Pierre et Gilles

The artist

Pierre was born in 1950 in La Roche-Sur-Yon, Gilles in Le Havre in 1953. They are internationally renowned artists who have been producing works together since 1976, creating a world where painting and photography meet. Their art is peopled by their friends and family, anonymous and famous, who appear in sophisticated life-size sets the artists build in their studio. They meticulously apply paint to the photographs once printed on canvas. Accomplished image creators, Pierre and Gilles have built up an extraordinary contemporary iconography on the frontier between art history and popular culture.

Exhibitions

Nuit électrique

September 3 - October 26, 2024
Paris - Grenier Saint Lazare
The colors of time

May 4 - July 22, 2023
Brussels
Les couleurs du temps

November 10 - December 30, 2022
Paris - Grenier Saint Lazare
Errances immobiles

September 10 - October 31, 2020
Paris - Beaubourg
Le temps imaginaire

January 13 - March 10, 2018
Paris - Beaubourg
Héros

April 10 - May 31, 2014
Paris - Beaubourg

Biography

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Births	Pierre was born in La Roche-sur-Yon in 1950, Gilles in Le Havre in 1953

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2025	La construcción del símbolo, Museo Franz Meyer, Mexico City, Mexico
	Mondes marins, Les Franciscaines, Deauville, France
2024	Nuit électrique, TEMPLON, Paris, France
2023	Les couleurs du temps, TEMPLON, Brussels, Belgium
2022	Les couleurs du temps, TEMPLON, Paris, France
	Troubled Waters, Spritmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
2020	Errances immobiles, TEMPLON, Paris, France

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	Pierre et Gilles, le goût du cinéma, Centre d’art La Malmaison, Cannes, France
2019	La Fabrique des idoles, Philharmonie de Paris, Cité de la musique – Musée de la musique, Paris, France
2018	Looking at the Pictorial World, Seemingly Old and Voluptuous, K Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea Le génie du christianisme, FILAF, Chapelle basse du Couvent des Minimes, Perpignan, France Le temps imaginaire, TEMPLON, Paris
2017	Pierre et Gilles, Clair-obscur, MuMa, Le Havre, France Pierre et Gilles, Clair-obscur, Musée d’Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium
2014	Carte blanche à Pierre et Gilles, Galerie des Gobelins, Paris, France Héros, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
2010	Pierre et Gilles, Galeri Artist, Istanbul, Turkey
2009	Wonderful Town, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, France L´Apothéose du Sublime, Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Pierre et Gilles - Retrospective, C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2008	Pierre et Gilles, Galerie Lansar, Geneva, Switzerland Pierre et Gilles, Sofia Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2007	Double je, 1976-2007, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France Pierre et Gilles, Touring exhibition: Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia ; Marble Palace, Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia Correspondances Musée d’Orsay / Art Contemporain, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France Pierre et Gilles, Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Zurich, Switzerland
2006	Un Monde Parfait, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, France
2005	Retrospective - MOCA Opening, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
2004	Le Grand Amour, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, France Beautiful Dragon, Touring exhibition: Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea; Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2003	Pierre et Gilles, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA Pierre et Gilles, Le Botanique - Centre Culturel de la Communauté Française en Wallonie, Brussels, Belgium
2002	Arrache mon cœur, Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna, Austria
2001	Arrache mon cœur, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, France
2000	Pierre et Gilles, Touring exhibition: New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA ; the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
1999	Pierre et Gilles, Turun taidemuseo, Turku, Finland
1998	Douce Violence, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, France Pierre et Gilles - Mémoire de Voyage, Shiseido Gallery, Ginza Art Space, Tokyo, Japan Pierre et Gilles, Museo De Bellas Artes De València, Valencia, Spain
1997	Pierre et Gilles: Grit and Glitter, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland Die Welt Von Pierre et Gilles, Fotomuseum, Munich, Germany
1996	Pierre et Gilles, Vingt ans d’amour (1976-1996), Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France Pierre et Gilles, A.C.C. Galerie, Weimar, Germany Les plaisirs de la forêt - Jolis voyous, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
1995	Annual’95, Shiseido Gallery, Ginza Art Space, Tokyo, Japan Pierre et Gilles, Touring exhibition: Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia ; Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia; Wellington City Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand; Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1994	Pierre et Gilles, Le Case d’Arte, Milan, Italy Pierre et Gilles, Chapelle du Méjan, Rencontres internationales de la photographie d’Arles, Arles, France
1993	Pierre et Gilles, Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris, France Absolut peep-show, Raab Gallery, London, United Kingdom Pierre et Gilles, Galerie du Salon, DRAC des Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France Pierre et Gilles, Galleria Il Ponte, Rome, Italy
1992	Pierre et Gilles, Raab Galerie, London, United Kingdom Pierre et Gilles, Russisches Museum, Diaghilev Center of Modern Art, Saint Petersburg, Russia Pierre et Gilles, Raab Galerie, Berlin, Germany
1990	Pierre et Gilles, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, USA Pierre et Gilles, Touring Exhibition: Shibuya PARCO Part II, Tokyo, Japan; Osaka, Japan
1988	Les Saints, Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris, France
1986	Pierre et Gilles - Naufrage, Galerie des Arènes, Nîmes, France
1985	Pierre et Gilles, Galerie Saluces Art Contemporain, Avignon, France Pierre et Gilles, The Art Ginza Space, Tokyo, Japan
1983	Pierre et Gilles, Galerie Texbraun, Paris, France

