Jean-Baptiste Maitre
b. 1978, France
Education
1998-2003, MFA Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts,
studio Annette Messager, Paris, FR
1999-2002, Paris-4 Sorbonne University (Art History & Archeology), Paris, FR
2002-2004, Gobelins, L’école de l’image (Studio photography), Paris, FR
Residencies
2013 ViaFarini, Milan, IT
2012 VISIO - European Workshop on Artists’ Cinema 2012, curated by Leonardo Bigazzi, Florence, IT
2012 PiST///Istanbul, TUR
2009-2010 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten/Dutch Ministry of Culture, Amsterdam, NL
2007-2008 Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL
2003 Casino-Luxembourg / Forum d'art contemporain, LU
Fellowships / stipends
2012 Institut Français de Florence, IT
2012 PiST-Istanbul/ Mondriaan Fund, NL-TR
2011 Basisstipendium, Fonds BKVB, NL
2010 Tom and Yvonne De Swaan
2009 Maisons Descartes Amsterdam (NL)
2007-2010 Dutch Ministry of Culture, Education and Science.
2003 AFAA, FR, photography project: ‘Typology of Wastelands in Beirut’
2001 Peggy Guggenheim Collection Internship, Venice, IT
Selected solo exhibitions
2013 (upcoming) ViaFarini V-I-R, Jean-Baptiste Maitre, Milan
2013 This Is What I Meant, P//////AKT platform for contemporary art, Amsterdam
2013 Post-Sculpture, 1m3, Lausanne (with Bruce McLean, curated by Clément Dirié)
2012 Stripe Paintings, La Salle de Bains, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Lyon
(with Øystein Aasan, curated by Arlène Berceliot Courtin)
2012 Anyspace Gallery, Bruxelles
2011 Not On Sculpture, Nicoletta Rusconi, Milan
2011 Villa Tokyo, Tokyo (with Martin van Zomeren)
2011 ‘Not Necessarily Words’, Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam
2008 DSM Office, Sittard, NL, ‘A Personal Anthology Of Mediatic Images’
2008 GallerySpace, JVE, Maastricht, NL, ‘Plywood as media’
2008 MissChina Gallery, Paris, FR, ‘Plywood as media’
Selected group exhibitions
2013 Book Machine, Centre Pompidou, Paris (curated by Patrick Javault and Christophe Boutin)
2012 Pigna Project Space, (Drawing) Quote!, (curated by F. Stocchi & N. Oberthaler), Rome
2012 Contemporary Istanbul (curated by PiST///), Istanbul
2012 Group show with Alexandra Leykauf, Praneet Soi, Navid Nuur, Galerie Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam
2011 C O D E X (curated by Pierre Leguillon), Institut curatorial de la Head–Genève, CH
2011 D e p i c t i o n s i m i l a r, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2011 56eme Salon de Montrouge, La Fabrique, Paris, FR
2011 Light Box, Bureau Des Videos/ JRP Ringier Film Program, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
2010 Guggenheim Museum, Play Biennial, New York, USA
2010 Claudine Papillon Gallery, Paris, FR, ‘Partis pris’
2010 Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem, NL, ‘Form & Content’
2010 Kunstraum Düsseldorf, GR, ‘10 ausgewählte Positionen’
2009 Rijksakademie Open Ateliers 2009, Amsterdam, NL
2009 In-Situ/ F. Leclerc Gallery, Paris, FR, “Cultural memories/ Récits Parallèles’
2009 Reinier Van Ewijk Projects, Amsterdam, NL ‘Research-Innerconnection’
2008 Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, NL, ‘Chanting Baldessari’
2008 Slick 08 art fair, Miss China Gallery, Paris (FR)
2008 La Générale, Paris, FR, ‘Second Life’
2008 FLACC, Genk, BE, ‘Open Days’
2007 Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL, ‘Video Weekend’
2006 Agence Borderline, Esch-sur-Alzette, LU, ‘Be my lucky number’
2005 Miss China Gallery, Paris, FR, ‘Videobox#2’
2004 ENSB-A, Paris, FR, ‘Urbanismes’
2004 2ème Biennale de St. Cloud, St. Cloud, FR, ‘D’un espace à l’autre’
2003 Casino/ Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg, LU, ’Hybrid-liquid:
Fellowships / stipends
2010 Tom and Yvonne De Swaan
2009 Maisons Descartes Amsterdam (NL)
2007-2010 Dutch Ministry of Culture, Education and Science.
