Design as we Speak
Exhibition
Zaventem Ateliers, Brussels
2019

Design as we Speak
Exhibition
Zaventem Ateliers, Brussels
2019

Design as we Speak
Exhibition
Zaventem Ateliers, Brussels
2019

Design as we Speak
Exhibition
Zaventem Ateliers, Brussels
2019

Design as we Speak
Exhibition
Zaventem Ateliers, Brussels
2019

Design as we Speak
Exhibition
Zaventem Ateliers, Brussels
2019

Design as we Speak
Exhibition
Zaventem Ateliers, Brussels
2019

Les Agapes
Permanent Installation
La Loge, Brussels
2017

Les Agapes
Permanent Installation
La Loge, Brussels
2017

Les Agapes
Permanent Installation
La Loge, Brussels
2017

After Service
Exhibition
La Loge, Brussels
2017

After Service
Exhibition
La Loge, Brussels
2017

Dating Greek and Other Beauties
Exhibition
Live In Your Head, Geneva
2016

Dating Greek and Other Beauties
Exhibition
Live In Your Head, Geneva
2016

Dating Greek and Other Beauties
Exhibition
Live In Your Head, Geneva
2016

Terrace
Group Exhibition
Swiss Art Award, Basel
2016

Week End
Exhibition
Galerie Salle Principale, Paris
2015

Week End
Exhibition
Galerie Salle Principale, Paris
2015

Frapuccino
Exhibition
Truth and Consequences, Geneva
2015

CCLA
Reconversion of a barn into a space for contemporary art (with Kaiser Kraft)
Les Arques
2012

CCLA
Reconversion of a barn into a space for contemporary art (with Kaiser Kraft)
Les Arques
2012

Standard and Poor’s
Exhibition
Galerie Graff, Mourgue d’Algue
2012

Standard and Poor’s
Exhibition
Galerie Graff, Mourgue d’Algue
2012

Standard and Poor’s
Exhibition
Galerie Graff, Mourgue d’Algue
2012

Kaleidoscope Magazine
Booth Design
Artissima, Torino
2009

Stupid Bendings
2009

Stupid Bendings
2009

Coca Light (with Kaiser Kraft)
Lighting for the Group Exhibition ‘Hotel Abisso’
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva
2013

Coca Light (with Kaiser Kraft)
Lighting for the Group Exhibition ‘Hotel Abisso’
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva
2013

Stock Tables, Consoles and Benches
Displays for the Exhibition ‘Fabriques’ (Adrien Missika)
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Genève
2009

Stock Tables, Consoles and Benches
Displays for the Exhibition ‘Fabriques’ (Adrien Missika)
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Genève
2009

Stock Tables, Consoles and Benches
Displays for the Exhibition ‘Fabriques’ (Adrien Missika)
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Genève
2009

Stéphane Barbier Bouvet

Stéphane Barbier Bouvet’s way of approaching his subjects bears a resemblance to themethodology of the critic, the curator, the designer, and the sculptor. His work unfolds, simultaneously, as an application (of techniques and principles), a form of knowledge (of the history of design, art, and exhibitions), and a comment (on our relation to the production, dissemination, and circulation of objects).

Stéphane Barbier Bouvet (°1981 in Marseille, lives and works in Brussels) develops different projects, often in the form of a site-specific response to a given situation. Stéphane Barbier Bouvet graduated at École cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL) in 2006, where he soon after opened 1m3, an independent exhibition platform with Benjamin Valenza, Jeanne Graff, and Adrien Missika. Together with Benjamin Valenza, he also initiated Kaiser Kraft, a construction program that works on contracts within the art field. He co-founded the Dirty Art Department at Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam and has taught classes at different institutions including École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Hochschule für Künste in Bremen. He is currently guest tutor at the Design Academy in Eindhoven (Master Social Design).

Over the past years, Barbier Bouvet participated in a wide range of self-initiated, solo, collective and commissioned projects and exhibitions, including most recently the solo shows Design as we Speak at Zaventem Ateliers, After Service at La Loge, Brussels and the traveling exhibition Dating Greek and other beauties at HEAD, Geneva, La Fabbrica, Ascona and La Rada, Locarno. Recent group exhibitions and projects include 1977, une exposition du 40e anniversaire du Centre Pompidou, Centre d’Art de l’Onde, Vélizy; Potemkine Palace, The National Gallery, Sofia and Performing Knowledge at Diensgebäude, Zürich.