Pierre et Gilles
The artist
Pierre was born in 1950 in La Roche-Sur-Yon, Gilles in Le Havre in 1953. They are internationally renowned artists who have been producing works together since 1976, creating a world where painting and photography meet. Their art is peopled by their friends and family, anonymous and famous, who appear in sophisticated life-size sets the artists build in their studio. They meticulously apply paint to the photographs once printed on canvas. Accomplished image creators, Pierre and Gilles have built up an extraordinary contemporary iconography on the frontier between art history and popular culture.
Exhibitions
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Nuit électrique
September 3 - October 26, 2024
Paris - Grenier Saint Lazare -
The colors of time
May 4 - July 22, 2023
Brussels -
Les couleurs du temps
November 10 - December 30, 2022
Paris - Grenier Saint Lazare -
Errances immobiles
September 10 - October 31, 2020
Paris - Beaubourg -
Le temps imaginaire
January 13 - March 10, 2018
Paris - Beaubourg -
Héros
April 10 - May 31, 2014
Paris - Beaubourg
Biography
| Births | Pierre was born in La Roche-sur-Yon in 1950, Gilles in Le Havre in 1953 |
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
| 2024 | Nuit électrique, TEMPLON, Paris, France |
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| 2023 | Les couleurs du temps, TEMPLON, Brussels, Belgium |
| 2022 | Les couleurs du temps, TEMPLON, Paris, France Troubled Waters, Spritmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2020 | Errances immobiles, TEMPLON, Paris, France |
| 2019 | Pierre et Gilles, le goût du cinéma, Centre d’art La Malmaison, Cannes, France La Fabrique des idoles, Philharmonie de Paris, Cité de la musique – Musée de la musique, Paris, France |
| 2018 | Looking at the Pictorial World, Seemingly Old and Voluptuous, K Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea Le génie du christianisme, FILAF, Chapelle basse du Couvent des Minimes, Perpignan, France Le temps imaginaire, TEMPLON, Paris |
| 2017 | Pierre et Gilles, Clair-obscur, MuMa, Le Havre, France Pierre et Gilles, Clair-obscur, Musée d’Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium |
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
| 2024 | History Makers, National Gallery, London, United Kingdom Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection, V&A Museum, London, United Kingdom Fifi Chachnil, le fil de l’histoire, Musée de la dentelle de Chantilly, Chantilly, France Quels beaux visages ! Nouvelles oeuvres, Musée des beaux-arts, Calais, France L’Impressionnisme et la mer, Musée des impressionnismes Giverny, Giverny, France MythologieS, Musée Archéologique, Saint-Raphaël, France OCEANISTA – Fashion & The Sea, The Maritime Museum and Aquarium, Gothenburg, Sweden OCEANISTA – Fashion & The Sea, The Maritime Museum of Finland, Kotka, Finland BEAUBADUGLY, Une autre histoire de la peinture, Musée International des Arts Modestes, Sète, France |
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| 2023 | Over The Rainbow, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Enchanter la Terre, Nouvelles Renaissance(s) en Centre-Val de Loire !, Château du Rivau, Lémeré, France Appearances. Beauty/(ies) on display, 18th – 21st centuries, Museum of the Château of Lunéville, Lunéville, France Des cheveux et des poils, Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, France Andrée Putman et le Mouvement Moderne, villa Noailles Hors les murs, Fondation CAB, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France Damn lust! Church. Body. Art, Diözesanmuseum Freising, Munich, Germany Qui es-tu Apollon ? De Juliobona à la culture pop, Juliobona, musée gallo-romain, Lillebone, France I am Mehdi, Un modèle dans son quartier, 7 clous à Marseille chez Patrick Raynaud, Marseilles, France |
| 2022 | The Lavender Flair, CLAMP, New York, USA Thierry Mugler: Couturissime, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA Faking the Real, The Art of Enticement, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria Métamorphose. La photographie en France, 1968-1989, Pavillon Populaire, Montpellier, France Summer Selections, Danziger Gallery, Santa Monica, USA Années 80. Mode, Design et Graphisme en France, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France Sex is [Censored] Part 3, Le Pissoir du La Perle, Jenny’s, New York, USA Christian Louboutin, L’exhibition[niste], Chapitre II, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco Bergamot Station – Santa Monica, Opening Doors – A Group Show, Danziger Gallery, New York, USA Respirer l’Art, Quand l’art contemporain sublime l’univers du parfum, Musée International de la Parfumerie, Grasse, France With Love, Fifi Chachnil, Le Fil d’une Histoire, musée des Beaux-arts et de la Dentelle, Alençon France Christen Sveaas Art Foundation: The Travel Bureau, Whitechapel Gallery, London, United Kingdom |
| 2021 | Thierry Mugler, Couturissime, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France De(s)rives #4, Passage Véro-Dodat, Paris, France Blooming, Domaine Pommery, Reims, France Inventer la couleur / Hommage à Louis Ducos du Hauron, Église des Jacobins, Agen, France Sur les chemins du Paradis, Les Franciscaines, Deauville, France OCEANISTA - Fashion & the Sea, M/S Maritime Museum of Denmark, Elsinore, Denmark Moi Je, Château-musée Grimaldi, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France Icons, Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium A Question of Taste, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey Un Certain Regard, Les Abattoirs, Musée - FRAC Occitanie Toulouse, Musée Massey, Tarbes, France |
