Fabrice Hybert


Fabrice Hybert, also known by the pseudonym Fabrice Hyber, is a French visual artist. He was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts on April 25, 2018.
Fabrice's work engages with themes drawn from nature, economics, commerce, and science. His multidisciplinary approach incorporates painting, sculpting, installation, and video. This has led him to develop systems of artistic production with companies, scientists, and laboratories in both France and internationally. His artistic style is characterized by processes of accumulating, proliferating, and hybridization.

Early life and education

Hybert was born in Luçon, Vendée on 12 July, 1961. After spending his childhood in Vendée, Hybert studied mathematics and physics before enrolling in art studies. From 1979 to 1985, he studied at the Nantes School of Fine Arts.

Career

In 1981, he produced his first painting, Square meter of lipstick. In 1984, it was exhibited at the. In 1986, it was showcased at the International Workshops of the Pays de la Loire at the Royal Abbey of Fontevraud. That same year he presented his first solo exhibition, "Mutation", in Nantes.
Since 1986, he has presented solo exhibitions in Montreal, Limoges, Poitiers, Strasbourg, Tokyo, New York, San Francisco, Zurich, Bruges, Sète, and Guadalajara.
In 2000, he was entrusted with a project for the Arc de Triomphe. In 2001, Sidaction commissioned him to create a monumental work, L'Artère, installed in the Parc de la Villette, a project he developed between 2002 and 2006.
In 2004, Fabrice Hyber announced: “From May 1, 2004, I decided, in full possession of my means, that is to say in full health, to remove the “t” of Hybert”. In 2007, he installed The Scream, the Written in the Jardin du Luxembourg, a public commission commemorating the abolition of slavery. At the same time, he continued a process launched around 1990 by sowing trees in his childhood valley.
As part of his ongoing experimental practice, Hyber established a sculpture garden in Japan and another in Texas. He also collaborated with the architectural firm "Jakob + MacFarlane" on the Euronews headquarters in Lyon. In 2018, Fabrice Hyber delivered the painted decoration for the glass roof of the Parisian palace Lutetia. He also produced "Les Deux Chênes" for Beaupassage from the double molding of a three-hundred-year-old tree from the Vendée valley.
Officer in the French Order of Arts and Letters since January 2012, Fabrice Hyber was elected to the Fine Arts Academy in 2018.
In 2021, Fabrice Hyber became ambassador of the “ONF-Agir pour la forêt” fund.
On March 7, 2022, Fabrice Hyber was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Centre national des arts plastiques by order of the Minister of Culture.

Works

Fabrice Hyber has built a portfolio made up of paintings, charcoal drawings, collages, and videos.
Hybert has suggested that his work explores ‘the enormous reservoir of the possible' via a deconstruction of language and communication. To this end, he deploys a very wide range of media for the purpose of expanding the range of his creative practice, deconstructing language in order to present the viewer with puzzles. He abjures the coherent, instantly understandable, text and the consistent oeuvre in favour of a proliferation that reflects the fundamentally nonlinear character of cognition. This is art in the tradition of the Surrealist object and stream of consciousness. It is more akin to James Joyce's Finnegans Wake than it is to classic narrative, it is Dionysian rather than Apollonian.
On the other hand, some of his projects look like exercises in visual language, his square football is not especially bewildering. It is quite simply a functional object that is turned into an ideal form. His idealised, cubed football maps onto the horror of function that characterises post-Duchampian fine art that rose into dominance in the international art world in the 1960s. Fabrice refers to such functionless objects as Prototypes d'objects en fonctionnement, or POF. Another instance of connecting the previously unconnected is Hyber's Swing, 1990. This is a playground swing with the addition of ‘two phallic protuberances on the seat, one hard, one soft’.
Another work Roof-Ceiling, 1995, consists of a mechanical device which vacuums up the rubbish in a room and deposits it in a transparent ceiling overhead. Installed in a hairdressing salon, it allows the viewer's newly sheared locks to become part of the architecture. This work is not only a demonstration of creative cognition, it is also a valuable excursion of fine art outside the museum and into everyday life. Hyber is one of the artists that Nicolas Bourriaud included in his account of relational art which is to say art that engages with people and everyday life.
Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 1997, he created a multifaceted work from the practice of painting. As an artist in dialogue, he has collaborated with companies, launched the Organoide program at the Institut Pasteur, and since 2012 has been developing the production network "the directors".

