Marie-Lou Desmeules

Marie-Lou Desmeules
1978
Born Quebec, Canada
2000
Bachelor in Graphic Communication, University Laval, Qc, Canada
2001-2010
Berlin, Germany
2011-2016
Valencia, Spain
Website: www.marieloudesmeules.com
Contact: [email protected]
Art Fairs
Solo, Hybrid, Madrid (2017)
Solo, Berliner Liste 2016, Kraftwerk, Berlin, Germany (2016)
Affordable Art Fair, LA, United States, Micaela Gallery (2013)
Scope Miami Art Fair, Micaela Gallery, Miami, USA (2009)
Liste Köln Art fair, Janinebeangallery, Cologne, Germany (2007)
Solo & 2-Person Exhibitions
*Live performances
I've Got You Under My Skin*, La Maison Bleue, Strasbourg, France (2013)
Albano, Desmeules & Samson*, Studio 9 Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey (2011)
Du langage jusqu’à la chair!*, Galerie Arts Visuels, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada (2011)
Insane-Irrung *, Neonchocolate Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2010)
Melancholic Baby, Janinebeangallery, Berlin, Germany (2007)
Nachtsleben in Portraits, Unique Gallery, Cologne, Germany (2007)
Group Exhibitions
*Live performances
Weekend with Bernie, Brooklyn Wayfarers, NY, US (2016)
Experimental live performance with Silent Strike, Terasa Baraka, Bucharest, Romania (2015)
Anger & Beyond, Video art screening, OFFOFF, Port Actif, Ghent, Belgium (2015)
Who Are You?, TRAFO Contemporary Art, Stettin, Poland, curated by Mat Biezienscky (2014)
Sustratos, IVAM Museum of Modern Art, Valencia, Spain (2014)
Incubarte Art Festival, Valencia, Spain (2013)
Live performance, PLAI Music Festival, Timisoara, Romania (2013)
Live painting, Philip Morris, Tiranna, Albania (2013)
Decay, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, United States (2011)
Review, Neonchocolate Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2010)
Winter Salon, Micaela Gallery, California, US (2010)
Another Break in the Wall, Wannabee Gallery, Milan, Italy (2010)
No Worries Richard!, Kunstraum Richard-Sorge, Berlin, Germany (2009)
Love Nest, Wannabee Gallery, Milan, Italy (2009)
Fairytale of Berlin, Scion Gallery, LA, USA (2009)
Fairytale of Berlin, Janinebeangallery, Berlin, Germany (2008)
Group Exhibitions
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Berliner Liste, Janinebeangallery, Berlin, Germany (2006)
Female signs, Janinebeangallery, Berlin, Germany (2006)
Fairytale of Berlin*, Kulturhaus Vesterbo, Copenhagen, Denmark (2006)
Conference & Talk
Talk at Pecha Kucha Night, Valencia, Spain (2014)
Conference, Du langage jusqu'à la chair! University Laval, Quebec, Canada (2011)
Collaborations
Collaboration with NY musician Benjamin Godfrey, music video and album cover of upcoming
album called "Trash" (2016)
Collaboration with Romanian musician Silent Strike, music videos of "The year of the pony",
"Shut up. Shut Up!", and "Your face is in the gutter" (2015)
Collaboration with Polish musician Lukasz Lach, music video of "Harder", (2014)
Selected Biography
2016
Revista Canibaal, Magazine of arts & litterature, Spain
New living sculptures by Marie-Lou Desmeules, Illusion
This artists sculpts creepy portraits using real people as her canvas, Creators Project
La Sorpresa Desmeules, Valencia Plaza
Young Artists Rally to Raise $10K for Bernie Sanders, The Creators Project, Vice
Cei mai buni arti ti români din 2015, Vice
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
"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", El 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
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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 , 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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