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2026	High Tide (Marée Haute), Musea Brugge, Bruges, Belgium
	Bonnes mères, MUCEM, Marseilles, France
2025	L’amour, Maison Guerlain, Paris, France
	OCEANISTA - Fashion & the Sea, The National Maritime Museum of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
	Les yeux dans les yeux, Collection François Pinault, Couvent des Jacobins, Rennes, France
	CHROMOTHERAPIA, La photographie couleur qui vous fait du bien, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
	Verlaine 180, Porte des Allemands, Metz, France

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	Disco, I'm coming out, Philharmonie de Paris, Paris, France
2024	History Makers, National Gallery, London, United Kingdom
	Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection, V&A Museum, London, United Kingdom
	Fifi Chachnil, le fil de l’histoire, Musée de la dentelle de Chantilly, Chantilly, France
	Quels beaux visages ! Nouvelles oeuvres, Musée des beaux-arts, Calais, France
	L’Impressionnisme et la mer, Musée des impressionnismes Giverny, Giverny, France
	MythologieS, Musée Archéologique, Saint-Raphaël, France
	OCEANISTA – Fashion & The Sea, The Maritime Museum and Aquarium, Gothenburg, Sweden
	OCEANISTA – Fashion & The Sea, The Maritime Museum of Finland, Kotka, Finland
	BEAUBADUGLY, Une autre histoire de la peinture, Musée International des Arts Modestes, Sète, France
2023	Over The Rainbow, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Enchanter la Terre, Nouvelles Renaissance(s) en Centre-Val de Loire !, Château du Rivau, Lémeré, France Appearances. Beauty/(ies) on display, 18th – 21st centuries, Museum of the Château of Lunéville, Lunéville, France Des cheveux et des poils, Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, France Andrée Putman et le Mouvement Moderne, villa Noailles Hors les murs, Fondation CAB, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France Damn lust! Church. Body. Art, Diözesanmuseum Freising, Munich, Germany Qui es-tu Apollon ? De Juliobona à la culture pop, Juliobona, musée gallo-romain, Lillebone, France I am Mehdi, Un modèle dans son quartier, 7 clous à Marseille chez Patrick Raynaud, Marseilles, France
2022	The Lavender Flair, CLAMP, New York, USA Thierry Mugler: Couturissime, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA Faking the Real, The Art of Enticement, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria Métamorphose. La photographie en France, 1968-1989, Pavillon Populaire, Montpellier, France Summer Selections, Danziger Gallery, Santa Monica, USA Années 80. Mode, Design et Graphisme en France, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France Sex is [Censored] Part 3, Le Pissoir du La Perle, Jenny’s, New York, USA Christian Louboutin, L’exhibition[niste], Chapitre II, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco Bergamot Station – Santa Monica, Opening Doors – A Group Show, Danziger Gallery, New York, USA Respirer l’Art, Quand l’art contemporain sublime l’univers du parfum, Musée International de la Parfumerie, Grasse, France With Love, Fifi Chachnil, Le Fil d’une Histoire, musée des Beaux-arts et de la Dentelle, Alençon France Christen Sveaas Art Foundation: The Travel Bureau, Whitechapel Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2021	Thierry Mugler, Couturissime, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France De(s)rives #4, Passage Véro-Dodat, Paris, France Blooming, Domaine Pommery, Reims, France Inventer la couleur / Hommage à Louis Ducos du Hauron, Église des Jacobins, Agen, France Sur les chemins du Paradis, Les Franciscaines, Deauville, France OCEANISTA - Fashion & the Sea, M/S Maritime Museum of Denmark, Elsinore, Denmark Moi Je, Château-musée Grimaldi, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France Icons, Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium A Question of Taste, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey Un Certain Regard, Les Abattoirs, Musée - FRAC Occitanie Toulouse, Musée Massey, Tarbes, France
2020	The Party is Over, Spiritmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden #cute. Islands of Happiness?, NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany Hortus conclusus. L’illusion d’un paradis, Museo Villa dei Cedri, Bellinzona, Switzlerland Christian Louboutin, L’Exhibition(ist), Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris, France Thierry Mugler : Couturissime, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, München, Germany Cœurs, Du romantisme dans l’art contemporain, Musée de la Vie romantique, Paris, France Bye bye future ! L’Art de voyager dans le temps, Musée royal de Mariemont, Morlanwelz, Belgium
