SOCIÉTÉ RÉALISTE - Bertrand Lamarche · SOCIÉTÉ RÉALISTE - GALERIE JÉRÔME POGGI, PARIS + BIOGRAPHY Société Réaliste is an art collective founded by Ferenc Grof (1972) and

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SOCIÉTÉ RÉALISTE - GALERIE JÉRÔME POGGI, PARIS

+BIOGRAPHY

Société Réaliste is an art collective founded by Ferenc Grof (1972) and Jean-Baptiste Naudy (1982).

Their work consists in appropriating and distorting the tools of communication of power structures (maps, emblems, signs, architecturs). Société Réaliste create symbolic and visual confrontations to critically examine such structures without resorting to easy denunciations.

They operate in subtle comparisons, extrapolations, and statistic interpretations, shedding light on historical evolutions and trends and producing tools for reading the contemporary world.

Soiété Réaliste’s work has been shown in a number of exhibitions in France, at the Biennale de Lyon in 2009, at the Jeu de Paume (their solo show «Empire, State, Building») in 2011, and at the Fondation Kadist, but also in numerous exhibits abroad, at Budapest’s Ludwig Museum in 2012, at the Contemporary Art Museum of Bucarest in 2011, at the Wroclaw Contemporary Museum in 2012, at the Dunaujvaros Institute of Contemporary Art in 2012, the Sheila C. Johnson Desing Center in New York in 2012, at the Leon MUSAC in 2012, at the TOP Contemporary Art Center in Shanghai in 2011, at the University of Maryland Baltimore Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture, at the Fondazione Pistoletto in Biella in 2010, and others.

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View of the solo exhibition «Empire, State, Building», at Museum Ludwig, Budapest, 2012


Spectral Aerosion, 2011Painted and engraved Necurite 104 x 64 cmEdition of 3 + 2 A.P


The Fountainhead, 2010Video DVD, 111 mn, produced by the Academy Jan van Eyck in Maastricht and directed by Greg Langlois Edition of 5

+ Société Réaliste’s full-length movie The Fountainhead (2010)is based on the 1949 eponymous capitalist propaganda film written by Ayn Rand, arch-priestess of American libertarianism and author of some of its biggest cultural myths.

The original studio movie tells the story of a Promethean modernist architect - a character based on the figure of Frank Lloyd Wright - fighting against a surrounding collective decadence in the name of his personal genius.

Société Réaliste has removed the sound and deleted every human presence to reduce the film to its set and décor, its ideological architecture.


+ As an echo to the disappearance of the topic in the film, Société Réaliste presents Commonscript (2011), a series of 48 panels, equitably melting emptied videograms extracted from The Fountainhead with inscriptions. The images show stereotypical and almost abstracted modernist architectural views from a Prime City (New York), extracted from the original 1949 film script. The sentences are the main ideological affirmations personally stated by the hero that have been systematically transcripted by Société Réaliste in the plural form. Turning a supposedly autonomous discourse into a generalized one, allows to counter-balance the ideal views of a standardized world. The link between the personal and the general in the inscriptions is made in a new font designed by Société Réaliste entitled Falling Haus (2011). This centaur font is the hybridization of Frank Lloyd Wright’s font named «Exhibition», and Josef Albers’ global-abstract font, known as «Universal». Commonscript, 2011

Series of 48 pannels


A Gift from Birobidzhan, 2011Steel sculpture, engraved manhole Diameter : 60 cm ; depth : 6 cmEdition of 3 + 2 A.P

Detail


View of the exhibition «Empire, State, Building», Jeu de Paume, 2011Photo credit : Adrien Chevrot


Empire of Soviets, 2011Steel sculpture24 x 40 x 30 cmEdition of 3 + 2 A.PCsarba Makra Collection

+Empire of Soviets represents the visual translation in seven sister-steps of the phantasmagoric passage between two contemporary towers, one which was built and the other never: the Empire State Building by William F. Lamb, built in 1931 in New York, and the Palace of the Soviets by Boris Iofan, projected for Moscow also in 1931.

The Palace of the Societs was supposed to be a huge congress hall glorifying the Revolution that was never built. This architectural project, which was also meant to be a monument honoring Lenin, was certainly the most ambitious of its time. Selected in 1933 among such candidates as Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius, Boris Iofan’s project consisted in a 220-meter high skyscraper initially topped by a statue of «the liberated proletarian», which was then replaced by that of Lenin. The original project was revised the following year on Stalin’s instructions to reach an increadible height of 420 meters, thus becoming the world’s highest skyscraper, higher than New York City’s Empire State Building, which was inaugurated in 1931.The Palace of Soviets was to replace the Cathedral of Christ Savior, which had been blown up. However, construction work which began in 1939, was suspended because of the war, and the project was abandoned under Krushchev and replaced by an open-air swimming pool (1959-1995). After the fall of the Berlin Wall, history rewinded with the reconstruction of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, completed in 2002 as an identical copy of the church built in 1883, a symbol of the desire to erase all traces of the Soviet past.

