Born in 1988 in Nantes, Hoël Duret is a french artist living and working between Paris and Nantes. He graduated an MA from the ESBA Nantes in 2011.
The first step of his projects always consists in developing a fiction story which gathers and questions in a playful way various narrative styles and registers. In a meta-fictional way, the narrative process in itself is a stake that is just as crucial as the art works it results in.
He writes his projects just like film scripts : with scenes, characters, situations … that he then divides into chapters, each of which summons the forms and mediums which seem the most accurate to tell its story. His practice is therefore transdisciplinary and his corpus is filled with installations, videos, performances, paintings, sculptures… His work often brings references to cinema, design, painting, dance, music or literature. His scripts deliver a critical and amused vision of the mainstream cultural movements, the rigid concepts and ideas, the codified schools of thoughts… all those things that intend to organize our world into a consistent, simple and reassuring entity.
2011 – MA – ESBA Nantes Métropole
2009 – BA – ESBA Nantes Métropole
Email : hoel.duret@gmail.com
Vimeo : www.vimeo.com/user26987084
Represented by NEW GALERIE, Paris
> Solo shows
2024
– Rivers of Gold – New Galerie, Paris, France
2023
– MORNING SUN – MABA Fondation des Artistes, Nogent-sur-Marne, France
2022
– CONT#CT – CCCOD – Centre de Création Contemporaine Olivier Debré, Tours, France
– Outta luck – New Galerie, Paris, France
– ANNE – Travelling performance project in Brittany, Mondes Nouveaux commission program, Pointe du Van, Pointe du Raz, Domaine du Dourven, France
2020
– low – Villa Merkel, curated by Andreas Baur, Esslingen, Germany
2019
– NFT pH<7 logique / Open Space #4 – Fondation Louis Vuitton, curated by Claire Staebler & Ludovic Delalande, Paris, FR
2018
– Too Dumb To Fail – CAC Galerie Edouard Manet, Gennevilliers, FR
– The Captain – Bonnevalle, curated by Loïc Le Gall, Noisy le Sec, FR
2017
– NFT pH<7 – Palazzo delle Stelline, curated by Laura Lamonea, Milan, Italy
2016
– FIAC 2016 – with TORRI gallery / Lafayette Sector, Grand Palais, Paris, FR
– UC-98 Sonar souls – TORRI gallery, Paris, FR
2015
– Un confort sans fin – L’Oeil de Poisson Art Center, Québec, Canada
– Mood board – Yishu 8 Art Space, Beijing, China
– La Vie Héroïque de B.S. – Un opéra en 3 actes – Fine Arts Museum of Mulhouse, Mulhouse, FR
– LOOP Video Art Fair 2015 – Barcelona, Spain
– I Can Do Anything Badly volume II – Park Life Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2014
– La Vie Héroïque de B.S. – Acte III : Les sirènes de Corinthe – Zoo Galerie, Nantes, FR
– YIA Art Fair #04 – Le Carreau du Temple, Paris, FR
– La Vie Héroïque de B.S. – Acte II : Le dilemme de l’oeuf – Mosquito Coast Factory, Campbon, FR
– I Can Do Anything Badly volume II – Castillo/Corrales & Section 7 Books, Paris, FR
2013
– La Vie Héroïque de B.S. – Acte I : As sa tribute…- FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, FR
– I Can Do Anything Badly volume I – Chez Treize invited by Le Commissariat, Paris, FR & RDV gallery, Nantes, FR
> Group shows
2023
– Tout cela forme un ensemble – Hotel de Ville de Paris, Paris, FR
– The house of pain – New Galerie, Paris, FR
– Ex vitro – Halles 1 & 2, curated by Mya Finbow & Camille Velluet, Nantes, FR
– De leur temps (7) – FRAC Grand Large, invited by ADIAF, Dunkerque, FR
– Raccrocher les wagons – CAC Galerie Edouard Manet, curated by Lionel Balouin, Gennevilliers, FR
– Everybody is a complete disappointment – New Galerie, Paris, FR