Art and sciences

Sensitive to biology, astronomy or even mathematics and physics, Fabrice Hyber transposes scientific questions into his work. He does so by treating subjects and by exposing the creative process, like research tables. The Homeopathic Paintings highlight the body, the landscape, or the object, echoing the act of creation which is explained from beginning to end. Thus, calculations, research documents, sketches, or the artist's moods are constitutive of each work as much as they are the visible matrix.
Fabrice Hybert seeks to work with the scientific community. In 2007, he collaborated with the American biotechnologist Robert S. Langer on the issue of stem cells, or with the Institut Pasteur and Professor Olivier Schwartz. Often present in Fabrice Hyber's work are viral notions brought up by the artist during the COVID-19 crisis.
The reality of environmental issues is also salient in his work. Sowing trees in his Vendée valley, he devotes part of his work to researching ecosystems in several parts of the world. The place of renewable energies and electrical uses is also at the heart of its thinking.
In 2022 and 2023, the exhibitions presented at the Fondation Cartier and at the Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire illustrate the environmental issues that Hyber questions in his work. At the Fondation Cartier, transmission is also played out as a process of environmental education through the establishment of a school with a cycle of courses and conferences within the system.

Art and business

As an artist and entrepreneur, Fabrice Hyber established partnerships with companies from the start of his career. When he created the Square Meter of lipstick in 1981, he developed a project with the cosmetics manufacturer Liliane France. Since then, he has increased collaborations with private companies.
Emblematic of this work, he created the largest soap in the world in 1991. Together with the Compagnie des Détergents et du Savon de Marseille, he produced a 22-ton soap approved by Guinness Records. An artistic, performative, and industrial object, the biggest soap in the world is also a commercial act in partnership with the Édouard Leclerc group and Location-Véhicule France transport. It was displayed in supermarket car parks throughout France and then in Belgium, Germany, and Spain. Mentioned in the book 1-1 = 2, trade is important for Fabrice Hyber, especially in that it is to be considered as a means of exchange and not just as a strictly economic element.
Wishing to forge partnerships with private companies while maintaining a form of independence in his projects, their productions and their distributions, Fabrice Hyber founded the SARL UR: Unlimited Responsibility in 1994. Used by Fabrice Hyber, the SARL UR is also open to other creators. So little present, at that time, in artistic circles, the entrepreneurial question is seen there as the object of encounters and experiments as much as of production. Taking up the trade codes, and in particular by marketing POFs, one of UR's objectives is to fund artistic projects.
In 1995, the Musée d'Art moderne de Paris presented the Hybertmarché exhibition in collaboration with the University of Lünebourg. Involving the UR company, the project consists of an inventory of objects present in Hyber's work by ordering, sending, receiving shelving for the public, selling, and modifying them according to Hyber's visions.
Among other projects in partnership with companies, Fabrice Hyber collaborated with Conquérant Spirits to help develop the Frisson d'Hyber gin in 2021.
In March 2022, he collaborated with luxury leather goods designer Camille Fournet to create a limited and numbered edition capsule of products using his hyper green.

Selection of projects

The ''POF''s

Born in 1991, POFs are inspired by everyday life. Hybrid, absurd, subversive and yet very close to everyday objects, POFs start from reality and slide it towards the point where logical perception is undermined. Conceived as invitations to the appropriation and diversion of the ordinary, the POFs are initially marketed by UR and can be made by each person according to an indication given by Fabrice Hyber. By questioning his daily life or by fabricating, the viewer becomes a stakeholder in the work. The Endless Staircase, the Swing or the Square Balloon are among the most emblematic of the 160 POFs created since 1991.
In 2018, the Maison des POF was created as part of the percent for art for the new building of the Nantes Art School. A place of experimentation, the Maison des POF is an evolving firm that invites the public to manipulate, try and question themselves.

