Clément Cogitore

Clément Cogitore (born 1983 in Colmar, France) is a French contemporary artist and filmmaker. Combining film, video, installations and photographs, Cogitore questions the modalities of cohabitation between humankind and its own images and representations.

Clément Cogitore
Born1983 (age 37–38)
NationalityFrench
OccupationContemporary artist and filmmaker

Early life and studies

Clément Cogitore grew up in Lapoutroie, in eastern France (Upper Rhine). Studying in Strasbourg at the Academy of Applied Arts and then at Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains (French National Studio of Contemporary Art),[1] Clément Cogitore developed an artistic practice halfway between Cinema and Contemporary Art.

Career

Since 2011, Cogitore’s work has been screened and exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo, Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Institute of Contemporary Arts (London),[2] Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin),[3] MACRO (Rome),[4] Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), MoMA (New-York), MNBA (Québec),[5] SeMA Bunker (Seoul),[6] Kunsthaus Baselland (Basel).[7]

In 2010 his short movie Parmi nous was awarded the Grand Prize of the European First Film Award (Vevey).[8] That same year his documentary movie Bielutine was selected for Cannes' Directors' Fortnight.[9] The following year he became resident of the Villa Medici, French Academy in Rome.[10]

In 2015, his first feature film The Wakhan Front was selected at the Cannes international film festival – Critic’s week,[11] awarded by the Gan Foundation.[12] That same year he won the BAL Prize for contemporary art.[13] In 2016, he won the SciencesPo Prize for contemporary art[14] and the 18th Ricard Foundation Prize for contemporary art.[15] In 2017, Cogitore released his documentary movie Braguino (Telluride, San Sebastian, Marseille, Toronto, Buenos Aires, Moscow festivals).[16]

In 2018, Clément Cogitore was awarded the Marcel Duchamp Prize for Contemporary Art, for his work The Evil Eye.[17] Since 2018, he is teaching at the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Paris, where he is in charge of one studio.

To celebrate its 350th anniversary, Cogitore will stage Jean-Philippe Rameau's opera ballet, Les Indes galantes at the Opéra National de Paris. The première has taken place in September 2019. Les Indes Galantes was selected by The New York Times as one of the best opera productions of 2019,[18] nominated best opera production 2019 by the Giornale della Musica[19] and won the Forum Opera Trophy of the Best new opera production 2019.[20]

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Cogitore’s work is represented in several public collections (Centre Georges Pompidou, National Fund for Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Fund of the City of Paris, FRAC Alsace, FRAC Aquitaine, FRAC Auvergne, MAC VAL, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Strasbourg) and private collections (Louis Vuitton Collection, Daimler Art Collection).

Clément Cogitore is represented by Chantal Crousel Consulting, Paris, and Reinhard Hauff Gallery, Stuttgart.

Solo shows
  • 2019 : Clément Cogitore (Part I and Part II), Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel
  • 2019 : Clément Cogitore, Musée Marc Chagall, Nice
  • 2017 : Braguino or the impossible community, Le Bal, Paris   
  • 2017 : The resonant interval, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart
  • 2016 : Digital desert, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart
  • 2016 : The resonant interval, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
  • 2015 : Digital Desert, Galerie White Project, Paris
  • 2014 : Fictions, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg
  • 2014 : Visions, Centre européen d'actions artistiques contemporaines, Strasbourg
  • 2014 : Rumeurs, Galerie White Project, Paris
  • 2013 : Clément Cogitore : Fotografien, Institut français, Stuttgart 
  • 2012 : Rondes de Nuit, Galerie White Project, Paris
  • 2011 : An archipelago, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
  • 2011 : Angelu(s)x, Galerie Saint-Séverin, Paris

Filmography

Feature films

Short films
  • 2018 : The Evil Eye
  • 2017 : Braguino
  • 2017 : Les Indes Galantes
  • 2013 : Elegies
  • 2013 : Untitled
  • 2012 : Tahrir
  • 2011 : Bielutine
  • 2011 : Parmi nous
  • 2011 : An Archipelago
  • 2007 : Visités
  • 2006 : Chroniques

Publications
  • 2017 : Braguino, DVD, Monography - Blaq out distribution, texts : Eugène Green and Laurent Mauvignier.
  • 2017 : Braguino or the impossible community - Monography - Co- Edition Filigranes // LE BAL, texts : Léa Bismuth and Bertrand Schefer.[22]
  • 2016 : The Wakhan Front - DVD, Monography - Kazak production.
  • 2016 : Hypothesis - DVD, Monography - Ecart production, texts : Philippe-Alain Michaud.
  • 2014 : Atelier - Monography - Edition Les Presses du Réel, texts : Dominique Païni, Jean Michel Frodon et Anaël Pigeat.[23]

