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BIOGRAPHY

Born 1986 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Bianca Bondi lives and works in Paris. With a multidisciplinary approach that is often site-specific, Bianca Bondi’s practice being very much process based, is a blending of material experiment and method. Materials are chosen for their potential for transformation or their intrinsic properties; the combining of which results in entirely strange and new surfaces. Her work process can be likened to ritual practice or a sort of instinctive alchemy which encourages mutation in symbiosis with its environment – a conceptual performance of objects and their matter within the macro and micro. She relates these organic encounters to current situations or the history of the space placing an emphasis on ecology and the intangible while drawing her inspiration from the occult sciences.

Education

2012
DNSEP, École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts Paris – Cergy
2010
École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts Paris – Cergy
2006
BAFA, Fine Arts, WITS University, Johannesburg, RSA

Residencies

2021 2022
Le Château du Marais, FR
2020 2021
Poush Manifesto, porte de Clichy, FR
2020
CIAP Vassivière (workshop), FR
2019
Manifesto, L’Orfèvrerie, Saint Denis, FR
2018
Nirox, Cradle of Mankind, RSA
2017
Aldea Residency, Bergen, NO
Center of Polish Sculpture, Oronsko, PL
Les Ateliers des Arques, Presbytère les Arques, FR
2016
Villa Belleville, Paris, FR
2014
Floating Reverie; digital, non site specific
Chateau de la Roche Guyon, Roche Guyon, FR
2011
Bandjoun Station, Cameroun (prof. Barthelemy Toguo, ORLAN, and Pierre Ardouvin

Awards

2021
Awarded for Talents Contemporains 2020, Fondation François Schneider, Wattwiller, FR
2020
Shortlisted for the AWARE (the Archive of Women Artists) prize, FR
2019
Shortlisted for Le Prix des Amis de Palais de Tokyo
2018
Shortlisted for the 11th edition of Prix Meurice, Paris, FR Shortlisted for Talents Contemporains Fondation François Schneider, cat. peinture, Wattwiller, FR
2017
CNAP grant for a first solo show in a French gallery
2015
Shortlisted for La Bourse Révélations Emérige 2015, Paris, FR Shortlisted for Talents Contemporains 2014, Fondation François Schneider, cat. installation, Wattwiller, FR
2014
Shortlisted for Talents Contemporains 2013, Fondation François Schneider, cat. sculpture, Wattwiller, FR

EXHIBITIONS

SOLO SHOWS
2021
Underland, Mor Charpentier, FR
The Daydream, Open Space #8, cur. Claire Staebler, Ludovic Delalande, Foundation Louis Vuitton, FR
The Faint House of Yes, Voyage à Nantes, Fr
2020
Still Waters, Centre d’art le Parvis, Tarbes, FR
2019
Mother Lemon, Apick Galley invites Josédelafuenté Gallery, Turin, IT
Moths drink the tears of sleeping birds, VNH Gallery, Paris, FR
2018
Diet & Psychology, Les Limbes – Céphalopode, Saint Etienne, FR
Gradually, then Suddenly, Galerie 22,48m2, Paris, FR SWEETTEETH, Hazard, Johannesburg, RSA
2017
Repressed Memories Return… , cur. Gaël Charbau, Cité des Sciences, Paris, FR
A Series of Discreet Events, La Villa Belleville, Paris, FR

