Artist Jean-Michel Othoniel Picks his Favorite Works on Artspace
Jean-Michel Othoniel
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Born in 1964 in Saint-Etienne, France, Jean-Michel Othoniel has been inventing a universe with multiple contours since the late 1980s.
1993 marked a turning point in his work when he began using glass. Collaborating with the finest artisan glassblowers in Murano, he explored the properties of a material that has since become his hallmark to poeticize and re-enchant the world. More recently, his work has taken on an architectural dimension, engaging with gardens or historical sites through public or private commissions around the world.
Jean-Michel Othoniel had major exhibitions all over the world since his participation to the Documentain Kassel in 1992. He had an important retrospective at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris entitled “My Way” then shown at the Leeum Samsung Museum of Art/Plateau in Seoul, then in 2012 at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, the Macao Museum of Art in Macao and the Brooklyn Museum in New York.
He exhibited in museum and garden at Petit Palais in Paris in 2021, at the Seoul Museum of Art in 2022, at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in 2023 and at the Sara Hilden Museum in Finland in 2024.
Since his first public commission in Paris in …
Born in 1964 in Saint-Etienne, France, Jean-Michel Othoniel has been inventing a universe with multiple contours since the late 1980s.
1993 marked a turning point in his work when he began using glass. Collaborating with the finest artisan glassblowers in Murano, he explored the properties of a material that has since become his hallmark to poeticize and re-enchant the world. More recently, his work has taken on an architectural dimension, engaging with gardens or historical sites through public or private commissions around the world.
Jean-Michel Othoniel had major exhibitions all over the world since his participation to the Documentain Kassel in 1992. He had an important retrospective at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris entitled “My Way” then shown at the Leeum Samsung Museum of Art/Plateau in Seoul, then in 2012 at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, the Macao Museum of Art in Macao and the Brooklyn Museum in New York.
He exhibited in museum and garden at Petit Palais in Paris in 2021, at the Seoul Museum of Art in 2022, at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in 2023 and at the Sara Hilden Museum in Finland in 2024.
Since his first public commission in Paris in 2000, Le Kiosque des Noctambules, his work has been shown equally in museums and in the public space including an exceptional project of three fountain sculptures in gilded glass in the gardens at the Château de Versailles, Les Belles Danses, but also Alfa, an installation for the new National Museum of Qatar of 114 fountain sculptures. In 2019 a new series of paintings entered the permanent collection of the Musée du Louvre. In 2023, he created his first bridge in a magnificent garden close by Paris as well as an impressive fountain in the South of France.
His works can be found in the world’s best contemporary art museums, foundations and private collections.
Othoniel just opened a new solo show at the Museo Oscar Niemeyer, Brazil and is working on 3 new solo shows for 2025, at the Long Museum Shanghai in April and at La Malmaison museum in Cannes, France in May. He is also preparing his biggest exhibition ever for the city of Avignon, France in June 2025 where he will take over 10 museums with more than 200 works.
Othoniel is represented by Perrotin, Kukje, and Simoes de Assis.
Born 1964
Hometown Saint-Etienne, France
Lives and Works Paris, France
Education
National School of Arts, Cergy-Pontoise, France, 1983-1988
Resident, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy, 1996
Permanent Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Fondation Cartier Pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
New Orleans Museum of Art, La Nouvelle-Orléans, USA
Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France
The Corning Museum of Glass, New York, USA
New York Public Library, New York, USA
FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, France
FRAC Aquitaine, France
Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Étienne, Saint-Etienne, France
Chanel Hong Kong, Chine
Chanel Los Angeles, USA
Filmoteca universitaria de Barcelona, Barcelone, Espagne
Métro de Toulouse, France
Lycée Arthur Rimbaud, Amiens, France
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada
Representing Galleries
Perrotin, New York, NY
Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Simoes de Assis, São Paulo, Brazil
Works Available for Purchase
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