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MIKE BOUCHET
Born in 1970 in Castro Valley, California (USA)
Lives and works in Frankfurt (Germany)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt / Main, Germany
2009
Otero Plassart Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
16 x 9 Action Film, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt / Main, Germany
2008
CANBURGER, Galerie Vallois, Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris, France *
16x9 Action Film, Private Film Presentation at La Pagode, Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris, France ♥
Raging Control, Maccarone Inc. New York, USA
Central De Arte Contemporaneo, Guadalajara, Mexico
New New Age Film Festival, Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt / Main, Germany
2007
Wall and Floor-Shitrock and Tapestry Cartoons, The Box, Los Angeles, USA
Current Jacuzzis/Reich Room, MC Kunst, Los Angeles, USA
Reaction Time, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
16x9 Action Film, Private Presentation at MOCA, Los Angeles, USA
Almost Every City in The World, Project Room, Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris, France
2006
Recent Jacuzzis/Almost Every City in The World, Galerie Michael Neff, Frankfurt / Main, Germany
2005
Top, Back and Bottom of Mind Awareness, Maccarone Inc., New York, USA
Der Soziographische Blick 10. Mike Bouchet, New Jacuzzis - Carmen Electra, Tatjana Gsell, K.
Lagerfeld, Jude Law, Robert Mugabe, Jack Welch, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria*
2004
Carpe Denim, Galerie Michael Neff, Frankfurt / Main, Germany
2003
Overhead Baggage Treatment, Maccarone Inc., New York, USA
1999
Business on Sunset, BOSS Exhibitions, Los Angeles, USA
1993
Untitled solo exhibition, AB Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
EXPOSITIONS COLLECTIVES
2009
53rd Biennale of Venice, curator: Daniel Birnbaum, Venice, Italy
Bilba Gunnheim, Mike Bouchet / Paul McCarthy, The Box, Los Angeles, USA
2008
Meet me around the corner, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
No Leftovers, Kunsthalle Berne, Berne, Switzerland
An Unruly History of Readymade, Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico
The Practice of Everyday life, Feinkost Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Zidovi na ulici / Walls in the Street, Siemens Arts Program and Museum of Contemporary Art,
Belgrade, Serbia
Garage Sale, Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt / Main, Germany
Working Men, curators: Paul Ardenne & Barbara Polla, Galerie Annalise Forever, Geneva, Switzerland *
2007
Oeuvres Encombrantes, Galerie GP & N Vallois, Paris, France
27 Timer, Hollesgard, Denmark
Pawnshop, e-Flux, New York, USA
Mind Hacking II, Muenster, Germany
Herbert Fuchs - Verbale, Workshop, Kulturgasthaus Bierstindl, Innsbruck, Austria
Quotidian, BUIA Gallery, New York, USA
2nd Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia *
2006
5 Billion Years, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France*
Uncertain States Of America, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK; CCS, Bard College, New York, USA;
Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Island*
20 Artists Live, Innsbruck, Austria
E-flux Video Rental, Seoul, South Korea; Antwerp, Belgium
Mobile: Suro Collection, Triangle Project Space, San Antonio, USA
Sculpture Park, Lahr, Germany*
Nice Fine Arts, Offenburg, Germany
Berlin Biennale 4, Berlin, Germany*
Palm D’Or Television Pitch, Frankfurt, Germany
Space Boomerang, Swiss Institute, New York, USA
2005
Strich, Zeichnung, Bild, BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, Austria*
Uncertain States of America, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Art, Oslo, Norway*
Off Key, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland*
La Vista Hermosa, Liste, Basel, Switzerland
Do You Like Stuff?, Swiss Institute, New York, USA
Greater New York 2005, PS1, New York, USA
Situational Prosthetics, New Langston Art Center, San Francisco, USA
E-flux Video Rental, KunstWerke Berlin; Frankfurt, Germany
Bread & Butter, Mehdi Chouakri Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2004
Dedicated to a Proposition, Extra City, Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
