paola
siri renard
Paola Siri Renard’s practice investigates Western architecture, natural processes and collective imaginary. Through appropriation of prevailing architectural archives and defense narratives ; her transitional-state sculptures explore metamorphosis, bodies disintegrating and morphing into fictional constellations. She designs her installations as devices of displacement between centuries, between worlds and their myths. Renard’s hand-sculpted works question the treatment of legacy, its dissemination and the exclusionary underpinnings of specific identities - echoing the history of her Martinican and Swedish heritage.
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Paola Siri Renard studied at Tokyo Geidai (2016) and graduated from the École des Beaux-Art Paris (2017) in the class of Ann Veronica Janssens. She continued at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (2019-2021) in the class of Gregor Schneider, Rita McBride, Koenraad Dedobbeleer and was a resident at HISK Belgium (2022-2023). She was nominated for the Bourse Révélations Emerige 2022 (Paris, FR), the Fintro Prize 2024 (Brussels, BE) and commissioned by Publiek Park 2023 (Antwerp, BE). Installations and performances have been shown at Kunsthalle Recklinghausen (Recklinghausen, DE), De Appel (Amsterdam, NL), Dash (Kortrijk, BE), Fondation Fiminco (Paris, FR), Krone Couronne - contemporary art centre (Biel, CH), Galeria Martins & Montero (Brussels, BE), Institut Français (Madrid, ES), Art Biesenthal (Berlin, DE), La Maréchalerie - CAC (Versailles, FR), among others. Paola Siri Renard has been selected for the WIELS Residency Program in 2024 in Brussels, BE.
education
2020
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, DE
Ateliers Rita MCBRIDE, Koenraad DEDOBBELEER, Gregor SCHNEIDER
2017
DNSAP , École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (ENSBA), Paris, FR
Ateliers Ann Veronica JANSSENS, Emmanuel SAULNIER
2016
Programme d’échange, Tokyo University of the Arts (Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku), Tokyo, JP
Ateliers HACHIYA Kazuhiko, KAWASAKI Yoshihiro
2015
DNAP , École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (ENSBA), Paris, FR
Atelier Ann Veronica JANSSENS
solo exhibitions
2025
Parade, Galerie Romero Paprocki , Paris, FR
2024
Im Kabinett der Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, curation Nico Anklam, Recklinghausen, DE
(dazzling) garderobe, Het Paviljoen, curation KASK Curatorial Programme, Gand, BE
2023
Subcutanean Ghosts, curation Joachim Coucke, Dash, Courtrai, BE
2022
-what will you be then Oneiroi? -glamour, curation the Curatorial Programme, De Appel, Amsterdam, NL
2021
Armour Leftovers, RAVI : Résidences-Ateliers Vivegnis International, Liège, BE
2019
Love to details (WHO MEANS WELL?) , Oberbilker Allee 57, Düsseldorf, DE
2017
Extentio, Beaux-Arts de Paris (ENSBA), Paris, FR
2016
As Long As You Can Walk , Tokyo GEIDAI, Toride, JP
2015
MA , Beaux-Arts de Paris (ENSBA), Paris, FR
collective exhibitions
2025
Sussudio, curation Livia Klein, Vienne, AT (à venir - Vienna Art Week)
Genius Loci , curation Ameli M. Klein, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Ludwigshafen, DE
Somehow We Manage, Reset Atelier, Brussels, BE
In Between Transit , curation Kim-Camille Kreuz, galerie Kadel Willborn, Düsseldorf, DE
The Belgian Art and Design Affair, curation Wim Lambrecht, Han Decorte, Marie Mees, Arsenaal, Gand, BE
Pâte-à-sel Brussel , curation Galerie Zotto et Stems Gallery, Bruxelles, BE
2024
Open Studios WIELS Artist Residency, WIELS Centre for Contemporary Art, Brussels, BE
Le soleil des morts, curation Margaux Knight et Eladio Aguilera, Cité Falguière, Paris, FR
Artissima, galerie Romero Paprocki, Turin, IT
Hard Hat Area, curation Amélie Mckee et Melle Nieling, Plicknik Space, Londres, UK
Liquidation totale, curation Andy Rankin, galerie pal project, Paris, FR
T B H , Magma Maria, Francfort-sur-le-Main, DE
Any Way The Wind Blows, C-Mine, Genk, BE
Jumping Fences, Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL
Art for the City, Art Brussels avec Spiaggia Libera, Paris, FR
First Impressions, curation Kristina Grigorjeva et Camille Regli KRONE COURONNE - contemporary art centre, Biel/Bienne, CH
Jumping Fences, Het Paviljoen, Gand, BE
Chestnut grenades & shooting sticks, Barbé, Gand, BE