L’''Homme de Bessines''

Responding to a public commission for the town of Bessines, Fabrice Hyber dispersed six bronze men painted green in the village. At a height of 87 cm, half the size of the artist, each sculpture is pierced by eleven holes from which jets of water shoot out. In connection with the notion of mutation treated by the artist in 1986, L'Homme de Bessines is also a viral work because it is intended to be distributed indefinitely. Thus, since the first installation in Bessines in 1991, the sculpture has been reproduced in several hundred copies, of varying sizes and appearances, all over the planet. In 2022, they were installed in the gardens of the Palais Royal in Paris for the thirtieth anniversary of the Homme de Bessines.

''Eau d’or, eau dort, Odor'' and ''Spiral TV''

Invited to use the French pavilion at the 47th Venice Biennale in 1997, Fabrice Hyber transformed space into a place of creation and permanent change and not into a place of presentation of works of art. Named Eau d'Or, Eau Dort, Odor, the event transformed the French pavilion into an experimental filming studio with the participation of various personalities and the public. Live or recorded, the programs copied and transgressed television codes while placing the question of the body at the center of the project. For Fabrice Hyber, the creation process is then more important than the final product. The project earned the artist a Golden Lion award.
In 1999, it was at the Wacoal Art Center in Tokyo that Fabrice Hyber developed a proposal according to the Venetian device. Through Spiral TV, the artist produced and broadcast live twelve hours of daily programs under the name "It's Tomorrow Now", for five days.

''Inconnu.net''

From September to November 2000, Fabrice Hybert invests the Arc de Triomphe and its surroundings as part of a national demonstration confident seven national monuments to seven artists. Wishing to create a green setting around the monument, Fabrice Hyber deployed a belt of a hundred birch trees in opposition to the mineral character of the place. Changing green lighting was projected onto the Arc de Triomphe while an historical room was dedicated to viewing the inconnu.net website.
Developing the question born from the commemorative tomb of the First World War, Fabrice Hyber transformed the Parisian monument into an open door to the unknown, both through the external device and through the internet portal which invited visitors to ask questions and answer other questions arising from contributions from artists, writers, scientists, etc.

''L'Artère, le jardin des dessins''

In 2001, to mark the 20th anniversary of the appearance of AIDS, the Sidaction association launched a call for projects for the creation of a commemorative monument. Detached from the aesthetic of commemoration, Fabrice Hyber's project reflected the social, emotional or medical aspects linked to the virus. Spanning 1001 m2, the ensemble is made up of ceramics designed by the artist and produced in Monterrey, Mexico. Produced from 2002 to 2006, the work installed in the Parc de la Villette resembles, by its rhizomatic aspect, a vast storyboard.

''Le Cri, L'Écrit''

“The cry is a mark of the slavery abolition but also a warning against modern slavery. The cry is fear, tears, but also joy. The cry is a metaphor for this enslavement which, has been abolished by the texts. The cry is a drawing in space; for the garden in front of the Senate, a writing was needed! The abolition of slavery is the open chain ring, the closed ring is that everything can start again, and the base is the return to the roots, but it is also the Earth which is a hindering... "
Announced in 2006 by President Chirac, the commission for a public work dedicated to the abolition of slavery was entrusted to Fabrice Hyber. Inaugurated in 2007, the 3.7m high polychrome bronze sculpture represents three chain rings held vertically by golden wedges representing French institutions and the fragility of a situation that can tip over. Dark, one of the faces of the sculpture, presents the words "Elsewhere", "Decimated", "Exterminated", "Deported", "Death", "Inhuman", "Slave". The other side reveals a blood system attached to the living.

C’Hyber(t) Rallies

Eager to see art out of museums and centers dedicated, Fabrice Hybert developed the first Hyber Rally in Tokyo in 2001, the same year he also exhibited at Watari Hum. Developed since in Vassivière, Paris, Reunion island, Toulon, etc., the device invites spectators to take part in a vast treasure hunt intended to find POFs hidden in everyday spaces.
Adapted to their territory of performance, the C’Hyber Rallies also have the objective of revealing landscapes or human constructions. The search for a work of art outside its traditional location serves as a medium between the place and the people within.