2019	Narcisse ou la floraison des mondes, Frac Nouvelle Aquitaine MÉCA, Bordeaux, France Thierry Mugler: Couturissime, Kunsthal, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Marie-Antoinette. Métamorphoses d’une image, Conciergerie, Paris, France De l’amour, Palais de la découverte, Paris, France 1989 – Culture and Politics, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden Tattoo, L’Arte sulla pelle, M9 – Museo del’ 900, Venezia Mestre, Italy L’Art Mange l’Art, Musée Regards de Provence, Marseilles, France Love my way, Villa Romaine, 34e Festival international de mode, de photographie et d’accessoires de mode, Hyères, France Voilé.e.s / dévoilé.e.s, Monastère Royal de Brou, Bourg-en-Bresse, France Thierry Mugler : Couturissime, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montreal, Canada Age of classics! L’Antiquité dans la culture pop, Musée Saint-Raymond, Musée des Antiques de la Ville de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
2018	Tattoo, L’Arte sulla pelle, MAO Museo d’arte Orientale, Turin, Italy Desig, Masia Bas, Platja d’Arao, Spain Par amour du jeu 1998-2018, Magasins généraux, Pantin, France Daho l’aime pop, Maison de la photographie, Lille, France Né(e)s de l’écume et des rêves, MuMa, Le Havre, France La photographie française existe… je l’ai rencontrée, La Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
2017	Daho l’aime pop, Cité de la musique - Philharmonie de Paris, Paris, France Marc Almond: Addicted to Excess, The Gallery Liverpool, Liverpool, England Des Mondes aquatiques #2, FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France Sous le ciel vide, l’océan, des pêcheurs et soudain…, FRAC Aquitaine, Maison de la Corniche - Asporotsttipi, Hendaye, France Le baiser : de Rodin à nos jours, Musée des beaux-arts, Calais, France Portrait d’une galerie : Daniel Templon, Institut Culturel Bernard Magrez, Bordeaux, France Miroir, Miroir, mudac (Musée de Design et d’Arts appliqués Contemporains), Lausanne, Switzerland Contre-cultures, 1969-1989, L’esprit français, la maison rouge, Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France Coming out, une collection privée dévoilée, Chapelle des Calvairiennes, Mayenne, France
2016	Total Records, C/O Berlin, Berlin , Germany La Collection, Institut Culturel Bernard Magrez, Bordeaux, France Bling Bling Baby !, NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany Love Stories, Les Photaumnales, Le Quadrilatère, Beauvais, France Festival Images, Vevey, Switzerland Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England Everybody is crazy, but me, Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium Sacré Mâle, MuséAl, Alba-la-Romaine, France Les années 1980, l’insoutenable légèreté, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France The Fashion World of Jean-Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP), Seoul, South Korea The Family of the Invisibles, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
2015	Genre Idéal ? Maison Guerlain, Paris, France Jean-Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany Bonjour la France ! - To my beloved dear, Seongnam Cultural Foundation, Seoul, South Korea Bonjour la France ! - To my beloved dear, Goyang Cultural Foundation, Seoul, South Korea Être étonné c’est un bonheur, Chapelle de la visitation, Thonon-les-bains, France Icôn(s), Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium Jean-Paul Gaultier, Grand Palais, Galeries Nationales, Paris, France
2014	The Fashion World of Jean-Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia Le festin de l’art, Palais des arts et du festival, Dinard, France El hombre al desnudo, Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico The Fashion World of Jean-Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom Motopoétique, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
2013	The Fashion World of Jean-Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, USA Masculin / Masculin. l´homme nu dans l´art de 1800 à nos jours, Musée d´Orsay, Paris, France Hommage à Andrée Putman, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France The Fashion World of Jean-Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, The Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design, Stockholm, Sweden White / Photography, Art, Design, Fashion, Film, The Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Les aventures de la vérité, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France Palmiers, palmes et palmettes, Musée Masséna, Nice, France Au bazar du genre, Féminin - Masculin en Méditerrannée, MuCEM, Marseilles, France The naked man, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary The Fashion World of Jean-Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, Kunsthal, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Face Value: Portraits from The Kinsey Institute, The Kinsey Institute Gallery, Bloomington, USA
