BIANCA BONDI

Bianca Bondi is a South-African artist who has a multidisciplinary approach, producing in situ projects. Her installations are most of the time in perpetual transformation. Her interest for chemistry and experimentation leads her to use materials with transformation properties, like salt, organic matters and various chemical solutions. Her installations are like biotopes; rebuilding miniature ecosystems.

EDUCATION 

2012 DNSEP, École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts Paris – Cergy 

2010 DNAP , École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts Paris – Cergy 

2006 BAFA, Fine Arts, WITS University, Johannesburg, RSA 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2018 Diet & Psychology, Les Limbes – Céphalopode, Saint Etienne, FR 

Gradually, then Suddenly, Galerie 22,48m2, Paris, FR 

SWEETTEETH, Hazard, Johannesburg, RSA 

2017 Repressed Memories Return… , cur. Gaël Charbau, Cité des Sciences, Paris, FR A Series of Discreet Events, La Villa Belleville, Paris, FR

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS 

2018 

Exhibition of the finalists for the 11th Prix Meurice, cur. Claire Moulène, le Meurice Hotel, Paris, FR 

Décadence, cur. Double Séjour, Franklin Azzi Architecture, Paris, FR 

A Hole in Time, cur. Victor Mazière, CAC la Traverse, FR Se mettre au vert, cur. Clotilde Boitel, MAL de Laon, FR 

De fils ou de fibres, CAC Meymac Antoine Donzeaud: Une décision purement pratique. Centre Culturel de la Visitation, Périgueux , FR 

Material Narratives : Get It While It’s Hot, cur. M. Krüger, L. Touroul, DOC, Paris, FR Fading Away, cur. Céline Flécheux, Galerie 22,48m2, Paris, FR 

Born in the Purple, Artinkk Galerie, Brussels, BE INTOTO, cur. Thomas Fougeirol, Julien Carreyn, Fondation Ricard, Paris, FR 

Angle mort, Ici Gallery, Paris, FR 

Biennale de Jeune Création, Centre d’art la Graineterie, Houilles, FR 

Crashtest, cur. Nicolas Bourriaud, La Panacée, Montpellier, FR 

Continent des anecdotes (HOTEL EUROPA), cur. Théo-Mario Coppola, Galerie Felix Frachon, BE

2017 

Pillars, cur. Jota Castro, Carrington gallery, Gent, BE 

Built like a memory, Tag Team Studio, Bergen, NO 8th Young Triennal, cur. R. Demidenko, Center of Polish Sculpture, Oronsko, PL 

Dans la place, cur. Stéphane Corréard, Pavillon Carré de Baudoin, Paris, FR 

La piel del mundo, cur. Nicolas de Ribou, Gallery Jose Luis de la Fuente, Santander, ES 

Ainsi jouaient les enfants seuls, cur. Pierre Ardouvin, Presbytère les Arques, FR 

Intoto 3, cur. Thomas Fougeirol, Le Molière, Paris, FR 

Agora, Galerie R-2, cur. 2 A1, Paris, FR 

Sans Titre 2016 (vol3), cur. Marie Madec, Paris, FR 

Preparatory portrait of a young girl, cur. Michal Novotny, Plato, Ostrava, CZ Les vies de Cagliostro, cur. Marianne Derrien, Galerie 22,48 m² , Paris FR 

Freak Park, cur. Théo-Mario Coppola, La Villa Belleville , Paris, FR 

2016 Assemblage #2, Possibilités du Noir, Julio, Paris, FR 

A Thousand Friends (part 2), cur. Exo Exo, New Jörg, Vienna, AT Né un 2 juillet, Galerie Derouillon, Paris, FR 

I Would’ve Done Everything For You/Gimme More!, cur. Cedric Fauq, The Plug, London, UK En Flamme, Firma, Bruxelles, BE The Garden, cur. Room E1027, Cité des Arts, Paris, FR

2015 

Empiristes, cur. Gaël Charbau, Bourse Révélations Emerige, Villa Emerige, Paris, FR

 Odradek, cur. Flora Katz and Mikaela Assolent, Instants Chavirés, Montreuil, FR EUREKA! cur. Kendell Geers, Galerist, Istanbul, TR Unplugged, cur. A. Pontet, JM. Brinon, N. Renaude, M. Waquant, Château de la Roche Guyon, FR Floating Reverie / Post digital 

