Fabienne Verdier

Fabienne Verdier
biography
1962 • Born in Paris, France.
1983 • Graduated from École des Beaux-arts de Toulouse.
1984 • Awarded a post-graduate scholarship at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, China.
1984-1993 • Studied painting, aesthetics and philosophy at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, China,
with some of the last great traditional masters.
2003 • Publication of Passagère du silence, dix ans d’initiation en Chine (Passenger of Silence: Ten Years of Initiation in China), (Éditions Albin Michel, Paris) — a memoir of her years of apprenticeship with Master Huang Yuan.
• Entered permanent collection of Musée Cernuschi, Paris.
2005 • Solo exhibition, Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne.
2007 • Publication of monograph Between Heaven and Earth and Entretien avec Charles Juliet (Éditions Albin Michel, Paris).
• Four large works commissioned by Hubert Looser Foundation to dialogue with selected American abstract and minimalist
artists from the collection (John Chamberlain, Donald Judd, Willem de Kooning, Ellsworth Kelly and Cy Twombly).
• Entered permanent collection of Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris.
2008 • Group exhibition, “Expansion Résonance”, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris.
2009 • Group exhibition, “Elles@Centre Pompidou”, Musée National d’Art Moderne Centre Pompidou, Paris.
• Solo exhibition, “Peinture”, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris.
2010 • Commission of two monumental works for the Palazzo Torlonia, Rome.
• Documentary film by Philippe Chancel: Fabienne Verdier: Flux, on the creation of the commissioned works.
• Publication de Fabienne Verdier Palazzo Torlonia, textes de Éric Fouache et Corinna Thierolf,
Conservatrice en chef de la Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (Éditions Xavier Barral, Paris).
2011 • Group exhibition, “Art of Deceleration, from Caspar David Friedrich to Ai Wei Wei”, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg.
2012 • Group exhibition, “My Private Passion – Foundation Hubert Looser”, Kunstforum, Vienna.
• Group exhibition, Waddington Custot Galleries, London.
• Publication of Fabienne Verdier–Painting Space, by Doris von Drathen (Edizioni Charta, Milano).
2013 • Documentary film by Mark Kidel: Fabienne Verdier, peindre l’instant (Fabienne Verdier: Painting the Instant)
(Les Films d’Ici, Empreintes series, with the participation of France Télévisions and CNC, 2012)
• Solo exhibition “Fabienne Verdier, L’esprit de la peinture, hommage aux maîtres flamands” (The Spirit of Painting:
A Tribute to the Flemish Renaissance) at Groeninge Museum and Memling Museum (St. John Hospital), Bruges,
curated by Daniel Abadie.
• Solo exhibition “Fabienne Verdier, L’esprit de la peinture, notes et carnets” (Spirit of Painting, notes and notebooks)
at Erasmus House, Brussels, curated by Daniel Abadie.
• Collaboration with architect Jean Nouvel for the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) project in Beijing.
• Solo exhibition, Art Plural Gallery, Singapore.
• Solo exhibition, Patrick Derom Gallery, Brussels.
• Group exhibition, “The Hubert Looser Collection”, Kunsthaus Zurich.
• Solo exhibition “Energy Fields”, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris.
2014 • Group exhibition, “Flux”, Art Plural Gallery, Singapore.
• Solo exhibition “Crossing Signs”, Le French May, Hong Kong.
• Group exhibition “Formes Simples”, Centre Pompidou, Metz, France.
• Group exhibition “Köningsklasse II”, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich at Herrenschiemsee Palace, Germany.
• Commission of monumental painting by Unibail-Rodamco, Majunga Tower, La Défense, Paris, France.
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Fabienne Verdier
solo exhibitions (selected)
public collections (selected)
City Hall, Hong Kong, China.
Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris, France.
2013 Patrick Derom Gallery, Bruges, Belgium.
2013 Erasmus Museum, Brussels, Belgium.
2013 Memling Museum, Bruges, Belgium.
2013 Groeninge Museum, Bruges, Belgium.
2013 Art Plural Gallery, Singapore.
2009 Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris, France.
2007 Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland.
2005 Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland.
2004 Abbaye de Silvacane, Provence, France.
2003 Galerie Ariane Dandois, Paris, France.
2001 Chapelle des Beaux-arts, Paris, France.
1997 Pacific Cultural Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan.
1996 Galerie Joyce Ma, Palais Royal, Paris, France.
1995 Galerie Joyce Ma, Palais Royal, Paris, France.
1993 Centre d’art contemporain, Hong Kong, China
1992 Maison de la Chine, Paris, France.
1991 Centre culturel français, Beijing, China.
1989 Palais des Beaux-arts, Chongqing, China.
1983 Palais des Beaux-arts, Toulouse, France.
• Musée National d’Art Moderne,
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
• Musée Cernuschi, Paris, France.
• Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France.
(Commission by the Festival d’Avignon).
• Ministère de l’Équipement
(Direction de l’Architecture), Paris, France.
• Honda Group, Tokyo, Japan.
• Ministère des Affaires Étrangères, Paris, France.
• Chinese Ministry of Culture, Beijing, China.
• Palais de l’Assemblée Nationale, Paris, France.
• Foundation Hubert Looser, Zurich, Switzerland.
• Foundation François Pinault, Paris, France
and Venice, Italy.
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group exhibitions (selected)
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“Köningsklasse II”, Pinakothek der Moderne,
Munich at Herrenschiemsee Palace, Germany.
“Formes simples”, Centre Pompidou, Metz, France.
“Flux”, Art Plural Gallery, Singapore.
“The Hubert Looser Collection”,
Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland.
Waddington Custot Galleries, London, United Kingdom.
“My Private Passion – Hubert Looser Foundation”, Kunstforum, Vienna, Austria.
“Art of Deceleration, from Caspar David Friedrich
to Ai Wei Wei”, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany.
“Not for Sale”, Art Center Passage de Retz, Paris, France.
“Un souffle venue d’Asie, regards croisés ”,
Contemporary Art Center,
Abbaye de Beaulieu-en-Rouergue, France.
“Elles@Centre Pompidou”,
Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France.
“Expansion Résonance”,
Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris, France.
Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland.
(exhibited annually at Art Basel).
“Contemporary Brushstrokes”,
Beijing Fine Arts Museum, China.
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