvement centre d’art contemporain (at the initiative of Centre Pompidou-Metz) (FR)
2014
‘Ad Nauseam’, MAC/VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine (FR)
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2013
‘DCLLDF’, Le M.U.R, urban art, Arromanches (FR)
‘Float like a butterfly sting like a bee’, Le M.U.R Paris (FR)
2012
‘FLABASLAB’, Le M.U.R, Rue Oberkampf, Paris (FR)
‘La Fabrique’, Mostra SESC de Artes, 3C-Centre de Création Contemporaine, Sao Paulo (BR)
2011
‘J’entends les trains depuis toujours / keep hearing the trains forever’, Slought Foundation, Kimmel center and Art Alliance, Philadelphia (USA)
‘I haven’t seen a butterfly here’, Gallery Cueto Project, New York (USA)
2008
‘Roaming’, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris (FR)
2005
‘Tania Mouraud, Projet In Memoriam – HCYS?’, permanent installation produced by FRAC Lorraine, Metz (FR)
‘City performance N°1’, 54 billboards, FRAC Lorraine, Metz (FR)
1999
‘Lobby Wall’, Hammer Project, UCLA Harmmer Museum, Lobby Wall, Los Angeles (USA)
1992
‘Tania Mouraud’, The Power Plant, Toronto (CA) (cat.)
1989
‘BLACK POWER, ICI LÀ’, Centre d’art contemporain Pablo Neruda, Corbeil-Essonnes (FR) (cat.)
‘BLACK POWER, VU OU LU’, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris (FR)
1986
‘Vitrines’, Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi (BE)
1977
‘City Performance n°1’, 54 billboards, Paris (FR)
‘Art Space n°6’, special project, PS1, New York (USA)
URBAN ART
2020
‘Ne faites point de mal à la terre’, for the 5th edition of Échappées d’art, Angers (FR)
2019
‘Ses os se sont changés en corail. Perles sont devenus ses yeux’, in the exhibition ‘Gigantisme – Art & Industrie’, Rubis Terminal, Dunkerque (FR)
2016
‘CTJLFDM’, 9 cities: Bucharest, Iași, Sibiu, Cluj, Bacău, Pitești, Buzău, Craiova, Roman (RO)
2015
‘ICMB’, Vitrine Galerie Lafayette, Paris (FR)
‘Dream’, RATP, metro stations Nation, Montparnasse, Franklin Roosevelt, Auber, Charles de Gaulle, Paris (FR)
‘City Performance N°1’, Metz (FR)
2014
‘MPP’, MAC/VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine (FR)
‘CQNPSRLPSCALR’, MAC/VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine (FR)
‘ALEA#18’, WIP La Villette, Paris (FR)
‘ECLHCPDC’, Saint-Étienne (FR)
2013
‘DCLLDE’, Arromanches-les-Bains (FR)
‘FLABASLB’, Paris (FR)
‘Once Upon a Time’, video projection, Nuit Blanche Toronto (CA)
2012
‘PreVitSoRaN #1 #2 #3’, video projection and sound performance, Nuit Blanche Paris (FR)
2006
‘Façade’, video projection, Musée de la Chasse, Nuit Blanche Paris (FR)
‘Machines Désirantes’, video projection, Nuit Blanche Paris (FR)
2004
‘ISHAD’, Parc de la Courneuve, Seine-Saint-Denis (FR)
1997
‘amours’, Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris (FR)
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1996
‘Les Balades de Tania’, New York (USA)
‘Les Balades de Tania à la fête de la Mirabelle’, Metz (FR)
‘EV+A’, Docks of Limerick (IE)
‘Millefeuille(s) II, III’, Quimper (FR)
1989
‘Memory’, Aéroport de Mirabelle, Montreal (CA)
1977-1978
‘City Performance n°1’, Paris (FR)