Biography
Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz
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.
Their recent work, "Les Gayrillères", featuring choreographers/performers Harry Alexander, Julie Cunningham, Werner Hirsch, Nach, Joy Alpuerto Ritter, Aaliyah Thanisha, is currently on view at Whitechapel Gallery London. "(No) Time", featuring choreographers/performers Julie Cunningham, Werner Hirsch, Joy Alpuerto Ritter, Aaliyah Thanisha premiered at Frac Bretagne and was shown at Seoul Mediacity Biennale and Museo CA2M in Madrid. "Moving Backwards", featuring choreographers/ performers Latifa Laâbissi, Werner Hirsch, Julie Cunningham, Marbles Jumbo Radio and Nach premiered at the Swiss Pavillon of the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019 and will be shown next year at Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Telepathic Improvisation" with performance by Marwa Arsanios, MPA, Ginger Brooks Takahashi and Werner Hirsch, premiered in 2017 at Participant, New York, and was shown at the Hammer Museum in "Witch Hunt" in 2021.
Recent solo exhibitions include "Il cristal es mi piel - Glass Is My Skin" - on view at Crystal Palace Madrid / Museo Reina Sofia until April 2023 - , "Portrait of a Movement" CA2M Museum Madrid (2022), "Silent Manifesto" at Kunstraum Innsbruck (2021, "(No)Time" at Frac Bretagne (2021), "Ongoing Experiments with Strangeness" at the Julia Stoschek Collection (2019), Berlin, "Telepathic Improvisation" at the Centre Culturel Suisse Paris (2018) and CAMH Houston (2017), "Portrait of an Eye" at Kunsthalle Zürich (2015) "Loving, Repeating" at Kunsthalle Wien (2015) "Patriarchal Poetry" at Badischer Kunstverein (2013), "Aftershow" at CAPC Bordeaux (2013), "Toxic Play in Two Acts" at South London Gallery (2012), and "Contagieux! Rapports contre la normalité" at the Centre d´Art Contemporain Geneva (2011).
Their work has been written about by writers and critics including Elisabeth Lebovici, Andre Lepecki, Mason Leaver-Yap, Elisabeth Lebovici, Övül Ö. Durmusoglu, Gregg Bordowitz, Antke Engel, Nana Adusei-Poku, Mathias Danbolt, Ellen Feiss or Laura Guy. Their most recent catalogue "Stages" (2022) was published by Spector Books, "Moving Backwards" (2019) was published by Skira, "Telepathic Improvisation" (2018) was published by the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, "I Want" was published by Sternberg Press (2016), "Aftershow" was published by Sternberg Press (2014).
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Solo Shows
2022
- „Il cristal es mi piel - Glass is my skin“, Crystal Palace - Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid
- „Portrait of a Movement“, Museo CA2M, Madrid
2021
- „(No) Time“, Frac Bretagne, Rennes
- „Future Traces“, Galerie Marcelle Alix, Paris
- „Silent Manifesto“, Kunstraum Innsbruck
2020
- „Staying with the Trouble“, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
- „The Right to Have Rights“, NBK, Berlin
2019
- „Moving Backwards“, Swiss Pavillon, 58th Biennale di Venezia
- „Moving Backwards“, Joan, Los Angeles
- „Ongoing Experiments with Strangeness“, Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin
2018
- „Improvisation télépathique “, Centre Culturel Suisse , Paris
- „Silent“, High Line Art, New York
2017
- „Everybody talks about the weather... we don´t“, Participant, New York
- „Silent“, Montreal, Galerie de l'UQAM
- „Silent“, Galerie Marcelle Alix, Paris
- „Telepathic Improvisation“, Contemporay Arts Museum, Houston
2016
- „The Right to Opacity“, Asakusa, Tokyo
- „To Valerie Solanas ...“, La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal
- „Two video works“, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven
2015
- „In Memoriam of Identity“, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
- „Loving, Repeating“, Kunsthalle Vienna
- „Opaque“, La Bf15, Lyon
- „Opaque“, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
- „Portrait of an Eye“, Kunstalle Zürich
- „To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of their Desperation “, Frac Franche-comté, Besançon
2014
- „Journal Notes from Backstage“, Marcelle Alix, Paris
2013
- „Aftershow“, CAPC, Bordeaux
