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
Jim Dine
Pierre et Gilles
BYE BYE FUTURE! L’ART DE VOYAGER DANS LE TEMPS – GROUP SHOW
From January 25 to October 25, 2020
Chaussée de Mariemont, 100, 7140, Morlanwelz, Belgium
Musée Royal of Mariemont presents ‘Bye, Bye Future ! L’art de voyager dans le temps’. The exhibition deals with evolutions of the future and the need for humans to control time, while emphasizing on digital creations and animated images. Bye Bye Future gathers works from international artist such as Jim Dine and Pierre et Gilles, who undertook at some point the ancestral voyage through space and time.
Pierre et Gilles
PIERRE ET GILLES : LE GOûT DU CINéMA – SOLO SHOW
CENTRE D'ART LA MALMAISON, CANNES, FRANCEFrom 12/12/2019 to 26/04/2020
From December 12, 2019 through April 26, 2020, the Art Center La Malmaison in Cannes welcomes the French duo Pierre and Gilles for an exhibition gathering over 40 exceptional pieces exploring their passion for cinema.
“Pierre and Gilles, the Taste of Cinema » explores the many facets of their complex relationship to cinema, whether they choose actors as models, pay homage to their own cosmogony of film references, or simply create atmospheres intrinsically connected to the Seventh art.
For the first time, a part of their creative process will be unveiled with the installation that served as the stage of one their most recent pictures “The Seller of Eiffel Towers”.
Curator: Numa Hambursin
Opening: Wednesday December 11, 6 pm, by invitation only.
Pierre et Gilles
PIERRE ET GILLES – IDOL FACTORY – SOLO SHOW
CITÉ DE LA MUSIQUE - PHILHARMONIE DE PARIS MUSEE DE LA MUSIQUE, PARIS, FRANCE From 20/11/2019 to 23/02/2020
Working together since the 1980s, the artistic duo known as Pierre and Gilles have captured the iconic aura of multiple generations of stars in their photo-paintings. With this exhibition conceived as musical and visual installation, they reveal the secrets of their art of image creation.
Pierre et Gilles
MARIE-ANTOINETTE. MéTAMORPHOSES D’UNE IMAGE – GROUP SHOW
LA CONCIERGERIE, PARIS, FRANCEFrom 16/10/2019 to 26/01/2020
No historical figure has experienced such an abundance of representations, during her lifetime, and especially, after her death, October 16, 1793. It is through nearly 200 works, art objects and archives, film clips , fashion accessories, you will discover the many representations of Marie Antoinette. The exhibition will cover five themes that will allow you to understand the different images of the queen.
Pierre et Gilles
DE L’AMOUR – GROUP SHOW
PALAIS DE LA DECOUVERTES, PARIS, FRANCEFrom 08/10/2019 to 30/08/2020
By associating love and science, two seemingly antinomic domains, the exhibition “De l’amour” offers a transdisciplinary exploration of this feeling with many nuances. An exhibition at the crossroads of science, society and art to better understand love and question the place of this feeling in our lives.
Pierre et Gilles
1989 – CULTURE AND POLITICS – GROUP SHOW
NATIONAL MUSEUM, STOCKHOLM, SWEDENFrom 05/09/2019 to 12/01/2020
The autumn of 2019 will mark the thirty year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall. It became the political symbol of a political world order that has endured since the end of the second world war. The exhibition examines what took place in the visual culture in the broadest sense in this radical historical period, associating popular culture and high culture.
Pierre et Gilles
TATTOO, L’ARTE SULLA PELLE – GROUP SHOW
MUSEO DEL'900, VENICE, ITALYFrom 05/07/2019 to 17/11/2019
M9 – The Museum of the 20th Century presents the Tattoo Exhibition, Stories on skin, organized in collaboration with Fondazione Torino Musei. The exhibition explores the worldwide and creative dimension of tattoos from an anthropological, historical, artistic and social point of view. Tattooing is a practice which has accompanied humanity since the dawn of time to the point that we find examples in mummified bodies in Europe, Asia and Africa. It is a means of expression which has never been abandoned, although its meaning has changed throughout the centuries: the intense tangle of contaminations and exchanges among different cultures, between East and West, which has always characterized the history of tattooing, goes on today with greater force amid a globalized world where cultural and commercial exchanges are intense and continuous. It has always been a phenomenon connected to forms of social marginality – according to Genesis, the first person tattooed in history is Cain – but at the same time is a form of art and a big mass phenomenon. The exhibition also displays numerous works by international contemporary artists: Wim Delvoye, Santiago Serra, Dr. Lakra, Mary Coble Fabio Viale. Photographs by Pierre et Gilles, Catherine Opie, Tobias Zielony, Sergei Vasiliev Plinio Martelliand Oliviero Toscani.
Pierre et Gilles
VOILé.E.S / DéSVOILé.E.S – GROUP SHOW
MONASTERE DE BROU, BOURG-EN-BRESSE, FRANCE From 16/06/2019 to 29/09/2019
The exhibition will focus on representations of the veil in the arts from Antiquity to the present day, through sculptures, paintings, drawings and photographs. It will bring together a hundred works from all periods.