2012	Jean-Paul Gaultier, Universo de la Moda : de la calle a las estrellas, Fundacion Mapfre, Madrid, Spain Cibles, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France Mirages d’Orient, grenades et figues de barbarie, chassé-croisé en Méditerranée, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France Écrivains modes d’emploi, de Voltaire à bleuOrange, Royal Museum of Mariemont, Morlanwelz, Belgium The angels of Klee, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland The naked man, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, Austria nude men: from 1800 to the present day, Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria OC Collects, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, USA L´histoire est à moi !, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, France Printemps de septembre, Espace EDF Bazacle, Toulouse, France Charlotte Rampling : albums secrets, Maison Européenne de la photographie, Paris, France 20.000 monstres sous les mers, Palais des Arts et du Festival de Dinard, France L´art d´aimer, de la séduction à la volupte, Palais Lumière, Évian, France Face it!, Spritmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden The Fashion World of Jean-Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco - de Young Museum, San Francisco, USA Biennial of Photography and Visual Arts in Liege, BIP 2012, Only You Only Me: Images of Love, Love of the Image, MAMAC, Liege, Belgium Plaisirs de France. La création française de la Renaissance au XXème siècle, Baku Museum of Fine Arts, Azerbaijan Performing for the Camera, ASU Art Museum, Tempe, USA
2011	The Fashion World of Jean-Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, USA Mémoires du futur, la Collection Olbricht, la maison rouge, Paris, France Extremos, fotografias da coleção da Maison Européenne de la Photographie – Paris, IMS - Instituto Moreira Salles, São Paulo, Brazil Paris Premiere s’expose, Grand Palais, Paris, France Not for sale, Passage de Retz, Paris, France La planète mode de Jean-Paul Gaultier : de la rue aux étoiles, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montreal, Canada Paris-Delhi-Bombay…, Musée national d´art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Inspiration Dior, Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia La pauvreté - Perspectives dans l'art et la société, Stadt Museum, Trier, Germany Already-made ?, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, France De lo sagrado y lo profano. Un imaginario contemporáneo, Sala kubo-kutxa, San Sebastián, Spain
2010	Andrée Putman - Ambassadrice du style, Salle Saint-Jean, Hôtel de Ville, Paris, France Decadence now! Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic A Star is Born. Photography and Rock since Elvis, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany Brigitte Bardot – Saint Tropez, Espace Rendez-vous des Lices, Saint-Tropez, France Emporte-moi / Sweep me off me feet, Mac/Val, Vitry-sur-Seine, France I love you, ARoS Aarhus KunstMuseum, Aarhus, Denmark Autour de l'extrême, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France Hope ! Palais des Arts de Dinard, Dinard, France Passion fruits picked from the Olbricht Collection, me Collectors Room Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2009	Persona. Image. Time. Human Representation in Art : from Modernism to the Present-day, exhibition of works from the collection of Ekaterina and Vladimir Semenikhin, The Cultural Foundation « EKATERINA » Moscow, Russia En todas partes, politicas LGBTQ en el arte, centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain La force de L´art 02, Église Saint-Eustache, Paris, France Sh(out), Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland Les marins font la mode, Musée National de la Marine, Paris, France Influence pop, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, France Les nuages… là-bas… les merveilleux nuages, MuMa, Le Havre, France
2008	Jean Marais - L´éternel retour, Musée de Montmartre, Paris, France Prospect 1. US biennal, New Orleans, USA Darkside. Photographic Desire and Sexuality Photographed, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland Fotografia Europea, umano troppo umano, Palazzo del Capitalo del Popolo, Reggio Emilia, Italy Des jeunes gens Mödernes, la galerie du jour agnès b., Paris, France Mobile Art, Touring exhibition: Hong-Kong, China; Tokyo, Japan; New York, USA; London, England; Moscow, Russia; Paris, France
2007	Paris en couleurs, Hôtel de Ville, Paris, France J’embrasse pas, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France The veil, CeSAC, Caraglio, Italy Arte e omosessualita, Palazzina Reale di Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy Passage du temps – Collection François Pinault, Le Tri Postal, Lille, France Different. Aesthetics and Poetry Between Art and Homosexuality, Palazzo della Regione, Milan, Italy Cinéma, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, France Expressive Bodies: Contemporary Art Photography from The Kinsey Institute, The Kinsey Institute Gallery, Bloomington, USA Correspondances Musée d'Orsay / Art contemporain, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France PHotoEspaña 07, Madrid, Spain
2006	Heavenly & Subterranean – The story of Saint Barbara, C-Mine Cultuurcentrum, Genk, Belgium Futurotextiles, lille3000, Le Tripostal, Lille, France Au stade et cætera, Musée Géo-Charles, Echirolles, France Gay Chic, Design Museum / Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich, Switzerland Revelation, Kulturhuset Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden Figure de l’acteur, le paradoxe du comédien, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France Corpus du Christ. Représentations du Christ dans la photographie, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems an der Donau, Austria Good Vibrations - Arts visuels et Rock, Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, Italy Superdéfense, La Force de l’art 01, Triennale, Paris, France