- „Normal Work “, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts
- „Patriarchal Poetry“, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
- „To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of Their Desperation (after a score by Pauline Oliveros)“, Les Complices, Zürich
2012
- „A Toxic Play in Two Acts“, South London Gallery, London, curated by Electra
- „Toxic“, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
- „Toxic“, Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers, as part of the Triennale Paris
2011
- „No Past“, Statements, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Art Basel
- „Salomania“, Galerie Marcelle Alix, Paris
2010
- „Charming for the Revolution “, Les Complices, Zürich
- „Contagieux! Rapports contre la normalité“, Centre d´Art, Geneve
- „Salomania“, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
2009
- „N.O.Body“, Swiss Institute, New York
- „Salomania“, O.T, Luzern
- „Salomania“, Les Complices, Zürich
2008
- „Normal Work“, Galerie Arquebuse, Geneve
- „Normal Work“, Galerie 44, Toronto
- „Normal Work“, Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt
- „Normal Work“, Les Complices, Zürich
- „Normal Work“, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Dolores, Amsterdam
Group Shows (selection)
2022
- „A Lasting Thruth is Change“, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven
- „A wake-up song, Mr President“, Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Jaou Photo, Tunis
- „Fun Feminism“, Gegenwart Kunstmuseum, Basel
- „La fabrique du nous - des voix traversées“, I.A.C. Villeurbanne
- „La fugitive“, Crédac, Ivry
- „Moving Bodies, Moving Images“, Whitechapel Gallery, London
- „Queer“, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
- „TO BE SEEN. Queer Lives“, NS Documentationzentrum, Munich
- „Time Out of Joint“, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz
- „Ultra Super New Gallery“, Harakuju, Japan
- „Vanishing Act“, Sum Gallery, Vancouver
2021
- „1 escape at a Time“, Mediacity Biennale, Seoul
- „Do you hear us?“, Istituto Svizzero, Roma
- „Intimacy and spectacle in the age of social media“, Sofia Art Projects, Sofia
- „La ressource de l’intime“, Centre Pompidoux, Paris
- „No linear fucking time“, BAK, Utrecht
- „The Illusion of the End“, Mudam, Luxembourg
- „The Middle Land“, Arko Art Center, Seoul
- „Tremblements“, Musée National de Monaco
- „When the Subversive Stitches“, Le Commun, Geneva
- „Witch Hunt“, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
- „_Abstract-Contact“, curated by Francis Baudevin, Galerie Mark Müller, Zürich
2020
- „A River Waits Reply“, Kadist foundation, San Francisco
- „Brokenness“, MOCA, Skopje
- „Dance First, Think Later“, Le Commun, Genève
- „Freedom is Outside the Skin“, Kunsthal 44, Moen
- „Jindřich Chalupecký Award“, Plato, Ostrava
- „Matter of Art Biennale“, Prague
- „Moving Backwards“, Theatre de l´Arsenic, Lausanne
- „Our Present“, MKG, Siegen
- „Sound Off“, Lace, Los Angeles
- „Sâr Dubnotal“, CAC Bretigny
2019
- „Art encounters Biennale“, Timisoara
- „Automatismes Ambulatoire: Hysteria, Imitation, Performance“, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville
- „De l'amitié“, Galerie Marcelle Alix, Paris
- „Kiss my Genders“, Hayward Gallery, London
- „Political Presence“, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
- „Starke Stücke - Feminismen und Geographien“, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken
- „Straying from the Line“, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin
- „This Is My Body“, Le Delta, Namur
- „Winning by Losing“, CentroCentro, Madrid
- „You’ve Never Seen the Lonely Me at All“, Skaneskonst, Malmö
2018
- „A Grammar Built with Rocks“, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, Los Angeles
- „A Study in Scarlet“, Le Plateau, Paris
- „Biennale de Rennes“, Rennes
- „Could Be (An Arrow): A Reading of la Coleccion Jumex“, Jumex Museum, Mexico
- „Essayer encore, rater encore, rater mieux“, Espace Le Commun, Genève
- „Flâneuses?“, La Box, Bourges
- „General Rehearsal“, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
- „Hidden Workers“, Coreanna Museum of Art, Seoul
