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.

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 The 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)

  • 2024 : Ennova Art Biennale - Ennova Art Museum, Langfang, China. Curators : Fumio Nanjo, Zhang Zikang, Qilan Shen
  • 2024 :This is tomorrow - Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany. Curator : Susanne Kaufmann
  • 2024 : Cattiva Luce - Palazzo Grassi, Fondation Pinault, Venice, Italy. Curator : Collectif TBD
  • 2024: Medienkunstraum - Bundeskunsthalle - Bonn, Germany. Curators : Heinz Schwerfel, Eva Kraus
  • 2024: Tanz im Viereck - Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg, Germany. Curator : Anne Hundhausen
  • 2024: Come Sing Along ! On Raising Our voices - Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria. Curators : Hemma Schutz, Klaus Speidel
  • 2023 : Sound Biennial - Valais Art Museum, Switzerland. Curators : Sylvie Zavatta, Christophe Fellay, Jean-Paul Felley, Luc Meier
  • 2023 : The last Will - Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany. Curators : M+M
  • 2023 : Generation* ''Youth vs. Crisis: A Generation in Search of a Future - Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany. Curators : Jennifer Smailes and Eva Fischer-Hausdorf
  • 2022 : Manifesto of fragility - Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France Curators : Sam Bardaouil et Till Fellrath
  • 2022 : Still Present! - 12th Berlin Biennale, Berlin Curator: Kader Attia
  • 2022 : Pas Sommeil. La fête dans tous ses états - Musée des beaux-arts, FRAC Bretagne, Rennes
  • 2021 : Thinking Hands Touching Each Other - 6th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg, Russia. Curators: Adnan Yıldız, Çağla Ilk and Assaf Kimmel 
  • 2021 : Tremblements - Villa Paloma, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, France Curator: Célia Bernasconi
  • 2021 : Replica - Cahn Contemporary, Paris, France Exhibition conceived and curated by Chantal Crousel on the invitation of Jean-David Cahn
  • 2021 : E/Motion - MOMU, Antwerp, Belgium Curators : Kaat Debo et Elisa De Wyngaert
  • 2020 : Crossing Views, in dialog with Cindy Sherman – Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France. Curator : Suzanne Pagé
  • 2020 : Me Family – MUDAM, Luxembourg. Curators : Francesco Bonami, Emmanuela Mazzonis, Clément Minighetti
  • 2020 : DO IT project – LUMA, Serpentine Galleries and Théâtre du Châtelet. Curator : Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • 2020 : 20 years Prix Marchel Duchamp – Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France. Curators : Christine Macel, Alicia Knock, Yung Ma
  • 2020 : Upheaval – Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany. Curator : Johan Holten
  • 2020 : On the origins of images – Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., United States
  • 2019 : An Opera for Animals – Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China. Curator : Hsieh Feng-Rong
  • 2019 : Bienalsur, Ways of Seeing – National Museum of Decorative Arts Buenos Aires, Argentina. Curator : Diana Wechsler
  • 2019 : Macro_asilo – MACRO, Rome, Italy. Curators : Giorgio de Finis and Maria-Laura Cavaliere
  • 2019 : On danse ? – MUCEM, Marseille, France. Curator : Emilie Girard
  • 2018 : Prix Marcel Duchamp 2018 – Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne – Paris, France. Curator : Marcella Lista
  • 2018 : Evoking Reality – , Berlin, Allemagne. Curators : Renate Wiehager and Nadine Isabelle Henrich
  • 2018 : Persona Grata – MAC-VAL, Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry sur Seine. Curator : Ingrid Jurzak
  • 2018 : Respire : art videos from Lemaitre collection – Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel. Curator : Marie Shek
  • 2018 : Braguino, In formation III – ICA, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Londres, Royaume-Uni. Curator : Nico Marzano
  • 2018 : Art of the real – Lincoln Center, New York, USA. Curator : Dennis Limm
  • 2017 : The art of joy – Québec Biennale – Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, Montréal, Canada. Curator : Alexia Fabre
  • 2017 : Vision on vision, the Lemaitre video collection – SeMA Bunker, Seoul, South Korea. Curator : Hyunjin Kim
  • 2016 : New directors, new films – MoMA, Museum Of Modern Art, New York, USA. Curator : Josh Siegel
  • 2012 : Teatro delle esposizione – Villa Medici, Rome, Italy. Curator : Alessandro Rabottini
  • 2011 : International encounters Paris/Berlin/Madrid'' – Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris / Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin / Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain. Curators : Jean-François Rettig and Nathalie Hénon