Julien Bismuth
Born in 1973 in Paris (France)
Lives and works in New York (United States)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 Afterimage, Layr, Vienna, Feb 2026
2024 Perchings, The Box, Los Angeles, United States
The Man in the Moone, Marli Matsumoto Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo, Brazil
2023 Beat the matrix, Simone Subal, New York, United States
Uncertain codes, curated with Jesús Fuenmayor, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida,
United States*
2022 Harlequinades, Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris, France
2021 Shore Drift, Galerie Parisa Kind, Germany
Scene, The Box, Los Angeles, United States*
2019 Hiaitsiihi, curator: Raffaella Sciarretta, Nomas Foundation, Rome, Italy*
Stücke, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna, Autriche
2018 Façade project at The Box, Los Angeles, United States
Ideograph, Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt, Germany
2017 Sybil Sibyl, curator: Sophie Kaplan, La Criée, Centre dʼart contemporain, Rennes, France
Streams, Simone Subal Gallery, New York, United States
2016 Julien Bismuth, curators: Susan Thompson & Nat Trotman, Guggenheim Museum, New York, United States
Partition, Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris, France
Zitat, Lira Gallery Rome, Rome, Italy
2015 Steganograms, The Box, Los Angeles, United States
Stenograms, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna, Austria
2014 An image as the _______ of a surface, Simone Subal Gallery, New York, United States
2013 Le signe singe (with Virginie Yassef), La Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel, France
Perroquet, Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris, France
Devonian Press (with Jean-Pascal Flavien), Les Abattoirs, Musée Frac Occitanie Toulouse, Toulouse,
France
Smoke Screen, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna, Austria
Mime Works from the Gensollen Collection, with a performance by Gregg Goldston, Collectorspace,
Istanbul, Turkey
Walks and Talks (with Lucas Ajemian), Invisible Exports, New York, United States
2012 Devonian Press (with Jean-Pascal Flavien), Vitrine de lʼAntenne, Frac île-de-France, Paris, France
Catalog, Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt, Germany
2011 The Ventriloquism Aftereffect, GAK-Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Brême, Germany
Notes Towards a Theory of Distraction, Simone Subal Gallery, New York, United States
Dialogic (with Virginie Yassef), Parcours Saint-Germain, Hôtel Lutetia, Paris, France
A Specific Object - RCA Interim Project, Royal College of Art (RCA), London, Great Britain
Frustum, Emanuel Layr, Vienna, Austria
2010 Mind the gap (with Shannon Bool), Crac Alsace, Altkirch, France*
The Error in the Landscape, curator: Vanessa Desclaux, Bloomberg Space, London, Great Britain
The Golden Ass, The Box, Los Angeles, United States
Les Tristes (with Lucas Ajemian), Invisible Exports, New York, United States
MIMED, Solo presentation by Layr Wuestenhagen, The Armory Show, New York, United States
2009 Les Continents incontinents, Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris, France
Titled (Untitled), Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt, Germany
2008 Julien Bismuth, The Box, Los Angeles, United States
Unbestimmte Stellen, Layr Wuestenhagen, Vienna, Austria
Les Lettres tristes (with Lucas Ajemian), Foxy Productions, New York, United States
2007 Monologues For Minerals, 1.1 (Salt Flat/Radio Stück), Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt, Germany
2006 Les tristes: a particular sequence of varying pitch, tone, or stress (with Lucas Ajemian), Galerie Parisa Kind,
Frankfurt, Germany
Marchand dʼoubli, Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris, France
Devonian Press: Books and Limited Editions (with Jean-Pascal Flavien), A&M Bookstore, Milan, Italy; Barbara Wien Gallery, Berlin, Germany
*Catalog
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Phallus :: Fascinum :: Fascism, The Box, LA, Nov 2025
A Journey in America, Galerie Georges-Philippe et Nathalie Vallois, New York, Sept 5th- Dec 20th 2025
Copistes, Centre Pompidou Metz, 14th June 2025 - 1th January 2026
