File - Marie

MARIE-LOU DESMEULES
1978
2000
2001
2011
Born in Quebec, Canada
B.A. in Graphic Communication, University Laval, Quebec, Canada
Moved to Berlin, Germany
Moved to Valencia, Spain
GRANTS & DISTINCTIONS
2011
Nomination: Artists Wanted, The Power of Self, New York, USA
2003
Grant in Technologies and new media, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
EXHIBITIONS & LIVE EVENTS
*Denotes shows with live performance
2015
Video art screening, OFFOFF, Port Actif, Ghent, Belgium
Anger & Beyond
2014
TRAFO (Contemporary Art Center), Szczecin, Poland
IVAM (Museum of Modern Art Valencia), Valencia, Spain
10th Inspiracje Festival | Who Are
You? * (catalogue)
Sustratos (catalogue)
2013
Incubarte, Art Festival, Valencia, Spain
PLAI Festival, Timisoara, Romania
Philip Morris, Tiranna, Albania
Incubarte
Live Surgery*
Live painting*
2012
La Maison Bleue, Strasbourg, France
Affordable Art Fair, LA, USA
I've Got You Under My Skin* (solo)
Micaela Gallery (catalogue)
2011
Studio 9 Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Galerie Arts Visuels, Univ. Laval, Qc, CAN
performance-conferences-event
Arc Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Albano, Desmeules & Samson*
(3 artists show)
Du langage jusqu’à la chair!*
(catalogue)
Decay (catalogue)
2010
Neonchocolate Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Neonchocolate Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Brunnenstrasse 70, Berlin, Germany
Micaela Gallery, California, USA
Wannabee Gallery, Milan, Italy
Insane-Irrung * (solo)
Review
3 Artvarks*
Winter Salon (catalogue)
Another Break in the Wall (catalogue)
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2009
Scope Miami Art Fair, Miami, USA
Kunstraum Richard-Sorge, Berlin, Germany
Wannabee Gallery, Milan, Italy
Scion Gallery, LA, USA
Micaela Gallery
No Worries Richard!
Love Nest (catalogue)
Fairytale of Berlin (catalogue)
2008
Janinebeangallery, Berlin, Germany
Fairytale of Berlin
2007
Janinebeangallery, Berlin, Germany
Unique Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Liste Köln Art fair, Cologne, Germany
Melancholic Baby (solo)
Nachtsleben in Portraits (solo)
Janinebeangallery
2006
Berliner Liste, Berlin, Germany
Janinebeangallery, Berlin, Germany
Janinebeangallery, Berlin, Germany
Kulturhaus Vesterbo, Copenhagen, Denmark
Janinebeangallery
A Summer Nights Dream
Female signs
Fairytale of Berlin*
CONFERENCES & TALKS
2014
Talk at Pecha Kucha Night, Valencia, Spain
2011
Conference, Du langage jusqu'à la chair!, University Laval, Quebec, Canada
COLLABORATIONS
2015
Deja-Nu, collaboration with music band Silent Strike (Romania):
The year of the pony, music video
Shut up. Shut Up!, music video
Your face is in the gutter, music video
2014
Harder, Performance for music video, Lukasz Lach
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2015
"While Human Ken Doll Walks The Earth, This Artist Is Performing Plastic Surgery With Paint",
interview with Priscilla Frank, Huffington Post
"Living sculptures", interview, p.203, Ripley’s Publishing Believe It Or Not 2015, UK
"Deja-Nu are Silents Strike and Marie-Lou Desmeules", Superlative
"Marie-Lou Desmeules crea imperfectas y grotescas esculturas de personajes...", Catalogo Diseño
"Marie-Lou Desmeules", interview with Manon Graham, Poor Lice Choices, LA, CA
"Marie-Lou Desmeules", Design Boom
"Desmeules Creates Living Sculptures Of Disfigured Celebrities", World..., Beautiful Decay
"Marie-Lou Desmeules turns people into sculptures", Juxtapoz Magazine
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"In un portfolio la bellezza (deforme) delle star", Italy, Marie-Claire
"Ecsettel végez plasztikai m tétet", by Jankovics Màrton, Hungary, Horigo
2014
"Sculpturi vii, BDSM, pop-art i sarcasm: Marie-Lou", interview with Dana Berghes, Sub25
"Art depicts leaders with caricatures", China Daily
"Sustratos", by Nilo Casares, IVAM (Museum Modern Art Valencia), catalogue, Spain
"Lebendige skulpturen: Marie-Lou Desmeules verwandelt Models in promis", Detail Verliebt
"El Diálogo entre dos generaciones", Mundo, Spain
"Artistas consagrados y aspirantes se codean en una muestra...", El País, Spain,
"Living sculptures by Marie-Lou Desmeules", Sweet Station Sweet Station
2013
"Living Sculptures in Plastic and Plaster by Marie-Lou Desmeules", UK, The Telegraph
"We Are Plastic People: Bizarre Living Sculptures", by John J. Staughton, Inventor Spot
"Berlin What? 102 Contemporary Artists", p.50, Die Neue Sachlichkeit, Germany
"Artist Uses Paint & Plastic to Turn Humans into Living breathing...", Oddity Central
"The grotesque human-puppet world of Desmeules", Reality Pod
"The Painting Surgeries of Marie-Lou Desmeules", DNA Paper, Mumbai, India
"Grotesque Plasticized Celeb Sculptures", Trendhunter
2012
"Marie-Lou Desmeules, interview, Articulaction
"Painting Surgeries : Herméneutique du sens", perception et survenance des..., Barazoezinawe
"Las obras de Marie-Lou Desmeules", Las Provincias, Spain
"Painting surgeries by Marie-Lou Desmeules", Germany (April), p.1-6, Issue Magazine
"Marie-Lou Desmeules: artiste caméléon", by Marine Lagarde, Turkey, Aujourd'hui la Turquie
2011
"Du langage jusqu’à la chair!. Regards sur l’homme, l’art et al philosophie à partir de l’oeuvre de
Marie-Lou Desmeules", Revue Phares PDF Whole Magazine, Quebec, Canada (September)
“Que fais-tu, Marie-Lou?” and “Image et parole” by Dr. Lamontagne
“La Photographie, le monstre et le masque, double simulacre” by Prof. Reno Salvail
“Entre masque et mascarade” by Dr. Marie-Andrée Picard
"Quand faire, c'est dire" by Prof. Martin Boisseau
"Shakespear, le chantre de l'amour" by Thomas Koninck, Revue Phares
"Studio 9'da", by Hazal Yilmaz, Benetton Turkey
"Marie-Lou Desmeules Quebec'ten geldi", Turkey, pp. 18-25, by Hazal Yilmaz, Penti
"Yeni Sanat Merkezi", Istanbul, Turquey (5 th December), Nisantasi Postasi
"O bir heykel-raçi Marie-Lou", Istanbul, Turkey (17 th December), Hürriyet
"Istanbul accueille les chirurgies de Marie-Lou D.", Algérie News, Algeria (29th Nov, p.14
"Grand corps malade", by Renée Larochelle, Quebec, Canada, p.11, Le Fil
2010
Dynamica Tozsamosci, by Mat Maria Bieczynski , Format-Pismo, Nr 59, pp.88-89, Poland
Die Zauberer von Berlin, by Maxim Leo, Germany (18th December), Berliner Zeitung
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