18 Facts About Philippe Parreno

Philippe Parreno's works include films, installations, performances, drawings, and text.

Philippe Parreno began examining unique approaches to both narration and representation in the 1990s, and has been exhibiting internationally since.

Philippe Parreno has exhibited his works since the early 1990s, while working collaboratively with other artists in various media throughout his career.

The press release from his 2009 show at Kunsthalle Zurich notes that apart from his extended concept of exhibitions, "an outstanding feature of Philippe Parreno's work is the transformation of genres, in particular film, into visual art".

In 2007 Philippe Parreno directed and co-curated with Hans Ulrich Obrist, a group exhibition, Il Tempo del Postino for the Manchester International Festival, which then showed at Art Basel, 2009.

In 2012 Philippe Parreno collaborated with artist Liam Gillick on To the Moon via the Beach.

In 2014 Philippe Parreno was involved in a unique collaboration with a number of artists and curators, including Tino Sehgal, Liam Gillick, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Asad Raza, and Pierre Boulez, for which he was a curator.

Philippe Parreno has used his specific conception of exhibitions in his 2013 exhibition Anywhere, Anywhere Out Of The World where he radically transformed the monumental space of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.

Philippe Parreno turned the building itself into a living constantly evolving organism using sound, image and performance to guide the visitor on a journey through his works, both old and new.

In Dancing around the Bride in 2012 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art curated by Carlos Basualdo in collaboration with Erica F Battle, Parreno acted as a metteur-en-scene, using the artworks of John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Marcel Duchamp to invoke time and motion.

Shortly after, in October 2015 until February 2016, Philippe Parreno presented Hypothesis, at HangarBicocca in Milan, his first survey exhibition in Italy.

In October 2016 [until April 2017] Philippe Parreno undertook the Hyundai Commission for the Turbine Hall at London's Tate Modern.

In 2017 from 2 February - 7 May, Philippe Parreno exhibited A Time Coloured Space at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto.

In 2022 Philippe Parreno exhibited La Quinta del Sordo at Museo del Prado in Madrid, next to the room that houses Francisco Goya's 'Black Paintings'.

The forty-minute audiovisual work uses advanced technology to recreate the ambience of Goya's house, known as the Quinta del Sordo, based on a 3D computer model Philippe Parreno created of the architecture.

In 2024, Philippe Parreno was appointed artistic director of the Okayama Art Summit 2025, a large international contemporary art exhibition held every three years in the Japanese city of Okayama.

Philippe Parreno's work is included in the collections of many institutions such as the Centre Georges Pompidou, France; 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Walker Art Center ; Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA; the Guggenheim Museum New York, USA; and Tate Modern, London.

Philippe Parreno, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia.