Cécile B. Evans

Cécile B. Evans (*1983 Belgium/America) lives and works in the suburbes of Paris and incorporates video, installation, sculpture, and performance into their artistic practice. Evans’ work examines the value of emotion and its rebellion as it comes into contact with ideological, physical, and technological structures.

They are currently artist in residence at Lafayette Anticipations, producing a new film Reality or Not that will premiere in Fall 2023 additionally co-produced with Le Fresnoy, Singapore Art Museum, and Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna.

Evans has recently completed a major new commission for the Ulsan Art Museum in Korea (2022), after having been on a residency with the National Ballet of Marseille in collaboration with the Kistefos Museum in Norway (2021) and exhibited a new installation commission at Centre Pompidou in Paris (2020) all part of an multiversal adaptation of the Industrial Era ballet Giselle.

Recent selected solo exhibitions include mumok Vienna (2018), Castello di Rivoli, Torino (2017), Kunsthalle Aarhus (2017)  and and Serpentine Galleries (2014). Evans’ work has been included amongst others at Haus der Kunst, Munich (2018). Public collections include The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark.

Cécile B. Evans is presented in cooperation with Layr, Vienna.

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