Caroline Mesquita

Selected Works

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Caroline Mesquita - Portraits

Biography

Born in Brest, France in 1989, Caroline Mesquita lives and works between Marseille and Brest. Mesquita holds an MA from Beaux-Arts de Paris where she graduated in 2013. She is one of today’s most respected sculptors in the contemporary art scene. Caroline Mesquita’s sculptural practice intertwines the materiality of her altered, oxidized and painted brass sheets with theatrical playfulness. In many of her sculptural installations, Mesquita explores the vitality and complexity of group behavior. Raw material provides the spark that animates her narrative engagement with notions of religion, embodiment, transformation, sensuality, and sociability. Mesquita’s works are darkened, patinated and roughly textured through an oxidation process. With this technique, Mesquita manipulates the metal like a form of painting. What was once shiny, reflective and glossy is cut, ground, welded, melted and oxidized to reveal the many elements within; shifting in texture and in tone, becoming matte, green, brown and pink. These material transformations provide a format for storytelling about the human experience and the directness of action and exchange in relationships.

Gallery Exhibitions

Other Venues

Selected Press

09.02.2022
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
‘Noctambules’ Review: The Surrealist Art of Caroline Mesquita
28.01.2022
GLASSTIRE
Oneiric Ornament: Caroline Mesquita at the Blaffer Art Museum
2022
CURA.
Caroline Mesquita in conversation with Martha Kirszenbaum
18.09.2019
FINESTRE SUR ARTE
La giovane artista francese Caroline Mesquita in mostra a Milano alla Fondazione Pomodoro
06.02.2018
ARTFORUM
Caroline Mesquita
2018
ARTFORUM
CAROLINE MESQUITA
29.11.2017
ARTRIBUNE
Il mondo delle relazioni. Caroline Mesquita a Roma
23.10.2017
NUMÉRO
Qui est Caroline Mesquita, grande lauréate du prix de la Fondation d'entreprise Ricard ?

From the studio: Caroline Mesquita

Studio Visit

Inside the studio: Caroline Mesquita
Caroline Mesquita talks about her artistic practice and her studio life in Marseille.
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Education

2014

MSA, The Mountain School of Art, Los Angeles

2010 – 2013

MA Beaux-arts de Paris, Jury Honors, France

2007 – 2010

BA Beaux-arts de Rennes, France

Solo exhibitions

2024

‘Blue Hour’, Sala Santa Rita, Rome (Upcoming)
‘Verdet Bath’, HALLE FÜR KUNST, Steiermark (Upcoming)
‘Eggo’, T293, Rome
‘CuCo & CO’, HAB Galerie, Nantes, France
‘The thieving magpie’, Hermès Window, Venice

2023

‘Art Club#37’, Villa Medicis, Rome
Bourse du travail Centre d’art, Valence, France

2022

‘Mid-Way’, Kunstforum Montafon, duo with Hans Schabus, Austria
‘Noctambules’, CAN, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
‘Mondi de ides’, Le Parvis, Tarbes
‘Portraits’, T293 Rome

2021

‘Noctambules’, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston

2020

‘IN VIVO’, Pivô, São Paulo, Brazil
‘Le Festin’, Passarelle Centre d’art Contemporain, Brest, France

2019

‘La Casa dell’Eremita sul Naviglio’, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan
‘Astray’, carlier | gebauer galerie, Berlin
‘Astray’, Galerie Municipal do Porto, Portugal

2018

‘Astray (Prologue)’, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon
‘Os & Oas’ (with Tore Wallert), Jo Brand, Glasgow
‘The Machine Room’, Art Basel | Parcours, Barfüsser Kirche, Basel

2017

‘Night Engines’, T293, Rome, Italy
‘L’engin’, Indiana, RATS collectif, Vevey, Switzerland
‘The Visitors’, SALTS, Birsfelden, Switzerland
‘The Ballad’, 221A, Vancouver
‘The Ballad’, Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris

2016

‘Pink everywhere’, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Langenhagen, Germany
‘Cream Sacrifice’, Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh
‘Some blue in my mouth’, MOT International, Brussels

2015

‘123 Soleil’, abc art berlin contemporary, Berlin
‘Windsurfers’, carlier | gebauer, Berlin
‘Bal’, SpazioA, Pistoia, Italy
‘Camping’, Union Pacific, London
‘Sloths’, Pavillon, Centre d’art du Parc-Saint-Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux, France

2014

‘Les Bains-Douches’, Les Bains-Douches, Alençon, France

2013

‘Tube’, 1m3, Lausanne, Switzerland

Group exhibitions

2022

‘L’amie modèle’, Mucem, France
‘Modernités cosmiques’, Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence, France
‘Festival Iminente’, Mucem, Marseille, France

2021

‘Capsule’, Buropolis, Marseille, France
‘La Diosa Verde’, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Guadalajara
‘La Quinzaine Radieuse #13’, Piacé le radieux, France

2020

‘Sur pierres brûlantes’, Triangle France, Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
‘Unterschiedswesen’, Von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland
‘Your friends and neighbors’, High Art, Paris, France

2019

‘Futur, ancient fugitif’, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
‘The Assembled Human’, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
‘Cosmologic Arrows’, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm
‘Fallen empires and refound desires’, Horst, Vilvoorde, Belgium
‘Big Orchestra’, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt
‘La déesse verte’, Eldorado Lille 3000, Lille, France

2018

‘The Gravity show’. Grisebach Gallery, Berlin
‘GRAND OPENING (SUMMER RAPSODHY)’, KURA. at Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, Milan
‘Post-disaster Residencies’, Stadium de Vitrolles, France
‘Salle des Pas-Perdus’, DOC, Paris
‘Voici des fleurs’, la loge, Brussels
‘One long changing body’, Galerie carlier | gebauer, Berlin
‘CONDO’, Union pacific, London

2017

‘Les bons sentiments’, 19th Fondation d’entreprise Ricard Prize, Paris
‘Sticky Fingers’, Arsenal Contemporary, New York
‘Tender Comrades’, Studioli-Roma, Italy
‘Summer Show’, Carl Kostyal, Stockholm
‘NOTHING TO HIDE’, Sans Titre (2016), Paris
‘Parisque’, DOC, Paris

2016

‘COOL MEMORIES’, Occidental Temporary, Villejuif, France
‘I pledge allegiance’, On Stellar Rays, New York
‘Lodos’, Material Art Fair, Mexico City

2015

‘Mon horizontalité’, Saint-Ouen, France
‘Maladie d’amour’, Lili Reynaud Dewar’s studio, Grenoble, France
‘Le Bal Jaune special project’, Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard, Paris

2014

‘Explore’, FRAC Ile-de-France, Le Château de Rentilly, Bussy, Saint-Martin, France
‘Europe, Europe’, The Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
‘Possibles d’un Monde Fragmenté’, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris
‘The Space Between Us’, Flax Foundation, Los Angeles
‘Memory Palaces’, carlier | gebauer, Berlin
‘Speedboat’, Nicelle Beauchene, New York
‘MOMENTUM? MAYBE THE TIME HAS COME TO LIVE OUR CORPORALITY RATHER THAN SPEAK OUR SEXUALITY’, PSM-Gallery, Berlin

2013

‘La Vie Materielle’, 15ème Prix Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris
‘Barbarie’, La Generale en Manufacture, Sevres, France
‘La Salon des Testeurs’, Chalet Society, Paris

2012

‘Rob Pruitt’s Flea Market’, Monnaie de Paris, Paris
‘BYOB’, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
‘Skypy gang archange’, Le Commissariat, Chez Treize, Paris

2011

‘Nul PTYX’, Cité internationale des arts, Paris