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French artist

Laure Prouvost
Laure Prouvost 2015
Born	1978 (age 45–46) Croix, France
Nationality	French
Education	Central Saint Martins, Goldsmiths
Known for	art installations, sculpture, painting, tapestry, video installations
Notable work	Wantee (2013)
Awards	Turner Prize, MaxMara Art Prize
Website	https://www.laureprouvost.com

Laure Prouvost (born 1978) is a French artist living and working in Brussels, Belgium. She won the 2013 Turner Prize. In 2019, she represented France at the Venice Biennale with the multi-media installation Deep See Blue Surrounding You .

Early life and education

Prouvost was born in Croix, an upscale suburb of Lille, France, and attended a local school with a strong arts focus.

Prouvost studied film at Central Saint Martins and also attended Goldsmiths, University of London.

Career

After graduating from Saint Martins, Prouvost worked as an assistant to the artist John Latham, who she describes as "more like a grandfather than my real grandfather". She has exhibited at Tate Britain and the Institute of Contemporary Arts.

Prouvost was awarded the biennial MaxMara Art Prize for Women in 2011 and her work has appeared in the private contemporary art collection Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia, Italy. That same year, Prouvost was the principal prize winner at the 57th Oberhausen Film Festival.

Prouvost won the Turner Prize in 2013 for an installation named Wantee made in response to the artist Kurt Schwitters. In a tea party setting a film describes a fictional relationship between Prouvost's grandfather and Schwitters. The work is named in reference to the habit of Schwitters' partner of asking guests if they "want tea". The panel described the work as "outstanding for its complex and courageous combination of images and objects in a deeply atmospheric environment". Prouvost was generally considered a surprise winner.

In 2014, Prouvost staged her first solo museum exhibition in the United States at the New Museum, titled For Forgetting.

In 2018, Prouvost created an installation for the Palais de Tokyo in Paris titled Ring Sing and drink for Trespassing.

In 2024, Prouvost was among the 18 artists selected by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to create installations for the John F. Kennedy International Airport’s new Terminal 6, set to open in 2026.

Other activities

In 2018, Prouvost was a member of the jury that selected Helen Cammock as winner of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women.

Personal life

Prouvost has two children. After living in the United Kingdom for 18 years, she moved to Antwerp in 2014. She lives and works in Molenbeek.

Selected works

2007: Owt, video
2010: I need to take care of my conceptual Grand dad, video
2010: The Artist, video
2010: It Heat Hit, video
2011: The Wanderer, video
2012: Why does Gregor never rings, video installation
2013: Farfromwords: car mirrors eat raspberries when swimming through the sun, to swallow sweet smells, video installation
2013: Wantee, video installation
2014: Visitor center, video installation
2016: We would be floating away from the dirty past, video installation
2016: Lick in the Past, video
2017: Dit Learn, video
2019: Deep See Blue Surrounding You / Vois Ce Bleu Profond Te Fondre, in the French Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale
2020: Re-dit-en-un-in-learning, video
2021: Touching To Sea You Through Our Extremities, sculpture at La Panne, Triennial Beaufort (Beaufort21)
2022: Every Sunday, Grand Ma, video installation
2022: Four For See Beauties, video installation
2023: We Belong, facade of KANAL-Centre Pompidou, Bruxelles, Belgium
2023: No More Front Tears, video and box letters, video installation presented at Art Basel Parcours (2023), and Malta Biennale (2024)
2023 : Shadow Does, video installation
2023 : You, My, Omma, Mama, video installation

Selected exhibitions

2012: The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, United Kingdom
2013: Laure Prouvost / Adam Chodzko as part of Schwitters in Britain, Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom
2014: Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City, Mexico
2014: Laure Prouvost: For Forgetting, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
2015: Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Germany
2016: Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing, China
2016: Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt Am Main, Frankfurt, Germany
2016: Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland
2017: SALT Galata, Istanbul, Turkey
2018: BASS Museum, Miami, Florida, USA
2019: French Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale
2020: Included in NIRIN, the 22nd Biennale of Sydney
2020: Re-dit-en-un-in-learning CENTER at Lisson Gallery London
2020-2021: Deep See Blue Surrounding You / Vois ce bleu profond te fondre, LAM, Villeneuve d'Ascq
2021: Our elastic arm hold in tight through the claouds, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
2022: Deep Travel Ink, Atelier Hermès, Seoul, South Korea
2022: Laure Prouvost: Theatergarden and A Be(a)stiary of the Anthropocene, Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, China
2023: Above Front Tears Oui Float, at the Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo, Norway
2023: Ohmmm age Oma je ohomma mama, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
2023: Oma-je, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada
2024: Above Front Tears Nest in South, Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, USA
2024: Darker, Lighter, Puffy, Flat, exposition de groupe, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
2024: In the Mist of It All, Above Front Tears, Musée De Pont, Tilburg, the Netherlands
2024: Oui Move in You, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art ACCA, Melbourne, Australia
2024: Deep Travel Ink., Travel Agency, Fosun Foundation, Chengdu, China
2024: Pulled Towards You, Lisson Gallery, Shanghai, China

Permanent works

2021: In Your Own Time, tingalong, tingalong, Who's Been Here Since I've been gone?, Endless Express, Europalia Festival, Brussels-South station, Brussels, Belgium
2021: Touching to Sea You Through Our Extremities, Beaufort 21, Beaufort Biennale, De Panne, Belgium
2023: Oui Will Become One Another, Triennale Art & Industrie, Dunkirk, France