Giovanna Zapperi, Temporal Architectures, in Société Réaliste catalogue for «Empire, State, Building»


L’avenir dure longtemps, Appendix, 2010View of the installation at the 2nd Biennial of Rennes, Couvent des Jacobins, 2010 Installation, 4.400 names perforated in the cement groundUnique

+ «L’avenir dure longtemps, Appendix» was realized in the Black Friars Convent, on the occasion of the 2nd Rennes Biennial, in the vicinity of an archeological excavation which revealed that the site had been used as a burial ground for a thousand years.

Having established a general map of the convent on the basis of the alphabetical list - transcripted in Appendix typeset - of the 165,000 inhabitants of the city who were over 18 in 2009, the cooperative followed this map to select the 4,400 patronyms located in the exhibition room it had been attributed. Société Réaliste and volunteers then methodically carved these names, one by one, into the cement ground.

The experience sought to examine the futurological effect on an ongoing cemetery, hosting people yet living.


Map of the Black Friars Convent realized with the 165.000 names written in Appendix font


List of minor planets in Appendix: from 5666 (François Rabelais) to 6000 (United Nations), 2013Perforated table and chairsTable: 130 x 50 x 74 cm, chairs: 41 x 37,5 x 80 cmUniqueView of the exhibition How High the Moon at Galerie Jérôme Poggi and detail of the perforated table


Cartophony of the Land of the Free, 2010Table, digital print150 x 150 x 70 cm


Proposal for a New Alphabetical Order based on the Experanto writing system and pegged on the Euro Rates at 2010-07-27 10:05:00 UTC, 2010Enamel plate80 x 65 cm


Nowhere, 2011-2012Enamel plate80 x 97 cm

The Future is... Futura Fraktur, 2011Lightbox 73 x 105 cmEdition of 3 + 2 A.P


21st Fraktur of Futura, 2011Enamel plate50 x 15 cmEdition of 3 + 2 AP

+ The font « Futura Fraktur » merges two typographies : Futura, which was heavily used by the Bauhaus before it was exiled from Germany in 1933, and Fraktur, which was the favorite font of the Nazis until 1941 when they forbid it after the discovery that its inventor was Jewish.Société Réaliste often forms ambiguous or ironic sentences on enamel plates using this hybrid font.


View of the exhibition «Empire, State, Building», Jeu de Paume, 2011

Zero Euro, 2011Sculpture, painted Polystyrol100 x 55 x 25 cm


Limes New Roman, 2009-201024 enamel platesEach 15 x 30 cmEdition of 3 + 2

The Future is the Extension of the Past by Other Means, 2009-2012Plaque émaillée80 x 60 cm

+ In this work, the sentence written in «Limes New Roman» means «the future is the extension of the past by other means», and takes the shape of the infinity symbol.It reveals, not by reading but only by the act of looking that the geopolitical separation are cyclistic and continuous in the world and time.

+ «Limes New Roman» is a typographical font elaborated by Société Réaliste. This cryptography associates the 23 letters of the imperial alphabet to 46 contemporary walls representing geopolitical separations in the world: 23 at the scale of towns are the lower case letters, 23 at the scale of countries are the upper case letters.


Futurum Exactum, 2011Oil painting on framed canvas150 x 100 cmUnique

+ Futurum Exactum, whose title is taken from a book of Sándor Ujvári published in 1927, is a representation of the nazi architect Albert Speer’s ‘law of ruins’ applied to the Germania model, his project for a capital of the 3rd Reich.

+«By using materials and by applying certain principles of statics, we should be able to build structures which, even in a state of decay, after hundreds or (such were our reckonings) thousands of years, would more or less resemble Roman models. [...] Hitler gave orders that in the future the important buildings of the Reich were to be erected in keeping with the principles of this ‘law of ruins’.»

Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich, New York, The Macmillan Company, 1970


View of Société Réaliste’s first solo show, «IGM = 1 : MDCCLXXIX» à la Karton Galéria, Budapest, february 2005Photo credit: József Ormos

+ Organised for the Karton Galéria of Budapest with Thomas Baldner, this exhibition paid tribute to Restif de la Bretonne and his practice of graffing his diary on the walls of l’Ile Saint-Louis between 1779 and 1789. The central inscription, «Grammae», was made up with 40 graffitis and calligrammes written in 11 different languages.


