Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster

Born in 1965 in Strasbourg, France. Lives and works in Paris, France. “ Each time they presents hirself, DGF will blur the lines. They will remain an artist, author, reader, pop idol, filmmaker, architect, set designer, and often none of that, doing shows, arrangements, performances, installations, attractions, films, operas, design, SF, music, or even none of that, they will plunge into geographies and dreams, in what will happen, in what lives, in things, in the borderline or in narratives, if nothing of that at all, they will be a man or a woman and sometimes neither of all those, they will resemble a fiction, a ghost, an avatar or a conspiracy to say nothing of all that. Reducing this community to a single record would be a betrayal or a lie. I won’t disclose hir identity: that’s not what characters are for.(...) DGF will be lying in the sun on a computerized model of a moveable landscape; a lagoon, park or volcano… hard to say. It will be hot and a virtual voice will announce the failure of a climate conference. The mutant space will swarm with a thousand more-than-human species of contagious energies. Daylight will burn the pixels of the HD screen one by one like an acid. Free of the algorithm, DGF will roll up hir rayon sleeves and invent hir own technology, writing tangled glyphs on the malleable ground. The words and symbols will seem to be predictions or archives, myths or speculations instantly distorted, twisted and quickly indecipherable on the image. The atmosphere will cloud and the frame begin to tremble, then, slowly, in the heatwave, everything will start to melt. Floor is Lava. Fractal, hybrid and mysterious, presence will arouse uncertainty and pique sensations. Before the signal cuts out, at the very moment of turning absolutely liquid, DGF will plunge her finger in the ground and engrave three letters.” — Théo Casciani (2021). The full quoted text of Théo Casciani is available here. In 2002, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster was awarded the Prix Marcel Duchamp. Before that, she also was the recipient of the Prix Mies van der Rohe (1996-1997). Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster has had solo exhibitions at the Pinacoteca de São Paulo, São Paulo (2025); Pinacoteca Agnelli, Turin (2023); Serpentine, London (2022); Vienna Secession, Vienna (2021); Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Cologne (2019); Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon (2016); Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2015); Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro (2015); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2014); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2013); Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich (2012); Tate Modern, London (2010); Dia Art Foundation, New York (2009); Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Paris (2007); deSingel International Arts Centre, Antwerp (2004); Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2003); Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (2001); Le Consortium, Dijon (2001); MAMCO, Geneva (2000), among others. She was also featured in several international group shows: Centre Pompidou Metz, Paris (2023); Bourse de Commerce, Fondation Pinault, Paris (2022); MAXXI, Rome (2021); Museum of Art and Design, Miami (2019); Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto (2019); La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2019); Witte de With, Rotterdam (2018); Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2018); Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing (2017); Nouveau Musée National de Monaco – Villa Sauber, Monaco (2017); Whitney Museum, New York (2016); Villa Empain – Boghossian Foundation, Brussels (2016); Barbican Centre, London (2016); Kyoto International Festival of contemporary Culture, Kyoto (2015); National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2014); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2014); Swiss Pavilion, Venice Architectural Biennale, Venice (2014); MAM, Museu De Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo (2013); LUMA Foundation, Arles (2012); Performa 09, New York (2009). Her works have joined the collections of the 21st Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa; Musée d'art moderne de Paris, Paris; Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Dia Art Foundation, New York; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; La Caixa Foundation, Barcelona; Les Abattoirs, Toulouse; M+ Museum, Hong Kong; MAMCO, Geneva; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Sammlung Goetz, Munich; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate Modern, London; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.