Orsten Groom
The artist
Born in 1982 in Guyana, Orsten Groom is a multidisciplinary artist of Russian-Polish origins. At the age of 20, he suffered a ruptured aneurysm while studying at the Beaux-Arts in Paris which left him amnesic and epileptic. During his convalescence he learned that he was a painter and returned to art school, studying with French painters François Boisrond and Jean-Michel Alberola. From that moment on, he positioned himself as a fiercely independent artist, developing a protean body of work that reaches beyond painting to embrace music, sculpture, film and poetry. In 2020, the Centre d'Art ACMCM (A Cent Mètres du Centre du Monde) in Perpignan held the very first retrospective dedicated to his work. In 2021, he took advantage of the Covid-induced siege situation to open the Cabinet Chrome Dinette with Olivier Kaeppelin, an undercover private showroom at a secret Parisian address. From July to Novembre, 2022, Le Sucquet des Artistes in Cannes opens its space to Orsten Groom for his project "Limbe (le vroi dans la Nuit)". In 2023, The Musée Paul Valéry in Sètes is dedicating to him a restrospective called "Volcan du comas".
Exhibitions
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SIEG MHUND KALUMNIATOR
October 28 - December 18, 2021
Brussels
Biography
| Birth | Born in 1982 in Guyana |
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| Residency | Lives and works in Paris |
| Education | 2011 Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing, Paris 2009 École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2023 | Volcan du Coma, musée Paul Valéry, Sète, France |
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| 2022 | LIMBE Le Vroi dans la Nuit, Le Suquet des Artistes, Cannes, France |
| 2021 | SIEG MHUND KALUMNIATOR, Galerie Templon, Brussels, Belgium Cabinet CHROME DINETTE, Paris, France CHROME DINETTE, Galerie Urban Spree, Berlin, Germany |
| 2020 | EXOPULITAÏ Rétrospective, Centre d’art ACMCM, À cent mètres du centre du monde, Perpignan, France |
| 2019 | POMPEII MASTURBATOR, Espace Oppidum, Paris, France |
| 2017 | LARVAE SMORT REIGN, Galerie Andersen & Associés, Luxembourg, Luxembourg ORBE, Résidence Concordia, Paris, France ODRADEK, 24Beaubourg, Paris, France |
| 2016 | KRIEGELKRAKEL, Galerie Crous, Paris, France MARTUS LUPUS, Phantom Project Contemporary, Troyes, France |
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GROUP SHOWS
| 2023 | Immortelle, MO.CO., Montpellier, France |
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| 2021 | Aérosolthérapie, Espace Topographie de l’Art, Paris, France |
| 2019 | Eighties & Echoes / Aux sources des années 1980, Musée de l’Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les Sables d’Olonne, France |
| 2018 | ANIMA, Espace Le 100, Paris, France |
| 2017 | FRIENDS & FAMILY, Galerie Eva Hober, Paris, France CLOUZOT, UNE SUITE CONTEMPORAIRE, Espace Topographie de l’Art, Paris, Le Pilori, Niort, Lux Scène Nationale, Valence, France KALÉIDOSCOPE, Galerie La Forest Divonne, Brussels, Belgium KUNSTCHORLE, Ventilator, Berlin, Germany SALO V, Salon du dessin érotique, Paris, France TU SAIS CE QU’ELLE TE DIT MA CONCIERGE ?, MUBA, Musée Eugène-Leroy, Tourcoing, France |
| 2016 | Future Signs, Latvijas Makslas Akademija, Riga, Latvia |
| 2016 | LES ENFANTS IRONT JOUER DANS LE JARDIN, Phantom Project Contemporary, Troyes, France WONDROUS STRANGE, Phantom Project Contemporary, Troyes, France FUTURE SIGNS, Latvijas Makslas Akademija, Riga, Latvia YIA ARTFAIR, Paris, France SALON DDessin, Paris, France SALO IV, Salon du dessin érotique, Paris, France VIVRE AVEC UN CHIEN ET UN FUSIL, Galerie Clovis XV, Brussels, Belgium |
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FILMOGRAPHY
| 2013 | PARCH |
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| 2012 | LES BALLETS RUSSES (with Abel Gance Elodie Tamayo) TUPINAMBA HEAD TREMOR IN DOG |
| 2011 | MODE OF CARRYNG THE MIX LORD OF HERRING |
| 2008 | SMARKACZ |
PRIZES/AWARDS
| 2019 | Prix l’Art est vivant – Fonds de dotation |
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| 2016 | Prix de peinture de l’Académie des Beaux-Arts |
| 2015 | Prix de peinture Antoine Marin |
| 2011 | Prix Exceptionnel du Jury, Festival Côté Court for BOBOK |
PUBLIC COLLECTION
| MASC – Musée de l’Abbaye de Sainte Croix, les Sables d’Olonnes |
Press
News
Orsten Groom
SOLO SHOW – VOLCAN DU COMA
Musée Paul Valéry, Sète
From December 9, 2023 to February 25, 2024
On the occasion of Orsten Groom’s retrospective exhibition Volcan du Coma, fifty paintings will be on show at the Musée Paul Valéry in Sète from December 9, 2023.
Orsten Groom
Oda Jaune
Abdelkader Benchamma
GROUP SHOW – IMMORTELLE
MO.CO, Montpellier
From March 11 to May 7, 2023
As part of the group show Immortelle at MO.CO, Oda Jaune, Abdelkader Benchamma and Orsten Groom will be exhibiting their work from March 11 to May 7, 2023. Immortelle offers an ambitious panorama of young French figurative painting. For the first time, the exhibition will be spread over all the art centres and will be organised in two parts.
Orsten Groom
SOLO SHOW – LIMBE [LE VROI DANS LA NUIT]
Orsten Groom - LIMBE [Le Vroi dans la Nuit]Suquet des Artistes, CannesFrom July 1st to December 11, 2022
Dedicated to childhood in contrast to prehistoric art, forty fiery, baroque and complex canvases weave a disconcerting and singular cave, impregnated with the original power of painting. From this whirlwind emerges a complex reflection that the artist, a new father, questions on the innocence of art and man in the grip of history and memory, between mythology, literature and anthropology. To do this, Orsten Groom called the great prehistorian and specialist in cave art, Jean-Michel Geneste (former curator and director of research at the Lascaux cave, heritage and director of the National Center for Prehistory and the multidisciplinary study program of the Chauvet-Pont d’Arc cave), with whom a lengthy interview has been reproduced in the catalog published on the occasion.
