NICOLAS GROSPIERRE

NICOLAS GROSPIERRE - Primary school in Warsaw (after Le Corbusier, Maison de Weekend, 1922)

Técnica: Impresión Lambda sobre plexiglás cortado. Lambda print mounted under plexiglass and cut to shape.

Ginebra, Suiza, 1975
Nicolas Grospierre vive y trabaja en Varsovia (Polonia). Es un artista que trabaja y entiende la fotografía de un modo extensivo. Antes de centrar su carrera en el ámbito artístico, se formó en el Institut d´Etudes Politique de Paris y el London School of Economic. Su trabajo como fotógrafo ha estado centrado tanto en proyectos documentales como en trabajos más conceptuales. Los primeros, han explorado frecuentemente la memoria colectiva y las esperanzas ligadas al arquitectura moderna, en unos tiempos, los actuales, en los que las utopías vinculadas a ella han sido desmotadas. Por otro lado, su fotografía más conceptual gira en torno a paradojas visuales y perceptivas que proponen relatos en torno a la verosimilitud, la autenticidad o la significación de la imagen en nuestra época.

Nicolas Grospierre ha sido galardonado con el León de Oro de la 11ª Edición de la Bienal de Venecia (2008) por la muestra Hotel Polonia en el Pabellón polaco, y también ha recibido el Polityka Passport Award

(2009), Artistic Residence at Stadtgalerie der Progr, Bern (2012), el Premio del Ministerio de Cultura de la República de Polonia (2009) y la beca Graham Foundation de Chicago en 2014, Su monografía, Open-Ended, ha sido publicada por Jovis Verlang (Berlín, 2013) y su obra ha sido incluida en el New Phaidon book Shooting Space: Architecture In Contemporary Photography de Elias Redstone y en Modern Forms. A Subjective Atlas of 20th-century Architecture, editado por Elias Redstone y Alona Pardo. Ha formado parte de exposiciones individuales y colectivas en diferentes puntos de Europa y América: All Pales Before The Book en PhotoEspaña (Centro de Arte de Alcobendas, Madrid) Modern Forms. A Subjective Atlas of 20th-century Architecture, Architectural Association School of Architecture de Londres , La Memoria finalmente Arte in Polonia dal 1989-2015 en la Galleria Civica di Modena (todas en 2016) Viewfinder en la Signum Foundation de Poznan y Lost in Architecture

Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Slupsk en 2015, A glass shard in the eye (with Olga Mokrzycka) en BWA Warszawa de Varsovia y The Oval Offices, Maison de la Photographie, Lille (2014), proyecto que expuso en 2013 en el Palacio Presidencial de la República de Polonia y en la State Gallery of Art, Sopot, y en otros lugares como Bunkier Sztuki en Cracovia, Graham Foundation, Chicago, Raster Gallery, Varsovia, Signum Foundation de Venecia, Artist’s House, Jerusalen, Ecco – Espacao Cultural Contemporaneo, Brasilia, Kunsthalle, Bratislava, National Art Museum of China, Beijing. Su obra está presente en colecciones como National Museum in Warsaw, Polonia, Rubell Family Collection, Jan Michalski Foundation Switzerland, Coleccion Los Bragales, Coleccions DKV, Signum Foundation Collection, ARUP Collection, APT Collection,PAMM Miami, Jozami Collection y 21Century Museum.

Geneva, Switzerland, 1975.

Grospierre Nicolas lives and works in Poland. He works and understands the medium of photography extensively. Before dedicating his career to his artistic practice he studied at the Institut d’Etudes Politique de Paris and the London School of Economics. His work as a photographer focuses on documentaries as well as conceptual work. In his documentary work he explores the collective memory and the feeling of hope that can be linked to modern architecture at a particular time, and how certain idealizations linked can be dismantled. Another aspect of his photography is to explore conceptual puzzle games, and capture their attractive and sensual display and functions. Nicolas Grospierre has been awarded the Golden Lion at the 11th edition of the Venice Biennale (2008) for the exhibition Hotel Polonia in the Polish Pavilion, and has also received the Polityka Passport Award Artistic Residence at Stadtgalerie der Schedule,

Bern (2012), the Prize of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Poland (2009) and Graham Foundation of Chicago scholarship in 2014. His monograph, Open-Ended, has been published by Jovis Verlag (Berlin, 2013) and his work has been included in SHOOTING SPACE: ARCHITECTURE IN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY (Phaidon) and in Modern Forms. A Subjective Atlas of 20th-century Architecture, edited by Elias Redstone and Alona Pardo. Which has been a part of individual and collective exhibitions in different parts of Europe and America: All Pales Before The Book en PhotoEspaña (Centro de Arte de Alcobendas, Madrid), Modern Forms. A Subjective Atlas of 20th-century Architecture, Architectural Association School of Architecture of London, La Memoria Finalmente Arte in Polonia dal 1989-2015 in Galleria Civica di Modena (2016) Viewfinder in the Signum Foundation of Poznan and

Lost in Architecture, Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Slupsk in 2015, A glass shard in the eye (with Olga Mokrzycka) in BWA Warszawa Warsaw and The Oval Offices, Maison de la Photographie, Lille (2014), a project that exhibited in 2013 at the Presidential Palace of the Republic of Poland and the State Gallery of Art, Sopot, and elsewhere such as Bunkier Sztuki in Krakow, Graham Foundation, Chicago, Raster Gallery, Warsaw, Signum Foundation of Venice, Artist ‘s House, Jerusalem, Ecco-Espacao Cultural Contemporaneo, Brasilia, Kunsthalle, Bratislava, National Art Museum of China, Beijing. His work is present in collections such as the National Museum in Warsaw, Polonia, Rubell Family Collection, Jan Michalski Foundation Switzerland, Coleccion Los Bragales, Coleccions DKV, Signum Foundation Collection, ARUP Collection, APT Collection, PAMM Miami, Jozami Collection and the 21st Century Museum.