Collections

Public collections (selection)

Private collections (selection)

  • Carmignac Foundation
  • Fondazione Guastalla
  • Francès Foundation
  • Fondation Maeght
  • Bredin Prat Foundation
  • Dolorès and Claude Bonan
  • Michel Poitevin
  • François Meyer
  • Masathis
  • Guy Savoy
  • Maya and Fared Hariri
  • Emmanuelle and Jérôme de Noirmont
  • Mona Hamilton

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

;1986
  • Mutation, Maison de l’avocat, Nantes, France
;1987Pollution, Arlogos gallery, Nantes, France Fabrice Hybert, Ussel City House, Ussel, France
;1989Change, D.R.A.C., Poitiers, FranceRefaire le monde, Caen Municipal Theater, Caen, France Fabrice Hybert, Arlogos gallery, Nantes, France
;1990
  • Fabrice Hybert, Froment-Putman gallery, Paris, France
;1991
  • Fabrice Hybert, Interface gallery, Nîmes, France
  • Arlogos gallery, Nantes, France
;1992
  • Les Deux Étages, Art center Le Creux de l’enfer, Thiers, France
  • Larve d'entreprise, Arlogos gallery, Nantes, France
  • Conversation, La Criée Contemporary Art Center, Rennes, France
  • Artsonje center, Séoul, South Korea
  • Vis à vis, le miroir des galleries, Liège, Belgium
;1993
;1994Fabrice Hybert, Kunstalle Lophem, Bruges, Belgium
  • ZenoX Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
  • Contemporary Art Center, Moscow, Russia
  • 500e anniversaire de Rabelais, Le Confort moderne, Poitiers, France
;1995L'Hybertmarché , Musée d'Art moderne de Paris, France Plus lourd à l'intérieur, Saint-Étienne’s Museum, France Plus lourd à l'intérieur, Strasbourg’s Museum, France
  • Froment-Putman Gallery, Paris, France
;1996Testoo, Kunstraum Luneburg, GermanyTestoo, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, USA
  • EIGEN+ART, Leipzig - Kunsthalle Lophem, BrugesTestoo, Vleeshal, Middelburg, Netherlands
  • Station u 841 - Berlin, Germany
;199725-52, Erna Hecey Gallery, LuxembourgEau d’or, eau dort, ODOR, French pavilion, 47th Venice Biennale, Italy Muster Testoo, Leipzig, Germany Et POF, Arts School, Nantes, France
;1998
  • Diététique, Le Confort moderne, Poitiers, France
  • Citoxe, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Fabrice Hybert, Kunsthalle Saint Gallen, Switzerland
  • Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, USA
  • Certificat, Kanazawa University, Japan
  • Évidemment, Riverin-Arlogos Gallery, Montréal, Canada
  • Prix Paris photo 1998, Paris, France
;1999Spiral TV, it’s tomorrow now, Tokyo, JapanAt your own risk, CCAC Institute, San Francisco, USA At your own risk, Bergen kunstmuseum, Bergen, Norway
  • Bergen’s Museum, Bergen, Norway
  • Erna Hécey, Art Fair Basel, Switzerland
  • IPM, Art Fair Basel, SwitzerlandMind map, Eigen+Art Gallery, Berlin, Germany
  • Peter Kilchmann Gallery, Zurich, SwitzerlandPOF shop, Tokyo, Japan
;2000
  • Parpadeantes eyes, Museo de las Artes, Guadalajara, MexicoInconnu.net, Changements de temps, Arc de Triomphe, Paris, France Inconnu.net, Ace Galery, Los Angeles, USA
  • Listaasafn Reykjavik, Reykjavik, Island At your own risk, Porin Taidemuseoon, Pori, Finland At your own risk, Götenborg Kunstmuseum, Göteborg, SwedenLa Beauté au quotidien de l’Égypte antique", Séphora, Les Champs-Élysées, Paris, France Les Loisirs de Fabrice Hybert, Notre-Dame des Fleurs, Vence, France
  • Kunsthalle Lophem, Bruges, Belgium
;2001
  • Watari-um, Tokyo, Japan
  • Ace Gallery, Mexico, MexicoPOF, Kunsthalle Lophem, Bruges, BelgiumC'Hybert, Contemporary Art Center of Vassivière en Limousin, France