2005	Pierre Molinier - Jeux de miroirs, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, France Dual. Passages and crossing throughout art history, Centre d’Art El Panera, Lleida, Spain Les métamorphose de l´ange - Du corps céleste au corps virtuel, Centre d´art de l´Yonne, Auxerre, France (My private) Heros, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany Coolhunters. Jugendkulturen Zwischen Medien und Markt, Touring exhibition: Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, Germany ; ZKM, Berlin, Germany ; Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna, Austria ; Mucsarnok, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary Paris à Shanghai, Trois générations de photographes français, Fine Arts Museum, Shanghai, China Le Diable en personne, Fondation Albert Marinus, Brussels, Belgium Belle vie, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany Voir Dieu, Risques et chances des images religieuses, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Wilhelmshaven, Germany
2004	Happy Birthday !, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, France Figures de l’acteur, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France Sylvie Vartan, revue de mode, Musée Galliera, Paris, France Dali et les plus grands photographes de notre siècle, Palais des Congrès, Perpignan, France Sailor style: Art Fashion Film, Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, Australia Pop Culture, Gallery Sejul, Seoul, South Korea Winter Fairy Tales, Galerie Gmurzynska, Saint Moritz, Switzerland Winter Show, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, France Il nudo fra ideale e realtà, Galleria d´Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy Tourment des sentiments, Museum für Photographie, Braunschweig, Germany
2003	Corpus Christi, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany Neo - Neo styles in Dutch interiors over the past 250 years, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands La fête, Touring exhibition: Espace Bellevue, Biarritz, France; Museo Valenciano de la Ilustracion y la Modernidad, Valencia, Spain
2002	Photography past/forward: Aperture at 50’, Aperture Foundation, New York, USA Revelation: Representations of Christ in Photography, Touring exhibition: Patrimoine Photographique – Hôtel de Sully, Paris, France ; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel Ikonen. Kunst und Kult, Coninx Museum, Zurich, Switzerland Sleeping / Dreaming / Awakening, Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Kawamura, Japan Tableaux vivants, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria Prière(s), Musée d´art et d´histoire Paul Éluard, Saint-Denis, France
2001	Votive, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand El Mundo Nuevo, Biennale of Valencia, Valencia, Spain Between Earth and Heaven - New Classical Movements in Contemporary Art, Mu.ZEE P.M.M.K., Ostende, Belgium Dreaming in Print – A Decade of Visionaire, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, USA Collection : simulacres et détournements dans les années 80, CAPC Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
2000	Narcisse blessé, Passage de Retz, Paris, France La beauté in fabula, Palais des Papes, Avignon, France Appearance, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy Divine Mirrors - The Madonna Unveiled, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, USA
1999	The Power of Beauty, Gemeentemuseum, Helmond, The Netherlands Missing link, Menschen - bilder in der fotografie, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland Hommage à Jean Marais - héros romantique, Musée de la Vie Romantique, Paris, France Rosso vivo - Mutazione, trasfigurazione, e sangue nell’arte contemporanea, PAC-Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
1998	Fétiches et fétichismes, Passage de Retz, Paris, France Un monde merveilleux, Kitsch et art contemporain, FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France Pour un objet-dard, Dildo Show, Espace Volga, Paris, France Ficciones íntimas, Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
1997	Accrochage d’hiver, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, France Romantica - Immagini Del cuore e della colpa, VIIème biennale internazionale di fotographia, Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin, Italy La revanche de Véronique, Collection Marion Lambert, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland Queer - Homosexuality in Art, Kunstverein Eislingen / Fils, Germany Le visage voilé - Travestissements et identité dans l’art, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, Donostia, Spain Goodbye to Berlin ? : 100 Jahre Schwulenbewegung, Akademie der Künste - Schwules Museum, Berlin, Germany
