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A LTER EG O A RT PROJECTS
ANAÏS TONDEUR
Anaïs Tondeur is a visual artist. She works and lives in Paris. Her art practice draws on an exploration of the interface between art and science, senses and
cognition, fact and fiction. Through a practice including installations, drawings, early techniques of
photography and new media processes, her work is carried by a sense of history, time and
perception. Her installations bring into narrative questions stemming from the evolution of knowledge
and the impact of human living on the environment.
To this end, she collaborates with researchers from other disciplines. She often works as an artist in
residence where she interacts with ecologists, anthropologists, geographers, oceanographers,
palynologists and other scientists.
EDUCATION
Master in Mixed-Media, Royal College of Art (London, 2010)
Bachelor (Hons) Textiles, Central Saint Martin’s School (London, 2008)
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
2016
Visiting artist Arts@Cern, CERN, Switzerland
Observatoire de l'espace, CNES, Paris
Laboratoire de Chamarande, France
2015
“Demain, le Climat “ Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
Hydrodynamics Laboratory (LadHyX), Ecole Polytechnique, France
2014
Summer School Fluid Dynamics of Sustainability and the Environment, Cambridge, UK
2013
Hydrodynamics Laboratory (LadHyX), Ecole Polytechnique, France
Les 26 couleurs, St Fargeau Ponthierry, France
2011
Cité internationale de la dentelle et de la mode, Calais, France
Tufting studio of the Textiel Lab, Audax Textiel Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
“Fabuler des mondes”, Centre Culturel Jean-Cocteau, Les Lilas, FR
“Les Dryades” with Crystal Bennes and Tom Jeffreys, Bibliothèque de Biologie-Chimie-
Physique Recherche, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
“Le cri de l’eophone" with navigator Victor Turpin, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris,
France
2015
“Flat Hemisphere”, Curator: Karina Joseph Somerset Art Weeks Festival 2015, Bruton, UK
2014 “Lost in Fathoms”, Curator: Robert Devcic, GV Art, London, London, UK
“I.55 Book”, Terrase de Gutenberg, Paris
“I.55”, Musée de la Mine, Briançon, France
2013
“I.55”, Curator: Robert Devcic, GV Art, London, UK
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“The Outsiders”, Terrasse de Gutemberg, Paris, France
2011
“Carte Blanche” for the Journées du Patrimoine, Cité internationale de la dentelle, Calais,
France
“Instance of passage”, Space 54, Rivington st, London, UK
2010
“At Dusk in the Rift”, Hockney gallery, Kensington gore, London, UK
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016
Sols Fictions, Curator: COAL, Orangerie, Chamarande, France
In the wake , Houston center of Photography, Houston, USA
Emergent ecologies art, Curator: Eben Kirksey et al., NYC Emergence, New York, USA
Perpetual liquidity, Curator: Hannah Conroy, The Historic Dockyard, Kent, UK
Chernobyl: Impact & Beyond, Curator: Stanislav Grezdo, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
(UIMA), Chicago, USA
2015
ArtCOP21, Curator: COAL, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Paris, France
Trauma, Science Gallery, Ireland
Seachange, Curator: Mary Cremin Tulca Festival, Galway, Ireland
Inventer des rivières, Festival Curiositas, Gif-sur-Yvette, France Dessiner l'Invisble, Curator: Damien Mc Donald, Galerie 24b, Paris, France
Dryades, Fête de la science, LOCEAN, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Memory of the ocean, La science de l'art, , Verrières-le-Buisson, France
Flat Hemisphere, Royal Society, London, UK
Distant fictions, Curators: Alice Mallet, Sarah Michel, Jerwood gallery, UK
Systémique, Curators: Lauranne Germond & Loïc Fel, (COAL), Ceaac, Strasbourg, France
Festival Sidération, Curator: Gerard Ayoulay, Centre National des Etudes Spatiales, (CNES),
Paris, France
2014
Moving water, Curator: Sensory Site, October Gallery, London, UK
Encyclopedia Galactica, Curator:Robert Devcic, GV Art, London, UK
Life on Mars, 3space, London, UK
2013
Némo FestivaL, Les 26 Couleurs, St Fargeau, Seine et Marne, France
Nature Reserves, Curator: Tom Jeffries, GV Art, London, UK
A case for Levania, Curator:Nahum Mantra, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City, MX
Art & Science, Curator:Robert Devcic, GV Art, London, UK
2012
Graphite, Curator: Robert Devcic, GV Art, London, UK
Of this event I cannot foresee the end, Curator: Carmen Billows, Forman’s gallery, London,
UK
2011
Trauma, Curator: Dr Jonathan Hutt & Bojana Popovic, GV Art, London, UK
Just under the surface, Art in Touch, Crypt Gallery, London, UK
Den Proloog, Curator: Menno Derk Doornbos, Piet Hein Eek Galerie, Eindhoven, NL
Picturing science, Curator: Mark De Novellis, Orleans House Gallery, Richmond, UK
2010
Frieze Art Fair, Work Screened by Resonance, London, UK
RCA SHOW, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Mini exhibition, Curator: Jack Tan, London, Copenhagen, Detroit
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Homage to Gertrude Jekyll, Curator: Arts Co, Brompton District, London, UK
2008
After Virginia Woolf, Rabelais Gallery, Montreuil, France
VIPLRG, Holland Park, London, UK
New designer’s, Business Design Centre, London, UK
2007
Emerging talents, Lethaby Gallery Central Saint Martins, London, UK
Trade Fair IHM International, Munich, DE
Fabulous Knitting, Espace Saint Martin, Paris, France
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Ars Electronica, Art @ Science @ESO Honorary Mention (2015)
Finalist Contemporary talents, Fondation Francois Schneider (2014)
Finalist Contemporary talents, Fondation Francois Schneider (2013 and 2014)
Arcadi Bursary Award (2012)
Third prize LG Hausy Interior design (2010)
First prize John Lewis competition, (2009)
First prize RCA film competition (2009)
First prize WGSN (2008)
PUBLICATIONS
The Chernobyl Herbarium. Fragments from an exploded consciousness. A collaboration with Michael
Marder. Publisher: Open Humanities Press, Collection Critical Climate Change (2016); ISBN-13:
978-1785420269
Alliage N°75, Culture - Science - Technique, Editor : Alliage (2016), Collection : REVUE; ISBN-13:
978-2913312326
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