2014

 Kalashnikovv Gallery, Johannesburg, RSA 2014 D!NG X.II, cur. Jolien Direx and Sarah Vierstraete, Kunstencentrum Belgie, Hasselt, BE

48°28’39’’N 2°12’47’’E, cur. Emmanuelle Day and Allison Somers, Auvers-Saint-Georges, FR 

Slow Future, cur. Jota Castro, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PO 

Meme l’Imprevue est Quantifiable, cur. by A. Pontet, JM. Brinon, Château de la Roche Guyon, FR

 2013 

Si nous continuons (…), cur. by Flora Katz, Mikaela Assolent, Treize, Paris, FR PRIZES, NOMINATIONS & GRANTS 2018 Shortlisted for Le Prix des Amis de Palais de Tokyo Shortlisted for Le Prix Meurice, Paris, FR Shortlisted for Talents Contemporains 

2017 

Fondation François Schneider, cat. peinture, Wattwiller, FR 

CNAP grant for a first solo show in a French gallery 

2015 

Shortlisted for La Bourse Révélations Emérige 2015, Paris, FR 

Shortlisted for Talents Contemporains 2014, Fondation François Schneider, cat. installation, Wattwiller, FR 

2014 

Shortlisted for Talents Contemporains 

2013, 

Fondation François Schneider, cat. sculpture, Wattwiller, FR 

RESIDENCIES 2018 Nirox, Cradle of Mankind, RSA 2017 Aldea Residency, Bergen, NO Center of Polish Sculpture, Oronsko, PL Les Ateliers des Arques, Presbytère les Arques, FR 2016 Villa Belleville, Paris, FR 2014 Floating Reverie; digital, non site specific Chateau de la Roche Guyon, Roche Guyon, France 2011 Bandjoun Station, Cameroun (prof. Barthelemy Toguo, ORLAN, and Pierre Ardouvin) ARTIST TALKS 2017 Afropolitan festival , Art Talk Kendell Geers invites, BOZAR, Brussels, BE FAIRS & BENEFITS 2018 Art Cologne (Solo show), Galerie 22,48m2, Cologne, DE 2017 Hotel Europa, Art vilnius, cur. Théo-Mario Coppola, Vilnius, LT 2016 ART IS HOPE, (Benefit) Galerie Perrotin, Paris, FR COLLECTIONS Nirox Foundation; Collection VR d’Affaux; FYAC; Sindika Dokolo Foundation; SAFFCA

PUBLICATIONS & PRESS 2018 Discussion with Léa Cotart-Blanco for Pont Contemporain, October 2018 Se mettre au vert, catalog; Clotilde Boitel, MAL de Laon, FR Material Narratives : Get It While It’s Hot, catalog; M. Krüger, L. Touroul, DOC, FR Biennale de Jeune Création, catalog; Centre d’art la Graineterie, Houilles, FR Fy-Ca, interview, April 2018 Talents Contemporains 2017, Fondation François Schneider Elephant.art, review: ‘’A hairy affair at Art Cologne’’, April 2018 Technikart, review ‘’Montpellier Crash testé’’, March 2018 Le Quotidien de l’Art #1436, ‘’les matériaux vivants de Crash Test’’, Pedro Moraïs Art Press, review, Julie Crenn Crashtest, la Révolution Moléculaire, catalogue; N. Bourriaud, S. Hessler, La Panacée, Montpellier, FR Artaissime #18, introducing, Janvier / Avril 2018 edition Exhibition monograph #48, Gradually then Suddenly, 22,48m2, Paris, FR Exhibition monograph, SWEETTEETH, Hazard Gallery, JHB, RSA 2017 Open Triennale : 8th Young Triennale, catalog; Center of Polish Sculpture, Oronsko, PL Ainsi jouaient les enfants seuls, exhibition catalogue, Les Ateliers des Arques Barbed Magazine, feature, Surrender issue 05 ART AFRICA, interview: Baldi/ Bondi, March edition 2016 ‘Noces Chymiques’, Victor Mazières, LeChâssis.fr 2015 Empiristes, catalog, Révélations Emeriges, 2015 Interview, Cyrielle Bréan, LeChâssis.fr EUREKA! Exhibition catalogue, Galerist ; Kendell Geers, Eda Berkman Art Unlimited Magazine #31, interview For the Love of Being, SAFFCA collection catalogue 2014 Slow Future, catalogue; Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, PO D!NG magazine, April edition, artist feature, online publication