  • Tokyo c'hybert rallye - Vassivière c'hybert rallyeMex-Mixt, Anne-de-Villepoix Gallery, Paris, France
;2002Juste après la plage, Dourven Gallery, Trédez-Locquémeau, France POF Cabaret, Kunsthalle Lophem, Bruges, Belgium
  • Voix d'eaux, Châteauneuf-en-Auxois, France
  • Fabrice Hybert, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, USA
  • Fabrice Hybert, House of the Department, Évreux, France
;2003Entrejambe – Espace privé/Espace public, Gustave Fayet Space, Sérignan, FranceLes Hommes cellulaires, Carcassonne, France Pof, Pof, Pof, Kunstraum leuphana universitat Lüneburg, Germany
;2005Météo Villa Arson, Nice, France
;2006Les Éclats, Herzliya Museum, Tel Aviv, IsraëlPétrôle, Jérôme de Noirmont Gallery, Paris, FranceVoix d’eaux et +, Bernard Anthonioz Art House, Nogent-sur-Marne, France
;2007Matière à penser / Food for thought, Le Laboratoire, Paris, France
  • C’Hyber Rallye de la Réunion, La Réunion island, France
;2008
  • Du pur Hyber, Jérôme de Noirmont Gallery, Paris, France
  • Power plants, la puissance des plantes, F-A Ducros Space, Grignan, France
  • Seed and Grow Je s'aime.Watari-Um, Tokyo, Japan
;2010Immortalité Moscow, Nijni Novgorod, Krasnoyarsk, RussiaPasteur' Spirit Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
;2011
  • Inventions, Jérôme de Noirmont Gallery, Paris, France
;2012
  • Matières premières Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FrancePOF, Prototype d'objets en fonctionnent, MAC VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine, France Essentiel Maeght Foundation, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
;2013
;2014
  • Interdit aux enfants, Nathalie Obadia Gallery, Paris, France Homeopathic paintings, der Stadt Tuttlingen Gallery, Tuttlingen, Germany
;2015Mutations acquises, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels, Belgium
  • Forme des mots, M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium
  • ', CRAC Languedoc Roussillon, Sète, France
;2016
  • L'Homme Éponge, MUP IDF, Bondy/Cachan/Boulogne-Billancourt, France
  • « L’entier » par Fabrice Hyber, Cyrille Putman et galerie quatre, Arles, France
2017hyberDUBUFFET, Jean Dubuffet et Fabrice Hyber, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, ParisOVNI, École des Beaux-Arts, Nantes
2019'
  • Résidence Yishu 8, Beijing, ChinaPrototypes, Appartement 22, Rabat, Maroc“Coool” #greenbear, Osaka railway station, Osaka, JapanHomme de Bessines Géants, Marfa, United States
;2020Habiter la forêt, Nathalie Obadia Gallery, Paris, France
  • Fabrice Hyber, Telmah Gallery, Rouen, France
;2021
  • Frisson d'Hyber, Gilles Drouault, galerie/multiples, Paris, France
  • Fresh Air, RX gallery, New York, United States
  • L'Artère 2021, La Villette, Paris, France
;2022
  • Limited Edition hyberFournet, Camille Fournet’s shop, Paris, France
  • L'Homme de Bessines, Palais Royal, Paris, France
  • POF, Lasécu, Lille, France
  • La Vallée, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
;2023
  • Sous la forêt, des vies, Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire
  • La foresta invisibile, Louis Vuitton Venezia, Venise, Italy
  • Ruminé, Duchamp gallery, Yvetot, France
;2024
  • La forêt et L’amitié, installation métro Shanghai, China
  • Sol, Sols, Lieu d’art Contemporain – L.A.C, Narbonne, France
  • La Fabrique du Climat, Les Sables-d'Olonne museum of contemporary art, France
  • Humeurs'', Villa Cavrois, Croix, Lille, France