1996	Les contes de fée se terminent bien, Château de Val-Fréneuse, Sotteville-sous-le-Val, organized by the FRAC Haute-Normandie, France Helden, Galerie in der Alten Post, Esslingen, Germany Paar Mal Paar, Helmhaus, Zurich, Switzerland La piste aux étoiles, École régionale des Beaux-Arts, Galerie du Cloître, Rennes, France The auction preview party, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA Inauguration de la Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France Colorealismo, Galleria Photology, Milan, Italy
1995	Der zweite Blick, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany Féminin / Masculin - Le sexe de l’art, Musée national d’art moderne - Centre Pompidou, Paris, France On beauty, Regina Gallery, Moscow, Russia Pierre et Gilles, Andreas Gursky, Vincenzo Castella, Noritoshi Hirakawa, Zoe Leonard, Paul Graham, Wolfgang Tillmans, Le case d’Arte, Milan, Italy Museo Arte Contemporanea, L. Pecci, Prato, Italy Face à face, Centre photographique d’Ile-de-France, Pontault-Combault, France Make up – Topolino, Musée de la Mode, Espace Mode Méditerranée, Marseilles, France Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany
1994	Cocido y Crudo, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain Les Métamorphoses d’Orphée, Touring exhibition: Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tourcoing, France; Ancienne Douane, Strasbourg, France; Musée Communal, Ixelles, Belgium Don’t Leave Me This Way Art in the Age of AIDS, National Gallery of Canberra, Canberra, Australia La ville et la modernité - La jeune fille dans la ville, la galerie du jour agnès b., Paris, France Art & Jeans, reliefs minimaux, Passage de Retz, Paris, France ...Ou les oiseaux selon Schopenhauer, Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Agen and FRAC Aquitaine, Agen, France L’art du portrait français aux XIXe et XXe siècles, Touring exhibition: The Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; Kariya City Museum, Aichi, Japan; Municipal Museum of Art, Onomichi, Japan; Akita Prefectural Museum of Art, Akita, Japan Lunn ltd., Rencontres internationales de la photographie, Arles, France Le corps en scène, Institut Français, Madrid, Spain (organized by FRAC Aquitaine) Institut Français, Stuttgart, Germany
1993	Diskurse der Bilder, Photokunstlerische reprisen Kunsthistorischer werke, Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna, Austria Krieg, Osterreichische Triennale zur Fotografie 93, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria Public / and private - Secrets Must Circulate, touring exhibition : French Institute of Scotland, Edinburgh; Zone and Central Station, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom Histoires de voir, Château de Villeneuve, Fondation Emile Hugues, Vence, France Prospect ‘93, Frankfurter Kunstverein and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany À la découverte... de collections romandes I, F.A.E., Musée d’Art Contemporain, Pully-Lausanne, Switzerland Wit’s end, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia Découvertes 93, Collection Paris Audiovisuel, Grand Palais, Paris, France Portraits d’artistes, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands Personal Jesus, Dooley Le Capellaine, New York, USA
1992	Images Métisses, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France Première photo, la galerie du jour agnès b., Paris, France Illusions et travestissements, A/B Galeries, Paris, France Group show, Markthalle Moderne Kunst, Stuttgart, Germany
1991	L’Amour de L’Art, Musée Saint-Pierre, Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France Consorts, Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, USA Contemporary French Photography “En liberté”, touring exhibition: I.C.P., New York, USA; Museum of Modern Art of Mexico, Mexico ; Museum of Contemporary Art of New Orleans, USA; Museum of Amsterdam, The Netherlands ; Museum of Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Kawasaki City Museum, Japan
1990	A fotografia actual em Franca, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
1989	Nos années 80, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas, France Le choix de sens, Le Botanique, Brussels, Belgium Das Portrait in der zeitgeössischen Photographie, Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany Pinacoteca Comunale, Ravenna, Italy Salzburg Festival, Salzburg, Austria
1988	Itinéraire à travers la collection de Paris Audiovisuel, Mairie du XVIème arrondissement, Paris, France Dannunziana - Gabriele D’annunzio nelle immagini Europee contemporanee, Universita Gabriele d’Annunzio, Pescara, Italy Écran total, Studio 43, Paris, France Dis-moi qui est la plus belle, Le Botanique, Brussels, Belgium Behold the Man, The Male Nude in Photography, Stills Gallery, Edimburgh, Scotland
1987	L’Exotisme au quotidien, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium Rotating Photography, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA
1986	La magie de l’image, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada Galerie de Paris, Paris, France
1984	Ateliers 84, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France La photographie, la mode, Galerie Texbraun, Paris, France
1982	Galerie Viviane Esders, Paris, France

