artist
Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz
Microphone piece, 2022
8 microphones with stands, chains
variable dimensions
unique
Exhibition view 'Explicite Lyrique', 2025, Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole
Marcelle Alix, Paris
8 microphones with stands, chains
variable dimensions
unique
Exhibition view 'Explicite Lyrique', 2025, Marcelle Alix, Paris. Photo: Aurélien Mole
Marcelle Alix, Paris
Microphone piece, 2022
Microphone piece, 2022
Microphone piece, 2022
Microphone piece, 2022
Microphone piece, 2022
Microphone piece, 2022
Les Gayrillères, 2022
Installation with two-channel video (projection and LED)
18 min
ed 5 + 2
Installation with two-channel video (projection and LED)
18 min
ed 5 + 2
Wall Necklace Piece (otherworldly III), 2022
chains and snap hooks
280 x 170 x 220 cm
unique
photo: Luca Girardini
chains and snap hooks
280 x 170 x 220 cm
unique
photo: Luca Girardini
Wall Necklace Piece (otherworldly I), 2022
Chains and snap hooks
280 x 170 x 220 cm
unique
photo: Studio Shapiro
Chains and snap hooks
280 x 170 x 220 cm
unique
photo: Studio Shapiro
Wig Piece (I Feel My Story's Still Untold), 2021
felt, artificial hair, metal
300 x 180 cm
unique
exhibition view, CA2M, 2022
photo: Jorge Anguita Mirón
felt, artificial hair, metal
300 x 180 cm
unique
exhibition view, CA2M, 2022
photo: Jorge Anguita Mirón
Wig Piece (I Feel My Story's Still Untold), 2021
Wig Piece (I Feel My Story's Still Untold), 2021 (detail)
photo: Jorge Anguita Mirón
Wig Piece (I Feel My Story's Still Untold), 2021 (detail)
photo: Jorge Anguita Mirón
(No) Time, 2020
Installation with HD video and 3 synchronized blinds
20 min
ed 5 + 2 + 2 HC
courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
Installation with HD video and 3 synchronized blinds
20 min
ed 5 + 2 + 2 HC
courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
(No) Time, 2020
Dancefloor Piece (rhythmic modes of belonging IV), 2021
Dance mats
300 x 380 cm
unique
exhibition view, Marcelle Alix, 2021
photo: Aurélien Mole
Dance mats
300 x 380 cm
unique
exhibition view, Marcelle Alix, 2021
photo: Aurélien Mole
Dancefloor Piece (rhythmic modes of belonging IV), 2021
Dancefloor Piece (rhythmic modes of belonging IV), 2021 Tapis de danse 300 x 380 cm unique Exhibition view Marcelle Alix, 2021, photo: Aurélien Mole Courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
Dancefloor Piece (rhythmic modes of belonging IV), 2021 Tapis de danse 300 x 380 cm unique Exhibition view Marcelle Alix, 2021, photo: Aurélien Mole Courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
Dancefloor Piece (rhythmic modes of belonging VI), 2021
Dance mats
200 x 200 cm
unique
exhibition view, Marcelle Alix, 2021
photo: Aurélien Mole
Dance mats
200 x 200 cm
unique
exhibition view, Marcelle Alix, 2021
photo: Aurélien Mole
Untitled, 2021
faux leather, artificial hair, metal
90 x 70 cm
ed 5 + 2
exhibition view, Marcelle Alix, 2021
photo: Aurélien Mole
faux leather, artificial hair, metal
90 x 70 cm
ed 5 + 2
exhibition view, Marcelle Alix, 2021
photo: Aurélien Mole
Untitled, 2021
Untitled, 2021 faux leather, artificial hair, metal ed 5 + 2 Exhibition view Marcelle Alix, 2021, photo: Aurélien Mole Courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
Untitled, 2021 faux leather, artificial hair, metal ed 5 + 2 Exhibition view Marcelle Alix, 2021, photo: Aurélien Mole Courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
Untitled, 2021
Untitled, 2021 faux leather, artificial hair, metal ed 5 + 2 Exhibition view Marcelle Alix, 2021, photo: Aurélien Mole Courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
Untitled, 2021 faux leather, artificial hair, metal ed 5 + 2 Exhibition view Marcelle Alix, 2021, photo: Aurélien Mole Courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
Dancefloor Piece (rhythmic modes of belonging III), 2020
Dance mats
210 x 210 cm
unique
Exhibition view FRAC Bretagne, 2021
photo: Aurélien Mole
Dance mats
210 x 210 cm
unique
Exhibition view FRAC Bretagne, 2021
photo: Aurélien Mole
Dancefloor Piece (rhythmic modes of belonging I), 2020
Dance mats
340 x 330 cm
unique
exhibition view, FRAC Bretagne, 2021
photo: Aurélien Mole
Dance mats
340 x 330 cm
unique
exhibition view, FRAC Bretagne, 2021
photo: Aurélien Mole
Dancefloor Piece (rhythmic modes of belonging II), 2020
