Nicolas Grospierre

Geneva, Switzerland, 1975
Nicolas Grospierre lives and works in Warsaw, Poland. He is an artist who works with and understands photography extensively. Before focusing his career on the artistic field, he trained at the Institut d'Etudes Politique de Paris and the London School of Economics. His work as a photographer has focused on both documentary projects and more conceptual works. The former have frequently explored collective memory and the hopes linked to modern architecture, in a time, the present, in which the utopias associated with it have been dismantled. On the other hand, his more conceptual photography revolves around visual and perceptual paradoxes that propose narratives about verisimilitude, authenticity, and the significance of the image in our time.

Nicolas Grospierre was awarded the Golden Lion at the 11th Venice Biennale (2008) for the exhibition Hotel Polonia at the Polish Pavilion, and also received the Polityka Passport Award.

(2009), Artistic Residence at Stadtgalerie der Progr, Bern (2012), the Prize of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Poland (2009) and the Graham Foundation Fellowship in Chicago in 2014. His monograph, Open-Ended, has been published by Jovis Verlang (Berlin, 2013) and his work has been included in the New Phaidon book Shooting Space: Architecture In Contemporary Photography by Elias Redstone and in Modern Forms. A Subjective Atlas of 20th-century Architecture, edited by Elias Redstone and Alona Pardo. He has been part of solo and group exhibitions throughout Europe and America: All Pales Before The Book at PhotoEspaña (Centro de Arte de Alcobendas, Madrid) Modern Forms. A Subjective Atlas of 20th-century Architecture, Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, La Memoria Finally Arte in Poland dal 1989-2015 at the Galleria Civica di Modena (all 2016) Viewfinder at the Signum Foundation in Poznan and Lost in Architecture

Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Slupsk in 2015, A glass shard in the eye (with Olga Mokrzycka) at BWA Warszawa in Warsaw and The Oval Offices, Maison de la Photographie, Lille (2014), a project that was exhibited in 2013 at the Presidential Palace of the Republic of Poland and the State Gallery of Art, Sopot, and in other venues such as Bunkier Sztuki in Krakow, Graham Foundation, Chicago, Raster Gallery, Warsaw, Signum Foundation, Venice, Artist's House, Jerusalem, Ecco – Espacao Cultural Contemporaneo, Brasilia, Kunsthalle, Bratislava, National Art Museum of China, Beijing. His work is featured in collections such as the National Museum in Warsaw, Poland, the Rubell Family Collection, the Jan Michalski Foundation Switzerland, the Coleccion Los Bragales, the Coleccions DKV, the Signum Foundation Collection, the ARUP Collection, the APT Collection, PAMM Miami, the Jozami Collection, and the 21st Century Museum.

Geneva, Switzerland, 1975.

Grospierre Nicolas lives and works in Poland. He works and understands the medium of photography extensively. Before dedicating his career to his artistic practice he studied at the Institut d'Etudes Politique de Paris and the London School of Economics. His work as a photographer focuses on documentaries as well as conceptual work. In his documentary work he explores the collective memory and the feeling of hope that can be linked to modern architecture at a particular time, and how certain idealizations linked can be dismantled. Another aspect of his photography is to explore conceptual puzzle games, and capture their attractive and sensual display and functions. Nicolas Grospierre has been awarded the Golden Lion at the 11th edition of the Venice Biennale (2008) for the exhibition Hotel Poland in the Polish Pavilion, and has also received the Polityka Passport Award Artistic Residence at Stadtgalerie der Schedule,

Bern (2012), the Prize of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Poland (2009) and Graham Foundation of Chicago scholarship in 2014. His monograph, Open-Ended, has been published by Jovis Verlag (Berlin, 2013) and his work has been included in SHOOTING SPACE: ARCHITECTURE IN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY (Phaidon) and in Modern Forms. A Subjective Atlas of 20th-century Architecture, edited by Elias Redstone and Alona Pardo. Which has been part of individual and collective exhibitions in different parts of Europe and America: All Pales Before The Book at PhotoEspaña (Centro de Arte de Alcobendas, Madrid), Modern Forms. A Subjective Atlas of 20th-century Architecture, Architectural Association School of Architecture of London, La Memoria Finally Arte in Poland dal 1989-2015 in Galleria Civica di Modena (2016) Viewfinder in the Signum Foundation of Poznan and

Lost in Architecture, Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Slupsk in 2015, A glass shard in the eye (with Olga Mokrzycka) in BWA Warszawa Warsaw and The Oval Offices, Maison de la Photographie, Lille (2014), a project that exhibited in 2013 at the Presidential Palace of the Republic of Poland and the State Gallery of Art, Sopot, and elsewhere such as Bunkier Sztuki in Krakow, Graham Foundation, Chicago, Raster Gallery, Warsaw, Signum Foundation of Venice, Artist's House, Jerusalem, Ecco-Espacao Cultural Contemporaneo, Brasilia, Kunsthalle, Bratislava, National Art Museum of China, Beijing. His work is present in collections such as the National Museum in Warsaw, Poland, Rubell Family Collection, Jan Michalski Foundation Switzerland, Coleccion Los Bragales, Coleccions DKV, Signum Foundation Collection, ARUP Collection, APT Collection, PAMM Miami, Jozami Collection and the 21st Century Museum.