Aesthetics of contingency#2, Galerie Jocelyn Wolf, curated by Sébastien Pluot, March 16-May 15 2025
La flânerie au passage, Au Passage, curated by Jacob Bromberg, Paris, June 5th to July 4th 2025
2024 Couch/Door Problem, curator: Thomas Swinkels, Buzzer Reeves, Berlin, Germany
Lua Nova, Marli Matsumoto Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo, Brazil
Lacan, The Exhibition, curator: Marie-Laure Bernadac, Bernard Mercadé, Gérard Wajcman & Paz Corona, Centre Pompidou Metz, Metz, France
2023 Mestre de Obra, Marli Matsumoto Arte Contemporânea, São Paulo, Brazil
Charles, Charles, Charles (Sors de ta réserve! #4), Frac île-de-France les réserves romainville, France
2022 Nhe'ẽ Porã: Memória e Transformação (Nhe'ẽ Porã: Memory and Transformation), Portuguese Language
Museum, São Paulo, Brazil
New Space Show, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna, Austria
Marble Screening, Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Fata Morgana (festival), curator: Béatrice Gross, Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France*
Stencils, curator: Sébastien Délire, La Galerie Imaginaire, Charleroi, Belgium
Sailors of the Land, Buzzer Reeves, Berlin, Germany
2021 Night of Philosophy, curator: Mériam Kouichi, UNESCO, Paris
2020 Is the painting a virtual reality group show?, curator: Raffaella Sciaretta, Nomas Foundation, Rome, Italy
Back to the Future, Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris, France
Des visages, Carré dʼart, Musée dʼart contemporain de Nîmes, Nîmes, France
2019 Inter er Stort Intet er Litet (Nothing is Big Nothing is Small), performance at the 1st edition of Oslo
Biennale 2019 – 2020, Oslo, Norway
21+, Kunstraum am Schauplatz, Vienna, Austria
Jungle Fever, Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris, France
2018 XIV edición de la Bienal de Cuenca, curators: Jesús Fuenmayor et Yucef Merhi, Bolívar 1389 y Estvez de
Toral, Cuenca, Ecuador
Synonymie Ambiante, Frac Provence-Alpes-Côte dʼAzur, Marseille, France
Natura Naturas, Mendes Wood, New York, United States
Contre-Allées, curator: Alain Bublex, Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris, France
While I was also listening to NY & LA, Human Resources, Los Angeles, United States; Artists Space, New
York, United States; Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, United States
2017 Modus Operandi, Société dʼélectricité, Bruxelles, Belgium
American Interior, Carriage Trade, New York, United States
Hotel du Pavot 2, curator: Xavier Franceschi, Frac île-de-France, Chateau de Rentilly, Bussy-Saint-Martin, France
Palais Potemkine, curator: Emile Ouroumov, in partnership with la Fondation Ricard, Galerie nationale des Beaux-Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria*
Dimensões Variáveis (Variable Dimensions) – Part I, curators: Gregory Lang & Inês Grosso, Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT), Lisbon, Portugal
Threads Left Hanging, Veiled in Ink, curator: Béatrice Gross, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna, Austria
Dimensões Variáveis (Variable Dimensions) – Part II, curators: Gregory Lang & Inês Grosso, Museum of
Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT), Lisbon, Portugal
2016 Economie de la Tension, curator: Emile Ouroumov & Catherine Pavlovic, Centre d’Art Contemporain Parc
St. Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux, France
L'Homme aux cent yeux, curator: Gilles Baume, Plateau-Frac île-de-France, Paris, France
Variable Dimensions, curator: Gregory Lang, Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, United States
The Language of Things – Material Hi/Stories from the Collection, curators: Axel Köhne & Luisa Ziaja, Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria
Me souwiendra (ou l'usage de la parole), curator: Arlène Berceliot Courtin, Index, Paris, France
I will go where I don't belong, curators: Milovan Farronato et Camille Henrot, Fiorucci Art Trust, Stromboli,
Italy
Impromptu, The Box, Los Angeles, United States
2015 Very Long Fingers, Simone Subal Gallery, New York, United States
Alfred Jarry Archipelago: The Waltz of the Puppets – ACT 1, curators: Keren Detton, Julie Pellegrin &
Leonardo Bigazzi, traveling exhibition: Le Quartier, Quimper, France; la Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel, France;