Dance mats
380 x 240 cm
unique
Exhibition view, FRAC Bretagne, 2021
photo: Aurélien Mole
Dance mats
380 x 240 cm
unique
Exhibition view, FRAC Bretagne, 2021
photo: Aurélien Mole
Moving Backwards, 2019
HD video installation
21 min
ed 5 + 2 + 2 HC
courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
HD video installation
21 min
ed 5 + 2 + 2 HC
courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
Moving Backwards, 2019
Moving Backwards, 2019
exhibition view, Swiss Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2019
photo: Annik Wetter
Moving Backwards, 2019
exhibition view, Swiss Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2019
photo: Annik Wetter
Moving Backwards, 2019
Moving Backwards, 2019
exhibition view, Swiss Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2019
photo: Annik Wetter
Moving Backwards, 2019
exhibition view, Swiss Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2019
photo: Annik Wetter
Wig Piece (Entangled Phenomena X), 2019
felt, artificial hair, metal
100 x 133 cm
unique
felt, artificial hair, metal
100 x 133 cm
unique
Wig Piece (Entangled Phenomena VI) , 2019
felt, artificial hair, metal
100 x 133 cm
unique
photo: Tobias Klatt
felt, artificial hair, metal
100 x 133 cm
unique
photo: Tobias Klatt
Wig Piece (Entangled Phenomena VII) , 2019
felt, artificial hair, metal
100 x 133 cm
unique
photo: Tobias Klatt
felt, artificial hair, metal
100 x 133 cm
unique
photo: Tobias Klatt
Wig Piece (Entangled Phenomena VIII) , 2019
felt, artificial hair, metal
100 x 133 cm
unique
photo: Tobias Klatt
felt, artificial hair, metal
100 x 133 cm
unique
photo: Tobias Klatt
Wig Piece (Entangled Phenomena II) , 2017
felt, artificial hair, metal
100 x 133 cm
unique
exhibition view, Marcelle Alix, 2017
photo: Aurélien Mole
felt, artificial hair, metal
100 x 133 cm
unique
exhibition view, Marcelle Alix, 2017
photo: Aurélien Mole
Wig piece (whose body? - whose thoughts?), 2017
synthetic hair, felt
203,2 x 182 cm
unique
exhibition view, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, 2017
photo: Pablo Gimenez Zapiola
synthetic hair, felt
203,2 x 182 cm
unique
exhibition view, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, 2017
photo: Pablo Gimenez Zapiola
The Right to Have Rights, 2019
HD video
8 min
ed 5 + 2
courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
collection Bundes Sammlung (DE)
HD video
8 min
ed 5 + 2
courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
collection Bundes Sammlung (DE)
Stage Piece (Untimely Collaboration), 2018
stage elements, 4 spots, music, smoke
unique
exhibition view, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, 2018
photo: Clair Dorn
stage elements, 4 spots, music, smoke
unique
exhibition view, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, 2018
photo: Clair Dorn
Stage Piece (Untimely Collaboration), 2018
Stage Piece, 2018
exhibition view, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, 2018
photo: Clair Dorn
Stage Piece, 2018
exhibition view, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, 2018
photo: Clair Dorn
Stage Piece (Untimely Collaboration), 2018
Stage Piece, 2018
exhibition view, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, 2018
photo: Clair Dorn
Stage Piece, 2018
exhibition view, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, 2018
photo: Clair Dorn
Stage Piece (Untimely Collaboration), 2018
Stage Piece, 2018
exhibition view, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, 2018
photo: Clair Dorn
Stage Piece, 2018
exhibition view, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, 2018
photo: Clair Dorn
Stage Piece (Untimely Collaboration), 2018
Stage Piece, 2018
exhibition view, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, 2018
photo: Clair Dorn
Stage Piece, 2018
exhibition view, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, 2018
photo: Clair Dorn
he ear r, 2017
microphones, theater spots, rotating stage
stage: H 40 x diam. 150 cm
unique
exhibition view, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, 2017
photo: Pablo Gimenez-Zapiola
microphones, theater spots, rotating stage
stage: H 40 x diam. 150 cm
unique
exhibition view, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, 2017
photo: Pablo Gimenez-Zapiola
Silent, 2016
installation with HD projection
7 min
ed 5 + 2
