Born in Paris in 1990, Gillian Brett lives and works in Marseille.
The practice of Gillian Brett is dedicated to analysing the delicate and complex relationship between the human being and technology, reflecting specifically on the ways and the processes by which it inevitably shapes and influences the surrounding world. Her objects and installations offer a poetic questioning of our attitude to progress and its excesses, highlighting the flaws of a technology-dependent industrial society.
A graduate of Villa Arson in Nice, she was awarded an Institut de France scholarship and pursued her studies at Goldsmiths College in London. There, her work took on a more critical aspect. She turned her attention to discarded LCD screens and explored the philosophy of techniques and radical ecology, influenced by Günther Anders, Jacques Ellul and Bernard Charbonneau.
She then took part in several residencies around the world and her work has been exhibited by many international institutions, such as the KW in Berlin, Munch Museum in Oslo, Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen and Van Gogh Foundation in Arles. She has won several awards, including the Villa Noailles Révélations Emerige Prize, the Prix Dauphine for Contemporary Art, and Artissima’s Xiaomi Award (with C+N Gallery CANEPANERI).
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
Art Paris art fair, Grand palais, Paris, FR
2023
Au fond de la couche gazeuse, Ancien Évèché, Toulon, FR
2022
"Umarell", C+N gallery CANEPANERI, Milan, IT
2021
Artissima, Booth C+N gallery CANEPANERI, Turin, IT
J’ai tout mangé, Metaxu, Toulon, FR
Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen, Stadtgalerie, Saarbrücken, DE
2019
In Silico, Bungalow, ChertLüdde, Berlin, DE
Art-o-rama, Booth C+N gallery CANEPANERI, Friche de la Belle de Mai, Marseille, FR
"Due per due", C+N gallery CANEPANERI, cur. Chiara Nuzzi, Milan, IT
2018
Showroom Art-o-rama, cur. Stefano Collicelli Cagol, J1, Marseille, FR
2016
Quousque Tandem? Exp. Lauréats du Prix Dauphine, Galerie du CROUS, Paris, FR
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)
Don’t Look projects gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Poetics of Encryption, cur. Nadim Samman, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, CZ
2024
Van Gogh et les étoiles, cur. Jean De Loisy et Bice Curiger, Fondation Van Gogh, Arles, FR
Poetics of Encryption, cur. Nadim Sammam, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE
& Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
Rebel Garden, cur. Michel Dewilde, Triennale de Bruges, Groeninge Museum, Bruges, BE
Liquidation totale, cur. Andy Rankin, galerie Pal Project, Paris, FR
"A world without end", cur. Sara Dolfi Agostini, C+N Gallery CANEPANERI, Gênes, IT
"Cryptgame", cur. Jean-Baptiste Janisset, Cryptgame, Marseille, FR
Ring Ring Ring, cur. Andy Rankin, Pal Project gallery, Paris, FR
2023
When the vertebrae of time continue to spin, cur. A. Franetovich, C+N Gallery CANEPANERI, Genoa, IT
Aftermath, cur. Lucia Longhi, Mazzoli gallery, Berlin, DE
Miart, C+N gallery CANEPANERI booth, Fiera Milano, Milan, IT
Doce pruebas de amor, cur. Gaël Charbau, Institut Français, Madrid, ES
2022
12 preuves d’Amour, Bourse Révélations Emerige, cur. G. Charbau, Paris & Toulon, FR
Munch Triennale - The machine is us, cur. T. O’Donnell & S. Collicelli Cagol, Munch Museum, Oslo, NO
Le courage des oiseaux, La station, Nice, FR
OVNI festival, cur. Nathalie Amae, le 109, Nice, FR
Handland, cur. Tatiana Martyanova, C+N gallery CANEPANERI, Milan, IT
2021
SWAB, Booth Galerie de la Scep, Barcelona, ES
Grand Opening, 4136 Artspace, La station, Nice, FR
Berlin gallery week-end, ChertLüdde, Berlin, DE
Avalanche, cur. A.Rankin & N. Pernisco, galerie Pal Project, Paris, FRI
have no face but you can trust me, galerie de la SCEP, Marseille, FR
2020
Stress Rehearsal, cur. Malou Solfjed, Das Weisse Haus, Vienna, ATVoilà l’été, Le 109, Nice, FR
Les bonnes idées naissent en république***, Le collectiv, Marseille, FR
2019
Par Hasard, Friche de la Belle de Mai, cur. X. Rey & G.Theulière, Marseille, FR
La tête ailleurs, Le magasin, Marseille, FR
La Relève, Galerie des Grands Bains douches et Galerie HO, Marseille, FR
2018
Trà e stelle, Les Charpentiers de la Corse, Piedigriggio, FR
Sense & Sensibilia, cur. Luigi Fassi & Chiara Nuzzi, Galerie Doris Ghetta, Ortisei, IT
Machine in the middle, Windows 93, Romainville, FR
2017
La Fête Noire, cur. BLBC, T2, Paris, FR
Have You Ever Mesured Reality ? #inbetween2, Das Weisse Haus, Vienna, AT
2016
Vienna Art Week - Open studio, Das Weisse Haus, Vienna, AT
Rubbish & Romance, Deptford Project Space, London, UK
Interim show, Goldsmiths College, London, UK
I Would Have Done Everything For You/Gimme more!, cur. Cédric Fauq, London, UK
Die weisse ab-haus-verkaufskunstschau #5, Das Weisse Haus, Vienna, AT
Slippery Surface, hARTslane Gallery, London, UK
2015
Odyssée, cur. Benjamin Laugier, Villa Arson & Galerie de la Marine, Nice, FR
Fantomachie, Le Dojo, Nice, FR
2014
Rundgang, Akademie der Bildeden Künste, Vienna, AT
GRANTS | AWARDS
2022 Révélations Emerige - Villa Noailles Prize, FR
2021 Artissima - Xiaomi Hypercharge Award, Turin, IT
2019 AIA - Drac Paca, FR
2016 Jury Prize - Prix Dauphine pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris, FR
2015 Scholarship, Fondation Kenza, Institut de France, Paris, FR
RESIDENCIES
2023 Villa Noailles, Hyères, FR
2022 FRAC PACA Hors les murs
2018 Utopia, Ponte Leccia, FR
2017 Kala Bhavan, Visva-Bharati, Shantiniketan, IN2016 Das Weisse Haus, Vienna, AT
LECTURES
Objects as symbols - Licht als künstlerisches Material, HBK Saar, Saarbrücken, DE
Par Hasard, Bibliothèque de l’Alcazar, Marseille, FR
Colloque Inventeurs d’aventures, Théatre des Variétés, MCCIAS, Kala Bhavan, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, IN
WORKSHOPS
2017 Inventeurs d’aventures, ESAP Pavillon Bosio, MC
From Gleaning to Sculpture, Sculpture Dpt, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, IN
EDUCATION
2016 Postgraduate Diploma, MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London, UK
2015 DNSEP Villa Arson, Nice, FR
2014 Textual Sculpture, Akademie der Bildeden Künste, Vienna, AT
2009 ENSAAMA Olivier de Serres, Paris, FR