They may germinate in unexpected places, curation Yuri Oliveira et Astrid Vereycken Martins & Montero, Bruxelles, BE
2023
Worldlines, Final Show HISK (Higher Institute for Fine Arts), curation Sébastien Pluot, Gosset, Bruxelles, BE
Ring ring ring, curation Andy Rankin, galerie pal project, Paris, FR
Another Land , curation Carlota de Torregrosa, Pilar Brussels, Bruxelles, BE
Publiek Park 2023 , curation Koi Persyn, Adriënne van der Werf, Anna Laganovska et Jef Declercq, Harmoniepark, Anvers, BE
The desired bathroom in the desert , curation SHIFT project_Axelle Devaux_P.C.M., Oscillobat, Bruxelles, BE
Troglodyte guided tour, curation César Akli Kaci et Alice Narcy, Tour Orion, Montreuil, FR
Open Studios, HISK (Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten), Bruxelles, BE
Worldlines, curation Sébastien Pluot, Gosset, Bruxelles, BE
select:deflect , curation NADAR collective, Ontsteking, Gand, BE
Doce pruebas de Amor x Feria ARCO, curation Gaël Charbau, Institut Français de Madrid, Madrid, ES
Staying in the gap, curation Yue Yuan, Société d’Électricité, Bruxelles, BE
2022
Douze Preuves d’Amour, curation Gaël Charbau et Villa Noailles, Hôtel des Arts, centre d’art TPM, Toulon, FR
Super Feelings, curation the Curatorial Programme, de Appel, Amsterdam, NL
Douze Preuves d’Amour - 9ème Bourse Révélations Emerige, curation Gaël Charbau et Mor Charpentier, Paris, FR
GRASSROOTS , curation Jan van de Weyer, JVDW Gallery, Düsseldorf, DE
Requiem For An Entourage, Maëlle Galerie, Romainville, FR
Jeune Création 72ème édition, Fondation Fiminco, Romainville, FR
Cendar Brussels, Galerie Zotto, Bruxelles, BE
Open Studios, HISK (Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten), Gand, BE
Exposition Libre 2 , curation Latif Samassi, 3537, Paris, FR
2021
POSTWENDEND , Kunstverein MISCHPOKE e.V., Mönchengladbach, DE
Kunstpunkte21 , Erkratherstrasse, Düsseldorf, DE
get rid of Worry FAST , ES365, Düsseldorf, DE
2020
ART BIESENTHAL 2020 , curation Tjioe Hecken, Berlin, DE
Rundgang der Kunstakademie, Klasse Koenraad DEDOBBELEER, Düsseldorf, DE
2019
INTER ference ferenz ferens férence, Asta AusstellungRaum, Düsseldorf, DE
Rundgang der Kunstakademie, Klasse Gregor SCHNEIDER, Düsseldorf, DE
IN-BEIRUT , curation Chedly Atallah, La Maréchalerie - CAC, Versailles, FR
2018
YIA (Young International Art Fair) , Carreau du Temple, Paris, FR
FELICITÀ 18 , curation Caroline Bachmann, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris, FR
La Confidentielle, curation Morgane Tschiember, La Station, Paris, FR
Ratafia, curation Emmanuel Saulnier, Collectif 23, Paris, FR
2017
Do Disturb x Nouvelle Collection Paris, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
Locus Solus, Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris, FR
Nouvelle Collection Paris, curation Sarah Nefissa Belhadjali, ENSBA, Paris, FR
2016
WIP , Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku, Tokyo, JP
OLA KALA , Centre d’Art Contemporain de Saint-Restitut, Saint-Restitut, FR
Introduction Exhibition, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, JP
public collections
Frac Île-de-France, Paris, FR
Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen, DE
Friends of S.M.A.K., Ghent, BE
Collections privées
awards
2024
Fintro Art Prize, BE
Artist development grant , Flemish Department of Culture, BE
2022
Aide Individuelle à la Création, DRAC Île-de-France, FR
Bourse À La Production, Amis des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris, FR
2017
Working Grant Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, JP
2016
ENSBA Paris/Japanese government-sponsored Scholarship program/Tokyo University of the Arts’s scholarship (Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku), FR/JP
residencies
2024
WIELS Residency - Centre for Contemporary Art, Bruxelles, BE
2022-2023
HISK - Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Gand et Bruxelles, BE
2021
RAVI - Résidences-Ateliers Vivegnis International , Liège, BE
2017
Nobuyuki Fujiwara Design Glass Studio, Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku, Tokyo, JP
La Maladresse, chorégraphe Mylène Benoît, Villa Kujoyama, Kyoto, JP
2016
Centre International de Recherche sur le Verre et les Arts plastiques (CIRVA) , avec le soutien de la Fondation d’Entreprise Hermès, Marseille, FR