State of Shades: Hungarian National Painting Grey. Average Colour of 684 Major Paintings from the Hungarian National Gallery’s Collection, 2012Installation specific to the location of Museum Ludwig, Budapest


Quote / End of Quote, 2010Steel sculptures40 x 20 cmEdition of 3 + 2 A.P


Marka, 2008Bronze sculpture50 x 50 cmUnique


Archiscripton, 2011Aluminum sculpture on stone base185 x 60 x 32 cmEdition of 3 + 2 A.P


Star of the Paradise, 2011Photography and lightbox, documentation of a performance in Chisinau104 x 64 cmEdition of 3 + 2 E.A Photo credit : Indre Klimaite

+Société Réaliste stumbled upon a photo of an ephemeral monument in the collection of Tibor Horvath : a five-pointed star drawn by firemen using water jets. The image dates from the 1960’s; it was taken somewhere in Hungary. It must have been taken on the occasion of May 1st, November 7th, or the international day of Heroic Fireman as a materialist representative of Saint Georges slaying the dragon of fire. [...] The star of this photo is not «red» but transparent, and made of water. Even if there are some «commie» slogans in the background, this is not supposed to be a totalitarian symbol.

This temporary geometric monument was transposed to the banks of the dry Valea Molitor Lake 40 years later. Local Firemen performed the task with their equipment. Picking up their hosepipes, they spouted water in the form of a liquid pentagram above the muddy sands of Brezhnev’s lake. The action took only 6-7 minutes, and several hundred desperate liters of water sank deep into the gravel.

Constructed in 1952 at the initiative of comrade Brezhnev, the First Secretary of the Party of the Moldavian SSR, this artificial lake in the middle of a park used to be a favorite leisure spot in the city. By 2006, after the lake had gone uncleaned for twenty years and after it had been used as a dumping site for construction waste, its ecosystem had collapsed and its water had finally drained. Now the mud is drying and nature has started to take over Brezhnev’s souvenir gift to Moldova.

There was never going to be any hope of refilling the gigantic pit, but the epehemal star of water is an ambiguous reminder of this forgotten lake, and of the impossibility of giving it new life with this vain act.

Olivier Schefer, Utopia and language : politics of forms, in Société Réaliste catalogue «Empire, State, Building»


Eugonics, 2009Digital print mounted on dibond200 x 100 cm


Ellipse by Eclipse, 2011Lightbox78 x 60 x 15 cmEdition of 3 + 2 A.P

Function as Fiction, 2011Lightbox78 x 60 x 15 cmEdition of 3 + 2 A.P


Runes of Ruines, 2011Lightbox78 x 60 x 15 cmEdition of 3 + 2 A.P

Voices for Voids, 2011Lightbox78 x 60 x 15 cmEdition of 3 + 2 A.P


United Nations Camouflage, «Loving Art, Making Art», Einav, Tel Aviv, from 09.06 au 09.07 2012

+United Nations Camouflage revisits the flags of the 192 States officially classified «Nation-States» by the UNO, which are then reconstructed in a camouflage version using their original colors ac-cording to a process based on the historical and geographical narration of each country.


Moons of the World, 2012Enamel plate90 x 60 cm

Stars of the World, 2012Enamel plate90 X 60 cm

Suns of the World, 2012 Enamel plate90 x 60 cm

+ Each of these enamel plates has been made starting from the superimposition of every flag comprising moons, stars, and suns.The superimposition has then been redrawn on one unique plan to create new flags containing all the moons, stars and suns of the world.


Windroad, (MA: Culture States), 201150 signal pannels, engraved map on baseView of the installation, BWA Sokol, Nowy Sacz, Poland


+États-donnés is a map representing on the same scale the 193 countries which are offi-cially recognized by the UNO. Each capital is indicated by a star.

By superimposing all the countries on one plan, Société Réaliste gets to a new map where all the frontiers overlap to create a square-sha-ped utopic territory.

Built upon this map, Société Réaliste built «Cosmopolitans of all coutries, yet another effort»;the 3D transposition of this calculation.

États-donnés, 2009Digital print103 x 120 cm.


Cosmopolites de tous les pays, encore un effort, 2010Aluminum sculpture on stone pedestal, sculptural transposition of États-donnés calculation180 x 180 x 40 cmSpengler / Somló collection Tivoli Park, MGCL / Aksioma, Ljubljana

+ Cosmopolites de tous les pays, encore un effort is a two-sided sculptural transposition of «États-donnés» cal-culation in which one side is engraved with the superimposition of national frontiers, while the other features a list of adjectives defining each country.The sculpture’s title is steeped in philosophical and political references as it is directly drawn from the epony-mous book by Jacques Derrida, in which the author deconstructs Kant’s theory of cosmopolitism. It is also influenced by the title of the communist manifesto written in 1848 by Marx and Engels : «Proletarians of all countries, Unite!». In addition, this title quotes le marquis de Sade in his 1795 book «La Philosophie dans le Boudoir» in which he writes: «French people, yet another effort if you want to be republicans».This work is at once a utopic and a counter-utopic proposition. Taking up Thomas More’s notion of the Utopic Island, Société Réaliste has created a fictional map from all the politically recognized territories of the world. «Cosmopolitans of all coutries, yet another effort» stands at a crossroads of interpretations : on the one hand it concretises the idea of a utopic country made up of all nations, and on the other hand, it calls for a political awareness of the exclusive and arbitrary process of politically recognitionizing Nation-States.