2022
– Shelter – Zoo Galerie, curated by Patrice Joly, Nantes, FR
– Bons baisers de Pékin – Musée Guimet, invited by Yishu 8, Paris, FR
2021
– Future Proof – curated by Philippe Riss-Schmidt, Refresh.bzh, Paimpol, FR
– Echos système – curated by Florent Basiletti, Fondation Manuel Rivera-Ortiz, Arles, FR
2020
– Paysage alentours – curated by Jean-Max Colard & Léna Peyrard, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
– Zoo cosmos – curated by Fabien Danesi, Casa Conti, Oletta, Corsica, FR
– Le Cours des choses – curated by Alice Motard & Sandra Patron, CAPC musée de Bordeaux, FR
– Face à la mer – Passerelle Centre d’art contemporain, Brest, FR
– Soleil Vert – New Galerie, Paris, FR
– 5 ans de la Résidence Saint Ange – curated by Philippe Piguet, Paris, FR
– Private Choice #9 – Paris, FR
2019
– Flaques, fantômes et le voisin – with Nicolas Momein, ESAD, Grenoble, FR
– Cristal Paradise – curated by Simon Muller / Arcam Glass, Paradise, Nantes, FR
– Un autre monde /// Dans notre monde – curated by Jean-François Sanz, FRAC Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur, Marseille, FR
– Life is old there – curated by Vittoria Matarrese, Palais de Tokyo, Do Disturb! Festival, Paris, FR
2018
– Rien ne se perd, tout se transforme, Prix Meurice pour l’Art Contemporain 2018-19 – curated by Claire Moulène, Hotel Le Meurice, Paris, FR
– De cosmogonies en fantasmagories – curated by Lilas Orgebin – Images Passages, Le Point Commun, Cran Gevrier, FR
– Entre deux eaux – curated by Anne-Lou Vicente, MEAN, Saint-Nazaire, FR
– Décor / Avant-poste – curated by Joe Scanlan, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, FR
– The dialectic of the Stars – curated by Fabien Danesi & Anna Milone, Flax Foundation, The Ford Theatres, Los Angeles, USA
2017
– Your brain is my bedroom – curated by Ange Leccia, Les Filles du Calvaire Gallery, Paris, FR
– Flatland Abstractions Narratives #2 – curated by Marianne Derrien & Sarah Ihler-Meyer, MUDAM, Luxembourg
– Baleapop #8 – curated by Cécile Cano & Audrey Teichmann, Parc Ducontenia, Saint-Jean de Luz, FR
– Painting spirit #1 – curated by Patrice Joly & Arnaud Deschin, Zoo Galerie, Nantes, FR
– Friends of birds – curated by Jeanne Barral, DOC, Paris, FR
– Indique la fin signe la débauche – curated by Guillaume Breton & Thomas Malenfant, Atelier Meraki, Paris, FR
– Old dream – curated by Ann Stouvenel, collection of Dorith & Serge Galuz, Mains d’Oeuvres, Saint-Ouen, FR
2016
– Parades for FIAC – curated by Blanche de Lestrange, Grand Palais, Paris, FR
– La rumeur des naufrages – curated by Fabien Danesi & Ange Leccia, National Opera of Paris, Palais Garnier, Paris, FR
– Lazy Susan – curated by Ichiro Irie et Kio Griffith, Titanik, Turku, Finland
– Urban Legends – curated by Gahee Park & Fabien Danesi, Seoul Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
2015
– La fabrique de l’homme moderne – curated by Images Passages, Fondation Salomon, Annecy, FR
– Visio, Next Generation of Moving Images – curated by Leonardo Bigazzi, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze, Italy
– Exhibition of the awarded artists of the city of Nantes award, L’Atelier, Nantes, FR
2014
– Opening Dulcie 2 – ESBA Nantes Gallery, Nantes, FR
– Scripted Spaces – curated by Cecelia Stucker, Martos Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2013
– Suite et fin – Zoo Galerie, Nantes, FR
2012
– Artothèque de la Biennale de Belleville – CENTQUATRE, Paris, FR
– Electroshield, projet/réplique – Mélanie Rio Gallery, Paris, FR
– Gala Triangle France – Château Ricard, Marseille, FR