| 2020 | The Party is Over, Spiritmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden #cute. Islands of Happiness?, NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany Hortus conclusus. L’illusion d’un paradis, Museo Villa dei Cedri, Bellinzona, Switzlerland Christian Louboutin, L’Exhibition(ist), Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris, France Thierry Mugler : Couturissime, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, München, Germany Cœurs, Du romantisme dans l’art contemporain, Musée de la Vie romantique, Paris, France Bye bye future ! L’Art de voyager dans le temps, Musée royal de Mariemont, Morlanwelz, Belgium |
| 2019 | Narcisse ou la floraison des mondes, Frac Nouvelle Aquitaine MÉCA, Bordeaux, France Thierry Mugler: Couturissime, Kunsthal, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Marie-Antoinette. Métamorphoses d’une image, Conciergerie, Paris, France De l’amour, Palais de la découverte, Paris, France 1989 – Culture and Politics, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden Tattoo, L’Arte sulla pelle, M9 – Museo del’ 900, Venezia Mestre, Italy L’Art Mange l’Art, Musée Regards de Provence, Marseilles, France Love my way, Villa Romaine, 34e Festival international de mode, de photographie et d’accessoires de mode, Hyères, France Voilé.e.s / dévoilé.e.s, Monastère Royal de Brou, Bourg-en-Bresse, France Thierry Mugler : Couturissime, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montreal, Canada Age of classics! L’Antiquité dans la culture pop, Musée Saint-Raymond, Musée des Antiques de la Ville de Toulouse, Toulouse, France |
| 2018 | Tattoo, L’Arte sulla pelle, MAO Museo d’arte Orientale, Turin, Italy Desig, Masia Bas, Platja d’Arao, Spain Par amour du jeu 1998-2018, Magasins généraux, Pantin, France Daho l’aime pop, Maison de la photographie, Lille, France Né(e)s de l’écume et des rêves, MuMa, Le Havre, France La photographie française existe… je l’ai rencontrée, La Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France |
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COLLECTIONS (SELECTION)
| Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA | |
| Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou, Paris, France | |
| Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris, France | |
| Pinault Collection, Paris, France | |
| Musée d’art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada | |
| Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA | |
| Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France |
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Press Release
W Magazine - October, 2024
Pierre et Gilles meet their models on Instagram now, but their work is timeless
Kyle Munzenrieder
TELERAMA - September, 2024
Pierre et Gilles - Nuit électrique
Point de Vue - September, 2024
Exposition souveraine
Beaux Arts Magazine - September, 2024
A la galerie Templon, Pierre et Gilles partent à la retraite
Maïlys Celeux-Lanval
BLU - September, 2024
Pierre et Gilles - Nuit électrique
Le Parisien - July, 2024
Exposition Nuit électrique du duo d'artistes Pierre et Giles
Harper's Bazaar - June, 2023
Pierre et Gilles, artistes intemporels
RTBF - May, 2023
Le glamour poétique de Pierre et Gilles chez Templon
Artension - janvier/février 2021
Pierre & Gilles : 'l'empathie la bienveillance c'est primordial pour nous'
Patrick Le Fur
News
Pierre et Gilles
DE(S)RIVES #4 – GROUP SHOW
Aline Vidal Paris
Passage véro-dodat
2 rue Bouloi ou 19, rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Paris
From June 3 to 19, 2021
(Opening on June 3 from 4pm to 8pm)
A mysterious passage that inspires surprise, fleeting encounters, “gastronomy for the eye, not a stroll” as Balzac said. Artists are invited to present works without taboos, political ramblings, diversions and rantings. With works by Pierre et Gilles, Elika Hedayat, Philippe De Gobert, Jacqueline de Jong, Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux, Marie Losier, Javier Mayoral, Clémentine Mélois, Arthur Mirat, Honoré δ’O, Thibault Scemama de Gialluly, Stéphane Thidet, Didier Trenet, Clovis Trouille et une intervention de Mirat-Masson.
Philippe Cognée
Pierre et Gilles
BLOOMING – GROUP EXHIBITION
From June 3 to November 15, 2021
Domaine Pommery, 5 Place du Général Gouraud, Reims
The exhibition “BLOOMING” is opening the new exhibition space of the Domaine de Pommery, the “Cellier Pompadour”, and celebrates the time of rebirth and blossoming of nature and men by bringing together artists from the past and from today. Dedicated to painting, ceramics, drawing and figurative photography, this majestic Eiffel-type space of over 900 square meters magnificently enriches the 55-hectare estate. This first exhibition in the ”Cellier Pompadour” gathers 61 artists including Pierre et Gilles and Philippe Cognée, and is curated by Nathalie Vranken, Catherine Delot – Director of the Museum of Fine Arts of Reims, Chief Heritage Curator – and Fabrice Bousteau – Exhibition Curator and Director of the editorial staff of Beaux-Arts magazine.
