Biography
Since the mid-1980s, Xavier Veilhan (b. 1963, Paris, France) has created an acclaimed body of works - sculpture, painting, installation, performance, video and photography - defined by his interest in both the vocabulary of modernity (speed, motion, urban life, etc.) and classical statuary, reinterpreted from a contemporary vision. His work pays tribute to the inventions and inventors of our modern times, through a formal artistic language that mixes the codes of both industry and art. He mixes a great variety of techniques and material to produce tridimensional portraits and landscapes, bestiaries and architectures that swing between the familiar and the extraordinary.
For Xavier Veilhan, art is "a vision tool through which we must look in order to understand our past, present, and future". Frequently investing in the public space, his exhibitions and in-situ interventions in cities, gardens and houses question our perception by creating an evolving space in which the audience becomes an actor. Their aesthetics reveal a continuum of form, contour, fixity and dynamics, that invite the spectator to a new reading of the space and so creating a whole repertory of signs, the theatre of a society.
Xavier Veilhan lives and works in Paris, France. Main recent solo exhibitions and projects are: Xavier Veilhan, at Nara Roesler (2022), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Plus que pierre, at Collégiale Saint-Martin (2019), in Angers, France; Romy and the Dogs, at Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia (MAAT) (2019), in Lisbon, Portugal; Nuit Studio Venezia, at Musée de la Musique, Cité de la Musique (2018), in Paris, France; Xavier Veilhan, Yuksek, Caterina Barbieri & Carlo Maria, The Count, Jonathan Fitoussi - Cine-concert, at Le Lieu unique (2018), in Nantes, France; Reshaped Reality; 50 years of Hyperrealist Sculpture, at Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao (2016), in Bilbao, Spain; Cedar, at Andrehn-Schiptjenko (2015), in Stockholm, Sweden. Main recent group shows are: Rêve Électro, at Musée de la Musique, Cité de la Musique (2019), in Paris, France; Calling for a New Renaissance, Joakim & Xavier Veilhan, Villa Aperta 8, at Villa Medici (2018), in Rome, Italy; Suspension – A History of Abstract Hanging Sculpture 1918 – 2018, at Olivier Malingue (2018), in London, UK, anda t Palais d’Iéna (2018), in Paris, France (2018); Botticelli Reimagined, at Victoria & Albert Museum (2016), in London, UK; 57th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (2017). His works are included in important institutional collections, such as: Fondation Ilju, Seoul, South Korea; Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; and New National Museum of Qatar, Doha, Qatar; among others.
Exhibitions
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xavier veilhan
10.9 - 29.10.2022
Nara Roesler is pleased to present Xavier Veilhan's first solo show in Rio de Janeiro, opening to the public on September 10. The exhibition offers...Read more
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GNR presents:
7.7 - 7.9.2017Galeria Nara Roesler | New York is delighted to announce GNR Presents:, a multimedia collective show that brings together a wide range of works representing...Read more -
cromofilia vs cromofobia: continuação
Abraham Palatnik, Angelo Venosa, Antonio Dias, Artur Lescher, Bruno Dunley, Carlito Carvalhosa, Daniel Buren, Eduardo Coimbra, Hélio Oiticica, José Patrício, Karin Lambrecht, Marcelo Silveira, Marco Maggi, Melanie Smith, Milton Machado, Rodolpho Parigi, Sergio Sister, Tomie Ohtake, Vik Muniz e Virgínia de Medeiros 26.1 - 18.3.2017Continuing her exploration of color and this hypothetical battle between the color chart and the color circle, Galeria Nara Roesler’s artistic director Alexandra Garcia Waldman,...Read more -
chromophilia vs chromophobia: an exploration of color
abraham palatnik, antonio dias, bruno dunley, cao guimarães, carlito carvalhosa, daniel buren, daniel senise, haegue yang, hélio oiticica, julio le parc, lucia koch, marcelo silveira, marco maggi, milton machado, not vital, rodolpho parigi, sérgio sister, tomie ohtake and vik muniz. 19.11.2016 - 21.1.2017Galeria Nara Roesler | São Paulo is pleased to present Chromophilia vs. Chromophobia: an exploration of color. The group exhibition features eighteen pieces by Abraham...Read more -
o corpo e a obra de arte
marcos chaves, karin lambrecht, brígida baltar, alice miceli, paulo bruscky, raul mourão, bruno dunley, melanie smith, vik muniz, rodolpho parigi, antonio dias, berna reale, virginia de medeiros, rené francisco, xavier veilhan, carlito carvalhosa 20.2 - 26.3.2016Appropriations and interpretations of human and natural forms provide unifying thread in group show The Body and the Work of Art, set to open on...Read more
News
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arte contemporânea: 3 abordagens concisas
curso com felipe scovino 27.9.2022A partir de conceitos elaborados pela obra de Xavier Veilhan , o curso, dividido em 3 aulas, explora os campos do retrato, paisagem, arquitetura e...Read more -
film screening
cao guimarães, raul mourão and xavier veilhan 2.9.2022Nara Roesler and the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro (MAM Rio) will host a screening, premiering Veilhan’s new short film titled, Le...Read more -
desfile chanel primavera-verão 2022
primeiras imagens por xavier veilhan 18.2.2022Xavier Veilhan was invited by Virginie Viard , creative director of CH ANEL to create a visual universe for the brand's new spring summer collection,...Read more -
plus que pierre
xavier veilhan 26.9.2019O trabalho proposto por Xavier Veilhan para o espaço do Collégiale Saint-Martin dá continuidade a reflexão, que permeia sua prática, sobre a tradição escultórica na...Read more -
romy and the dogs
xavier veilhan 9.5.2019French artist Xavier Veilhan is the first to use MAAT’s rooftop, with a specially-designed sculpture installation, “Romy and the dogs”, that responds to the characteristics...Read more
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glasstress
vik muniz, artur lescher, xavier veilhan 23.4.2019Curated by Vik Muniz, GLASSTRESS brings together a new line-up of leading contemporary artists from Europe, the United States, Latin America, India, and China in...Read more -
suspension – a history of abstract hanging sculpture 1918 – 2018
artur lescher, daniel buren, hélio oiticica, julio le parc, xavier veilhan 2.10.2018Artur Lescher, Hélio Oiticica, Daniel Buren, Julio Le Parc and Xavier Veilhan, integrates the exhibition 'Suspension - A History of Abstract Hanging Sculpture 1918 -...Read more -
jamaica, jamaica
xavier veilhan 5.3.2018A mostra propõe uma excursão cronológica e temática para apresentar o universo sonoro e cultural da Jamaica, que ultrapassa as fronteiras físicas e se torna...Read more -
xavier veilhan & zombie zombie
xavier veilhan 21.6.2016http://www.veilhan.com/#!/en/news/54?x=0Read more -
system occam
xavier veilhan 21.6.2016http://www.veilhan.com/#!/en/news/55Read more