Mathieu Mercier

Born 1970 in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, France. Lives and works bewteen Paris and Valencia.

Mathieu Mercier’s artistic operates seamlessly across art and everyday culture, drawing from the fields of architecture, design and the visual arts, Mercier’s work reflects upon the fundamental ideas of Western culture in the twentieth century, in particular the concept of modernism.

His artistic practice refers to the artistic avantgarde by means of deliberate displacements of apparently ordinary objects. In a permanent exchange between elevated and common, Mercier poses the question as to the status of objects oscillating between functionality and artistic freedom.

Mathieu Mercier received outstanding recognition in 2003 with the presentation of the renowned Prix Marcel Duchamp, and in 2007 – at the age of 37 – with a large retrospective exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.

Since the 1990s, his works have been shown in numerous solo exhibitions and have been exhibited in leading museums around the world since the late 1990s such as Centre Pompidou, Paris; Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen; Villa Merkel, Esslingen; Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard, Paris; Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon; Bombas Gens, Valencia; Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris; Osmos, New York; Lage Egal, Berlin, among others.

His works are present in international collections such as Centre Pompidou, Paris; Bombas Gens, Valencia; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Fondation Ricard, Paris; MAMCO, Geneva, among others.