Museo Marino Marini, Florence, Italy
Infiltrations, Centre d'Art Bastille, Grenoble, France
Rideaux/Blinds, curator: Marie de Brugerolle, Institut dʼArt Contemporain (IAC), Villeurbanne, France
McGuffin, curator: Marie de Brugerolle, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Geneva, Switzerland
The Artist is a Mysterious Entertainer, curator: Vanessa Desclaux, FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
Théâtre des operations (Theatre of Operations) – Phase 1: Reconnaissance, curator: Emile Ouroumov,
Bénédicte le Pimpec & Céline Bertin, Théâtre de lʼUsine, Geneva, Switzerland
Dimensions Variables – Artistes et Architecture, curator: Didier Gourvennec Ogor & Gregory Lang, Pavillon de l'Arsenal, Paris, France
La rhétorique des marées, La Criée, Rennes, France
DO D!STURB, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2014 Manifesta 10, Section Unlooped—Kino, Saint Petersbourg, Russia
Clear, curator: Aaron Moulton, Gagosian, Los Angeles, United States
All that falls, curator: Marie de Brugerolle & Gérard Wacjman, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Langue des Oiseaux et Coq à L'âne, curator: Marion Daniel, FRAC Bretagne, Rennes, France
L'Art Chemin Faisant: Le Rire, curator: Alexandre Rocuzzo & Léo Guy-Denardy, Centre dʼArt Contemporain
(CAC) du Pays de Lorient, Lorient, France
Véritables Préludes de Flasques (pour un chien) ¼ : Bruit Rose, curator: Marie Frampier, Maison populaire,
Montreuil, France
Itself Not So, curator: Rachel Valinsky, Galerie Lisa Cooley, New York, United States
Portrait de 3/4, curator: Alain Bublex, Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris, France
2013 LA Existancial, curator: Marie de Brugerolle, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles,
United States
Satellite 6: Suite pour Exposition(s) et Publication(s), curator: Mathieu Copeland,Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
Lʼimage dans le Tapis, curator: Olivier Michelon, Les Ateliers des Arques, Les Arques, France
Secret Codes, curator: Augustín Perez Rubio, Galeria Luisa Strina, Saõ Paolo, Brazil
Goodbye Hello, Sammlung Lenikus, Vienna, Austria
La Nuit Blanche, curated by Julien Pellegrin & Chiara Parisi, Paris, France
Domino – Domino Bis, curator: Martin Michard, Eglise des Cordeliers, Gourdon, France
It's When It's Gone That You Really Notice It, Simone Subal Gallery, New York, United States
2012 The Poster Show (with Jean-Pascal Flavien), Galerie Carlier Gebauer, Berlin, Germany
The Circus as a Parallel Universe, curator: Verena Conrad and Gerald Matt, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Participant in Jean-Pascal Flavien - The house breathes, Parc Saint Léger – Centre dʼart contemporain,
Pougues-les-Eaux, France
2011 Partenaires Particuliers, curators: Sophie Kaplan & Virginie Yassef, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, France
I was a male Yvonne de Carlo. Critical Art Can Be Sophisticated, Even Entertaining (with Jean-Pascal
Flavien), curators: Dora García & Marie de Brugerolle, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y Léon,
Léon, Spain*
Making and Art, curators: Cosima Rainer, Stadtgalerie Schwaz, Berne, Switzerland
Mirages, Fountains & Dissociative Composition, curators: Catherine Sullivan, Galerie Catherine Bastide,
Brussels, Belgium
A painting show, curator: Aaron Moulton, Autocenter, Berlin, Germany
One is the Loneliest Number…, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Philadelphie, United States
In back of the real, curator: Necmi Soenmez, ISCP, Brooklyn, United States
Terminal Jest, Articulture Biennial Arts Festival, curators: Stamatina Gregory and Michael Hall, Delaware
County College, United States
Franchement énervé / Transfer France-NRW, MUba Eugène Leroy, Tourcoing, France Metamorphosen (Transfer-NRW), Kunstmuseum Mulheim an der Ruhr, Mulheim, Germany
2010 Monsieur Miroir, 12e Prix Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, curator: Émilie Renard, Fondation d'entreprise
Ricard, Paris, France*
Die Grammatik des Buches, Artothek, Munich, Germany
Une Forme pour toute action. Printemps de Septembre, curator: Eric Mangion, Toulouse, France*