Pierre et Gilles
« SUR LES CHEMINS DU PARADIS » – GROUP EXHIBITION
Les Franciscaines, 145 B avenue de la République, Deauville, France
From May 19 to August 22, 2021
“Sur les chemins du paradis” explores the different aspects of heaven through what the three monotheisms – Judaism, Christianity and Islam – have said about it and the work that artists have produced for two thousand years. The inaugural exhibition of the Franciscaines de Deauville, alongside artists from all centuries and from all western and eastern regions, explores the historical and artistic transcription of the founding texts of heaven, from the myth of Enki in Mesopotamia to the figuration of Incarnation by Bill Viola. It is therefore a question of identifying the influences, the exchanges, the interpenetration of iconographic codes from the 3rd millennium BC to the 21st century.
Pierre et Gilles
« ICONS » – GROUP SHOW
Boghossian Foundation
Villa Empain, Brussels
From May 6 to October 24, 2021
The exhibition shows a selection of ancient icons from Europe and Russia – depicting variously Christ, the Mother of God, or individual saints – the striking simplicity of which sets them apart as timeless objects of veneration. A second set of works by 19th and 20th century artists such as Pierre et Gilles, Charles Filiger and Lucien Levy-Dhurmer explores the frontal and depth-less composition of icons. The exhibition also discusses the use that contemporary artists like Yan Pei-Ming and Wim Delvoye make of iconographic language.
Pierre et Gilles
NARCISSE OU LA FLORAISON DES MONDES – GROUP SHOW
From June 23 to August 22, 2020
MÉCA, 5 parvis Corto Maltese, 33800 Bordeaux, France
Inspired by the mythic figure that fascinates both classical and contemporaneous artists, the group show Narcisse ou la floraison des mondes gathers more than a hundred works (video, installation, painting, drawing, photograph, sculpture) interrogating the hierarchy of artistic genders and the making of lively industry. The exhibition presented by the FRAC of Nouvelle Aquitaine highlights new resources of inspiration such as the ‘eco-feminism’ movement, or the recent approaches of science and philosophy.Lovers of icons, Pierre et Gilles take parts in this group exhibition with a portrait untitled “La Cerise sur le gâteau”.
Pierre et Gilles
HORTUS CONCLUSUS. L’ILLUSIONE DI UN PARADISO – GROUP SHOW
From June 3 to November 8 2020
Via S. Biagio 9, 6500 Bellinzona, Suisse
The exhibition starts with the Christian allegory of the enclosed garden – image of the Paradise and the virginity of Mary – and the Greek myth of the Rape of Europa, which relates the heroic journey of a kidnapped young girl, founder of European civilization. While Western art has assimilated and propagated these two iconographies since the Middle Ages, their study still offers a key to contemplate the works of contemporary artists who explore the relationship between man and his territory, between identity and culture. Like the United States, Europe seems today to defend the idea of a hortus conclusus , a new Eden inaccessible and surrounded by walls, both physical and mental. Works by contemporary artists such as Pierre et Gilles are introduced with a section of prints of the 15th, 16th and 17th century from Albrecht Dürer, to Hendrick Goltzius and Remoldus Eynhoudts.
Pierre et Gilles
CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN : L’EXHIBITIONISTE – GROUP SHOW
From February 26, 2020 to January 3, 2021
Palais de la Porte Dorée, 293 Avenue Daumesnil, 75012 Paris
Palais de la Porte Dorée presents a new exhibition entirely dedicated to the work of Christian Louboutin, designer and creator of the internationally renowned signature red-sole shoes. Designed like a real life invitation to plunged into the creative universe of the artist, the exhibition explores all the facets of his inspiration, in a place particularly dear to the creator. By friendship and similar love for idolatry, Pierre et Gilles take part, in their own way to this high-quality exhibition.
Jim Dine
Oda Jaune
Pierre et Gilles
HEART – ROMANTICISM IN CONTEMPORARY ART
Musée de la Vie romantique, Paris, France
February 14 - July 12, 2020
Le Musée de la Vie romantique presents a selection of around 40 art works by thirty contemporary artists on the representation of heart as an expression of the feeling of love, echoing one of the main themes of Romanticism.
This exhibition aims to open the cultural program of the museum beyond the nineteenth century by exploring the continuation of Romanticism in contemporary art, in resonance with the museum’s collections. The heart as an organ, motif and symbol is presented here through various techniques: painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, neon and photography.
In addition to the emblematic figures of Niki de Saint Phalle, Jim Dine, Annette Messager, Sophie Calle, Pierre and Gilles, Jean-Michel Othoniel and Françoise Pétrovitch, visitors will be able to discover about twenty other artists in this exhibition.
