Benjamin L. Aman
Benjamin Laurent-Aman
Born 1981 in Rouen, France
Lives and works in Aubervilliers, France
Benjamin L. Aman is a graduate of the Ecole nationale supérieure d’art de Nancy. His work has been shown many times in France and abroad in solo and group exhibitions, sound performances (Berlin Biennale VI, Club Transmediale and Transmediale X, Mex Series in Dortmund, Nu Substance in Bandung, Indonesia…) and radio programs (The Wire on Air and Resonance FM in London…).
Co-founder in 2010 of the Sleep Disorders duo with artist Marion Auburtin, he also heads up the Razzle Dazzle music label, on which he regularly publishes his own work as well as that of other artists working at the frontiers of the visual and the sonic.
A large body of his drawings has already been the subject of a monographic publication by Editions P. and Editions Manucius, as well as an acquisition by the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain in Paris and the Frac Occitanie Montpellier.
His latest album, La Ligne d’ombre appeared in 2017, published in collaboration with Les Instants Chavirés in Montreuil. He is also the 2018 winner of the Eeckman Prize at the Art on Paper fair in Brussels.
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2017 – Aide à la vision (…), Les Instants Chavirés, Montreuil, France
2015 – Imaginary time, Galerie L’Atelier-KSR, Berlin, Germany
2015 – Ordine prior, Galerie PapelArt, Paris, France
2013 – 2014 – A silence Flow, Kunstraum Michael Barthel II, Leipzig, Germany
2013 – Reverse In Ruins, Kunstraum Michael Barthel, Leipzig, Germany
2013 – Crystal Medium Black, L’Atelier-KSR, Berlin, Germany
2012 – Frozen in Stone, Kunstraum Michael Barthel, Leipzig, Germany
2011 – Endless Jet Lag, Able Kulturverein, Berlin, Germany
2011 – As Long As You Stay With Me You Are Safe, Styx Projects, Berlin, Germany
2011 – The Baltic Room, Kunstraum Michael Barthel, Leipzig, Germany
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2019 – L’art dans les chapelles, curated by Éric Suchère, Pontivy, France
2019 – Life on Mars, CAPA, curated by Juliette Fontaine, Aubervilliers, France
2018 – Sound architectures, curated by Anne-Laure Chamboissier, Chinon Fortress, France
2017 – L’air vibre du bouronnement des insectes, Musée départemental d’art contemporain de Rochechouart, France
2016 – Il y a de l’autre, curated by Julie Jones & Agnès Geoffray, Rencontres de la photographie, Arles, France
2016 – L’Inconnue de la Seine, curated by Marie Cantos, CAC La Tôlerie, Clermont-Ferrand, France
2015 – Être et Avoir, Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes, France
2014 – Poliform, Cité Internationale des arts, Paris, France
2014 – The New (new) Corpse, Sector 2337, Chicago, United States
2014 – DMNDKT, Kentucky Karaoke, Galerie Week end, Berlin, Germany
2013 – The End is the Beginning, The Wand, Berlin, Germany
2013 – Fenêtre Augmentée, Zinc, Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
2012 – Dawdle, Curator: Gareth Bell-Jones, Space London, United Kingdom
2012 – MPA, L’Atelier, Berlin, Germany
2011 – Augmented Window, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
2011 – Sleep disorders, Centre d’ Art Contemporain Dominique Lang, Luxembourg
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