Universal Date, 2012Steel sculpture130 x 25 cmEdition of 3 + 2 A.P

Universal Position, 2012Steel sculpture(2 x) 123 x 26 cmEdition of 3 + 2 A.P


View of the exhibition «Empire, State, Building», room #6: EU Green Card Lottery Green, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, 2012.


EU Green Card Lottery: The Lagos File, view of the installation at the Biennial of Lyon, 2009

EU Green Card Lottery Registration Office

Exhibition view, The man behind the curtain, Mission 17, San Francisco, 2009

Exhibition view, Article Bien-nale, Sølvberget Kulturhus, Stavanger, Norway, 2006

Exhibition view, Katowice Biennial, Upper Silesian Centre of Culture,Katowice, 2009


+ SOLO SHOWS

2014‘amal ‘ al-gam’, Acb Gallery, Budapest (HU) Mottopsy, Tender Pixel, London (UK) Universal Anthem, Tranzit.ro, Cluj (RO) 2013 FIAC, Paris - Galerie Jérôme Poggi (FR) Universal Anthem, Tranzit.ro, Cluj (RO) Art International Istanbul, exposition personnelle, Istanbul (TR) L’art dans les chapelles, Chapelle Houssaye, Pontivy (FR) Thelema of Nations, Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris (FR) A rough guide to Hell, P!, New York (US) The Shape of Orders to Come, Salon de Vortex, Athens (GR)

2012Empire, State, Building, Ludwig Muzeum, Budapest (HU) Empire, State, Building, MNAC, Bucharest (RO) Monotopia, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris (FR) Komfortkampf, Lokal 30, Varsovie (PL)

2011Archiscriptons, Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zurich (CH) Empire, State, Building, Jeu de Paume, Paris (FR) The city amidst the buildings, Akbank Sanat Art Center, Istanbul (TR)

2010One-way World, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana (SI) Cosmopolites de tous les pays encore un effort (public monument), Tivoli Park MGLC/ Aksioma, Ljubljana (SI) The Fountainhead and other artworks, Platform3, Munich (DE) Xenolalia, Kisterem, Budapest (HU)

2009Transitioners: London View, uqbar, Berlin (DE) Transitioners: London View, Hold & Freight, London (GB) Pligatures, galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris, 2009 (FR) Over the counter, galerie Buy-Selff Art Club, Marseille (FR)

2008 Transitioners: Le Producteur, your-space / Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (NL) MA: Culture States - Exposition des Arts et Techniques appliqués à la vie moderne, Labor Galéria, Budapest (HU)

2007Transitioners: Le Producteur, La Synagogue de Delme (FR) Transitioners: Bastille Days collection, Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris ( FR) Transitioners, Ze Dos Bois, Lisbon (PT) Transitioners, Kunstpavillon, Innsbruck (AT)

2006MA: Deuxième contact, Bureau d’hypothèses Michel Journiac (FR) Transitioners, TRAFO Gallery, Budapest (HU)


+GROUP SHOWS 2014Chrématistique, CNEAI, Chatou (FR)La Fureur de Vivre, La Brasserie, Foncquevillers (FR)Art Under a Dangerous Star, Mayakivsky 102, Budapest (HU)Private Nationalism, Gallery m21, Pécs (HU)Pensive Pictures, Good By, Higgs Field, Budapest (HU)Monument : Aftermath of War and Conflict, The Undercroft /SCVA, Norwich (RU)Too much money, Museum Quartier, Vienne (AT) Private Nationalism, Kunsthalle Kosica, (SK)ART ROTTERDAM, Galerie Jérôme Poggi (NL)Get Up, KCB Belgrade (RS)Report on the construction of a spaceship module, new Museum, New York (US)Get Up, Mains d’oeuvres à Saint Ouen (FR) Helsinski Photography Biennal ( SUE)And I laid traps for troubadours who get killed before theyreached Bombay, Clark House Initiative, Bombay (IN) 2013 Rendez-vous, galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris, (FR)Hyphology, Sanatorium, Istanbul, (TR)Get up, Fabrica de Pensule, Cluj, (RO)Bookmarks, B55 Gallery, Budapest, (HU)Crosstalk Video Art Festival, Toldi Art Cinema, Budapest, (HU)Appropriated territories, Nida Art Colony (LT)Footnotes for the break up, Motorenhalle, Dresden (DE)By Any Means Necessary, ACB Gallery, Budapest (HU)I have a dream, Art Center of Thessalonik (GR)Arte:Affari, Lavoro o Perditempo, Furini Arte Contemporanea, Rome (IT)How High the Moon, galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris, (FR)Where do we migrate to, exposition collective, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans (USA) The Vertigo of Freedom, exposition collective, Situation Room / CHB, Berlin (DE) Time(less) Signs, Contemporary Art in Reference to Otto Neurath, exposition collective, Künstlerhaus, Vienne (AT)9th Shanghai Biennial: Reactivation, exposition collective, Shangai Contemporary Art Museum (CN)One Sixth of the Earth, exposition collective, ZKM Karlsruhe (DE)

2012The Organism, open systems, Vienne (AT)The Collective Eye, SUBTE, Montevideo (UY)Kritik une Krise, Situation Room / CHB, Berlin (DE)Drifting Identities, Muzeul Zemstvei, Chisinau (MD)2nd Ural Industrial biennial, Ekaterinburg (RU)I have a dream, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum - MWW, Wroclaw, (PL)Chrématistique, Centre d’art 360m³, Lyon (FR)Paper Jam #2, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, marke.6, Weimar, Treize & Ygrec, Paris, and Messy Shop, Bangkok (TH)Holidays in Greece, STUDIOvisits, Berlin, (DE)Half a dozen of the other, Magma, Sfântu Gheorghe (RO), The Golden Cage, KunstBüroBerlin, Berlin, (DE)Patterns of Time, ACB Contemporary Art Gallery, Budapest, (HU)Atlas Critique, Parc Saint Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux, (FR)La chispa que incendia la llanura, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Quito, (EC)Creative experiences, Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros, (HU)


Enacting Populism in its Mediaescape, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, (FR)Public Domain, Supermarket - Kulturhuset, Stockholm, (SU)Where do we migrate to?, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center - New School, New York, (US)One sixth of the Earth. Ecologies of Image, MUSAC, León, (ES)Art in the Parking Space, Pacific Standard Time / Standard Hotel in Hollywood, Los Angeles, (US)State of affairs, AMT Project, Bratislava, (SK)

2011Ai Weiwei is in China, Fichtebunker, Berlin, (DE)Drifting Identity Station, Open Space, Vienna, (AT)In dust we trust, within the frame of Nuit Blanche, Kiosque Lénine, Ivry-sur-Seine, (FR)Architecture Film Festival, Rotterdam, (NL)UFS (User Friendly Society), Galenica Gallery, Velika Gorica / Zagreb, (HR)Lost Stories, BWA Sokol, Nowy Sacz, Poland, (PL)Hybridity in the Carpathians, MODEM, Debrecen, (HU)Alter///scrinium. 10 Theses Of The Architecture, International Film Festival, Vladivostok, 2011.Trickster, European Culture Congress, Wroclaw (PL)My Communism, TOP Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai (CN)Speaks for itself, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, (HU)Parallel Chronologies. Invisible History of Exhibitions, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art - LCCA, Riga, (LV)Horizons de classe, Internationale Surplace, Hamburg, (DE)Where do we migrate to?, Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore, (US)For love not money, 15th Tallinn Print Triennial, Kumu, Tallinn (EE)

2010Zum ersten mal, K4 Gallery, Munich (DE)Pre-specifics: Access X! - Phase II, Onomatopee, Eindhoven (NL)Flagpole, Plateforme, Paris, (FR)Hyper Real, MUMOK, Vienna, (AT)Wealth of Nations, Spike Island, Bristol, (GB)Aviva Award, Mucsarnok, Budapest, (HU)Politique Zéro, Espace Niemayer, Paris, (FR)Hostipitality: Receiving Strangers, Muzeum Sztuki, Losz, (PL)Cooperation, not Corporations, ITS Z1, Belgrade, (RS)Pre-specifics: Access X! - Phase I, Onomatopee & Röda Sten Kulturförening, Göteborg, (SE)Transient Spaces - The Tourist Syndrom, NGBK & Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, (DE)All-lover, Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris, (FR)Practicing Memory, Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, (IT)Over the counter, Mucsarnok, Budapest, 2010.Reasonable Force, Room Gallery, Auckland - Aotearoa, (NZ)2nd Rennes Biennial: Ce qui vient, Couvent des Jacobins, Rennes, (FR)Celebration!, uqbar, Berlin,(DE)Geography of Trans-territories, Walter and McBean Galleries, SFAI, San Francisco, (US)Hypothèses / Vérifications, Laboratoria Art&Science Space, Moscow, (RU)Vous êtes ici, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dunkerque, (FR)

