Clément Cogitore


Clément Cogitore is a French contemporary artist and filmmaker. Combining film, video, installations and photographs, Cogitore questions the modalities of cohabitation between humankind and its own images and representations.
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Early life and studies

Clément Cogitore grew up in Lapoutroie, in eastern France. Studying in Strasbourg at the Academy of Applied Arts and then at Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains, Clément Cogitore developed his artistic practice at the crossroads of contemporary art and cinema.
His brother, Romain Cogitore, is also a film director.

Career

Since 2011, Cogitore’s work has been screened and exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo, MADRE, Centre Georges Pompidou, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, MACRO, Museum of Fine Arts, MoMA, MNBA, SeMA Bunker, Kunsthaus Baselland , Red Brick Art Museum, Rockbund Museum, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, MUDAM, and biennials such as the Lyon Biennial, the Berlin Biennial and the Yokohama Triennial, Japan.
In 2010, his short movie Parmi nous was awarded the Grand Prize of the European First Film Award. That same year his documentary movie Bielutine was selected for Cannes' Directors' Fortnight. In 2011 Cogitore was awarded the Grand Prize of Salon de Montrouge for contemporary art and the following year he became resident of the Villa Medici, French Academy in Rome.
In 2015, his first feature film The Wakhan Front was selected at the Cannes international film festival – Critic’s week, awarded by the Gan Foundation acclaimed by critics and nominated for the Best First Film at the César Awards Ceremony. That same year he won the BAL Prize for contemporary art. In 2016, he won the SciencesPo Prize for contemporary art and the 18th Ricard Foundation Prize for contemporary art. In 2017, Cogitore released his documentary movie Braguino.
In 2018, Clément Cogitore was awarded the Marcel Duchamp Prize for Contemporary Art, for his work The Evil Eye. Since 2018, he is teaching at the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Paris, where he directs a film director's workshop.
To celebrate its 350th anniversary, in 2019, the Opéra National de Paris has entrusted Clément Cogitore with staging the entirety of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s opera ballet, Les Indes galantes. Les Indes galantes was selected by New York Times as one of the best opera productions of 2019, nominated best opera production 2019 by the Giornale della Musica and won the Forum Opera Trophy of the best new opera production 2019. In 2020, Oper! Awards presented him with the prize for Best Director.
In 2022, his second feature film "Goutte d'or" was selected as a Special Screening at the Critics' Week of the Cannes Film Festival. The film won the Hildegarde Screenplay Award, the Best Director Award at the LEFFEST in Lisbon and the Interpretation Award at the Hainan Film Festival. In 2023, the film has been shortlisted to represent France at the Oscars.
Cogitore’s work is represented in several public collections and private collections.
Clément Cogitore is represented by Chantal Crousel Consulting, Paris and Galerie Elisabeth and Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart.

Solo shows (selection)

  • 2024 : Clément Cogitore - Indes Galantes - Joslyn Art Museum - Omaha, NE, USA - Septembre 10th 2024 - February 23, 2025. Curator : Karin Campbell
  • 2024 : Bodies in Sync - Bauhaus Museum - Dessau, Germany - April 12, 2024 - February 5, 2025. Curator : Barbara Steiner
  • 2023 : Ferdinandea - Galerie Elisabeth & Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany - November 24, 2023 - January 26, 2024
  • 2023 : Morgestraich - Philharmonie de Paris - Musée de la Musique, Paris, France. Curator : Marie-Pauline Martin
  • 2022 : Ferdinandea - MADRE Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Napoli, Italy. Curator : Kathryn Weir
  • 2022 : Notturni - MACRO Mattatoio - Rome, Italy. Curator: Maria-Laura Cavaliere. April 6–7: At the Villa Medici, in parallel to this exhibition, Fictions d’espaces , a conference by Jacques Rancière on Clément Cogitore's cinematographic visions.
  • 2022: Project Room - Le Centquatre - Paris, France. Curator: José-Manuel Gonçalvès
  • 2020 : Reste l'air et les formes - FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France. Curator : Ines Goldbach
  • 2019 : Clément Cogitore '''' –, Basel, Switzerland. Curator : Inès Goldbach
  • 2019 : Clément Cogitore – Submarine Base Bordeaux, France. Curator : Anne-Sophie Dinant
  • 2019 : Clément Cogitore – Musée National Marc Chagall, Nice, France. Curators : Anne Dopffer and Gaïdig Lemarié
  • 2018 : Assange Dancing – Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom. Curator : Jonathan Watkins
  • 2018 : Les Indes Galantes – Tabakalera, International Centre for Contemporary Culture – San Sebastian, Spain. Curator : Víctor Iriarte
  • 2017 : Braguino or the impossible community – LE BAL, Paris, France. Curators : Léa Bismuth and Diane Dufour
  • 2017 : Parmi nous , new hanging within the framework of the Fondation d'Entreprise Ricard Award, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Curator : Christine Macel
  • 2016 : The resonant interval, Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Curator : Daria de Beauvais
  • 2014 : Fictions - Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Strasbourg, France. Curator : Estelle Pietrzyk
  • 2014: Visions - CEAAC, European Center for Contemporary Artistic Action, Strasbourg, France

Group shows (selection)

Filmography

Installations

  • 2022 : Ferdinandea
  • 2018 : The Evil Eye
  • 2017 : ''Braguino or the impossible community''

Videos

  • 2022 : Ferdinandea
  • 2017 : Lascaux
  • 2017 : Les Indes galantes
  • 2016 : The resonant interval
  • 2013 : Elegies
  • 2012 : Assange Dancing
  • 2012 : Tahrir
  • 2011: An Archipelago
  • 2007 : Visités
  • 2006: Chroniques
  • 2005 : ''Travel''

Films

Opera

Les Indes Galantes, 2019, Opéra National de Paris, France
The rehearsals and preparatory work for the opera have been the subject of a documentary film by Philippe Béziat, Les Indes Galantes.

