Born in 1974
Lives and works in Lausanne, Switzerland
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009
Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich
Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY
2008
Secession, Vienna, Austria
Praz-Delavalade, Berlin, Germany
Galerie Francesca Pia, Zürich, Switzerland
Kunstverein, Bonn, Switzerland
2007
Screening, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA
Undercover, Kunstraum Walchetrum, Zürich, Switzerland
And on to the discotheque comrade?, with James Fry and Scott King, Fri-art, Fribourg, Germany
2006
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Genève, Switzerland
Vista Vision, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
Plate 28, Swiss institute, New York, NY, USA
2005
Komaniko, Mamco, Genève, Switzerland
General Dynamics, with Vincent Szarek and Loïc Raguenes, Synagogue de Delme Centre d’art contemporain, Delme, France
Nowherenow, Kunstaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland
2003
That’s the image I want, Glassbox, Paris, France
2002
Go for a ride, Le Hall, Enba, Lyon, France
Prix Manor, Elac, Lausanne, Switzerland (cat.)
2001
Galerie Patrick Roy, Lausanne, Switzerland
2000
Le Rez, Musée cantonal des Beaux Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
1998
Permanent show, Lausanne, Switzerland
Galerie Tutti Edition, Verduno, Italy
1997
Rien que pour vous, Lausanne, Switzerland
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
Notorious, Le Plateau / Frac Ile-de-France, Paris, France
Reinvented: Study and Play, Galerie Jan Wentrup, Berlin, Germany
L’exposition continue, curated by Mathieu Copeland, 1m3 & Circuit, Lausanne, Switzerland
Abstraction Extension, curated by Christian Besson, Julien Fronsacq, and Samuel Gross, Chateau d'Arenthon, Alex, France
Fade In / Fade Out, Bloomberg Space, London, England
Le Spectarium (les fantômes dans la machine), Cité le Corbusier, Pavillon Suisse, Cité internationale universitaire, Paris, France
THE ETERNALFLAME, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland
Toute la collection du Frac (ou presque), MAC/VAL, Vitry-sur Seine, France
Abstraction étendue - Une scène romandes et ses connexions, Espace de l'Art Concret/ Château de Mouans, Mouans-Sartoux, France
No picture available, Galerie Art & Essai, Rennes, France
Rolf Ricke Collection, Villa Merkel, Germany
2007
Rooms, Conversations, Le Plateau, Frac Ile-de-France, Paris, France
A moitié carré, à moitié fou, Villa Arson, Nice, France
White Light Write It, Lieu Commun, Toulouse, France
Secondary Structures, KIT/Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
At Home In The Universe, curated by John Armleder, Art Center Mongin, Korea, South Korea
Introvert, Extrovert, Makes no difference, Galerie Catherine Issert, St. Paul de Venve, France
The Freak Show, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
The Happiness of Objects, Sculpture Center, New York, USA
At Home in the Universe, Mongin Art Center, Séoul, South Korea
Painting as Fact and Fact as Painting, curated by Bob Nikas, de Pury & Luxembourg, Zürich, Switzerland
Kunstart / acceleration, Usine Suchard/Can, Neuchatel, Switzerland
Peintures Aller/Retour, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France
Acceleration, curated by Gautrhier Huber & Arthur de Pury, CAN, Neuchatel, Switzerland
AMoitié Carré AMoitié Fou, curated by Lili Reynaud Dewar, Vincent Pécoil, Elisabeth Wetterwald, Villa Arson, Nice, France
2006
Cinq Milliards d’Années, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
black/white & chewing gum, Galerie Krobath Wimmer, Vienna, Austria
My mirrors are painting black, curated by Banks Violette, Bortolami Dayan, New York, NY, USA
Bring the War Home, curated by Drew Heitzler, Elizabeth Dee, New York, NY and QED, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Hradacany, La Générale, Paris, France
Surfaces Polyphoniques, CRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Sète, France
Branding, centre PasquArt, Bienne, Switzerland
Objets d’hier et d’aujourd’hui, Galerie Edouard Manet, Gennevilliers, France
Supernova, Domaine Pommery, Reims, France
2005
HERENOWHERE, Kunstaus Baseland, Basel, Switzerland
L’humanité mise à nu et l’art en frac, même, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Galerie Rolf Ricke, Köln, Germany
Les abris antiatomiques de l’ARSENIC, Geneva, Switzerland
Shimmy II, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Especial, Galerie Shmidt Maczollek, Cologne, Germany
Decrauzat, Dafflon, Kropf, sur une proposition d’Olivier Mosset, Verney-Carron, Villeurbanne, France
Odiseado tra tempo, curated by Charlotte Mailler, Peter Kilchmann Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland
2004
Sensations suisse, Place Vendôme, Paris, France
La piste noire, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris, France
None of The Above, curated by John Armleder, Swiss institute New York, New York, USA
The Age Of Optimism, No Picture Available, with Francis Baudevin and Stéphane Dafflon, Peter Kilchmann Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland
La Lettre volée, Musée des Beaux Arts de Dôle, Dôle, France
Circa Circé, Forde, Genève, Switzerland
Programm VIII, Galerie Rolph Ricke, Köln, Germany
Unter 30”, Museum Liner,Appenzell, Switzerland (cat.)