2003 AFAA, FR, photography project: ‘Typology of Wastelands in Beirut’
2001 Peggy Guggenheim Collection Internship, Venice, IT
Workshop exhibition
2003 ENSBA, Paris, FR, MFA exhibition
2002 SKC Centrum, Beograd, RS, ‘Pont des Arts’
Selected film/video screenings
2012 Images moving images, Fondazione White Fish Tank, Ancona, IT (curated by Anna Franceschini)
2012 Maison des ensembles, SensoProjekt video program and lecture, Paris, FR
2011 Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, séances Le Silo, Shaped Cinema, Paris, FR
2011-2010 Light-Box Centre Pompidou-Selection Bureau des Vidéos/ Clément Dirié, Shaped Cinema, Untitled (Sculptures at the BonnefantenMuseum), Paris, FR
2010 Play Biennial, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
2009 Fondation Ricard (‘Cultural Memories...’), Paris, FR
2008 Swiss Institute, Roma, (IT), Eternal Tour Festival.
2001 Rencontres internationales Paris/ Berlin, FR/GE
Lectures / workshops
2012 Jean-Baptiste Maitre, La Salle de Bains Contemporary Art Center, Lyon, FR
2012 Monday Talks: Jean-Baptiste Maitre, PiST/// Interdisciplinary Project Space, Istanbul, TR
2011 Not on Sculpture, Public conversation with Giorgio Verzotti, Galleria N. Rusconi, Milan, IT
2010 Nieuwe Vide Haarlem, Jean-Baptiste Maitre: the idea of the metalogue, in the framework of the
2010 show: The Object Lag Intangible, A Play, lecture, Haarlem, NL
2008 ‘Instances Of Translation’, talk, with Pages Magazine, Teheran, IR
2008 Workshop for BA students, ABKM school of Fine Art, Maastricht, NL
2008 Lecture ‘A photographic metalogue’, in Opening Week, JVE, Maastricht, NL
2007 Workshop ‘The department of Reading’, KunstFabriek, Berlin, GR
2007 Lecture ‘Experience in Beirut’, Avans Hogeschool/ AKV St Joost, Den Bosch, NL
2007 Lecture ‘anticipating XXIst century’s iconography’, in Opening Week, JVE, Maastricht, NL
Publications
2013 Jean-Baptiste Maitre, Thomas Raat, Melanie Ebenhoch, designed by Our Polite Society, P/////AKT
editions
2012 Artist book Shaped Cinema, isbn 978-90-72076-48-9 / Edition: 500 / Jan van Eyck Ac. publishing/
2011 Wallpaperism, 2011, Format: 21 x 29,7 cm, 82 pages, edited by BoaBooks, Isbn:
978-2-940409-43-3
2011 Villa Tokyo, exhibition catalogue, isbn 978-83-932884-0-3 organized and published by Raster
Gallery, Warsaw.
2011 Salon de Montrouge, Text by Clara Schulmann: Jean-baptiste Maitre: Shaped Cinema, Editions
Particules (FR), 2011
2009 Chanting Baldessari at Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht. Isbn: 978-90-7225-149-7, editors
Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, 2008
Selected Reviews
2011
Verzotti, Giorgio, ARTFORUM, September 2011, pg. 365
Verhoel, Tessa, MetropolisM, N.2 2011, pg. 31-32
van der Lint, Roos, Kunsbeeld nr. 3, March 2011, pg. 15
Public Collections
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
