English - Gauthier Lesturgie

 RESUME - ​Gauthier Lesturgie
Education
Art history / curatorial studies
2012-13 : Master’s degree « Métiers et Arts de l’exposition » -curatorial studies
Obtained with distinction.
Final thesis on net art practices :
« Le net art dans le ghetto : stratégies d’un faux mouvement » (« net art in the ghetto :
strategies of a false movement ».
Curating of Cady Noland’s solo show at Frac Bretagne and Galerie Art&Essai.
Production and publication of the first anthology dedicated to Cady Noland.
2011-12 : Master in Art history
Thesis on General Idea.
2008-11 : Bachelor’s degree in Art history
Writings
2016
.”Seydou Keïta’s Portraits : a body in representations”,
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​Contemporary and, July 2016.
.”Anna Jandt : your​ long arm”, ​Mouvement, April 2016
.”Michael Rakowitz : the invisible enemy should not exist”, exhibition text for Barbara
Wien (Berlin), April 2016.
. ‘’Emmet Williams : projects with Ay-O and Yo-Yo Ma’’, exhibition text for Barbara Wien
(Berlin), February 2016.
. ‘’Camille
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Henrot. ​The Pale
​
Fox’’, ​Espace art actuel, nº112, Winter 2016, p.89-90.
. ‘’What is home
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? ‘’, ​Contemporary and, January 2016.
2015
. ‘’Luca Frei : Hermann Scherchen : alles hörbar machen II’’, exhibition text for Barbara
Wien (Berlin), November 2015.
. ‘’Wir sind alle Berliner​ : 1884-2014’’, ​Espace art actuel, nº111, Fall 2015, p. 70-75.
. ‘’White Squares : A discussion with
​ Victor Remere’’, ​Inter art actuel, nº121, Fall 2015, p.
66-69.
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. ‘’Mariana Castillo Deball : reliefpfeiler’’, exhibition text for Barbara Wien (Berlin),
September 2015.
. ‘’From this deep and powerful sculpture emerged this mask : reading Haegue Yang
through Victor Hugo’’, ​MOMUS, September 2015.
. ‘’Framing History : a conversation with Virginie Bobin about Maryam Jafri’s exhibition
‘The Day After’
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at Bétonsalon (Paris)’’, ​Contemporary and, September 2015.
. ‘’Lizzie Fitch et Ryan Trecartin : Site Visit, le zombie indistinct et abêti comme nouvel
avatar post-humain ?’’, ​ETC media, July 2015, p. 51-55.
​ . ‘’Cult of the Grotesque : Tianzhuo Chen’’, ​Sleek, July 2015.
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. ‘’AA Bronson : White Flag”, ​Inferno magazine, nº5, Summer/Fall 2015, p. 82-85.
. Miyeon Lee (interview), ​Inferno magazine, nº5, Summer/Fall 2015, p. 292-295.
. ‘’Ruth
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Wolf-Rehfeldt : Signs Fiction”, ​Inferno magazine, nº5, Summer/Fall 2015,
p.
306-307.
. ‘’Mariana Castillo Deball : Parergon’’, ​02, nº74, Summer 2015, p. 68-71.
. ‘’Haus-Rucker-Co
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: Architekturutopie Reloaded’’, ​Espace art actuel, nº110, Summer
2015, p. 92-93.
. ‘’Cyprien Gaillard : Nightlife’’, ​Sleek, June 2015.
. ‘’Satch
​ Hoyt : Peigne à cheveux et Black Power’’, ​Mouvement, May 2015.
​ . ‘’Dave McKenzie : Hidden Camera’’, ​Contemporary and, April 2015.
​ . ‘’Philippe Parreno : les temps simultanés’’, ​Mouvement, March 2015.
. "Ibrahim
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Quraishi : Coded Choreographies ", ​Contemporary and, March 2015.
. "Sophie
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Erlund : la mécanique des fluides ", ​Espace art actuel, nº109, Winter 2015,
p. 81-82.
· "elgalpon.espacio : entretien
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avec Jorge Baldeón et Lorena Lo Peña",​ Inter art actuel,
nº119, Winter 2015, p. 49-52.
· "Thomas Hirschhorn : Höhere Gewalt", ​02, nº72, Winter 2015, p. 70.
· "Kiluanji Kia Henda
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: create your personal Dubai at home", ​Contemporary and, January
2015.
· "Vertigo of Reality", ​Inferno magazine, nº04, Winter / Spring 2015, p. 190-191.
· "Bernhard Leitner", ​Inferno magazine, nº04, Winter / Spring 2015, p. 236-237.
· "Bertille Bak : Le tout de Babel", ​Inferno magazine, nº04, Winter / Spring 2015, p.
170-171.
· "Ryan Trecartin & Lizzie Fitch : Site Visit", ​Inferno magazine, nº04, Winter / Spring 2015,
p. 100-105. (English version).
· "Shimabuku : Sea and Flowers", ​Inferno magazine, nº04, Winter / Spring 2015, p.
172-175.
· "Vasco Araújo : opening up a critical space", ​Contemporary and, January 2015.
2014
· "Filipa​ César : The soil was the blackboard of the guerilla...", ​Contemporary and,
October 2014.
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· "Berlin Art Week : ABC - Art Berlin Contemporary", ​Inferno online, September 2014.
· "Georges Adéagbo : The Artist in Writing", ​02, nº71, Fall 2014, p. 46-51.
· "Moshekwa Langa : a private cartography", ​Contemporary and, August 2014.