Sculpture now, Galerie Michael Neff, Frankfurt, Germany
Kotzrohr and Popular Ceramics, Video program, Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK
E-flux Video Rental, E-flux New York, USA
High Desert Test Sites, Los Angeles, USA
2003
Hands up, baby, hands up!, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburger, Germany
2002
Out of True, Santa Barbara University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, USA
2001
Casino 2001, 1st Quadriennale of Contemporary Art, SMAK, Ghent, Belgium*
2000
Sebastian Clough and Mike Bouchet, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
Life After The Squirrel, Location One, New York, USA
1997
Giverny Jeans, Galerie Brigitte March, Stuttgart, Germany
SnowBall, Collaboration with Jason Rhoades and Peter Bonde, Venice Biennale, Italy
1996
Size Matters, Special K Projects, Los Angeles, USA
1994
Common Denomination Language Expo, FAR, Los Angeles, USA
1993
Slum Loard, Main Street Gallery, Napa, USA
In Disposal, Broadway Art Complex, Santa Monica, USA
* Catalogue
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
DekaBank, Germany
Deutsche Bank, Germany
Jumex Collection, Mexico, Mexico
LVMH Collection, Paris, France
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Catalogues / Publications
2008
Working Men, Art contemporain et travail, catalogue d’exposition (texts) Paul Ardenne & Barbara Polla,
Ed. Luc Pire,Que, Brussels
New New Age, Film Festival, Copyright 2008 Mike Bouchet
Red Baby Market Sample Study, Copyright 2008 Mike Bouchet
Pools, Copyright 2008 Mike Bouchet
2007
Mike Bouchet Selected Works 1993-2006, Copyright 2006 Mike Bouchet
2006
Der soziographische Blick, exhibition catalogue, ed. Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Von Mäusen und Menschen, Of Mice and Men, 4. berlin biennale für zeitgenössische kunst, exhibition
catalogue, Curators :Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, Ali Subotnick ; KW Institute for
Contemporary Art, Berlin, Ed. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit, pp. 138-139
Skulptur Park, exhibition catalogue, Kunstfreunde Lahr
2005
Strich Zeichnung Bild, exhibition catalogue, (texts) Axel Huber, Babette Richter ; BAWAG Foundation,
Wien, Ed. ProLitteris, Zurich, pp. 6-9 (ill)
OFF-KEY, exhibition catalogue, (texts) Philippe Pirotte, James Rondeau, Gaylen Gerber, Ana Peraica,
Simon Sheikh, Paul O'Neill, Nick Crowe; Ed. Kunsthalle Bern, pp. 8-9 (ill.)
2001
Casino 2001, exhibition catalogue, Ed. SMAK, Ghent, pp.126-127 (ill.); pp. 216-217
Press articles
2008
ns, Les Inrockuptibles, ‘’Les hamburgers se conservent’’, n°634, 22-28 January, p.10
Noemi Smolik, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, ‘’Nur nicht den Kopf verlieren !’’, 14 January
Léa Bismuth, www.paris-art.com, ‘’Mike Bouchet‘’, 1st February (ill.)
2007
Paul Ardenne, Art Press, "Mike Bouchet", n°333, April, pp. 86-87 (ill.)
ns, Les inrocks.com, "Mike Bouchet", 7 February
Léa Bismuth, www.paris-art.com, ‘’Œuvres Encombrantes’’, 4 December
Claire Moulène, Les Inrockuptibles, ‘’Uncertain States of America’’, n°614, 4-10 September, p.85
2006
Sonia Campagnola, Flash Art International, "Marc-Olivier Wahler and the Palais de Tokyo", n°250,
October, p. 61
Charles Barachon, Technikart, "L'expo qui valait cinq milliards", n°105, September, p.99
Elwyn Palmerton, Frieze, "Space Boomerang“, May
Michael Glover, Financial Times, "An absolute need to be haphazard and brutally casual",
2005
Holland Cotter, New York Times, "Mike Bouchet", 20 May
Howard Stier, New York Post, "‚Link Stink‘ Art", 2 June
Martha Schwendener, Artforum, "Mike Bouchet", 15 July
Time Out New York, "Painting the Town“, 4-10 august
Michael Glover, "An absolute need to haphazard and brutally casual", 11 September
Emily Hall, Art Forum, "Mike Bouchet“, October
Julien Bismuth, "Mike Bouchet: Celebrity Artist“, unpublished
John Haber, haberarts.com, "End Station, Lever Labyrinth, and Mike Bouchet“ June 2005
JE, Modern Painters, "Mike Bouchet", October
Benjamin Carlson, Time Out Magazine, "Mike Bouchet", June-July
Nick Stillman, Brooklyn Rail, "Please Do Not Remove this Label", July
Betsy Andrews, Gay City, "Getting Ourselves Back to the Garden"
2004
Kcd, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, "Jeansregen auf der Zeil: Kunstaktion von Mike Bouchet", 21 May,
p.52.