GROUP SHOWS
2021
AVALANCHE, cur. Nelson Pernisco and Andy Rankin, pal project, Paris, FR
2ème Biennale de Thailand, Korat, TH Life to itself, cur. Flora Katz, CIAP Vassivière, FR
La Mer Imaginaire, cur. Chris Sharp, Fondation Carmignac, FR La Vitrine, FRAC ile de France, FR
A sunless future?, Mor Charpentier, Paris, FR
2020
Crystal Clear, cur. Elena Sorokina, Pera Museum Istanbul, TR
l’Homme Gris, cur. Benjamin Bianciotto, Casino Luxembourg, LU
Words at an Exhibition, Busan Biennale, cur. Jacob Fabricius, KR
Casa Dolce Casa, cur. Galerie 22.48m2, Paris, FR
De(s)rives, cur. Galerie Aline Vidal, port de l’Arsenal à la Bastille, FR
Your Friends & Neighbors, High Art, Paris, FR
Anatomie du Quotidien, les Musées de Saint-Gervais, FR Composite Materiality, El Jundi Gallery, Marbella, SP Programme Spécial, cur. La Méditerranée, Gaël Charbau, Yvannoé Kruger. Ateliers Poush, Clichy, FR
Chapter 3, cur. Maarten Spryt and Rieke Vos, Het HEM, Zaandam, NL
Le Vaisseau d’Or, cur. Gaêl Charbau, Galerie Vallois, Paris, FR
2019
From Flood to Flight. Myths, Songs & Other Stories. cur. Elena Sorokina, Premier Regard, Paris, FR
Ou les eaux se melent, 15th Lyon Biennale , cur. Le Palais de Tokyo, anciennes usines Fagor Brandt, Lyon, FR
Brasero, cur. Double Sejour, Chapelle de la Madeleine, Arles, FR MERDELAMERDELAMER…, cur. Kendell geers, Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Vienna, AT
Have a Butcher’s, cur. Francesca Gavin. Ballon Rouge, BE IncarNations, cur. Kendell Geers, BOZAR, BE
La baie aux 2 lunes, cur. Leila Simon. Espace d’art contemporain Les Roches, FR
Some of us…, cur. Jérôme Cotinet-Alphaize, Marianne Derrien. Nord’art, Büdelsdorf, DE
Alchemistry, exposition collective cur. Claudia Paetzold, IK Lab, Tulum, MX Amitiés, cur. Exo Exo, David Giroire, Paris, FR
2018
Exposition des artistes finalistes du 11ème Prix Meurice, cur. Claire Moulène, le Meurice Hotel, Paris, FR
Décadence, cur. Double Séjour, Franklin Azzi Architecture, Paris, FR
A Hole in Time, cur. Victor Mazière, CAC la Traverse, FR
Se mettre au vert, cur. Clotilde Boitel, MAL de Laon, FR
De fils ou de fibres, CAC Meymac Antoine Donzeaud: Une décision purement pratique. Centre Culturel de la Visitation, Périgueux , FR
Material Narratives : Get It While It’s Hot, cur. M. Krüger, L. Touroul, DOC, Paris, FR
Fading Away, cur. Céline Flécheux, Galerie 22,48m2, Paris, FR
Born in the Purple, Artinkk Galerie, Brussels, BE
INTOTO, cur. Thomas Fougeirol, Julien Carreyn, Fondation Ricard, Paris, FR
Angle mort, Ici Gallery, Paris, FR Biennale de Jeune Création, Centre d’art la Graineterie, Houilles, FR
Crashtest, cur. Nicolas Bourriaud, La Panacée, Montpellier, FR
Continent des anecdotes (HOTEL EUROPA), cur. Théo-Mario Coppola, Galerie Felix Frachon, BE
2017
Pillars, cur. Jota Castro, Carrington gallery, Gent, BE
Built like a memory, Tag Team Studio, Bergen, NO
8th Young Triennal, cur. R. Demidenko, Center of Polish Sculpture, Oronsko, PL
Dans la place, cur. Stéphane Corréard, Pavillon Carré de Baudoin, Paris, FR
La piel del mundo, cur. Nicolas de Ribou, Gallery Jose Luis de la Fuente, Santander, ES
Ainsi jouaient les enfants seuls, cur. Pierre Ardouvin, Presbytère les Arques, FR
Intoto 3 cur. Thomas Fougeirol, Le Molière, Paris, FR
Agora, Galerie R-2, cur. 2 A1, Paris, FR
Sans Titre 2016 (vol3), cur. Marie Madec, Paris, FR Preparatory portrait of a young girl, cur. Michal Novotny, Plato, Ostrava, CZ
Les vies de Cagliostro, cur. Marianne Derrien, Galerie 22,48 m2 , Paris FR
Freak Park, cur. Théo-Mario Coppola, La Villa Belleville , Paris, FR

Press

L’OFFICIEL Paris, artist feature by PA Mateos & C. Teyssous, Dec 2020
CURA No. 35, An Aesthetic of the Possible par Flora Katz
Cosmopolitan Magazine Italy, April 2020 : La Carica della Artiviste by Mariacristina Ferraioli
2019 Beaux Arts Magazine, Nov 2019, BAM 425 : Le Match des Bienales by Emmanuelle Lequeux
Emerige Revelations 5 years catalog, Art Book Magazine Distribution
Flashart No. 326, Jun-Aug 2019, Bianca Bondi by Emanuele Coccia
CURA No. 31, Bianca Bondi interview by Francesca Gavin
Alei Journal #6, interview
IncarNations, exhibition catalog, BOZAR, BE
Twin Magazine issue XX; Experimental Objects : New Talents
With Paris in Mind: Talking with artists… Will Mountain Cox, Relegation Books publishing
This is Jackalope, Issue no.2, 2019
2018 Se mettre au vert, exhibition catalog; Clotilde Boitel, MAL de Laon, FR
Material Narratives : Get It While It’s Hot, exhibition catalog; M. Krüger, L. Touroul, DOC, FR
Biennale de Jeune Création, exhibition catalog; Centre d’art la Graineterie, Houilles, FR
Talents Contemporains 2017, Fondation François Schneider, catalog of nominees
Art Press #453, exhibition review by Julie Crenn
April 2018 Technikart, review ‘’Montpellier Crash testé’’, March 2018
Crashtest, la révolution moléculaire, exhibition catalog; N. Bourriaud, S. Hessler, La Panacée, Montpellier, FR
Artaissime #18, introducing, Janvier / Avril 2018 edition
#48, Gradually then Suddenly, exhibition catalog, Galerie 22,48m2, Paris, FR
SWEETTEETH, exhibition catalog, Hazard Gallery, JHB, RSA
2017 Open Triennale : 8th Young Triennale, exhibition catalog; Center of Polish Sculpture, Oronsko, PL
Ainsi jouaient les enfants seuls, exhibition catalog, Les Ateliers des Arques
Barbed Magazine, feature, Surrender issue 05
ART AFRICA, interview: Baldi/ Bondi, March edition

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