Collective exhibitions (selection)

1986Ateliers internationaux des Pays de la Loire 1986, Royal abbey of Fontevraud, Fontevraud, France
19871st international Istanbul Contemporary Art Exhibitions, Ankara, Istanbul, Turkey
1990Espaces internationaux, CREDAC, Ivry-sur-Seine, FranceDes ateliers, une collection du FRAC des Pays de la Loire, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, FranceBaquié-Faure-Hybert, Arlogos Gallery, Nantes, FranceAteliers de la fondation Cartier, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
1991Les Couleurs de l'argent, La Poste's Museum, Paris, FranceCollection du CAPC musée : Absalon, Richard Fauguet, Fabrice Hybert, Didier Marcel, CAPC-Contemporary Art Museum, Bordeaux, France
1992Périls et Colères, CAPC-Contemporary Art Museum, Bordeaux, FranceIl faut construire l'hacienda, C.C.C, Tours, France France troisième génération Exposition internationale, Séville, Spain
1993Nouveaux Augures, FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, FranceL'Image dans le tapis, Arsenale, Venice, ItalyL'Autre à Montevideo, Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, UruguayEros, c'est la vie, Le Confort moderne, Poitiers, France Chambre 763, Carlton Palace, Paris, France
1994This is the show and the show is many things, Museum van Hedendaagse kunst, Ghent, BelgiumHors-limites, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FranceCloaca maxima, Museum der Stadtenwässerung, Zurich, Switzerland
1995Take me I'm yours, Serpentine Gallery, London, EnglandShift, De Appel, Amsterdam, NetherlandsMaisons-cerveaux, FRAC Champagne Ardenne, Reims, France Le Dépeupleur, Froment Putman Gallery, Paris, FranceLaboratoires, Damien Hirst, Fabrice Hybert, Kiki Smith, Patrick Van Caeckenberg, pour une expérience du corps, Art et Essai Gallery, Rennes, France Féminin Masculin le sexe de l'art, Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris, FranceBiennale de Kwangju, Kwangju, South Korea
1996We, musée d'Israël, Jérusalem, IsraëlCollection : Absalon, Hyber, Mouillé, CAPC-Contemporary Art Museum, Bordeaux, FranceCabines de bain, La Motta swimming pool, Fribourg, Switzerland
1997Kunst in der stadt, Kunstverein, Bregenz, AustriaFenêtre sur cour, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, FranceDo it, New York, USAConnexions implicites, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris, FranceBiennale de Kwangju, Kwangju, South Korea47th Venice Biennale; Eau d'or, eau dort, ODOR Venice – France pavilion, Italy
1998Tu parles/J'écoute, Fine arts museum, Taipei, TaïwanTo the living room, Watari-um museum, Tokyo, JapanPremises, Guggenheim, New York, USAMétissages, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, France Jef Geys-Fabrice Hybert, Z33, Hasselt, BelgiumIndoor, Centro civico La Grancia, Rapolano, ItalyH2O, Erna Hécey Gallery, LuxembourgCet et été là... Exposition des variétés, CRAC, Sète, France
1999Spiral TV it's tomorrow now , Spiral, Tokyo, Japan Picnic, Museo de las artes, Guadalajara, MexicoPassage, new french art, Hiroshima - MOCA / Sapporo - Hokkaido museum of modern art / Tokyo - Setagaya museum, Japan Made in France, Artsonje center, Séoul, South KoreaIndoor, musée des beaux-arts, Lyon, France
2000Voilà le monde dans la tête, Museum of Modern Art, Paris, FrancePassage, new french art, City museum, Nagoya, JapanNarcisse blessé, autoportraits contemporains, Passage de Retz, Paris, FranceLa Ville, le Jardin, la Mémoire, Villa Médicis, Rome, ItalyAir air, celebrating inflatables, Grimaldi forum, Monaco
2001Somewhere over the rainbow, FRAC Normzndie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, FranceSimulacres et Détournements dans les années 1980 et 90, CAPC-Contemporary Art Museum, Bordeaux, FranceLe Ludique, Québec's Museum, Québec, Canada
2002Objets de réflexion, FRAC Ile-de-France / Le plateau, Paris, France
2003Trésors publics 20 ans de création dans les Fonds régionaux d'art contemporain. L'État des choses. L'Objet dans l'art de 1960 à aujourd'hui, Fine arts museum, Nantes, FranceSexe, sexe, etc., Galerie Beaubourg, Château Notre-dame-des-Fleurs, France Pour l'amour de Vénus, Donjon de Vez, France Les 20 ans des FRAC, Fine arts museum, Nantes, FranceLe Ludique, Modern Art Museum, Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France
2004Mix Max, Artsonje center, Séoul, South Korea L'Art à la plage, Ramatuelle, FranceFrantisek Kupka, Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France