Playing the City II, curator: Matthias Ulrich, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Solace, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, United States
Mike, Alec or Rufus? ("Tom, Dick or Harry"), Layr Wuestenhagen Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
Laocoon, COCO (Contemporary Concerns), Vienna, Austria
Metamorphosen, Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr, Mülheim, Germany
2009 Treasures for Theatre, La Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel, France
2008 Plouf! (with Jean-Pascal Flavien), Tate Modern, Londons, Great Britain
La seconde partie est la première, Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
SIGNALS, Orange County Museum, Newport Beach, United States
Ne pas jouer with des choses mortes, curators: Eric Mangion, Marie de Brugerolle, Villa Arson, Nice,France*
Comme des bêtes. L'ours, le cochon, le chat et Cie., Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland*
Anthology, Otero Plassart, Los Angeles, United States
SOME THING ELSE, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, United States
Festival a/d Werf, Utrecht, Holland
Garage Sale, Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt, Germany
Undone, Renwick gallery, New York, United States
2007 PAWNSHOP, E-Flux, New York, United States
Dangling Man, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium
La Boum, Layr Wuestenhagen Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
A Point in Space is a Place for an Argument, David Zwirner, New York, United States
Welcome to My World, Alexandre Pollazzon Ltd, London, Great Britain
2006 Nice Art, curator: Axel Huber, Lahr, Germany
2005 International Laundry, Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt, Germany
1999 Tri-Annuale: Part I, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), Los Angeles, United States
*Catalog
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2023 Uncertain codes, curated with Jesús Fuenmayor, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida,
United States
2018 David Antin Sky Poems, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles; Hammer Museum,
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), San Diego, United States
2017 While I was also listening to NY & LA, in collaboration with Sophie Kaplan & La Criée Centre d'art
contemporain, co-curated with Félicia Atkinson & Yann Sérandour, Human Resources, Los Angeles; Artists
Space, New York; Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, United States
2011 Frustum, Emanuel Layr Galerie, Vienna, Austria
PERFORMANCES
2018 While I was also listening to NY & LA, Human Resources, Los Angeles, United States; Artists Space, New
York, United States; Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, United States
2017 Paroles, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Poésie Plate-Forme at the Festival Actoral, Montévidéo, Marseille, France
Alors que jʼécoutais moi aussi la bibliothéque Kandinsky, La Criée, Rennes, Paris, France
2016 Willy Nilly, curator: Gilles BAume, as part of L'homme aux cents yeux, FRAC Le Plateau île-de-France, Paris
Billy, Performance with Alan Fairbairn & Christophe Marand, curator: Gilles BAume, FRAC Le Plateau île-de-France, Paris, France
Legno, curator: Pier Paolo Pancotto, Villa Medicis, Rome, Italy
Untitled (Signed), curator: Teresa Calonje, Second Home, London, Great Britain
Untitled (Track), Simone Subal Gallery, New York, United States
Untitled (Lips or Lapse), Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, United States
2015 Untitled (Fill), The Box, Los Angeles, United States
Untitled (Lull), Prix K-Way®, Programme Perf4rm, Artissima, Turin, Italy
The rhetoric of the tides, curator: Ariane Michel, en association with La Criée, Rennes, France
Dub, Parcours Art Basel, curator: Florence Derieux, Basel, Switzerland
L comme Litote, as part of DO D!STURB, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Paterson, as part of Théâtre des opérations – Phase 1: Reconnaissance, curator: Emile Ouroumov, Bénédicte le Pimpec et Céline Bertin, Théâtre de lʼUsine, Geneve, Switzerland
2014 Plouf! (with Jean Pascal Flavien), Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Frane
Rieur, as part of Lʼart chemin faisant … le rire, un parcours Jaune, Atelier dʼEstienne, Lorient, France