- „Kathy Acker, Get Rid of Meaning“, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
- „Queer Stories“, Tranzit.sk, Bratislava
- „Somatechnics“, Museo d’Arte Moderna et Contemporanea di Bolzano
- „Soon enough: Art in Action“, Tensta Konstall, Stockholm
- „Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender Resistance“, Nottingham Contemporary
- „Tashweesh“, Medrar for Contemporary Art, Cairo
- „Vos désirs sont les nôtres“, Triangle France, Marseilles
2017
- „A Trigger: Gender as Tool as Weapon“, New Museum, New York
- „Among other things I’ve taken up smoking“, Tent, Rotterdam
- „Biennale of Moving Image“, Faena Art, Miami Beach
- „Biennale of Moving Image “, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
- „Coming out “, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
- „New Aquisitions “, Philadelphia Museum of Art
- „Nora “, Garage, Rotterdam
- „Nuit Blanche “, Paris
- „Odarodle - Sittengeschichte eines Naturmysteriums, 1535-2017“, Schwules Museum, Berlin
- „Pórtate Bien (Behave Yourself) “, Museo de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia
- „Reframing Worlds“, NGBK, Berlin
- „The resistance of transparency“, Centro Párraga, Murcia
- „To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of their Desperation“, The Cinema, Plymouth Arts Center
- „Wild - Transgender and the Communities of Desire“, Edith Ruth Haus, Oldenburg
2016
- „1.-3. Person Singular“, Kunstverein Leipzig
- „Biennale of Moving Image“, Centre d´art / Mamco, Geneva
- „Collection. Territories and Fictions. Thinking a New Way of the World“, Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid
- „Cosi Fan Tutte“, Video Art Centre, Verona
- „Feminism is Politics! “, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York
- „Gwangju Biennale “, Gwangju
- „Il y a de l´autre “, Rencontres photographiques d'Arles
- „Islas Nuevas “, Galería Macchina, Santiago
- „Our Heart Is a Foreign Country (Friendship as an alternative in a normal world) “, Tranzit, FKSE Studio Gallery, Budapest
- „Sound Fields“, Beirut Art Center (BAC)
- „Video“, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
2015
- „Alfred Jarry Archipelago : La Valse des pantins I“, Le Quartier, centre d'art contemporain, Quimper
- „All Men Will Be Sisters“, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź
- „Andy Warhol, stars of the silver screen“, TIFF Lightbox, Toronto
- „Bring Your Own Body: Transgender Between Archives and Aesthetics “, 41 Cooper Gallery, New york and The Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago
- „Cine Esquema Novo Expandido: Forum Berlinale“, Cinemateca Capitólio, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- „Doors Open “, Forum Expanded Berlinale , Akademie der Künste, Berlin
- „Feminine Futures – The Membrane of the Dream & The Membrane of the Real“, Museum Langmatt, Baden
- „Gelecek Queer “, Ark Kültür, Istambul
- „Haunting“, Firstdraft, Sydney
- „Ident-alter-ity, 5th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art“, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
- „La vérité des apparences (Truth of appearances)“, La Tôlerie Art Center, Clermont-Ferrand
- „Nascent States“, Waterside Contemporary, London
- „Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz, Melanie Bonajo, Terence Nance“, Parse Gallery, New Orleans
- „She Devil “, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
- „Videonale “, Kunstmuseum Bonn
2014
- „8. Tanznacht Berlin 2014“, Galerie Patrick Ebensperger, Berlin
- „About glass ceilings and sticky floors “, Kunstverein Wegenhallen, Stuttgart
- „Fringe Film Art Fest“, Rose Lipman Building, London
- „Humainnonhumain“, Fondation Ricard, Paris
- „Le Rire, un parcours jaune “, Centre d'art contemporain du Pays de Lorient
- „Now Showing “, Caroll/Fletcher, London
- „Of Other Bodies“, Centre for Contemporary Art, Derry~Londonderry
- „Sequins, Self & Struggle“, Centre for Curating the Archive at Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town
- „The Missing Stories“, CAFAM Biennial, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing
- „The Other Sight“, CAC Vilnius
- „The Yvonne Rainer Project - Lives of Performers“, Ferme du Buisson, Paris
- „Transformers“, Beursschouwburg, Bruxelles