  • F2004@Shanghai, Année de la France en China, La Fabrique, Shanghai
2005Supernova, Domaine Pommery, Reims, FranceMétéo, Villa Arson, Nice, FranceDionysiac, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France 3rd world ceramix biennale, Incheon, South Korea
2006We Humans are Free : from the collection of SMAK, The 21st century museum of contemporary art, Kanazawa, JapanUne proposition de Mathieu Mercier, FRAC Basse-Normandie, Caen, France Peinture Malerei, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, GermanyL'Art à la plage, Ramatuelle, FranceLa Force de l'art, Grand Palais, Paris, France
2007Suite française, Institut français, Wien, AustriaRouge Baiser, Hangar à bananes, Nantes, FranceLe Musée côté jardin, Art and History Museum, Saint-Brieuc, France Estuaire, Canal Saint Felix, France Airs de Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
2008Sens dessus dessous, CRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Sète, FranceMobile Art Chanel, New York; Tokyo; Hong Kong
2009Métissages, Baron-Gérard Museum, Bayeux, France La Force de l'art, Grand Palais, Paris, FranceCollection Florence et Daniel Guerlain, Guerlain Foundation, Les Mesnuls, France
2010Nos meilleurs souvenirs, Domaine Pommery, Reims, France Métissages, Hôtel Hèbre de Saint-Clément, Rochefort, FranceL'Expérience du monde, Contemporary art center, Moscow, RussiaLe Sourire du chat , Hangar à bananes, Nantes, France Le Mont analogue, Centro cultural metropolitano, Quito, EcuadorCircuit céramique à Sèvres. La Scène française contemporaine, Sèvres Manufacture, Sèvres, FranceBiennale de Lodz, Lodz, Poland
2011Paris, Delhi, Bombay, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FranceInquiétantes Étrangetés, Fine Arts Museum Nantes, FranceDessins exquis, Slick, Paris, FranceAlready-made, Jérôme de Noirmont Gallery, Paris, France
2012To be with art is all we ask, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, NorwayRetour à l'intime la collection Giuliana et Tommaso Setari, La Maison rouge, Paris, FranceL'Âne musicien , FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, FranceEstuaire, Canal Saint Felix, FranceCamere 17, Roma, ItalyAbu Dhabi Art's Arts, Talks and sensations, Abu Dhabi
2013Poétique d'objets, Lieu d'art et d'action contemporaine, Dunkirk, France La Tyrannie des objets Galeries Lafayette, Galerie des Galeries, Paris, FranceLa Donation Florence et Daniel Guerlain, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FranceEntre-temps... Brusquement et ensuite, Lyon, FranceDe Chaissac à Hyber, Historial de la Vendée, Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne, France
2014Procession, CAPC-Contemporary Art Museum, Bordeaux, FranceL'Image dans l'onde, Fondation François-Schneider, Wattwiller, FranceLe Mur. La collection Antoine de Galbert, La Maison rouge, Paris, France Donaugalerie ein skulpturenprojekt der stadt Tuttlingen, Tuttlingen, GermanyBrave new world, Metropolitan museum, Manille, Philippines Biennale de Busan 2014 : Habiter le monde, Busan, South Korea
2015Take me I'm yours, La Monnaie, Paris, FranceCosa mentale, Centre Georges-Pompidou, Metz, France CONTOUR 7 biennale voor bewegend beeld a moving image biennale in Mechelen, Mechelen, Belgium
2016PAD Paris Art Design, France - Paris – Tuileries Garden
2019Coup de foudre, with Nathalie Talec, Foundation EDF, ParisNous les arbres, Fondation Cartier
2020
  • Les Extatiques, Paris la Défense, France
  • Notre monde brûle, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
  • Habiter la forêt, Obadia Gallery Paris, France
2021
2022
  • Vous êtes un arbre, Les Franciscaines, Deauville, France
  • Les vivants, Tripostal, Lille, France
  • Petit précipité subjectif d’une histoire des graines, Le 104, Paris, France
2023
  • Foire d’art contemporain, Fête foraine au 104, Paris, France
  • Au temps du sida, œuvres, récits et entrelacs, Museum of modern and contemporary art of Strasbourg, MAMCS, Strasbourg, France
  • Œuvres choisies, RX Gallery, New York, United States
2024
  • Art Basel Paris, Paris, France
  • Œuvres choisies, Nathalie Obadia Gallery x Rhinoceros Gallery, Roma, Italy
  • L’Homme de bois, Travel in Nantes, 13e edition, Nantes, France
  • Artistes et paysans. Battre la campagne, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France.
  • « Le bassin aux Nymphéas, harmonie rose » de Claude Monet & « En construction » de Fabrice Hyber, Palais Fesch, Fine arts museum of Ajaccio, Ajaccio, France