2009ID: Ideology of Design, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, (RS).Typopass - Critical design and conceptual typography, Dorottya Galéria, Budapest, (HU)10th Lyon Biennial: The spectacle of the everyday, Lyon, (FR)11th Istanbul Biennial: What Keeps Mankind Alive?, Istanbul, (TR)28th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Gallery Jakopic, Ljubljana, (SI)Splav Meduze, Likovni salon, Celje, Slovenia, (SI)Rites de Passage, Schunck Glaspaleis, Heerlen, The Netherlands, (NL)Bertha von Suttner Revisited, Schüttkasten, Harmannsdorf, (AT)How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?, 2nd Athens Biennial, Athens, (GR)«Wouldn’t be easier for the government to dissolve the people and elect another» (Bertolt Brecht), Gallery


Nova, Zagreb, (HR)The man behind the curtain, Mission 17, San Francisco, (US)Katowice Biennial, Upper Silesian Centre of Culture, Katowice, (PL)The Inescapable Experience of Transition, Le Magasin, Grenoble, (FR)Living Together, Marco, Vigo, (ES)Princess Frog, Galerie Catherine Jozsa, Brussels, (BE)Les frontières invisibles, Tri Postal, Lille, (FR)Living Together, Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, (ES)

2008Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. Mucsarnok, Budapest, (HU)Pancevo Republic!, 13th Biennale of Pancevo, (RS)The Aesthetic Center, 6th Gyumri International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Gyumri, Armenia (AM)Positive Critical Imagination, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh, (GB)The Mechanics of the Canvas, Ernst Museum, Budapest, (HU)Pro Eto, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, (RU)Be A Happy Worker: Work-to-Rule!, g-mk, Zagreb, (HR)Na mi van?, Mucsarnok, Budapest, (HU)L’Argent, Le Plateau, Paris, (FR)World-ex-position, Open Space, Vienna, (AT)MOBY Hosting, Museums of Bat-Yam, Israel, (IL)Utopia Transfer, Kiscelli Muzeum, Budapest, (HU)Economie 0, La Ménagerie de Verre, Paris, (FR)Transmediale 08: Conspire, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (DE)2007Emerging Wor(l)ds, Grey Zone, Prague, (CZ)Living Magazine, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, (DE)The Other City, Hungarian Cultural Center, New York,(US)AtL(e)As(T.) CoMpleX, Studio Gallery, Budapest, (HU)Un_Space / Paraflows, MAK, Vienna, (AT)Virtual Residency, Zentrum für Kunst und Industriekultur, Völklingen, Germany, (DE)Démocratie? Faites-la vous-même!, Mains d’Oeuvres, Paris, (FR)The Embassy / Apocalypse Now, &nbsp, Paris, (FR)Between white and black / Bunker Design, MKTTK, 2nd Moscow Biennale, (RU)

2006The Other City, TRAFO Gallery, Budapest, (HU)Article Biennale, Sølvberget Kulturhus, Stavanger, Norway,(NO)Intrusion / Apocalypse Now, &nbsp, Paris, (FR)Transitory Operations, UMA, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia, (MN)How to do things? In the middle of (no)where..., Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin (DE)NIKOLAJ, Copenhagen (DK)CIAC, Bucharest (HU)Center for Contemporary Art, Kiev (UA)TRAFO Gallery, Budapest (HU)NFO XPO, Version 06 : Parallel Cities, Version Kunsthalle Iron Studios, Chicago, (US)


+COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS

2012ArtLeaks Assembly, collective project at Flutgraben and WestGermany, Berlin (DE)Whose water is it?, in collaboration with Ulay, public art project, Maribor (SI)

2011Artist Pension Trust, The Institute of Social Hypocrisy, Paris (FR)

2007Manifesta 6.1: M6 D3 Abschlussball, WestGermany, Berlin (DE)

+LECTURES

2013Left Bank Valley: Exarchia, Occupied Embros Theater, Athènes (GR)

2012Left Bank Valley: introduction, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (NL)Culture States, tranzit.ro, Cluj (RO)Linéologies, within the frame of «Vous êtes ici: le paysage comme forme politique», ESACM, Clermont-Ferrand (FR)Forum des arts électroniques, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Genève (CH)Aura u Oro, FLASCO, Quito (EC)Invest / Invent / Interflugs / Salon Populaire, Berlin (DE)

2011Observatoires des Nouveaux Médias, ENSAD, Paris (FR)De quelques frontières, Chantier Mobile / EVENTO, Bordeaux (FR)

