"I see my practice as a constant exercise in lateral shifts, whereby a painting can become a sculpture; a film an installation or a drawing."
Paris-born and graduated from Ecole Boulle, Agathe de Bailliencourt has worked in Berlin since 2007. Her artistic practice encompasses painting, drawing, film, installation, and sculpture, with a recurring focus on recording time. Since 2017, she's been exploring the reality of the present moment, her recent work creates a framework to examine issues such as loss of control, collapse, acceleration, chain reactions, and changes of state.
Agathe de Bailliencourt has worked and exhibited internationally, including at the Shanghai Youth Biennale (2005), the Singapore Biennale (2006); at the Berliner Dom in Berlin (2008), at the Mori Art Museum and the French Embassy in Tokyo (2009); RH Contemporary Art, in New York (2014); Blain Southern, London (2015), with Fondation d’entreprise Hermès in Singapore (2016), and in 2024 at Adrian Sutton Gallery in Paris; at Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre in the UK, and at the Brandenburg State Museum of Modern Art (BMLK) in Germany.
She has been awarded residencies in Tokyo Wonder Site, Japan (2009); Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York (2011-2012); Art Omi in Ghent, NY (2012); Marfa Contemporary, Texas (2013-2014); the Isle of Skye, Scotland (Jon Schueler Scholarship 2016), and most recently at Villa Medici, Rome (2024). In 2025, she will have a two-month residency in Venice at the Emily Harvey Foundation.
In 2023, seven prints entered two public collections: at the Kupferstichkabinett Museum and Graphothek in Berlin. In 2024, the artist received the Adolf and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant in New York.