Elsa Werth
Born in Paris in 1985, lives in Paris.
Elsa Werth develops work in multiple forms: installations, sculptures, videos, artists’ books and sound pieces. The economy of work, the ways of working constitute the context from which her artistic practice unfolds. She takes into account ordinary actions, daily gestures linked to contemporary activities and rituals by designating them and destabilizing them through operations of displacement, counter-uses, disruptions.
With a real economy of means, she claims anti-spectacular productions as tactics of resistance. Her working materials are those things that make up reality: the objects, words, forms and signs with which and through which we live. Common things in every sense of the word: common because they are ordinary, common because they are shared.
Selection of solo exhibitions
2022
Bloom, Düsseldorf
2021
Parties de cartes, cur. Didier Mathieu, Centre des livres d’artistes/cdla, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche
2020
Blow, cur. Ji Sue Byun, Bloom, Düsseldorf
A Land, galerie mfc-michèle didier, Paris
2019
Anywayland, cur. Frédéric Buisson, Interface, Dijon
Temps Partiel, cur. Géraldine Miquelot, Centre d’art de l’Onde, Vélizy-Villacoublay
2018
L’Action cesse, cur. Paul Paillet, Duplex/Walden, Geneva
2017
Temporary Perspectives, Martine Aboucaya Gallery, Paris
2016
Title one to multiple use, Bazar Compatible Program n°138, 98 Anshun Road, Shanghai
Title one to multiple use, Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris
2014
}——-20/91, cur. Lucia Schreyer, Primo Piano, Paris
Plus Une Pièce, storage box 378, Une Pièce en Plus, Paris
Selection of group exhibitions
2021
Nous irons tous au paradis, cur. Anne Cartel, Frac Normandie, Caen
Avalanche, cur. Jérôme Dupeyrat and Julien Martin Trois‿a, Toulouse
La Cité sous le soleil, Cneai=, Cité Internationale Universitaire, Paris
Forsythia Lilac and Geranium, cur. Aurélie Noury, Cabinet du Livre d’Artiste, Rennes
X, cur. Claude Closky, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou
2019
ShipShape, cur. Tomas Cunha Ferreira, Bienal de Coimbra, Coimbra
Some of Us, cur. Jérôme Cotinet-Alphaize with Marianne Derrien, Nordart, Büdelsdorf
26 X Bauhaus, cur. Marjolaine Lévy & Thibaut de Ruyter, Institut Français, Berlin
Tilt Horizon, cur. Yamin Wang, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing
One Minute One Hour … One Million Years, cur. Christodoulos Panayiotou, The Island Club, Limassol
2018
The Genius of Place, cur. Sophie Auger-Grappin, Le Creux de l’Enfer, Thiers
Phantoms, cur. Karin Schlageter, Wonder/Liebert, Bagnolet
2017
Flatland/Abstractions narratives #2, cur. Marianne Derrien & Sarah Ihler-Meyer, MUDAM, Luxembourg
Sentimental Summer, cur. Émilie Baldini, Centre d’Art Bastille, Grenoble
La Vie mode d’emploi, cur. Madeleine Mathé & Karin Schlageter, CAC Chanot, Clamart
Do Disturb !, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2015
La Ludothèque éphémère, cur. Florencia Chernajovsky & Clément Dirié, 8, rue Saint-Bon, Paris
60th Salon de Montrouge, cur. Stéphane Corréard, Montrouge
Castles of cards, cur. Camille Azaïs, Florence Loewy… by artists, Paris