2010Drachma: a fistful of motives (with Jorgos Papadopoulos), in The Marathon Marathon project, Acropolis Museum, Athènes (GR)Inscripcions, Couvent des Jacobins, Rennes (FR)Liste, symposium Art&Research in Public Sphere, ksa:k - Centre for Contemporary Art, Chisinau (MD)Burning & rupturing & looting & rapturing, symposium Laboratory of Singular Prospectives, National Centre for Dance, Bucarest (RO)Géopolitique vs/as cosmopolitique?, Sciences Po & NYU, Paris (FR)Communisms Afterlives, Betonsalon, ParisTarif d’entrée, symposium «Real Poetic», ERG/Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles (BE)Glyphs & Strata, Tranzit Free School for Art Theory & Practice, Budapest (HU)

2009Bernard + Madoff durch die Dokumenta XIII, ETATW: We don’t., NABA, Milan (IT)The Great Karaoke Swindle, Imal, Bruxelles (BE)Glyphs & Strata II, Maska Institute, Ljubljana (SI)Xenos / Xenia, Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz (ES)Introductory dialogue between a philanthropist, living in the coutryside near Paris, and Jacques, his gardener, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (NL)

2008Glyphs & Strata, SFAI, San Francisco (US)Eternal Tour / Boomerang Effect, Istituto Svizzero, Rome (IT)Filigrammes: commentaires de L’Argent, Le Plateau, Paris (FR)


Towards a Greater Euregio, within the frame of Euregional Forum, a project by BAVO, Jan van Eyck Acade-mie, Maastricht (NL)Utopolitika, auditorium of the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (NL)e-POTHÈQUE, Art & Flux, Sorbonne University, Paris (FR)Conversations européennes : sur les pratiques participatives, Jeu de Paume, Paris (FR)MA: Soliton, The Upgrade! Paris / La Cantine, Paris (FR)Spéculums pour spéculations, Maison Descartes, Amsterdam (NL)Du goût ultraglocal du Gandhi Bürger, Tertulia, Café Pompier, Bordeaux (FR)The artist, the scientist and the industrial, Bilderberg Salon, Transmediale 08, Berlin (DE)Polisteries, uqbar, Berlin (DE)Transitions, Opening Week, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (NL)Spéculums et spéculations, ENBA, Lyon (FR)

2007Spéculums et spéculations, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux (FR)Spéculums et spéculations, Something you should know, EHESS, Paris (FR)MA: Soliton, Documenta XII Magazine, Documenta Halle, Kassel (DE)Ponzi’s, La Générale, Paris (FR)

+WORKSHOPS2012Moscow Curatorial Summer School: Doing Exhibition Politically, V-A-C Foundation and Russian State Univer-sity for the Humanities, Moscow (RU)

2011No Order Summit, Spanish Pavillon at the Venice Biennial (IT)Chercher...transférer, ENSA, Limoges, 2011 (FR)

200919?9, Tranzit Free School for Art Theory & Practice, Budapest (HU)Random Curating, Université Paris-1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris (FR)

2008Lineology, Parsons School of Art and Design, Paris (FR)Least Common Multiples, IAA, Bucharest (FR)

2007Stratégies économiques de l’art, Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux (FR)Disposition, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Paris-Cergy, Paris (FR)Discussions about Politics and Design, Ze Dos Bois, Lisbon (PT)

+ TEXTS

2013New Alphabetical Order, in Art Papers n°37/01, Atlanta (US)

2012Life, Domain, Kingdom, in Zootopia, London (US)State of Shades, in IDEA #41, Cluj (RO)

2011The city amidst the buildings, catalogue, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul (TR)Commonscript, in Scapegoat, n°02 - Materialism, Toronto (CA)Empire, State, Building, catalogue, Editions Amsterdam / Jeu de Paume / Ludwig Múzeum, Paris / Budapest


(FR-HU)Experanto, in TINA 7: Argent, Paris (FR)Random Curating, in No Order, n°01, Archive Books, Berlin / Milan (IT)

2010Biblio, in Manual de Practic? Artistic?, Protokoll / ?PAC, Cluj (RO)Currencies, in Volume One, Miami (US)

2009EU Green Card Lottery: Spécimens aléatoires, portfolio in Art 21 n°24, Paris (FR)Introductory Dialogue between an Educated Philanthropist Living in the Countryside near Paris and Jacques, His Gardener, SFAI MFA catalogue, San Francisco (US)Pligatures, Multitudes n°35, Paris (FR)

2008EU Green Card Lottery, in Printed Project, issue 10, Dublin (IE)Culture States: Prologue, Rajzlap n°8, Budapest (HU)Gandhi Bürger, in Journal of Visual Culture: D12 Dissection, volume 7 No 1, London (UK)Exclave, in The HTV, No 72: A Democratic Brand Paradox, Amsterdam (NL)