Appendices

Monographs

  • Frederic Bougle, 1-1 = 2 Entretiens avec Fabrice Hybert, Nantes, Éditions Joca Seria, 1992-1994
  • Pascal Rousseau, Fabrice Hybert, Paris, Hazan, 1999
  • Guy Tortosa, POF HYBERT, Paris, UR éditions, 1999
  • Thierry Laurent, Il est interdit de mourir, Paris, Au même titre éditions, 2003
  • Fabrice Hyber, Richesses, Paris, Éditions Jannink, 2004
  • Bernard Marcadé, Baert de Baere, Pierre Giquel, Hyber, Paris, Flammarion, 2009.
  • Philippe Forest, Bernard Marcadé, Olivier Schwartz, Yves Jammet, L'Artère - Le Jardin des dessins, Nantes, Éditions Cécile Defaut, 2009.
  • Gilles Coudert, Alice Dautry, Pascal Rousseau, Olivier Schwartz, Fabrice Hyber Sans gêne livre DVD, Paris, Après éditions, 2012.
  • Donatien Grau, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Hyber… Hyber, Paris, Bernard Chauveau éditeur, 2014.

Catalogs of personal exhibitions

  • Pierre Giquel, Fabrice Hybert Mutation, Nantes, La Maison de l'avocat, 1986.
  • Guy Tortosa, Pierre Giquel, Fabrice Hybert, Direction régionale des affaires culturelles du Limousin, 1987.
  • Jean-Louis Froment, Pierre Giquel, Catherine Strasser, Fabrice Hybert, œuvres de 1981 à 1993, CapcMusée d'Art contemporain de Bordeaux, 1993.
  • Bernard Ceysson, Friedemann Malsch, Plus lourd à l'intérieur, Éditions du musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Étienne, 1995.
  • Jean-Pierre Changeur, Alice Dautry, Annick Perrot, Olivier Schwartz, Fabrice Hyber à l'Institut Pasteur, Paris, Institut Pasteur, 2010.
  • Jacqueline Frydman, Pascal Rousseau, Fabrice Hyber, Moscow, Maison de la photographie de Moscou, 2010.
  • Nicolas Setari, POF Prototypes d'objets en fonctionnement 1991-2012, Vitry-sur-Seine, MAC VAL, 2012.
  • Olivier Kaeppelin, Bernard Marcadé, Pascal Rousseau, Essentiel peintures homéopathiques, Saint-Paul de Vence, Fondatien Maeght, 2012.

Others

  • Bourriaud, Nicolas. 2002. Relational aesthetics, Documents sur l'art. Dijon: Les presses du réel.