- „Wie wir leben wollen “, Shedhalle, Zürich
- „You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows“, Hollybush Gardens, London
2013
- „A Museum of Gesture“, La Capella, Institut de Cultura de Barcelona
- „Bad Girls“, Fonds régional d’art contemporain de Lorraine, Metz
- „Disabled by Normality“, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague
- „Disobedience Archive (The Republic) “, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin
- „Désirs sans destin“, Théâtre Saint Gervais, Genève
- „Economy“, Stills, Edinburgh
- „Fais un effort pour te souvenir, ou à défaut invente“, Bétonsalon, Paris
- „Good Girls-Memory, Desire, Power“, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest
- „Lips Painted Red“, Trondheim Kunstmuseum
- „Make-up, at Antonia Baehr and Werner Hirsch's table“, Beursschouwburg, Brussel
- „Per Speculum Me Video“, Frankfurter Kunstverein
- „The Grand Domestic Revolution“, Centre for Contemporary Art, Derry~Londonderry, Northern Ireland
- „The Grand Domestic Revolution GOES ON“, City of Women Festival , Ljubljana
- „The only performances that make it all the way …“, Künstlerhaus Graz
2012
- „Accrochage“, Musée d´Art, Lausanne
- „Buy My Bananas“, Kate Werble Gallery, New York
- „Impulse(s) “, Musée Felicien Rops, Namur
- „Intense Proximity“, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
- „La jeunesse est un art“, Kunsthaus Aarau
- „Many Colored Hands Placed Side By Side... “, Réfectoire des Nonnes, Lyon
- „Masquerade“, Coreana museum of Art, Seoul
- „Plus ou moins sorcières“, Maison Populaire, Montreuil, Paris
- „Reality Manifestos“, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Wien
- „Rentmeister, Boudry/ Lorenz, Ottersbach“, Tobias Naehring, Leipzig
- „Rosa Arbeitet auf goldener Strasse “, Akademie der Künste , Vienna
- „The Grand Domestic Revolution“, The Showroom, London
2011
- „Accrochage“, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
- „All I Can See is the Management“, Gasworks, London
- „Chewing the Scenery“, Theatre Fondamenta Nove, 54th Venice Biennale
- „Coming after“, The Power Plant, Toronto
- „Historical Structures“, Alte Fabrik, Rapperswil
- „Junge Kunst“, Kunsthaus Zürich
- „K.Acker : The Office“, Galerie de la Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille
- „Playground Festival“, Stuk, Leuven
- „Re.Act.Feminism #2 – a performing archive“, Centro Cultural Monterhermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz
- „The Grand Domestic Revolution“, Casco, Utrecht
- „Untold Stories“, Kunsthalle Tallinn
2010
- „Accrochage“, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
- „Gender Blending“, Galerie Michel Journiac, Paris
- „Lecture Performances“, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
- „N.O.Body with Antonia Baehr“, Aichi Triennale, Japan
2009
- „Bertha von Suttner Revisited“, Harmannsburg
- „Everywhere“, CGAC, Santiago de Compostela
- „Lecture Performances“, Kunstverein Köln
- „Mother Festival“, Hayarkon 70, Tel Aviv
- „Swiss Awards“, Basel
2008
- „And then we take Berlin...“, Substitut, Berlin
- „Contrasenas“, Monterhermoso Cultural Center, Monterhermoso
- „Femmes´r us“, Radialsystem, Berlin
- „Make out!“, Studio 44, Stockholm
- „Sex brennt!“, Charité Museum, Berlin
2007
- „Du Nord“, Musée des Beaux-Arts, lausanne
- „Eau Sauvage“, Fieldgate Gallery, London
- „Lost & Found“, Shedhalle, Zürich
- „Normal Love“, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
- „Oh girl, it's a boy!“, Kunstverein, München
- „Swiss Awards“, Basel
Prizes/Scholarships
2018
- „Residency New York“, Senat, Berlin
2016
- „Residency New York“, Canton de Vaud
2013
- „Stiftung Kunstfonds“, Bonn
2012
- „Paris-Atelier Cité des Arts“, Canton de Vaud
- „Résidence aux Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers“, Paris
2011
- „Paris-Atelier Cité des Arts “, Senat, Berlin
2010
- „Accrochage“, musee des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
- „Katalogförderung“, Senat, Berlin
2009
- „Swiss art awards“
2008
- „Bourse arts plastiques Vaud“
2007
- „Film- und Videoförderung des Künsterlinnenprogramms Berlin“
- „Swiss art awards“
2004
- „Projektförderung im Bereich Bildende Kunst des Senats“
- „Swiss art awards“