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Jean-Luc Moulène (b. 1955, Reims, France) studied Aesthetics and Sciences of Art at the Sorbonne University in Paris, where he currently lives and works. He participated in the Venice Biennial (2019, 2003), the Taipei Biennial (2016 and 2004), the Sharjah Biennial (2010), the First International Biennial of the Image (Laos, 2007), the Sao Paulo Biennial (2002), and Documenta X (1997). Among the institutions that have dedicated solo exhibitions to his work are SculptureCenter, New York (2019), Centre d'art contemporain, Delme (2018), Fondation d'enterprise Hermes, Brussels (2018), Secession, Vienna (2017), Centre Pompidou, Paris (2016-2017), Villa Medici, Rome (2015), Kunstverein Hannover (2014), Dia:Beacon, New York (2012), Carré d’art-Musée d’art contemporain, Nîmes (2009), Culturgest, Lisbon (2007), Musée du Louvre, Paris (2005), and Centre d’Art Contemporain de Genève (2003). Moulène’s work has been included in group exhibitions at MoMA PS1 (New York), École Nationale Supértieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Centre de la photographie Genève, Miejski Osrodek Sztuki (Gorzów, Poland), S.M.A.K. (Ghent, Belgium), MMOMA (Moscow), Secession (Vienna), Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (Mexico City), Museo Tamayo (Mexico City), Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Punta Della Dogana – Palazzo Grassi (Venice), WIELS Contemporary Art Centre (Brussels), Witte de With (Rotterdam), ARC / Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Le Magasin (Grenoble), Grey Art Gallery (New York), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Beaune, Yokohama Museum of Art, Triennale de Milano, KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), Museum Ludwig (Cologne), De Appel (Amsterdam), Grand Palais (Paris), Landesmuseum Joanneum GmbH Kunsthaus (Graz), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Kunstverein Nürnberg, and elsewhere. Hole, Bubble, Bump., his second solo exhibition at Miguel Abreu Gallery, was on view in the fall of 2017. His work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Tate (London), Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), Pinault Collection, Dia Art Foundation (New York), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Musée de l'art moderne de la ville de Paris, Kadist Art Foundation (Paris), Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (Strasbourg, France) and Centre National des Arts Plastiques (Paris), among others. Major monographs dedicated to his work include Breves (Secession/Revolver Press, 2017), Jean-Luc Moulène (Centre Pompidou/Editions Dilecta, 2016), Jean-Luc Moulène: Documents, 1999-2016 (Sequence Press, 2016), Jean-Luc Moulène: Disjonctions, Opus & Documents, Il Était Une Fois (Verlag Für Moderne Kunst, 2015), Opus + One (Yale University Press and Dia Art Foundation, 2012), Jean-Luc Moulène (Walther König, 2009). Other texts on his work include Matter and Form: Self-evidence and Surprise: On Jean-Luc Moulène's Objects by Alain Badiou (Sequence Press, 2019), “Untitled,” in Collapse vol. VIII, edited by Robin Mackay, (Urbanomic, 2014), and Torture Concrete: Jean-Luc Moulène and the Protocol of Abstraction by Reza Negarestani (Sequence Press, 2014). In 2021, Moulène’s work was included in the Art Encounters Biennial: Our Other Us, Timișoara, Romania.

Técnico Libertário, a solo exhibition of Moulène’s work was on view at Casa São Roque Centro de Art, Porto, Portugal, from October 2021 through May 2022. Moulène's fourth solo exhibition at Miguel Abreu Gallery, Clearly, was recently on view from May through July, 2022. His forthcoming one-person exhibition at The Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania opens in 2023.

JEAN-LUC MOULÈNE Clearly

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