2007Ministère de l’Architecture: Soliton, in Multitudes Icones, Paris (FR)Ministère de l’Architecture: Deuxième contact, in Biennale de Paris XV, catalogue, éditions Biennale de Paris, Paris (FR)

2006IGM: Versade, in Exindex, Budapest (HU)The Great Karaoke Swindle, in How to do things? In the middle of (no)where…, catalogue of the project, Revolver Publishing, Frankfurt/Main (DE)Conspire / Dear Jean-Baptiste, in In Action!, Sparwasser / TRAFO, Budapest (HU)

+ BIBLIOGRAPHY

2014FÜLÖP Luca, Société Réaliste, in Elsewhere Magazine, Shanghai, 2014.

2013DE LA BAUME Maia, Paris fair celebrates its fourty, in The InternationalNew York Times, Paris - New York, 24.10.2013.GODFREY LARMON Annie, Critics’ Picks, in artforum.com, New York, 10.2013.BURLEIGH Paula, A rough guide to Hell by Société Réaliste, in The BrooklynRail, New York, 10.2013.PLAGENS Peter, Lyrical Forms, Social Commentary and Handiwork,in The Wall Street Journal, October 2013.MARKUS David, Rainbows to No Place: Société Réaliste and the Ayn RandApocalypse, in Hyperallergic, New York, October 2013.ROSZKOWSKA Magda, Praktyki Krytyczne, in Notes, Warsaw, n°83, May 2013.PIGA Angela Maria, On The Fountainhead, in Casa Vogue, Rome, April 2013.

2012Rosenmeyer Aoife, Société Réaliste at Mosseri-Marlio Gallery, in Art in America, New York, February 2012.Somze Catherine, Dealing with Politics, History and Social Commitment, interview, in Art Pulse, No. 10Stefan Olga, Société Réaliste - Archiscriptons, in Flash Art n°140, Milan


2011Rehberg Vivian Sky, Société Réaliste - Jeu de Paume, Paris, in Frieze Magazine n°141, LondonIhler-meyer Sarah, Brouiller les identités, in zérodeux, NantesAlkema Hanna, Empire of signs, in Idea, No.38, ClujSchonwald Cédric, Empire, State, Building, in Art21, n°30, ParisKerekes Anna, Palimpseste, in exindex.hu, May 2011.Tremeau Tristan, Empire, State, Building, in Art Press, Paris, May 2011.Denet Muriel, Empire, State, Building, in paris-art.com, April 2011.Picard grégory, Les signes du temps, in artinfo.com, April 2011.

2010Lebovici Elisabeth, Boue et censures au pays du «youngest curator ever», Le Beau Vice, 1 June, 2010.Unwin richard, Bucharest Biennale 4 Review, in Frieze Magazine n°132, LondonTucker Daniel, BB4: Getting Real, in Kunsthart, AntwerpenHauffen Michael, Transitioners - London View, in Springerin 1/10, Vienna

2009Lucchetti Matteo, Random curating - interview with Société Réaliste, in undo.net, MilanSim esmen Yasemin, Drawing lines to do away with them, in Hürriyet, IstanbulVan tomme Niels, Siding with the Barbarians, in Foreign Policy in Focus, Washington D.C.Lebovici Elisabeth, Un projet de société, in Multitudes n°35, Paris

2008Lassignardie Isabelle, Une démonstration critique par l’absurde, in Inter Actes If n°20, ParisStepanovic Tijana, Culturated States, in Muerto, 11 / 5, BudapestCserba Júlia, Triangular paranoia, in Balkon, 2008 / 3, BudapestVincent Cédric, Conspiratory Truths, in Conspire: Transmediale 08, catalogue, Revolver Publishing, Frankfurt/Main

2007Tremeau Tristan, Nouveaux Entrants, in Art21, No 15, ParisBrunel Raphaël, Transitioners. Bastille Days Collection, in parisART, ParisSomogyi Hajnalka, Chirurgie de l’illusion, in Art21, No 12, Paris

2006WEITZEL Antje, Some points about the Ponzi’s project, in How to do things? In the middle of (no)where…, catalogue of the project, Revolver Publishing, Frankfurt/Main

+ COLLECTIONS

Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration, Paris (FR)FMAC, Paris (FR)Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest (HU)MNAC, Bucarest (RO)

Documents

SOCIÉTÉ RÉALISTE - Bertrand Lamarche · SOCIÉTÉ RÉALISTE - GALERIE JÉRÔME POGGI, PARIS + BIOGRAPHY Société Réaliste is an art collective founded by Ferenc Grof (1972) and