En mouvement, Galerie Jean Brolly, Paris, France
Jour d’hypnose, Le Rectangle, Lyon, France
Hot Lunch, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland
5 Billion Years, Swiss Institute, New York, NY, USA
Circuit, Galerie Arte Ricambi, Verona, Italy
2003
Galerie Lovenbruck, Paris, France
La partie continue, Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine, Paris, France (cat.)
Dessins, Galerie Jean Brolly, Paris, France
Meanwhile in the real world, Chapelle de La Sorbonne, Paris, France
Lee 3 Tau Ceti Central Armory Show, Villa Arson, Nice, France (cat.)
Des voisinages, Le Plateau, Paris, France
Drawing by numbers, Glassbox, Paris, France
MURSOLAICI, Centre culturel Suisse, Paris, France
2002
GDM, Paris, France
Rétrospective des prix Manor, Elac, Lausanne, Switzerland
Les heures claires, Villa Savoye, Poissy, France (cat.)
Help, Elac, Lausanne, Switzerland
Inside the sixties, MCBA, Lausanne, France (cat.)
FRI-ART 81, Fri-art, Fribourg, Germany
BCV art, Musée Jenish, Vevey, France (cat.)
2001
Perspectives romandes 3, Musée Arlaud, Lausanne, Switzerland (cat.)
Record collection, Forde, Genève, Switzerland
Quotidien aidé (les locataires), ESBA, Tours, France
2000
The doors, Luzerne, Switzerland
Barcelone Art Contemporain(BAC), CC La Santa, Barcelone, Spain (cat.)
CIRCUIT, Galerie éof, Paris, France
1999
Celeste & Eliot Kunstsalon, Zürich, Switzerland
Carte Blanche, Paris, France
Scène Ouverte, Nouvelle galerie, Grenoble, France
1998
Circuit, Lausanne, Switzerland
Commerce, Galerie Gaxotte, Porrentruy, France
In Vitro, alternative spaces, Zürich, Switzerland
(…), Casablanca, Marocco
MAC, Lausanne, Switzerland
Villa Gracieuse 5, Lausanne, Switzerland
SCREENINGS
Vox Popull Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2007
Fronsacq, Julien, "Philippe Decrauzat - CAC Genève," Frog, Spring/Summer, p 100-103
Baumann, Daniel, "Undercover," Spike, Spring
"Un chef d’orchestre de la perception," Beaux-Arts Magazine, no. 272, February
Gross, Samuel, "L’exposition du spectateur – le jeu spatial de Philippe Decrauzat," Kunstbulletin, January/February
Houston, Joe, "Optic Nerve: Perceptual Art of the 1960’s," Columbus Museum, USA (cat.)
2006
Carmine, Giovanni, "OP& LOW," 20/27, no. 1
Pécoil, Vincent, "Op-ed World: Philippe Decrauzat," Contemporary no. 82
Velasco, David, "Review about the show in the Swiss Institute," Artforum, October
Grandjean, Emmanuel, "Vertige au Centre d’art avec Philippe Decrauzat," Tribune de Genève, November 4
Derieux, Florence, Flash Art, March-April
Davies, Lillian, "Paris, Critics’ Picks: Philippe Decrauzat," Artforum.com, February
Lavrador, Judicael, "Art élastique," Les Inrockuptibles, January
Demousseaux, Astrid, Paris-art.com, January
"Visual Effect," Vogue, January, p78
2005
Francblin, Catherine, "Art Cinétique, la sortie du purgatoire," Art press, no. 314, July/August
Link, Christina, "Art Premiere," Art Investor
Wahler, M.-0., "Dossier Paraminimal – Entretien avec Marc-Olivier Wahler," 02 – revue d’art contemporain, Summer
2003
"Progress Report – Entretien avec Fabrice Stroun," édition Les Presses du Réel (cat.)
COLLECTIONS
Kunsthaus Zürich
FRAC Languedoc-Rousillon
Fond National d’Art Contemporain (FNAC)
FRAC Franche-Comté
Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne
Collection Julius Baer
Collection de la Banque Cantonale Vaudoise
Collection d’art Swiss Life Groupe
Collection des Assurances Bâloise
Collection LVMH
Collection de la Banque Nationale Suisse
FRAC Nord Pas-de-Calais