2013 Untitled (Mime) from the Gensollen Collection, Collectorspace, Istanbul, Turkey
2012 Weary Willie, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Exposição (with Helmut Batista et Amilcar Packer), Teatro Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Verbo, Galerie Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil
Bodies That Matter, Beursschouwburg, Bruxelles, Belgium
2011 I was a male Yvonne de Carlo. Critical Art Can Be Sophisticated, Even Entertaining (with Jean-Pascal
Flavien), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y Léon, Léon, Spain
In dieser Zeit, GAK, Brême, Germany
Untitled (wait), Verse/Charms/Verse performance series, Art Contemporary Fair, United States
Fuß fassen, COCO, Vienna, Austria
2010 Le Rire Jaune, Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris, France
The funniest sculpture in the world, Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, Paris ; Crac Alsace, Altkirch, France
Stillleben, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
2009 Ecart/Retard, Treasures for theater, La Ferme du buisson, Noisiel, France
Les Continents incontinents, Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris, France
Plouf! (with Jean-Pascal Flavien), Tate Modern, sur la Tamise, London, Great Britain; Kunsthalle Wien,
Vienna, Austria
2008 L comme litote, IAC, Villeurbanne, France
Monologues for Minerals, Festival a/d Werf (with Giancarlo Vulcano), Utrecht, Netherland; Musée
départemental d'art contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart; Bétonsalon, Paris, France; Parasol Unit,
London, Great Britain; Karriere bar, Copenhagen, Danemark
The funniest sculpture in the world, The Box, Los Angeles, Etats-Unis
2006 Dipshitz (with Palme dʼOr), Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, United States
Palme DʼOr Television (with Lucas Ajemian, Mike Bouchet, Sebastien Clough, Christian Jankowski & Seth Williamson), Frankfurt Art Fair, Frankfurt, Germany
2005 Announcement (with Jean-Pascal Flavien, Giancarlo Vulcano et The Occasion Band), Confucius Square,
New York, United States
2003 Space: A Lecture, Maccarone Inc., New York, United States
2000 A Hidden Object (with Jean-Pascal Flavien), Independent Performance Space, Los Angeles, United States
Untitled (Whales) (with Jean-Pascal Flavien), Independent Performance Space, Los Angeles, United States
AWARDS / GRANT
2025 Aide aux Artistes, CNAP
2018 Prix de la Biennial de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador
2015 Bourse FNAGP, Paris, France
Prix K-Way®, Perf4rm, Artissima, Turin, Italy
2013 Résidence Atelier les Arques, Les Arques, France
2012 Peter S. Reed Foundation Artist’s Grant, Ohio, United States
Résidence Capaçete, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2011 Artist's book, Paris, France
2010 Transfer, Mülheim, Germany
2003-05 Kahler Grant, Princeton University, United States
2001-05 Graduate School Summer Stipend for Research Abroad, Princeton University
1999 Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, United States
1994 Foundation for Art Ressource Art, Los Angeles, United States
1993 Visual Arts Department Award, UCLA
1991-94 National Merit Scholarship
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Jumex Collection, Mexico, Mexique
Guggenheim Museum, New York, United States
FNAC, Paris, France
Artothèque du Lot, Cahors, France
Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria
Serralvés Foundation, Porto, Portugal
Frac Ile-de-France, Paris, France
Les Abattoirs, Musée - Frac Occitanie Toulouse, Toulouse, France
BIBLIOGRAPHY
CATALOGUES
2023 Uncertain Codes, Julien Bismuth and Jesús Fuenmayor, United States
Hiaitsiihi: architectes d'un monde invisible, éd. B2, Julien Bismuth & Marco Antonio, France
2022 Fata Morgana, edited by Béatrice Gross with Katinka Bock, éd. Musée du Jeu de Paume/ Manuella éditions,
Paris, France
2021 Pulcinella Studies, éd. Box Editions, designed by Nemuel DePaula, Los Angeles, United States
2019 Stücke, éd. Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna
Speaking and Listening, éd. Shelter Press, Centre d’Art la Criée, Renne, France
Estructuras Vivientes, Cuenca Biennial 2018, éd. Jesus Fuenmayor, Cuenca Biennial, Cuenca
