Michel François
Born in 1956 in Sint-Truiden (Belgium), MICHEL FRANÇOIS lives and works between Brussels (Belgium) and Paris (France). François’s interest lies in exploring a variety of media including installation, video, sculpture and photography, often combined and linked to create a larger idea. Through these various techniques and materials, François comments on the relationships and contradictions that we face in our public and private lives. Some are more formal such as convex versus concave forms, the connection between the external and the internal, light versus dark. Others focus on political “truths” versus...Read more
Works
Exhibition view, Bozar, Brussels, 2023
Exhibition view, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, 2023
Exhibition view, Halle Verrière, Meisenthal, 2021
Exhibition view, YARAT Contemporary Art Centre, Baku, 2022
Exhibitions & News
Michel François, Ann Veronica Janssens, L’Aire d’un Souffle
Past exhibition
10 January — 10 December 2024
Esplanade Solidarność, Ixelles
Michel François, Toucher l’insensé
Past exhibition
16 February — 30 June 2024
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Michel François, Feuilles, Flaques, Anneaux et Sédiments
Past exhibition
4 April — 1 June 2024
Mennour, 5 rue du Pont de Lodi, Paris 6
Michel François, Ann Veronica Janssens, Bertrand Lavier, L’Argent dans l’Art
Past exhibition
30 March — 24 September 2023
Monnaie de Paris
Michel François, Contre nature
Past exhibition
16 March — 21 July 2023
Bozar Brussels
Michel François, Under a Cloud
Past exhibition
10 October 2021 — 9 October 2022
Prinsenbos Grimbergen
Michel François, Panopticon
Past exhibition
17 March — 4 October 2022
YARAT Contemporary Art Space, Baku
Michel François, Des éclats
Past event
2 July 2021 — 30 June 2022
Conflans-Sainte-Honorine
Michel François, Ann Veronica Janssens, Book launch
Past event
23 June 2022
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Michel François, Résister, encore
Past exhibition
18 February — 15 May 2022
Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
Group show, Jours blancs
Past exhibition
18 October 2021 — 9 February 2022
Mennour, 47 rue Saint-André-des-Arts, Paris 6
Mennour, 28 avenue Matignon, Paris 8
Michel François, Danièle Orcier, Les lignes du désir
Past exhibition
19 May — 31 October 2021
Espace d’art François-Auguste Ducros, Grignan
Michel François, Bertrand Lavier, Pierre Molinier, Grand bazar - choix de Jean-Hubert Martin dans la collection Antoine de Galbert
Past exhibition
27 June — 3 October 2021
Château d'Oiron