· "Otobong Nkanga : a multitude of archipelagos", ​Contemporary and, July 2014.
· "Ai Weiwei : If it is not publicized, it is like it never happened", ​Inferno magazine, nº3,
Summer / Fall 2014, p. 14-18.
· "Gordon
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Matta-Clark : ''He used a camera like he used a buzz saw''", ​Inferno magazine,
nº3, Summer / Fall 2014, p. 102-107.
· "Retours et résonances contemporaines du polymathe bengali Rabindranath Tagore »,
July 2014.
· "Biji Diva ! Ming Wong / Bülent Wongsoy : l'artifice comme idéal", ​Inferno online, July
2014.
· "Voyeurs", ​Inferno online, June 2014.
· "Sam Smith : Sculpting in time", ​Inferno online, June 2014.
· "Transfers and translations - subterranean alchemical procedures in Nuno Vicente’s
work", May 2014.
· "Enabled Manifesto Project", ​Inferno online, May 2014.
· "How to write III : Dieter Roth, Emmett Williams, Arthur Köpcke, Tomas Schmit", ​Inferno
online, April 2014.
· "LOVE AIDS RIOT SEX 2 : Art, AIDS, Activism 1995 until today", ​Inferno online, March
2014.
· "Troels Sandegård : Bodies and bodies", ​Inferno online, March 2014.
· "Momentum ? Maybe the time has come to live our corporality rather than speak our
sexuality", ​Inferno online, March 2014.
2013
· "Nuno Vicente : Sculptures made of earth, water, fire, air VI", December 2013.
Translations (English to French)
REV.com - captions/subtitles translations, since March 2016. (Buzzfeed, The A21 campaign,
Mozart in the Jungle, etc.)
La Galerie Noisy le Sec (France) - text material from the exhibition “Les Limbes” (press text,
curatorial essay, video’s subtitles), 21.05.2016 - 16.07.2016.
Le LIFE (France) - press text from the exhibition “Neocodomousse” of Raumlaborberlin, 02.06. 09.10.2016.
3 La Galerie Noisy le Sec (France) - text material from the exhibition of Pierre Joseph
‘’Hypernormandie’’, 23.01. - 26.03.2016.
Architonic (Zurich) - translation of the website’s content, 11.2015 - 02.2016.
Mário Macilau (artist) - translation of the publication ​Growing in Darkness, 09.2015 - 02.2016.
FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais (France) - text from the Frederik van Simaey ‘’Arrêtez de me copie’’
wrote by Oscar van den Boogaard, 05.09 - 25.10.2015.
La ​Galerie Noisy le Sec (France) - text material from the exhibition ‘’Only the Lonely’’, 23.05. 18.07.2015.
Visual Voice Gallery (Montréal) - translation of each exhibition texts from January 2015 to
November 2015.
Hili Perlson, « If You Are So Smart, Why Ain’t You Rich ? », ​Espace art actuel, (Montréal) nº108,
Fall 2014, p. 54-69 - French translation of the article.
« IF YOU ARE SO SMART, WHY AIN’T YOU RICH ? », 5th Marrakech Biennal, 28.02 22.03.2014.. Translation of the entire project’s text material (online and offline).
Exhibitions
independent curator
« BLANK », Laure Catugier & Yooree Yang, Asia Contemporary Art Platform NON Berlin (Berlin),
20.03. - 03.04.2015.
« IF YOU ARE SO SMART, WHY AIN’T YOU RICH ? », Gilles Aubry & Zouheir Atbane, Younes
Baba Ali, Tal Isaac Hadad, Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Brandon LaBelle, Marco Montiel-Soto,
Emeka Ogboh, Lukas Truniger & Ali Tnani, Paolo Bottarelli, Evgenija Wassilew. Curated by
Pauline Doutreluingne, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Gauthier Lesturgie and Anneli Von
Klitzing, 5th Marrakech Biennal, 28.02 - 22.03.2014.
« Sculptures made of water, fire, air (part VI) », Nuno Vicente, curated by Gauthier Lesturgie &
Lauriane Vatin, João Cocteau, (Berlin), December 2013.
« cady noland », Cady Noland, Frac Bretagne, Galerie Art&Essai (Rennes), 07.03. - 21.04.2013.
Past experiences
2013 - 2014
4 SAVVY Contemporary (Berlin) - Assistant curator, archive developer at SAVVY.doc.
June 2013 - August 2014
CULTURIA (Berlin) - Curator => Research program and publication dedicated to artist’s
writings.
September 2013 - December 2014
2012
Den Frie Centre for Contemporary Art (Copenhague) - assistant curator.
June 2012 - August 2012
« Les Prairies », 3rd Contemporary art biennal of Rennes - Assistant coordinator / researcher.
January 2012 - May 2012
Critique d’art journal (Rennes) - writer in the issue nº39.
2011
Critique d’art journal (Rennes) - Editor-in-chief’s assistant.
May 2011 - November 2011
Galerie Art&Essai (Rennes) - researcher, archivist and curator.
September 2010 - June 2011
Le Bon Accueil (Rennes) - Board’s member, curator, researcher, author => Contemporary art
centre dedicated to sound art.
2009-2011
2010
« Ce qui vient », 2nd Contemporary art biennal Rennes - installation manager.
April 2010 - May 2010
Galerie Art&Essai (Rennes) - Volunteer, diverse activities.
2008-2010
Languages
5 French - native language
English - fluent (writing / speaking)
German - learning
Contact details
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