Awards
  • 2018 : Marcel Duchamp Prize 2018 - France
  • 2018 : Grand Prize UniFrance for short film - Cannes Film Festival
  • 2017 : Grand Prize Kino der Kunst, Film festival - Artist under 35 - Munich - Germany
  • 2017 : Grand Prize - Les écrans documentaires - La Rochelle - France
  • 2017 : Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award - San Sebastian Film Festival - Spain
  • 2016 : 18th Fondation d'entreprise Ricard award - Paris - France
  • 2016 : Sciences Po Award for Contemporary Art - Paris - France
  • 2016 : Best First Film Award - Colcoa Film Festival Los Angeles - USA
  • 2016 : Jury's Prize - Sarasota International Film Festival - USA
  • 2016 : Grand Prize - Henri Langlois awards - France
  • 2015 : Grand Prize Gan Foundation - Cannes Film Festival Critics' Week - France
  • 2015 : Bal Award for young artist with ADAGP - Paris- France
  • 2015 : Best first featured film Prize - Syndicat de la Critique - France
  • 2015 : Best first featured film Prize - Obrero International Film Festival - Sweden
  • 2015 : Best first featured film Prize - Motovun International Film Festival - Croatia
  • 2015 : Best film Prize - Festival International du Film D’Aubagne - France
  • 2015 : Prix Découverte – Festival du Film Francophone de Namur - Belgium
  • 2014 : National Foundation for Contemporary Art (FNAGP) Award - Paris - France
  • 2012/13 : French Academy Residency Award – Villa Medici - Italy
  • 2012 : Foundation Beaumarchais Award – SACD – Paris (short film) - France
  • 2012 : Best cinematography award – Lucania International film festival - Italy
  • 2011 : Grand prize of salon de Montrouge – 56° Salon de Montrouge - France
  • 2011 : Best Film Award – International film festival - Belo Horizonte - Brazil
  • 2010 : European First Film Award – Foundation Vevey - Switzerland
  • 2010 : FIDLAB Award – Marseilles International Film Festival - France
  • 2010 : Special experimentation award – FESANCOR – International film festival Santiago - Chile
  • 2007 : Jury's awards – Vendôme International Film Festival - France
  • 2007 : Best photography Award – International student film festival – Belgrade - Serbia
  • 2006 : Award of centre des écritures cinématographiques – Ecrans documentaires – Arcueil - France

References
  1. "Artiste étudiant". Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains (in French). Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  2. "ICA | Braguino". www.ica.art. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  3. Welt, Haus der Kulturen der (2016-03-11). "Les Rencontres Internationales". HKW (in German). Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  4. "Clément Cogitore | Les Indes Galantes | Macro Asilo - Museo Macro | Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma". www.museomacro.it. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  5. "Manif d'art 8- La biennale de Québec L'art de la joie". Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ) (in French). Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  6. "" Vision on Vision " – The Lemaître Video Art Collection". Institut Français de Corée du Sud (in French). Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  7. "Kunsthaus Baselland". kunsthausbaselland.ch. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  8. "Images 10 - Festival des arts visuels de Vevey - Clément Cogitore - Parmi Nous". www.images.ch. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  9. "Bielutin – Dans le jardin du temps". Quinzaine des Réalisateurs (in French). Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  10. "Clément Cogitore". Villa Medici (in French). Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  11. AlloCine, Prix et nominations pour Ni le ciel ni la terre, retrieved 2019-07-02
  12. "NI LE CIEL NI LA TERRE". Fondation Gan pour le Cinéma. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  13. "Le BAL award for young artists with the ADAGP 2017 / Clément Cogitore". LE BAL. 2016-01-21. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  14. "PRIX SCIENCES PO 2016 : Clément Cogitore". Follow Art With Me (in French). 2016-04-27. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  15. "La Fondation d'entreprise Ricard - Le prix de la fondation". Fondation d'entreprise Ricard. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  16. "Braguino". Seppia. Retrieved 02/07/2019. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  17. Greenberger, Alex (2018-10-15). "Clément Cogitore Wins 2018 Prix Marcel Duchamp". ARTnews. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  18. Woolfe, Zachary; Tommasini, Anthony; Barone, Joshua; Walls, Seth Colter (2019-12-04). "Best Classical Music of 2019". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-01-29.
  19. "Le 10 migliori OPERE liriche del 2019". Il giornale della musica (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-01-29.
  20. "Trophées 2019 : le palmarès | Forum Opéra". www.forumopera.com (in French). Retrieved 2020-01-29.
  21. "Les Indes galantes - Opéra - Programmation Saison 19/20". Opéra national de Paris (in French). Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  22. "Braguino". Filigranes Editions (in French). Retrieved 2019-07-01.
  23. "Clément Cogitore : Atelier – Les presses du réel (book)". www.lespressesdureel.com. Retrieved 2019-07-01.
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