performance: Aérea Negrot
courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
collection Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia (US)
installation with HD projection
7 min
ed 5 + 2
performance: Aérea Negrot
courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
collection Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia (US)
Telepathic Improvisation, 2016
installation with HD projection
20 min
ed 5 + 2
performance: Marwa Arsanios, MPA, Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Werner Hirsch
courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
collection frac Normandie Caen (FR)
installation with HD projection
20 min
ed 5 + 2
performance: Marwa Arsanios, MPA, Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Werner Hirsch
courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
collection frac Normandie Caen (FR)
I WANT, 2015
Installation with a double HD projection
16 min
ed 5 + 2
performance: Sharon Hayes
courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
collection Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (UK)
Installation with a double HD projection
16 min
ed 5 + 2
performance: Sharon Hayes
courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
collection Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (UK)
Please don't reduce me to a truth that I don't have generated on my own, 2014
inkjet print mounted on aluminum
28 x 40 cm
ed 5 + 2
courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
inkjet print mounted on aluminum
28 x 40 cm
ed 5 + 2
courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
Please don't reduce me to a truth that I don't have generated on my own, 2014
inkjet print mounted on aluminum
28 x 40 cm
ed 5 + 2
courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
inkjet print mounted on aluminum
28 x 40 cm
ed 5 + 2
courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
Please don't reduce me to a truth that I don't have generated on my own, 2014
inkjet print mounted on aluminum
28 x 40 cm
ed 5 + 2
courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
inkjet print mounted on aluminum
28 x 40 cm
ed 5 + 2
courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
Opaque, 2014
Installation with Super 16mm film / HD video
10 min
ed 5 + 2
courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
collection FRAC Lorraine, Metz (FR)
Installation with Super 16mm film / HD video
10 min
ed 5 + 2
courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
collection FRAC Lorraine, Metz (FR)
To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of their Desperation, 2013
installation of a Super 16mm film transferred to HD file
18 min
ed 5 + 2
courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
collection FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon (FR)
installation of a Super 16mm film transferred to HD file
18 min
ed 5 + 2
courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
collection FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon (FR)
Toxic, 2012
installation with HD video and documentation
13 min
ed 5 + 2
exhibition view, Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers, 2012
photo: Ouidade Soussi-Chiadmi
courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
collection GAM, Torino (IT) and CNAP, Paris (FR)
installation with HD video and documentation
13 min
ed 5 + 2
exhibition view, Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers, 2012
photo: Ouidade Soussi-Chiadmi
courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
collection GAM, Torino (IT) and CNAP, Paris (FR)
No Future / No Past, 2011
installation of two Super 16mm films transferred to HD file
each film: 15 min
ed 5 + 2
courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
collection CNAP, Paris (FR)
installation of two Super 16mm films transferred to HD file
each film: 15 min
ed 5 + 2
courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
collection CNAP, Paris (FR)
No Future / No Past, 2011
No Future / No Past, 2011
installation of two Super 16mm films transferred to HD file
each film: 15 min
ed 5 + 2
courtesy Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam and Marcelle Alix, Paris
No Future / No Past, 2011
installation of two Super 16mm films transferred to HD file
each film: 15 min
ed 5 + 2