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	Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA
	Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
	Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris, France
	Pinault Collection, Paris, France
	Musée d’art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
	Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
	Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France

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	Musée de la Photographie Charles Nègre, Nice, France
	Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France
	Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA, Bordeaux, France
	Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France
	Institut Culturel Bernard Magrez, Bordeaux, France
	Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle, Calais, France
	The Cultural Foundation Ekaterina, Moscow, Russia
	Groupe Lhoist, Limelette, Belgium
	MaGMA Collection, Singapore
	Collection Lancôme, Paris, France
	Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
	Me Collectors Room / Stiftung Olbricht, Berlin, Germany
	Absolut Art Collection, Stockholm, Sweden
	Les Franciscaines, Deauville, France

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Pierre et Gilles
NARCISSE OU LA FLORAISON DES MONDES – GROUP SHOW

From June 23 to August 22, 2020
MÉCA, 5 parvis Corto Maltese, 33800 Bordeaux, France

Inspired by the mythic figure that fascinates both classical and contemporaneous artists, the group show Narcisse ou la floraison des mondes gathers more than a hundred works (video, installation, painting, drawing, photograph, sculpture) interrogating the hierarchy of artistic genders and the making of lively industry. The exhibition presented by the FRAC of Nouvelle Aquitaine highlights new resources of inspiration such as the ‘eco-feminism’ movement, or the recent approaches of science and philosophy.Lovers of icons, Pierre et Gilles take parts in this group exhibition with a portrait untitled “La Cerise sur le gâteau”.

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HORTUS CONCLUSUS. L’ILLUSIONE DI UN PARADISO – GROUP SHOW

From June 3 to November 8 2020
Via S. Biagio 9, 6500 Bellinzona, Suisse

The exhibition starts with the Christian allegory of the enclosed garden – image of the Paradise and the virginity of Mary – and the Greek myth of the Rape of Europa, which relates the heroic journey of a kidnapped young girl, founder of European civilization. While Western art has assimilated and propagated these two iconographies since the Middle Ages, their study still offers a key to contemplate the works of contemporary artists who explore the relationship between man and his territory, between identity and culture. Like the United States, Europe seems today to defend the idea of a hortus conclusus , a new Eden inaccessible and surrounded by walls, both physical and mental. Works by contemporary artists such as Pierre et Gilles are introduced with a section of prints of the 15th, 16th and 17th century from Albrecht Dürer, to Hendrick Goltzius and Remoldus Eynhoudts.

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CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN : L’EXHIBITIONISTE – GROUP SHOW

From February 26, 2020 to January 3, 2021
Palais de la Porte Dorée, 293 Avenue Daumesnil, 75012 Paris

Palais de la Porte Dorée presents a new exhibition entirely dedicated to the work of Christian Louboutin, designer and creator of the internationally renowned signature red-sole shoes. Designed like a real life invitation to plunged into the creative universe of the artist, the exhibition explores all the facets of his inspiration, in a place particularly dear to the creator. By friendship and similar love for idolatry, Pierre et Gilles take part, in their own way to this high-quality exhibition.

