Clément Cogitore (born 27 August 1983)[1] is a French contemporary artist and filmmaker. Combining film, video, installations and photographs, Cogitore questions the modalities of cohabitation between humankind and its own images and representations.
In 2010, his short movie Parmi nous (Among us) was awarded the Grand Prize of the European First Film Award (Vevey).[12] That same year his documentary movie Bielutine was selected for Cannes' Directors' Fortnight.[13] In 2011 Cogitore was awarded the Grand Prize of Salon de Montrouge for contemporary art and the following year he became resident of the Villa Medici, French Academy in Rome.[14]
In 2018, Clément Cogitore was awarded the Marcel Duchamp Prize for Contemporary Art, for his work The Evil Eye.[21] Since 2018, he is teaching at the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Paris, where he directs a film director's workshop.[22]
To celebrate its 350th anniversary, in 2019, the Opéra National de Paris has entrusted Clément Cogitore with staging the entirety of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s opera ballet, Les Indes galantes. Les Indes galantes was selected by The New York Times as one of the best opera productions of 2019,[23] nominated best opera production 2019 by the Giornale della Musica[24] and won the Forum Opera Trophy of the best new opera production 2019.[25][26] In 2020, Oper! Awards presented him with the prize for Best Director.
In 2022, his second feature film "Goutte d'or" was selected as a Special Screening at the Critics' Week of the Cannes Film Festival. The film won the Hildegarde Screenplay Award, the Best Director Award at the LEFFEST in Lisbon and the Interpretation Award at the Hainan Film Festival. In 2023, the film has been shortlisted to represent France at the Oscars.
Cogitore’s work is represented in several public collections (Centre Georges Pompidou National Fund for Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Fund of the City of Paris, FRAC Alsace, FRAC Aquitaine, FRAC Auvergne, MAC VAL, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Strasbourg) and private collections (Louis Vuitton Collection, Daimler Art Collection).[citation needed]
Clément Cogitore is represented by Chantal Crousel Consulting, Paris and [citation needed]Galerie Elisabeth and Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart.
Solo shows (selection)
2024 : Bodies in Sync - Bauhaus Museum - Dessau, Germany - upcoming, Spring 2024. Curator : Barbara Steiner
2023 : Ferdinandea - Galerie Elisabeth & Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany - November 24th, 2023 - January 26th, 2024
2023 : Morgestraich -Philharmonie de Paris - Musée de la Musique, Paris, France. Curator : Marie-Pauline Martin
2022 : Notturni - MACRO Mattatoio - Rome, Italy. Curator: Maria-Laura Cavaliere. April 6th - 7th: At the Villa Medici, in parallel to this exhibition, Fictions d’espaces (Fictions of Spaces), a conference by Jacques Rancière on Clément Cogitore's cinematographic visions.
2022: Project Room - Le Centquatre - Paris, France. Curator: José-Manuel Gonçalvès
2020 : Reste l'air et les formes - FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France. Curator : Ines Goldbach
2019 : Clément Cogitore(Part I et II) – Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland. Curator : Inès Goldbach[27]
2019 : Clément Cogitore – Submarine Base Bordeaux, France. Curator : Anne-Sophie Dinant[28]
2019 : Clément Cogitore – Musée National Marc Chagall, Nice, France. Curators : Anne Dopffer and Gaïdig Lemarié[29]
2018 : Assange Dancing – Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom. Curator : Jonathan Watkins[30]
2018 : Les Indes Galantes – Tabakalera, International Centre for Contemporary Culture – San Sebastian, Spain. Curator : Víctor Iriarte[31]
2017 : Braguino or the impossible community – LE BAL, Paris, France. Curators : Léa Bismuth and Diane Dufour[32]
2023 : The last Will - Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany . Curators : M+M
2023 : Generation*Youth vs. Crisis: A Generation in Search of a Future - Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany. Curators : Jennifer Smailes and Eva Fischer-Hausdorf
2022 : Manifesto of fragility - Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France Curators : Sam Bardaouil et Till Fellrath
2022 : Still Present! - 12th Berlin Biennale, Berlin Curator: Kader Attia
2021 : Thinking Hands Touching Each Other - 6th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg, Russia. Curators: Adnan Yıldız, Çağla Ilk and Assaf Kimmel
2021 : Tremblements - Villa Paloma, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, France Curator: Célia Bernasconi
2021 : Replica - Cahn Contemporary, Paris, France Exhibition conceived and curated by Chantal Crousel on the invitation of Jean-David Cahn
2021 : E/Motion - MOMU, Antwerp, Belgium Curators : Kaat Debo et Elisa De Wyngaert
The rehearsals and preparatory work for the opera have been the subject of a documentary film by Philippe Béziat, Les Indes Galantes (2021).[58]
Publications
2020 : Me, Family. Portrait of a Young Planet, MUDAM Edition, Luxembourg. Texts : Francesco Bonami, Omar Kholeif, Natalia Kucirkova, Emanuela Mazzonis, Anke Reitz, Ali Smith.
2020 : Upheaval, Kunsthalle Mannheim, under the direction of Johann Holten, Distanz Verlag.
^"Cogitore". BA (in French). Retrieved 22 November 2023.
^Woolfe, Zachary; Tommasini, Anthony; Barone, Joshua; Walls, Seth Colter (4 December 2019). "Best Classical Music of 2019". The New York Times. ISSN0362-4331. Retrieved 29 January 2020.