courtesy Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam and Marcelle Alix, Paris
Salomania, 2009
installation with HD video and 13 black and white documents
video: 17 min
ed 5 + 2
courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
collections Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid (ES) and Kadist Foundation, Paris (FR)
installation with HD video and 13 black and white documents
video: 17 min
ed 5 + 2
courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
collections Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid (ES) and Kadist Foundation, Paris (FR)
Salomania, 2009
Salomania, 2009
Exhibition View 'Salomania', Marcelle Alix, Paris, 2011
Photo: Aurélien Mole
Salomania, 2009
Exhibition View 'Salomania', Marcelle Alix, Paris, 2011
Photo: Aurélien Mole
Salomania, 2009
Salomania, 2009
Exhibition View 'Salomania', Marcelle Alix, Paris, 2011
Photo: Aurélien Mole
Salomania, 2009
Exhibition View 'Salomania', Marcelle Alix, Paris, 2011
Photo: Aurélien Mole
Charming for the Revolution, 2009
installation with 16mm film digitally transferred
11 min
ed 5 + 3
courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
collection Sztuki Museum, Lodz (PL)
installation with 16mm film digitally transferred
11 min
ed 5 + 3
courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
collection Sztuki Museum, Lodz (PL)
Charming for the Revolution, 2009
Charming for the Revolution, 2009
installation with 16mm film transferred to dvd and documentation
film: 11 min
ed 5 + 3
Charming for the Revolution, 2009
installation with 16mm film transferred to dvd and documentation
film: 11 min
ed 5 + 3
N.O. Body, 2008
installation with 16mm film transferred to DVD and 47 photographs
film: 15 min
ed 5 + 2
courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
collection Kunsthaus Zürich (CH)
installation with 16mm film transferred to DVD and 47 photographs
film: 15 min
ed 5 + 2
courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
collection Kunsthaus Zürich (CH)
Normal Work, 2007
installation with 13 framed documents and 16mm film transferred to HD
13 x (26 x 21 cm), film: 13 min
ed 5 + 2
courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
collections Musée de Lausanne (CH), FRAC Lorraine, Metz (FR) and Van Abbemuseum, Eindhover (NL)
installation with 13 framed documents and 16mm film transferred to HD
13 x (26 x 21 cm), film: 13 min
ed 5 + 2
courtesy Marcelle Alix, Paris & Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
collections Musée de Lausanne (CH), FRAC Lorraine, Metz (FR) and Van Abbemuseum, Eindhover (NL)
Biography
Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz have been working together in Berlin since 2007. They produce installations that choreograph the tension between visibility and opacity. Their films capture performances in front of the camera, often starting with a song, a picture, a film or a score from the near past. They upset normative historical narratives and conventions of spectatorship, as figures and actions across time are staged, layered and re-imagined. Their performers are choreographers, artists and musicians, with whom they are having a long-term conversation about the conditions of performance, the violent history of visibility, the pathologization of bodies, but also about companionship, glamour and resistance.
Recent solo shows include: ?Moving Backwards?, The Swiss Pavillon of the 58th Venice Biennale; ?Ongoing Experiments with Strangeness?, Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin (2019); Improvisation télépathique?, Centre Culturel Suisse , Paris (2018); ?Everybody talks about the weather... we don?t?, Participant, New York, ?Telepathic Improvisation?, Contemporay Arts Museum, Houston (2017); ?In Memoriam of Identity?, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, ?Loving, Repeating?, Kunsthalle Vienna, ?Portrait of an Eye?, Kunstalle Zürich (2015); ?Aftershow?, CAPC, Bordeaux (2013). Their work has also been included in may group exhibitions at The Hayward Gallery, London, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, The Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Tensta Konstall, Stockholm, The New Museum, New York, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Centre d?art contemporain de Genève, FRAC Lorraine, Castello di Rivoli, Torino among others.