Jim Dine
Oda Jaune
Pierre et Gilles
HEART – ROMANTICISM IN CONTEMPORARY ART

Musée de la Vie romantique, Paris, France
February 14 - July 12, 2020

Le Musée de la Vie romantique presents a selection of around 40 art works by thirty contemporary artists on the representation of heart as an expression of the feeling of love, echoing one of the main themes of Romanticism.
This exhibition aims to open the cultural program of the museum beyond the nineteenth century by exploring the continuation of Romanticism in contemporary art, in resonance with the museum’s collections. The heart as an organ, motif and symbol is presented here through various techniques: painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, neon and photography.
In addition to the emblematic figures of Niki de Saint Phalle, Jim Dine, Annette Messager, Sophie Calle, Pierre and Gilles, Jean-Michel Othoniel and Françoise Pétrovitch, visitors will be able to discover about twenty other artists in this exhibition.

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BYE BYE FUTURE! L’ART DE VOYAGER DANS LE TEMPS – GROUP SHOW

From January 25 to October 25, 2020
Chaussée de Mariemont, 100, 7140, Morlanwelz, Belgium

Musée Royal of Mariemont presents ‘Bye, Bye Future ! L’art de voyager dans le temps’. The exhibition deals with evolutions of the future and the need for humans to control time, while emphasizing on digital creations and animated images. Bye Bye Future gathers works from international artist such as Jim Dine and Pierre et Gilles, who undertook at some point the ancestral voyage through space and time.

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PIERRE ET GILLES : LE GOûT DU CINéMA – SOLO SHOW

CENTRE D'ART LA MALMAISON, CANNES, FRANCEFrom 12/12/2019 to 26/04/2020

From December 12, 2019 through April 26, 2020, the Art Center La Malmaison in Cannes welcomes the French duo Pierre and Gilles for an exhibition gathering over 40 exceptional pieces exploring their passion for cinema.
“Pierre and Gilles, the Taste of Cinema » explores the many facets of their complex relationship to cinema, whether they choose actors as models, pay homage to their own cosmogony of film references, or simply create atmospheres intrinsically connected to the Seventh art.
For the first time, a part of their creative process will be unveiled with the installation that served as the stage of one their most recent pictures “The Seller of Eiffel Towers”.
Curator: Numa Hambursin
Opening: Wednesday December 11, 6 pm, by invitation only.

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PIERRE ET GILLES – IDOL FACTORY – SOLO SHOW

CITÉ DE LA MUSIQUE - PHILHARMONIE DE PARIS MUSEE DE LA MUSIQUE, PARIS, FRANCE From 20/11/2019 to 23/02/2020

Working together since the 1980s, the artistic duo known as Pierre and Gilles have captured the iconic aura of multiple generations of stars in their photo-paintings. With this exhibition conceived as musical and visual installation, they reveal the secrets of their art of image creation.

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MARIE-ANTOINETTE. MéTAMORPHOSES D’UNE IMAGE – GROUP SHOW

LA CONCIERGERIE, PARIS, FRANCEFrom 16/10/2019 to 26/01/2020

No historical figure has experienced such an abundance of representations, during her lifetime, and especially, after her death, October 16, 1793. It is through nearly 200 works, art objects and archives, film clips , fashion accessories, you will discover the many representations of Marie Antoinette. The exhibition will cover five themes that will allow you to understand the different images of the queen.

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Pierre et Gilles NARCISSE OU LA FLORAISON DES MONDES – GROUP SHOW

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Pierre et Gilles CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN : L’EXHIBITIONISTE – GROUP SHOW

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Jim Dine Pierre et Gilles BYE BYE FUTURE! L’ART DE VOYAGER DANS LE TEMPS – GROUP SHOW

Pierre et Gilles PIERRE ET GILLES : LE GOûT DU CINéMA – SOLO SHOW

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Pierre et Gilles
NARCISSE OU LA FLORAISON DES MONDES – GROUP SHOW

Pierre et Gilles
HORTUS CONCLUSUS. L’ILLUSIONE DI UN PARADISO – GROUP SHOW

Pierre et Gilles
CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN : L’EXHIBITIONISTE – GROUP SHOW

Jim Dine
Oda Jaune
Pierre et Gilles
HEART – ROMANTICISM IN CONTEMPORARY ART

Jim Dine
Pierre et Gilles
BYE BYE FUTURE! L’ART DE VOYAGER DANS LE TEMPS – GROUP SHOW

Pierre et Gilles
PIERRE ET GILLES : LE GOûT DU CINéMA – SOLO SHOW

Pierre et Gilles
PIERRE ET GILLES – IDOL FACTORY – SOLO SHOW

Pierre et Gilles
MARIE-ANTOINETTE. MéTAMORPHOSES D’UNE IMAGE – GROUP SHOW