Olivier Kosta-Théfaine
Olivier Kosta-Théfaine
Born in 1972, Bezons, France
Lives and works in Paris, France
Presentation
Born in 1972, he who defines himself as a "landscape painter" explores the city by its margins. When he moves in the urban space, Olivier Kosta-Théfaine is in search of the elements which escape us. In his desire to rehabilitate the uninteresting or the connotated, the artist puts back into the field of poetry the often inextricable balance of power that we maintain with the city. His interest in detail guides him in his movements and feeds an image bank. Considering himself as a pure product of the city, he plays with clichés and transforms common references. The classic is diverted through the techniques of "cheap vandalism", so when he composes on the three domes of the Palais de Tokyo a sky burned with a lighter, inspired by the frescoes of Italian palaces, the graffiti on the ceilings of his adolescence take on the air of Renaissance paintings. Self-taught artist, his work has been exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo (2016), the Abbaye de Maubuisson (2012), the Fondation Cartier (2009), and integrated the collections of the Fonds Départemental d'Art Contemporain de l'Essonne (2013) and the Fonds Municipal d'Art Contemporain de la ville de Paris (2011). In 2016/2017, he was a boarder at the French Academy in Rome, Villa Medici.
Residencies
2016-2017
Académie de France à Rome / Villa Medicis, Rome, Italia
2012
Institut Français d'Ankara, Ankara, Turkey
2009 Cripta747, Torino, Italia
2009
Chapelle des Calvairiennes / Le Kiosque, Mayenne, France
Curating
2016
idéale Géographie, Noire Gallery, Torino, Italia
2015
Idéale Géographie, Galerie Derouillon, Paris, France
Idéale Ggéographie, Le Moulin du Roc, Niort, France
Lives and works in Paris, France
Presentation
Born in 1972, he who defines himself as a "landscape painter" explores the city by its margins. When he moves in the urban space, Olivier Kosta-Théfaine is in search of the elements which escape us. In his desire to rehabilitate the uninteresting or the connotated, the artist puts back into the field of poetry the often inextricable balance of power that we maintain with the city. His interest in detail guides him in his movements and feeds an image bank. Considering himself as a pure product of the city, he plays with clichés and transforms common references. The classic is diverted through the techniques of "cheap vandalism", so when he composes on the three domes of the Palais de Tokyo a sky burned with a lighter, inspired by the frescoes of Italian palaces, the graffiti on the ceilings of his adolescence take on the air of Renaissance paintings. Self-taught artist, his work has been exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo (2016), the Abbaye de Maubuisson (2012), the Fondation Cartier (2009), and integrated the collections of the Fonds Départemental d'Art Contemporain de l'Essonne (2013) and the Fonds Municipal d'Art Contemporain de la ville de Paris (2011). In 2016/2017, he was a boarder at the French Academy in Rome, Villa Medici.
Residencies
2016-2017
Académie de France à Rome / Villa Medicis, Rome, Italia
2012
Institut Français d'Ankara, Ankara, Turkey
2009 Cripta747, Torino, Italia
2009
Chapelle des Calvairiennes / Le Kiosque, Mayenne, France
Curating
2016
idéale Géographie, Noire Gallery, Torino, Italia
2015
Idéale Géographie, Galerie Derouillon, Paris, France
Idéale Ggéographie, Le Moulin du Roc, Niort, France
Group shows at Ceysson Gallery
Scar/face, Paris
June 28 - August 04, 2018
Solo Show
2018
Aria di Roma, Rebouan-Moussion, Paris, France
2017
Girovangando, Académie de France à Rome / Villa Médicis, Gipsoteca, Rome, Italia
2016
Herbier, Académie de France à Rome / Villa Médicis, Atelier del Bosco, Rome, Italia
Soffitto, Palais de Tokyo, France, Paris
2015
Herbarium, Mons 2015, Capitale Européenne de la Culture, Thuin, Belgium
Art Rotterdam ?? , Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherland
Geography, Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm, Sweden
2014
Like/share, Jeanrochdard, Brussels, Belgium
Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
2013
En Flânant, Jeanrochdard, Paris, France
Panorama, Le Pilori, Niort, France
Jardin Maison Patronale des usines Boinot, Niort, France
2012
Sculptures, Abbaye de Maubuisson - Grange aux Dimes, Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône, France
Monde sauvage, Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm, Sweden
2011
Monde sauvage Jeanrochdard, Paris, France
Jardin (Nuit Blanche) Musée Cognaq-Jay, Paris, France
2010
Monde sauvage, Cripta747, Torino, Italia
2009
W Cripta747, Torino, Italia
Une petite histoire centrale Chapelle des Calvairiennes, Le Kiosque, Mayenne, France
2005
Burn Baby Burn Galerie Octave Cowbell, Metz, France
Group Show
2018
Scar/Face, curated by Hugo Vitrani, Galerie Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris, France
2017
Aria di Roma in Swimming is saving, Académie de France à Rome / Villa Medicis, Rome, Italia
Noon, Académie des Beaux-Arts de Rome, Sede di Campo Boario, Rome, Italia
Tender comrades, Studioli, Rome, Italia
Young Popes, Institut suisse de Rome / Villa Maraini, Rome, Italia
Live Arts Week, Ex-GAM, Bologna, Italia
Sensibile Comune, Galerie Nationale d'Art Moderne - GNAM, Rome, Italia
