BERNAR VENET EVENTS PERFORMANCES & LECTURES SCULPTURE PAINTING PHOTOGRAPHY SOUND FURNITURE EXHIBITIONS PUBLICATIONS BIOGRAPHY CONTACT Previous Next PERFORMANCES 1961 July - Performance dans les détritus - Tarascon - France. 1963 His desire to investigate different artistic areas brings him to create his first sound composition corresponding to his visual work: Gravier-Goudron. 1966 Ballet project for which he writes the music, creates the choreography and designs the set as well as the costumes. 1967-68 Uses sound in his conceptual work: records scientific texts in New York City. First poems using mathematical vocabulary. The Letter Edged in Black Press Inc records and publishes first vinyl recording (single): The infrared polarization of the infrared star in signus. 1968 May 27-28 - Relativity's track's performance at the Judson Church Theater in New York City. 1969 LP: Médecine: L'auscultation cardique records the different sounds of a heart beat. Performance by Dr. Richard Cornfield, M.D. at The Theater in New York. 1970 March 31 - Performance by Peter Caws: Structure as a necessary and sufficient condition of intelligibility at the NYU - Loeb Student Center. October 9 - Performance by Frank Faulbaum at Kunsthaus in Hamburg, Germany. 1988 January 8 - Performance at the Opéra de Paris of Graduation, the ballet he created in 1966. Bernar Venet designs the choreography, the set, the costumes and composes the music, played by the Opéra de Paris Orchestra. 1989 November 23 - Performance at the Galerie Templon in Paris of La ligne à vif by Bernar Venet, for which the sound plays an integral part. 1990 Records 2 sound compositions: Acier roulé E 24-2 and Gravier-Goudron (CD by Circé, Paris, 1991). 1991 Records Mur du son with the Concorde plane's motors at the Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport (CD released in 1992). Records Sons et résonances with the help of the French army (4e RIMA) at Studio Marival in Fréjus, Var, France. 1992 Creates film: Acier roulé XC 10 in the Marioni studio in Vosges, France. 1996-98 Records sound of the metal bars falling during the creation of his sculpture, Accident, in Le Muy, France, and in Los Angeles at the Chac Mool Gallery. 1999 April 8 - Improvisé - Inachevé - Non formulé_ performance at the Mücsarnok Museum in Budapest, Hungary. Releases a new CD: Accidents et Sons et résonances by "Chirat". First recording in New York City of a new composition: Saturation. Publication of Apoetiques_ at the Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain in Geneva, Switzerland. 2001 Poetry reading with Robert Morgan at the White Box Gallery in New York. 2002 Making of the Saturation film with Arkadin Production, Paris. May 15 - Conjugaison et divorces de la voix de l'écrit et de l'image, films, sound and poems. Les Revues Parlées. Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France. 2003 May 6 - Bernar Venet: Autoportrait, MAMAC, Nice, France. July 30 - Poésie-action, with Bernard Heidsieck and Ben, Espace de l'Art Concret, Mouans Sartoux, France. 2004 April 22 - L'Arc et sa trace: an artistic intervention on the occasion of the opening for the retrospective exhibition on the Arcs of Bernar Venet at the Musée Sainte-Croix, Poitiers, France. 2005 November 18 - Physics with High Energy Light: Performance with Dr. Allen Mincer at The Kitchen, New York. Curated by RoseLee Goldberg and presented as part of the PERFORMA 05 Biennal. 2007 May 18 - Straight Line and its Trace: performance coinciding with the opening of the artist's retrospective at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea. September 9 - Order and Chance, a performance of the piece Straight Lines - Accident at the Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg, Germany, coinciding with the opening of a retrospective exhibition. September 20 - Drawing with Steel, performance coinciding with the opening of the artist's retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, Busan, Korea. 2009 Straight Line and its Trace, performance at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels 2013 Carte blanche pour un rideau rouge à Bernar Venet, performance at Anthéa, Théâtre d’Antibes, France LECTURES School of Visual Arts, New York, 1968 New York University, New York, 1969 Newark College of Engineering, Newark, New Jersey, 1969 Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1970 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1970 New York University, New York, 1970 IBK Building, Morioka, Japan, 1970 American Cultural Center, Tokyo, Japan, 1970 State University of New York, New York, 1971 Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium, 1972 Royal College of Art, London, Great Britian, 1973 Museum Sztuky W. Lodzi, Lodz, Poland, 1973 Galerie Foksal, Warsaw, Poland, 1973 Université de la Sorbonne, Paris, France 1974 Incontri Internationali d'Arte, Rome, Italy, 1974 Crapac/Théâtre du Centre d'Aix-en-Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France, 1975 École des Beaux-Arts, Saint Étienne, France, 1975 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, 1976 Hopkins Center, Carpenter 13, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1976 Faulkner Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1976 Baumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1976 School of Visual Arts, New York, 1976 Northridge University, Art Department, Northridge, California, 1976 Modern and Contemporary Art Council of the Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, 1976 Irvine University-Art History Department, Irvine, California, 1976 La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California, 1976 Yale University, Department of the History of Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1977 Staten Kustakademie, Oslo, Norway, 1977 School of Visual Arts, New York, 1977 Partecipazione-Arte Contemporanea, Associazione Culturale, Genoa, Italy, 1977 Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada, 1979 Cooper Union School of Art, New York, 1979 University of Chicago, Department of Art, Chicago, Illinois, 1979 Columbia University, Maison Française, New York, 1979 Columbia University, Literature Department, New York, 1981 Columbia University, Maison Française, New York, 1983 Musée Sainte-Croix, École des Beaux-Arts, Poitiers, France, 1984 Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Liège, Belgium, 1985 Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium, 1985 L.L. Anderson School, Austin, Texas, 1986 Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida, 1987 Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland, 1987 The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, 1988 Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, Strasbourg, France, 1991 Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea, 1993 Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida, 1994 Musée d'Art Moderne, Saint-Étienne, France, 1995 Cornell Museum, Tampa, Florida, 1996 The New School for Social Research, New York, 1996 Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Jeunesse and Arts Plastiques, Brussels, Belgium, 1996 Le Nouveau Musée/Institut de Villeurbanne, Lyon, France, 1997 The New York Studio School, New York, 1997 Pratt Institute, New York, 1997 Musée du Québec, Québec, Canada, 1997 Metro Nashville Arts Commission, Nashville, Tennessee, 1997 Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1998 Centre Culturel, Saint-Auban, France, 1998 University of Brasília, UnB, Visual Arts Department, Brasília, Brazil, 2000 Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland, 2000 White Box Gallery, New York, 2001 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2002 Academia Nazionale di San Luca, Italy, 2002 Hôtel des Arts, Toulon, France, 2003 Musée Sainte-Croix, Poitiers, France, 2004 New York University, La Maison Française, New York, 2004 Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Sciences-Po), Paris, France, 2005 Colorado Convention Center, Denver, Colorado, 2005 Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2005 Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, 2006 National Museum of Contemporary Art, South Korea, 2007 Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 2007 Institut National de Histoire de l'Art, Paris, France, 2007 Musée Würth, Erstein, France, 2008 Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 2008 ARTS, San Diego, California, 2008 Centre Culturel, Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban, France, 2008 Sotheby's, Doha, Qatar, 2009 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, 2010 Université de Jérusalem, Brussels, Belgium, 2010 Art Institute Tomorrow (AIT), Seoul, Korea, 2011 Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de la ville et des territoires å Marne-la-Vallée, Marne-la-Vallée, France, 2011 Ecole nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France, 2011 Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence, France, 2011 Art Stage, Singapore, 2012 Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco, Monaco, 2012 Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2012 National Library, Singapore, 2012 Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis, Valenciennes, France, 2013 Institut Méditerranéen de Recherches Avancées, Marseille, France, 2013 Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea, 2014 SELECTED FILMS Solo 1975 Mirouze, Jean-Pierre. Oeuvre Terminée. Oeuvre Interminable. C., 16mm, France. (18"). 1983 Schneidman, Seth; Schneidman, Javed. Bernar Venet. 1983. Seven Hills Productions, New York. C.,16mm, (18"). 1987 GMFB Berlin, Berlin vision, un anniversaire à la française, Productions GMBF, Berlin. C., Video 1 inch, (18'). 1988 Dasque, Jean. Stars du pays, Videosol Production for FR3. C. 2,40 secam. Podalydes, B. Arc de Berlin, Productions Air France. C. 5' secam. Paris Opera Video Department. Graduation: Bernar Venet ballet performances for Paris Opera. Productions Services Vidéo de l'Opéra de Paris.C., PAL, 30'. 1993 Venet, Bernar. Acier Roulé XC-10, Arkadin Productions, Paris. 16Mm, N&B. (25"). 1996 Spitzer, Thierry. BERNAR VENET LIGNES, Arkadin Productions, Paris. (52"). 1998 Spitzer, Thierry. BERNAR VENET: Straight Lines and Accidents, Arkadin Productions, Paris. (8'54"). 1999 Venet, Bernar. TAMARCADAM, Arkadin Productions, Paris. (7"). Ragon, Michel. 2000 Venet, Bernar, EQUATIONS MAJEURES, Arkadin Productions, Paris. (5'49"). 2001 Gombergh, Rodolphe. "Examen Tomodensitométrique du thorax", C, CIMN and Arkadin Productions, Paris. (5'49"). 2002 Venet, Bernar. "Saturation: The Noise Theory", C, Arkadin Productions, Paris. 2007 "Bernar Venet: Sotheby's at Isleworth", video, produced by Guillaume de Roquemaurel and Ming Kai Leung for Sotheby's New York, Paris, France, December. (8'03"). 2011 Spitzer Thierry. Venet / Sculptures, Arkadin Productions, Paris, (52"). Group 1998 Passuello, Christian. L'École de Nice, France. (52"). 1999 Guibert, Claude. Imageo, Paris. 2009 Marchou, Pierre (in association with Sud image Audiovisuel, Vence). L'Ecole de Nice, France. (64") Videos of monumental sculptures being installed 1986 Acute Angle, 19.5°, Austin, Texas. Arc majeur de 185.4°, Projet Autoroute A6, France. Interview by Bernard Pradinaud, A2. October 23. 1987 Undetermined line, World Trade Center, Norfolk, Virginia. ABC, NBC. May 4. 1989 Ligne à Vif, Video, Produced by Daniel Templon, Paris, France. November 23. a tectonyc website