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
Gérard Garouste
Jitish Kallat
Ulrich Lamsfuss
Pierre et Gilles
ART EATS ART
Museum Regards de Provence, Marseille, France
In the framework of the Gastronomic Year in Provence–MPG 2019, the Regards de Provence Museum is showcasing « L’Art Mange l’Art” et “De la table au tableau”, two exhibitions that bring together works of artists from the XIX to XXIst century on the theme of food, its pleasures and the art of the table.
Pierre et Gilles
THIERRY MUGLER, COUTURISSIME – GROUP SHOW
MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS DE MONTREAL, MONTREAL, CANADAFrom 02/03/2019 to 08/09/2019
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is presenting the very first exhibition on the work of French creator Thierry Mugler. Initiated, produced and circulated by the MMFA, this retrospective reveals the multiple worlds of this irrepressible artistic figure – at once visionary couturier, director, photographer and perfumer – by revisiting his prêt-à-porter and haute couture creations. Premiering in Montreal, Thierry Mugler: Couturissime brings together more than 150 garments made between 1973 and 2001, most of which are being shown for the first time, as well as a wealth of unpublished archival documents and sketches. One hundred or so photographs by such world-renowned fashion photographers as Helmut Newton, Sarah Moon, Pierre et Gilles, David LaChapelle, Paolo Roversi, Herb Ritts, Dominique Issermann, Guy Bourdin and Richard Avedon, to name a few, round out the show.
Pierre et Gilles
AGE OF CLASSICS! L’ANTIQUITé DANS LA CULTURE POP – GROUP SHOW
MUSEE SAINT-RAYMOND, TOULOUSE, FRANCEFrom 22/02/2019 to 22/09/2019
The heritage of Ancient Greece and Rome has had a lasting influence on the medieval and modern periods. The latter have absorbed, preserved, assimilated and transformed this heritage. In turn, the contemporary world and popular (pop) culture have appropriated classical models in order to give birth to new heroes and new forms of art in a globalized context.
Age of Classics brings together antique objects and productions made after the year 2000 and examines our relationship to the Greco-Roman world in various aspects of our daily lives: literature, comics, cinema and series, the visual arts, etc. How does Europe reinterpret its heritage? What is the connection between Greece, Rome and the United States of America? How and why does Asia explore Western history in its cultural productions? And in what ways has Antiquity been perpetuated in the face of today’s evolving society?
Pierre et Gilles
LOOKING AT THE PICTORIAL WORLD, SEEMINGLY OLD AND VOLUPTUOUS – SOLO SHOW
KMCA, SEOUL, KOREAFrom 21/12/2018 to 26/05/2019
KMCA (K Museum of Contemporary Art) in Seoul presents a rare and comprehensive retrospective dedicated to French duo Pierre et Gilles; the most important show ever focusing on these icons of pop contemporary culture in Korea. Looking at the Pictorial World, Seemingly Old and Voluptuous looks back at Pierre et Gilles’ itinerary from the 1970’s until today, gathering up to 200 works within a special scenography. The Korean public, truly attached to the artist’s work for the past 15 years, is eager to meet them again.
Pierre et Gilles
PIERRE ET GILLES, LE GéNIE DU CHRISTIANISME – SOLO SHOW
COUVENT DES MINIMES, PERPIGNAN, FRANCE From 20/06/2018 to 31/07/2018
The artist duo Pierre et Gilles will be present at the 8th edition of the International Festival of Art books and Film, to unveil a never seen before exhibition and a public meet-up. The exhibition dedicated to the theme of sacred, will be on show from the 20th until the 31st of July at the « Chapelle Basse » of the Couvent des Minimes.
Pierre et Gilles
Kehinde Wiley
PAR AMOUR DU JEU 1998-2018 – GROUP SHOW
MAGASINS GENERAUX, PANTIN, FRANCE From 09/06/2018 to 05/08/2018
For the launch of their first cultural season, The Magasins généraux are pleased to propose an exhibition and performances exploring the links between art, football and society from 1988 to 2018. With, among others : Neil Beloufa, Mohamed Bourouissa, Guillaume Bresson, Taro Izumi, Claude Lévêque, Melik Ohanian, Pierre et Gilles, Juergen Teller, Kehinde Wiley, Erwin Wurm etc. Image: Kehinde Wiley, Idrissa Ndiaye, 2012, oil on canvas, 244 x 213,5 cm
Pierre et Gilles
LA PHOTOGRAPHIE FRANçAISE EXISTE… JE L’AI RENCONTRéE – GROUP SHOW
MAISON EUROPEENNE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE, PARIS, FRANCE From 07/03/2018 to 20/05/2018
Back in the eighties, Jean-Luc Monterosso traveled to New York where he met MoMA’s photography collection curator. When he asked about his opinion on Contemporary French Photography, the curator simply replied : « It doesn’t exist ». Thirty years later, on the occasion of his departure from the MEP, Jean-Luc Monterosso answers back with an extensive exhibition dedicated to French Photography from the eighties to nowadays under the forms of a really personal and subjective narrative. Exibition curator: Jean Luc Monterosso, Maison Européenne de la Photographie Director With artworks by Jean-Christophe Ballot, François-Marie Banier, Bruno Barbey, Martine Barrat, Valérie Belin, Rossella Bellusci, Philippe Bordas, Martial Cherrier, Thierry Cohen, Stéphane Couturier, Martin d’Orgeval, Raphaël Dallaporta, Denis Darzacq, Marie-Laure de Decker, Raymond Depardon, Bernard Faucon, Alain Fleischer, Jean Gaumy, Pierre Gonnord, Hervé Guibert, Françoise Huguier, Dominique Issermann, Michel Journiac, JR, Pascal Kern, François Méchain, Minot-Gormezano, Sarah Moon, Bruno Mouron et Pascal Rostain, ORLAN, Mathieu Pernot, Philippe Perrin, Pierre et Gilles, Bernard Plossu, Philippe Ramette, Bettina Rheims, Sophie Ristelhueber, Denis Roche, Gérard Rondeau, Georges Rousse, Sebastião Salgado, Klavdij Sluban, Christine Spengler, Keiichi Tahara, Patrick Tosani, Gérard Uféras, Laurent Van der Stockt.
Pierre et Gilles
BOOK SIGNING BY PIERRE ET GILLES
LIBRAIRIE FLAMMARION, CENTRE POMPIDOU, PARIS, FRANCE On 08/02/2018 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Book signing of the catalogue of the exhibition “Imaginary Time” by Pierre et Gilles.