– Biennale de Mulhouse 012 – Convention Center of Mulhouse, FR
2011
– Ailleurs, si j’y suis – ESBA Nantes Gallery, Nantes, FR
– Rough out – Owen Gallery, Marfa, Texas, USA
> Screenings
2018
– Francophilia – curated by Laura Schwartz & Michael Liani, Le Teder & Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israël
– Des fantaisies extraordinaires lui troublaient l’esprit – curated by Loïc Le Gall, French Consulate in Hong Kong, SAR of the RPC
– Rennes Art Weekend – curated by Documents d’Artistes Bretagne, EESAB, Rennes, FR
2017
– Para Verte Mejor / Hibrido – curated by Guillermo Marin & Jim Fannkugen, Universidad del Cauca, Popayan, Colombia
– Public Pool #3 Les objets ont la parole – curated by C-E-A, FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, FR
(solo) – Prospectif Cinema, Hoël DURET – MNAM Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR
2016
(solo) – Le Victoria cinema, Tripode & Mosquito Coast Factory, Campbon, FR
(solo) – Crédakino – invited by Claire Le Restif, le CREDAC Art Center, Ivry-sur-seine, FR
– Saison Vidéo 2016 #40
– European Media Art Festival (EMAF) 2016, Osnabrück, Germany
(solo) – Lundi du Pavillon, Cheesy Display – Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
2015
(solo) – Atomic Pictures #6 – curated by Matylda Taszycka & Antoine Scalese, Atelier ANA, Paris, FR
> Residencies
– May – September 2021 – Territoires Extra, invited by Passerelle Art Center, Gouesnou, FR
– January – May 2020 – Te Whare Hera, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
– September – November 2019 – Résidence Saint Ange, Seyssins, FR
– February 2019 – Educational project, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Pougues les Eaux, FR
– June 2018 Flash production residency at Stations Services, Rezé, FR
– January – June 2017 – Edouard Manet Art Center, Gennevilliers, FR
– November 2015 – June 2016 – Le Pavillon Neuflize OBC, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
– July – October 2015 – Yishu 8 Art Space, Beijing, China
– April 2011 – Fieldwork, Marfa, Texas, USA
> Awards
2022 Crédit Municipal of Paris award, City of Paris, FR
2021 Mondes Nouveaux national commission program, French ministry of culture, Paris
2015 Yishu 8 award, Beijing, China
2014 Visual Arts award 2014, City of Nantes, FR
2012 Young Creation award, Mulhouse Biennal, FR
> Public collections
Centre Pompidou – National modern art museum, Paris, FR
FRAC Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, FR
FRAC PACA, Marseille, FR
FRAC Champagne Ardenne, Reims, FR
Fine Arts Museum of Brest collection, FR
City of Nantes collection, FR
City of Gennevilliers collection, FR
FDAC Ille-et-Vilaine, Rennes, FR
> Commissioned artworks
2023 – public sculpture VIGIE – French national hydrographic service, SHOM, Brest, FR
2022 – installation artwork DIZZY, private collection, Seyssins, FR
2021 – public sculpture Lundi bleu – Place des Fusillés, Gouesnou, FR
2018 – sculpture UC-98 The Infinite Speech – Takima & Amazon Web Services – AWS, Paris, FR
> Publications
– Mondes Nouveaux – national commission program catalog, Beaux-Arts de Paris edition, 2023
– low – solo exhibition catalog, Villa Merkel & SNOECK edition, 2021
– Fieldwork Marfa Texas USA 2011/2020 – residency program catalog, HEAD Geneva & ESBA Nantes edition, 2021
– Hoël Duret – residency program catalog, Fondation Saint Ange edition, 2020
– Un autre monde///dans notre monde – group exhibition catalog, FRAC PACA & FRAC Grand large edition, 2019
– Old Dream – group exhibition catalog, Serge & Dorith Galuz Collection edition, 2018