2017 Palais Potemkine, exhibition catalogue (text: Emile Ouroumov), éd. Fondation dʼentreprise Ricard, Paris
2014 Pages Deux, éd. Motto distribution, Berlin
2013 Pages, éd. Motto distribution, Berlin
A cover to cover, éd. Motto distribution, Berlin
Devonian Press, éd. Les Abattoirs, Musée – Frac Occitanie Toulouse, Toulouse
2012 I was a male Yvonne de Carlo, exhibition catalogue, edited by Marie de Brugerolles & Dora Garcia, éd.
MUSAC, Léon, Spain
XOXO, éd. Sabine Müller, Royal College of Art, London
Fragmentation 04, artist’s book insert, curator: Necmi Sönmez, ed. Mine Haydaroğlu, Sanat Dünyamiz, Issue n° 131
The Circus as Parallel Universe, exhibition catalogue, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria
2010 Julien Bismuth LOL LOL OLOL LLOOOOOOO, Monsieur Miroir, 12e Prix Fondation d'entreprise Ricard
exhibition catalogue, (texte: Emilie Renard), Paris, pp. 10-15
Une Forme pour toute action, exhibition catalogue Le Printemps de Septembre, (texte dʼEric Mangion),
Toulouse, France, pp. 130-142
Julien Bismuth, a conversation with Sophie Kaplan, Mind The Gap, exhibition catalogue, éd. Crac Alsace,
Altkirch, pp. 1-7
2008 Comme des bêtes, exhibition catalogue, éd. 5 Continents, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Milan
PRESS ARTICLES
2025 "Le monde de l'art face aux incendies californiens" by Yann Perreau, Art Newspaper, Feb. 2025
2023 Paul Stephens, “Julien Bismuth Stereotypes the Universe”, in Frieze (online), 1 February
2022 Gabriele Brandstetter, “NYC Faces”, tanz, September
Maud de la Forterie, “Julien Bismuth ‘Harlequinades’”, in Artpress (online), 11 May 2022
Lisa Emmanuelidis, “Le Jeu de Paume lance son festival”, in The Art Newspaper Daily, n°869,16, February
2022, p. 11
Renaud Monfourny, “Julien Bismuth”, in Le photoblog de Renaud Monfourny (online), April
2020 Davide Daninos, “Julien Bismuth ‘Hiaitsiihi’”, Nomas Foundation / Roma », in FlashArt, 17 February
2019 Beatrice Gross, “Extre aux monde / Etre à la forêt monde”, Journal de Arts, October
Marie de Brugerolle, “Post-Performance painting“ in Mousse Magazine, 19 January
Amah-Rose McKnight-Abrams, “No theme, no private funding and it lasts five years: inaugural Oslo Biennial opens in Norway, The Art Newspaper, May 30
Chrissie Iles, “Interview with the Chief Curator Jesús Fuenmayor”, in Universes.art, 19 January
Christian Egger, “Opening: Julien Bismuth at Emanuel Layr”, in Spike, 25 January
Harry Bellet, “Au salon Artgenève, méga galeries et grosses fortunes”, in Le Monde, 2 February
2017 Kimberley Bradley, “Criticʼs Guide: Vienna”, in Frieze.com, 26 September
“ Lʼexposition sibylline de Julien Bismuth”, in Ouest France, 28 June
Anne Ellegood, “Looking Forward: Anne Ellegood. Leading curators select some stand-out presentations at Frieze New York 2017”, in Frieze.com, 21 April
2015 Sharon Mizota, “Julien Bismuth Tinkers with the DNA of his Images at The Box”, Los Angeles Times, 16
October
2014 Martha Schwendener, “Julien Bismuth: An image as the_______of a surface”, in Art & Design, Art in Review,
The New York Times, 16 January, print
Andrew Russeth, “Julien Bismuth: An Image as the_______of a Surface at Simone Subal Gallery”, On View, The New York Observer, 29 January, print