2016
Millenovecentottantaquattro, Palais des Giardini, Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena, Italie
Retiens la nuit Rabouan-Moussion, Paris, France
Aujourd'hui je dis oui Galeria de Boavista, Lisbon, Portugal
2015
Club of Matinée Idolz, CO2, Torino, Italia
2014
To the habby few, Jeanrochdard, Paris, France
Rendering Emblems, LVL3, Chicago, United States
Ce qui arrêtait ces dame, Jeanrochdard, Paris, France
2013
Des maisons vides ne font pas une ville, M1886, Ankara, Turkey
2012
Close encounters, Jeanrochdard, Paris, France
Salons - Convivialité, écologie et vie pratique, Domaine départemental de Chamarande, Chamarande, France
Street Smart - en tolerant samtidskonstutställning, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
2011
FIAC (avec FMAC, Fond Municipal d'Art Contemporain de la ville de Paris, acquisitions 2011), Paris, France
A new idea of landscape Galerie de l'Ecole nationale supérieure d'art de Nancy, ENSA, Nancy, France
VertigoJeanrochdard, Paris, France
2010
Renato leotta, Room galleria, Milano, Italia
2009
Né dans la rue, Graffiti, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France
Centre Culturel Tchèque, Paris, France
2008
Fundamental, MU, Eindhoven, Pays-Bas
Zero gravity, Galerie de l'École superieure d'art de Metz, ESAM, Metz, France
2003
Public images, Palais des Pyrénées, Pau, France
2002
Unicara 2, De Appel, Centre for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, Netherland
Les_33 / Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam, Netherland
2001
Povazska Galeria Umenia, Zilina, Slovakia
2000
Galerie du Château de l'Etang, Saran, France
1999
Centre d'Art Contemporain, Rueil-Malmaison, France
1996
La Laiterie, Centre Européen de la Jeune Création, Strasbourg, France
Scar/face, Paris
June 28 - August 04, 2018
Solo Show
2018
Aria di Roma, Rebouan-Moussion, Paris, France
2017
Girovangando, Académie de France à Rome / Villa Médicis, Gipsoteca, Rome, Italia
2016
Herbier, Académie de France à Rome / Villa Médicis, Atelier del Bosco, Rome, Italia
Soffitto, Palais de Tokyo, France, Paris
2015
Herbarium, Mons 2015, Capitale Européenne de la Culture, Thuin, Belgium
Art Rotterdam ?? , Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherland
Geography, Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm, Sweden
2014
Like/share, Jeanrochdard, Brussels, Belgium
Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
2013
En Flânant, Jeanrochdard, Paris, France
Panorama, Le Pilori, Niort, France
Jardin Maison Patronale des usines Boinot, Niort, France
2012
Sculptures, Abbaye de Maubuisson - Grange aux Dimes, Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône, France
Monde sauvage, Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm, Sweden
2011
Monde sauvage Jeanrochdard, Paris, France
Jardin (Nuit Blanche) Musée Cognaq-Jay, Paris, France
2010
Monde sauvage, Cripta747, Torino, Italia
2009
W Cripta747, Torino, Italia
Une petite histoire centrale Chapelle des Calvairiennes, Le Kiosque, Mayenne, France
2005
Burn Baby Burn Galerie Octave Cowbell, Metz, France
Group Show
2018
Scar/Face, curated by Hugo Vitrani, Galerie Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris, France
2017
Aria di Roma in Swimming is saving, Académie de France à Rome / Villa Medicis, Rome, Italia
Noon, Académie des Beaux-Arts de Rome, Sede di Campo Boario, Rome, Italia
Tender comrades, Studioli, Rome, Italia
Young Popes, Institut suisse de Rome / Villa Maraini, Rome, Italia
Live Arts Week, Ex-GAM, Bologna, Italia
Sensibile Comune, Galerie Nationale d'Art Moderne - GNAM, Rome, Italia
2016
Millenovecentottantaquattro, Palais des Giardini, Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena, Italie
Retiens la nuit Rabouan-Moussion, Paris, France
Aujourd'hui je dis oui Galeria de Boavista, Lisbon, Portugal
2015
Club of Matinée Idolz, CO2, Torino, Italia
2014
To the habby few, Jeanrochdard, Paris, France
Rendering Emblems, LVL3, Chicago, United States
Ce qui arrêtait ces dame, Jeanrochdard, Paris, France
2013
Des maisons vides ne font pas une ville, M1886, Ankara, Turkey
2012
Close encounters, Jeanrochdard, Paris, France
Salons - Convivialité, écologie et vie pratique, Domaine départemental de Chamarande, Chamarande, France
Street Smart - en tolerant samtidskonstutställning, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
2011
FIAC (avec FMAC, Fond Municipal d'Art Contemporain de la ville de Paris, acquisitions 2011), Paris, France
A new idea of landscape Galerie de l'Ecole nationale supérieure d'art de Nancy, ENSA, Nancy, France
VertigoJeanrochdard, Paris, France
2010
Renato leotta, Room galleria, Milano, Italia
2009
Né dans la rue, Graffiti, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France
Centre Culturel Tchèque, Paris, France
2008
Fundamental, MU, Eindhoven, Pays-Bas
Zero gravity, Galerie de l'École superieure d'art de Metz, ESAM, Metz, France
2003
Public images, Palais des Pyrénées, Pau, France
2002
Unicara 2, De Appel, Centre for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, Netherland
Les_33 / Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam, Netherland
2001
Povazska Galeria Umenia, Zilina, Slovakia
2000
Galerie du Château de l'Etang, Saran, France
1999
Centre d'Art Contemporain, Rueil-Malmaison, France
1996
La Laiterie, Centre Européen de la Jeune Création, Strasbourg, France