– Flatland / Abstractions narratives – group exhibition catalog, Mudam Luxembourg, Mrac Occitanie & Cantz edition, 2018
– Urban Legends – group exhibition catalog, SEMA Seoul edition, 2016
– Catalogue des Ressources – group exhibition catalog, ESBA Nantes edition, 2015
– I Can Do Anything Badly volume II – personnal writing, self-published book, 2014
– Instantané 84 – solo exhibition catalog, FRAC des Pays de la Loire edition, 2014
– I Can Do Anything Badly volume I – personnal writing, self-published book, 2013
> Lectures / workshops
– Teacher, Haute Ecole d’Art du Rhin HEAR, Strasbourg
– Jury member of the Mulhouse 023 biennial, June 2023, Mulhouse
– Teacher, Preparatory Class, Galerie Edouard Manet, Gennevilliers
– Panel discussion – IA & creation – with Laurence Bertrand Dorléac, Paris-Saclay Univeristy, May 2022, Paris
– Master’s art program jury, May 2021, EESAB, Brest
– Teaching artist, first semester 2020, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
– Vivre dans la nature – lecture, February 2020, Tjibaou Culture Center, Nouméa, New Caledonia
– Live in nature – lecture, January 2020, Te Papa Tongarewa National Museum, Wellington, New Zealand
– Le jardin comme exposition / l’exposition comme jardin – lecture during the 12th scenography symposium, December 2019, Pavillon Bosio, Monaco
– Master’s art program jury, May 2019, EESAB, Brest
– Let’s live happily ever after – workshop, March 2018, Parsons University, Paris, FR
– Broadcast Hysteria – workshop, January 2018, ESAD Reims, FR
– Jungle Fever – workshop, October 2017, Preparatory Class, Galerie Edouard Manet, Gennevilliers, FR
– Teaching artist 2016 – 17, Preparatory Class, Galerie Edouard Manet, Gennevilliers, FR
– Lecture, May 2017, Gabriel Guist’hau High school, Nantes, FR
– Broadcast Hysteria – workshop, March 2017, Parsons University, Paris, FR
– Pratiques professionnelles, DDAB / Chrysalide – lecture, January 2017, EESAB, Rennes, FR
– Lecture, November 2016, EESAB, Brest, FR
– DIY culture in the digital age – lecture, October 2016, Parsons University, Paris, FR
– Pratiques professionnelles, DDAB / Chrysalide – lecture, January 2014, EESAB, Brest, FR
> Press (selection)
– Hoël Duret à la MABA – exhibition review by Andréanne Béguin, 02 magazine, web, July 2023
– Mondes Nouveaux : Hoël Duret et Tanguy Malik Bordage, Anne – article by Andréanne Béguin, 02 magazine, web, January 2023
– Mondes Nouveaux – article by Patrice Joly, 02 magazine #102, fall 2022
– Hoël Duret et Tanguy Malik Bordage : les performances-fictions d’une quête identitaire bretonne (extraterrestres compris) – article by Ingrid Luquet-Gad, Les Inrockuptibles, web, September 2022
– Hoël Duret, Cont#ct au CCC OD : Interview – interview & podcast by Marie-Elisabeth de la Fresnaye, 9 lives magazine, web, June 1st 2022
– Interview Hoël Duret – interview and portfolio by Ingrid Luquet-Gad, 02 magazine #100, Spring 2022
– Les 5 expos à ne pas rater en janvier 2022 ! – by Ingrid Luquet-Gad, lesinrocks.com, January 2022
– Nature works – by Bérénice de Brondeau, G.I.V.E #3, Condé Nast, November 2020
– HOT! Story of stories, Hoël Duret – by Loïc Le Gall, CURA #35, October 2020
– Im Dschungel-Labor – by Susanne Kaufmann, Kunstzeitung, October 2020
– Kultur aktuell – by Andreas Langen, SWR 2, August 2020
– Le Cours des choses – by Patrice Joly, 02 magazine, June 2020
– Hoël Duret – by Ingrid Luquet-Gad, 02 magazine, May 2020
– Conversation avec Hoël Duret – by Indira Béraud, Figure Figure #22, November 2019
– Hoël Duret – by Victoria Le Boloc’h-Salama and Florian Champagne, Le Bruit de l’Art #26, November 2019