Publications

  • 2020 : Me, Family. Portrait of a Young Planet, MUDAM Edition, Luxembourg. Texts : Francesco Bonami, Omar Kholeif, Natalia Kucirkova, Emanuela Mazzonis, Anke Reitz, Ali Smith.
  • 2020 : Upheaval, Kunsthalle Mannheim, under the direction of Johann Holten, Distanz Verlag.
  • 2019 : Evoking reality, Daimler Contemporary Berlin, Renate Wiehager Editor, Bechtel Druck.
  • 2018 : Prix Marcel Duchamp 2018 '': the nominated, ADIAF, 2018.
  • 2017 : Braguino, DVD, Monography – Blaq out distribution, texts : Eugène Green and Laurent Mauvignier.
  • 2017 : Braguino or the impossible community – Monography – Co- Edition Filigranes // LE BAL, texts : Léa Bismuth and Bertrand Schefer.
  • 2016 : The Wakhan Front – DVD, Monography – Kazak production.
  • 2016 : Hypothesis – DVD, Monography – Ecart production, texts : Philippe-Alain Michaud.
  • 2014 : Atelier'' – Monography – Edition Les Presses du Réel, texts : Dominique Païni, Jean Michel Frodon et Anaël Pigeat.

Awards

  • 2024
Nam June Paik Prize, Nominated - Nam June Paik Art Center, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
  • 2023
Goutte d’Or - Shortlisted to represent France at the Oscars
Goutte d’Or - Silver Award for Best Film and Best Actor, AwardHurghada International Youth Film Festival, Egypt
  • 2022
Goutte d'Or - Première : Festival de Cannes, Critic’s week, Cannes, France
Goutte d'Or - Best Director Award, LEFFEST, Lisbon, Portugal
Goutte d'Or - Best Actor Award, Hainan Film Festival, China
Goutte d'Or - Winner of Scénario Award, Hildegarde, with the support of the CNC, the Fondation d'entreprise David Hadida and France Culture.
  • 2020
Les Indes Galantes – Best opera production – Oper ! Awards - Berlin, Germany
  • 2019
Braguino - Nominated César Best Short Film – César Academy – France
Les Indes Galantes – 10 Best opera productions – New York Times – USA
Les Indes Galantes – Best opera production – Giornale della Musica Award – Italy
Les Indes Galantes – Best opera production – Forum Opéra Award – France
  • 2018
The Evil Eye – Marcel Duchamp Prize 2018 – France
Les Indes Galantes – Grand Prix UniFrance for short film – Cannes Film Festival – France
Braguino – Special Mention – BAFICI, Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente – Argentina
Braguino – Special Mention, documentary competition – DokerFest – Moscow – Russia
  • 2017
Braguino – Grand Prix – FID Festival International de Cinéma – Marseille – France
Neither Heaven nor Earth – Grand Prix – Kino der Kunst Film Festival – Artists under 35 – Munich – Germany
Braguino – Grand Prix – Les Ecrans Documentaires – La Rochelle – France
Braguino – Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award – San Sebastian Film Festival – Spain
Braguino – Special mention from the Jury – Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia – Chile
  • 2016
18th Award of the Fondation d’entreprise Ricard – Paris – France
Sciences Po Award for Contemporary Art – Paris – France
Neither Heaven nor Earth – Award Best First Film – Colcoa Film Festival Los Angeles – USA
Neither Heaven nor Earth – Jury Award – Sarasota International Film Festival – USA
Neither Heaven nor Earth – Prix Henri Langlois – France
  • 2015
LE BAL Award for Young creation – Paris – France
Neither Heaven nor Earth – Grand Prix Gan Foundation – Cannes Film Festival – Critic's Week – France
Neither Heaven nor Earth – Award Best First Film - Syndicat de la Critique – France
Neither Heaven nor Earth – Nominated for César Best First Film – France
Neither Heaven nor Earth – Nominated for Golden Camera – Cannes Film Festival – France
Neither Heaven nor Earth – Award Best First Film – Obrero International Film Festival – Sweden
Neither Heaven nor Earth – Award Best First Film - Motovun International Film Festival - Croatia
Neither Heaven nor Earth – Award Best Film – Festival International du Film d’Aubagne – France
Neither Heaven nor Earth – Prix Découverte – Festival du Film Francophone de Namur – Belgique
  • 2014
Award Fondation Nationale des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques – Paris – France
  • 2012
Neither Heaven nor Earth – Award for the script – Fondation Beaumarchais – SACD – France
Parmi nous – Best camera – Lucania International Film Festival – Italy
  • 2011
Grand Prix Salon de Montrouge – 56th Salon de Montrouge – France
Biélutine – Official selection – Quinzaine des réalisateurs – Cannes Film Festival – France
Parmi nous – Best Film – International Film Festival Belo Horizonte – Brasil
  • 2010
Parmi nous – European Grand Prix First Film – Fondation Vevey – Switzerland
Biélutine – FIDLab Award – Festival International de Cinéma – Marseille – France
Burning cities – Experimental film award – FESANCOR, Chilean International Short Film Festival – Santiago – Chile
  • 2007
Visités – Jury award – Festival du Film de Vendôme – France
Visités – Best camera – International Student Film Festival – Belgrad – Serbia
  • 2006
Chroniques – Grand Prix – Festival Entrevues – Belfort – France
Chroniques – Best short film script – Fondation Beaumarchais – SACD – Paris – France
Chroniques – Award Center for cinematographic writing – Festival les Ecrans documentaires – Arcueil – France