Courtney Fiske, “Julien Bismuth”, in Artforum.com, 29 January
“Julien Bismuth rentre au Guggenheim de New York”, in Quotidien de lʼArt, n°690, 14 October, p. 6
“Julien Bismuth at Simone Subal”, in Art in America, 30 January
“Julien Bismuth, An image as the _______of a surface”, Time Out New York, 23 January
Marie Canet, Marie de Brugerollle & Catherine Wood, “From Performance to Post-performance”, Mousse
Magazine, n°44, pp. 162-174
2013 “Le Signe singe”, in Les inrockuptibles, n° 907, du 17 au 24 April, p. 102
Roxana Azimi, “La performance, une nouvelle Experienz”, in Le Quotidien de lʼart, n°361, 17 April, pp. 8-9
2012 Anna Soucek, Ö1 online, March 5
Katharina Fessler, Der Standard, 21 September
Silas Marti, Folha de Sao Paulo, 2 October
2011 Judith Souriau, “Julien Bismuth in conversation”, in Residencyunlimited.org, April
“Julien Bismuth – The Ventriloquism aftereffect”, in Institutfrançais.de, February
2010 Julie Pellegrin, “La performance comme espace dʼénonciation”, in Art press 2, trimestriel n°18, August -
September - October, pp. 92-102
Nicolas Fourgeaud, “Treasures for theatre”, in Art 21, n° 26, Spring, pp. 61-66
Pascaline Vallée, “Lʼexposition exposée”, in Mouvement, January-March, p. 161
Joana Fiduccia, “Solace”, in Artforum.com, February
Willa Paskin, “Artists Lucas Ajemian and Julien Bismuth think itʼs time you redecorated your kitchen”, in
Bbook.com, 26 February
Emmanuelle Lequeux, “De la performance à lʼexposition”, in Beaux Arts Magazine, n° 307, January, p. 135
Judicaël Lavrador, “Génération transeuropéenne”, in Beaux Arts Magazine, n°317, p. 94
Mathilde Villeneuve, “Performance de la trace”, in Mouvement.net, January
Valérie de Maulmin, “Les pépites de la Fiac Off”, in Connaissance des arts, n°687, November, pp. 118-121
Bénédicte Ramade, “Distribution des prix de lʼart contemporain”, in LʼŒil, n°628, October, pp. 44-45
Julien Bismuth, “Performance et Objet”, in Transfer France NRW, pp. 12-13
2009 Timothée Chaillou, “Julien Bismuth / Jean-Pascal Flavien”,in Technikart, hors-série Art contemporain,
Autumn, p. 50
Patrice Joly, “Week-end de performances à la Tate modern”, in Zerodeux.fr, February
Jen Schwarting, “Lucas Ajemian and Julien Bismuth: Les Lettres Tristes”, in Brooklynrail.com, February
2008 Manisha Jothady, “Galerien in Wien: Als die Dinge sprechen lernten”, in DiePresse.com, 12 March
2007 Marie de Brugerolle, “Next to Performance”, in Flash Art, n° 257, November–December, pp. 88–90
Roberta Smith, “A Point in Space is a Place for an Argument”, in The New York Times, 20 July
Christoph Schütte, “Scheitern als Chance; Julien Bismuth in der Galerie Parisa Kind”, in Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung, 20 June, p. 46
2006 Santiago Espinosa de los Monteros, “The Lost Word”, Art Nexus, February
Léa Bismuth, “Julien Bismuth, Marchand d’oubli”, paris-art.com, 10 November
ARTIST’S WRITINGS & PUBLICATIONS
2025 Architectes d'un monde inachevé, with Marco Antonio Gonçalves, B2 editions
"P for Palladio," Alphabet #3, La Pausa/ Chanel special supplement, (October 2025)
"Interview with Martin Giurfa" and "Drifts" for Mémoire Universelle 6/9, (January 2026)