– Hoël Duret @ Fondation Louis Vuitton – by Pascale Krief, Artpress #466, May 2019
– Interview Hoël Duret – by Patrice Joly, 02 magazine, April 2019
– Festival Do Disturb : ce week-end, une douce folie va s’emparer du Palais de Tokyo – by Stéphane Renault, Télérama, April 2019
– Do Disturb, les pieds dans le sable au Palais de Tokyo – interview by Héloïse Erignac, Accès Privé radio show, France Bleu Paris Radio, April 2019
– L’art s’invite au Meurice – in Citizen K International, special 25th anniversary issue, winter 2018/19
– 5 exhibitions not to miss in between shows at Paris Fashion Week – by Kathryn O’Regan in Sleek Magazine, February 2019
– Les artistes et le monde de l’entreprise : un mariage heureux ? – by Magali Lesauvage, L’Hebdo du Quotidien de l’Arts #1602, November 2018
– Art is here to stay : 2018-19 Le Meurice Prize for Contemporary Art – by Stephan Rabimov in Forbes.com, October 2018
– Liberté d’expressions – by Nicolas Milon, AD Architectural Digest #150, September 2018
– Episode en cours – by Ingrid Luquet-Gad in Les Inrockuptibles #1163, March 14th 2018
– Hoël Duret – par Anne-Lou Vicente, 02 magazine, Spring 2018
– Hoël Duret, l’infinie comédie – by Anne-Lou Vicente in Trois Couleurs magazine / MK2, January 2018
– Hoël Duret – by Julie Crenn in Artpress #449 supplement, November 2017
– Hoël Duret / Video Sound Art, Milano – interview by ATP Diary, October 3rd 2017
– Video Sound Art : Hoël Duret – by Alessia Delisi, WU Magazine #81, September 2017
– Les jeunes artistes qui montent – by Judicaël Lavrador in Beaux Arts Magazine #396, June 2017
– Hoël Duret, UC-98 RGB – by Charlotte Imbault in Artpress #438, November 2016
– Artistes à suivre – by Emmanuelle Lequeux in Beaux Arts Magazine #389, FIAC 2016 special issue, November 2016
– Stars et scène émergente – by Marie Maertens in Connaissance des Arts #753, November 2016
– FIAC 2016 : Paris retrouve le sourire – by Valérie Duponchelle and Béatrice de Rochebouet in Le Figaro, October 25th 2016
– La FIAC racontée par ceux qui la font (vraiment) – interview by Ingrid Luquet-Gad in I-D Vice, October 24th 2016
– Qu’aller voir à la FIAC et à Paris Internationale ? – by Judicaël Lavrador in Libération, October 21th 2016
– Ce qu’il faut attendre de la FIAC 2016 – in Vogue.fr, October 18th 2016
– Fiac : les oeuvres à ne pas manquer – in Les Echos.fr, October 14th 2016
– La French Touch de retour à la FIAC – by Philippe Piguet in L’oeil #694, October 2016
– Le club des aventuriers, première équipée pour un tournage – portfolio, Initiales magazine #8, special issue tribute to Nathalie du Pasquier, September 2016
– Top 5 des expos de la semaine : Hoël Duret, UC-98, Sonar Souls TORRI – by Claire Moulène in Les Inrocks.com, March 2016
– Nouvelle tête, Hoël Duret – by Claire Moulène in Les Inrockuptibles #1060, March 23rd 2016
– Extérieur nuit ou les nouveaux storyboards – portfolio with texts by Mai Tran in revue 303 #138, November 2015
– Hoël Duret : le design moderne revu dans un “opéra vidéo” – interview by Anna Hess in Les inRocks Lab, June 2015
- – Hoël Duret : la révision du design moderne – video by Hugues Gemignani, L’atelier A, ARTE Creative, January 2015
– La Vie Héroïque de B.S. – portfolio in 02 point 2 magazine #3, December 2014
– Scripted spaces, Martos Gallery, Los Angeles – by Natalie O’Moor in Purple.fr, October 2014
– La Vie Héroïque de B.S. : Acte 1 – As a tribute…, Frac des Pays de la Loire – by Eva Prouteau in 02 point 2 magazine #2, December 2013
– Les chemins de l’émergence 1 : Les salons – by Patrice Joly in 02 magazine #63, October 2012