Tania Mouraud
Tania Mouraud
Born in 1942 in Paris, France
Lives and works in Colombiers, France
“Through my work, I show that philosophy and art should and could merge to advance us on the path to knowledge.
A key figure on the French art scene and an unclassifiable artist, Tania Mouraud refuses to be associated with any particular movement or dogma. Since the late 1960s, Tania Mouraud’s work has been part of a practice that questions the relationship between art and social ties, using a variety of media: painting, installation, photography, sound, video, performance and more.
In 2015, the Centre Pompidou Metz devoted a retrospective monographic exhibition to him.
In 2024, Tania Mouraud was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in the painting section.
Since the end of the 1960s, Tania Mouraud’s work has been part of a practice that questions the relationship between art and social links, using a variety of media: painting, installation, photography, sound, video, performance, etc.
She proposes adding a meditation room to our standard apartments (1968). On 3 x 4 m panels in public spaces, she displays her disagreement with a society that glorifies possession at the expense of humanity (1977). She reflects on the decorative relationship between art and war, and on the limits of perception with the help of writing, creating “form words” (1989). Since 1998, she has been using photography, video and sound, in close relation to painting, to question various aspects of history and the living.
Permanent installations :
– WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get), Wall painting, Bibliothèque du Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
– MELANCHOLIA_P_T1, Wall painting, Musée d’art moderne et d’art contemporain (MAMAC), Nice
– HCYS (How can you sleep), Print on tarp, Collection FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France
– NFPDMALT (Do no harm to the earth), Wall painting, Ville d’Angers
– SOAVE, Wall painting, Metro (Durandy station) of the city of Nice
Public collections :
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Museum Carnavalet, Paris, France; Musée du CAPC, Bordeaux, France; Musée d’Art Moderne, St Etienne, France ; Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland ; Museum Vor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, The Netherlands ; Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, France ; Fond Municipal d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France ; FRAC Alsace, France ; FRAC Bretagne, France ; FRAC Corse, France ; FRAC Languedoc Roussillon, France ; FRAC Lorraine, France ; FRAC Poitou-Charentes, France ; FRAC Rhône-Alpes, France ; Bibliothèque Historique de la Ville de Paris, France ; Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France; Arthothèque, Brest, France, FRAC Auvergne.
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2025 – Lekoved A Vidergeboyrenem Veytik (in honor of a reborn pain), Vilnius
2024 – Why do the hills cry? Galerie Claire Gastaud, Clermont-Ferrand
2024 – Dans les vents de l’oubli, Fluctuart, Paris
2024 – Medley, galerie Ceysson & Bénétière, Saint-Étienne
2023 – Da Capo, MAMCO, Geneva
2023 – Comme un rêve de lointain, Maison de la Culture, Amiens, France
2022 – FLASHBACK, text by Hugo Vitrani, galerie Ceysson & Bénétière, Paris
2022 – Shmues, galerie Ceysson & Bénétière, Lyon
2022 – [DIRE], LABF15, contemporary art space, Lyon
2021 – MEZZO FORTE, galerie Ceysson & Bénétière, Luxembourg
2021 – De Natura, domaine de Chateau de Chaumont-sur-Loire, text by Chantal Colleu-Dumond, Chaumont-sur-Loire, France
2020 – Dream – Sorbonne Art Gallery, Paris
2019 – ECRITURE(S), Hangar 107, Rouen, France
2019 – Parcours des collections, Mamac, Nice, France
2019 – Gigantism, Dunkerque, France
2018 – TANIA MOURAUD. Everything must have an ending except my love for you Salle des Expositions, Tauves, France
2018 – Artissima: Back to the future, Oval Pavilion, Turin, Italy
2017 – Who’s the enemy?, Lieu d’art La Mouche, Beziers, France
2017 – From chaos to art, Galerie Rabouan-Moussion, Paris
2016 –OTNOT, Eastwards Prospectus, Bucharest, Romania
2016 – New Works, Tchikebe, Marseille, France
2016 –Everyday Ogres, Visual Arts Center, The University of Texas, Austin, USA
2016 – Melancholia-P-T1, mural, Mamac, Nice
2015 – Tania Mouraud. A retrospective, Center Pompidou-Metz and 9 locations in Metz, Metz, France
2014 – Exhausted Laughters, Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne Métropole, France
2014 – Ad Nauseam, Mac/Val, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
2013 – DCLLDF, Le M.U.R, Arromanches, France
2012 – FLABASLAB, Le M.U.R, Rue Oberkampf, Paris, France
2012 – deuxlarmessontsuspenduesamesyeux, Collège des Bernardins, Paris
2012 – La Fabrique, Mostra SESC de Artes, 3C-Centre for Contemporary Creation, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2012 – Ghosts, Galerie Michel Journiac, Université Paris 1, Paris, France
2011 – J’entends les trains depuis toujours / I keep hearing the trains for ever, Slought Foundation, Kimmel center and Art Alliance, Philadelphia, USA
2011 – I haven’t seen a butterfly here, Gallery Cueto Project, New-York, USA 2010
2011 – Tania Mouraud Photographer, Rue Visconti, Paris, France
2011 – Une pièce de plus, CCC Tours, France
2011 – La Fabrique, Krasnoye Znamia, Year France-Russia, Saint Petersburg, Russia 2009
2011 – At the Core, Esba, Montpellier, France
2011 – Ad Infinitum, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Chapelle de l’Oratoire, Nantes, France
2011 – Borderland, Galerie Dominique Fiat, Paris, France
2008 – Roaming, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France
2008 – J.I.T., Just in Time, Centre d’art La Passerelle, Brest, France
2008 – La Fabrique, Galerie Dominique Fiat, FIAC 2008, Paris, France