"Aphorisms" in John Baldessari: Transatlantique, Er Publishing, 2025
"The grimace it makes: Otto Dix and the Grotesque" in Otto Dix und die Gegenwart, exhibition catalog for an exhibition curated by Dr. Ina Jessen, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, published by Snoeck Verlag, 2024
2021 Pulcinella Studies, éd. Box Editions, designed by Nemuel DePaula, Los Angeles, United States
2020 “The Habit of Error”, in Spike, n°65, Autumn 2020, pp. 126-128
“Pulcinella”, The Art Newspaper, éd. française, July
“The language forest”, Purple Magazine, Issue 33
2016 “Gus the polar bear”, Memoire Universelle, éd. Béatrice Grosse & Benoît Bethune
2015 “The real world of hoists and holes”, Jason Rhodes: PeaRoeFoam, exhibition catalogue, David Zwirner
Gallery, New York
2013 Toba Khedoori, David Zwirner, éd. Radius Books, New York
“Julien Bismuth”, Playing the City: Interviews, éd. Matthias Ulrich, Berlin
“Julien Bismuth & Loreto Martinez Troncoso”, Choreographing Exhibitions, Mathieu Copeland & Julie
Pellegrin, éd. Les Presses du Réel, Dijon
2012 Artist's Annual, « Toba Khedoori », « Tony Conrad », « Matt Mullican », Paris
“Drawing by design: on a recent exhibition of works by Toba Khedoori”, Toba Khedoori, David Zwirner
gallery, New York, United States
2010 “The error in the landscape”, in Devonian Press, Rio de Janeiro
“Portrait de lʼartiste en jeune objet”, in Ne pas jouer with des choses mortes, co-éd. Les Presses du réel,
Dijon et la Villa Arson, Nice, France pp. 92-94
2008 “Monologues for Minerals”, in Devonian Press, Rio de Janeiro
“LʼÉléphant de Troie”, Virginie Yassef. La seconde est partie la première, exhibition catalogue, éd. Jeu de
Paume, Paris, pp. 41-49
2006 “Mike Bouchet : Celebrity Artist”, in Der Soziographische Blick, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck
“Genève …” , in Devonian Press, Rio de Janeiro
“Christopher Williams: Eighteen Lessons.”, in Parachute, vol. 120, Spring
“Staged Cryptographies”, Guy de Cointet: a retrospective, texte : Marie de Brugerolle, éd. Presses du Réel,
Dijon
“Starts and Stops” (with Jean-Pascal Flavien), in Devonian Press, Rio de Janeiro
“No Drama House” (with Jean-Pascal Flavien), in Devonian Press, Rio de Janeiro
“Announcement” (with Jean-Pascal Flavien et Giancarlo Vulcano), in Devonian Press, Rio de Janeiro
“Flotsam and Jetsam”, in Devonian Press, Rio de Janeiro
2005 “John Baldessari”, in Beaux Arts Magazine, n° 256, October
“The Paintings of Richard Jackson”, Richard Jackson, éd. Nye House Editions, New York
“Steve Mc Queen”, in Parachute, vol. 119, Autumne
“A Hold!”, in Devonian Press, Rio de Janeiro
“The world before time” (with Jean-Pascal Flavien), in Devonian Press, Rio de Janeiro
“The time before the world” (with Jean-Pascal Flavien), in Devonian Press, Rio de Janeiro
2004 “Untitled (Five Easy Pieces)”, catalog, Palme DʼOr, New York
“Whoʼs that Guy?”, in Parachute, vol. 117, Autumn
2003 “Tract”, in revista MU, vol. 5
“Buoy Script”, in Third Street, vol. 10
“The Interrupted Hunt: Danteʼs On the Eloquence of the Vernacular”, in Ampersand, vol. 1
2001 “Costner Complex”, in Costner Complex: an exhibition by Jason Rhoades, Portikus, Frankfurt
